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Neat!

I'm happy to see all of this, but, again, the question was about career in/for 10 years. And Rust just isn't going to be that.

Rust is, for example, far behind in terms of market penetration where Python was at a comparable age. This is unsurprising. First, Rust is nowhere near as broad spectrum as Python--so it's domain of applicability is much more constrained. Second, Rust is coming into a full ecosystem that Python didn't have to contend with.

Python was basically the only respectable person at the scripting language job interview in the late 1990s--Tcl and Perl both decided to start huffing glue in the middle of the DotBomb era while Sun tried to jam Java everywhere it didn't belong and left a lot of greenfield areas to Python. Rust doesn't have the "advantage" of that level of incompetence in its competitors/alternatives.

And, while I'm fully aware that Python and Rust aren't really in the same space, I simply chose Python because it's one of the only popular languages that is relatively "new" (if you can call something from somewhere in 1989-1994 "new") and didn't come upon its popularity as a mandated parasite attached to a much bigger host (looking at you: Swift/C#/Javascript).
+1, it's a good one. And as a bonus: it has an end! So you won't sink a ton of time into it.
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> For some employees, they can't get away from politics and societal issues because it affects them every day and their very existence has been politicized.

What a lame excuse for politicizing everything.
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How does this work if I also need to replicate the database for disaster recovery using replication methods other than logical?
As an European. I don't get this.

So, employees create a list for making fun of people.

Employees start to fight each other because they take offense.

Company states at work, you're supposed to work, not to discuss politics.

Th bad actor is the company so we all leave. (??!!!)

Honestly, I don't get it. I think it is a cultural thing in the US, due to the long term racism issues ,etc. And how extremely easy is for Americans to feel offended. Sorry if that hurts, I accept your down otra but would appreciate what I am missing.

As somebody from a first world european country, we go to work to work. If we're developers we're expected to do development.

We like football (soccer) and some like politics and discussing controversial stuff, but we do that in the proper forums. For football it is the pub. For politics ist is elections, friends and family.

Business are business and we're there because we need money and a profession we like.

I feel these problems happen only in America, it sad to see this going on.
Willingness to take a 6 month severance? Yeah I’ll take that vacation
That was my experience as well. Tips can often outstrip your hourly wage on good nights.

If the choice was $10/hr + tips or $15/hr, I’d take the tips.
> You will not be able to merge a PR that tries to get more than one commit onto master

What value does the merge commit in the PR provide if a PR only has a single commit? Couldn't you essentially halve the number of commits in the commit history by amending the single PR commit message to contain the text that the merge commit will contain anyway?
You're posting this anonymously because you know that's not true. Right wingers are, by definition, the people who speak out against the woke insanity. That's how the culture war works.
Sometimes laws like this are pushed in hopes of a lawsuit being filed and subsequently reviewed by the SCOTUS.
Is this related to Disney deciding it needed to fire Gina Carano from Mando?

Is deplatforming in terms of a streaming video service firing an actor over political beliefs that are considered detrimental to the brand?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-star-wars-the-mandal...
Buds are heavier, larger by volume, and are less water resistant.
Professor Diffie was the teacher of Taher Elgamal who helped create the Elgamal algorithm and SSL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElGamal_encryption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElGamal_signature_scheme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Elgamal
Under military threat? Yet no specifics on that.

CCP does baiting with predatory loans to lock countries in with easy money up front.

You sound like you’re biased
Yes, there's always people doing things differently, with different targets, and amazing results. I don't think it matters when it comes to the 'for real' factor of the practice though.

I could say that I've been doing daily animations for the past 1580 days, and that's definitely real in my book. Your call.
What’s stopping Facebook from buying a laser tag joint and becoming exempt since they would own an entertainment venue?
> Wouldn't you catch the initial recoverable errors quick enough?

Not always no.

I've had drives reporting failures for months that zfs scrub keeps fixing, tons of time to get a spare.

But drives also fail suddenly with no history of zfs or SMART errors.
How so? Ebook I can override the publishers poor font choice or size. All my books weigh the exact 230ish grams. I don't need to flip to the back to read endnotes and a dictionary is a press away. And when I'm done a book I always have another with me even on the bus.

The only thing paper novels do better contrast.
Sorry for that. I'm also on twitter https://twitter.com/MacTuitui but you'll have to go back in time to find the relevant ones.
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Playable reconstruction by the author of this article:

https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/640/?v=spacewar1&ss=5:1,6:1
This logic makes utterly zero sense. It can't be refuted because it is a non-argument.

> Either you are vegan and you don't want to eat meat or dairy, or you want to eat meat or dairy and you're not vegan.

This is some strange version of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Why can you not want to eat meat and dairy and yet be vegan anyway? Why can someone not be vegan for ethical reasons, and yet still miss the taste of cheese? That makes them not a "true" vegan, in some weird definition, but who on earth cares? The person is still not eating cheese. The end result is the same, whether you gatekeep the name "vegan" or not.

> You can't have it both ways. You can't preach to me that eating meat is murder and then turn your back and scoff down a pretend-sausage because you like meat. That's hypocritical.

This is where you've gone off the deep-end. Eating a pretending sausage is not "murder," and whether you like meat or not doesn't suddenly make eating the pretend-sausage "murder." No one's ethics are being violated because someone eats a soy product, unless it's ethics against the eating of soy, which is irrelevant to this discussion.

> And it only encourages people to eat more meat anyway.

[Citation needed]
Right? Who's being hysterical here? The coworkers who rightly recognized the harms of racist speech or those who crow that such recognition is tantamount to an accusation of genocide.
They make a worthwhile distinction for ICT devices, which definitely have all those characteristics for miniaturisation. But that’s not the end of the right-to-repair story - glib example, but plenty of toasters end up in landfill, and there’s nothing complex or miniaturised about them. The market that delivers a new replacement for these things for a cost that is the same order of magnitude as a repair would be basically ensures that this will happen.
So if someone else is willing to work for those wages (they don’t really need the income or have minimal expenses) you’d tell them “tough, it’s illegal to work for that wage now”?
Listen to charismatic people, and then use some intonation. If you are a man, listen to Sir Ian McKellen, and if you are woman listen to Liz Hurley for what english intonation means. American intonation is more flat, but it's part of animated and engaging speech. Few corporate people have it, it's mainly actors. Elon Musk has it in a muted inward sort of way. Obama has it and learned it from evangelical pastors giving sermons. Morgan Freeman's voice is all intonation. Oddly, Joe Rogan's intonation makes him seem interested in everyone. Tommy Lee Jones is a good example of southern intonation. Newscasters all have the same recieved intonation, which is what makes them sound-like, tal-king-heads, where cops in interviews all use the same droning non-intonation, which makes people who watch a lot of TV adopt them and sound more dumb than perhaps they are.
No one is gonna do a shitty job if they don’t have to financially lol.

Clear misunderstanding of incentives. Most people would chill or take easy fun jobs.
I'm not aware of this -- can you provide a link or eloborate a bit?
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> Do people here have examples of some bugs for which they had to resort to VCS history to find the cause?

A more common scenario is to run git blame on the files you plan to modify to see what commits were responsible for them. If the message is detailed enough, you can avoid introducing a regression because you altered logic introduced by a commit to fix a bug.

> If there's information in commit messages that isn't evident in the code itself, that seems a terrible way to live.

Good commit messages include why a change was made, which usually isn't really reflected in the code itself. Comments may be outdated if the code is changed without updating the comments, but the git blame output for a line of code is timeless because the associated between that commit and line of code isn't lost until the line itself is updated.
It is charming how anti-climactic such upgrades tend to be. Also, the art and music for 6.9 are delightful.
I think im going to try Basecamp now.
It's even bigger than that.

Companies whose business models depend on planned obsolescence and proprietary service/repair lock-ins are an absolute net drain on society as a whole.

Monopoly power granted by such business practice results in furthering of extractive capitalism as the norm and provides no additional value to society, only to the corporation in question. This allows them to spend their extra cash not on productive endeavors, but on ensuring regulatory capture and cementing their "too big to fail" status.
Then your whole point is pointless, the OP granted the possibility of McD EU being less profitable in their original post.
Not sure where you're getting that first part with regard to satellites. That is not correct.
That’s... worse. Why should the person who gets the toll bill be locked to the license plate registration?
A good HN thread on man from a few months back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311867
Worth adding that the eng team has an even higher rate of departures. Cross-referencing basecamp.com/humans.txt with the list of people who left shows that nearly 2/3 of the Engineering team left, bring them from 15 to 6 (including DHH).

That can't bode well for the company.
Don't you think this is just too much?
How about murders? Look at the murder rate. You just killed more people than bin Laden.

You can't stop the murders. But you can land me a dream job? Puh-leeze.
There is a practical use: evading China's currency controls. Buy mining hardware and electricity with renminbi. Sell the resulting coins in the free world for fiat hard currency.
Some of you might find this useful: https://github.com/nfriedly/facebook-js-sdk

It's a project I set up a while back to track changes to the FB JS SDK
Did exactly as you said. Fantastic.
I'm not surprised you don't see the point. But then you probably aren't the subject of racist microaggressions in the workplace.
Good track record of what?
I think that's a big mischaracterization of what happened.

But is it the characterization that other company HR teams / managers will believe?
Can't agree more with this.

As I commented in other thread, here in europe this is very uncommon. Here we go to work, to work. Football and politics don't lead to good ends anywhere.

So, join any company outside to the US if you want to focus on work
The managers at basecamp discovered that their employees formed an inquisition that was whipping itself into frenzy looking for the heretics to burn at the first opportunity found.

Unfortunately when lancing that boil they also lost some people who decided that 6 months pay at the hottest market in years is too good to pass up.
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Mint MATE.

Mint because it has all the drivers and codecs, even proprietary ones.

MATE because I like the spartan desktop.

Second choice: Debian MATE
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If that were the case, then why did restaurants that switched to no-tipping models see the departure of much of their staff? [0] I would have expected servers to flock to those, but by the sound of it, tipping is reliable enough that servers can leave and go to a restaurant with tips and earn more money.

> “Andrew was very disappointed,” says an employee of Tarlow’s restaurant group, Marlow Collective, who asked to remain anonymous. “But when we went to non-tipping, we pretty much lost our entire staff that had been there for ten years. He wanted to make it work, but it just became really difficult.”

> ...

> But, it turned out, many front-of-house staffers were more concerned with making money than with maintaining the moral high ground. This February, Meyer admitted that he had lost 30 to 40 percent of his “legacy” staffers since 2015. (One Meyer employee told Grub last year that her wages dropped from $60,000 per year to $50,000 under the new policy.)

> ...

> Without widespread buy-in from other restaurants, it’s just too easy for front-of-house workers to leave to make more money elsewhere. “About 40 percent of our servers were like, ‘Hey, this is awesome, but I’m going to go to State Bird Provisions, where I can make 10 percent more,’” Vogler says. “And who doesn’t want to make 10 percent more? They’re not freedom fighters.”

To be sure, maybe they didn't do a good job implementing it. But the cases I've read about restaurants switching to no-tipping usually seem to run into problems with servers being able to earn more money with tips than without them.

I think perhaps part of the problem is that a uniform increase in prices will make people who would have tipped poorly decide not to go, and people who would have tipped generously now pay less. So before with the tipping model, the well-tippers were in effect subsidising the poor-tippers, but now the poor-tippers are gone so there is overall less revenue for the business and servers. But another issue is that they took some of the income earned from the higher prices and gave it to the kitchen staff, which would have been money that would have been available for the waitstaff.

[0]: https://www.grubstreet.com/2018/12/restaurant-tipping-return...
Have people not seen autosquash when rebasing? And the --fixup and --squash options to commit?

Check those out. It makes the rebase automated with correct commits getting fixed up or squashed as you desire.
My gosh that's such a great and funny analogy.

It express the reality that having good intentions may have nothing whatsoever to do with outcomes and that misalignment can be exacerbated under more pressure.

The issue at Basecamp and every other socially minded startup is obviously that people don't realize they are pushing on rope, and they lament anyone pointing out the fact as some kind of obstacle.

The clear majority of these kinds of 'social blow ups' are happening at companies where leaders and staff tilt way over to the Left/Liberal and Libertarian/Openness side of things, which should give pause for people consider that maybe those 'pushing back' aren't remotely trump-loving alt-righters, in fact probably the opposite.

The very nature of these threads is exhausting and frankly if I had to work at once of these places I would take respite in not having to deal with it. If there were some kind of pervasive evil that needed to be dealt with, then of course we'd have to do that, but I strongly doubt that this is the case.
Perhaps a somewhat naive question... could someone explain how this could be enforced against companies that are not based in Florida?
This is one reason why paying for a wire transfer, ACATS transfer or other ways to move money faster can make sense: like the top comment said, you lose the top 10 days and you lose half your return.

Unfortunately for a 401k transfer there's no wire or ACATS (or even ACH) options, so you're basically screwed there. As far as I know you're basically forced to wait around for the money to move by check. However, you can insure yourself against the "risk" that the market jumps while you're out of it by using a smaller, separate account and options.
ThinkWiki probably also deserves a mention here. Really helpful for hardware/software issues when you run Linux on a Thinkpad: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/

The German version is great as well: https://thinkwiki.de/Hauptseite
Fixup with autosquash is so damn convinient. I wonder if the people complaining have ever used them.
The problem that is never addressed in these "terrible job" "terrible wage. wages too low" stories is:

Making dual income households the norm was the mistake that has led us to this point. The reason that a fast food job is so impossible to survive on is that at one point, a single guy living in a small apartment and driving a modest car could afford that because his purchasing power was essentially DOUBLE what it is now.

That isn't an option anymore. If you want to be single, you need to also have a high paying job to do it. The other option is poverty, and maybe social services making up some of the costs that for many households is being made up by their spouse.

But it actually is a little worse than that, since it's being burned at both ends. For instance: I'm married. My wife and I are both extremely well paid software developers. This means that we have TWICE the power to buy a house, buy a car, pay for services like cleaners, buy a couch, buy a TV, etc. So now not only is a single person's wage lower due to a flood of the supply side, he's also screwed because the people doubling up on their income have pushed the demand side into the stratosphere.

It sucks, and it breaks my heart seeing the world that my single friends have to live in. Not only are they basically living in poverty, but it makes them unattractive to potential partners who they need to get OUT of that poverty.

I honestly can't really even imagine what the solution is. We certainly aren't going to put the dual income toothpaste back in the tube. Central economic authority forcing businesses to just increase their wages also doesn't seem to be a solution either, since it obviously doesn't even try to address the underlying problem (labor economics, mostly).
Maybe a good start to something, but this page doesn't get deep enough into it to show why this is a worthwhile framework.
Does this theory predict China will eventually clamp down on crypto? If so, why haven’t they already?
The #1 argument against Bitcoin and Proof-of-work consensus in general is that it's harmful for the environment. Chia and other Proof-of-Space consensus coins promise environmentally-friendly consensus (because running the algorithm requires very little energy, and in theory it should be be unprofitable to produce or acquire hardware specifically for mining it), that is also decentralized.

Despite the buzz around cryptocurrency prices, there have been very little new working decentralized consensus algos since 2009. Most alternatives (the shitcoins you're talking about) compromised on decentralization and/or security. Chia has the potential to be a strictly better Bitcoin on almost all points.

(I'm neither an investor, nor a miner, nor do I own any of the coins, I've simply been enthusiastically waiting for its release since it was first announced)
>Manufacturing billions of them is a big deal and anything making them more difficult to manufacture affects volumes.

Sorry, but the environment comes first. They'll will just have to deal with it. This problem is imminently solvable, and tractable. We put a man on the moon, we can figure out how to automate putting on a few screws and a gasket as is done with watches and other commonplace items. Or they can come up with another modular design that is still repairable. We shouldn't put an artificial limit or human creativity and ingenuity.
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Countries like Australia and France seem to have figured out the non-tipping thing. What makes us so special that it won’t work here?
So DHH is a right winger now?
What about social posts on Florida Man?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man
The Fed flipped the trickle down economy to a trickle up economy to keep society going. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer as long as it continues, all of this liquidity ends up somewhere..
> What I think is lost in the conversation here is that people don’t really have organizations they can go to to advocate their political positions. [...] The workplace is one of the few places where they can feel like they’re having an impact, but that’s not really appropriate.

Politics is how groups of humans decide the distribution of power between themselves. It should be completely unsurprising that there is corporate politics around what power employees have within a company. Your claim that it isn't appropriate for employees to engage in corporate politics is a deeply political statement and just means that you think all the power within a company should be wielded by someone else. You are entitled to that position just as others are allowed to engage in collective action (also just politics) to achieve a different distribution of power.

I'd also add that it is weird how we live in a society where everyone acknowledges corporations have significant power over our government, yet people seem to be surprised that individuals working for them want a say in how those corporations operate (which would by extension grant influence over the government).
If raising the minimum wage will do them in, they're already halfway there if things are really[1] that dire and will end up there soon enough. So yes, people are better off not working for those types of businesses. If a business can only remain solvent by paying unreasonably low wages, it puts downward wage pressure on competing businesses and traps unskilled workers in a labor pool of dead-end jobs with little hope of escaping it/them and no time to do so since they're always scrambling to make enough money pay the most urgent bill.

There are plenty of things society needs done to keep displaced workers productive (with better pay and a sense of actual accomplishment) while giving them breathing room to figure out 'what next?' I don't believe for a second that we're doing workers in the sub-basement of the economy any favors by keeping them locked down there. It isn't a binary (either they work in these crap jobs or they sit at home and deteriorate) decision... there are a variety of options between the extremes.

[1] I'm suspicious of the majority of cases where this claim is made. A rational business person would see that such a business is already marginal and that they would likely be better off shutting it down and redeploying the capital elsewhere for a better return. This happens all the time. If the owner can't see this, keeping the business on life support isn't doing anyone any favors.
I hope they rewrote the pf rule syntax yet again so I get to go around rewriting every ruleset for every pf firewall I’ve deployed and all the books and documentation on pf can be obsolete. /s
Animagraffs also has an amazing short on the ICE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvfHyfgBtA
Do you do offsite offline backups too with verification? What if your infra gets really hacked and they wipe out all of your customer's backup data everywhere? Just because borg clients have append only modes, it doesn't stop them from deleting the raw files on your drives.