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by whstl | 2025-04-03 09:01:39+00:00
Eng Manager here. At previous jobs I constantly had this assignment of "stop coding and only do code reviews". This to me is incredibly short-sighted as my code reviews are gonna be shit if I don't code.

Also managing a team of even 10 developers was the easiest job I ever had. Hire well, treat them well, talk with them routinely, solve conflicts, allow them to explore things.

The hard part of the job is of course functioning as a therapist for disorganised power-grabbing product people and shielding my team from their shenanigans. I'm so tired of it.

Every bad engineering manager I had two characteristics: they never have time to code but also never have to talk to me or any other employee.
by herbst | 2025-04-03 09:01:43+00:00
Except the USBc. Not sure if this applies to all models of the t480 series but that connector was slowly breaking down with each use, until it partially worked as charging slot and all usb functionality was lost.

I went trough 4 different docks until I realized who the actual problem was, and the internet was full with similar issues once I knew what to look for.

For some reason my nearly identical, slightly newer, X1 doesn't have these issues.
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-04-03 09:01:51+00:00
Rich people are typically insulated from economic downturns, especially ones they cause, by their ability to shift investments and asset allocations to mitigate and/or profit from changing tides.

Furthermore, Trump has never bought his own groceries, pumped his own gas, or interviewed for a job so retail prices and layoffs are abstractions "for plebs". Plus, he's reaching the end of his life so he doesn't have very much proverbial skin in the game since his motivations revolve almost exclusively around himself.
by oblio | 2025-04-03 09:02:36+00:00
> There are those in the States who want to devalue the dollar as a pathway to greater industrialization and domestic productive capacity. The idea is to make the US labor force competitive with the rest of the world.

> Problem is, reigning in wages for labor after decades of encouraging rampant consumerism and being in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis especially for housing seems like a political earthquake in the making.

My guess those people are fine with basically converting most of the American labor force into indentured servants but normally politicians wouldn't go for it. Trump probably assumes he is immune to any reaction, let's see.
by piokoch | 2025-04-03 09:02:43+00:00
Yes... and no. Having own currency as a global reserve currency has its disadvantages too. For instance it keeps value of the currency high, what makes whole USA production noncompetitive. USA exports two things: internet services (all those Googles, Facebooks, etc.) and military equipment.

The problem is that internet services are making rich small group of people (owners, software engineers), military production is a niche, so there is a big group of people who lose jobs, are on low paying positions, as being, say, a car factory worker, does not bring enough money. Those people voted Trump, so Trump is trying to solve their issue by bringing back production back to USA, and the way to do this is twofold: make USD weaker and make foreign goods more expensive.

All this was not a problem till early '00, when USA didn't have much competition (basically Western Europe and Japan), but the times has changed and USA is seeing that. BTW this is not a Trump thing, Obama, Biden administrations were also noticing that and taking actions, like (in)famous Obama reset with Russia to be able to expand trade over there. "Pivot" to Asia - failed Biden project of Indo-Pacific, that was supposed to convince Vietnam and others to follow USA job regulations, what would make their products more expensive. Surprisingly, they told Biden to go away...

Another thing is that for years USA was in a sense donating European industry, for instance taxes on European cars in USA were 2%, while taxes on American cars in Europe (that is European Union) were 10%. Trump puts this to an end.
by oefrha | 2025-04-03 09:03:12+00:00
No I’ve not staked my career on React, I’m not even primarily a front end guy and React is my least favorite framework among popular ones, but thank you for your concern. I was debunking one ridiculously wrong comment criticizing my least favorite framework with solid, reproducible statistics, but that’s apparently a rant compared to your very insightful questions like “100ms to download 100KB, is that fiber? Cable? 5G? 4G?”, then okay. You clearly struck a chord with a large number of people so out of touch that they believe a copy of React is required for each button, and pride themselves on such ignorance because it’s “resume-driven-development”, so congratulations.

(Another tip: Don’t bring votes into discussions, it’s both against site guidelines and laughable.)
by squiggleblaz | 2025-04-03 09:03:26+00:00
> I can buy a brand new Ryzen 7000 series laptop for the price of replacing a Ryzen 7000 series mainboard for a Framework laptop.

I haven't been able to confirm this (I found laptop prices running at about twice the cost of the mainboard), but I wonder if you're comparing an EOL runout model from a place that can afford heavy discounts against a standard price from a smaller company. If you just need a laptop and you're not too fussy, that's definitely a fair choice. But if you're buying a laptop for ten years, you probably aren't going to settle for the unsold 16GB 512GB.

> Their laptops are also a lot more expensive than same spec branded ones from Asus, Lenovo and Dell that have better build quality and design.

I guess a Framework isn't for someone who wants a same spec Asus, Lenovo or Dell.

> Eventually, sooner rather than later, both RAM and SSD will come soldered on, so the only thing you will be able to replace is the battery and the screen.

This is 173% fud. If it happens, it's because Framework is dead and there's some different company that bought their branding and just wants to use it for market segmentation. I definitely have to rate the chances that Framework has died as one of the risks of buying them, whereas I wouldn't concern myself with the risk of System76 dying, because a typical laptop lasts well past its warranty, but the point of Framework is indeed what happens in that post-warranty period.

I'm not a huge fan of Frameworks. I left a critical review on another comment. I'm not sure at all if they fit my needs, and having recently discovered the wonder of tailscale I'm now debating if my next computer will be a Framework vs a headless desktop + a dumb laptop. So even if a Framework doesn't fit my needs, they're still the only laptop that seems to. But your criticisms don't at all seem grounded enough.
by sethammons | 2025-04-03 09:04:10+00:00
Stop. Hold on. You just heard a solid set of examples and logic on why the tariffs were bad for Brazil's consumers and your takeaway was that one brand that couldn't compete in the US moved to the sheltered manufacturing environment and that is good?

The policy is good for uncompetitive manufacturing - and so you are in support of it? Why is that less-competitive manufacturer from Philly who couldn't compete anywhere but Brazil more important than the people of that country?
by dmwilcox | 2025-04-03 09:04:10+00:00
Have a near 10 year old Librem (original 13"), works fine. But if it breaks I'm getting an old Thinkpad and putting coreboot on it.

Perhaps my usage is too light, no IDEs, no electron anything, no streaming, and few tabs because I shutdown the laptop instead of suspend it -- but I don't see what all the fuss is about needing to upgrade anything. 16gb of ram and an i5 is fine, even for the modern web, disable JavaScript and/or run ublock origin.

The new fangled ARM stuff ;) strikes me as essentially similar in character to smartphones: future e-waste with no possibility of repair. Choose wisely, choose x86 and modularity
by akshat2602 | 2025-04-03 09:04:26+00:00
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by short_sells_poo | 2025-04-03 09:04:36+00:00
The Pax Americana died during the first week of the Trump administration when he proceeded to turn on practically every single one of US' long standing allies and dissolve NATO for all intents and purposes. All the soft power disappeared right there.

Perhaps the world will be better for it in the end, but it's definitely a turning point. A new world order will emerge and America won't be at the helm.
by KaiserPro | 2025-04-03 09:05:25+00:00
> Not retaliatory, reciprocal

Since we are diving into language semantics, these are _arbitrary_ tariffs that have been shat out via a "formula" which is being fed "how much stuff they sell us" as its input.

trump said "punish everyone who we spend more money with, barring our favourites" and they gave him a set of options. He chose the one he liked the best. No he didn't read any impact assessments, if they were made. He went by gut instinct.

Its just a punt. There is no greater game plan. its just a man making policy by vibe.

What makes them arbitrary? there is no really plan to test if they are going to work, or at what point they need to be adjusted. He will keep them until he sees something on twitter/truth social that makes him reconsider.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-04-03 09:05:28+00:00
Like the author, I tend towards being a function that returns the opposite of what the other person believes, rather than having a fixed political opinion. Mostly I lack the confidence to claim that this way or that way is the Right Way To Do Things -- and I'm fascinated (and envious, and also appalled) by those who do.

But on this I differ:

>Seriously, come prove some core belief I have as wrong and you will quite literally make my week.

I don't think I believe this at all. It's certainly not true of myself -- I aspire to it, but my ego is much too fragile. I have spent much time and effort carefully checking the small set of core principles that I do feel justified in calling "correct", and the reason for that is precisely to avoid the unpleasant surprise of discovering that they are demonstrably wrong after all.
by roelschroeven | 2025-04-03 09:06:18+00:00
But I do care about privacy, and other people do too. And I can read between the lines, and never take PR for fact. What remains is that Mozilla is looking for new cash, and sees selling user data as a solution for that. They want to call it differently, they want us to think it's all OK, but it's not. It's still better than other browsers though.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-03 09:07:53+00:00
> If every American got voter ID tomorrow, republicans would simply invent a new issue to manufacture distrust in the system in order to suppress votes.

And?

I am sorry, you fear.... governing? Because that's what life is. You fix one issue, some other arises.

The issue is NOT complex, let's admit it... you just don't want to lose 'face'. You have hitched yourself to the no-ID bandwagon for so long it kills you to admit it was wrong.

Democrats are trying to pretend something is a civil rights issue which NO left-leaning politician the rest of the world considers it to be so. TRUST in the system is paramount, this why Trump is in the office, it seems american citizens trust him more than they trust democrats.

It's a governance/bureaucratic issue. But as the guest on Jon Stewart's podcast said[1], democrats just can't govern.

Any other person would think of it a 25-year plan and start NOW. Start small, start with the most democratic cities in democratic states, and start offering photo ID on the cheap, on the doorstep. Use all those taxes you collect for it. Then move on to other cities in the democratic state, then slowly move outward.

Maybe one day you will again hold the federal government and then you can use the learning from that to help implement it elsewhere... and even if red states don't implement, at least you will have started something good, and you will have something to PRESENT.

But don't mind me, I am just going to spend sometime just trying to understand how trump's tariffs affect us (29%!!!), I feel I will be facing some severe shortages soon.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8IBAEpAd4
by mmooss | 2025-04-03 09:09:15+00:00
> I can do nothing

The far right and Trump's biggest support is people acting helpless and spreading their dogma of helplessness. It's surreal to see how effective their propaganda is - this is right out of psyops playbooks. It's truly unmaerican to throw up your hands - nobody is going to do it for you, and anything is possible. That's part of freedom.
by jampekka | 2025-04-03 09:10:07+00:00
It's the technocratic or perhaps "enlightened centrist" tribe. There's similar vibe in the post, and even though there's some introspection about the author's own tribe, he doesn't seem to question whether his political thinking could be tribal.

It's indeed typical for this tribe to off-hand dismiss thinking that they deem somehow "ideological" without even really trying to figure out what the thinking is. Also a lot of self-congratulation, exceptionalism and motivated reasoning is exhibited, but these are typical features of any tribe.
by mertbio | 2025-04-03 09:10:18+00:00
If people are paying a significant portion of their salaries, one-third or even half, towards rent, does it truly make sense to implement UBI? In my opinion, the answer is no. Instead, we should focus on establishing a Universal Basic Land: https://mertbulan.com/2025/03/02/we-need-universal-basic-lan...
by munjak | 2025-04-03 09:10:26+00:00
>Another thing is that for years USA was in a sense donating European industry,

Sure and Europe is not at all donating to US arms industry or to US tech sector? Europe is pretty liberal about letting US dominate those domains inside the EU, without opposing that. Plus in geopolitics it simply follows the US, that's sort of been the deal.

Seems like this US leadership thinks it can both have its cake and eat it.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-03 09:10:39+00:00
I mean, if in 80 years Tesla is called Cybertruck (the company set up to make Volkswagens was not called Volkswagen, and produced effectively zero civilian cars in its Nazi era), has been appropriated from its previous owners, who went to prison or worse, is a separate legal entity, and shares no principals with the original company, then you might have a point.

Ford is a closer comparison, but even there, Henry Ford was no longer really involved in the company when he went really publicly off the rails (he'd handed it over to his son by then). There's not much precedent for Tesla's situation, where the _current_ leadership is being publicly insane.
by whstl | 2025-04-03 09:10:59+00:00
I don't think this is gonna happen until we're able to say no to stupid shit pushed on us.

When working as an electrical engineer I never had co-workers fighting me on whether I should do stuff that goes against building code. My building engineering friends never had a product manager say "trust me, we don't need this load bearing wall".

I know of engineers who did stupid shit at work and got their license revoked, and even some famous ones went to jail.

Of course there is the famous Steve Jobs story [1] where he forced Burrell Smith to do a stupid PCB and it didn't work, but Jobs was at least willing to accept that this was a test and would take the fall for the spent money.

[1] https://folklore.org/PC_Board_Esthetics.html
by isaachinman | 2025-04-03 09:11:48+00:00
Great questions.

1. It is _both_ local and hosted. The client itself is fully offline-capable, including proper full-text search (single digit ms), writing drafts – anything you would expect an email client to do. The "hosted" bit is to ensure rapid synchronisation across multiple clients (ie your desktop and mobile).

2. Some metadata is hosted in pg to facilitate cross-platform synchronisation, as mentioned. This is encrypted at rest on a provider with SOC 2 Type I certification. Further symmetric encryption (AES-256) of sensitive columns is also done. We're well aware that security is the most important aspect of this product and is our primary focus.

3. We've not forked Thunderbird. Marco has been built from the ground up, both on the FE and BE, and has been a monumental task.

4. We have no immediate plans to add SMS/WhatsApp/RSS. If those interest you, you might have a look at Missive.

We understand that storing email metadata is potentially a turn-off to some, but is actually the key driver to an entirely new email experience. It means that a Marco client itself is virtually stateless (save for some lightweight metadata) and syncs instantly across N number of clients – it runs on web/OSX/Windows/Android/etc, and changes propagate between them instantly. New client setup happens via Marco in a proprietary way on the order of seconds and doesn't take hours to sync via IMAP.

We're building this for ourselves. Thunderbird is "alright". Apple Mail is "alright". Superhuman is decent, but ridiculously expensive and Google/Microsoft only. Missive is fairly decent (and also stores metadata), but is built for team collaboration, not individual use.
by anovikov | 2025-04-03 09:13:02+00:00
That's right, in a small city you can do it. Think Brno. But those small cities don't get to be truly dystopian in car-centric societies, either.

And no one is going to build public transport in them in US now - people all flock to megacities, these small places are all bleeding population, population there gets old, and tax sources are scarce.
by mrb | 2025-04-03 09:13:17+00:00
Holy cow! I had to check for myself: there are even more data points on trade balance for all countries at https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/index.html (whereas @orthonormalist used a partial list from wikipedia) and the percentages I calculate line up exactly with the Trump's full list of "Tariffs Charged to the USA" percentages (https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1907541343250878752) !!

Specifically they used 2024 trade balance figures. Example: take a random country, like Botswana, and the country's page at https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c7930.html shows a 2024 trade balance of 104.3 (exports) and 405.1 (imports) so 1-104.3/405.1 = 0.74 which matches the "74%" "tariffs charged to the USA" claimed by Trump...

Rarely you get handed such blatant evidence that someone produced bullshit numbers and/or doesn't understand where the numbers come from !
by yladiz | 2025-04-03 09:13:23+00:00
I think you’re somewhat missing the point, which is that the collapse of the dollar as the reserve currency around the world will eventually lead to default of US debt, which has cascading consequences domestically and internationally. This is the direction the US is heading if it really continues to alienate its allies and try to “fix” its trade deficit.

However, the OP was wrong about the fact that China will become a hegemony, for reasons like you mention, and so what’s likely happening isn’t the change of hegemony, it’s the beginning of the end of the era of the American Empire and to a likely a multi polar world. It’s going to take another world war, in some form, to create enough of a vacuum to give us another superpower/hegemony like we have with the US currently.
by Mordisquitos | 2025-04-03 09:13:31+00:00
> the people of the Isle of Man were EU citizens.

Not quite, at least not by default. The pre-Brexit Manx passport did confusingly include the text "European Union" on its cover, but holders of Manx nationality were only citizens of the EU if they had lived for at least 5 consecutive years in the UK or if they descended from a UK parent or grandparent.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man-variant_British_pa...
by bambax | 2025-04-03 09:13:33+00:00
> One of the main reasons that old Thinkpads stand out is their design philosophy. They are made with swappable components with the intention of user upgradeability.

On a fixed PC everything is swappable by definition. I don't quite understand why people love laptops so much. If you're using your PC in only one place a tower PC is cheaper and can be upgraded indefinitely with only a screwdriver (if that).
by owisd | 2025-04-03 09:14:03+00:00
Foreign countries buy USD through trade. Japan needs dollars for international trade so the US Treasury prints dollars and gives them to Japan and in return Japan gives the US Nintendo Switches or whatever. Those dollars go into the international trade system and some of those dollars will just circulate internationally indefinitely and won't ever make their way back to the US, hence the perpetual trade deficit. This is a great deal for the US because at the national level they effectively got those Nintendo Switches for free.
by darkwater | 2025-04-03 09:14:30+00:00
It's not strictly THAT or ONE laptop though. It's the concept of old Thinkpad laptops in general: since there is already a big enough refurbishment market active, parts will still be produced or stored and sold, thus permitting that kind of laptop to be repaired and survive. Even if you apply the "ship of Theseus" logic, it won't matter. It won't be the same original Thinkpad, but it will still be a Thinkpad (flies like a Thinkpad, sings like a Thinkpad...)
by mpreda | 2025-04-03 09:14:47+00:00
> They want to repudiate foreign held debt, or devalue it, by revaluation of the USD

I don't understand, who's holding that "foreign held debt"? foreign countries I suppose, so which countries do you have in mind?

For one, it's not China, which holds a large amount of US treasury bonds (so basically, China is a lender of USD). So the revaluation of USD would work great for China: one, the value of the China-held USD bonds increases, and second, the price of Chinese exports decreases in USD terms.

So help me understand, what's the plan with the revaluation of USD?
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 09:14:49+00:00
In simple terms, if you're the Philippines and you're selling fish to Russia, would you rather have Rubles or US dollars? Way back in time, US Dollars were one to one based on gold in fort knox. Right? But no country has a gold reserve now. Most countries have a dollar reserve to back the paper money they print themselves. This is the main reason the dollar hasn't collapsed already.

[edit] someone who graduated college with an economics degree please come and correct the following vague and possibly totally wrong perceptions I have as a subject of the American empire /edit

The value of a country's money is backed by a combination of how much they produce and how much foreign currency and assets from other countries they hold (euros, dollars, gold) they have on reserve. Only the US gets away with having no actual reserve ...because a combination of military might and cultural strategic dominance has allowed it to BE the reserve for everyone else. This is why it somehow makes sense for America's economy to be based entirely on consumption rather than production.

OP is right. Whichever superpower controls the levers of global trade is the one that can sell debt and enforce the currency regime.

Some of us think that it's a lucky thing that it's been America, rather than a more authoritarian power, who had held that control for the past 80 years. Europe would not have recovered from WWII otherwise, and be living behind an iron curtain. Anyone who controls global trade after America is likely to be worse from a human rights perspective.