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by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-01 22:35:09+00:00
I dealt with people like you my entire career. You were never right in the long run, but your sorts were the masters of kiss up and kick down so somehow despite never seeing the locomotives coming down the tunnels, you survived.

But I got rich (oh who am I kidding? Really rich) investing against your viewpoints the whole way. And for that I say thank you for being the way you are. May you enable a whole new generation of multi-millionaires with your negativity.

Toodles! And by all means don't respond and reinforce my opinion of you even more.
by tlhunter | 2025-12-01 22:35:21+00:00
I agree that adoption will likely be difficult. Basically the larger the engineering org the greater the benefit. If a company only has a few proposals a year then RFC Hub is mostly just friction.

I've worked at a few companies with thousands of engineers and where I've had to review hundreds of proposals. That's where the product really shines. Of course I do want it to be useful to smaller orgs as well. Adding Google auth should help reduce signup friction.

As another person on here put it, RFC Hub will benefit from automated importing of proposals. To be maximally beneficial all engineers at a company need to have an account and all RFCs need to be in RFC Hub. It almost requires a top down mandate which is bad. I do hope to make it incrementally beneficial for smaller teams.
by emmelaich | 2025-12-01 22:35:44+00:00
Related: Car Seats as Contraception https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731812

> We estimate that these laws [mandating safety seats] prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year and have decreased the total by 145,000 since 1980.
by bluerooibos | 2025-12-01 22:36:32+00:00
I kept reading the article (same old regurgitated takes) to the end and wondered where the actual argument against using Ruby was. Is that it?

What a horrific piece of journalism. This reads like something a struggling journalist would put out after a few hours with ChatGPT.

My guess is the first Ruby codebase he worked on was a particularly bad codebase that didn't conform to Ruby standards.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-01 22:36:33+00:00
It's often 20% DRM and 80% marketing.

Ohh cool, this plugin is "free". Looks like I have to register for an account and install a bunch of unrelated crap I really don't want.

The up selling never stops.

Then again. 30 years ago a lot of these trucks were straight up impossible without spending tens of thousands.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-01 22:36:43+00:00
I'd also point out that IE won the title from Netscape in the first place, which was the basis for the Mozilla software set (that later spun off into firefox).

Mozilla didn't "take on" IE. Mozilla reclaimed their lost browser position. IE kicked the proverbial posterior of Netscape which both Netscape and Mozilla struggled to reclaim right up until the release of Firefox.
by ItsMonkk | 2025-12-01 22:36:50+00:00
The problem here appears to be the banning. If the cheaters are never banned then they will continue to only play with other cheaters, and everyone is happy. And in fact, to a normal player I doubt they care very much if the player is legit and smurfing or if they are not legit and cheating. That player ruins the game they are in.

The ranking system needs to be a better determinate of skill, especially early in a new accounts life, so that they can stop harming normal players games. This might mean changes to the rules of a game to allow this to be done better. The match-maker should take this into account, so that if a player does go up against a player that was far from the skill level that they end up at, it should protect that account from being placed with new players for a time so that they can forget about it.

For the example you choose for Chess, you might force players to do Chess Puzzles before they can queue for their first match. A normal player would then never see any cheaters.
by rv888 | 2025-12-01 22:37:06+00:00
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by wiseowise | 2025-12-01 22:37:15+00:00
> Elephant in the room: what about meetings where the purpose is to receive updates, maintain context on project progress, etc.? Yes, sometimes (often!) these meetings can be emails or messages — but sometimes it's important to be able to ask or even hear others ask questions, and to get a sense of how people are feeling directly.

No, there are none. Whoever does those needs to check their fucking ego and just send an email/update md file like a normal human.
by jasonpeacock | 2025-12-01 22:37:17+00:00
This is neat, but it's not zettelkasten - it's building a browse-able knowledge DB from content.

Zettelkasten is about about writing down your ideas in response to content, with a link to that content, and then linking to other ideas that your already logged. It's not an extraction of ideas from that content. This is a common mis-understanding of zettelkasten.
by SoufianeGfx | 2025-12-01 22:37:20+00:00
Otherwise if you are already a Dear ImGui user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111925 Just add 2 files im_anim.h/cpp in your project and you're done! And if you want the demo add demo_im_anim.cpp and call ImAnimDemoWindow(). Don't over complicate things.
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-01 22:37:47+00:00
I know better than to think I might have anything useful to add to the WFH debate, but buried further in the memo:

”More demos, less [sic] decks”

I love it, but I’m surprised that an org of that caliber needs to say it out loud. Even the top tier people get bogged down in PowerPoint limbo, I guess?

Nothing is more compelling than, as they say in show business (ie that Bill O’Reilly meme), than saying “f*** it…”:

(╯°□°)╯ ┳━━━━┳ WE’LL DO IT LIVE!
by BergAndCo | 2025-12-01 22:38:39+00:00
Besides like trello asana redmine or the millions of less-complicated competitors? You literally have developers work on their own modules directly from the spec or work directly with the product owner. You track their work by looking at their commits. You check their progress by looking at how the preview build / staging looks. No overhead of having developers flesh out an entire issue/story (plus sub-issues) and then move it column-to-column across the entire Kanban board. Tracking sub-issues is like counting half-pennies instead of rounding up.
by yazmi | 2025-12-01 22:38:52+00:00
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by simoncion | 2025-12-01 22:38:57+00:00
> They are still ignoring Linux, hence why Valve is using Proton...

Eh, maybe?

I'd put forth the notion that game devs might be caring how their game works on both Windows and Proton. That is, that they're still using the Microsoft-provided APIs to build their game, but care about how it runs on Linux just as much as how it runs on Windows.
by netdoll | 2025-12-01 22:39:23+00:00
Texinfo ultimately gets the @ convention from Brian Reid's Scribe[1], as developed at Carnegie Mellon during the late 70s and commercialized by Unilogic[2,3] in the 80s. Coincidentally, there was a close derivative of Scribe called Mint[4], also developed at Carnegie Mellon in the early 80s for the PERQ (an early personal workstation competing in the category of things like the Sun-1 or Lisp Machines).

[1] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/scribe/Scribe_Introductory_Use... [2] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/unilogic/Scribe_Document_Productio... [3] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/unilogic/Scribe_Pocket_Reference.p... [4] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/spice/Users_Manual_for_Mint...
by hparadiz | 2025-12-01 22:39:25+00:00
I'm a single contractor and can't really justify it. It saves me about 8k per year and this would be a bronze plan through MediCali if I got it. People would say "well what if you get a cancer or something" and yea that may be true but in that instance not only would I be out that premium but also the deductible and it won't even cover everything so maybe I'm actually better off stacking cash until the inevitable.
by mystraline | 2025-12-01 22:39:29+00:00
Citation definitely needed.

Ive been to doctors in different countries including the USA. Theres nothing special with general practitioners with the USA.

Or if you end up in China, you can get blood panels for like 10RMB, MRI for 30RMB, and damn near automated to boot.

Go to Mexico for dental work. What costs you here $30k costs you $2k, and they take your insurance.

The US citizens are being gouged, because our government has been bought out by corporate interests who bribe, err, campaign donate to both parties. And thats across every economic activity. Medical is just an egregious one, alongside academics.
by devilbunny | 2025-12-01 22:39:40+00:00
Maybe they're not handing them out any more, but I've still got one and it still works in the TiVo (Edge?) that I have. It replaced that WMC DVR because WAF. Her genuine preference was for our old ReplayTV and its interface, but they didn't live long enough to make HD DVR's.

Turned out after I had already bought all that stuff due to flakiness that it was just some bad RAM that, really, was overkill - I could have just taken out the bad sticks and kept on rocking, in which case it probably would still be our DVR.
by nderim_r | 2025-12-01 22:39:41+00:00
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by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-01 22:39:48+00:00
> What's the benefit of working remote from your team but next to random, noisy people?

The illusion of control? I mean we can pretend we don't know what this is about (well it's probably also about encouraging a reduction in force), but we do know right?

By far the people who bemoaned working from home the most were people whose job doesn't typically involve any actual "work". Not saying that there weren't exceptions, but the vast majority of working engineers I knew rejoiced in finally getting heads down time, while everyone whose job is primarily "performance for leadership" hated how difficult it was to perform visible theatrics on a camera.

Especially in large orgs "leadership" and "team success" are largely about optics. Being seen working in the office late is so much more important than getting any actual work done. It's only in small companies where actually shipping something has any value at all.

What I don't understand is why we still pretend like this is a mystery. Recognizing this I've completely avoided working for large orgs, and continue to enjoy remote work we're I can be valued for the results of what I build (well there's always a little theater) over office productivity performativity.
by prdonahue | 2025-12-01 22:39:49+00:00
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by observationist | 2025-12-01 22:39:51+00:00
Most average people assume competence and good faith from people in charge. Most people don't question, aren't skeptical, and go through life in a fog. That's not most people here, but it's like Gell-Mann amnesia applied to politics. 99% of the time, when politicians put forth a plan to do things in a domain you're competent in, they look like morons. It's exceedingly rare for them to do things well.

People trust elected officials, they trust institutions, they trust "experts", the media, the academics. A vast majority of people don't realize the scale of ineptitude amongst the people who wield power. Most of the "elites" are not overqualified geniuses, but instead average bumbling idiots who stumbled their way into office, or sociopaths, or physically attractive. Most political systems do not reward competence and diligence.

You could swap out all 535 congress people in the US for randomly selected citizens and I guarantee you that outcomes would improve. Things are going so badly because they're intended to go badly, because unethical people wield power for self enrichment and cronyism. The purpose of a system is what it does.
by prawn | 2025-12-01 22:40:10+00:00
More info on Australia from a quick search.

- Public hospital birth is about $0-1k USD. - Private hospital with health insurance: $2-3k USD - Private without insurance: typically up to $13k USD

Private health insurance is nowhere near $40k here. Can be down around US$100/mo for a single or US$300ish/mo for a family, depending on inclusions.
by CodeMage | 2025-12-01 22:40:29+00:00
Do arguments even matter when the article is clearly clickbait? If the title is not enough to identify it as clickbait, the first 4 paragraphs make it clear, with the whole "imprinting" bit.

My first programming language was BASIC. My second programming language was assembly (for Z80A, then for 6502, later for x86). My third programming language, the one the author would call "formative" was Pascal.

None of these languages left me "imprinted" to the point of forever shaping my tastes and making me unable to adapt to or appreciate newer languages.

In fact, if we're talking about formative experiences, I remember one professor at the university who said, quite seriously, that "Anyone who has programmed in BASIC has been damaged for life and will never be a good programmer." The reason why that was a formative experience is that it taught me that people in which we put our trust can be assholes who ruin people's lives because they think some bit of dogmatic bullshit they came up with is clever.

And that's really what the article is about: the author wants to show off how clever they are. I'm okay with that, in general. I remember reading Steve Yegge's blog posts and finding them entertaining, regardless of whether I agreed with them. Thing is, Yegge had a lot more to say than just "look at how clever I am".
by vkou | 2025-12-01 22:40:42+00:00
Expenses are definitely higher, and doctors and hospital CEOs and med school CEOs do drive nicer cars and have bigger summer dachas, but I can't say the same about quality. Six month waits for a specialist, every PCP and shrink you'd want to visit not taking on new patients, ER wait times comparable with other developed nations, worse overall outcomes...

Maybe the top 0.5% is getting better care, but I really wouldn't shed a lot of crocodile tears for them.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 22:40:54+00:00
Except nobody ever actually considered the "turing test" to be anything other than a curiosity in the early days of a certain branch of philosophy.

If the turing test is a goal, then we passed it 60 years ago and AGI has been here since the LISP days. If the turing test is not a goal (which is the correct interpretation), nobody should care what a random nobody thinks about an LLM "passing" it.

"LLMs pass the turing test so they are intelligent (or whatever)" is not a valid argument full stop, because "the turing test" was never a real thing ever meant to actually tell the difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence, and was never formalized, and never evaluated for its ability to do so. The entire point of the turing test was to be part of a conversation about thinking machines in a world where that was an interesting proposition.

The only people who ever took the turing test as a "goal" were the misinformed public. Again, that interpretation of the turing test has been passed by things like ELIZA and markov chain based IRC bots.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-01 22:41:13+00:00
Yes and no. A lot of people have gaps in their financial education.

That said, mortgages aren't rocket science.

1. Assume at the end of the day you want the homeowner to be paying a stable monthly amount*.

2. In order to get there, you have {loan term}, {interest rate}, and {loan amount} as primary variables.

3. Assuming {loan term} and {interest rate} are constant (in a given mortgage market, at a given time), that leaves {loan amount} as the only variable.

So how do you get a constant monthly payment for a variety of {loan amounts}?

4. You add up all the interest that would be owed over the entire {loan term}, using {interest rate}, then divide each monthly payment into some proportion of {interest payment} and {principle payment}.

5. You also front-weight the interest payments, because at that time there's more outstanding total loan (versus at the end of the loan term, when only a little principle remains to be paid back).* *

Not super complicated. Yes, there's compound math, but conceptually simple.

* For some definition of stable, even if it readjusts on some schedule

* * Point in time interest pricing like this also makes future recalculation for over/underpayments easier, as you're essentially trued-up on interest payments at all times
by kaoussi | 2025-12-01 22:41:14+00:00
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by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 22:41:20+00:00
>They are simply suggesting that the moral qualms of using AI are simply not that high - neither to vast majority of consumers, neither to the government.

And I believe they (and I) are suggesting that this is just a bad faith spin on the market, if you look at actual AI confidence and sentiment and don't ignore it as "ehh just the internet whining". Consumers having less money to spend doesn't mean they are adopting AI en masse, nor are happy about it.

I don't think using the 2025 US government for a moral compass is helping your case either.

>If AI can make things 1000x more efficient

Exhibit A. My observations suggest that consumers are beyond tired of talking about the "what ifs" while they struggle to afford rent or get a job in this economy, right now. All the current gains are for corporate billionaires, why would they think that suddenly changes here and now?
by kaikai | 2025-12-01 22:41:44+00:00
I’ve worked for multiple companies and only one demanded I enroll my personal phone in their device management. I pushed back in a public channel and they reconsidered the policy. I left shortly after so not sure where that landed.

Everywhere else I’ve worked I’ve had slack/teams/email/pagerduty whatever on my personal device without issues. It hasn’t felt realistic to ask for a dedicated work device for that.
by AnnaPali | 2025-12-01 22:41:54+00:00
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by rvz | 2025-12-01 22:42:29+00:00
I'm telling him to know his own worth and build projects for himself that make money. If he is that good he can build a startup.

Instead of wasting it at companies that can replace him with another worker or one with an AI agent.

You said it youself "spending so much time at work" when the alternative is for him to work for himself and save that time for other things. So my response still stands:

It does not matter how much money you are making, what people in jobs never understand is that you will NOT get that time back again.
by Narishma | 2025-12-01 22:42:31+00:00
> One of the random things burned into my memory for 6502 assembly is that LDA is $A9. I never separated the instruction from the register; it's not like they were general purpose.

You had LDA and LDX and LDY as separate instructions while the Z80 assembler had a single LD instruction with different operands. It's the same thing really.