Just give yourself time and you’ll be the target customer then!

I suspect the author still misunderstands the SVP. If I were the SVP of engineering saying this to someone, especially someone who is in a non-core engineering role like product, I probably recognize that they have a tendency to verbally spew and I want them to focus on the risk mitigation and response plan. I’ve already talked to my engineering leader because they informed me immediately, and I’ve already read the incident details.

But also the post reads like it comes from an inexperienced/immature service org, so maybe they’re just sorting their operational response process out.

At one point all of this seemed like common knowledge in software because Carmack, Abrash and Hecker (among many others) were working in the open on games and discovery. Kind of funny that someone had to reinvent from first principles!

The issue is it’s hard to find a good simple explanation. If you search you’ll more often then not get either a bad explanation, one that doesn’t work for you personally but might for others, one that’s too mathy and assumed too much prior knowledge, etc…

Now-a-days maybe you can ask an LLM for something exactly at your level and anything you don’t get you can ask it that too. That wasn’t the case until recently and many still don’t use them

” that’s too mathy” I’m not really sure there is any remedy to the fact computer graphics is based on math.

I suck at math myself so can relate. But actually the math you need to learn to be effective at graphics is mostly about understanding _a very small subset_ of a bunch of concepts (such as how 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 matrices work) and one is set for life,

so I think it’s good to give the formal mathemathical explanation and then Gilbert Strang what it all means.

One just needs to pick any book on computer graphics written in the past 40 years or so.

But camera transform is so unintuitive it really helps if the student tries to work it out for themselves why it works.

For me it’s really weird anyone would write code and _not_ start from reading all of introductory computer graphics literature because it’s so awesome but I realize I’m the outlier here.

And that perspective presumes that being loved isn’t a fundamental human need.

Then call them what they are - lies.

I just ran into a situation where I had two Claude instances working in the same repo on two different, independent issues. I noticed the sessions were thrashing a bit on which branch they were on because each was taking control from the other session. That’s when it hit me why I need worktrees.

And depending how much you let Claude do, you can trivially say “in a new worktree, $prompt” and it’ll happily set it up and use it

> fight back against my government, please

I don't understand what you mean by this? Fight back against what? Protective tariffs?

I don’t understand your confusion? Canada is standing up to bullying tactics from a corrupt administration. Yes, please, more.

And if the world would continue to stand up for themselves in the future we might have more balanced relationships.

Tariffs in and of themselves might make sense, but the process has been arbitrary and illegal. There needs to be some sort of a plan to these things, and there is no apparent plan here.

Trump doesn't have the legal authority nor the mandate to enact arbitrary tariffs. His previous attempt ended with the Supreme Court declaring his tariffs illegal. This was the President of the U.S. willfully breaking the law, and he's doing it again. The law is not meant to be stretched into whatever shape Trump wants.

And Trump has given no thought to his tariffs. There is no analysis underlying it. It's just him acting out like a child and trying to get some kind of "win" that he can sell as a personal triumph.

Fascinating story. The author was hopelessly ignorant and guilty of facilitating, but the execs were so devoid of anything approaching ethics or morality. Explains a lot if true.

Unless you've been on the inside at the top levels of huge companies, you don't know about the sheer sociopathy of the people there. It's easy, even normal, to be naive as a regular employee, even one at a fairly high management level.

By this comment I assume you have been one of these executives at a huge company?

Yes and no. I have been on the inside and watched as a very senior but non-C-suite, one who works with the officers and next in line for C. Cultures reinforce themselves in groups of people and so yes you see all the narcissism and sociopathy in action but the limits and what’s acceptable differ. Not all companies behave like Meta on the inside.

There’s no automatic enforcement across most systems though. You can use a Thales HSM that’s configured in FIPS mode just fine from non-FIPS software.

And, technically, west of Seattle.