Eric Rescorla

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Now up on the newsletter: Understanding age assurance accuracy.

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@dilanesper I agree with this about the normal lounges, but not really about the more premium lounges. The AmEX Centurion Lounge has genuinely good food, as do some of the ANA lounges. I say this as someone who flew for business regularly and could expense meals if he wanted.

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@BStulberg IMO the lesson here is not that that work isn't valuable but rather that it's important to see the big picture and not to confuse the immediate feeling of achievement with actually getting important things done.

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@BStulberg Many such projects involve a lot of day to day work that is important or even essential but also doesn't necessarily have the immediate satisfaction of hitting your deadlift PR.

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This week on the newsletter: "How not to mandate device-based age assurance"

In this post, we examine a number of enacted or proposed requirements for device-based age assurance and some of the ways they can go wrong.

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@paulgknox @drbillsz @suzania I agree that the distinction is lost, but also "Software Engineer" (or whatever) is simply the common industry term and complaining that they're not really engineers is tilting at windmills.

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@drbillsz @suzania And don't even get me started on the difference between "data engineers", "data analysts", and "data scientists", which is very important to people working on data, but not really that relevant to anyone else.

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@Tyler_A_Harper Even though those distinctions would have been important to people in the industry.

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@Tyler_A_Harper But this is all hard to understand, so instead I mostly just told people "I work on Firefox". Which is true, but doesn't distinguish what I did from hundreds of other people who worked on Firefox.

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@suzania @drbillsz But also, the description you provided could also cover librarians. What data engineers do is build software and systems to handle data, not so much organize it by hand.

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@suzania @drbillsz No. Because the data engineers don't really find out new things, unless those things are about how to manage data systems.