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I'm sure it can be. But right now, I DGAF. I'm tired of all the negativity and pessimism, and would welcome a big ole healthy dose of optimism from somewhere. Here lately it seems like everywhere you turn it's just somebody screaming about how bad things are and complaining about something.

And yeah, the world we live in is pretty fucked up in plenty of regards. But not in every regard. And while I don't advocate going full-on nihilist, there's something to be said for striving for a little balance, and embracing a little bit of that "screw it, let's just dance, drink, listen to music, fuck, do drugs, and have some FUN while we're here" mindset.

I'm reminded of a line from the Motley Crue movie, where Vince Neil says "I'm sick and tired of not having any fun!"

Life is for the living... let's have some optimism, and have some fun. We can save the manatees, fix the environment, etc., without being a bunch of miserable sodding wankers in the process.
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We are onboarding our first employees. Pre-revenue, product launched, currently bootstrapped but raising. They are going to work part-time at first but are vital for onboarding clients. We want to give them equity to increase buy-in and make them "a part of the business".1y vesting, OKR's and milestones to earn equity. What % of equity would be reasonable?
> I've grown accustomed to switching on my exploding/disappearing messages when these topics come up. Every platform needs this for some semblance of privacy.

In banking in particular, that is a no go (in the US at least).
A "$2100 5K iMac - 6 Core I5 3Ghz" is not a substantial improvement over my late 2013 MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz, 4 core i7), which can both travel to client sites and directly drive 2 x 3840 x 2160 pixels on my desktop displays. No new MBP's have been worth buying. The new Mac Pro is nice but crazy expensive in a configuration I'd expected to be buying in 2019.
IM's also great for keeping a whole team or group in-sync with a current team activity or sprint.

If everybody on the team is aware of how to properly use IM, (and when to use an alternate means) - then most of the bad effects talked about in the ranticle are easily overcome.

I'm not even sure it's possible to do remote work without IM.
I'm inclined to agree with the author, but sadly I think that getting a "little bit of software help" and "maintaining a culture of mindful and efficient communication" is simply not viable in large enterprises that run on Outlook. There are plenty of technical projects that have successfully used mailing lists for decades, and those searchable lists are now valuable historical records, but I have never seen this implemented successfully in a team that did not consist primarily of software developers. At every job I've had, I've built up an organised, searchable and valuable mail archive, and I know many of my colleagues have done the same thing, only for the archive to disappear when I change jobs because there is no way of filtering out personal and confidential material before sharing the archive. At least with Slack you know that group chats are not implicitly private, and the tools and culture allow you to send messages that are visible to everyone without expecting them all to read and respond.
Arial view of the protest today in Hong Kong
Well sure, if you're blindly optimistic, you'll have problems.

The thing about optimism is that if you believe there is a solution, you'll keep working until you find it. If you're pessimistic, you're more likely to give up if there solution isn't obvious. Successful people are often optimistic because it's useful.

Don't assume that everything will work out, assume that there are solutions to every problem you face. Even when there aren't solutions, searching gives far more meaning to life than complacency.

There's certainly value in stoicism, but I think optimism results in the best quality of life. Which you choose should be based on your personality and what brings you satisfaction (contentedness vs achievement).
Optimism is absolutely a double-edged sword. It can keep you motivated during difficult tasks, make you a better/more positive teammate, and encourage you to look for the better ways of doing things that optimists, by definition, believe to exist.

On the other hand, it's also the reason behind most of my missed deadlines ("Oh yeah I can do that in a week, no problem"), burnout ("I've got nights and weekends, I can take on this project"), and disappointing/unrealistic projections ("I don't want to slow myself down with research, I KNOW people are going to love this product").

In my previous role, I was paired up with a developer whose natural tendencies were to pessimistically look upon each new feature request like a minefield. Having someone to negate the negative aspects of my optimism was a godsend, and we had one of the most productive working relationships I've ever had. I would unfairly get a lot of the credit for my positive, can-do attitude, but I've never forgotten the benefits of having a healthy dose of skepticism on a team, nor the absolute havoc that an unchecked optimist (like myself) can cause.
> That culture of saying nothing and the surprising customers with things is like betting in Vegas.

Note that Apple quite publicly said that they had issues with the "trashcan" Mac Pro design and that it would take them a couple of years to resolve them.
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Once they replace this travesty of a generation of MBP, I’ll agree with this. I’ve been impressed recently with the improvements in software and hardware.

I have a maxed out 2015 MBP and I won’t buy the most generation under any circumstances. I buy laptops with the expectation it will last at least 4 years, and I have no confidence that this generation will last that long. I have full confidence though that the rumored replacement will be amazing, much like the new Mac Pro adessed the past criticisms.
I can relate- as a 16-year-old teenager with soldering abilities, knowledge of OS X, Windows, and Linux (including data recovery) it was quite saddening / depressing (I honesly don't know the right word to describe it) to hear that I couldn't get a job, or even an apprenticeship at any of the local computer repair shops because I wasn't old enough.

This isn't a 1:1 comparison, because being young is a legal problem, but I definitely feel your pain- and the pain of others in that situation- it's a serious downer and quite demoralizing for someone to say no just because you don't have a certificate (in this case, a DL). It's honestly really hard to get someone to take a chance on you.
I would suggest re-reading the "Myths" section from TFA.
My dad passed away a couple of years ago of some weird cancer after a career working in nuclear power (we got a class action settlement from the DOE).

There are definitely some careers that are more dangerous than others.
Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (2008)
I just looked up how to add fog lights to the Subaru forester without fog lights. Turns out you need the lights and the switch, and no wiring.
Would PCIe storage/network adapters count as embedded?

Lightbits uses an FPGA on their storage adapter for NVME-over-fabric, enabling custom processing at line rates. This is a standardized evolution of Annapurna (now AWS Nitro virtualization), https://www.lightbitslabs.com/products/lightfield/

https://NetFPGA.org has been around for a while and continues to advance, https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi19spring_pontarelli_...

> programming a Smart-NIC to support a new network function requires hardware design expertise. While a tech giant can build and assign a dedicated team to the task, this is usually not the case for a large majority of companies, e.g., smaller cloud or network operators. As a result, recent network programming abstractions, such as P4 have the explicit goal of simplifying the programming of FPGA-based network devices ... introducing FlowBlaze, an abstraction that extends match-action languages such as P4 or Microsoft’s GFT to simplify the description of a large set of L2-L4 stateful functions, while making them amenable to (line-rate) implementations on FPGA-based SmartNICs. To benefit the community at large, we build FlowBlaze on open SmartNIC technology (NetFPGA), and provide our hardware and software implementations as open source.
It's not a lie, Taiwan was clearly supporting extraditing him in Feb[1], though there seems to be some concern now[2]

[1] http://www.ejinsight.com/20190213-govt-proposes-revising-ext...

"Taiwanese authorities had asked their counterparts in Hong Kong multiple times to extradite Chan for a court trial, but that has not happened due to restrictions from Hong Kong law."

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201902130023.aspx

"Tsai Chiu-ming (蔡秋明), head of the Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs under the Ministry of Justice, said Taiwan welcomes closer cooperation with other jurisdictions to combat cross-border crime, and he is glad to see Hong Kong's planned legislation."

[2] "Taipei will not agree to transfer of Hong Kong murder suspect if Taiwanese citizens risk being sent to mainland China"

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3009506...
I’ll be happy if AAA games can run at 4K 60 fps.
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We bought some property 3 years ago and there were no fireflies (Southern United States). We don't spray and have only mowed pastures, fence lines, etc. 3 years in and the fireflies are everywhere...you look out into the fields at night and see the yellow winking on and off. It is encouraging and comforting to see nature return. :)
> Long term, this will have to be addressed with tons of construction

If your fresh new trade school grad is 20 years old, you're betting on there being 40+ years of continuous expansion. A welder can't switch to an electrician the same way a C++ programmer can switch to Rust.
I love my 2019 MBP - and I expect I’ll love it until the keyboard fails, and then I’ll hate it.

Because it has a large, accurate trackpad with multitasking gestures, I’ve all but abandoned my combo of Kenesis Advantage and Logitech Pro MX - it feels more efficient to move my hand less.
You left your job because you were burnt out. I think you should also ask yourself what happens if you start your own project and get burnt out again before making any decision, and/or what can you do next time (either with another job or your own project) to avoid burn out.

In your shoes, I'd first get a job, possibly more sustainable than your previous one. Then I'd start working on my side project trying to make a second income stream. BTW, startup school is starting soon, you should definitely join in and test yourself for 10 weeks.
Maybe it’s just support for 8k movies...

Who has an 8k tv anyway?
Great job! Very well-done giongto!
I wonder if saying "chronic inflammation can lead to the development of cancer" is like saying "being dumb can lead to not being smart". Chronic inflammation is obviously immune system dysfunction, and cancer is also immune system dysfunction. Perhaps the same process could be described with either term at some point in time, but is that an explanation of anything?
It takes 10+ years worth of work amd good habits to get into MIT.
Thank god. Finally something from Carmack that isn't posted on http://facebook.com.
This person clearly never worked in a remote or distributed team.

Different modes of communication for different purposes. Now if you're using Microsoft teams or Jabber just stop. That's cruel and unusual punishment
There's a site like this. Have you heard of Yelp?
I mentioned this elsewhere, but as a counter anecdote, ZFS is the only filesystem that failed and was rendered unrecoverable in all of my life. That being said btrfs was quite janky, and I had to recover it on more than one occasion.
Many PS4 games run in HDR.

It’s just slow in the Microsoft world.
Ok, so it's conspiratorial, not very fair.

YC seems to be a generally 'above board' entity, if they say they aren't doing anything specifically, I believe them.

That said, this is not an NGO, it's a Venture Capital firm. So they're going to assuage their interests. I've always found YC kind of interesting that way, playing along a very fine line.

YC has enough credibility (and frankly a lot to lose) so I'll take their word for it.
This is the struggle is it not? While it seems like some lessons are best learned the hard way, it also feels like a waste of time to not learn from someone else's mistakes.
That's fair. But, they also haven't said anything publicly about the keyboard being shit, despite two attempts now to make it not (with middling results). All this means is that the Mac Pro was a complete failure, while the MBP keyboard is only a train wreck with no casualties. And don't even get me started on the touchbar, which you may have noticed, no one has bothered to copy yet :)
In that case, why not make many exploding reactors, jobs for everyone! /s

You do see what the point is, right?
[Off topic] For those who are confused, China mainland is also a part of the ROC (Republic of China, the governing authority of Taiwan) according to the constitution. Basically, the civil war in China has never ended officially. Mainlanders want unification, Taiwanese (esp. the young generation) want the opposite.
Still, constitutions are constitutions, albeit old...
I think this leads towards how I try to give advice; I tend to stay away from saying "do x" but rather telling a story about what happened when I tried it.
There are software jobs all over the country if you don't mind working for ordinary salaries (instead of whatever nutso numbers NCG's are making at FAANG these days). Cheyenne itself isn't even that far from a variety of software.
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Yep. It's so hard getting back up to speed after being out a few days when info is lost to meeting minutes. When most discussion occurs in slack where you have history and search, it's so easy and quick to catch up. Just read the scrollback, dive into threads you care about, and you're done.
By 8K they meant the display resolution will be 8K, but the scene will be rendered at 2K and upsampled?

Even a 2080 Ti has trouble rendering 4K with raytracing...
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Dunno nowadays with all the Electron apps, the RAM jacked up by open JIRA browser tabs, needing Outlook open plus JVM based IDEs from JetBrains having 16GB of RAM is not enough. I need at least 32GB and even then I would feel better with 64GB cause I fear it will only get worse. I am partially hoping JetBrains makes their IDEs fully Kotlin based and compile them natively to much lower memory footprints.

I am also ashamed of Slack and how they dont even take advantage of Electron to add things that Chromium supports, might as well convert it to a native app and make it worthwhile. I feel like Slack could do so much more and yet it sits there nothing new or special. Theres plenty that could be improved for Slack. I could share a dozen ideas but I rather see them get off their own lazy butts and give everybody their moneys worth.
Keeping a group in sync is also possible (and I'd say preferable) via email, since current objectives and sprints don't change very quickly at all relative to the speed of conversation, and both have natural paper trails. But if your current objective is something like triaging a complex outage or live event, IM works beautifully for that.

I've done remote work via long conference calls before and it works for certain types of work; I agree that IM is much more preferable.
why do you think it does not make sense? Brand value is considered an asset and is usually part of the pricing evaluation. When someone buys a business, I would assume they also pay for the business brand value.. and that likely includes their online reputation.
Yep. Some call the affliction "being a fool," but there is nuance in whether the cognitive dissonance is dishonest about things one can reasonably attempt to change or not seeing things far beyond anyone's power.
This is butts-in-seats mentality, but for remote workers:

> most of the time when people are video muting it's because they are hiding their distraction and lack of attention

The OP assumes that those who have their camera off are wasting time, because they can't see them to prove that they're not.
There is s legitimate safety concern. That is certain parts of books can be turned into weapons.

But the real issue is one of control. Treating prisoners as subhuman is a management practice.
On Android One too?
While Loom will always have a special place in my heart, DotT is possibly the best all-around adventure game from my childhood; particularly considering that the LA games have aged far better than most of the others.
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I’ve had the 2011 model 15” MBP and currently own a 2016 model 13” MBP and I love the butterfly keyboard.

It is soul crushingly inconvenient and annoying when the keyboard breaks and you have to have it replaced.

I’ve had mine replaced twice so far both times under warranty. Because Apple provides the extended 4-year warranty for free on the keyboard it is no longer a financial risk to own the computer, only an inconvenience if it breaks again.

On the plus-side, because the whole computer is glued together I got a fresh new battery installed every time they replaced the keyboard.
You know that's an old popular meme in the Apple community...

"That might work for Marco".

Marco didn't come from money or have any connections. He found a job on Craigslist working for a random guy named David Karpe as his first employee. They started Tumblr and he lucked out when it got acquired by Yahoo and made a few million.

But the acquisition happened after he started a blog that became popular, wrote Instapaper, and started a podcast that became popular. I'm sure Overcast was helped by his popularity but if it had sucked, no one would have downloaded it. Even for that he tried three different monetization strategies until he landed on one that worked -- writing his own non scummy ad platform. All of this with no outside funding.

And he lucked up and made money by being an early investor in Gimlet Media but that was way later.

But on a personal note. If I needed it, a $5,000 iMac Pro wouldn't break the bank and I'm just a regular old enterprise developer. That's less than two weeks billable work for a halfway competent cheap software contractor.

Heck my college computer was $4000 in 1992. A Mac LCII with 10MB of RAM, a //e card, a 5-1/4 disk drive, a Personal Laserwriter printer and a copy of Soft AT to run Dos compilers and a 12" monitor. Over the next two years I upgraded it with a larger monitor, an external hard drive, and an accelerator card using money I got doing a contract for a college.
I've noticed this with people and their early career decisions as well. "If I could do it over again, I would have majored in something else," or "I should have taken that job." They often don't really know if it would have improved their circumstances.

Hearing enough folks talk like this made me realize that most people will have some regrets, no matter how smart their choices were. It's part of life.
Stoic ideas have completely changed how I look at the world. Anxiety has plummeted. Interesting to see someone I admire espousing such thinking. I seriously doubt it'll get any traction in the current climate.
Writing a useful TLA+ spec will usually be easier than writing an operational program with the functionality the spec describes, because it lets you abstract over the uninteresting parts.
Let's just accept that there are different kinds of math and people are interested in different kinds of math. The lisp school may especially like the beauty of recursion (recursion theory, aka computability theory is a branch of math), and the fortran school may like the beauty of calculus and numeric computing. This isn't necessarily exclusive. I can write a naïve recursive function for Fibonacci numbers, or I can derive the "constant-time" formula using generating functions on the fly. Or I can find a method better than both using matrix exponentiation. These are all math. There's no need to denigrate one school over another, just like there's no need to denigrate one branch of math over another.
I find this comic sums up that feeling quite well: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/33
Really cool to see this here. Mads supervised my undergraduate thesis, I remember him explaining the random.org setup when I asked about the servers & radio sitting in the corner of his office. A super friendly and smart guy.

Of note, his office also contained a pretty legendary kendo sword linked up to sensors (this was early 2000s). Ostensibly to assist with technique, but Im pretty sure it was for light sabre visualisations...
Assuming it's a net operating loss for them to provide service to you, what would your preferred resolution be?
The overall costs are lower and the time from completion to realization that either it’s not for you or the job market is saturated (even just locally) is much quicker.

You’re less likely to end up with a glut of HVAC repairmen or welders versus something like lawyers or (would be) programmers.
which restaurant?
I watched this last night. No spoilers.

What was ammusing was all the talk in the episode about how everything online was optimized to keep users addicted, and when the episode ended, the next Black Mirror episode started 4 seconds later, as of course Netflix wants to desperately keep your attention.
I’m glad that Apple is finally updating their Macs again, but at the same time Apple has doubled-down on its refusal to sell user-serviceable, upgradeable, and expandable hardware at prices that are within reach for most customers. The laptops have soldered RAM and soldered storage. The Mac Mini and iMac Pro thankfully have DIMMs, but in order to keep the warranty, you have to visit an Apple-approved repair center to have a specialist perform the upgrade, which costs more than doing it yourself. After over two years of waiting, the Mac Pro announcement was a huge letdown since the cost of the only user-serviceable Mac has doubled from $2999 to $5999, alienating Mac Pro users who can afford a $2999 computer but not a $5999 one.

It’s one thing for me to buy a “disposable computer” when it is priced very low. It’s another thing for me when you can’t upgrade or service computers with premium-priced parts in them. This is a trend I don’t support.

Unfortunately the only way to protest Apple’s business decisions is to leave the Mac, which means giving up macOS, which I find a more productive environment for me than Windows or any of the Linux desktops like KDE and GNOME. I started using macOS back when Macs were user-serviceable, upgradeable, and reasonably affordable. I continue using the Mac for macOS, but I’m finding myself alienated by Apple's business decisions.

I wish the situation for personal computer operating systems were better. I want PC hardware with an operating system that has the same power, attention to detail, usability, and reliability that macOS has. At this point I am willing to spend my spare time on such a project.