I got my first Bose headphone in 2008 or so. It was a treat for myself as a poor university student after a paycheque. I loved the headphone and one day it broke down after several years of heavy abuse. I called their customer service for repairs and how much it would cost. Rather than recommending me to just buy a new one, the customer support agent asked questions about the model, what the issue was, and offered a replacement.

I've loved their product and support ever since. Glad to see this happening as well. Kudos.

Made a switch to FF/Brave. I did try to embrace ads for a bit but that attempt expired within minutes.

That's also how I initially read the first sentence and I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo.

I'm going to take a walk now...

I've been struggling to explain the principle behind the "stupid questions" and your example illustrates the point perfectly. Thank you. I'll be shamelessly stealing this point from now on :)

Absolutely. As I get more and more senior, I found myself prefacing a lot of questions with "let me ask some stupid questions" to ask some broad questions or context of the meeting. It can be something seemingly obvious, what's important is it somehow breaks the barrier for others to ask questions. I used to say "I'm going to play my 'new guy' card one more time" when I'm new at a company, but this seems to work more generically, and tends to work in the team's benefit.

It's kind of boring but I'm learning k8s and argo-cd to figure out if I can do feature-branch deployment to a cluster.

like, it would be very cool to do something like have your feature branch be deployed to a separate pod in dev cluster, and have an ingress rule set up so that it points to that pod only.

So if your dev environment usually points to <some-app>.dev.example.com,

Deploy your feature branch to a dev cluster, but on a different pod. Then have it reachable to <some-app>.feature-branch-1.dev.example.com without touching main.

I think it's a neat idea and I'm sure it should be possible if I configure some istio settings.

It's all new thing and it's fun to have a direction towards learning

Just out of curiosity, what were the reactions like from what you saw? I had the opposite take from Reddit, which proved to be incorrect. So I'm just curious how you read(more correctly than me) the reactions vis-a-vis Reddit.

Idk just vibes. I haven't joined any subreddits except r/civ. The feed is inscrutable

Civ could sure use some AI…

FRED continues to amaze me with the kind of data they have availab.e

That's from Indeed. And, Indeed has fewer job postings overall [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUS]. Should we normalize the software jobs with the total number of Indeed postings? Is Indeed getting less popular or more popular over this time period? Data is complicated

Look at that graph again. It's indexed to 100 in Feb 1, 2020. It's now at 106. In other words, after all the pandemic madness, the total number of job postings on indeed is slightly larger than it was before, not smaller.

But for software, it's a lot smaller.

This website has its own graph which looks different.

https://www.trueup.io/job-trend

I have never gone to Indeed to apply for a job.

LMN, Signal, Internet Archive, and I _think_ wikipedia.

I stopped contributing to Signal when I found out about the MobileCoin.

So we didn't need a philosopher's stone, after all!

jokes aside, how wonderful that the stories we heard when we were growing up are happening(albeit not exactly as was told). Science is cool.