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I always find this interesting, my primary computing device that I do actual work on is Mac (technically I guess my primary is my iPhone or iPad if I go by time but I am not counting that). But I have a Windows computer for gaming and a few Linux machines lingering around.

I constantly find myself frustrated by Windows because I am just used to how Mac operates. I have been using it as my primary compute device since Lion.

However one of the things that I find interesting from the Window management point that I don't see mentioned, touchpad gestures. I cannot use Mac without gestures, even when I am using my laptop as a desktop I use the Magic Trackpad. The few times I have tried to use a mouse... it just feels wrong. I would highly recommend taking a look at this and looking at the window management from this prospective. Because of these gestures I never think I need to snap things because switching windows is a quick swipe and and a click. Then all the other gestures, hot corners, etc.

That being said, I find the same issue with my partner. He has never used a Mac (has an iPhone though) but sometimes he needs to do something quick so grabs my laptop. It is fascinating watching him struggle with the trackpad and other basics that to me I don't even think about anymore.
> Health insurance is "tied to employment" because of wage controls that were implemented in WWII.

If that was the only or even dominant reason, then the removal of those controls in 1945 would have seen that tie rapidly unravel, instead, health care has become more, not less, tied to employment since the end of that policy, reinforced by deliberate policy choices like tax policy and explicit mandates.

The historical reason a thing first became common and the reason the thing is still common are often not all the same.
How is it an “extra added expense”? Just because you do not pay for 50% of the premium out of your own pocket directly does not mean you are not paying implicitly. Your employer is obviously counting it in the total cost of employing you, and the figure is given to you in box 12 code DD on your W-2.

You can also buy a platinum level BCBS health plan yourself, without an employer, and get the same low deductible and low oop max.

https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/plans-categories/

It is evident then that health insurance is NOT tied to employment. Buying it with pre tax dollars is tied to the type of employer you have.

NJ has a very nice pdf where you can basically see how much your insurance will cost based on your age and level do coverage you want:

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...
For now.

Once the practice is normalized, there is potential for the concept to be broadened in availability to anyone who wants it. Then we are only one step away from mandating it for certain people or groups.

It’s not like eugenics is a new concept!
> pandemic/disease control

Edit: also a much more significant factor only in densely populated areas
Why is health insurance tied to employer, again? Is there a reason that should continue?
> And a singleton is not an instance?

No, a singleton is a pattern that ensures that there is at most a single instance of a class.
It's hard to find a wife who has any interest marrying someone who makes $1,000-1,500/month when you're in your later 30's, 40's or 50's. It's also hard to support a family on that income.

I know several guys in their late thirties to early fifties who make that much money, would love to get married and have kids, but haven't been able to.

I also know someone who made 65k a year but his wife didn't feel like that was enough to raise children on.
I really think a lot more than 1% of the population where they feel like money is an obstacle that keeps them from having a family.
> CRDTs

definitely. it's one of the primary use-cases we had in mind when developing this, and something we've wanted to offer for a long time. I'm happy to see it popping up early in the comments. We wouldn't offer our own CRDTs, but Realtime can be a nice transport layer for other CRDT implementations (which can then be serialised and persisted to your database)

> YJS powered

I'm also glad to see you're using Yjs - it's very cool. We hope that this implementation can be another Yjs Provider[0] if Kevin is onboard with that. Once that's implemented, you would be able to use it with all the same bindings (i.e. y-monaco).

[0] https://github.com/yjs/yjs#providers
It's wild to me that those managers would have been loyal enough to the company to behave that way toward you when not only were they themselves on the way out the door, but the hypocrisy of it would have been instantly obvious, on a timespan of days, not even months or years.

My impression is that in the modern world, most workers consider their personal network to be of much greater value than any ways that their current employer could reward them for "loyalty". Having been a manager and had people quit on me, my response has always been pretty candid and along the lines of, "yeah, obviously this is tough for me as I've really valued your contributions over the time we've worked together. However, you've been clear about your expectations as far as comp/projects/tech/mentorship/career/whatever, and although we've tried to do what we can, I can understand that the role is no longer a great fit for you, so the decision to move on makes perfect sense. Best wishes with your next gig."
Or double click on the window to perform the original Mac Zoom function.
The only place I've seen this is windows world where /arg and -arg are the same thing. Don't ask me how this came about.
I've heard this many times now: psilocybin and related drugs anecdotally are breakthrough treatments for some patients. Does that mean the "brain gets rewired" or is the experience so profound that it changes the patient's outlook?

Either way it's great for the people that had positive experiences but also sounds scary in general, what if the profound change flips the other way?
Judging by how my cat can disappear and reappear at will all around my place... I wonder if household cats already have that ability.
Or double-clicking the window chrome.
The phrase originated w/ Jim Cramer, it refers to the 5 best performing tech stocks(or what were the best performing at the time). Nothing to do with their impact on the field from a technical perspective, just a business perspective.
spectacle will solve your snapping problems. gives windows / Linux snapping.
At a high level, reduced transaction costs (paradoxically, given Ethereum's reputation for high fees), an inherently global market, and state-of-the-art financial services and property rights management, especially because of the rapid pace of permissionless innovation.
before we developed tools, what would you suggest as a better way to catch a gazelle that can sprint at 50+ mph?
I get where the author is coming from, but I too prefer the cmd-tab to switch between applications, and cmd-backtick to cycle through windows in the application. I do more of the latter than the former.

Neither do I care that much for snapping. What I really prefer is for my windows to be where I left them, and MacOS is pretty good about keeping them that way.
"In summary, macOS does not behave like Windows or Linux out of the box, and it's difficult or impossible to change many of those behaviours."
I have no specific information on this, but in general and in theory:

Isn't this how an incompetent, insincere and desperate company being subjected to a ransom attack would communicate publicly?
> Russia does not want to engage in conflict with a NATO country. If Finland joins NATO then Finland will be at piece for the next century, guaranteed.

Russia has not engaged in conflict with a NATO country, so far. If the stakes are raised high enough, I don't think this will continue to hold.

> Russia has very little reason to invade Finland now, and if Finland joins NATO, it cannot.

I would go so far as to say that if Finland applies to join NATO, they'd have to. That is, if it is truly part of their doctrine that NATO/US is an existential threat to the Russian state.
that is almost cartoonishly nightmarish
So like 90% of the companies?
They may not be as dumb as the US is?
“You can get great hardware and battery life with system76 for instance.”
The build quality of these two platforms is nowhere, and I mean nowhere close.
Apples (heh) and oranges.

I’m rooting for system76, but they have a long way to go.
> but nobody wanted to leave because of the advantages

The cynical approach does seem to lead people to … the places that make them cynical.
Cats are crafty enough to both survive and plan for a post-human landscape, such as climate change, World War III, or supply chain issues driving up cat food prices.
Netflix has contributed a lot to Java micro services, see Eureka and Hystrix.
We just keep running into this same issue indefinitely: the internet is a winner-takes-all mechanism.

I wish things were more like in the physical world, where you might have hundreds or thousands of "etsys". Each having a unique vibe, products on offer, and so on. Each of these individual stores would have a reasonable and stable margin and relatively stable group of customers. They can all co-exist.

No such thing on the internet though. Inevitably you always end up with one place to rule them all. Easy for buyers, no need to browse many websites. Easy for sellers, reach the maximum audience with the least effort.

The model always breaks, and the platform facilitating the exchange turns "evil".

The conclusion is primitive. We're all responsible for this. Consumers always pick convenience over any alternative, and they do buy knock-offs. Buyers will always be attracted to singular platforms, want to pay the lowest fee for the largest reach.

We all want "something for nothing", and this is what we end up with. It is the accumulated outcome of billions of tiny selfish decisions.
True. I can't think of any good reason why AWS limits MFA to one device...seems like a very silly oversight to be honest.
Slowly getting there with https://github.com/celtera/avendish :)
What is truly sad (or scary?) is that most people, even the readers of HN, will shrug and say "So what?" when this information is presented to them. Privacy is dead because of the apathy of the masses.
If I was an alien engineer trying to aim something at a moving planet light years away while also shooting it at that speed and having a huge number of things affect it's trajectory via gravity, I'd make it course-correct during flight.
As a Linux user of 15 years now, i look forward to beeing challenged by using a Mac, since for me energy efficiency is more important than personal comfort.
Tiny meteorite (1.5 feet across) enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up. What is so remarkable about this? Doesn't this happen like every day?
Re: cmd+tab issues, consider trying cmd+space+(first letter or two of the app), followed by cmd+`.

Especially for touch typists, I think it's faster than cmd+tab: doesn't require you to use your mental "app icon classifier", and it's impossible to over/under-shoot the target.

Scales O(N), where N is the number of windows open in the app you're switching to, whereas cmd+tab + cmd+` is O(N) + O(M), where M is the number of apps you have running.
FAANG was created by the TV personality Jim Cramer to talk about high growth tech stocks. At the time Netflix was doubling every year. It was based purely on finance.

It's now been taken over by the tech industry to be shorthand for places that are highly selective in their hiring and tend to work on cutting edge tech at scale.

That being said, the impact of Netflix on tech is pretty big. They pioneered using the cloud to run at massive scale.
Why are we assuming it couldnt course correct?
Historical and tax reasons. It started back in the era of WWII wage controls. It continued to be an okay way to do group insurance without facing major problems with adverse selection. Being able to pay for it with a pre-tax payrolld eduction is the other big reason it thrived.

Given the mandates on insurance there are some reasons it should continue, but they are not really good reasons.
Both. Neurogenesis occurs at the physical layer but there can also be a shift in userland based on your experience.
Has an animal without "grabbing appendages" ever been in space? What did it do?
The main problem is that the majority of software in the Windows and Mac world doesn't come in a "package-manager" format, not really.

For *BSD and Linux, the package manager is great because if you can think of it, it's probably there ready to be installed; as long as it's software like TeX or emacs or vi or something else available in an open-source way.

But stand-alone programs? Not even things like Photoshop, I'm talking something written by someone and you want to install it? That's not as compatible with the Linux method, but Windows and Mac both have standard procedures and installers for them. Snap tries to do something here, but it's a complete joke.

And homebrew (and anything equivalent for WSL?) works pretty well.
or some kind of arthropod and we end up in an Arthur C Clarke novel
That’s actually a big part of the article’s thesis. Were you intending to snark that aptly?
As someone who switches around between primarily Windows and secondarily OSX, and GDM3, I find OSX to have the most intuitive window manager. I don't like apps being maximized, and I feel like I can always intuitively find the window I'm looking for in OSX, just under the active window. I find myself arranging windows in Windows like OSX might arrange them. Maybe Apple is just using a different metaphor. I understand this is very subjective though.

Apple products are supposed to be revered the world over as the pinnacle of design, used by artists, engineers, professionals, and creators.

Is this still really the case? Most of what I hear nowadays is Apple's reputation is that their products are luxury status symbols rather than a tool for creative types, outside of maybe the camera on the iPhone. 10 years ago, you might have seen the coffee shop filled with macbooks, but that's not the case today. What artist is going to afford a $1900 monitor that can only be height adjusted with a $400 upgrade?
"Training wheels" is my favourite description of the macOS GUI!
I'm not a round earther, but I'm also not-a-flat-earther, because there's a lot of baggage that comes with being identified as a flat earther, and I would make an effort to avoid that label.

Sometimes, that effort's enough to be it's own identity.
Agreed it's an important point that fraud is only a fraction of the problem.
... hmmm, makes me want to write a script that looks up 5 files that aren't there in every directory in the system.
You're trading one person who has no accountability to you in particular or the populace in general with a group of people who have at least some meaningful accountability.

That's not an even trade.
All the cool kids say GAMMA now.
Thanks, I've tried a handful of game dev. discords. They are not designed to collect and organize information though, and keeping up with chats is a huge chore.
> There was a time in America a generation or two ago when you could give your all to a company.

The problem with these advice columns is that they aren't saying "don't give your all to a company".

They end up saying "your company is the enemy". The original article that this blog refers to was titled "Exit interviews are a trap", which many pointed out was a gross exaggeration. It assumes that every company performing an exit interview is doing something malicious, which is a ridiculous claim.

Yes, it's possible that some companies somewhere are using exit interviews as some sort of trap to get dirt or leverage over employees, and it's also true that you shouldn't rush in and use it as an opportunity to complain about everyone you hated at the company. However, it's unreasonable to assume that it's a trap and that the company is interested in nothing more than revenge.

That's the problem with these advice blogs. They cater to an idea that managers and HR are "the other", and once someone crosses the line to management or HR, they become evil and incapable of doing anything other than abusing you for no good reason.

We should warn young people about abusive employers, but it's not helpful to teach them that employers are universally malicious.
when people say recognition they are talking about recognition from upper management so they can get promoted and be considered important to the company. While recognition from interns would be encouraging it's not going to get you 'awarded' for your work. So the point of recognizing others is much or less irrelevant if you have no direct reports.
3 of the 4 items that the author mentioned can be solved with using NixOS inside a VM on your mac :)

Inspired by Mitchell Hashimoto's VMWare setup[0]. I setup my own computer in such a way, I now have the best of both worlds. Developing on a linux machine, where I can control everything if I wanted (down to the OS) and the ease of Notes/iMessages whenever I need it.

Window management is a pita because of internal APIs and the fact that Apple doesn't cater to people that actually care about these tools. Check out Yabai[1] which btw requires you to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) if you want to use its full potential.

Instead you can run NixOS and choose your favourite window/tiling manager (i3).

Package manager: I still run Nix but I am not that happy with it. Either I need to spend some more time or look for an alternative. One of the problems is the ability to easily pin older versions.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDMLoWz76U&t=359s&ab_channe...
[1] - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
Haidt makes an excellent observation about the mid-20th century unity being an aberration due to the technology of the time:

> Gurri is no fan of elites or of centralized authority, but he notes a constructive feature of the pre-digital era: a single “mass audience,” all consuming the same content, as if they were all looking into the same gigantic mirror at the reflection of their own society.

Something I think we overlook is that America was more fractious prior to the mid-20th century, but the stakes were lower because our institutions were more distributed and more local. The federal government had a vastly smaller scope back then, but so did nationwide and multinational corporations. Differences in world view are less significant when the bureaucrats and executives with power over your life live nearby instead of in another city and state. Our current structure, with a homogenous federal government and nationwide corporations arose against the backdrop of that unity.

What I see missing from Haidt's analysis is increased federalism and localism as a solution. Aside from maybe California, our individual states remain vastly less fractious than the nation as a whole. Here in Maryland, for example, our Republican governor has an approval rating over 70% in both rural and urban areas. That's not because the state doesn't have ideological diversity--a third of the state voted for Trump. But the extremes are compressed compared to the nation as a whole--Baltimore isn't San Francisco but neither is Carroll County rural Alabama. Not only that, it's hard to get folks in Carroll County worked up about Baltimore they way they get worked up about San Francisco, and vice versa.
The interesting aspect is "interstellar" (=from outside the solar system) instead of just "interplanetary", which would imply an origin within the solar system.

Stuff from outside is a lot rarer.
Open conflict between China and India would indeed be bad ;-)

Russia and Ukraine rank 3rd and 7th, respectively, in the event that's what you were alluding to. Though as exporters their standing is higher.

Based on 2019 FAOSTAT data.

https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC/

Via Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production...
I guess?

System76 makes laptops. They come with their own Linux distribution called PopOS.
Stop arguing.
And loving pet owners will want to note it did not end well for the cat
as well as to ML - Netflix Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize) and Metaflow (https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow)
> Yeah, I'd say yes they definitely do, and this may be a great example. I have definitely seen people express frustration and even anger when flat earther's views are expressed.

How would they do that when what they're saying is clearly false?

> Also, yeah, killing someone or incapacitating them is a great way to stabilize your reality.

How? I don't see how this would solve anything in this situation. It's not a fight over resources...

> Evolution isn't optimizing for intelligence, nor does it really have a "goal" - it may be more accurate to say that what exists because of it is just what is more fit for survival and reproduction. Our unique intelligence seems to also be a very new thing in the broad scope of humanity.

No, I didn't mean evolution had a goal, but the behavior had a goal, like getting the other person to agree or, as you say, stabilizing reality.
Nearly all meteorites are from the asteroid belt -- interstellar origin is the interesting thing here.
Well, yes it is. And it works just fine on the "mom and pop shop" scale. But the whole idea of the post-2008 startups is to "disrupt" the industry by replacing the knowledgeable people with algorithms and minimum wage employees.

So what is the bottom line? Consumers get to enjoy products that are 2x cheaper and 4x worse. Individual makers get priced out and have to join the drone ranks. And the corporate owners of trademarks and algorithms rake in so much cash they don't know where to invest it anymore.

Sadly, this is happening across every sector, and most people seem to be just fine with it.
We probably should keep cats out of space - can't have them spontaneously evolving into Kzinti or something :-D
Sounds like the expensive sound setup should be used to do active noise cancelling around the head part of the bed.
Bootleg game boy games.
I've never used snapping on any OS, but on MacOS I feel the need even less, because the programs seem really really good about remembering my window positions once I have things setup the way I want.
They are discontinuing on prem after 2022 though. What is your plan if not to migrate to their SaaS offering?
This piece is mostly a response to how people here thought the author was too paranoid about being honest in an exit interview. And the answer is unionization?

I 100% agree you should be a mercenary at work. Look out for number 1, HR isn't your friend, etc. But being so paranoid you can't even speak your mind in a nearly zero stakes situation of talking to your company before you leave speaks to a very negative outlook on work that seems honestly exhausting.

And more to point, if you are a good mercenary, unionization only harms you.
What I miss most in macOS is Super + Left and Super + Right to tile windows left and right..
I actually like the command+tab behavior, and miss it when I use Windows.

I'll explain: if you have a lot of windows open, I think it's nice to silo them. When I have ten Firefox windows and six Sublime windows and three iTerm windows, and a few other random applications, it's generally easier to go first to the app I want and then find the window inside it, rather than always having to shuffle through 19 different windows at the top-level.

This is probably a matter of personal preference and habit, and you can make a good case for either behavior. I just don't think macOS' behavior is obviously worse... only different.
> I'd wager 99% of Maven projects run unit tests on build, so I'm not sure the distinction between install-time and run-time is all that meaningful.

Most Java projects don't build their dependencies from source though (unless it's a local project included via gradle/maven). So yes, unit tests run when dependencies are built, but nobody is building dependencies when their web app gets built.