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[created an account because I generally just lurk and not post, not to hide my identity although I might have considered that as well]

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder NOS when I was 32 after ten years of work, most of it in big tech. I was clearly acting very strangely at work at the time so there was no hiding something was going on. Spent 10 days in hospital getting diagnosed and medicated. Spent 30 days on leave after. When I returned I asked to be moved into a new role because I felt like the role I had moved to 18 months prior was a bad fit and contributed substantially to stress and that contributed to the manic episode. They didn't have space on my prior team (which was where I wanted to go) so I ended up in an adjacent team, working on things I was less familiar with, still a reasonably good fit.

The first 18 months after returning to work were the most difficult. Medication difficulties, difficulties coping with how I saw myself, how I felt others saw me, the feeling that my career would be slowed down or come to a halt, fear over losing my job and eventually ending up homeless, concerns over reduced life expectancy, etc. Job performance definitely suffered, especially the first 6-12 months. Nobody told me directly I was close to a PIP, but I definitely got the worst review I had ever had for that period ("Needs Improvement" sort of rating overall).

I did talk therapy weekly for ~3-4 years after the initial diagnosis. It helped a lot. If nothing else it made me realize I needed something outside of work that I cared about to help reduce the emotional ups-and-downs that came with work going well versus not (I had been extremely successful before the diagnosis, effectively getting promoted five times in five years).

To your questions: My current manager knows, but that's because I knew him before I was reporting to him and had talked to him about it at some point. My employer knows that I am in some kind of protected class because they sent a generic thing to everyone at the company at some point asking people if they were. As to accommodations, in the role before my current one I felt that I was very distracted in the office due to all the noise, so my direct manager let me work from home more than was "allowed" by upper management. I'm now in a role where that isn't possible, but at the same time I'm in a less noisy environment and feel like I'm dealing with the noise better.

Advice?

If you feel like you're really stable and really good at managing moods, etc., I think you'll probably do just fine. If you're not, work on that. Maintain a very stable sleep schedule, make sure you maintain relationships outside of work and make those a substantial focus, don't get too caught up in work or let your emotions get pulled all over the place based on what's going on at work. Take vacations when you have the time. Don't get too worried about whether your career will move as fast as others. I've had to step back a few times over the years since the diagnosis, and yes I think my career has moved more slowly than it could have, but I've come to terms with that.

Hope that helps. Feel free to ask follow-on questions and I'll try to answer.
Even if that happened, it would only erase the gains of 2 years.
Banning or severely taxing homes which aren't occupied by the owner means banning or severely taxing homes which are occupied by someone other than the owner... aka. rentals.

Sure, you can make rental accommodation illegal if you want your community to consist solely of homeowners -- some HOAs do exactly this -- but it's the most vulnerable who will suffer under such a policy.
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If it's true, is it pretentious?
Pretty sure he is referring to climate change. This kind of quasi-riddle is how the climate change message is usually delivered, for whatever reason.

Besides, a nuclear attack would already be covered under the much larger war mentioned, which is something that was deemed less concerning.
Bike Friday is what my friend, Bikeshop Bill, recommended when I called him for advice on folding bikes...he'd told about his father touring Europe on a folding bike.

I gave them a serious look and realized they weren't for me because I am not a cyclist. For me, a bike is a tool which isn't to say Bike Friday bikes aren't tools, but rather that looking at Bike Friday made it clear that a Brompton would be a better tool for me...e.g. it has a bell out of the box and doesn't anticipate I own a specialized wardrobe.
This is basically hosted redis, it looks like. It's like any other hosted db. It means they take care of monitoring, backups, configuration, fixing stuff that goes wrong, etc. RDS is the same idea and people spend a fortune on it.
I kind of disagree, given that I wrote a comment that perhaps questioned the project somewhat. A lot of comments are pretty positive, at least of the time of this writing. I started out with "cool project". Even if I use node every day like yourself the startup time for npm commands is so fast compared to other stuff I use like transpiling typescript to javascript and the worst offender of all: Babel.

The babel transpiling takes about 5 seconds compared to the 200ms of npm scripts startup time. Since I haven't felt this pain of npm startup times myself as a pain I must be able to state that without being interpreted as negative, don't you agree?

Of course, speed increases are positive over all but this requires me to install something just to gain 200ms from whenever I run an npm command which isn't that often. I am sure there's a lot of people out there who this benefits a lot but I haven't personally experienced this is my years of doing node development.
Similar boat. I wanted a line of credit just to have it. With considerable equity in the house and savings and stock that exceeded the credit amount and with a high paying job and with excellent credit, the bank rejected my application. Apparently because I said I might use it for repairs at some point. Ffs.
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Having to be afraid of losing your job after making one honest mistake is such a foreign concept to me, being from Norway. Speaking very generally, only the most illoyal of behavior towards your employer is grounds for immediate dismissal, such as stealing from the till.

Generally, an employer needs to document their reasons for wanting to fire a worker, and something like them not working fast enough is not reason enough on its own. Having a dialogue between employee and employer is very important, such that the employee gets a chance to change and improve if they wish.

The difference between how Norway and the US do everything from employment, to pension and workers rights is so vastly different. I would love to hear what HN thinks about this.
GitHub/Lab are for more than just code repo
Is there a consensus that flipping is rampant these days?

I follow a couple of markets pretty closely and hardly see any houses that are bought and sold within a short time.
That’s not exactly the right way to think about it. In HDL, you’re writing an algorithm, but the algorithm produces a physical device, not a computation.

It’s like programming a machine to make a watch. At the end you have a watch. Would you say the gears execute in parallel while it measures time?

In some sense it’s right, but in another it’s missing the point.
I'm guessing based on the information in page they plan to set up DAO and issue a token. I'm guessing users and developers can then buy-in, with tokens flowing to projects based on usage as determined by the graph stored on the blockchain.

At the core if you strip away the "web 3.0" language then it's a decent idea. There is a lot of devil in the detail so it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
I find it telling you need to distinguish - I do think interface has come to mean closer to "contract".
There are advantages to both, as well as using existing blockchains (Ie. Bitcoin) to record small amounts of information via Merkle Trees.

Fun fact: The oldest blockchain pre-dates bitcoin....and started in the 1990's in the New York Times classified via a daily recorded hash value!

https://crypto.news/finding-the-oldest-blockchain-in-the-new...
Have you considered that we are in the midst of an unprecedented 'goods and services" supply shock and that will drive inflation 100x more than interest rates (which haven't shown any correlation to inflation since the 80's)?
> I’m not sure at what organization that is true. My company lives out of GitHub and Jira and I’ve hardly noticed the three month surge

These have been minor inconveniences for us - at worst. Most of the time it simply means people jump to something else then come back later in the day.

Failing tests and PR feedback cycles are more of a blocker to our team than these outages.
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>...unpredictable dictators posing a nuclear threat

I'm sorry to say that it makes the most sense to simply not worry about it, unless it's your job to.

We tend to forget that dictatorship is the default human civilization. It also happens to be the "normal" structure of the family, even in liberal countries, for the simple reason that kids are, by definition, incompetent. So I'm not sure if it makes sense to "stamp out dictatorship" when so many people legitimately want to live under one. So that leaves getting rid of nukes - a problem most of us assumed would solve itself over time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This backsliding is worrisome, but the path to success remains the same. But when the next Soviet Union falls, we should pursue denuclearification much much more seriously.
Well, just as on Earth, there are cases where pavement for wheeled vehicles makes sense and cases where trains on tracks makes sense. But I expect rail will be more widely deployed on Mars since typical travel speeds will be higher on account of the thinner atmosphere. Going 300 mph by rail would be a snap, but you'd need awfully smooth and wide pavement, and a steady hand, to drive that fast on Mars. And going significantly faster will require levitation, where there isn't any advantage to not using a track.
My point was not that smartphones aren't great. My point was that the whole "killer app" discussion is broken.

If you took away my smartphone today, I'd be pretty upset. It'd leave a whole of convenience in my life. But I'd ultimately adapt and continue living largely the same way I'm living now.

If you took away my PC today, my career would be over. I'd have to find a whole new way to live.

"Killer app" discussions tend to devolve into essentialism arguments. What's essential to one person is a frivoloty to others. But I don't think any of that matters. Game consoles are clearly not essential, yet they're big business. Some people gotta have a huge TV in their living room with cable and all the streaming services, others are fine just watching DVDs, still others are fine with no TV. Yet nobody is arguing that game consoles or TVs shouldn't exist just because they aren't universally appealing. So why VR? What is it about VR that evokes these responses "it's dead/dying/should die?"
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SO are you saying that all niche eventually become mainstream products? I hate to disappoint you, but most niche products remain niche products. The exception you took is far from being the rule.
VHDL springs off of Ada (not an acronym, no need to shout or to bring in the Americans with Disabilities Act into a discussion on programming) syntax, but not its semantics (or, its not a continuation of Ada semantics, it does borrow some of them).

PL/SQL (I've never used it) also borrows from Ada's syntax, but not its semantics in any comprehensive sense. This sort of thing was deliberate, similar to how Verilog borrows from C's syntax, or Java apes C's syntax, or JavaScript apes Java's (and C, indirectly). The goal was to extend something familiar with new semantics.
It works also in Italian and probably in Dutch, French, Swedish, Portuguese and Catalanl; the root is from Latin praesentāre (“to show”), common to all these languages (and others).
We have circled back to robber barons running things and hoarding wealth again
There were extensive legal proceedings post WWII here, the only way people got away with stuff like that is if they fled abroad, even well into the 80's collaborators and other people that betrayed the local population were discovered and tried and convicted.

But this sort of 'posthumous trial by media' is revolting in its own right, especially because the instigators are simply trying to make a buck off the back of Anne Frank (they're not the first and likely won't be the last).
Too dumb though. Can I just get a phone that calls, texts, plays music, a good camera, and has navigation. Maybe even a web browser. But absolutely no App Store, games, or social media.
I'm reminded of this:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/12/09/simplicity/
You could have a look at what Eckhart Tolle had to say on the subject and take it from there.

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life."

Bear in mind that Kung Fu Panda is to philosophy is what Kung Fu Panda is to martial arts.
A quick look through Newegg shows 4 AMD AM4 motherboards (B550 and X570) with Thunderbolt (2 TB3, 2 TB4). None have two DP inputs. I didn't see any Intel (LG1200) with two inputs either.

Would you use a Maple Ridge (TB4) card instead of Titan Ridge?

I am impressed with Apple's ability to seamlessly handle all of these scenarios. Their product integration really does create a great experience within their ecosystem. I didn't expect my setup to work perfectly but I'm happy it gets most of the way there. I'm not pulling the trigger on Apple Studio Display but I'll be watching progress to see if it works.

My use case is an outlier, I guess: I'm in the Apple ecosystem for all personal stuff but use a Dell Latitude for work (TB3, GPU chokes on 5k but technically works) and have a beefy Windows desktop for gaming and personal development work in WSL. I love the idea of just plugging a single cable into whatever system I'm using at that moment.
Open Banking regulation has very little impact on how the collected data will then be used.

A separate regulation - the GDPR - would cover that but raising a complaint is very difficult and a complaint would involve the subject being aware of their data being misused; you can't complain about something you don't see.

My worry about Open Banking is that it makes it much easier for companies to collect a lot more data and would normalize the practice even more.

Currently there's already no reason for a credit check to be required for a lot of services such as internet or phone service (those aren't lending any money and can cut off the service in case of non-payment), but at least a credit check gives them very little personal data compared to Open Banking - I'd rather not have to give them even more data.
I don't think this mentions anything about housing or mortgages. I think it's a bit simpler than this. Higher income people currently already have their basic needs met and have a good amount saved up for eventual retirement. When people's current needs are met, they think about the future, the economy affects it. Lower income people are currently struggling to make ends meet. You'd already be worrying about it everyday, the economy getting worse basically feels like noise that you don't have time to add to your worries.
Stock market reacts more to the psychology of investors, than to fundamentals.
In a bull market, if existing stock holders don't sell, and some doctor in TN will offer 10 cents more for a stock, then the valuation goes up by .10 times multiplied by all existing shares. In such a market, marginal buyers can pump the market, as long as the existing holders don't sell--this is psychology.
I run an Ethereum node at home just fine. There’s nothing centralized about Ethereum.
Not necessarily. Self-hosted services are protected by company firewall / VPN. They can setup very restrictive network access. They don't have the same level of risks as public services like GitHub or GitLab.
I ultimately decided to scrape directly from other Instagram feeds […]

I stopped reading, right there.
You can place your emergency fund in I-Bonds over several years. You can buy $10k max a year, and withdraw with a 3 month interest penalty after a year. Right now the rate is 7.6% I believe for the first 6 months. It should protect that money from inflation.
I worry about my friends and relatives who are paying enormously inflated costs for the big three (housing, food and transportation).

How does anyone think anyone except those of us making high wages can make it? People are treading water at this point.
Memory limits weren't fundamental problems with video games. They were temporary limitations.

My point is not that you cannot make fun games in VR. you can, and beat saber is very fun. But you can only have so many beat sabers.
Note that some algorithms (Rivest's time lock puzzles[0] come to mind) don't have obvious equivalents for elliptic curves, so it's still important to be able to generate good RSA keys.

[0]https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv19f.pdf Essentially, you use some high iteration count of the Blum Blum Shub pseudorandom number generator to encrypt some data. If you know the factorization of your modulus, you can randomly seek very far ahead in the Blum Blum Shub output. Others that don't know the factorization will need to sequentially generate random numbers from the known starting seed for several years to find the pseudorandom output needed to decrypt the message. Blum Blum Shub parallelizes very very poorly if the modulus factorization isn't known. Very well financed adversaries can use gallium arsenide/strained silicon on saphire ASICs, etc. to get constant factor speed-ups over a regular desktop machine, but one can make good educated upper limit guesses on these advantages.
With Platform as a Service (PaaS) you are paying a premium for isolating the problem to an individual component which is down. You can either spend a few hours going through the logs or have PaaS vendor let you know that problem is not at their end so that you can spend time isolating the issue.
That Columbus’ Egg might’ve been useful 16 years ago. But given it didn’t occur to me at the time, I suspect it also won’t occur to most who actually need it — people who are in actual poverty and not just cheapskates like I was.
> Also, dissing Chinese-made MP3 players

Fair point, but I was using it as a short-hand for saying "cheaply-made Chinese junk" -- the kind of fly-by-night companies that anyone who has tried to buy stuff on Amazon in the past few years is now familiar with.

Of course quality stuff is also made in China, and I was not referring to that.
Fair criticism, but wouldn't you be installing the Flatpak versions of those apps anyway? I get the loss of the distro-provided builds but in abstract I can't find some fundamental reason distros can't drop packages from their repos.
Apache prefork had that since forever. Seems just a garbage collect type pattern.
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Glad to never have really used scripts in package.json, just bash scripts directly calling `./node_modules/.bin/whatever`
What is with this kind of low-quality forum fodder making it to the front page? Just asking a general question about something that can't possibly be known? Who is this of interest to?

Hey everyone, what's your opinion about how this years crop season will go in northern Texas?
> To avoid collapse of the bond market the fed was the only one who could step in and print money to buy assets. It's the right thing to do. Nobody is saying they were wrong to do this.

I argue it’s not the right thing. I agree that stepping in is necessary SOMETIMES and at reasonable scale. The feds job isn’t to prop up the stock market.

Printing money greatly benefits the rich, who own all the assets. Low income individuals have their buying power destroyed as the US dollar becomes Monopoly money.

Why have we needed 13 years/5 rounds of QE? It’s enabled rampant equities/housing speculation while engorging wealth inequality.

The only explanation I can think of is our insane national debt. It’s such an easy solution to inflate all the debt away. American monetary policy has been straight irresponsible.
We were actually talking about implementing this last week. Not for GitHub but for slack as it seems to have issues once a month or so.
I agree about the movement. I have a lot of fun playing on my quest 2. Fortunately I don’t have any problem with motion sickness so i can turn on joystick movement because it’s better to me than the teleporting but still kind of weird.

One cool thing I’m looking forward to is house scale be games. I’m perfectly fine with the constraints those impose due to being able to just walk around
The pricing absolutely blows Heroku away here across the spectrum…

Heroku: $15/mo = 50Mb memory + 40 connections

Render: $10/mo = 250Mb memory + 500 connections

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Heroku $750/mo = 7Gb memory + 10k connections

Render $250/mo = 10Gb memory + 10k connections
Emergency fund should always be first but adjusted for your age and obviously cost of living. No kids and living with parents? Sure, invest anything you make.
Except that the software developers hosting is also a much, much bigger target and you generally do not have any real control over how often they are patching either.
I like your comment and its practical optimism. I hope you're right about disinformation innoculation; the science works out because it's hard to stay in emotional disequilibrium for so long! And it really does take long time (years) to get a handle on the troll phenomena and your reaction to it, so perhaps these are the growing pains of a bouncing baby information society!
Again?! Jeez. I wish I had customers this tolerant.
> I have worked in the VR industry full time for the last 5 years

Maybe this results in having a distorted vision of what VR represents for people out there. Just like everyone else who works on a specific business for a long time.
But who can host a website? I would be wary of hosting something that isn’t a 100% static site, out of fear of the amount of attention maintenance would take.

Also, quite a few of the non-profits behind the projects you mentioned have multi-million dollar budgets that they can use to administer their git instance, if needed. I don’t think “if they can do it, you can” is a strong argument for those.
>a few white crypto bros happy.

I agree with most of the arguments within this write up but the racism in the final line is not very cool.
Once you have something you worry about losing it.

My dads good friend was a playboy, after getting out of Vietnam he went hippie, partied hard, lived fast. Then he hit the stock jackpot, riding Intel and Microsoft, etc in the 80s and 90s and cashing out with ~$20M.

Then he retired, moved to a golf course in South Carolina and turned into an ardent conservative defender of traditional values.

I tell the story as it illustrates the transformation - face death and risk at war, come back and embrace life, accumulate wealth and return to fear… guilt about what you have been able to do, fear of losing what you have.

We’re all animals at the end of the day, it’s difficult for us humans to process what life hands to us sometimes, good and bad. Deep down, the insecure business guy knows that he is mortal, and knows that a misstep can be fatal.
A successful experiment can also support a prediction. I.e., "using this model, we predict that a bagel with blueberry cream cheese will remain on the counter for 94+/-4 seconds before disappearing." The team will then release the data from their experiment, which either supports or disproves a model.

This kind of work is critical to refining theories and highlighting/fill gaps in knowledge.