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I don't think you've grasped the reality of the situation yet.

We've cut out 20% of non-essential surgeries in our state to make room for COVID19 patients. "Non-essential" surgeries include biopsies and other potential-cancer events.

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We have plenty of hospitals actually, and equipment. USA is very very rich, we can afford anything. Its the nurses / doctors we can't afford right now, cause they're non-existent.

We can poach doctors/nurses out of school, maybe grab a few more doctor/nurse immigrants, and finally pool doctors/nurses together to make them more efficiently distributed across state-lines. But that's about it. You can't squeeze blood from a stone. You can't just "magic" doctors into reality by asking them to work twice as many hours.

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This is no longer a "find student doctors/nurses" situation. We're well into "cancel other surgeries", and triage of care. Yes, here in the USA we've run out of health-care resources.
> I am trying to think of one way it was useful to tell you that, but I can’t.

It's useful if it's a warning that OP isn't meeting expectations. Getting that feedback before a formal review, when there is still time to turn it around, is beneficial.

I've seen junior engineers be blindsided during a review more than once. They go in thinking they're doing great, because they've gotten no incremental feedback and lack the experience necessary to guage on their own, and then hear they're not cutting it. Getting this feedback before review time (and preferably even earlier than OP did) is good, even if it hurts to hear.

Obviously that feedback should have gone through their manager though. OP's manager should have rescheduled this meeting if they couldn't make it, since they probably already knew the feedback was negative.
About the oldest I can recall is ASCII art printer nudies.

At 132 columns of text on 17" wide fanfeed stock, decent-ish resolution is possible especially considering the vertical resolution is unlimited.

This is long enough ago that printing one of those off in a school or corporate setting would earn you a finger wagging at worst.
In flight their heart rate is 1000 beats per minute and their body temperature approaches 105F (40C) - their high metabolism might explain a more tolerant immune response.
My time, knowledge and expertise in developing an idea is not cheap and I need to eat. A local organization has been stealing my ideas and actively shafting me for absolutely no reason other than they are awful people.

They nominally do economic development. I was happy to freely provide ideas but I did expect it to be a networking opportunity and a means to build my professional reputation and local contacts and thereby enhance my income.

That has not happened.

I quit going to meetings because I was tired of their abusive treatment of me and now they cyber stalk me and continue to steal my ideas, give me zero credit, etc so some local cretin and his awful bosses can pretend they are worth the money that the city pays them.

I am getting nothing out of this at all. They can't even be bothered to tell people where they get their ideas so my reputation would be enhanced.

I continue to be dirt poor. I have done everything in my power to play by the rules as I understand them and the result remains the same both online and off: People think I'm wonderful. They think I have great ideas. They also think I should do everything out of the goodness of my heart instead of for pay and everyone turns a deaf ear to the fact that I am dirt poor, going hungry and desperately need more earned income.

I have a real problem here, your platitudes not withstanding.
The presumption absolutely no one will trade you crypto in your own country and you can't just mail out or in cash somehow seems like a pretty steep one (particularly in Argentina where black market trade of USD and all array of other stuff is rampant); but you must surely see the different between having your cash stored in a private wallet vs a bank account with a country that quite likely has tax and other legal treaties with your own.

I can't imagine it would be a warm feeling for someone with tax liabilities in Argentina to have a white-market bank account in a friendly country nearby.
> I'm working my first job out of college

I could have stopped reading there. My first job hop after college brought a 150% pay increase. Don't leave too soon, but you probably don't want to stay at your first company for too long either. Especially if it's a source of stress and unfair treatment.

It's not so much about the company as it is about getting a second perspective, and probably a pay increase, early in your career.
Right, unless the job/manager are totally insane they should never be surprised that you are to some degree dissatisfied. But in many jobs, it is to the employee's benefit to operate in such a way that the manager is surprised that they're actually leaving.
We were paying them around $1500/mo and had a similar issue where they blocked some (in our case) legitimate messaging traffic. We switched most of our traffic to another provider and are pleased. We had been a Twilio customer since 3 days after they launched and I owned a significant amount of their stock. I sold it all when this happened in spring of last year and I'm glad I did... stock has gone down significantly since. I don't see Twilio doing well long term, they provide an API for a network they don't own.
Work to specification while you find a new job. Get the requirements via email or send a confirmation email for anything that you believe might be an "offhand remark".

The market is hot and jobs are currently plentiful.

Realize that a lot of the tech world reads this site so be careful.
Yes! Good point: the manager needs to create the forum for those conversations to happen but the report still needs to take it on themselves to have that sometimes-awkward conversation.
Thank you, we actually have a fairly hefty HEPA filter so I'll set that up and see if it helps
By the way, ammonia is basically the easiest market for clean hydrogen (makes WAY more sense than hydrogen for transportation). Ammonia actually doesn’t use hydrocarbons for feedstock at all; it uses nitrogen from the air and hydrogen (usually produced via steam reforming of natural gas, but can be made easily with electricity, as was common before the 1950s when steam reforming took off). It takes about 1kg of hydrogen per 5.7kg of anhydrous ammonia. So if you can make clean hydrogen for $2.5-3/kg, you can make clean ammonia for under $500/tonne in feedstock costs. The current price of anhydrous ammonia has reached above $1300/tonne in some areas of the US in the last few months.

Companies looking into making synthetic natural gas or hydrogen for transport really ought to be focusing on this as near-term low-hanging fruit where you have the option of actually eliminating steam reforming needed for fossil fuels and use electrically synthesized hydrogen as a direct feedstock instead.
What's the risk of contact with bats outdoors? I often go for twilight walks and see them flying from tree to tree. But I sometimes wonder if a rabid one could swoop by, scrape me with its teeth, and I'd never even know. Maybe that's too paranoid...
Yeah, crypto is still China's best way of exporting coal through the atmosphere.
I wasn't there but I was told a person communicated his message by taking a literal shit in the CEO (ex military, to give you some perspective) office.
For example, if I have no interest in Node, it would be nice to take the HN RSS feed and filter words like Node in the title or content. Or if I really can’t stand sources like LiveStrong for health news I’d like to filter out that domain.
Read the 10th amendment to the constitution and try again. Government has no business dictating the conditions under which personal property can be used.
He should actually have been losing sleep over JavaScript. But few saw that in 1996.
There are massive amounts of Cuba supporters outside of the Western world. From our point of view Cuba sucks, but for a lot of people the basic guarantees that Cuba gives and the lifestyle is actually not so bad at all. Their government also isn't much more corrupt than in the rest of the world.

I'm sure that, unsurprisingly, if you live in a majority white country, most Cuban supporters would be white and left-leaning. If you were a Cuban that supported the Cuban regime and were happy, why would you leave, taking on so much risk and expense?
I’m a biochemist.
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You probably already got checked for this, but just in case: this sounds like a textbook Raynaud's syndrome presentation.
juniors gotta junior. just kidding! keep your chin up and take the good advice and don't let the criticism get you down. manager may have made unrealistic deadline commitments and should be mad at himself not you. as for hiring more people to a project, that likely means the manager wants the project to be completed faster OR he doesn't want all his eggs in one basket (you). managers must constantly plan for worst case scenarios (like critical people leaving the company)
Edge represents the best possible case for browser forking: a company approximately the same size as Google, with approximately the same technical resources, and a history of in-house browser development to boot. Most forks are a far cry from that.
Yes hi, why is the category of those with Asperger's syndrome not useful for the further understanding and communication of information.
> Australia having more restrictions than Sweden right now.

Do you have a source for that? Most Australian states have little to no restrictions at the moment bar mask mandates indoors.
If I googled correctly, Sweden only allows seated customers in bars, restaurants and events as well as limits to events?
> try and make people uncomfortable

This is an example of assuming ill-intent. I didn't say I'd try to make people uncomfortable. Here is what I actually wrote:

>I think I'd be happy to laugh and offend said people as a mechanism to keep them away

An interpretation of this assuming good intent is: "If I find something funny, I'll laugh. If it has the side effect of keeping people out who assume everyone has ill-intent, that's fine. "

An interpretation assuming ill intent is: "i deliberately laugh to see who it upsets".

Most people have read what I said in the generous way. There are a lot of upvotes. Hacker News isn't filled with a-holes who get excited when someone says something awful.
The professional habit I developed to manage scenario 2 started out as upward directed leadership and sometimes turned into simply coaching my bosses to be better themselves. There's a part that jumps out to me in the OP, the requirements changed so a lot of his work went to waste. Incredibly common. Equally common is management not realizing that it's something that they should take ownership of.
The problem with a subway is that I don't want to take a subway. They are often dangerous in the US, make it difficult to transport items, they are frequently dirty, and really just inconvenient.

I see these tunnels as somewhere in between traditional roads and a subway or bus. The cost seems like its way too high to justify. Maybe only worth it in the worst traffic areas where there is no land for more roads.
Have a look at https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates (via "What's the best SaaS starter kit?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28774647)
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I know this was a snarky comment, but I have to point out - you know pensioners don't work, right?
Yeah, bullshit. What other "left" government ended up with a hereditary monarchy?
Recent HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825490
It's telling that the only parties that they're considering the benefit for are the state and businesses, with no mention of workers, who are the clear beneficiaries of this policy.
There are huge gaps between the scientific paper and how you actually operate and scale Paxos from an engineering point of view. See "Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective" by Tushar Chandra et.al.

Paxos also has drawbacks like being slow or lacking liveness guarantees. Some alternatives are discussed in https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
I'll let you know how I feel when I get it "unvaxxed" the next time, since I decided months ago already against getting a booster.

It also sounds like you're not aware of a) the vaning efficacy of the vaccine or b) how little it does against Omicron.
I'm no security expert but I'm nearly certain that is defeated by using a VPN or tor or some other way of obfuscating your traffic.
Should Nuclear power be banned? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
To be fair neither Bitcoin nor Eth are aimed toward being a day-to-day currency. Regardless of the original intent Bitcoin is only really useful for hoarding like gold, and Eth in its current state is more about smart contracts than transactions.

If you're truly interested in a decentralized currency there are other projects focused on that.
We're a small business looking into EDI with some of our suppliers, but are finding the pricing quite painful for our level of business when talking to some service providers. Which service providers do you see as arcane and costly?
The congestion-busting “future of transport” is already experiencing congestion
Nice work – product idea: find patios that are not in shade on a given day / at a given hour.

Bet you could even charge a penny for a feature like this.
On the flip side, many autistic people have trouble understanding neurotypical people because they miss nuance in their communication that other neurotypical adults would find to be obvious.

Autism isn't some reasoning superpower, it's just a difference in processing stimuli.
I noticed the mongooses too, and went Googling. Here's why they are there [1]:

> The first successful introduction of mongooses to the Caribbean region was back in 1872. They were intentionally brought to the islands to control rats that were destroying sugarcane crop. From Jamaica, they were taken to other islands, between 1877 and 1879, Puerto Rico, St. Cr4iox [sic] and St. John for the same rat-control purpose. In 1883, Jamaican mongooses were imported by sugar growers on the Big Island of Hawaii, and then were later taken to the other Hawaiian Islands.

http://stoppinginvasives.com/home/database/herpestes-javanic...
Well of course an opening will be posted immediately if one dies - whats the point of waiting in that scenario ?

That doesn't justify being a jerk and quitting without making an effort to ensure that the transition is smooth for your colleagues.
Ye keeping the fingers at one row home position doing the same dance feels terribly unergonomic and crammed. I was only thinking about the neck looking down (dentists have problems with that).

Maybe I stress my hands more while tryhard practicing touch typing than I would in normal use though.
It's not necessary to be perfect, just useful.
Probably also related to a lot of other factors, like probablems with social interaction making people with aspergers more likely to for example spend evenings nerding out in their own room.
Yeah, this the root cause.
I think the point is that it's enough for people to feel comfortable and not think that they need another income source. I've known many software developers and some who had side projects. I only know of one other person besides myself who made money from any of them.

I feel comfortable saying that most developers don't have side projects and of the small minority that do, an even smaller minority make any money at it.
Nah Heller is the outlier here. Here's the Wikipedia page for its precedent, Miller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller
I don't trust a single number or report coming out of China. The official numbers show a couple of thousand dead. No way.

Dictatorships usually make examples of individuals/groups/regions to make everyone else fall in line. The virus however doesn't give a shit about the wishes of authoritarian regimes, which is why making an example of a region or a city and forcing millions of people to stay indoors, doesn't stop the spread elsewhere. It's a virus, not a rebellion.

I'm assuming China has always had a low level spread that could be hidden, because their demographics make it a non-issue. However, I'm guessing Omicron is creating such massive spread that regional officials can't deny reality any longer, and the lockdowns are some kind of desperate last-ditch attempt to save face.
Ouch, that's a really rough spot to be in. It's really harsh of your boss to tell you that they expected you to get this project done earlier when you are so new to the company, it doesn't feel like very valid feedback and I would try not to take it personally and just assume that they were having a bad day and unfortunately they took it out on you. Regardless, giving that type of criticism is not a good pattern for your boss. It's just not effective.

The idea of proving your worth at a company is definitely something that has been repeatedly proven to me as being invaluable. I would try opening a dialogue with your immediate boss and having a bit of a check-in. I think that as this project comes to a close now is a good time to do that. I would let them know about how uncertain you felt with that bit of criticism, and maybe asking for concrete suggestions to address the problem with your upper level boss. Maybe some way that you can submit extra weekly reports detailing more of the work that you are doing on specific projects, including changes to requirements and how they affect your workflow. Sometimes bosses get so caught up in the big picture they don't recognize the ways that unexpected changes impact their teams.
Well if I can't change my jurisdiction, I just may have to change my jurisdiction.
No, read the conversation again, it's not pretending. It's reciting facts from wikipedia but conjugating in the first person instead of the third.

>User What are your parents like?

My dad is a celebrity, he's a poet, he's a larger than life figure. I didn't know him well, he didn't treat my mother well. I grew up with my grandmother and didn't really spend much time with my father.

For a human, when you say "what are you parents like" it illicits a thousand more things than just repeating their official titles. Read the Byrons' wikipedia pages, and think how you would answer that question.
I know of a case where the manager actually called the INS after the employee left. Protect yourself and your family first. (I'm a manager myself.)
> You need to communicate, build relationships, and get feedback from many people in the organization. One of those people is your manager's manager.

That's an unreasonable expectation. That's your manager's job, not yours. If you have a skip level manager that is expecting direct updates from you... they're doing management wrong.
>since private computer chatting essentially died out

News to me
Sounds to me like you agree with Duterte.

Unvaccinated are, typhoid Maries?

Also, what exactly do you think mandatory vaccination entails?
Draghi sending nonno a stern warning letter?
Wake up.

You are supporting people who are well on their way of becoming this doofus horrible excuse of a man.

You just think your methods are more justified.

None og the measure, not the ones you support, nor Dutertes stop c19 though.
Just add to the dehumanization that has been prevalent among us for a very long time.

And we all know where that leads.
If they're two different positions with two experience requirements and two different salaries, why shouldn't they be advertised as such?

Jr cat_plus_plus Technician:

Minimum to no experience required.

$15 to $20 a hour

Sr cat_plus_plus Technician:

Atleast 5 years experience required.

$40 to $50 a hour
Please pose this question in /r/consulting as well. You'll get additional valuable input. Best of luck friend.
Indeed, this is what you should do. Proceed a bit carefully if you don't have a good relationship yet with your manager: by good relationship, I mean knowing them enough to figure out how much you trust them.

You would also benefit from talking to other engineers who have more experience, especially in that company. It is easier to talk casually to people you don't report to.

It is difficult to give more concrete advice w/o more context:

* a "best case" scenario is that the senior manager (your manager's manager) was having a bad day, maybe got themselves into trouble for X reason. Managers are human too.

* another scenario is that your senior manager is actually still inexperienced. E.g. did not have time to talk to your manager first and then decided to skip directly, etc.

* a worst case scenario is that there is something weird going on between your manager and his manager.

[edit] A manager's manager talking to an individual contributor (you), especially about technical details of a project is just weird. It is hard for me to think of a scenario where I would do this. Why ? Because as a Manager's manager, you lack context about why certain things happen. And the person responsible for your outcome is by definition your manager. You mention both manager being smart people, "knowing their stuff": they may lack experience on the "people manager" side of things. That's often a drawback of working in very technical environments.
> They believe it evolved in mice.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34954396/

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/01/coronavirus-omi...
They draw on massive piles of the output of human common sense. View it as a very sophisticated auto-complete module that's fun to play around with.
OP's description sounds like they are working alone on this project and that there's no peer review. Which sounds like a weird thing to do for a junior dev that just got out of college.
I'm unvaccinated, we can both be right.

The data is clear about the following:

- The vaccine is better than nothing for most people.

- If you're over 50 and unvaccinated you have a high risk of severe outcome.

- The vast majority of people have low / negligible risk of severe outcome.

- Stopping variants was never possible.

- Stopping the spread was never possible.

- Slowing the spread is only meaningful among people who will get hospitalized -- e.g no reason to lock kids out of school for 2 years.

As for demonizing, I think there's little evidence this is encouraging the unvaccinated to switch sides. It begs the question why leaders haven't imposed mandatory injections at this point? Surely it would be less painful than this.

Maybe governments want the division as an excuse to push some agenda? who knows.
I spent 12 years in pre-college education, and every teacher I had considered it entirely acceptable to intrude on my personal space and silently monitor me, often literally standing behind me to watch me. I've had managers do similar, usually as part of an explicit QA exercise but occasionally simply because they felt I wasn't paying attention (I'm ADHD and doodle to help me focus)

Do you really want to accuse every single teacher I had of pedophilia?

Not everyone has the same cultural background you do, and some of us are capable of understanding that sometimes someone needs a gentle nudge to get on the same page. You can rant about acceptable skills AFTER you spend 30 minutes trying to actually fix the problem. Until then, you're just a bigot.