So the question is was this copy pasted from some needlessly verbose article, or is this a LLM “enhanced” answer?

First I’m not sure if he’s autistic or just saying “I’ve got Asperger’s so I’m allowed to be an asshole and you just need to deal.”

But let’s assume he is…

High functioning autism is not associated with involuntary Nazi salute gestures. It’s also not associated with the inability to learn the significance of the gesture.

So if autism is somehow related, then how would it be?

Well the “nice” option is he is going full 4-chan troll mode thinking it is hilarious without processing just how bad it is.

The other option is that he thought he did a credible cover to blow a dog whistle, but was unable to process that he was blowing a tuba instead.

In short, even if it was because of autism, it still almost certainly means it’s still quite on purpose, so it’s hardly an excuse that makes things any better.

You may be taking quite a loss but someone would buy it. As an extreme of you offer to take one dollar for the Tesla there would be plenty of potential takers because a cars a car.

Selling used for cheap also puts pressure on new car demand.

Have a lot of meetings with Germans. The morning after the inauguration, every one of them asked what the hell was wrong with us that we had a Nazi salute in our inauguration. The context is very very well known over there

I actually got a better price than Amazon on a gadget I wanted buying from Best Buy. The “old school” retailers sometimes manage to actually compete, particularly for well known stuff.

For knock-offs, well, it’s a crap shoot no matter where you buy such a thing, but if I’m ready to roll the dice with a cheap knock off, then I’ll just buy from a place like Temu. It’s likely to suck and something I would regret if I cared that much, but at least it’s cheaper. If I want to avoid the risk of initial disappointment, then Amazon isn’t going to be a great option either.

On that front, you have Google Compute Engine and Azure if you want the big boys, and a ton of other providers that are smaller scale.

Strangely enough, as bad as Walmart is, it’s not as severe as Amazon. But it certainly has been quite the race to the bottom…

Yeah, Temu and Aliexpress have had a lot of misses for me, but then again so has Amazon as of late. It’s gotten to the point where if I really care, then I might go traditional retailer, particularly preferring things they keep in store (third party sellers are pretty dodgy across the board), but Temu and Aliexpress can be worth it if I’m not too heavily invested in the product being great or if the product can’t be that bad. Amazon seems to be the worst of both worlds, more expensive but similar quality results as Temu/Aliexpress, with the exception of select examples of specific vendors that do direct business through Amazon.

It depends on what you want to self host.

As an example, a family member self hosted home assistant. They didn’t have to know anything really. That was all they were doing and they bought the canned implementation.

If you have multiple services, you may need to know nginx configuration with virtual hosting.

You may want to use podman or docker or kubernetes.

It all depends …

Don’t know about solving, but at least can see the signs:

• If there’s a lot of layers of middle management between you and the head of the company
• There are people with oddly narrow scope of responsibilities, a scope that doesn’t make any sense to be a dedicated full time job
• Excessive numbers of “cute” acronyms to apply to everything and everyone

Problem in some teams are the respective audiences for the commit activity v. the ticket activity.

The people who will engage on commit activity tend to have a greater common ground and sensibilities. Likely have to document your work and do code reviews as the code gets into the codebase and other such activity.

However, on the ticket side you are likely to get people involved that are really obnoxious to contend with. Things like:

• Getting caught up in arguments over sizing where the argument takes more of your time than doing the request
• Having to explain to someone who shouldn’t care why the ticket was opened in the first place despite all the real stakeholders knowing immediately that it makes sense.
• Work getting prioritized or descoped due to some political infighting rather than actual business need
• Putting extra work to unwind completed work due to some miscommunication on planning and a project manager wanting to punish a marketing person for failing to properly get their request through the process
• Walking an issue through the process to completion involves having to iterate through 7 states, with about 16 mandatory fields that are editable/not editable depending on which state and sometimes the process is stuck due to not having permission because of some bureaucratic nonsense that runs counter to everyone’s real world understanding.

In a company with armies of project managers the ticket side is the side of dread even if the technical code side is relatively sane.

Yeah, I need something like an OnlyFoes where people pay to inflict my content on someone they didn’t like.

I remember despite being receptive to the goal, finding that story a bit maddening.

Yeah, but it is hard to separate that, and it’s easy to get a bit resentful particularly when a projects quality declines in large part because they got lazy by duct taping in container registries instead of more carefully managing their project.

You’ve been downvoted, but I’ve seen a fair share of ZFS implementations confirm your assessment.

E.g. “Don’t use ZFS if you care about performance, especially on SSD” is a fairly common refrain in response to anyone asking about how to get the best performance out of their solution.

Actually, the lower level may likely be less efficient, due to being oblivious about the nature of the data.

For example, a traditional RAID1 mirror on creation immediately starts a rebuild across all the potential data capacity of the storage, without a single byte of actual data written. So you spend an entire drive wipe making “don’t care” bytes redundant.

Similarly, for snapshotting, it can only track dirty blocks. So you replace uninitialized data that means nothing with actual data, the snapshot layer is compelled to back up that unitiialized data, because it has no idea whether the blocks replaced were uninialized junk or real stuff.

There’s some mechanisms in theory and in practice to convey a bit of context to the block layer, but broadly speaking by virtue of being a mostly oblivious block level, you have to resort to the most naive and often inefficient approaches.

That said, block capacity is cheap, and doing things at the block level can be done in a ‘dumb’ way, which may be easier for an implementation to get right, versus a more clever approach with a bigger surface for mistakes.

Also now he’s convinced that God specifically saved him from a bullet and chose him…

Problem is in practice, I suspect something is pretty wrong in most teams.

Some common examples come to my mind:

• Management hears “talk about what you’ve done and what you will do” so great time to sit in and take notes for performance review, and it becomes a “make sure management knows you spent all your time and did really impressive stuff” meeting. Also throws a kink in “things I need help with” as there’s always the risk that management decides you aren’t self sufficient enough if they hear you got stuck, so you also need to defend why you got stuck and how it isn’t your fault.
• The people who feel like everyone needs to know the minutia of their trials and tribulations including all the intermediate dead ends they went down on the way to their final result. Related to the above, but there are people who think to do this even without the need to impress management.
• The people who cannot stand to “take it offline” and will stop everything to fully work a problem while everyone is still ostensibly supposed to stay in the meeting despite having nothing to do with the two people talking (sometimes even just one, a guy starts talking to himself as he tries to do something live).
• Groups that are organized but have very little common ground. An “everything must be scrum” company sticks a guy who does stuff like shipping and receiving into a development team and there’s no ‘scrum-like’ interaction to be had and yet, there he is wasting his time and having to talk about stuff no one else on that meeting has a need to hear either.

Our three weapons are…

It’s not a matter of knowledge, it’s a matter of what they want.

One may desire to be advantaged/superior to some others, and particularly nice and easy if race or gender is a convenient shorthand for knowing who is ‘in’ and ‘out’, as long as you are in the ‘in’ group of course.

So life is just plain easier if women are just supposed to sit there and please them. If the ‘natural order’ justifies that convenience, then one may be attracted to that thought. To the extent fairness and equality makes their life harder, they are inclined to be upset at that obstackle. It’s convenient if the legal and labor world gives their race preferential treatment, and other groups are left desperate enough to do whatever they need done but don’t want to do, and scared enough of the government to not get “uppity”.

Sometimes overt evil, sometimes more subconscious manifesting as being very receptive to narratives that correlate with those feelings.