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I honestly don't know how to feel about Tomas Pueyo.

He's very opinionated about what he writes, and has gained good readership and influencer status on this topic.
It's clear in his writings that he fancies himself as an "amateur of expert insight".
He may be 100% correct. He may also be 100% wrong. It's hard to tell (let alone without invoking the conditional fallacy).

However, the most lasting impression I have of him is when he was invited in one of those "both sides" TV programmes in the UK on the basis that his "Hammer and the Dance" blogpost at the time became very popular. He was invited to debate with a renowned epidemiologist, who was part of the COVID-19 team advising the UK government at the time, and who was there to discuss the rationale for the policy after copious simulations by his research team. The epidemiologist was considered an expert and leading figure in his field. Meanwhile, Pueyo's self-described title on his blogpage at the time was "data visualisation expert" or something along those lines.

Now, like I said, he may be 100% correct (or not). This is not about making an "ad verecundium/hominem" argument. But all I remember from that TV debate is that his main argument tactic on TV was effectively interrupting all the time by saying "wtf", "people will die because of you" and visibly eyerolling and audibly sighing an awful lot, without offering much counterargument except by referring to his blogpost and the "obviousness of his claims". All this to the dismay and visible frustration of the epidemiologist who was trying to remain civil, objective, and doing his best to remain calm, relay the science as clearly as he could, while trying to avoid unnecessary panic and drama. Honestly watching it made me feel like you had just pitched the dalai lama in a debate against trump.

Pueyo has now changed his blogpage's tagline from "data visulisation expert" (or whatever it used to be) to "Understand the biggest problems and how to solve them". Forgive me if that doesn't sound as vague and grandiose to you as it does to me, but at best it doesn't come across to me as very humble from someone who, at the very least, is not particularly qualified for that description (then again, who is).

So, good on him for writing these blogposts and taking a stand, but while he may (or may not) be 100% correct (if there is such a thing), after that TV performance I witnessed, I'm taking his (otherwise professionally edited) blogposts with a large pinch of salt.
> either share your content for free or we will black list you from our global search monopoly

How can Google stop showing news headlines without blacklisting news websites from the search engine? Show a stub like "This website has something relevant to your search, but we can't show you what exactly"?
Hahaha it was a joke you yokels
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that being said there is a pretty good chance a lot of the bigger dinosaurs (e.g. t. rex) probably did not have many feathers similar to how rhinos, elephants and other large mammals don't (but hey mammoths did so so it's probably not none)
I also think some of it comes from the expectations of how much time someone is productive in a day. It’s as if the expectation is that you spend all eight hours of the day making brush strokes on the canvas. It’s not practical and it’s exhausting, especially when you’re not feeling particularly motivated or just need time to think about the work ahead.
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I think there might be a component here of people able to reasonably achieve FIRE level wealth are already predisposed towards functioning well in the work place, and therefore maybe not so well suited for a life outside of that institution.

When I say I have projects I know I'll never do, I'm talking about the kinds of things that range from "will probably take several years" to "might not be completable in the lifetime I have remaining". Even if each of those things takes an eighth of the time I think they will, I still easily have enough to fill up the rest of my life even if I never do anything purely for the enjoyment of it.
People didn't really work that hard during the Medieval period. It was pretty chill. Play some chess with your bro. Work your ass off in the field or else no food. Get hounded by people in all-metal coats of arms. Back to playing chess with your bro. Wifey did the dishes anyway. Ooops here she is, better get my ass down to the field and till some earth, or I have to sleep in the barn!
Jellyfin pairs well with LibreELEC running on Raspberry Pi. there is an addon which keeps the library (including watch status) in sync with the native Kodi library across multiple devices.
sometimes I poke fun at the front-end folks and all the new frameworks they're constantly chasing.

Lately it's been starting to feel the same for distributed systems. How many streaming engines are there now under Apache? Four?
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I wonder how many people would consume nicotine if the only option was raw tabacco cigs or pipes. That stuff makes you sick so quickly, but filtered cigarettes are designed to mask the harshness through chemical additives and engineering.

It really elevates nicotine from a minor buzz to be experienced once in a while (if you smoked more you'll end up vomiting with a raw throat) to something any grandma could pick up and smoke a pack a day
> I think we’ll find the discoverability of “text language on Adderall” outguns GUIs

No way. Nothing can outgun typing a parameter into a box rather than the visual clutter of braces (or some other delimiter). What's more, maths notation often involves objects of different sizes, which isn't reflected in any fixed-width text language. Equations in my PhD were often 80% about the subscripts/superscripts if you read the raw LaTeX, with the most important stuff buried away; but when you look at the equation as rendered, or in a GUI, the most important bits are trivial to read off.

> lyx as a hard to get into GUI

I only suggest LyX is hard to get into because some people only get into it at a surface level, which it's actually very easy to get into but then you don't get all the benefits of LaTeX. Best case scenario is you know both LaTeX and how to use LyX, then you can spend 1% of your time writing bits of LaTeX (in the preamble, or using math macros [1], or directly including the odd snippet of raw LaTeX as a last resort (even then put them within an instant preview)) and 99% of your time using the GUI.

[1] https://www.lyx.org/VisualTour#toc6
Only when they’re drunk, or looking at a mobile phone, or having a heated argument!

The new software seen here hasn’t been released so there’s no data yet. We cannot possibly make an assessment based on a few hand-picked videos - a quick YouTube search will give you thousands of human driver examples that are even more dumb.
They shouldn’t be forced into 24hour shifts, I’m sure they’d have an easier time with regular work hours
Small-c communism the theory and large-C Communism the Marxist-Leninist tendency.
Although our municipal green waste gets converted to compost, I recently found out that there is a food waste to energy plant in my city [1]. Going by their numbers, a home can be powered for a year with 25 tonnes of food waste, or 70 kg a day.

The two largest sewerage treatment plants also capture and generate electricity from biogas [2].

[1] https://www.yvw.com.au/faults-works/planned-works/completed-...

[2] https://www.melbournewater.com.au/water-data-and-education/e...
So burnout is a binary state of on or off?

Or is it a continuum where you go from slightly stressed to "I'm walking out that door right now and never coming back"
same pay for less responsibility? a sense of doing important work?
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I was thinking a lot about Golden Handcuff situations and in a weird sense its artificially creating the actually bad scenario where someone is stuck in a job because they NEED it to make ends meat. You can be sure people in low paying jobs with low mobility are also burnt out. The difference is recognizing that golden handcuffs is an artificial situation and money doesn't create happiness (once you cross that base threshold). Its easy to see in others but hard to act on yourself. Ultimately its one of those things where you just need to be principled -- never stay at a job (career, etc) because of Golden Handcuffs. Its just like building flexibility or resiliency into an engineering system. You don't need to specifically justify it, its just a good principle to follow as a general rule.
I don’t think the soft scientists should take heat because what appears to be a report released by a marketing company was less than rigorous…
> browsers gain the ability to deny excessively intrusive requests when they occur

But Set-Cookie kind of proves what happen to that kind of feature. If at first sites gets used to be able to request it and get it, then the browsers that deny anything will simply be ignored. And then those browsers will start providing everything, because they don't want to be left out in the cold.

That's what happened to User-Agent, that's what happened to Set-Cookie, and I can't see why it won't happen to Sec-CH-UA-*. Which the post hints at several times. Set-Cookie was supposed to have the browser ask the user to confirm whether they wanted to set a cookie. Not many clients doing that today.

To be honest, I feel the proposal is a bit naïve if it thinks that websites and all browsers will suddenly be on their best behaviour.
Not sure, but I'd ask questions around symptoms. A doctor also doesn't ask whether you have illness X, but rather if you have symptoms Y and Z and tests them.

Burnout has some pretty severe symptoms associated with it, several of them can be taboo in certain circles. It has strong overlap with depression for example. If 83% of developers have these symptoms, it would be shocking to me.
I realise this is a tangent, but what is 'pumping your own gas'? (And if not clear from that answer, why do people in Oregon specifically object? Not from the US.)
That’s the problem, actually. For a personal problem, you will easily dedicate that day. The GP isn’t going to, though.

So your choices are:

- Dedicated research by you

- Off the cuff answer by GP

The universe where you get dedicated research from the GP doesn’t exist.

This means that nearly any intelligent person walking into a consultation with a GP for a condition they have likely knows more than the GP and only needs the credentialed expert for prescription and satisfying insurers.
> How much of the workload is just the dev shortage/insufficient staffing?

ZERO PERCENT. Listen to me very closely. The quantity of people has ZERO IMPACT on your work quality. Well... maybe like 3%, but hear me out.

Your manager has a HUGH impact on your work quality. The work that is given to you, your PERCEPTION of the work, the urgency of the work, your development opportunities (and your response to them), the people you "hang out with at work" (note, this is about quality and nor quantity of work friends).

Of note, hiring more people can help with things like "We need 24 hr support", but that can also be helped by things like "well, actually, we only need 8 hr support, and the customer can pound sand" - that is where a manager comes in.
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It's mainly tables and to some extent figures that are intrinsically harder to read when written in TeX. The bulk of the text is just text, so if that's hard to read that's down to your editor settings.
The video player is a horrible buggy mess though.
Well that's just it. Apparently WLB is great otherwise at the company, but because they can't hire people, it now has become horrible.

Anecdotally, a heck of a lot of teams are in this state.
He has footage of a Wind powered Gasmaaier on his site.

Although it's possibly CGI -

https://uitsloot.nl/infrastructuur/
Of course people can choose not having spouse or kids. What do you mean there is zero alternative?

There are people born rich enough to not have to work, but do they live a happy life by not working all the way?
I've been a teacher (and a manager, all levels of software engineer up to principal, a construction worker, an inner-city and high gang-presence high school math teacher, a graphic designer, and worked under a yard maintenance guy from Mexico, and several other small jobs. The software stuff has been among the easiest jobs (even with mission critical systems failing in the middle of the night affecting millions of dollars in revenue) I've experienced.

Software developers at many, many companies are absolutely spoiled. I know there have to be negative stories, but on the whole, pay, benefits, perks, and even hours are better than a great many industries. Even game shop crunch hours seem about on par for doctors in residency, some (most?) finance shops, and I'm sure other less notable roles like my friend who works in water distribution who puts in 90 hour weeks regularly and just got off a 39 hour shift.
Part of the issue is the constant churn, not just change. It's change for change's sake, and more broadly, complexity for it's own sake.

Take microservices for example. Classic cargo culting development of what Google and Facebook are doing, but usually without a dedicated staffing team of hundreds. No wonder devs are burning out if they have to learn how to run a k8s cluster where a simple binary would've sufficed.
As a kid I am sure that made more sense than “to save the planet a little”.
Getting your fair share of the transaction helps.
Thread about the same topic from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27759583
You can use SQL in your resolver, like you mention. Note you’re also at the mercy of the API implementor if they use SQL in a REST endpoint.

GQL also has some affordance for renaming fields (although admittedly nothing like SQL for the client, if you did allow running sql via the client it would be harder to sanitize, so this is a “feature” not a “bug”)
> To make the app even harder to detect, the cheat can also be run on a secondary computer with a capture card inputting data coming from your main PC's video card, like a streaming computer.

Even kernel-mode anti-cheat rootkits can't detect or stop this kind of cheating. So can we finally stop using them please?
"hah, you did the right thing? Idiot, I made MONEY"
42 happens to be the answer to the "Universal Question About Life, The Universe and Everything". [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...

PS: I get it that some people will down-vote this because jokes like this do not really stimulate an intellectual discussion. But reading something by Douglas Adams is a really good idea.
Is it another corporate dumping at Apache or does Twitter seem to continue to support it as an open source project there?
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Sorry to hear you operate at such a high baseline anxiety. I certainly hope you've explored every avenue outside addictive medications for getting it under control.

And yes, I think any American should rightfully be terrified of being bankrupted by medical bills. But the world is a big place and a lot of it is much safer than the US.
There is. It's also known as B.1.617.2.1 or AY.1 here:

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-varian...

The good news is that the differences relative to "original Delta" seem to be pretty slight.
There's this clip of a chicken "sleeping on the job", the first few seconds of which make me sleepy almost instantly:

https://youtu.be/u8VDbFUjHmI
we had a terrible experience with flink. we were able to replace it all with kafka streams in short order. I wouldn't recommend flink for anything.
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I'd like separate breakdowns based on how long people have worked at the same company and same job.

I'm not sure who is more cynical, the contractor who has seen all companies operate similar, or the "lifer" who has to put up with the revolving door of thankless projects.

I personally can go from burned out from my data job to having fun programming embedded projects.

All bets are off if I'm working more than 40 hours a week.
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> Solar isn’t exactly something you can make

I think “make” is the important part here, not buy and install.
If they were truly unusable, people would stop using reddit. The fact that reddit has more traffic than ever proves the initial assumption incorrect.
His "Safety testing" video might have something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJxmQ3vFyVY
I work in fintech; we use a mix of Scala and Node. Scala for heavy data processing pipelines, Node for our client API, due to Node’s very fast cold start times in lambda.
Mail-in repairs require a lot more trust than brick-and-mortar locations, especially for new operations. I can accept that moving out of NY may save him money - my argument is that the same is unlikely to apply to his workers who have a specialized skill that is in demand in their current location. Would they choose the job over the city (and their friends, neighbors, leases, etc)? I have my doubts.
Society which values work will outcompete the one which does not. You and people around you aren't the only ones on this planet, there are highly motivated people elsewhere who will gladly put in effort to take your place.
Many readers here came from a farming family, but pursued careers in technology. They might still be actively involved in farming, and some ultimately return to either take over the farm or manage the land.

Some of us have also founded or worked at AgTech companies.
Solr also addressed a lot of the same problems as Elastic, maybe not all of them. It was harder to configure but the documentation eventually got to be decent. That was some years ago. I don't know the state of things now.
If anything, doesn't TSMC's 5nm process play a large part in improving battery life?
I think this is why a lot of developers take on things like woodworking as a hobby or even a new career. The tools just WORK. They are reliable. They don't randomly change. There isn't a constant churn. You don't spend all day fighting with your toolset. They fade into the background. Your time is spent on what you actually want to do.
"kafka streams" is an add on product to kafka
Do you have a reputable source which elaborates further on this discussion? My impression thus far is that few are willing to assert with the confidence you're displaying here that we're out of the woods once vaccinated.

Indeed, Pfizer has announced that it is working on a booster that specifically targets Delta, so that says to me that there is very much still a concern here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/08/pfizer-says-it-is-developing...
Wow, incredible response! I appreciate you taking the time to respond :)

I am very familiar with Aaron's case. I think your analysis is correct: some people believe I made a bad judgement call, and the CFAA is broad enough that this created a liability, even though we cannot know whether it was legal. I think my frustration with most armchair-analysis (not including you, CaptArmchair) is that folks confuse their moral certainty (I "made a bad judgement call") with legal certainty ("this is the kind of thing the CFAA protects us from"). But the law is a lot more complicated.

For me the concern is exactly (d)(1). When the CFAA is overly broad, and the ability to investigate is granted to all "offenses", where does that leave us? Can Apple cry "CFAA!" at anything they don't like? In practice, there are some checks and balances: in this case, Judge Lois Bloom decided to sign the warrant; Judge Judith Philips refused to prosecute. Is this enough? To me, seeing the ways the CFAA has been abused in other cases, it's not so clear.
There are plenty of big French companies. The issue is with medium and small companies more than anything.
Also the law you're talking about is far from unique to France.
Were I Google, I’d just stop giving French news sources in any search results at all, and make them pay to even appear in the index. Let them whine a bit about Google “having” to do anything for, you know, public good or something. Because I think that internet news portals need Google more than Google needs them, in the current state of the world.

Don’t get me wrong. Google is an atrocious corporation, so are greedy media conglomerates, but watching them fight is mildly entertaining.
So they also don't test if people actually are burnt out, just whether they say they are?

My observation is that most people in tech discussing burnout do not know what burnout is. They think it means being bored with your job.
I actually question if burnout is related to the idea that as software developers we often come in being passion driven, but "work" as defined by other people tends to whittle away at passion.

Eg there's a common saying, something like "Don't let your passion become work". Implying that if you love creating art, it can be a struggle to keep that same love when you start creating for other people. Of course it's all variable, but i hope my explanation suffices.

Programming can often be similar in my mind. Sometimes i can be in the height of feeling super uninterested in my work - tired, exhausted, all things i'd collectively describe as progressing towards burnout... but then i daydream and get the urge to go code some random idea. The fire is still there, in me, to be creative and produce something in the way i enjoy. It didn't seem inhibited by my work at all. It just seems work is following down a path of unfun that accumulates.

It feels similar to side projects. Devs often joke about how easy it is to start something but how difficult it is to finish. Because larger projects will often become work themselves. But in this side projects you have the luxury of stopping. I suspect if you forced your way through, never stopping on them - you'd burnout in a similar way to real work. If this is at all accurate, the consistent push on uninteresting work is the driving force for burnout in these examples. You're used to doing the work with passion, but extended periods of non-passion feels a lot like burnout, to me at least.
> the OEM firmware just sort of dejectedly sinks slowly to its knees

You're almost certainly seeing the first moves of a preset 'stand up after falling' procedure that goes into a 'loaf' position to roll into the right orientation and get all four feet in contact with the ground.
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Maybe comic books didn't lead to delinquency

I find it more interesting to entertain the possibility that they did. It's probably wrong (even if there were/is a correlation, the cause would likely be deeper — maybe the World Wars?) but it's fun to be contrarian and seriously entertain the theory.
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I had a couple teachers that allowed the cheat sheet, and it worked so well that I made them for every test, whether I could actually use them on the test or not. As you noted, it's such a great forcing function to identify and understand the most important bits.
Sorry, this is 2021. Your 'anti-Russian' propaganda narrative was expired about 5 years ago.
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It's not dishonest if it's literally true, as you already admitted. This is like saying "it's dishonest to say drinking water is essential for health when obviously you'll die if someone sticks a hose down your throat and forces you to drink until you die".
The downsides like having different visions for your life from your spouse, or discovering you have a chronic health issue were not due to FIRE. In fact, FIRE gave the author tools to decide what to do about those issues. The result may not be what the author wanted (divorce, a new relationship, seeking additional income to support that new relationship) but none of the issues were caused by FIRE.