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Absolutely not my experience. CFL bulbs suck. They take time to reach full brightness so they are unsuitable for bathrooms and closets or anywhere you normally don't have the light on for very long.

They cost orders of magnitude more than incandescent bulbs. I used to get incandescents 4/$1.00 on sale.

They don't last a lot longer. I haven't kept stats, but it feels like I am still replacing bulbs about as often as I ever did.

They contain mercury and need to be disposed of as hazardous waste. And if you break one, now you have mercury in your house.

LED bulbs don't seem to have the "warm up" period that CFSs need to achieve maximum brightness, but you have to be carful about buying the right color temperature because most of them are very harsh bright blue/white. Again I am replacing them routinely. Maybe in theory they should last a lot longer but in practice they seem to be made of minimally adequate components that don't hold up. And they cost even more than CFLs. I just paid $16 for four LED bulbs for the bathroom. Incandescents would have cost me a few dollars.

The only advantage of these bulbs is the reduced electrical usage. But how long will it take to save $16 on my bathroom bulbs? $16 at KWh/$0.15 buys me 106KWh. Assuming the old incandescents would draw 240W, thats 440 hours of operation. My bathroom lights are on maybe 30 minutes/day? So roughly 2.5 years later the LEDs come out ahead, and by then I am needing to replace at least one or two of them in my experience.
They are heavier and faster (acceleration).
That's a tough pill to swallow for many HN participants because our industry directly contributes to this. Easier to just blame cars.
You lost me at radio presets.
Doesn't this happen already? In fact, that's how I got my current job, I applied for tech lead and they gave me an offer for senior and I took it.

The difference being I know the salary ranges of the bands before I apply and talk to HR

The idea is they have 3 ranges for 3 experience levels for 1 position, not a 80-200k range
That statement is simply the plural form of the same circular argument.
But these numbers can be very deceptive, since they don't include RSUs or bonuses. e.g. when you look at Amazon you won't see any salaries about $200k even though total compensation goes much higher than that.
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I've personally gone back and forth over the years between IDEs and decent editors for programming in C, C++, and Java.

I started programming before there were IDEs, so perhaps that has some influence, but you did say "...stopped using IDEs once they started".

I like some functionality of IDEs, but most are barely "nice to have", not "must have" -- the thing I find that I miss the most is language aware navigation.

The thing that keeps bringing me back to just using a reasonably powerful editor (for me, that means either Vim or VSCode, both with zero or very, very few extensions) is the lag between new features coming to existing languages (and new languages emerging) and IDEs supporting them in a non-disruptive manner (never mind fully).

With a decent editor, web or manpage based docs, and a command line based build (which I want anyway for releases and/or CI), I'm all good, thanks.

I mean, if I were to be working someplace that required or depended upon an IDE, I'm not necessarily averse to using one again, but that might be a red flag for me regarding that workplace.

I certainly get the appeal of IDEs, and understand that some find more value in a powerful IDE than in using the latest language features.

Both ways of working are reasonable, depending upon your situation, goals and preferences -- I wish more folks would understand that.
I did some troubleshooting to see why the original link did not behave as expected.

The original link:

https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/raw/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf

redirects to here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freenode/web-7.0/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf

and this command:

curl -v https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freenode/web-7.0/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf 2>&1 | less

reveals:

content-type: application/octet-stream

The application/octet-stream is for "Any kind of binary data," suggesting the correct browser behavior would be to download. To inform the browser that the document is a viewable PDF, a web server normally sends an application/pdf MIME type. [1] The "raw" in the original link is why GitHub thinks the file should be treated as a generic binary.

While this may all seem much ado about nothing and pedantic, I often see this kind of behavior exploited in the wild to deliver malicious payloads. In this case I would say Firefox behaves "safer" than Chrome, but not not necessarily more correctly.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_...
tables are still relevant for layout if you work with email at all. In fact, if you want to be able to do email well, you have to be able to do layout like it was 10-20 years ago. There's also lots of legacy code out there to be working with, and sometimes the "old way" of doing it is still better than the new way. A pet peeve of mine is seeing flexbox everywhere, when a simple 'display: inline-block' might work. In my opinion, it's all still relevant so long as it still exists as part of the language.
Thanks -- lots of interesting "fundraising Journeys" in the wild now. Here to help if you need anything or email us if you would like to chat with other founders using Journey similar use cases for any inspiration.
I think we’re saying the same thing - just because it’s common, doesn’t mean it’s not signaling. You can signal that you want to be seen as part of the majority.
What are the terms of the confidentiality agreement? Who would need to sign off on terminating the confidentiality agreement, and would you consider doing so in order to help the public understand what's going on?
When someone says that criticism of bad actions 'damages the community', now I know that's the smell of a bad actor.
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You only list one position, with 3 different bands, but ofc we know nobody is gonna read that part.
Snow is not exceptional event. Nor is rain.

And while multi car crashes happen less often, they involve more cars, so if don't affect you chance to not get into one.
That question will not help you get clear answers. First ask: what constitutes the entity "Freenode"? Its trademark? Its domain name? Its servers? Its server-side management code? Its operational processes? Its bylaws? Its staff?

Once that part of your question is clear, you can ask which part owns which assets.
>You know who buys F150s? everyone

except those strange ones that buy Chevy or GMC.

Or the real outlier, those with Ram Pickups....

(I didn't realize this was a thing till my civil engineering company last century bought a GMC to replace the fords).

To this day I remember a Huge Ram diesel dually with a big dog in the bed towing in a single roll of landfill liner (23 ft long and About 2000 lbs of plastic) and thinking.. wow.
hmmm, the crown prince of korea owning freenode is just as believable as the queen of england contributing to the linux kernel.
> So you (and everyone else) would be tempted to apply for the top-paying job but potentially not be qualified.

I don't do this, and I feel like most reasonable people wouldn't do this either.

Let's say you manage to actually get a job that you're not qualified for. There's a strong possibility that you'll be fired, maybe within the 90 day probationary period. At a some large companies, you might get some cover and get passed around from department to department for years. But I've definitely seen a fair number of people fired for non-performance in my career; it's not exactly rare.
This is a nifty idea. Some thoughts:

1. B2B is as much about product fit as it is with the sales contact / company fit. People buy other people's stuff. There is a ton of potential here in humanizing the person pitching.

2. Absolutely love the UX. Clean and all the relevant links are succinctly put next to the content (videos).

3. It's not clear through the demo but what tooling/processes are in place to enable me selling to be able to personalize the pitch to the client? It would be nifty to have video editing tooling where I can add a personalized pitch to the end of the standard video.
Plenty of library functions are already going to be optimised in this type of way - just because they're not visible in your codebase doesn't mean they are not there.
By “they” are you talking about the enormous masses of uneducated immigrant workers, frequently derided as illegals, who work in the dirt on the farms and meat production lines of the US? Those that constitute the supermajority of agricultural labor, and who see almost none of the fruits of their labor?

Or are we talking about those who Own things?
Thank you for the extensive answer, that's very interesting that there's such a performance difference. I would have naively assumed if anything keeping it as a constant would be faster.

Another question:
Why do

$[#i:& XXX ; @[x;i;:[; YYY]]; x]

when (if I'm not mistaken, which I could be) you can do

@[x;i:& XXX;:[; YYY]]

Performance again? A quick test using ngn/k did seem to find the first one faster, but only marginally.
Is lithium valuable?

Is Cobalt valuable?

Is Nickel valuable?

Can a car battery be repackaged/refurbished to home energy storage?

Can a car battery be repackaged/refurbished to appliances like lawnmowers and snowblowers and power tools?

This is almost as dumb a headline as "what will we do with all the windmill blades?"

Meanwhile, there exists something called "mountaintop removal" in coal.
Exactly. You could have some exhaustive unit tests as well, and after that there would be nothing to maintain.
How could you possibly cram everything that's controlled via the touchscreen into physical controls?
The problem is the high front makes it such that there's a huge blind spot.
I believe not all tangible property automatically counts. However anything that is deemed a "collectible" is subject to capital gains taxes. That includes artwork, stamps, jewelry, and generally anything similar held for the purpose of investment. Details: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2019/nov/taxation-colle...
This is the first CSS tutorial that explains _why_ CSS works a certain way. I think so many new devs struggle with CSS because they don't understand why it is the way it is, which helps explain how it is supposed to be used.
I could legitimately see every job site having at least one as a rolling power station.

That could be a very useful and popular niche, construction sites without power at early phases of construction aren't rare and power tool batteries are expensive.
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> There’s a lot of stereotyping of truck owners going on in this thread which is kind of funny given how pro-EV HN normally is.

Yet the top comment is a reflexive jab at those woke folks with zero content about the truck in question. That's very much on brand for HN.
Yeah you're just signaling being Bozeman or Boulder basic.
Cities are no longer resource points as most economic activity in cities is generated by services and knowledge work. Even if you go by your logic of economic supremacy, society would want to protect the most valued economic assets in its cities: the people. The death machines are also noisy as fuck and generate pollution, take up valuable and scarce urban space … there is absolutely no need to have huge roads with unrestricted traffic going right up to dense urban centers.
Without stats on the age distribution of confirmed cases (even before considering the absence of analysis of confounding factors, liking case timing within the pandemic, etc.), I’m not sure how you can say the data doesn’t confirm the conclusion since you don’t have data on the proposed independent variable at all.
The one you work on by yourself.
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When I was a senior in college, I had lined up 3 virtual onsites with Groupon. I forget what the question was, but I bombed the first interview so hard they cancelled the rest of the day :(

At the time it hurt, a lot. Looking back, I guess I understand. It wasn't worth their time to invest 2 more hours in interviewing a person who was so obviously not meeting their bar.
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> Let us not forget that a lot of 'Car guys' are arguably insane.

You might want to look in the mirror. Car threads bring out really destructive attitudes, and mostly not from the 'car guys'. The stuff that gets said here is astounding...
I wonder if they're going to provide diff locks for each axel.
I don't think it's that massive, especially because you should be figuring out a salary range within the first 1 or 2 conversations with the company regardless. For software engineers anyway, not sure about other less-hot markets.
Short answer: because it was easier.
Sadly many places impose tight limits (via zoning) on the total number of people who can live in a specific area.
I almost bought one earlier this year and now I am questioning buying into any Google hardware product
Maybe "All Autocomplete" does what you are looking for.
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Small trucks may be the least useful, but they often provide(d) the right amount of utility. Lots of truck owners never go off the pavement and never tow, but make good use of the bed. With a 4-cylinder engine, fuel efficiency was not terrible, but it's a lot easier to put a pinball machine in the back of a truck than the back of a Honda Accord.
It's probably from creating a backup copy. Compare performance when invoking 'view' instead of 'vim'.

It could be from your plugins if they're doing something goofy.
it's just like not learning how your IDE works. You can coast along OK, but it's like you have sand bags on your feet. It's amazing how few devs actually know CSS; In my opinion you can really stand out if you're willing to spend a couple afternoons learning concepts like the Box model. CSS/HTML is much easier to work with when done correctly, too.
"You want people to provide proof that the cryptocurrency market isn't manipulated?"

That's not what "priors" mean. It simply means that based on my experience of the world and my understanding, I would very heavily assume it is being manipulated. I'm not asking for anything. I already have a solid opinion. If you choose to try to disagree with that with solid evidence, feel free, but I'm not asking you to.

"don't design your entire ecosystem around the idea that you want to have a forever-stored global ledger of all the transactions, as it'll be easy to trace everything whenever. Better to have a few entities controlling the ecosystem that the public don't have insight into."

I think that counts for a lot less than you probably do. Nationstates may be able to back wallets to individual entities, but you and I can not in general. Moreover, I wasn't just talking about BitCoin. Some of the cryptos are even more impenetrable than that.
In my view it appears more to me that some Americans are reluctant to give up their world view on why they need to drive bigger, larger automobiles than using environmentally better smaller cars.
I blame r/all for such 'original' opinions. People in China are less brainwashed than this. Who's free?
Carl Barks absolutely invented, defined, and developed the character of Scrooge / Dagobert. For decades the _good_ Dagobert stories appearing in "Micky Maus" and the other periodicals on the German market were exclusively from his pen. Later, Don Rosa stepped into his footsteps and at some point in the 1980s or 1990s this second _good_ artist started to appear. He just wasn't ever as productive as Barks, who has left us 6000+ pages of awesome duck stories.

Of course Bark's work seeded a secondary tradition of Italian artists with stories set in some alternative universe Duckburg. They are popular in Germany as well, but generally of lesser importance and historical value.

These matters are very important to some serious people, https://www.donald.org/ ;-)
I'm happy to answer questions about the tech stuff. My email is in my HN profile.
Unless they're under a legal gag-order?
I bet that the people criticizing trucks for being high off the ground has never driven a truck through a jobsite or a non-paved road.
I would love something like this for Zoom and in general I find it easiest to think while writing and musing (one reason I dig my iPad Pro & pencil) so much. This would take it to a new level. The site (https://lightboard.info/) is still up, I wonder if it’s still being worked on since 2013.
One of the main points of matrix is that every server should be compatible and form a federation with others. What is the point of moving people onto a specific server?

With IRC freenode has a control structure that can enforce their rules/guidelines, this breaks with matrix.
> * Maybe you should consider incorporating it as a nonprofit and potentially a technology switch to Matrix? *

Please don't. I like Matrix, I use it, but it's not IRC, and it's far, far more resource heavy (both in homeserver and in clients) than IRC is. You can run IRC on ancient gutless wonders, and it uses almost no resources. Matrix, especially the flagship Element client, is a resource hog. Start throwing rooms with thousands of users in, and it requires an awful lot of resources.

Keep IRC IRC.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48/is-there-a-co...

You can use "they" as a singular pronoun.

You can use "one" like: "if one wants to do this, one will do this."

You can use "his or her" like: "if the user wants to do this, he or she will do this."

Some writers like to rotate "he" and "she". So sometimes they write "if the user wants to do this, he has to do this first." Then later, in another paragraph, the writers write, "The user doesn't like this widget. She prefers that widget."
Beware of the unintended consequences of those laws (I have no idea what they are, but beware)
A good transcript isn't really that hard. You just need to pay someone--the ML ones just aren't good enough to publish--and do some light editing. I usually do them for my podcasts. (Though the ML transcripts are good enough for skimming content and I use them if I'm just going to be using some excerpts from the audio.)

I actually find that, for talks with slides, I do like having the inset speaker video. What I tend to do is to start off with a full screen talking head intro with mostly the slides/multimedia and a small speaker video.
I'm interested to see if this leads to people living in places without power and using their truck as the sole source of electricity.

If you have a small cabin with no a/c, wood heat, and a propane stove - your house is going to use hardly any power compared to your truck. It would barely make a difference.
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That’s the discrete Fourier transform.

The difference is quite significant.
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Going through all the hassle to capture this stuff, to then just let it burn up in our atmosphere (already full of stuff we don't want to breathe), seems crazy. Couldn't we push it all to a Lagrange point where it would sit out of the way until we figure out ways to recycle the materials?
My selection of vehicles agrees with you but friends who are new parents were shocked to see that child seats don’t fit in the back of Tacoma or I presume f150 supercab
As someone who used to work at a nursery that sold a lot of mulch, sod, etc, there are a lot of things that a typical single family homeowner would want that you absolutely wouldn’t want to transport in an SUV or minivan (which is all that is really worth talking about because pretty much no individual owns the type of delivery vehicle you’re talking about, which are meant for transporting packages anyways).

People would have me load this stuff for them into SUVs of course, and we would do our best to line them with plastic first, but it still made an awful mess everywhere.

And that’s not even getting into towing, there are common things having a truck bed is just better for.

As for the tallness, you can partly blame EPA regulations for that as it’s more cost effective for manufacturers to make trucks taller and wider than more fuel efficient. That’s the #1 reason why the small truck market declined and why smaller trucks got bigger
Its battery can POWER YOUR HOUSE for up to a week. The Atlantic has a great article about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/05/f-150...
Email development is pretty niche and its own category of expertise. CSS straight up doesn’t apply there the way it’s used regularly (via selectors)
5 days a week excluding sleep, but I often contemplate in my dreams too. it's a curse
Totally agree that a good transcript is way better in almost all cases (except where actual moving visual demo actually helps).

However, are there any good automated transcription tools that can make a good transcript from an imperfect YouTube video? Most of what I've seen is good for humor, and I've even seen some used in a legal deposition context that are downright dangerous (inserting most likely word or phrase in place of what was actually said, so actively decreasing and corrupting info content). This might not be as disastrous for a lecture where there are also office hours, but... anything good out there?
> To use your real-estate analogy, would you ever buy a house that came up first in a price-sort?

No, but if they also weren't giving me an asking price, that's a huge red flag.

You're right that price is but one attribute of a job, but it is an important attribute. Its not the only thing i am evaluating, but it is one of the things, even one of the more important things.

So yes, i would like to know what the salary range is at the get-go.

Also this is true for pretty much everything - when buying a car, you dont generally go with the cheapest option, there's lots of attributes to evaluate, but if someone refused to tell you the price you wouldn't go with them either.
Just as an FYI, I'm seeing a certificate error when loading web.dev. I'm on latest Chrome Version 90.0.4430.212 (Official Build) (x86_64) on Mac OS Big Sur

Screenshot: https://d.pr/i/gvj3fA

I've been trying to visit web.dev for days for various reasons, but I just get this and neither Chrome nor Safari will let me visit. But apparently a bunch of you can see the page, so I'm confused as to why I seem to be the only one seeing this... but maybe you or someone there can help? Thanks.