Failing up is surprisingly common

The key ingredients here appear to be audacity and persistence, with competence taking somewhat of a backseat.

This isn't intended to be overly critical. It aligns with the old adage, "If you want it, ask for it."

Depends on race with an exception (sometimes) for which college you went to

Mine is less about race or college.

It's often mismatch between how people sell themselves vs what they have done.

a director at google might oversell himself and land at a vp role at a public co what's much less smaller, than swing back at another faang as a vp.

It's hard to judge someone's skills/capabilities for a job role externally vs while on the job.

So you have "proxies".

How big of an org s/he managed is often an indicator of some sort of success, but it's a terrible one, for example.

I think you are being downvoted a bit unfairly, but you're also not fully right either.

I'm pretty sure that who you are friends with matters much more for failing upwards. Who you know is very overvalued in today's business climate unfortunately

Your post-secondary really only has influence because it somewhat influences who you wind up being connected to

DEI stuff like race and sex... Might matter sometimes. It shouldn't be controversial to say that companies in general take that into account more nowadays than in the past.

It's not a secret that if a company in 2025 has a very white male executive team, then a board of directors has some incentive to try and hire women and minorities into the executive team when they can to balance that out

My point was about the original DEI. All the diversity and inclusion and affirmative action sometimes helped minorities get a foot in the door, but they had to have all the credentials checked twice needed for the job.

But they could never tank the company, run unsuccessful or soon to fail projects and get a golden parachute or be promoted for it. They just got fired.

We have a good set of feature requests from app store that would make catching issues like this infinitely easy.

1. Revamp TestFlight - 10k users is very little when user base is 100m+ users. 2. Improve phased roll out capabilities 3. Introduce a/b testing at release level to test old/new binaries at binary level (vs at feature, which is also a must have).

These 3 can catch 99% of release bound issues, no problem.

Yeah, one of the things postgres is missing. Yugabyte seems to be addressing this thankfully

Yep looks like it. They don't seem to use Postgres storage layer at all.

Same. I pass through a QSFP+ nic that I bought for 15$ or something and I have been very happy with the VLAN set up.

Now if i can find a soundproof server rack so i can put my noisy servers without noise seeping through the house.

I am hoping ydb gets a little easier to use in general, and supports some things I use from postgres.

Some people on craigslist sometimes are giving away wood for free (you just need to arrange transport).

So yes, in some ways, it'd be whole lot cheaper, and nostalgic too.

In a way it's subsidizing people in the country side.

No, it's making people whole for real monetary and property damages caused by PG&E's negligence. It's the settlement of a lawsuit, because PG&E was negligent and caused damage.

Whether those people rebuild in Paradise, CA or move somewhere else with the money they received from the settlement is an entirely different proposition. This is not "subsidizing people in the country side". PG&E fucked up and now they have to pay. PG&E is choosing to pass the cost to its customers rather than eating into its profits, which is a decision that California allowed them to make.

EDIT: You and the GP I originally replied to seem to be making the argument that after PG&E burned all these people's homes down they should have been allowed to just tell them to get bent so your utility bill wouldn't go up in the city? What happens when it's /your/ home that gets burnt down? "Sorry bucko, but your house is worth $0 as it's just now a smoldering ruin. No soup for you. - Thanks PG&E"

I'm not saying PG&E shouldn't pay out, they were directly responsible.

But I will say that Paradise was in a bad state prior to the fire, simply nobody knew how bad. While a wildfire like that wasn't guaranteed, they were just one bad lightning strike away from the same disaster.

Funding FEMA, forest management services, and wildfire fighters something that isn't always prioritized and it should be.

> simply nobody knew how bad

It was a 100 year old C hook that caused the fire. Which failed in high winds. Which drove the fire. It was PG&E's responsibility to know "how bad" this was. They literally lost track of their own transmission lines.

If it wasn’t that, wouldn’t it have been a lightning strike, or something else? Fundamentally, the problem is that the houses were in an area that has become incredibly flammable. It’s not all PG&E’s fault.

Those have been known to start smaller fires before. Management strategies for them and recognition of the conditions that give rise to them were implemented. This fire burned worse than before because of poor maintenance on and around the line and because they did not shut it off quickly enough to prevent additional damage. The line was in a remote location and access to it was severely degraded.

Fundamentally the problem can be solved with management and engineering. It's entirely PG&E's fault. This was adjudicated and settled.

I am actually not saying PGE shouldn't have to pay etc. But this dynamic is part of being a country. In some ways, it's similar to the insurance industry where we get a pool of very healthy or young and sick or old people.

What PGE did was terrible, but also there's a lot to blame on CA directly too.

Why is that a ratepayer’s prerogative rather than the home insurer’s?

Tort Law

(plus see tristors answer as to it being passed on and not coming from profits)

You've apparently never had power run out to a new property that's not had it before. You pay for that. The poles, the lines, the installation. The power company doesn't just run power to you because you ask. They subsidize themselves.

Then PG&E takes the money, leaves 100 year old equipment in place, which inevitably breaks, and burns down an entire forest along with their homes.

You genuinely think these people are being "subsidized" by all this? That it's their fault the PG&E top brass didn't earn a bonus that year?

Subsidizing in an insurance sense. It's a high risk area, insurance should have covered it. If it was too high risk, insurance shouldn't have covered it, or charge much more etc.

Insurance premiums are different for different people and are decided by underwriters based on expected risk. What subsidy are they receiving on those premiums? They were previously paying a special property tax to cover the additional fire services required for the area. This is not a particularly high income area.

Meanwhile everyone in Sacramento can buy federally subsidized flood insurance. The federal government also built the levees surrounding the county. The entire downtown core had to be jacked up several feet due to persistent flooding. Should everyone in Sacramento move too? Should we end the insurance subsidy?

For reference, I think we get around 60-65c/kWh here...

I sometimes hangout on /r/homelab, and people are talking about their 600-700W homelab setup. That would cost about 300-350$/month here.

People are screaming from the rooftops here when we occasionally hit 15 c/kWh in winter. In August this year our electricity cost was $15 for the whole house. Hydropower is nice like that.

My homelab in the basement is running an old Dell R730. It draws 200-300W depending on load. I could get something much more efficient, but then I would need to run a space heater in that room for most of the year...

Yikes, my rate is $0.0825/kWH in the southern US. Part Nuclear but too much Natural Gas in my opinion.

That's a great rate. My homelab excluding poe stuff I suspect will end up using 300-500W. Not a lot of money but still annoying to be paying.

1. 56G mellanox switch - 35W

2. An old box I made a router - 50W

3. A two node server - 220W each

Replacing (2) with something that idles at 10W Will probably do one node for (3) so got more ram to try out.

I wish we had cheap energy. I could add much more stuff to this lol.

My UniFi mad PoE setup draws about 100w and my NAS another 100w or so. The i3 in my Supermicro board has been quite the efficient little CPU. My AMD 7950 and a 4070ti had to be taken off one my UPS because it was going over 1000w at times. Not sure what the full draw is while gaming.

The thing that kept me away from retired server hardware isn’t so much the power draw as it is the fan noise.

I have a thing in my garage that makes more noise than a plane taking off (from inside the cabin). So I concur.

Switch is not too bad, but the 2u (2x 1u nodes in one 2u package with a title or 2x 1u fans) server is a total madness.

That'd be GBP 0.48-0.52

It looks like Chrome Mobile might support it soon (with some loose definition of soon).

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40418135

So you may be able to cut another step from the workflow!

Good work, I really like this kind of effortless screensharing. It unlocks new ways of helping people (helping family, etc).

Thanks for trying it out! I'll keep an eye on this issue. As much as I love native apps, for something like this where the fewer steps the better, doing everything in the browser would definitely be an advantage.

If they are forced to pay, it causes stock to drop fast, which triggers shareholder lawsuits. It is to teach a lesson.

I can see both approaches work.