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>Well the world doesn't work like your armchair accounting.

ah yes, just slap "armchair" in front of something to invalidate someone's position.

>Taking that job means 4 hours less time each day looking for a better job because you're busy with this part time one

>Are those 6 hours to you really worth your time when you could have spent those 6 hours trying to find an even better job?

The money you "earn" searching for a job is highly variable, and I don't see any attempts at quantifying it. If you were recently employed for $4000/month, your time might very well be spent looking for a job rather than taking the next min. wage job, but if you were unemployed for 6+ months and your previous job only barely paid better than minimum wage, the ROI is probably not there.

>Not only 4 hours less for work, but another 1 or 2 hours each day because now you're driving to and from that job. So 6 hours less each day.

Aren't part time jobs closer to "8 hours a shift but you come a few times a week" rather than "4 hours a shift but you come in 5 days a week"?.

>Now that you're working it also means being less eligible for any government assistance. $1000/month to work 4 hours/day while taking $800 less government assistance comes out to... a net of $200/month. For 4 hours/day of work and an additional 2 hours/day for transportation.

Thank you, that's the type of numbers I was looking for in the original comment.

>And when you do reach homelessness, is that $1000/month job going to continue employing you?

Would you rather be on the streets in 10 months or 5 months? The choice seems clear.
It'd be an interesting challenge to make Breezewood, PA cool again.
I don't think this argument is related whether or not people should be able to source and repair the devices they own. R2R doesn't require redesign of products - only that parts and documentation should be made available so indie shops and DIYers can have the option.

This is as opposed to the status quo, where manufacturers like Apple and Samsung currently cause their phones to malfunction when replacing parts without proprietary software switches - even when those parts are OEM. [1]

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/45921/is-this-the-end-of-the-rep...
I agree with you in part, depending on the project, if that means just squashing it down first. This at least can keep the integration branch somewhat sane and without a bunch of intermediate commits that are junk and won't build.

For this reason I prefer people to rebase on the integration branch instead of merging it in to stay current; unless there is a reason not to. And a lot of open source projects require PRs that to be pre-squashed or be able to be squashed before merging!

However, there is a time and place still for deliberately crafting the PR commits. For instance if you are wanting the reviewer to be able to review chunks of the PR in isolation/stages, or if you want each of the commits to be buildable.. I suppose also for review/testing.

This all depends on the project and other factors like the wider org.
I just built an engine for my car. One thing I gained an appreciation for was how CHEAP cars and engines are. There's probably nothing else with as precise machining that is as inexpensive.

Engine cylinders are honed to accuracies that are less than 1 thousandth of an inch. Crank journals as well and rod journals. This is all precise machine work with metal. I use inches here because in machine work thousandths of inches is the language du jour. Transmissions are similar works of very precise and clean machine work.

The distance between a crank bearing or rod bearing is less than 2 thousandths on modern engines. A small amount of oil in that tiny space is all that keeps your engine from having metal on metal seizure.

So one would think that when EVs reach the same scale they will be significantly cheaper than ICE vehicles.
I am in agreement however I suspect many developers have never seen the usage of "git bisect" to track down a bug and fix it. Once you see the power of that, I think one can come to appreciate more the granular git history that is present when not using squash commits.

Of course, git bisect still works with squash commits it just makes your job as the bug fixer much harder because typically squashed commits are quite large so you have to figure out what in the N lines of code introduced the defect.
How is this similar/different from using CouchDB as a live database? I've been toying around with both (hosting CouchDB on DO)

Which one would you recommend for small-ish (~100 user, <10k records) projects?
Uber workers didn't make this decision, the people of California did. I can't think of anything more patronizing than a company like Uber telling their workers that everyone else gets to decide the terms of their labor relations, or telling millions of Californians how to vote, or spamming their workers with propaganda. Surely Uber workers can make their own decisions without Big Brother/Uber spamming their phones to tell them what's best for them.

Prop 22 actually removes options from the table, making it almost impossible to modify, repeal or replace the proposition. Surely if you and Uber cared about giving people options, then you'd recognize that labor law needs to adapt with the needs of workers, instead of being cemented in time in a manner that benefits some employers over everyone else.
Just be done with all of it. I dumpstered my TV 6 years ago and it was absolutely liberating.

I know some people might think "another TV-less life snob" but that's really not my point. Just tuck the TV in the closet for a month and see what you think. You'll have more fun. Honestly.
Most Indians would be thrilled to become US citizens.

So this is not a good analogy.
All of the tweets linked seem pretty direct and transparent (i.e. the opposite of passive aggressive). Unless you're seeing some tweets that aren't in this thread?
The problem is that the workers in the industry are severely underpaid. Even the "above average" pay may actually be way below what the workers should be getting.
Let's say they have 50000 employees and for simplicity let's look at their 17 billion profit last year. Based on industry standard margin of 30%, each employee should be getting 100k USD extra a year on top of what they already make. That not adjusted for the role - some should be getting 1 million and others 10k.
It's a pure exploitation however you dress it.
Apple could be smart and implement what real developers need and not what advertisers want. But good performance, and better APIs would mean you could avoid using native apps.
Perhaps I've misunderstood what you're trying to say, but I feel like this sort of begs the question. It seems like you're presenting this as some sort of argument against intellectual property, but to work as an intuition pump, you must already reject intellectual property as a valid concept ("proponent of traditional property"). It's not clear to me that you've actually said anything.

But, since we're here and discussing the concept of ownership of information - would you say that people have a right to secrets? There might be some bits on my hard drive that I don't want anyone else to know, and if they mysteriously turn up on your hard drive despite my careful precautions, surely that is evidence of some sort of malfeasance?
> - Services like GitHub allow you to restore the original branch, so you never actually lose history. So I don't see any major drawbacks of squashing on merge.

There's definitely a drawback, and it's bisecting, which is actually a big deal.

Bisecting allows in a semi-automated (depending on the issue) bisecting what otherwise can be a large diff.

But of course, it requires a disciplined history - otherwise, bisecting just won't work.
I’m not sure he did design the English language.
>do what we can to find them a new home where they're allowed to exist without being told they're divisive

If they're leaving over this, doesn't that kinda indicate that they are in fact divisive?
Proper way to use a TT-30R is to use a 14-30 or 6-30 and then adapt to the TT-30R. The Tesla adapters do not care what the voltage applied is. You can happily use a NEMA 14-50 adapter at 120V-50A, but it's kind of a stupid idea since power is so much lower.
So you can receive notifications even when the app is closed.
I mean the corporation, not individual managers.
You are weirdly confused trying to compare two different things. Apple's financial results are public and you should check them because you will see that they make a massive amount of profit on their iphones, and they actively separates those numbers from their "services" (appstore and icloud) numbers.

Apple themselves disagree with you in their financial statement.
Ah so your argument is that they just aren't doing it right, that a true yaml schema designer wouldn't make this mistake. It's just a mistake.. which keeps being made over and over by everyone that does configuration. Sounds like a no-true-scotsman and "it's the children who are wrong" to me. Can you give any examples of a popular correctly designed yaml schema?
Despite being a big fan of right to repair, I really didn't like this article. It gave me the impression that the only way to fix things is to impose regulations on manufacturers in the form of design restrictions and support requirements. IMO, that's not at all what right to repair should be focusing on.

I disagree with any regulation which would force a manufacturer to compromise on the design of a device just for the sake of ease-of-repair or to provide parts or repair services. However, there are some practices which I do think should be illegal as part of right to repair law. Here are some examples:

1) Manufacturers should not be allowed to use serialization to prevent a device from working with replacement parts. It's okay for a device to user serialization to detect if the part has been replace and if the replacement is known to be compatible, but it's not okay for the device to refuse to work with a replacement part outright simply because the part ID is different.

2) Manufacturers should not be allowed to make exclusivity deals for parts with third party vendors. Apple should not be allowed to make a deal with Intersil that gives them exclusive rights to purchase the ISL9120 chip used in their Mac Books. This restriction should not extend to parts designed by the manufacturer whose production is merely contracted out to a third party.

3) Manufacturers should not be allowed to restrict sharing of schematics, specifications, or other legally acquired product information. If someone takes the time to map out the traces and identify the components on a circuit board, then they should be allowed to share that information without fear of legal threats.

4) Genuine used good should not be seized by customs under the pretext of them being "counterfeit".

5) Manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to restrict the purchase of replacement parts using "authorized repair" programs. If they're going to offer parts for repair, they should be available for purchase with no strings attached.

Others have already pointed it out, but Louis Rossmann's YouTube channel and Fight to Repair website have some great information on the problems faced by independent repair.

https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup

https://www.fighttorepair.org/
It doesn't, quite the contrary. Poor and middle class people hold much more of their wealth as cash than rich people.
Expressing variety of emotions earns entrepreneurs funding
Some people want to use a specific platform to watch "whatever" content.
Some people want to use "whatever" platform to watch specific content.

Roku+YT was a great marriage: great platform, great content.

But if they get divorced, I gotta follow the content. Goodbye Roku.
US-dominated western media tends not to care for EU policy and procedure, and habitually avoids stories that may show EU governance in a negative light.
> We even clamped down on all system upgrades for several weeks before the operation just in case. It’s a highly technical agency—sometimes you do upgrades and some things go wrong. We couldn’t afford anything to go wrong.
Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216764 - Aug 2020 (51 comments)

"If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Now you mention it, is surely reads like that. Especially at the end : Who made these decisions? Well, David and I did.

And I searched the HN comments, and nobody seems to have uttered the words leaving or layoff.
It's much easier than a biblical jubilee, because all the debts cancel, so everyone gains the certainty of not having to worry about failed repayment and people only lose in proportion to their intent to default. That is probably a win for most people, and also those individuals for whom it's not a win probably have some trouble admitting that.
That’s a popular thought in the US, in particular among political activists, but from what I understand, economists dismiss Reagan’s unprecedented peacetime deficit spending on the military, and rather point to internal inefficiencies in the Soviet economy, and critically the global price of oil.

Like Russia today, the Soviet Union’s economy was centered on exports of raw materials, in particular oil and gas. Wells were needing to be recapitalized, but with low prices the money wasn’t available to revitalize the economic engine of the country. Luckily for the Soviet Union, the oil crises of the 1970s jacked up the price of oil, thus allowing them to stave off collapse until prices fell back to their historical average. In other words, if it wasn’t for OPEC, the Soviet Union would have collapsed under Nixon or Carter.

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20070419_Gaid...

https://www.rbth.com/history/331825-saudi-arabia-oil-crisis-...

https://carnegieendowment.org/2017/03/29/formation-and-evolu...
"In 2019, the AMT impacted just 0.1 percent of households overall. This includes 0.2 percent of households with income between $200,000 and $500,000, 1.8 percent of those with incomes between $500,000 and $1 million, and 12.5 percent of households with incomes greater than $1 million"

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/who-pays-amt
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I don't want to go back. The toll of going back to office affects my life and literally my body.

I get things done much faster at home and I have lots of energy and extra time left for myself and my family. Commuting was a waste of time and energy. So much unnecessary overhead and stress going to the office every day.

I do like the idea of meeting my co-workers from time to time, but I definitely wouldn't want to go back to the office on daily basis.

I heard some people struggle with their productivity or loneliness. We should research and find out the causes and help them to get over it, or give them the option to work from the office. For some people it's perhaps as simple as bad habits or bad home office setup. For others it might be lack of enough space, or having too many kids around.
I’m guessing remote work during the pandemic (and unplanned loss of childcare and coworking space) has not been successful enough to convince management to make it permanent. But hey, some of us get to ride the Bay Area tech gravy train for a little while longer.
As wrote in another comment, bisecting (which is for me a significant tool) relies on history (specifically, a granular one). However, it also must a disciplined history.
Only if the newly-created money is distributed, and doesn't just belong to the Federal Reserve.

As the system works now, the Federal Reserve prints the money and gets to spend it, and I can't imagine a more unequal income.
[*] more reliable in theory. Mazda RX8 and rotary engines are famous for being a bit maintenance heavy and unreliable.

The amount of engineering and brain power that has gone into making common ICE engines in cars in wide deployment reliable is staggering.
An offer "in writing" means effectively nothing in the US. I'm not sure where people get this idea. Your employment is, for all intents and purposes, "at-will" even if it's not technically codified in law due to the high burden of proof on the employee. If your employer wants to change the contract, you've got an uphill battle to keeping the original terms AND your job.
The con-artists who arranged that "fight" should be the ones getting sued!
Agreed it can be much worse.

From the econ standpoint it's a rational move. Once you capture the users you do whatever you like.

I'm a little surprised a quality (magical like how Google used to be) search engine hasn't popped up.
More like increases inequality [1][2]. If you're rich, you have access to rock-bottom interest rates which you can then invest. If you're an average citizen, you watch all asset values (real estate to start with) soar while your income stays relatively stable.

1: https://www.clasp.org/blog/how-inflation-reinforces-economic...

2: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/income-ine...
Company I was working for went bust (probably too much of a wimp to quit of my own accord), came into some money from family, and someone else just gave me a lump sum of money to get started. Quite the long take-off strip. Once I got into the air I was able to stay there, have been going for over a decade since then. Alas not much actionable advice for others. Welp. Good luck!
What are you afraid of a Chinese company doing with your data? Giving it to government agencies? Google already does that. If I had to choose personally I would much rather the CCP have my data than US three letter agencies. If you live in the US then the US government can do a lot more to you than China can.
> The problem in my view is that we take limited resources and combine it with slave labor to create landfill. Those few years of usage are not even that relevant.

That's an important insight.

I only recently realized this too, and conceptualized it as a pipeline:

RAW > PRODUCT > FINISHED > A BIT > WASTE
MATERIALS > COMPONENTS > GOODS > OF USE > MATTER

Now when we say that our economy grows exponentially, it means that the amount of matter traveling through this pipeline is growing exponentially too! The economy, as it is today, is essentially a rapidly growing system for turning usable resources into useless waste.

Here's the bad part though: adding recycling to any stage of this pipeline doesn't alter the overall behavior. It only recirculates some of the matter - recycling is never perfect. But as we know, if you recycle less than 100%, and then re-recycle that, and then re-recycle again, it still converges to zero. With an exponentially growing pipeline, recycling is only delaying the crisis a little bit.

Ultimately, we need to remove the exponent (or at least couple it to population growth, in the scenario where humanity expands into space). For now, we need to reduce it. And one of the best ways of doing that is... reducing use. Buying less. The less matter flows through the pipeline, the longer we have before it runs out.
That’s without dividend reinvestment though no?
Yes it's possible to do that on Porter. When you deploy an application, you choose which branch you want to deploy from and we build/deploy the application on every push to the specified branch. Under the hood, we write a GitHub actions file in your repo, so it's completely flexible and up to the user to configure how branches map onto environments (i.e. whatever is possible on Github actions is possible on Porter).

We also plan to support a more out of the box behavior by adding integration with GitHub's recent deployment feature: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#deployments
This is a pretty bad comparison, == doesn't check equality for objects in Javascript and doesn't promise to. Similar to how Java's == doesn't.
Have you had positive experiences using Hasura in production?
Those are generally for editing vocals. A de-esser is a narrow band compressor to used to soften the "s" in speech. De-clickers remove transient sounds, like the sound of your lips opening/closing between words.
By "socially conservative" do you mean opposed to reproductive choice, anti-immigration, opposed to LGBTQ+ rights, opposed to affirmative action, and those kinds of wedge issues? Kind of the the inverse of libertarian "economically conservative, socially liberal"?

I wonder how much those issues would fade from their consciousness if they weren't constantly fed the lie that their precarious economic status is the fault of immigrants, the cost of social welfare programs, the "gay agenda", the "great replacement" theory, and so forth.
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I saw that, but it was like $5/user/month and geared toward employee email rather than automation (my use case is my hobby projects for which my goal is <$5/month in total).
People conveniently like to ignore the costs (time, money, social capital, etc) it requires to even put on boxing or fighting events. Or to make music or films.

It is particularly vexing for me to see all of this creative, hard work flippantly thrown aside because people suddenly become philosophers about bits and rearranging them.

If one doesn't like that people charge $$ to watch boxing fights... Then don't watch them! People are not entitled to having things for free because it's "theoretically possible to re-arrange my hard drive's bits in that exact manner".

edit; changed you->one to clarify I was speaking generally and not about the parent commenter specifically
> Either Spotify benefits from Apple devices [...] or they don’t benefit from the arrangement in which case they leave the platform.

Apple benefits from our society, and they've gamed their way into a Al Capone / Suez Canal / golden goose scenario. They've locked up everything under their control because they managed to weasel themselves into controlling 50% of the mobile phone market. This was, in retrospect, an illegal move.

Either Apple benefits from government-sanctioned commerce, or they don't. They can easily be broken up or fined into oblivion. The industry will move on regardless of what happens to Apple.
No, it wasn't my idea. My idea is the same as the idea held by literally every business (and indeed, virtually every org) in existence - interview lots of candidates, sort them by virtue of estimated competence for the role, then pick the best one and reject the others.

You're the one that said "let people candidate for the jobs they want to work, just put some simple requirement, and roll the dice."

> C++ programmers is very very specific.

My C++ example was an explanation of why your idea won't work by bringing it into a domain that you're familiar with.

You call it "very very specific" but it's the same anywhere in the business world. Change C++ engineer to Java engineer or salesperson or anything else, and my argument is identical. So no, my argument is not very specific. It is general.

If you hire people without filtering/interviewing/reviewing N candidates and selecting the best N/5 or N/10, you are going to fail as an organization. That's just a well accepted fact and if you're going to deny that then you have a large burden of proof that you haven't satisfied.

If you don't deny that, then you accept that competition is necessary for the functioning of the labor market and therefore of the economy/society.

> I never talked about business.

We're talking about the functioning of the economy. That's the topic of discussion. If the labor market can't function because people are ideologically opposed to sorting candidates, then the economy can't function.