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Any language can do JSON serialization. Whether it's an enjoyable experience is another topic.

Having to deal with JSON in Go is a massive pain comparatively. It's just way easier to do it in Node.js. I'm having to do this kind of work right now, where I'm leveraging a third-party API that has horrendous JSON responses and I'm having to convert it to a normalized JSON structure so that I can use it within my own app. I keep wishing I would have just gone with Node.js instead of Go but now I'm too far deep.

By I/O, I meant that basically anything that requires you to wait for a response is really easy in Node.js. In particular handling HTTP requests is dead simple.

My point being that I'll pick different tools for different jobs. Go is really nice when I have little control over the environment and architecture, such as with AWS Lambda. The ability to compile a binary specifically for that architecture without needing to deal with `node-gyp` in Node.js is attractive to me. But I'll weigh the pros and cons of going with each of these different tools that I'm comfortable with.
Presumably it's the same incentive that pushed you to write it the first time.

If you don't want to work on it anymore that's OK too. Open source libraries are generally not held to particularly stringent requirements by the vast majority of people - perhaps accepting an obvious patch in a critical situation, at most.

You obviously can pay people. They're called employees. The thing about employees is that your money translates to business value, which is much broader than a single library. This means that when a single library is done the developer doesn't have to think "ok but what's next for this library" and start adding more code. They can stop and move on to other tasks.

Paying for a single library is nice. I support multiple open source developers because I appreciate their work. I recommend everyone does so.

I don't at all believe it's going to help security though.
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I think you greatly underestimates what Taiwan means to China. People in the west are quick to dismiss any claims by China on Taiwan as having any legitimacy, viewing it purely as expansionism. But regardless of whether the western view of that is right (or ought to be right), the Chinese don't view it that way: they view it as a sovereignty issue, as an unfinished part of the Chinese civil war, and as part of the US' efforts to militarily contain China. Taiwan is a strategic location on which the US's "first island chain" depends — China's entire life depends on it.

As such, China would rather fight the entire western world than to let Taiwan go. They would rather destroy all their relationships with the west than to let Taiwan go. It doesn't matter whether they will actually win or not — they are prepared to, and that's what we don't understand (or for some people: don't want to understand).
Gentlemembers, they counted words. They selected two groups of literal words and traced the diacronic proportion.

It seems to be a severely unsophisticated "analysis"...
I believe the right answer lies at home. As other commenters have said, it doesn't help things that domestic corporations fall over themselves to appease the whims of the CCP for fear of losing access to [markets / cheap manufacturing / etc]. And those corporations have the loudest lobbying voice. Seeing as this is just one case of the kinds of ills that corporate lobbying brings about, I think we should try to combat that in order to buy (pun not intended) our political class some more freedom of motion in terms of standing up to China.
> There was no "Korean Seoul" or "German Bonn" competing at the Olympics, etc.

Are you aware that both China and Taiwan claim to be the legal government of both countries? Because that's completely different from Germany or Korea, where the states recognized each other.
> one example where a lot of rationalists stop making sense is blaming challenges with dating on macrotrends and demographics when their own 'microtrends' of personal behavior, manners, and selection bias is the larger contributor to the issue.

Both can be true at once though. The rational person says: these are the facts, I have to work harder to date successfully. Is dating then still worth it? Some say yes, work harder, other say no, and give up. Those who give up says that society made dating too hard, not sure why you think that is wrong. You can call them lazy, sure, or maybe they don't value relationships highly, but that is hardly an irrational choice.
yeah i was coming here to suggest this. LLC with the S-corp election will save you ass-tons in taxes. the paperwork isn’t worth it until you get to around 100k in consulting income but from there on you can basically cut your SE taxes in half (although technically you don’t pay SE taxes with this setup, you’re paying yourself as w2 so their employer taxes)
> I'm willing to bet that during that period stocks probably beat almost every other form of investment with regards to profits.

This illustrate why makes me uneasy of current times, that blind faith in the stock market as the ultimate investment. From FIRE communities to r/wallstreetbets to regular retirement to professional fund manager, don't ask question and join the dance, it always was and always will be 6-8% per year, it's a law of nature.
I wonder if they were actually run on market principles would crashes be so bad or big? Or more of corrections of certain sectors.
This is first time seeing anybody asking what they should do with the money.
So here's what I planned to do if I got the hold of that much money. And what I believe what millionaires should do.
There's a lot of people in need of money, food and other resources.
- Donate money ( the most important ). There's homeless, sick people. And kids with no parents. But make sure the right ones receive it.
- Give away stuff
- Buy gifts for people (not too expensive)
- Help family and friends achieve their goals. Even if u give them a loan.
- People tell us all to invest. And they are not wrong. Keep some for future and Ur kids. But don't keep too much to urself. The world needs help.
I fully agree.

And the chinese should put nuclear nukes on cuba as well under the control of the cuban regime.
> Combined EU has the largest economy in the world

Second largest, at $17.1tn, after the US ($22.7tn), but ahead of China ($16.6tn).[1]

> is by far the wealthiest region on the planet

North America is the wealthiest region, with the United States alone having a total wealth of $126tn. European wealth is around $103tn.[2]

1. World Economic Outlook Database, April 2021

2. https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
Domain it's letsdeel.com, they act as intermediaries and you invoice through them..

I've worked for american startups, and the contract/invoicing was through them

remote.com is another such similar service.
This says "in the event of an all-out Russian invasion" ... how about the current creeping duplicitous shadow war?
I do not trust that meme. Taiwan became the country it is today because it was heavily settled by the traditional Chinese Burgeoisie that became the target of Mao's revolution. It may be that China would now like to pivot towards a culture more informed by Taiwan's system than the leftovers of its own Marxist system. So 'Mainland Taiwan' may very well play into the CCP's current cultural intentions. Regardless, we should not lose sight of what this conflict is about; it is first and last about who controls the world's supply of semiconductors. Any cultural, idealistic, or legal considerations are secondary.
> But none of that is an argument about whether or not Tesla FSD beta is currently operating safely. Again, it's quite clear that it is.

eyeroll I'm glad you've conceded the argument on my behalf. Any other decisions you'd like to make for me?

> And to the extent that it's not, let's talk about specific reforms you'd like to see to improve the quality.

I'd start with Tesla complying with the law and providing data about how many accidents, how many disengagements, how many miles, etc. and not having to depend on what gets noticed over 6 years.
China’s imperial objectives are hopefully going to backfire. Their government is evil for the shitty indentured life they put their citizens through.
Similarities of what FB/Meta was caught doing. 'human subject research without consent'. I spos the difference is they threw a ton of money on PR and it was swept under the rug, but universities cant afford it(surprisingly those tuition fees havent been diverted to PR). FB would be dispatching teams of lawyers/shills/other dirty tacticians on these blog writers. Thankfully universities havent seen much decline in sheep desperate for a framed piece of paper so they dont see really lose from this negative PR. I wonder how many non-consensual studies(swept under rug) we go through in life these days.
I'm in that $250k range. When I'm looking for a new gig I would much rather have skills that 100 companies are hiring for than skills that 5 companies are hiring for.

That said, I do need something to differentiate myself from any other rando they might hire for less. That could hypothetically be a niche technology. I once met someone who specialized in making databases of 3D artifacts. He made a ton of money bouncing form one defense contractor to another creating their object databases for simulation purposes. That's the "niche knowledge" path.

In my case, that's soft skills. I'm a great communicator with a history of using those skills to land big project successes. In particular, I don't make the business people feel dumb when I explain technical things to them, and being a small business owner myself I have a better balance of understanding between business needs and technical needs compared to most devs.
Perhaps we should translate this into Mandarin and Korean to aid the democratisation process in China and North Korea ...
Ya. I'm trying to subtly encourage you to not write people off based on their labels, self identified or otherwise. Because you seem reachable somehow.

I'm no smarter or better than any one else about this stuff. I have a history of getting really spun up. I do feel my efforts have helped my own mental state.

One thing that has helped, for instance, is figuring out that we're all a little bit crazy. Another is realizing that my "own the libs" siblings don't actually believe the stuff they say; it's just sport for them. So I try to not take the bait.

Any way. You get the idea.

Peace.
Who decided that Medicare needed an “Anti-Racism Plan”?
> Unfortunately, due to factors outside of those dictated by form, it so happens that books are better, even though they are limited by their form.

I think you've got this backwards: it's the "form" that dictates youtube videos must always target the lowest common denominator, target absolute beginners, use clickbait approaches to topic selection, and spread content thin to increase number of videos.

(The "form" not being merely video, though, but the overall platform: the feed algorithm, the userbase, the thumbnail popups, etc.)
I am not sure I would subscribe to that either, there are ton of ideas and forces. How about some elements of Islam are in the upper permiles of the forces of evil in the current world?
As european, I think EU is too busy looking good to have time to actually something good, so I am not sure our political and entrepreneurial tools are willing to damage their wealth over something good, on the other hand, taiwanese people don't even seem to care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y18-07g39g so why do we have to be this world police?
Check Constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan): https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=A00000...
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Just walk away.
What needs to happen is for every countries that adopts the One China Policy [1] to drop that policy and establish formal recognition of Taiwan.

However, this will be tougher than other countries that are newly formed like Kosovo. China will surely use its influence to make sure it won't happened.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy
In Lithuania, over-16s without immunity certificates proving full vaccination or recovery from Covid are banned from shopping malls, beauty salons, cafés and restaurants and indoor public events, but are permitted to shop at food, veterinary, optical stores and pharmacies, as long as these are under 1,500 square metres and have direct street access. They can also visit art and museum exhibitions and libraries.

I'm not so sure about its history, but it sure doesn't have a present of standing up for the rights of its citizens. I wouldn't call it a beacon of freedom or prosperity over China.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/the-rise-of-the-unvaxx...
Think you're right. Correct links: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... and https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off...
Europe combined have more people and spend way more on military than US. On GDP Europe is lower, but they also have more than 2x the amount of people:
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/European-U...
I agree that both are true but what contributes to loneliness is far more likely to be your own personal choices.

Is challenging your own choices and behavior worth it? The answer to that is subjective.
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I never had any ddc issue with DELL monitors (with my experience of 5 different models).
Unfortunately a lot of open source cares more about ideological wars (such as about systemd, or Debian not including proprietary network card firmware by default) than actually solving a real problem.
The <blink> tag is now legacy for reasons.
Well, it is a workers market right now.

Professionally there is nothing special about me except that I really enjoy working, but for the last two remote jobs, the offer letter I received was more than what I verbally agreed on with HR. Since I am also 70 years old, I take this as good evidence of how pro-worker the job market is right now.

I offer free mentoring (see my web site) and always talk about the importance to having a beginner’s/learner’s mind. I think that what companies want is: prioritizing the company’s interests, being flexible, and being observant looking for opportunities to improve the business. Fairly straightforward strategy.

Good luck reaching your financial goals/salary number but also please remember money isn’t everything, and is much less important than our relationships with other people.
My take on the whole China issue is this: no country actually cares about humans rights or any of that stuff but only about their national self interests and that most people do not actually care about humans rights, but only about their own personal self interests.

China is a rising power in the world and wants to at least be the primary power in its region (maybe the world, who knows), and the USA as the primary power in the world and the region wants to keep its position. The US and China also have a symbiotic relationship, China would not be able to be in the position it is today if not for American purchases, and Americans would not have the quality of life they currently enjoy if they did not have Chinese manufacturing.

Both countries know they cannot be openly hostile to each-other without huge ramifications so they use proxy conflicts to try to secretly bludgeon each other and propagandize their own populations. Americans can propagandize their population with HK, Taiwan, concentration camps, no freedom and Chinese can propagandize their population with drone strikes, Century of humiliation, US Imperialism... Nobody, except the misled population (who are being propagandized) or extremely dim-witted subsets of elites (who are doing the propaganda, and go high of their own supply so to say) actually care about these issues.

I do not think this will be as hot as the last cold war since the US and China are way more interdependent than the US and the USSR and the way to make sure that this semi-cold war will not turn into a hot war is to not trying to break the interdependence, but to strengthen it.
This is exactly right. The people that think China is going after Taiwan for no reason are greatly underestimating the realism of States.
I have given advice just for this case here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25509941

So far it is working out pretty well for me. To be quite honest, you don't have to have passion for your job to perform well enough in accord with your salary and incentives. I'd say even more, overworking oneself is a "grave sin" against your future.

One's time and intelligence are better spent optimizing one's family size (in upwards direction) and health.

> I thought I was already doing that but looks like I've been doing something wrong with my professional career, and there is a path more equilibrated and focused on happiness I should follow.

In addition to my advice, I recommend you to read this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29581125

Several things should be pretty evident by this point:

1. Software engineering sub-niches are grossly different in pay/effort ratio, overtime expectations and ageism prevalence

2. Overperforming expecting a raise is a poor strategy in most cases

3. Discrete option/bonus increase thresholds doled out according to perceived effort/visibility are a devious trick to lure a significant part of workers to invest more effort than they would otherwise (and still fail to get over the threshold to get the bonus). Don't fall for it.

And in any case: I think one of the most valuable things one can do is raise a big family, while investing into stock market and slowing down one's aging as much as possible, to reap all this compounding interest.
> at least as good as getting cash

This claim is patently false. If you receive $100k in cash, you can immediately exchange that to $100k in public company stock. The opposite is not true (if you receive stock with a vesting period, you cannot immediately exchange it to cash). Therefore, getting cash is at least as good as getting public company stock, not the other way around.
And the real shame is that nobody seems to care what the people in Taiwan themselves want. (Which, overwhelmingly, is to be independent and free to go their own way.)
> Websites are businesses.

Websites are one or more servers that respond to the HTTP and/or HTTPS protocols with something a web browser can show. They may have a business involved. They do not necessarily have one involved.

They may simply be a goofy joke, such as https://zombo.com or http://www.abevigoda.com.

They may be a personal site, such as, well, https://christine.website. Which is a blog and a list of projects done by one person.

They may even be a front-end for a dynamic application but still not a business - I run a small Mastodon instance and it's just "a place for me and my friends to talk", not "a business"; having it grow to the size where I'd have to deal with stuff like the CCPA or the GDPR is something I absolutely do not want.
>>Europe has a long history of dealing with imperial bullies

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_European_c...
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Chinese Communist Party has tied it's legitimacy into uniting China. Xi has doubled down on it. Giving up would destabilize the party. It's and identity question for China. Chinese law ways that China must go to the war if peaceful unification is not possible.

Even Chinese people seem to think that Taiwanese want to be part of China. In reality support for unification is about 4% of the population. The official One China Policy exists to prevent immediate start of war.
Oh, and if your project hasn't explicitly thought through the risk, you may find out your biggest risk the hard way. If the team hasn't discused it, here's what I suggest:

Set up a 1-hour meeting. For the pre-reading, google a couple of articles on the kinds of risk to software projects. For the meeting, explain the goal is to find the the current top 5 risks. Open up a Google Sheet, label one column "Risk", and have everybody spend 10-15 minutes filling the column in. Then add a column called "Votes", and have everybody increment the votes counter by 1 for what they see as the top 5. Now sort by votes.

If people already agree on the top 5, great. If not, you'll need to get more consensus around the risk. One way to do that is to add two more columns called "Odds" and "Impact". (You can use H/M/L or 0-10 for most people; an especially numerate audience can use actual odd and actual cost.) Jointly fill those in, getting people to discuss why they would pick different things.

Once you have adequate consensus, move on to discussing them and how to mitigate them. Hopefully you end up with specific action items (which can include an MVP!). Then come back in 1-3 months to do it again; hopefully your big risks will go away and you'll have new risks. If you're lucky, the meeting will become unnecessary over time.
That count is a bit deceptive, France has a single aircraft carrier with fixed-wing aircraft, the Charles de Gaulle. The other three are Mistral-class amphibious assault ships with helicopters.
Darn, did we finally provoke them enough for a reaction? Our media sure hopes so. Let's just hope this next one is nuclear. Once the pandemic terror wears off, nuclear countdown is always a great way to keep the slaves scared.
I was commenting on the comparison of a $150/hour independent contracting price to a $300k salary.
People who make woodworking videos on youtube are putting in a lot of work though. It's very professionalized.

The amount of effort (money, space, equipment) that would be required to compete with these professional youtubers is a substantial barrier to entry, though of course it's easy enough to make a non-competitive video.
How has history judged the Western leadership after WW2 for abandoning Eastern Europe to Soviets? I'm amazed we aren't telling the truth and west was only slightly above Germans in being evil. They had option to be good, but instead because they were unquestionably pure evil they sacrificed huge number of people to Soviets...
Try it first.

Moore’s law hasn’t been kind to x86 laptops, and the tricks used to speed things up are missing from low end celeron processors and binned SSDs. The cheap hardware and poor touchpads add to the charm.

I would bet that the 10 year old Lenovo would be surprisingly better than the shitty 2021 device.
When a “too big to fail” company misbehaves, China doesn’t bail it out, they nationalize the useful parts, send the rest to bankruptcy, and jail the responsible executives.

We’re talking past each other a bit, but this is evidence of principle driven behavior rather than government capture by the wealthy like we have in the west.
It wasn't created as a reaction to free software, it was created as a way to differentiate from free software, starting with Netscape navigator. But there's the open source initiative, which somehow I wasn't aware of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl for example, though I'm sure there are others.
On Taiwan: the more the Chinese government talks publicy about it, the more is clear they can’t/not able to do so imo. It’s just ccp propaganda, you dont announce out loud military plans
No, deleted WhatsApp and Moved to Signal.
They said that (sans "practical") about the Eifel Tower too, back in the day.

"How the Eiffel Tower outlasted its critics": https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1120/...

[edit: this quote is too delish: "a barbaric industrial object that even the Americans wouldn’t build it."]