> that nobody had the time, skill, or desire to find

They've always had the first two to varying degrees - it's the desire that killed most motivation.

Time and desire are derivatives of money. Skill, too, largely, though less directly.

Should be something like:

> nobody is paying to find and fix

AI lowers the cost, but certainly doesn't eliminate it. I think we can hope significantly more technical debt will be paid off, but don't expect too much.

(SRE here)

Exactly. There was even a whole domain of expertise (SRE) that exploded because of the lack of engineering rigor. That's not to say if everyone did all the right things all the time there would be NO need for SREs, but there would be fewer of us - something that I've tried to communicate to everyone I've worked for in the past ~14 years of being one.

But we had to deliver. We had to increase shareholder value.

SREs became a thing because management realized the DevOps mindset of making your programmers DBAs and sys admins wasn't really working but management were too ashamed to admit they were wrong so they invented a new term.

Mainly because they kept telling the developers "No". SREs just do that at scale.

Reminder that Twitter (X) has done similar things (shadow-banning) before.

HN does too. It's a standard moderation practice.

I've been a moderator (on smaller platforms). Can confirm that it's standard.

I think so.

A lot of orgs seem to be implementing their own version of this (we are), but having an out of the box solution is a great starting point.

What's the out-of-the-box solution you are using?

The only tools I can see in the post are

- A horizontal band sander

- A table saw with a rip fence

- a few filter-on-top-bag-on-bottom dust collectors

- a router table

- squares, clamps, rulers.

Nothing in here strikes me as particularly exotic to a woodworker US. What are you seeing that's inaccessible in the US? For my money, Europe has cheap versions of track saws when there are no cheap versions of those in the US, so that's one difference, but that's not in the post.

Do you have examples? I have seen a few US woodworking/carpentry videos and the tools seem pretty much the same.

The only things I can think of are: cheap track saws in Europe, and combination jointer/planers. There are two makerspaces near me with wood shops, and one has a French combo machine while the other has two separate machines. It saves floor space, but instead of one machine breaking, two do, so there are tradeoffs there.

> Some of us are less fortunate and work in companies where every deadline was yesterday. Every task is wildly different and often means jumping into someone else’s project that you are seeing for the first time...In that environment, making all of this a prerequisite for shipping is a pretty good way to end up on a PIP. And then out of a job.

After reading this and having no other context: this sounds like a terribly mismanaged company. One bad month and it sounds like you could go under.

Some times you have to slow down to speed up. If that means working with clients on commitments, then be honest with them. If your sales team is over-committing, tell them to stop it. The situation is precarious as is.

From an SRE's perspective, this is a good thing.

I've been using this method for about a week - great outcomes from it so far: clear, clean language that sounds like something someone would actually write.

Until recently (~20 years) IT was generally libertarian on all fronts.

I'd put the shift even later than that. 2015 maybe. I think 2008 redirected a lot of people who would have gone into "Business" in the abstract towards tech, eroding the prior engineering culture, and then it took a few years for that crowd to establish themselves as a relevant voice in the community.

Looking back, the reaction to Aaron Shwartz's death in 2013 was, IMO, indicative of the older culture. It definitely felt like a minority viewpoint by the time Covid rolled around. So, somewhere in there.