I tried signing up for Instagram once because for some reason there are a lot small businesses in artsy spaces (jewelry, etc.) who basically make it the main way to interact with them (or did) and I got banned almost instantly for no reason I could discern. Kind of gave up at that point (well, after trying to go through their "show an ID process" and it not working) and if I want to see some artist's insta I ask my wife. Don't care that much about the agency stuff, but their account management situation is indeed totally broken.

Switch off your ad blocker/pi hole temporarily..

I tried three times of getting insta-banned before getting advised here to do the same.

In a similar vein I made an account on ebay once years ago, and inside a day I was banned for "unpaid seller fees"

On my one day old account that had never done a transaction???

Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.

It's interesting and very annoying. I use FB basically to follow a couple groups that I've followed for like 15 years and a couple family members. Most of what it shows me seems to be related to interests I have or anything I slow down for even 5 seconds to process. Like "slow down when scrolling to see if I really am seeing the insane thing I think" and it'll show me more. Sometime I report stuff. Like a real (I think) thirst trap holding up a sexual innuendo/come on with the writing reversed. But they never actually take action on anything I report no matter how fake, false, or innaproproate it is. I also routinely block everything it ever shows me with AI (photorealistic AI images of history with a chapter of writing seem common).

It's all a big joke of spam and scam.

...but engaging even slightly in a few specific topics or interests seems to make the worst of it go away for more of those topics.

I don't know what causes it, but even without major issues I think a lot of people continually loose range of motion in the shoulder as they age. So this doesn't surprise me.

Most people don't exercise to preserve muscle mass and function and especially don't do full range of motion resistance training, most of this is probably preventable.

One thing to keep in mind is that every session has crazy proposals in AZ. (Not clear how many of them get anywhere.)

It's good to take note of who exactly is pushing (and/or being bribed to push) the crazy. In the case of this monstrosity you can thank:

    Rep. Michael Way [R]
    Rep. Leo Biasiucci [R]
    Rep. Selina Bliss [R]
    Rep. Michael Carbone [R]
    Rep. Neal Carter [R]
    Rep. Lupe Diaz [R]
    Rep. Lisa Fink [R]
    Rep. Matt Gress [R]
    Rep. Chris Lopez [R]
    Rep. David Marshall [R]
    Rep. Quang Nguyen [R]
    Rep. James Taylor [R]

I have trouble believing there's a talent shortage in the chip industry. Lots of ECE grads I know never really found jobs and moved on to other things (including SWE). Others took major detours to eventually get jobs at places like Intel.

No shortage of talent. It's just that the big players are used to cheap almost minimum wage Taiwanese wages and refuse to pay the full price of an EE.

For some of these things I wonder if there are missing recyclable options. Like could you economically run a pile of defective clothing through a blender and and use it as fiber reinforcement in some kind of construction material or insulation?

The stumbling block we have is spinning up separate environments for every agent so they have isolation for their branches. I think this is solveable, but we aren't trying to solve it ourselves. In practice it means we aren't doing a lot of agent supervision.

Git worktrees essentially solve this. It essentially copies your repo to a new folder

That sounds like an excellent match for containers.

Completely agree. We need to get the DB into a container, which is somewhat easier said than done for a long-lived project that didn't do it initially.

Half the time my Mac doesn't show the resize cursor when in regions where it works to resize windows. It's annoying. But not quite the same issue as seen here.

That's more so another example of a law that shouldn't exist.

I agree with most of things on this article with and additional caveat: estimates are also a function of who is going to do the work. If I have a team of 5 offshore devs who need hand holding, 2 seniors who are very skilled, and two mid level or juniors, how long something will take, what directions will be given, and even the best approach to choose can vary wildly depending on which subset of the team is going to be working on it. On top of all the other problems with estimates. This variance has degrees, but particularly when there are high-skilled on shore engineers and low skilled offshore ones, it leads to problems, and companies will begin to make it worse as they get more cost sensitive without understanding that the different groups of engineers aren't perfectly fungible.

And how many other parallel work streams are going. So many times I’ve estimated something to be “5” and it’s gone into my queue. Then people are wondering why it’s not done after “5” estimation units have passed and I’ve got “10” points worth of more high priority tasks and fires at every moment of my career

Excellent example why anything else than work hours is pointless to estimate in.