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> power tools

While I agree with your other examples, I think power tools are a bad example. I'm using a wired drill and circular saw from 20 years ago, which both still work perfectly. How is buying a modern power tool which requires disposable batteries that 99% of people will dispose of improperly a better choice for the environment? My guess is that the industry shifted toward batteries because of convenience, not efficiency, but I could be wrong.
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slightly dodging the main point but just one sentiment I see a lot nowadays that I really dislike

>But I felt guilty for not learning new things and just listening to music all day long

Along the same lines something I regularly hear "I don't read fiction it's a waste of time". You can learn new things by listening to music, by doing or engaging with art, by rereading the same stories, and so on. Learning means expanding the mind of the learner, it is not external fact gathering. You can do the same thing over and over and learn something new every time, Nabokov used to (cheekily) point out that the only good reader is a re-reader, because you can only memorize ten books or so, you just gotta find the right ones and they'll last you a lifetime or put more succintly:

"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"
IME the human time cost and direct expense associated with obtaining HITRUST, even if you've already done SOC2, is roughly in line with buying a Lamborghini.
Yes, given Rapamycin is taken by people for longevity I'm not sure why it's not mentioned or you were downvoted given the top comment is some bike shedding naturalism about the species on earth being wiped out. HN at it's core

Obviously any longevity drug will help with dementia, else it's not a longevity drug.

And Rapamycin has been looked at for dementia. There might be evidence it might make it worse if you already have dementia.

This seems like a ok round up -https://www.alzdiscovery.org/uploads/cognitive_vitality_medi...
Again, you can't seem to point me at anyone telling white schoolboys they are oppressors.

Public schooling, one of the few institutions that actually values and reaches Appalachian folks[1], has been under attack by exactly the forces behind the latest "critical race theory" boogeyman. If you actually gave a damn about folks in poverty you wouldn't be shilling for the latest fad attack on schools, the list of which you've nicely outlined.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/west-virginia-teachers...
Yep, in go the inheritance (using the term loosely) structure can apply to interfaces (which specify groups of functions) and structs (which specify groups of data) and roughly does the same thing in both instances.
Imagine I gave you some materials and tools and asked you to build a physical machine with your hands by the end of the day.

If I were first to place some plans in front of your eyes, what would your hands build then?

If there were no plans, what might your hands do before they started building a machine?

What organ/s might help your hands to do this?

If that organ/s was busy listening to a podcast, how might that affect the output of your hands?
Challenge accepted --- BTC mined on a gameboy: https://www.laptopmag.com/news/you-can-mine-bitcoin-on-a-nin...

Also, you're assuming whoever stole these cards are rational beings and not characters out of Ocean's Eleven.
The fact that there are no hits except for one 4 months ago and the next one six months ago proves my point about very selective enforcement.
> One lesson, obviously, is that the narratives we tell about history are largely constructed after the fact, by actors who have a stake in painting a certain picture of the recent past.

True. There are certainly those who push and pull the narrative. That said, there is also the momentum and expectations of the masses. Once a lens is set it is very very difficult to correct it.

As so wisely put by mighty Paul Weller:

"The public gets what the public wants."

And

"The public wants what the public gets."

Put another way, aside from nefarious narrative actors, we also often have ourselves to blame.
Brainless? Sorry, I don’t think that’s a defensible position. Read his writings over the years. They reflect more thought than he is given credit for.
Dementia can't be cured. Best we can hope for is preventing it. So, meds agaisnt dementia will have the highest impact on populations without overt dementia
While I agree about bad, simplified history, how do you distinguish the good from the bad? Why is your narrative more accurate than others? (Would you provide a source for that version?)

I've read narratives attributing it to the US and UK in serious sources, such as (IIRC) Foreign Affairs.
Listening to podcasts for learning is not any worse than using wikipedia, considering wikipedia articles quality (not a popular reading, but a learning-grade one). Both are equally far from what's needed for learning.
Back when IBM was making Thinkpads, I called their support number to get the FRU for a HD in a second hand laptop that was well out of warranty. The next day I had a package waiting for me with a new drive and prepaid postage for the return. Easily my best customer experience, without a doubt they made that money back - I went out of my way to direct my business their way for years.
This. The boost is undoubtedly tied to organized crime, and organized crime is very aware of mining operations (particularly in Asia). These won’t be showing up on eBay. Spot on observation.

Organized entities don’t take a truck unless they have a guaranteed outcome in mind.
Yes, Carter was frumpy, gloomy compared to the optimistic Reagan always standing in front of a huge flag with perfect hair and a glint in his eyes.
Assuming you're referring to the parent comment's 100GB drive (or even the 256 GB one) that's really not true. A quick `du -sh` tells me I have right at 100 GB of FLAC music, and I've easily listened to every single track. There are, in fact, only 3770 tracks. At an average of 4.5 minutes a song (guessing), that's only around 11.8 days of music. About 8 hours a day of music for a month!

Or to calculate it another way, a typical FLAC stereo track might run about 800 kbps or 100 kB/s. 100 GB will let you store 11.6 days of music at that bitrate, which is just about the same total I got for my collection above.
imagine is someone used this to look for photos of people with certain facial features, that would be terrifying. i could see how this could be used for a lot more sinister applications. technically it could be used for just about anything, i know there are many countries that view same sex couples as illegal, so technically it could be used for that. nobody is really safe with a privacy obstruction like this, it's only a matter of time before the app store hashes photos from 3rd party apps as well. i was shocked at the extent to which apple panders to countries that do not allow encryption. anyone who has submitted an app to the app store knows what i am referencing, honestly, these apps like telegram, signal etc, after seeing what apple requires for app submission i would not use them anymore. you are better off using another system total that gives the user more control over the os. surprised there are no startups aiming to allow users more control over their hardware when it comes to phone safety
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I think the biggest issue is that the income tax base in India is very small. India has 4x the population of US but individual taxpayers are 1/15 of the US. Most of the people do not pay taxes and the government has to make up the lost revenue somehow - petrol and diesel are the only taxes that can target large swaths of the population.

A majority of the Indian population is still in agriculture and agricultural income is not taxed.

Also small stores that deal in cash also avoid taxes.

Another thing about India is that every election is won by politicians guaranteeing free stuff for the masses - but that money for the free stuff has to come from somewhere - and that is why they need to tax fuel.
Sorry for the delay!

I was working at their Montreal Studio. It's exclusively a video game studio. I was mostly working in QA on Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Even if the game is technically developed by Monolith Productions, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) helps with their ressources (Artists, QA, Devs).

There's also alot of internal tooling for Builds automation, Automated testing / QA Aids tools, etc that is handled by WBIE as the game editor.

We didn't see movies before they got out but we had access to a 30-50 persons theater room that I was able to "rent" for free outside of business hours to watch movies with friends and show them the non-secure areas of the office. (Cafeteria (Free drinks!), gaming room, etc.))

I'm not really into commics but we had a room with thousands of comic books that we could take and read anytime we wanted (WB owns DC Entertainment).

I worked there 6-8 months when I was out of school before getting my first dev job.
I'd give it to TempleOS[0] personally.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
In these cases the driver is generally paid to walk away, play dumb, or some combination of the two. Escalating to violence taking a truck undermines long-term success doing the same, just like modern piracy somewhat forced shipping lines to enhance security, thereby making piracy harder.

Organized crime in the US figured out a long time ago that hurting a driver generally leads to the collapse of the whole operation and indictments. Ask any trucker how often they’re approached.
Libya is actually a terrible example of this. If I recall correctly, right after the Arab Spring, their country erupted into civil war, twice, and the current ceasefire is barely a year old. The reason for this is not because they chose civil war, but because Libya and many other poor countries are stuck in a local minima of dictatorship and sectarianism.

Why? This chart should be illustrative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#/media/File:Libya_Produc...

- Dinosaur juice that we took out of the ground

- Dinosaur farts that we took out of the ground

- Dinosaur juice that we took out of the ground and then cooked

- Shiny metal that we took out of the ground

In other words, all industries that, critically, do not require the people to operate. Libya is the poster child for the resource curse. In poor countries, democracy is a dangerous boondoggle that squanders the wealth of the country, and any country with an economy shaped like this that tries democracy will be swiftly punished for their obvious flaunting of basic economics. Likewise, all of the other things you see in these kinds of countries - sectarian violence, religious and ethnonationalist conflict, and so on - are all merely part and parcel of being poor.[0]

Taking this back to Iran... the country is born out of geopolitical praxis, not a resource curse. The US tried to utterly fuck over Iran and turn it into Libya, in the name of fighting the Soviets. So at least part of the current hostility towards the US is still borne out of actual popular support. Yes, some Iranians would like to just enjoy a cosmopolitan software developer lifestyle, but those people are fewer in number compared to the people who want nothing to do with a country that has hypocritically denied it the right to self-determination. Maybe that will change, and people on both sides will forget long enough for us to normalize trade relations. But that's not a simple matter of uninstalling and reinstalling governments like they were device drivers. Plenty of Iranians still hate the US, and plenty of Americans do, too.

[0] This is also why a lot of Donald Trump voters bought into a lot of far-right racist bullshit, as well as why many poor countries see regular genocides. Because that's exactly what you promise poor people. It's far easier to make you richer than a race or religion you don't like, than to make you richer overall.
I tried to convince a group that:

1. Hot air balloons get their lift from hot air; and,

2. Dirigibles can get their lift from hydrogen; thus,

3. Hot hydrogen dirigible?

Blah blah blah ... exploding dirigibles ... blah blah blah. The lifting efficiency is outrageous.
I feel like "a hold my beer" version of this just accepts webhooks from your artifact registry and pre-pulls new versions of running images, or maybe images that node has seen in the last X hours
So you discount the testimony of teachers because youtube has an algorithm, and you discount the oppression narrative quotes because you label the source as "astroturf" and you discount the actual school materials leaked by whistleblowers because -- oh that one was ignored.

Look, I get the strategy of smearing whoever provides information as a way of ignoring the provided data. I just don't understand why you think this strategy is a legitimate form of debate -- it's not.
Yes, Clinton's budget, his tax increases and defense spending cuts, they did cost the Democrats the House. Gingrich voted against that budget, then campaigned against it, winning the Speakership, then shut the government down over it, twice, and then after it turned a profit, tried/tries to take credit for it.

Obama didn't increase that debt by spending. He did it by inheriting Bush's Great Recession with its sky high unemployment and lack of tax revenues. He managed to decrease the deficit each year until his last. Obama's singular spending initiative, the ACA or Obamacare, is dirt cheap compared to the $6T of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And then there's Medicare Part D.

BTW, the ACA cost the Democrats the House as well. Some things are worth fighting for.
By using the space elevator, of course!
> funding the mujahideen

Blowback keeps happening. IIRC, the modern Central American drug gangs were born of US funding and training of anti-Communist forces in the 1980s.

Remember it next time someone says, 'let's send arms to those insurgents!' Obama dialed it back, partly for that reason (AFAIK). Biden apparently has embraced a policy of 'restraint', with the idea that outcomes from US intervention often are counter-productive.

(I don't support it - instead, accept the challenge and find better interventions. Quitting is a bizarre solution IMHO. People still need freedom, and need help.)
I said a single -primary- and explicitly mentioned having replicas.

I'm very confused why you might think that could "lose all the data" from a single one of those nodes failing.
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Architect who works on a bunch of procurement - our approach is that a clean SOC2 Type 2 report is preferable, but not a deal-breaker (and reduces paperwork for me). But if you couldn't demonstrate that you could address the issues that SOC2 (etc) test, that would be a problem.
Totally with you on that “die inside” part for sure!
I read this article more as a complaint about what Apple communicates about what they will do on maintenance than as one about what they do in maintenance of their software.

With some other companies (typically more business oriented), you can know the moment you buy their software how long it will be supported. See for example https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/windows.

For Apple, there’s https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624, but it only lists how long hardware is supported (that list does go back a long time, though. It’s good to have official confirmation that the Macintosh 128K is obsolete)

For Mac OS, the best you get are educated guesses from third parties. For example, https://eclecticlight.co/2021/09/22/how-long-does-apple-supp... says

“As far as macOS goes, everyone will tell you that Apple supports the current version for about a year before it’s replaced by a new major release, then provides two years of security updates for it. The strange thing about that is Apple doesn’t seem to have committed that to writing, and I’ve searched long and hard for its official policy on many occasions”
What are all the ways hiring is broken?
I started building a community to "break" the hiring system because it's SO broken. We have over 2k candidates, and 20 companies in the community - new jobs in as little as 4 weeks when candidates join our programs, and usually 10 weeks. Now that we're getting traction we're reaching out to more companies. They get very confused that our program starts at $500/month to meet up to 50 vetted candidates a month. All they have to do is attend our monthly mixers to meet diverse talent. They ask a lot of questions about finder fees, salary percentages, and ya-da, ya-da. We tell them we are trying to break the current system. We tell them to please stop spending money on a process they doesn't work. They don't understand. But they like who they see on the talent list so they show up. They meet people face-to-face. They hire people that they meet! The community approach works. So! I want to tell these companies very specifically why the current hiring process is broken. I have a lot of reasons, but I want to throw the question out there to see what comes back.
> A core problem is that so many of us have never met one of these people.

Back when I rented, the corporate apartments were the worst experience since there was zero flexibility to anything, all was managed with zero tolerance based on the company playbook.

Renting from individual owners was a delight though since I was dealing with an actual human. Very flexible about everything, always open to discuss options.
There is no such thing as “free markets” unless you talk crime. Legal markets are always defined and shaped by governments, politics, regulations, rules, agreements etc. It might be the case that market A is less restricted than market B but none of the markets are “free”.
Idk if he is even hard on himself. He actually sounds like someone happy with how the site ended up evolving. And maybe even looking back in hindsight to the YC experience, he realized that they might have not been a good fit anyways.
I mean, he says it quite bluntly, VCs are in the business to do money, they don't finance you as a charitable exercise or because they like tech for the sake of tech. He found a nice ARR through the API service, and if that sustains him well, and as he says, does not cause him much stress nor makes him work long hours, it's probably an even better outcome that being pressured by the VC to fulfill some exorbitant growth.
To me it sounds really cool to be a one-man band, and his posts describing the tech stack are really delightful to read (he's definitely someone who knows what he is doing, I guess that comes with being 'old' and having previous 'not-serial-entrepeneur' tech experience as a developer.
You're making this sound simpler than it is, I think. For the following discussion assume we're talking about management that is smart and wants the dev team(s) to succeed but is racing hard to hit various external deadlines and does not have a technical background.

Inform them that after investing Y hours on
refactoring X, future development is expected
to happen M% faster with N% less bugs.

I've tried variations of this to sporadic effect. My elevator pitch is/was essentially, "let's devote 10% of our developer resources to making the other 90% more productive, rather than having 100% of our developers suffer these slowdowns and problems."

(I chose 10% because we had 30 developers at the time and generally had teams of 3 developers. So, one dedicated DX team...)

Do you have any articles, case studies, etc of how to express this to management that is generally oblivious to the day-to-day, in-the-trenches, experiences and pain points of developers?

What you're saying sounds great to me, who is a developer, but how would you come up with halfway realistic numbers for Y and X?

The best thing I could think to do is have the team minutely log all lost minutes productivity caused by delays and inefficiencies that the proposed fixes could address.

But even that's tricky. For example, at one of my previous positions, the build pipeline could take hours and could randomly fail.

The only way to maintain any semblance of productivity would be to juggle 3-4 tickets at once. This was incredibly challenging, and productivity took a massive hit due to the frustration and context switching.

However, even if I had logged those experiences down to the minute, there weren't any literal downtime minutes. It was more a matter of juggling five tickets at once that should have taken one hour each, but instead they took five hours each because I was context switching faster than the Linux kernel itself.

New features can be expected to be developed,
tested, and shipped to production in S% less time.

This sounds good to me, a developer but again, I'm not sure how to express this to management. It's not like "one feature" is some standard unit of measurement - the time to shipping "one feature" varies by orders of magnitude.

Scrum and its much-maligned "story points" are a possible solution here, as far as management is concerned, assuming both developers and management have bought into that concept and are using it correctly.
I have had amazing managers and coworkers at Google. People that cared for me as a person, helped me grow technically and supported me career.

Obviously at a huge company there will be a lot of variance, but on my teams I have had a lot of autonomy to choose what to work on and how to make it happen. That was a big reason why I enjoyed it so much there.
That was in the UK. Different laws in different countries.