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Maybe I’m more considerate than average to people I’ve known throughout my life, but being rejected is not normal for me. The frequency to which the author was rejected by people seems to indicate there’s a problem with him, not society. Of course it has happened, but we are talking about ex-girlfriends or people I’ve had legitimate fights with.

But I still have friends from every stage of my life. I have a group of friends that I’ve known since grade 1 and we WhatsApp every day. We get into salty verbal arguments all the time like brothers, but we never have coke close to rejecting each other. During the pandemic I’ve had friends from high school that I haven’t spoken with for 30+ years that sought me out and we talked on the phone for 2 hours. In the last few weeks I had a coworker from 20 years ago reach out to me because she heard I “retired” pre-pandemic and wanted my advice on if she should do it. We chatted for over an hour. During the pandemic I’ve pinged several friends/coworkers from various companies I’ve worked with just to say hi. I’m planning on going for lunch with another coworker from 20 years ago in the next few weeks. I’ve even made new friends during the pandemic, having met someone that shared my same cynical views on the Federal Reserve, the stock market, etc.

It’s not hard to maintain friendships with people, just be considerate and courteous! Not everyone needs to be your best friend, but you also don’t need to be so navel gazing that all you care about is yourself.

The fact that the author has so many people rejecting the author makes me think he’s simply not a good friend and deserves to be rejected.
I get the sense everybody thinks their particular government is specifically bad at IT services.
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I think it is more important who is managing the servers and systems hosting the data than actual location.

Even if Google or Facebook was storing my data in their data centers in Sweden or Finland I don’t really think my data would be outside the reach of US agencies.
> We know it's doable, because all such tool would do is to automate the thing we do when looking at code - running pieces of it in our head.

Yes exactly. Except it would be much faster, more precise and with more coverage than what we get with mental execution. It still wont give you total coverage, but it would be able to show where it doesn't have coverage.

> In a way, it's just a different interface for doing the same thing you might be doing with unit tests - except it would be transient, and free to exercise any internal code in your program, not just poke at public module interfaces.

Yes. One additional aspect would be the ability to run with partial information. Eg. if a function needs three arguments, you need all three to run a test. However in abstract interpretation, you could just specify one argument and still trace the execution to some degree.
I mean she kind of implied a reason why some people are “rejecting” her.

I don’t want to talk professionally after work with certain people as I don’t gain much value. Certain people I enjoy mentoring, certain people I don’t. I don’t want another “task” to do.

Also people with “too many” friends I find a little fake. You can’t expect me to take you seriously if you’re trying to maintain “close / intimate” friendships with 100 or more people.

> The number of people I speak to on any given timescale far exceeds Dunbar’s number, and if I took every instance of rejection personally, I would be a very depressed person. I have lost friends, acquaintances, and people who exist in the liminal space between the two for all sorts of reasons: I’m too flaky, they don’t like what I write here or on Twitter, my real or imagined allegiances with people they’ve decided are their enemies, I don’t sufficiently respect their otherkin identity, they don’t sufficiently respect my professional identity.

>Sometimes it’s because I’m being an ass, but a lot of the time, it’s just a statistical normality. Cast a wide enough net, you’re bound to lose a certain number of fish.
For years website size was an acceptable proxy for user experience, but that's really not true today. Web browsers are much more complex about what they download, when, and how that impacts the user experience. Looking at page weight and say "that's bad" is too coarse of a perspective.

Is a page downloading a 600KB "main.min.css" that's blocking the rendering path? yeah, that's bad, especially when only 60% of the rules are used on your most common pages. Downloading 1-2 MB of blocking JS, also a bad experience.

Lazy loading a hero video while also using a "poster" attribute as a placeholder? :shrug: Asyncing in 800KB of 3rd party tags after onload that don't cause reflows or impact the Time-To-Interactive/Total-block-time? :shrug:

Even those 2 bad examples can be made better or worse. 600KB for a CDN? better. 600KB from the origin? worse. 600KB from a totally new hostname? bad. 600KB from a hostname you already have an active HTTPS connection to? better.

Not all resource weight is equal. You can't even say all weight for the same resource type (CSS, Images, Font, JS, JSON, etc) is equal. It depends when and for what purpose a heavy resource is requested. And yes, this still applies even for mobile connections that can suck, be slow, and have high latency.

Of course, there are still operational cost aspects here for the bloated sites. Bloated images on your CDN? Misconfiguring it so it's not using Brotli? Yeah, you can cut significant spend by applying the appropriate optimizations for sure.

To be clear: I hate bloated websites.
The G-7 will reportedly back a global minimum tax
I hope we do see a resurgence in local clubs and venues. Modern communities can be so isolating, it's no wonder people get most of their socializing done at work.
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That presupposes one wants to live in "better density." A lot of people who work in cities have no desire to live there. (Or they have a partner who works in the suburbs, want the better suburban school options, etc.)
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I found scrubs (pants) are ultra-comfortable and industrial strength functional.
As an italian recently relocated to Belgium, I really wished I could use my italian eID for some very basic stuff like checking your covid-test result (you cannot access it if you don't have a GP, and you cannot have a GP if you don't have a national number, and you don't have a national number if you don't first register at the city hall) or interacting with institutions.

The procedure to obtain a eID is solid enough that the states should really leverage all the work done by another state to verify who you are etc, and allow you to interact with institution in a safe way.

IMHO it is one of the best things which could really define us as Europeans.
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But it makes equal chores split with partner regarding kids literally impossible. Practically, you barely ever see them and your dad role amounts to being wallet.
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I doubt it has anything to do with verifying age though. More likely they know people are hesitant to sign up and pay for youtube, but if they can get your credit card in other ways, then later it easier to get you to pay for something because then you just have to press "ok" since your details are already entered.

Plus this gives them your identity, which is relevant because their business model nowadays is based around tracking people.
It would help to quantify the risk rather than qualify it as risky or not risky so that people may examine the risk against their own risk threshold.
We actually do have auto-refreshed content standardised. <frame> instead of <section>, and <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60; https://foo.bar/example-section" /> (where the URL to refresh from is optional).

The web could do all the things we really needed it to (except embedded video and games), a long time ago. But programmers wanted more natural ways of doing it, which converted a document format into an application framework into an operating system.
This is a great point, and I wish productivity gains in all sectors had been more equitably split. In fact, I think that automation-based productivity gains could extend to the other sectors I mentioned as well (more surgeries/hour, etc...)

However, I still think there is a disconnect. Even with productivity gains, output still basically scales linearly. When your job is producing a specific physical artifact consistently, you are always going to make more of them, the more time you spend doing it. The same is not true for many 'knowledge workers' whose output is not measured in 'lines of code' or 'meetings held' but looser, larger objectives that are fundamentally more limited in how many you actually want. I think you more rapidly get diminishing returns for a lot of this type of work. Even if a project manager could manage twice as many projects in twice as many hours, would that benefit the business?
I would be willing to bet far less than 1%
should Python die, also?

is you buy a new macbook today, the base system comes with a few hundred perl scripts and a few dozen python scripts. Please, dot believe me; just file|grep your path and check it yourselves.
Companies leave due to crime, they're underserving the locals. They come back in, they're displacing the locals. It's a lose/lose and always racist.

I can't blame them for leaving and not returning. It's probably more trouble than what it's worth. They probably have high turnover at those places too due to the added stress of so much crime happening at your place of employment.
If everybody's only there once every week or two you're looking at something like 10-20% attendance on any given day. Some teams or individuals might coordinate being on-site the same day but so far our experience is that you basically sit in the office talking to the same people as always on Zoom all day.

Unless you're in an industry that requires actual physical presence I don't think you're going to see the same office experience any more. Companies aren't going to keep an office big enough for 100% attendance when there's only a need for a smallish fraction of that.

I'd start looking for other ways to scratch that socialization itch.
I'd like to see more architecture (and organizational/financial) oriented towards this. There were a lot of great experiments in the early Soviet Union that were hammered down by Stalin and his desire to imitate western opulence.

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This is lame. I download stuff with youtube-dl not because of "piracy" (the quality is shit and things like that are available elsewhere), but because I want to make sure I have a copy of important information. This very morning I changed a part on my car using a YouTube video as a guide. I downloaded this when I found it in case it was removed or my Internet connection was down when I needed it. If you go to the library it's perfectly legal to make photocopies of books for personal use. It's just common sense. But these monopolies naturally don't want us to have this right and want to make is think we're evil if we make our own copy of the information.

I feel like these platforms like YouTube are an addiction. We know they have problems but we just can't shake them. I felt this way about Windows and Microsoft on general 15 years ago. I went cold turkey and stopped using those products back then and I've been very happy ever since. But things have become too easy and I've become complacent. I think it may be time for me to shake another addiction.
> not everyone who thinks vaccinating right now is a good idea is "pro government control".

Absolutely, but on a Venn diagram, it's a very large crossover.

> what wouldn't be virtue signaling in your mind? Just not saying anything?

These criticisms are completely valid. What I'm saying is it's easy to start seeing people as enemies when your views are actively stifled by tech Cos, downvoted into oblivion for being at all contrarian to general consensus on COVID, and the Government not only pays for vaccines, but runs lotteries for vaccinated people.

I agree that reading into comments too much is a bad thing, but this is what people on the other side of things are doing--particularly since they are basically disallowed from voicing theirs.
> With an EV you drive to the supermarket, plug in your car to the destination charger (22kW), do your shopping, disconnect and drive home.

That's fine if your destination is 5 miles away, it doesn't work when your destination is 500 miles away.

Long distance travel represents a small portion of total trips, but it's frequent enough that if you can only afford a single car, it needs to be able to make those trips. Fast charging is a hard requirement for mass adoption. Maybe it doesn't need to be quite as fast as filling up a gas tank, but it needs to be short compared to the time spent driving. 20 minutes for 200 miles might be acceptable, 30 minutes for 60 miles is definitely not. Once the infrastructure is there, I'm in. And as that infrastructure becomes more common, EVs with shorter ranges (and thus cheaper batteries) become viable. Right now there are about 5,000 fast charging stations in the US, for comparison there are 136,000 gas stations.
It sounds like you're the mythical full-stack developer. My actual advice is that you may be happiest continuing to kick ass as an IC or technical lead. But I think the advice you're looking for is how to move into product management, and my suggestion there would be to find a way to specialize, e.g. go work at any of the awesome companies focusing on linux, edge computing, container/kubernetes orchestration, etc. and make your desire for product responsibilities known.

Just be aware that the type of work you'll need to do as a PM is very different than what you probably do now, and not necessarily more satisfying. The grass is always greener etc.
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>If everyone has UBI, then everyone has more money to compete for the better rental properties

But people are only competing for rental properties because they need jobs, because cities are where all the jobs are. If getting a job isn't a requirement, they can move to oklahoma or something and get a cheap rental there.
(content size) / (total network traffic)
EDIT : For France I meant real estate gives 4-5%, don't know why I skipped that.
Interesting fact. Also all convos lead to bitcoin at some point these days...
I think a language must break moving forward. The more something is afraid of change, the more it stay like that AND DRAG EVERYTHING ELSE.

I live in the enterprise software sector, and you don't know much problem it cause this. Because X is old and not updated, in must(? who knows but nobody dare to check) run in OLD OS, with OLD rmdbs, with OLD runtimes with OLD ssl libraries, etc, etc.

So, you come along with a neat solution to their problems, and you face the fact you must "downgrade" everything to compile/ship: Your lang, drivers, third-party deps, etc. And then you must hunt down the docs for all that!

THIS is the reason a lot of companies use old internet explorer/old windows/old linux. Because X not dare to break!

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The silver line here is the advent of virtual machines and now docker. Moving forward, run in docker (or similar) is the ay to go for isolated that pesky dips that live in the old era.

But, sadly, docker don't run in that OS, because that pesky OLD deps need it!
You can't produce value around content without artificial scarcity. In this case, Google/YT centralizes distribution and access, so that in order to consume content you must pay a fee (watch ads, provide personality data, etc.)

This has both good and bad sides to it. On the good side, it means people can make money as YouTube creators. This subsidizes the enormous volume of content that makes the creators no money.

On the bad side, you have a SPOF, and those failure modes can be many and varied. In this case its unwarranted age restrictions, but more usually its fraudulent DMCA take downs, various algorithmic shenanigans, and of course censorship (which can be good or bad, actually).

But you can't have one property (value producing artificial scarcity) without the other (a central point of failure).

The real question is: can content creators host their own content such that they can derive value from it? Will users consume that content, and pay for it, somehow? Theoretically it's possible, but the technical barriers are quite high. YT has capitalized on massive economies of scale to reduce the technical barriers to hosting and monetizing content to zero. This same pattern is repeated again and again: connect computer to the internet, then specialize that computer's software to do one thing really well, attract users/makers, use your control of the platform to extract value from users (inject ads, membership fees, data brokers, etc), profit. The hope is that the value to society outweighs the cost, and honestly I think that's actually the case! I just hope more people get clear-eyed about the trade-offs for-profit internet services make to be viable.