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My family operates virtually entirely on open source software, and we self host most of it. Surveillance capitalism is the new tobbacco and you really can live a rich (and even tech filled!) life without it, I promise. We also won't be giving any kids smartphones. Too many apps literally designed to profit by exploiting the emotions of children.

We will however give them access to all sorts of entertainment their friends won't have access to. They can play with my large collection of mechanical puzzles, or read from our large collection of books. I can teach them to build and fly FPV aircraft, how to solder and make their own electronics, how to pick locks, how to write their own software, compile their own desktop operating system, how to build their own computers, how to build their own electric skateboard, how to setup a digital music player, how to navigate with a map, how to yoyo, do magic tricks, play board and card games, or play with any of the 20+ retro game consoles I have hooked up at any time. Anything they want to learn we will make the time to help them learn.

Parents who say "I don't want my kid to be unpopular, so I will give them a smartphone" represent a mentality I feel is toxic to society IMO. Would you also give a child weed/tobacco/booze to share with their friends to make them cooler too?

If anything, helping a kid grow up with a more diverse and balanced introduction to technology will help them have a perspective few from their generation will have that in turn may offer them significant advantages. Will they eventually learn to make their own money and buy a phone anyway? Probably. They will however have learned to not be dependent on it.

I get by just fine without a phone and I have a rich social life, endless hobbies to keep my mind engaged, and I own and run a b2b company. "I could never give up my phone" is addiction speaking, and knowingly encouraging kids to share in your adult addictions is even worse.
I have no children, but I find this an interesting topic, because I have small cousins and friends with children.
I find it quite disturbing to see the kids online, with their eyes on screen all the time they are not sleeping. It is concerning and it doesn't look healthy, both for their bodies/minds but also for their future. Don't tell me children learn something useful in TikTok, albeit some creative ideas, but in long term, most of it is crap.
I honestly look at these children, and can't quite fathom what their future will be. Hopefully they will pop out/unplug off their drug, but... yeah.
Movies are actually very good at showing a natural mentor relationship. Every Pixar movie has a mentor, often two. For mental development, and emotional. The hero is stuck on something and only gets out of it with the mentor's help. The 7-min Pixar short Piper is IMO the most direct example.
Aha! I had interpreted it as a direct quote. That makes sense.
> From my observation children are increasingly dysfunctional.

Hasn't every generation complained about this? We forget that we were children once too, and pushed at the boundaries as we matured into teens.

This is what children do.
Building a Franken-drone – Iteration 0
"Everything on the internet is false, unless proven otherwise" - Abraham Lincoln.
Huh, yes.
> Especially if it involves writing many short script!

I think a role in DevOps or writing internal Developer Tools (many larger firms would have this role) would be perfect for you, given this preference.
I don't know the parent but people definitely stay longer when recognized, and even more important, they do a better job
There Are No Petrodollars, Plus the Focus Misses the Point
Yes. While it looks like there is no silver bullet for this, this looks like the better approach
It's not trivial for a side-project to start accept payments. You may need to register a company, open bank account, find and set up a payment processor, publish a privacy policy, hire an accountant to handle tax reporting, write code, etc. All doable, but not a "let's push this lever and see if money starts flowing" type of deal.

And it's not a sure thing the money will start to flow. It will definitely not be 250K 1 dollar a month. 99% of users will just go "fine, I'll switch to one of the other 9 still free alternatives".
> When a friend of mine started his first business a couple of years or so ago, and he asked me for advice regarding the choice of operating system for the company service and product, I recommended a specific Linux distribution with a very high level of control, i.e. you need to set everything up yourself (no gui click-click solution)

This is terrible advice. Fiddling with system files in an OS is not their core business, so why would you ever recommend they waste precious business time & effort doing so?

The most important questions to consider when installing an operating system for a business are: Does it run the software I need stably, how much work is it to set up & maintain, and what kind of support can I get/buy?

As for the rest of the article, distro hopping is a great way to "shake out" various operating systems to discover what you like and what you don't like about each. Reading the brochure is not enough; you want to get opinions and advice from various sources (even Reddit) to build a narrowed down list of promising avenues, and then test drive a few until you find one that you can be overall comfortable with. It's a lot like buying a car.

Maybe a distro won't work with the hardware you need to use. Maybe a feature you need is broken or unavailable with no estimated fix date. Maybe it's too bleeding edge and suffers more breakage than you're comfortable with. Maybe the distributed software is too old and updates too slow. Maybe it's too much work to maintain. Maybe it won't let you customize the things you care about.
When I tried it (when it had just freshly come out) I wasn't able to group channels of each bridge in their own space. Perhaps that's changed now as I hid the whole spaces tab when I first tried it and didn't try it again.

Tbh tags were fine, it was just the whole UI around it in Element that was just totally screwy. But the concept itself works ok (though I missed the ability to auto assign them based on the bridge).
What does that mean to you? What do you think he's saying? Since you read the memo carefully and as charitably as you can, and not just scooped a quote from a news article about the memo, you will know that it's in the context of this bullet list:

> I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more. However, to achieve a more equal gender and race representation, Google has created several discriminatory practices:

> ● Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race [5]
● A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates
● Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate
● Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)
● Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]

> These practices are based on false assumptions generated by our biases and can actually increase race and gender tensions. We’re told by senior leadership that what we’re doing is both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left
ideology that can irreparably harm Google.

> [5] Stretch, BOLD, CSSI, Engineering Practicum (to an extent), and several other Google funded internal and external programs are for people with a certain gender or race.
> [6] Instead set Googlegeist OKRs, potentially for certain demographics. We can increase representation at an org level by either making it a better environment for certain groups (which would be seen in survey scores) or discriminating based on a protected status (which is illegal and I’ve seen it done). Increased representation OKRs can incentivize the latter and create zero-sum struggles between orgs.

I'll note, as you no doubt know from your reading of the memo, that your quote has a link that requires a google email to open. I'm not sure what it says.

If you read that carefully and charitably, without mindreading (he "considers" indeed), it reads like a political conservative, and not someone upset about "diversity hires" per se. You can disagree with him. I do, regarding affirmative action, but you cannot, given that quote, draw a conclusion that he thinks women are biologically inferior.

I'm not sure how "We can increase representation at an org level by making it a better environment for certain groups (which would be seen in survey scores)" squares with your notions about the memo.

Ok, I don't think any of that will change your mind about the memo or Damore, so feel free to have the last word.
>I don't know how I would understand my team mates as people

This sounds overly dramatic considering most people are very different in a meeting setup. We didn't need meetings to do this for the majority of our species' existence. Just talk with them, basic empathy.

The way it sounds, you like some meetings because they fulfill X, but X can also be fulfilled in different ways without the downsides of meetings, be it specific meetings or in general. It's those downsides and knowing X can still be satisfied that drives many of us against meetings. Many times, meetings are also subpar or flat-out fail to achieve X because of other circumstances.
Sure. But then you have to argue that John T. Walton provided $18 billion of value to his parents.

And if Sam Walton were taxed at 100% for all wealth over $100 million, so John Walton were only worth $20 million, then would John have provided less value to his parents?

My parents spend several $100,000 on my upbringing. Does that represent my value to my parents?

The children from the world's poorest families also provide value to their parents.

From this I conclude that "obvious value" of evolution and capitalism's "monetary value" aren't the same.
We took away Youtube Kids access after a few days. It's filled with so much very low quality "spam" content. E.g. random indians with thick accents singing to random recordings of them playing with toys and 5k iterations of that for every single kids song imaginable. And that's even excluding the potential of them finding content along the lines of "Elsa Gate".

Youtube-dl is your friend. Download (or pirate) quality content for them to consume offline. Disney streaming is also a no-go these days, not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole.
Sufficiently good compression is necessarily dimensionality reduction. Out of compression AI can be jerryrigged, and out of AI compression can be jerryrigged. This truth may be relevant to the evolutionary history of natural intelligence.
Meta subject but I owned a Fiat Doblo and it was a write off at 35k miles. Never buy one. The things are money sinks. If you want van life buy anything else.
I think main issue is that http://www is commercial and it will not create authentic personalities out of it.
It is driving dopamine in wrong direction.
Today we have great personalities on internet because they are created when internet was not commercial.
Mine perspective is build on music, innovative and authentic personality was never created with exposure to "top pop charts" music.
> I'm curious about this peer group in which failure to have a cellphone results in "complete and utter exclusion".

Well the article in question has the kids blocked from google search.

Such a radical block will almost certainly block everything else that their friends are using.

So, sure, they may not need their own phone, but at ages 10-13, blocking the child from all popular tech makes them more or less unable to join conversations with their peers who are not blocked.
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Let me quote an electrical engineer who thought me about norms: "Always use PDF because it comes accross more real, because it cannot be edited (!)".

This is the perception non-IT-people have of PDF in comparison to e.g. .docx or similar editable formats those people know.
> I've never heard of weather straight up shutting down an entire train station in other countries, especially in a nation's capital.

How about shutting down the entire network? Happens after any snowstorm in the NL.

That being said, it's amazing to have a reliable and fast passenger railroad network, which functions like an intercity metro and reliably and predictably brings you where you want to be in those 363 days out of 365 when there's no snowstorm, or a system failure, or a general strike.
My little tool [1] lets you track replies to your comments, or set up keyword notification.

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I just come here to read discussions. I learn so much just from random people mentioning stuff like "hey I use X and it's really great for Y, much better than Z". I don't care much for the articles themselves, especially if they come from a website whose sole purpose is "writing articles", has paywalls or advertisements, or is terribly designed or implemented with a crapload of JavaScript code whose execution is needed just to show a simple paragraph of text.

Occasionally, I find an interesting article and actually read it, but most of the time such articles come from personal blogs of developers who just wanna write about an interesting thing they learned. Coincidentally, such writers tend to share my love for simplicity and terseness - they contain no ads, no distractions and in most cases no necessary JavaScript code - they just write about the thing they're writing about and don't distract you. The j3s.sh website is a nice example that I could find amongst my bookmarks.
not everyone will pay, but even if 1% pay that's 2.5k$ a month and maybe enough to make it worth it
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30984231
if work life balance is important to you and you already have it at msft, why change? if money > work-life balance than go for it.
You might want to check out The Carpentries (carpentries.org) if you're interested in scientific programming and in teaching for free with good teaching methods.
Bloody hell, that Winnie the Pooh quote got my eyes watering. I see people in the comments questioning whether the story is real but, regardless of that, I do want to compliment this woman's style of writing. It's not overly grim, not saccharine "everything is beautiful". Very matter of fact, very bittersweet.

Cancer is a terrible thing and I hope we beat it one day. I'm glad she at least had the NHS covering her expenses because I cannot imagine how gutting it'd be to deal with the loss of a loved one compounded with debt.

May her last days be as devoid of fear as possible.
You're welcome. Hope it helps you.

> has it affected your interview and interview preparation as well?

No I have my own software co for last 20 years and never had any jobs.

Anyway, I made this app only for myself since I found it incredibly hard to concentrate on reading long articles and books. Before this I couldn't even complete a single book in 1 year. But now I've completed more than 20+ books using this in last year. I have a small stand on which I mount my phone and just let this run like a movie. I think not having the phone in my hand also helps with the reading a lot.
Why do you think children will be more successful at outwitting nefarious companies' behavioural scientists than adults are? It is widely acknowledged that companies are successfully applying methods of grabbing and retaining our attention in order to sell us things, so I'm a bit cynical that children, already not renowned for impulse control, will be any better than adults in ignoring that.
Free tiers are/should be a marketing tactic that gets people comfortable enough with your product that when it comes time to put money down, they put it on your thing rather than the competitor. It's when free tiers don't have a sufficient draw into a paid tier that you run into problems.

Microsoft figured this out relatively early on during their monopoly lawsuit which they cleverly settled by donating a bunch of Microsoft products to schools so that the next generation of the workforce would grow up on Microsoft products and become commercial Microsoft users in the workforce (and I've seen Apple use this same approach since then). What was ostensibly seen as a punishment by the legal system simply entrenched their position further.

And in gaming, there's an entire industry around "free to play" games that make billions of dollars, although I sincerely hope B2B tech doesn't take marketing inspiration from them.
Fixing the entire Super Mario 64 source code for insane N64 performance
It can be decreasing currently, and yet increasing recently. Those aren't contradictory.
This is sarcasm, right? A music genre is categorically toxic? What? They will see TikToks anyway, at latest on the devices of their peers. The only sane course of action is to teach them how to deal with it, not to ignore the consequences of every control-freak-parent we've seen in the last 40 years and cosplay a fantasy-world where those things simply don't exist.
That's not as easy a solution as it appears - the GDPR isn't the only piece of personal data legislation in the world. If your strategy is to keep track of all the places that place responsibilities on you for collecting personal data and reject users from those locations then, you need to be looking at every state in the USA (Californian citizens have a consitutional right to privacy), and many countries across the world have various data protection laws.
Obligatory Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo
Frameworks are not created equal. Some are awful. Some seem awful but are actually great. Some seem great but are pants. Some are just great all round.

Regardless, you say working on such frameworks "seems" bad to you... have you spent like a solid week trying to make something work in one? There is definitely an up-front investment of time, but once over the initial hump, working with a well-designed framework can actually be very liberating, enlightening and enjoyable.

Things I enjoyed in the past include numpy, flask, Django and sklearn (the latter in particular, no offence to any maintainers, seems like a mess but is actually very well designed and thought-through IMO). Things I don't enjoy are Ansible and Pandas, though both look like they're polished and well thought-through. YMMV.
That's what I understood too. Our body measures CO2 levels, and responds to them. CO, on the other hand, goes undetected, but binds hemoglobin, thus shutting us down. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
When my ageing cat was on his last legs, two vets visited our home. I held my cat, they injected him, and left almost immediately (settling the bill at a later date). My cat was 'asleep' quickly in my arms for our family to have a last moment together and then bury him.

I'm not sure why you would want your pet separated from you and in a box to die by itself instead?
Yep. Relative had surgery and was told it was at least buying a few months. Few days later, sorry no it’s growing very fast. 10 days later dead.

By contrast it took several years to kill my mother. Even the last days were long and protracted.

There seems to be a wide range of patterns as far as my own experience goes.
I think you'll be very interested in the "Not Just Bikes" channel as he talks a lot about urban planing. There's a lot of political will and momentum for making living spaces ... livable in Europe. Places like The Netherlands and Denmark in particular.
A video specifically about noise pollution and how European cities are trying to solve it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
Even if it improves the performance of the company? What's more important, to have things orderly, or performant?
Not as of right now, but I could put it on GitHub. It's essentially just a front end for the Gandi.net email management API. Manually editing the alias list gets cumbersome really quickly.
Honestly, in this age where we all have the same culture, experiences, etc - is following along with the crowd a good thing? Is the crowd the best of us, or the worst of us? Are we are herd animal?

Its so easy to go along with whatever is making the headlines. Isn't it better to be that kid who is at least thinking independently, and having the childhood that humans were designed to have.
I am dreading an EV dystopia where all vehicles are going slow enough to create a cacophony from the mandated low-speed sounds.

It would sound like something out of a William Gibson novel.
No, that would be an inherited word (most likely, I didn't look it up).
One event that pissed me off with them: Instead of forwarding an email to SPAM, they simply throw it away instead. Turns out the email was not SPAM (2FA) and I had to go through weeks of support to find out what happened (thank god that you get a human for support but still).

Also I think they are still based in Australia? Would be happy to hear about alternatives.
I still hate it.
It gets in my way every day at work. I love to write small, self-contained, testable units. But our code is peppered with @SpringAnnotations. You can never be sure what’s really going to happen.

Also we don’t upgrade because teammates are afraid of breakage. Because of that, we’re now at five different versions of Spring in our app.

If I had my way, I would rip it all out.
Or that work tracking system they spent all that time and money configuring.
My oldest just got her first smartphone at 11. But it comes with rules. Screentime is limited. The phone does not go up to her room, it stays downstairs. She's allowed to take it out with her only when that makes sense for keeping in touch. No mobile internet (yet). We have open and frank talks about the dangerous sides of the internet and social media. And at 11, she can understand those warnings.
But why is this a Wanderwort? The article describes it as "a word that has spread as a loanword among numerous languages and cultures, especially those that are far away from one another, usually in connection with trade". What you say is just a word that was taken up from German by a couple of neighbouring countries. In that case virtually all words would be like that.
This aside, of course it's a fun story...
I can absolutely comprehend how he feels.

Congratulations for recognizing that it's the best for it to be over. Feel relieved and enjoy the newly gained freedom.
Reminds me of my genius compression algorithm from when I was around 12. Information on the computer is just numbers right? So why not just divide the number by two over and over until its in the single digits. Infinite compression. The only thing left to figure out is how to compress all the remainders from the numbers that aren't divisible by two.

Needless to say, I never could solve that problem.
> Money is fungible.

Which is why wasting it in trying to shoehorn solar or wind which are completely unacceptable as baseload power sources is doomed to failure.

If you think batteries[1] are a solution, you should go buy some batteries, and try to take advantage of wholesale energy price arbitrage between daily oversupply (when energy is ~free) and undersupply (when energy is very, very expensive).

You'll quickly discover why nobody has managed to make a profitable business out of it. The economics of battery storage, compressed air storage, etc, etc are horrible.

[1] Pumped hydro is okay, cost-wise. Unfortunately, the capacity isn't there to meet our energy needs.