There’s a lot of politics happening to us in real life right now too

I'll be honest, I think LAX's traffic is better than SFO's. It feels like there's a lot less spaghetti at LAX, the shortcuts are reasonable, and you don't have separate international and domestic loops.

LAX's many parking lots with left lane entrances definitely threw me for a loop the first couple of times.

Overall though, I think I agree with you.

It's a fascinating edge case, but also feels like a silly choice of company name for this exact reason.

What other systems are going to shut you out for your choice of company name?

Ok Ok, I guess we'll go with our 2nd choice of company names, it's the characters inside the quotes: " "

Why not just a good old zero width space?

We were saving that for when we rebrand in a couple years: Announcement, you know us as " " but as we evolve and adapt in this fast paced tech environment, we think our new name really captures the essence of what we do, the name is

we may be better off if tiktok shuts down in the US

finding really good posters that you like is like finding a needle in a haystack

Or maybe, sometimes it's just flat out dull work. And it has to get done, you're the one with the capacity to do it, and you just have to grit your teeth and do it.

That feels like an entirely separate policy. This one is about making sure small children have care, not whether or not people deserve a minimum guaranteed income

This is basically UBI for parenting, so it's hard to see it as "entirely separate".

A core tenant of UBI is the universal part: everyone receives the benefit. High income, low income, rich, poor.

If you remove the cost of regulating a benefit, then there will be more money available for people to get this benefit.

It's funny, because I had the exact opposite experience with abstract algebra.

The professor explained things, we did proofs in class, we had problem sets, and then he gave us open-book semi-open-professor take-home exams that took us most of a week to do.

Proof classes were mostly fine. Boring, sometimes ridiculously shit[0], but mostly fine. Being told we have a week for this exam that will kick our ass was significantly better for synthesizing things we'd learned. I used the proofs we had. I used sections of the textbook we hadn't covered. I traded some points on the exam for hints. And it was significantly more engaging than any other class' exams.

[0] Coming up with novel things to prove that don't require some unrelated leap of intuition that only one student gets is really hard to do. Damn you Dr. B, needing to figure out that you have to define a third equation h(x) as (f(x) - g(x))/(f(x) + g(x)) as the first step of a proof isn't reasonable in a 60 minute exam.

I don't think it's necessarily _wrong_ to say that SSO shouldn't just be an enterprise feature, but if you need to hire an additional person or two just for SSO, you should feel free to pass that cost (plus a cushion) on.

I can’t help but miss it, even though I desperately needed to get out too.

I miss knowing where the darkest place is for 50 miles in all directions. I never got to bike highway 1 from SF to Big Sur. My boyfriend and I would have an easier time finding jobs there. There’s better roads for car enthusiasts.

There was a lot of depressing tech saturation in the Bay Area, but there’s still good pockets of the pre-software culture around there if you’re willing to live towards the edges and look for the weirdness.

5 plus years on, all that I really miss consistently is some of the food options there. Everything else you can get elsewhere, for cheaper, and in a lot of cases better. And I know I can't go back to my food options there because half the restaurants I used to like are gone and the other half have changed ownership

This has all been a very personal thread

My two cents are that I have hobbies and obsessions that fulfill me and can make me money. I’m keeping the work-life balance and slowly getting better at my hobbies.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to retire early from tech and finish out my time doing something else part time. I started out working on bicycles, I’d like to close things out similarly in a few decades.