The beginning of the article should put your mind at ease:
> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.
If I was working with someone who had been working in the organization for 18 years and was also the CTO, and they replied promptly with a better communication channel to use, I would personally really appreciate that.
I feel you have an inflated sense of CTOs or I've somehow snuck into circles I really shouldn't be hanging out in!
They're people. Get them out of the ivory tower!
Not to imply I have a Rolodex full of these types, but I'm on first name basis with at least three. I'm just an SRE/Architect. Whoopee!
The CTOs in my paths all have managed to exist among us peons creating that information. I find the idea of them being overwhelmed with it hilarious.
We're supposed to believe they're so busy they can't answer your question right now, but they can later - if only you ask them somewhere else? No. Ridiculous performative exercise.
Being so particular to begin with is probably why they have to be so particular.
If anything, those I've known had to go fishing for the truth! They spend/t time with people. Those layers between pose a challenge.
I guess there's some advantage in being the firefighter... the CTOs want to know the sore spots, my positions would know.
I'd be amenable if the suggestion was to post the question in the open for everyone to hear/see. Or open a ticket for a question that's really a project. Going from DM to email is simply bikeshedding.
Just a footnote, I'm a totally random person - not the original poster
> The concept of one event happening before another in a distributed system is examined, and is shown to define a partial ordering of the events. A distributed algorithm is given for synchronizing a system of logical clocks which can be used to totally order the events. The use of the total ordering is illustrated with a method for solving synchronization problems. The algorithm is then specializedfor synchronizing physical clocks, and a bound is derived on how far out of synchrony the clocks can become.
You know, it seems like most of my quality of life improvements over the past 20 years has been due to my peers and I finally acting on much older information. The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
It is only infrequently I encounter something that still feels properly new under any kind of scrutiny, instead of revealing itself to be a refinement of something that already was known. Off the top of my head, I can think of escape analysis, Burrows Wheeler transform, and the object ownership semantics in Rust. I'll throw Raft on there since the joke is that only 12 people understood Paxos.
Hi, I'm an engineer at Thorn. You're right, it is unusual. It's also a big part of our strategy to attract, and keep, top talent. And that goes for talent across the organization: our fundraising, our marketing, our product managers, and our engineers. We're lucky to have such an amazing team, and a fundraising strategy that attracts brilliant investors and donors alike to fund the technology that we need to move the needle on this issue.
But its also exceptionally sensible. Its one of those costs that look bad on the book at first but pay for themselves over the long haul by a considerable distance.
It demonstrates a difficulty of formal verification. You can prove the program matches the specification, but how do you know the specification is correct?
> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.