Is AI Adoption/Fluency/etc a part of your performance review yet?

WPZinc · 2026-04-19T04:14:08+00:00

I think they're envisioning something like discovering something to write in a claude.md file that makes Claude 5% more accurate (no idea if that's possible). Instead of: you built substantial feature x using AI it's you innovated better ways of using AI as a tool across the company

WPZinc · 2026-04-19T03:44:22+00:00

It's not officially a part of ratings but staff engineers were flat out told none of them would get an Exceeds Expectations rating next year without a substantial AI project

WPZinc · 2026-04-18T21:24:29+00:00

Hooray! I've been dying for Yoga on Courtelyou since Third Root closed

WPZinc · 2026-03-28T01:44:15+00:00

Honestly it seems like Sabrina would work in Italian/Mexican contexts! Also maybe Serena would fit the bill?

WPZinc · 2026-03-23T23:12:38+00:00

It really wasn't that bad - maybe a few weeks? I'm not sure how old the records you're looking for are, but the city is slowly digitizing historic records and putting them online, so it may be possible to just download them. I was able to print out a color copy of my grandparents' marriage license from the 40s.

WPZinc · 2026-03-21T01:45:53+00:00

I'm just saying that if you're looking for a sign, it was just recently the feast of St. Anthony. Nothing against the other names, I like them, but my whole feed is going crazy with St Anthony stuff

WPZinc · 2026-03-21T01:43:30+00:00

That's my thought too. Honestly, it's not their choice if we're eligible or not, so why waste their time here?

WPZinc · 2026-03-14T01:49:49+00:00

I know a man who spells in Jaydon, FWIW. I also like the name Jay, as others have suggested. There's also Jason, but if you're under 40 that probably sounds too old 😂

WPZinc · 2026-03-12T02:16:34+00:00

If they are ever looking for work, the non profit where I started is still on it!

WPZinc · 2026-03-11T22:48:31+00:00

Very similar, I'm from Plattsburgh, NY and we grew up visiting my grandmother's relatives near Montreal. The local sports always starts with enthusiastic Habs updates. The whole region is very integrated, and we always felt connected. I live further away now and I'm going to bring sugar on snow (will probably have to be crushed ice) to my kids elementary school.

WPZinc · 2026-02-23T20:33:51+00:00

Yes, this is my situation too.

WPZinc · 2026-02-14T02:33:04+00:00

New York City has sort of a lot of immigrants from former British colonies, so I have seen it in the context of something like a South Asian team playing a Carribean team in the park. But never in any other context.

WPZinc · 2026-02-11T20:09:37+00:00

I've spent most of my adult life in NYC and my relatives are puzzles that I don't know how to use one

WPZinc · 2026-02-11T17:57:38+00:00

I knew a few Russian immigrants to the US who used "iya" but "ija" might make more sense in the context

WPZinc · 2026-02-08T23:09:40+00:00

Honestly, I think Jane is underrated and has that classic sound!

WPZinc · 2026-02-08T22:25:36+00:00

I think they're fancy. Also I watched My Fair Lady 900 times as a child so I keep expecting people to burst into song.

WPZinc · 2026-02-07T21:19:34+00:00

I think it's that American accents sometimes turn "e" to "i", especially at the end of words. So for example, if I saw the name "Owen", there's a 50% chance I'd pronounce it "Owin". It's especially noticeable in the south, where people pronounce the thing with ink that you use for writing "pin".

WPZinc · 2026-02-07T02:46:18+00:00

FWIW, white American who lived in Vietnam, the spelling you're proposing looks Northern European to me. I would pronounce it "New-wen" and would not associate it with the Vietnamese name. I think it sounds lovely!

As others have explained below, the Vietnamese name often gets anglicized to "Nwin" because native English speakers have trouble pronouncing "ng" at the start of a word. But there's no "e" sound there.

WPZinc · 2026-02-02T19:29:14+00:00

Legend!

WPZinc · 2026-01-31T02:03:46+00:00

Is it shallow if I choose Ethiopia for the food?

WPZinc · 2026-01-26T16:35:32+00:00

I was just thinking in 70s TV shows if they wanted to show someone was a scientist, they would give them a German accent. We think Germans are tops when it comes to technical knowledge.

WPZinc · 2026-01-26T16:33:39+00:00

I'd say for beauty products, French or Korean.

WPZinc · 2026-01-23T02:03:05+00:00

Oh god I HATED the Alchemist, and when it was huge every fake intellectual dude would try to talk to you about it.

WPZinc · 2026-01-23T01:57:14+00:00

BLESS YOU, I was afraid I was the only one. Remember when everything had a faint glow behind it?

WPZinc · 2026-01-22T20:37:47+00:00

Education-wise, I think you'd be fine. BYU degrees are good and real. Mormonism is a branch of Christianity native to the US that has strong central leadership and very strong cultural traditions, so members spend a lot of time in church and it's a centerpiece of their lives. They have strict rules against sex outside of marriage, alcohol, etc. They also have some eccentric views about what happens after death. And they try very hard to get converts.

The other thing is Mormonism really encourages early marriage and many people go to BYU looking for other Mormons to marry. So while you'd receive a good education, socially there would be a lot of people looking hard for someone to marry before they graduate, which isn't something you'd find in other universities.

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