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> They could tell you they’re fine to be a reference, but when someone calls they could say bad things. They could refuse to confirm your employment to a background investigator. They could call your new company and tell them you were fired for fraud.

These things are almost certainly illegal (IANAL) and could open up a firm employing such tactics to significant legal liability. In many larger companies, internal policies dictate that reference checks should only be answered with confirmation of employment dates and nothing else, due to the possibility of lawsuits.

The biggest risk of being honest in a way that reflects negatively on your employer in an exit interview is burning a bridge. This is a fairly minimal risk if the exit interview is with HR, though you maybe flagged as a potential trouble-maker or something.

I worked with a guy once who hated video calls. They made him nervous, and he felt strongly in async communication (inspired heavily by Basecamp's literature). The rest of the team/company was more open to video calls alongside written communication, and so he found a job elsewhere. In his exit interview, he brought this up as a problem, and so even though we didn't abandon synchronous calls, we had a bit more insight into the invariants in our team culture that would help us when hiring as well as when communicating internally.
Depends. Apple products are often not upgradable, but they are reliable. My 2015 Macbook Pro was my daily driver for 7 years and I just now replaced it with a Macbook Air that I will probably use for 7 more years. I only replaced it because it was outdated in terms of processor speed. Most laptops aren't all that upgradable to begin with, so I think the tradeoff makes sense for laptop computers and devices.

For desktop computers I don't think that same equation makes sense. If you need desktop power you have specific requirements and probably have specific peripherals that you use. You will want to always have the fastest hardware and so you want as much flexibility as possible. Apple doesn't provide this so the only people who tend to use Apple desktops are creative professionals where MacOS has some advantages and Apple hardware is always correctly calibrated out of the box.
"The city lost a motion to get the lawsuit thrown out and turned to Bird for help with the case. In the failed motion, lawyers for the city argued the city did not know about the broken pavement or fig tree, that Peña accelerated down the hill (which Peña denies), that he had consumed a “large amount of cognac” the night before, that he was over the scooter weight limit by 15 pounds and was wearing a backpack."

The night before.... for the cognac side. Not that I agree with the victim, but "drinking large amounts of cognac" needs context of "when".
Blaze [0] looks promising. There was a little discussion here [1] about it's comparison and performance, especially for small sizes.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/src/master/

[1] https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/issues/266/blaze-vs-ei...
2022 QuIPS Prize for quines and self-replicating programs
I don't think that article says what you think it says.

The D-K effect is: "The Dunning-Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability." That is exactly what the parent described, and is an empirically identified behavior. The criticisms are aimed mostly at the "meta-cognitive" and bias-based explanations for the behavior.
I looove flow typing / type narrowing. HTDP taught how to think through it (data type narrowing / checking for and handling different types) while building functions. TypeScript let's me enforce the same process with intellisense warning me whenever I get off track. It's been a joy to see how quickly and solidly the code stacks up.
Preston-Werner is an investor in Netlify, RedwoodJS was built with Netlify in mind (though it supports others hosting companies but not to the same extend).

Netlify is competing with Vercel that has Next.js. So basically RedwoodJS was built to sell more Netlify hosting plans the same way Next.js was for Vercel. It is therefore safe to say that RedwoodJS will continue to exist as long as Netlify is a thing... unless Next.js completely owns the market and RedwoodJS's reason to exist makes no sense because of too few users.
You're talking about a different thing, compression bitrate and artifact.

Take a 4k video, encode it into 320p, then encode that into 1080p. For the matter of what they are discussing, your video file will be true 1080p. For the matter of what you are discussing, that video will be horribly blurry and full of artifacts.
All credible and verified evidence points to your skepticism being badly misplaced. In this case, we have satellite photos of the Russians from March 10th through March 31st having dug a large at mass grave site. Reuters journalists later confirmed seeing dead civilians along the roads of Bucha, some with their hands tied behind their backs and bullet wounds to the head being shot at close range. After the Russian's original shock and awe failed, they have restored to their tried and true strategy to terrorize, demoralize, and depopulate key cities in Ukraine (a strategy they've used in multiple wars including this one), which is how the Russians are attempting to "profiteer" from mass civilian slaughter.

https://www.newsweek.com/bucha-massacre-images-show-mass-gra...
I didn't discuss the article. I believe I scoped my comment to the "infographic" in the first line, and closed with "But I doubt this is what the graphic is suggesting either."

I also shared the same information as your 2nd (aside: sound doesn't require air, as bone conduction headphones or scuba diving demonstrate, does require "not vacuum") and 3rd paragraph, and made the same point as in your close.

So I agree with you, which is why I objected to the graphic.
I hate Apr 1 articles.
I really enjoyed Gleick’s biography of Newton, which spends a lot of time on both his math and physics work that panned out, and his alchemical work that didn’t.

Newton is the father of modern physics to us because we have perspective that he lacked. At the time he was working—in the moment—it wasn’t yet clear how the universe worked.
The ones that would allow me to ask questions and get responses like I’m a fresher at university rather than like I mistook Star Trek for a documentary.

I absolutely understand not having time for the later — I don’t have time for politicians and pundits who mistake fiction for fact in computer science — but it does mean I can’t use Physics Stack Exchange to learn stuff by asking questions because my questions are, essentially, too dumb.
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That’s a parody account. Not that anyone can tell the difference at this point.
I'm curious why the author's clients tend to fit my demographic: "Many of them are retired or near retirement, typically with a background in engineering or a related industry. All of them are men."

I'm a male engineer in my 40s, and I've recently developed an interest in trying to understand quantum mechanics. I wonder if people like me, seeing the arc of our lives curving closer to its end, develop a natural curiosity about How It All Works/What It All Means.
> HN was designed to be independent of YC interests.

lol come on
BTW I kinda love your quantum planning approach. It's honest and accurate! If you're 50/50 on going to something, be transparent and tell others that. If they don't like it, that's on them, not you.
Thanks for this comment. It is very informative. If you have any other parenting advice, please do share.
The ‘real outlier’ in the crossword puzzle-making community
bird indemnified the city here-- they voluntarily adopted the cities legal liability, in some complex negotiation between their expert attorneys.
The trick is to be able to route users traffic to different deployments. You can run two versions of your application concurrently, and have a dial to progressively shift traffic to the new version, as soon as you notice anything wrong you shift it back to the previous version which wasn't stopped at all.

After 100% of the traffic is in the new version, and no customer complaints for 1h then you can shut down the old version.

Google App Engine had all of this at least 5 or 6 years ago.
> Being true to yourself is worth more than any of his purported wins

Being true to yourself is not the same as saying what you think. I might think that my coworker is ugly, but I don't need to say it. I also might think that salary is too high. Not everything needs to be said.

> Be your own merit, and don't rely on others for references or goodwill

Sure, I'll try that next time when I'm looking for a job and they ask for references. I'm sure it will work out great!
I would say it depends on the context. Are you in a profession with an ethical obligation and an oath to the public like a doctor, engineer, or lawyer? Then I think you have an obligation to say something regardless of downside. Those aren't "jobs", they are "professions" because they profess an oath that should be more than mere words.
Yeah, but most people cannot take constructive criticism, whether they think of themselves as being professional or not. They might put on a good face but are internally seething that someone dared critique them. It's a difficult line and if you need to give that sort of feedback to someone because you are actively working together, that's one thing. People can be professional, as you say, and can work through it.

But if you are leaving a company, that's even less of a reason for the person you're critiquing to listen to what you are saying (b/c they can just write it off as someone who has sour grapes or was leaving anyway), and even more of an opportunity to just create unnecessary animosity. And that professionalism that becomes a necessity when the person is still a coworker can disappear completely.
I've fiddled around with all sorts of music programs for decades, and never found anything that really stuck with me. One of my favorite tools has been Jasuto, a software modular synth, but making music with iPads doesn't sit right with me.

Looking to get more focused on music making a couple years ago, I attended the Toronto Sound Festival, where there was a lot of modular synth hardware to checkout. I didn't find anything that really felt right for me, so I set out on creating my own electroacoustic instrument and my own ways of making music. That's led to releasing two albums on Bandcamp (https://stefanpowell.bandcamp.com), and I've done a couple video demos for the local synth enthusiasts.(https://youtu.be/ds2I0QujzO0)

I record live sets directly into Ardour, trim, fade, and use FabFilter plug-ins for EQ and Limiting.

I've recently had a much more stage ready version of my instrument built by a professional luthier, and I hope to start playing some live gigs with it soon.
This is a very off take and not what I was talking about at all. It can be _fun_ to do ridiculous things without purpose (and a great stress reliever) which is reason enough for a project to exist but the article paints it as being a _visual upgrade_ and an improvement to the game. It's not, for the reasons stated, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the project or development needing to be done in a way that it would be.

Separate the purpose of the project from its presentation in the article to reapply these thoughts towards the presentation in the article and I think we'd be on the same page though.
I think this is already implemented both in Linux and in Windows; you can tell the OS which RAM ranges are defective.

Doing this from the chip side is not there yet, apparently. I wonder when will this be included in the DRAM feature list, if ever. I suspect that detecting defects from the RAM side is not trivial.
>And yet, as I said, developed nations require a military for defence. The world is not a nice place, as Russia is current proving, and modern conflicts cannot be fought successfully with poor quality untrained troops recruited on the fly for a particular conflict, where those signing up know what they are going to be doing in advance. Developed nations therefore need a well trained standing army.

Seriously, how do people miss this. The US Military is currently advising the Ukrainian armed forces while Germany has their thumb up their ass spending billions on Russian hydrocarbons. Unfortunately conscientious objection only works in the world we all wished we lived in. Somebody has to hold the guns and spend the money on this shit.
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> Go's interfaces are a decent 80/20 answer. You pay for them, you opt in, and they sit on type of the base type system, they aren't the primitive the entire type system is based on

That's interesting because I see them as the exact opposite. You're not saving or gaining anything of significance, and it's just increasing confusion.

Penny wise, pound foolish, if you will.
> Often there won't be a clear answer to why you're blacklisted. If Gmail sends your stuff to the spam box, good luck getting Google to tell you why.

Yeah, they make it hard to get an email address semi-anonymously and then when you create your own server, they block you for "spam"
on the other hand, the curvature of space can be described visually (famous gravity well example)
I agree with the suspicions, but I disagree with the conclusions.

If you want to give feedback in an exit interview, you should; BUT NEVER GIVE FEEDBACK IN ANGER! If you think you're going to be angry in the exit interview, don't give feedback. If you're angry at a coworker, don't give them feedback in that moment.

If you want to give feedback to a manager, probably don't do that! Asking questions can be good. Hypothetical scenarios can help. It might make you angry that you can't be direct with feedback to a manager, but that is generally part of the bargain.

So how to handle an exit interview?

Never accuse. You'll never know the whole situation.

Describe your own experience. It may be painful, but you can speak truthfully about your own experience.

Describe how your experience could have been better, without accusation.
> Executives != smart people

Ok, so by that very definition, what does that make Elon Musk as a Chief EXECUTIVE Officer...
YMMV depending on the place.

When I had an ACL replacement I spent a lot of time struggling on one-legged bosu ball balancing and doing ladder drills bouncing off the good and bad legs.
If you fire someone, don't let them hang around a month to finish code
Using Virtual Machines on Apple Silicon (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra) (2022)
It was actually a beautiful vignette, though seeing it pop up on my main screen while I was on a date was a bit of a weird experience.
Nice review, thank you!
I find Laravel (with something like livewire or Unpoly) quite easy, well documented and battle tested. Of everything I've tried in my life this is the best "one man army" stack I've seen.
For years every time I saw a forsythia bush flowering in the spring I would think of Jude Law's disaster of a character in Contagion, complete with hearing his lisp in my head.

Then Covid happened, and I discovered that movie was so accurate that I'm not sure I have the stomach to watch it again.
I see your point, and even agree that "coddled 20-somethings" are a real and worrying phenomenon. Where I respectfully disagree is with the idea that the ascetic, protestant-work-ethic, hard-truth-telling, pull-yourself-together rhetoric is helpful to them. Even Jordan Peterson, who is arguably the epitome of that category, explicitly recognizes that the way forward is through incremental baby-steps. To wit: he (along with essentially every clinical psychologist) recommends aiming for small victories (make your bed, get your car's oil changed, etc.) and rewarding oneself, say, with a cup of coffee on the way home.

It's in this sense that I think hardlining oneself is counter-productive. Worse, I think it's even more counterproductive for coddled youth. The way to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps is gently, or at least, compassionately.
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You can say all you want about “be yourself” and “honesty is the best policy” but that doesn’t mean the company across the table from you is going to be a good actor.

You’re placing a lot of faith on the company here, and in my experience people in companies will absolutely do things like what the author listed and thinking that they won’t is just naive.

I’ve personally experienced having a former boss who’s friends with your current boss and what that can do to your reputation.

spoiler alert: even in a situation where there wasn’t a lot of bad blood, it meant a perceptible negative change towards me.
Chemists cook up way to remove microplastics using okra
How can they add a device to your AppleID? Don’t they need your user/pass etc..?
Data visualization experiments with Svelte.js and Three.js
> A judge who ruled against the city when it asked that the lawsuit be tossed wrote in her order that no forensically defensible blood alcohol test had been administered. Avina told me that two toxicologists agreed that while cannabis may have shown up in Peña’s urine, there was no way to tell when it was ingested. (Cannabis can be detected long after its effect fades.)

Sounds like its he-said-she-said about the blood alcohol test.

And metabolite tests for cannabis ingestion are useless for determining intoxication.

So it sounds like there's no proof he was drunk and/or high at all.

At the same time as a 50 year old GenXer I see all these "kids" (which is probably under-30 these days for me) riding around on various e-contraptions without helmets and I mutter various old-person shit to myself about how they're going to crack their head open doing that.

The problem is though that the legal machinations here that the scooter company wants to apply are horrible and indemnify them against anything, even if the person was otherwise being careful and the scooter just falls apart due to poor design and maintenance.

There's no common sense to be found anywhere here as far as I can see.
It was well deserved in my experience. Toward the end of my deployment, statistically the most dangerous period due to complacency setting in, we had to take over an AO that the Army had given to reservists for a year. They'd been reporting for months that all was quite, so we were looking forward to an uneventful weeklong left-seat/right-seat transition. They no joke met us going the other way as our convoy moved into the old British airfield they were using as a FOB, and we soon found out why they were so desperate to put distance between us and themselves: everything that could be wrong was wrong. Total indian country, their patrol routes got tighter and tighter as they'd just never return to an area they got attacked, they hadn't left the FOB for a month. Piles of unmarked UXO, serialized weapons hidden in elephant grass... a total nightmare. The first few days we got a lot of direct fire engagement on patrol, which NEVER happened - but the locals quickly figured out that, unlike Army reservists, infantry Marines take that sort of thing personally - and they fell back to the familiar coordinated IED attacks.
I doubt it. Micro-service is a pretty specific term.
Yeah. Big part of this is cultural. US is "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

Many other parts of the world value honor and honesty more. I'm from one of those parts. In this case, it's a prisoner's dilemma. Honesty doesn't benefit you, but if everyone's honest, it benefits everyone. Exit interview, it doesn't hurt too much either. It's a safe time to be honest.

Having been on the other side of the table, if your manager is professional -- and most managers are -- it's a numbers game. The odds of an exit interview having an impact are close to zero. It's one person's issue. That doesn't make it invalid -- if you have a 30 minute longer commute to the new office, hate the way we do performance evaluations, or want growth paths into product management, you've got a valid reason to leave.

If five people hate the new location, how we do performance reviews, or don't think they have good internal growth paths, I'll act on that.
I agree, and another commenter said similar. I will say that an exit interview can often be a unique circumstance to raise issues to levels that you may not have the ability to otherwise. For example, most military units have exit interviews where enlisted get a one-on-one with the executive officer. Because of the tightly controlled hierarchy in military organizations, this may be their only chance at a one-on-one exchange with that level. To your point though, flat organizations should have plenty of opportunity before quitting to raise concerns to high levels.
>You can tell them what they are doing well, what they aren't doing well, praise good employees and criticize bad managers.

You can do that over a beer or two with the (ex-)colleagues any time before or after you leave. It's not like you are forced to delete them from the contact list. And if you have managed to build this kind of trust between yourself and another employee, it's always a good idea to keep a connection to them. Ping them a couple times per year, discuss some common topics, and be ready to refer each other if one is looking for a job and the other one has an opening at their company. This is called "networking".

As far as the exit interview goes, the only things it's wise to say there are the same as telling your new employer why you left the previous workplace. "Just wanted to work with X, while they were focusing on Y, so we shook hands and parted". Everyone knows it's bullshit, but it's a test of your ability to de-escalate and avoid conflict, and it is very important.

Oh, and don't underestimate the bad managers either. If they abuse you and you still act professionally (and leave politely), you are just a resource. You are no longer needed, they have no interest in abusing you, they might even give you a neutral reference if anybody asks (although don't count on that). If you personally call out their bullshit in front of other subordinates, they may take it personally, and you really do not want a personal vendetta with someone who's full-time job is to spread gossip and manipulate people.
Regarding to hidden complexity, the complexity is there. You either deal with it yourself or rely on the "magic" of the framework to do it for you. I prefer the latter.
Thanks for this! I've applied based on your recommendation. (I hope you don't mind, under "Why are you interested in this role?" I put that I was referred by sixhobbits on Hacker News. :) I appreciate the opportunity you've shared!