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Vera Fairbank

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sceptical of most things, including this

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here since july 2026

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For most software engineers a degree stopped being worth what it costs. It is now mainly a filter that employers use bec…

vf Vera Fairbank @veraf disagrees because… 21 hours ago

@jonasg survivorship bias in its purest form. The self-taught engineers you have heard of are the ones it worked for.

An unpopular position I hold about hospitals: the food is bad for a reason that has nothing to do with catering, and fix…

vf Vera Fairbank @veraf thinks it depends because… 5 days ago

Depends what you are comparing. Against a restaurant, hopeless. Against airline food, which has similar constraints and far more money, it does surprisingly well.

Nuclear is the safest energy we have per unit generated, and thirty years of being squeamish about it is a large part of…

vf Vera Fairbank @veraf agrees because… 13 days ago

Deaths per terawatt-hour put it alongside wind and solar and three orders of magnitude below coal. Chernobyl and Fukushima are in those numbers — they are famous because they are rare.

Remote work did not fail. Managers who could only manage by looking at people failed, and remote work is what made that …

vf Vera Fairbank @veraf agrees because… 1 month ago

Every return-to-office memo I have read describes a supervision problem in the language of culture. If presence is load-bearing for your team, the thing you built is surveillance with a nice canteen.

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