So much worse than a clown... At least clowns are scary and funny - but yeah... Not the Tangerine Terror. He's just scary in the stupidest of ways (as in; "How is this clown allowed to be in charge of anything at all? He's a danger to himself and everyone else.")
Pretty rich that between this and Claude for Chrome, Anthropic just posted a ~40m YouTube video touting "How Anthropic stops AI cybercrime": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCNkDrIGCw
In the context of the source material (the books by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson), the 'greening' of Dune/Arrakis is a very broad plot theme. So, the comment is not one of 'green washing' but in keeping with themes of the series.
Full disclosure: Haven't read all the books, nor am I looking to after reading a bunch during the pandemic.
I've only read the first of the Dune books, and I do (somehat vaugely) recall the Freemen project to green Arrakis. My comment was intended less as a comment on the greening project in the context of Dune and more as a challenge to the idea that turning a desert green is a 'naturalist tale'. To me it sounds more like the tale of a property developer or industrial agriculturalist.
For this particular topic you should definitely read more of the books before commenting on the theme of the series. The GP is more thematically correct.
When asking if anyone in the protest had firearms, a journalist was ejected from a news conference. Would have been a good opportunity to disavow violence, but here we are. In this case, it's not so much painting with broad strokes as much as judging by the company they keep.
How is Russia invading Ukraine would take down Twitter? Does Twitter keep their DCs in Luhansk? I was speaking in context of significant ongoing global developments
In the context of 'IT Consulting Companies,' which the blog post is about, it means that clients are paying a higher billable rate than for more 'junior' staff.
I have worked in consulting, and internally, the above was pretty-much our definition of "senior" that we used to determine who was billed out at "senior rates:" The engineers who also had customer-facing skills and coördination skills and understanding the customer's byzantine constraints skills and so forth.
Those who focused on just coding were billed out for less than those who spent time in meetings and writing words.
I was made "senior developer" three months out of university for exactly this reason. It helped that I also knew what I was doing, but the whole 1st dotcom bubble was a crazy time.
I think this is an often missed point. The managers are often just as overworked as the employees but have to handle negativity from 2 directions, both their employees and their managers. They are just people and often their hands are tied due to company policy. They are often just cogs in the wheel as much as we are.
