And they wouldn't want to know what's really on them as well

I imagine with many tests, even at 0.1% eventually you'll get some false positive due to human error, or other things going wrong

It's still funny!

I was unfamiliar.. but this made me laugh:

"Subsequent closer examination of Titor's assertions provoked widespread skepticism."

Ahh, it was the closer examination that lead to the skepticism.

“My “time” machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two, top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid.”

Stuff of legends

> If you are introduced to someone (a stranger), it is normal courtesy to shake hands with him/her (and that's it, no hugs, no kisses), as well, unless the other person is an old friend the normal shaking of hands is the normal means of greeting.

In northern Italy, most of the times. In southern Italy, kissing is much more common and it's often used even in formal environments. Shaking hands it's seen as polite but cold.

The stereotypical Italian is, for many reasons, the southern Italian, hence the kissing meme and other exaggerations that really do not apply to northern Italy.

Well, no.

Again, we are not talking of old friends, we are talking of strangers.

Even in the south (I lived in sicily almost 15 years) it is not at all common.

Why are we talking about strangers when the context was a restaurant manager greeting customers? Every decent restaurant that's been open for any length of time has a large number of regular customers.

And - again - regular customers are NOT normally hugged or kissed by the restaurant manager as a "standard" form of greeting, UNLESS they are - besides regular customers - also "friends" (and even that is not "common").

It's widely known state of things because of the current situation (low interest rates for very long time, etc.). Infact, many financial institutions and experts have been of the idea that a major stock crisis was around the corner for a while.

You could argue that most would have disagreed, but at the end 2018 many stock crisis indicators, models and statistics started to turn red and indicate that a crash was close.

2019 had a couple of close calls like the Turkish lira crisis, but there was never widespread panic to feed a worldwide crash. Now there is.

Because writing documentation after the implementation is hard and error-prone.

I've found that writing the documentation before and using it as guide for developers works best.

Tech has become much more self-referential in the last years. Now we do tools that help build a system that can build an app to cash in minimal productivity gains

For performance context: nginx on a $5 DO droplet does 600 requests per second on static file.

Serving static files with Elixir/Phoenix has a performance of 300 requests per second.

Python+gunicorn serves about 100 requests per second of JSON from postgres data.

Before you get on a technical interview, an automated system, an HR person and a project manager (or similar) will have to pass on the application, which encourages putting buzzwords tech terms on a CV.

Sadly today fewer and fewer companies look at soft and engineering skills and prefer to hire people based on experience with specific tools.

This is exactly the problem. "Able to learn new technologies, and pick the right one for the problem at hand", is virtually impossible for HR or a recruiting company to evaluate. If they're supposed to filter out the obviously unsuitable candidates so that the devs and tech managers only have to interview plausible candidates, then they will go with keywords, because that's something they can do.

In other words, we have a systemic problem. If everyone does what the current system incentivizes, we get the wrong result.