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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Depends on your situation and objective. If you’re currently employed and want to increase potential earnings in the same track, then probably around 30/35 from my personal judgement. You should really have enough professional experience and context at that point to make up for a degree, especially if you’re engaging in continuing education, staying up to date on professional articles, watching conference talks, etc.

    If you’re looking to get an MBA to move into a management track, it’s probably worth it later in life until like your 40s and 50s earnings wise.

    If your current industry is tanking and you need to pivot to a new one, then you don’t really have any other options than to reskill no matter how old you are.

    If you just want to learn philosophy or history independent of your work, then there’s not really a point where it’s too late, just how many classes you have time for which is wholly dependent on your life circumstances and doesn’t depend on age.




  • I’m going through something similar with my parents. The frustrating part hasn’t been the forgetting, it’s more not trying to work around it.

    I keep telling them to write things down if there are verbal plans being made, will remind them etc. then sometimes they just never do even if I chase a bit, or they’ll write down the wrong thing or the plans will have changed and I’m not told and it just causes a whole mess.














  • An issue I’ve seen brought up in the open source community is that they have audits that look at the number of untriaged issues and time to resolve serious issues that their funding depends on.

    I’m in software, but not open source, so it seems like they don’t have someone aligned with their team who they can sit down and say “either we need more resources, cut scope for new features, or accept quality / security issues coming up” to, its kind of this weird game of politics they end up needing to play to get any kind of funding for full time maintainers.

    That’s the main reason they can’t just ignore issues that come up in their backlog, especially security ones.


  • When have we tried voting as an informed electorate? It doesn’t matter how many times we throw them out if we don’t pay attention to who we’re letting in. What you’re proposing is endlessly shuffling a deck and expecting it to magically be sorted after enough shuffles.

    The number of morons I’ve talked to whose entire understanding of politics and policy boils down to them saying “government can’t do anything!” or “the two sides just need to come together” infuriates me. We need people to have actual opinions based in reality of both lived experience and informing themselves through things like news stories or town halls, even if its only for a few weeks around voting season. Without that we’re just going to have a revolving door of grifters each one leaving with nice full pockets each time they leave.