Sure, you can go homestead in Alaska. That should reduce demand in your city :)

"I live above a bowling alley, and below another bowling alley"

Rent has gotten so outrageous that this is a good thing now.

Some people have different preferences when it comes to housing.

My place overlooks a freeway. I really, truly dislike that freeway. But one thing I do like about it is the noise that it makes, even at night. I find it very hard to fall asleep in silence.

Oh and I should mention that most of the units in my building do not face the freeway, and therefore, those who prefer quiet can also get that, even in the same building.

You should really check the air quality you're breathing. I agree about sound, but there's other ways to generate it. Seriously though, check the air quality you breath.

Air quality is absolutely one of the reasons that I hate that highway. It sucks.

I'm of the persuasion that highways should never go through cities. I'd never argue living by a highway is good. It's just that one isolated aspect of it that others may find bad, I find good, due to preference.

Looking forward, if we really do turn automotive transportation green, some of the negative effects like air quality will improve dramatically. Though I suppose the accompanying reduction in noise will be a detriment for your particular sleeping needs.

That would improve that, for sure :) I would still hate the highway for tons of other reasons...

and I would happily just play some white noise on a speaker instead in exchange for being rid of it. Oh well.

"Don't ask me how the economy works"

This is 100% true for progressing to management. However the OP doesn't want management, which is fine, that's what principals are for. They should just find a good "servant leadership" manager who will get all the BS out of their way, and let them do "their job."

Even ICs benefit from learning this stuff.

There are really two paths: management or senior/staff IC. Up or out — stagnate in a low-level or mid-level role, and you will get replaced with a younger engineer who will do the same work for less, or a contractor, or outsourcing. Everyone is expected to improve until they reach either senior/staff IC or management. You can’t get there unless you learn how to deal with the non-coding parts of the job.

Valve. They're kind of dysfunctional from what I hear.

Oh god no. No please don't let "power-users" anywhere near a Low Code framework. It doesn't take long for them to fuck up and go ask a real developer what is wrong. I've seen things...

> It doesn't take long for them to fuck up and go ask a real developer what is wrong. I've seen things...

Worse is when it doesn’t take them long to fuck up, but it does take them (or, often, other people in the org, possibly after they’ve left) long to bring in a dev...

I’ve seen things, too...

The sooner the better. Would you prefer stage one cancer or stage four cancer?

I'm in a public university IT department on the administrative side.

If the professors would like to do admissions, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to do budgeting, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to do HR, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to run the ERP, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to run the Learning Management System, then I encourage them to do so.

etc etc

Fortunately all of the profs I've spoken to have a brain and understand division of labour. Which is great because I love working with them to build fun IT solutions that make their lives, and the educational experience better! If I wanted to make professor level money I'd work literally anywhere else.

None of which is the problem the author is characterizing. FTA:

For example, last December, all Faculty of Arts and Sciences affiliates received an email from Dean Claudine Gay announcing the final report of the FAS Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage, a task force itself created by recommendation of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. This task force was composed of 24 members: six students, nine faculty members, and nine administrators. The task force produced a 26-page report divided into seven sections, based upon a survey, focus groups, and 15 separate meetings with over 500 people total. The report dedicated seven pages to its recommendations, which ranged from “Clarify institutional authority over FAS visual culture and signage” to “Create a dynamic program of public art in the FAS.” In response to these recommendations, Dean Gay announced the creation of a new administrative post, the “FAS campus curator,” and a new committee, the “FAS Standing Committee on Visual Culture and Signage.”

It's about the creation of administrative positions such as the "Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging"

The author brings up some important information that is not always easily noticed. The university should definitely setup a task force to look into the matter and give the author a paid position on the task force.

A couple weeks ago my block was hit by thieves who got remote entry into a bunch of Toyotas and Hondas. I wonder if that's how they did it.

Given how much is in common between the Japanese manufacturers, if Toyota and Honda are affected it's likely that several others are as well.

I am hyper cognizant of that as a manager. I have to teach my new people not to fear me, because a lot of working class people come from industries where your boss is NOT your friend.

Probably exactly that. Looking for devs who used an if statement instead of a ternary operator. Not realizing that its sometimes really fucking useful to have readable code.

Or the opposite lol, it's all subjective anyways.

It's wild to me that they can basically print counterfeit USD and put it on their SEC filings, and the Treasury is just okay with it.

SEC filings? They never made any SEC filings

The vast majority of their business was based in the Bahamas and Antigua to avoid US regulators