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I'm going to preface this article with everything I believe should be done to have a more fair society and world:

• Everyone, regardless of their race, sexual orientation, or cultural background should have the same opportunities
• The only exception to the above rule are those who harm others in pursuit of their identity

If soceity doesn't have the above, how do you get there? Lately, it's been by "systematic reparations".

I'm going to take one concrete example, and let anyone in the audience extrapolate from it: DEI hiring initiatives.

• DEI hiring brings under-represented groups into different fields. This is good, as it makes the great individuals feel welcome to put their best work forwards
• DEI hiring, by increasing the likelyhood of interview/offer also makes the average underrepresented person perform worse during their employment, tarnishing the reputation of those who were competitive on their own merit
• By favoring under-represented groups in the hiring stage, DEI hiring harms people in over-represented groups

I hope that one day we will succeed in our DEI initiatives and not need to worry about diversity quotas - But the truth is, for the negative side effects of DEI, many people oppose DEI hiring in private. These people are afraid to speak up.

This isn't an anti-DEI post. This is a post for people who think they're the crazy ones for being opposed to these social policies. You're not crazy. A lot of people think these policies range from odd to borderline insane. But for the same reason you don't say it, they don't either.

I really hope future generations look at today's society and our intolerance of certain groups with the same criticism modern Americans look at the KKK. But the truth is, in private, a lot of people disagree with these reparations, but they don't know how to express it without being counter-productive to the movement. And so if we reach a breaking point where this backfires, let it be known for the history books it didn't come from nowhere. It's been bubbling.

Some important notes:

• There are people who publicly oppose these DEI and likewise initiatives. That is not the focus of the point - the focus is to let it be known for history, that many more people oppose it in private, but fear speaking out
• You can replace DEI with many things such as right wing political ideology, LGBT acceptance, opinions on immigration, pedophilia, etc.
• This is not a post of me confessing of my opinions, I'm not and never have been afraid to share my opinions

Basically, I want to make an artistic QR code of a website I made for my girlfriend, and then ship her a jigsaw puzzle of the QR code art.

There's lots of services online that generate AI image QR codes, but the problem is they all max out at like 1024x1024. I need something at least 5x bigger than that for a physical, 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle. If I use an upscaler, it looks uncanny when you zoom in.

Basically, I want to make something like this, but much higher res: https://i.imgur.com/TeDvEgL.png

Any ideas?

Direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187494#42200923

Archive in case it's deleted: https://archive.is/D4HMx

It was a life goal of mine to break into FAANG. For years I didn't think I could make it, and then for years I started to try - finally breaking into Meta as a Software Engineer.

My first 4 or 5 months were great. Low stress, meaningful work, and my technical skills matched or exceeded expectations. I loved the free food, the free transit, the dental services, the people, everything. With a corporate policy mandating working from office 3 days a week, I joyfully came in all 5.

But things changed. I found myself on a new team, all with the same perks.. But less meaningful work. It's hard to explain what lack of work and lack of interesting work does to your motivation.

• There's less work to go around, so you have a looming feeling that you should be "doing something", but you don't know what
• You spend time justifying your work to higher-ups, even though you don't believe in the work yourself
• Meetings become politics, and you start counting the days until the weekend

The months I worked on interesting projects were amazing - I felt like I could stay at Meta forever. Climb the ladder, and be somewhere. Yet less than 45 days on this team - and I can't believe it's only been 45 - makes time feel so wasteful. 진짜 아깝다.

During an honest chat with a great teammate, he said I was "unlucky" for how I got team transferred and will get a subpar rating despite being a "Great engineer". I don't think I'm unlucky. In fact, I'm very lucky to still be working at FAANG making bank. People who never got a job after college are unlucky.

But still, I want to go back. I reminisce about returning to Korea every day. If I spend 6, 7 years here - When will I get married? When will I start a family or my own business? When will I go back to Korea and have fun? These thoughts become so much more intrusive when the days go by so slow.

It's kind of funny. 8 months ago I wrote about how great my job is. In that post, I wrote a line near the end:

I don’t regret anything, and I will come back and touch grass

It seems like I may go back and touch grass sooner than I expected.

(Post blog note: I'm not "giving up", so to speak. I'm solving my issues at work by turning "Nothing to do" into "Let me push this project idea" - Hopefully this will rekindle the motivation fire, which is something I need regardless of how long I stay here.)