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Ask HN: Can I call myself a senior?
Hey guys,

I would like to know which state i’m currently in. I got my bachelors degree last year. I resigned at the end of June. Due to the setup of the study, i’ve got 2 years of part time and almost 4 years of full-time experience in software development.

In my current job, I do ERP-Desktop-Software development with Delphi and MSSQL-Database. Additionally, I do project management, analyze problems and develop solutions together with the customers, support, etc. (It’s a very small company, so the list goes on.) It’s important to note that my employer is extremely happy with the work I’ve done.

In the new job, I would like to do full-stack development on a modern stack. For example JAM, with a proper backend and something like ReactJS on the frontend. In preparation, I learned my last missing basic (CSS). I’m doing so by building a personal forum with nextjs and postgresql.

My question remains whether I can call myself a senior. Of course, I'm missing a lot of experience in the web-dev field. But on the contrary, i learned a lot of the current technologies and how to design and develop software in general already. Like debugging your code, finding errors, etc.

How do I compare to someone who’s done web development for 4-5 years?
How important is the actual language when it comes to applying for a job in another field?
Hmmm, I wonder if it might be a side-effect of people knowing that new things are crap, so might as well have the freshest crap.

On the other hand I was shocked when I heard people use "old movies" to refer to those of the 2000s, so maybe I've lost touch too much with mainstream tastes, and how these might have been altered when only consuming contemporary entertainment.
There is a lot more thought and psychology that goes into notifications than we give them credit for while they are also irritating us to no end. On the other hand I have felt distinctly furious when notifications for my messaging apps fail and I find myself missing messages.
Re. thermal gradients, have you considered plain old mirrors? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace

> 54 metres (177 ft) high and 48 metres (157 ft) wide
> more than 2,500 h/year [sunlight]
> peak power of 3200 kW
> Temperatures above 2,500 °C (4,530 °F)

Sounds like it could be useful as a "default load" inside an otherwise inactive solar furnace at least.
I think what happens when things like a dirty glass by the sink get used as the reason for a relationship failing is a little more subtle and drawn out. Seeing the glass by the sink probably triggers some repetitive negative thought about the partner (wtf, why can't they just put the stupid glass in the dishwasher??), which leads to a gradual shift of one's attitude towards that person in general. That slowly snowballs as the slightly more negative attitude comes through in more interactions and you start getting frustrated by more and more little things your partner does, which triggers more repetitive negative thoughts, until you find that you can't stand the person you used to love. The final reason for the relationship failing wasn't the dirty glass, but it may have been the primary catalyst.
Stores don't sell half loaves of bread near you?
Local apian friends prefer the AirBnB.
Unfortunately, these pieces could almost always be reduced to "housing costs". They address it a bit in this most recent one, but homelessness / school enrollment / natural population growth / middle class jobs / energy costs can all be traced back to the huge housing deficit that's accumulated over the past 30 or 40 years.
Steam Deck’s future-proofed potential borne out by ray-tracing tests
> All snapshots you create are stored on our highly available storage systems.

Highly available right until they are not. Nice to see that your data is worth 20 bucks to Hetzner. I always liked them but this is a bit rude to put it mildly.
I don't know what any of that is. I always pay cash. When I say bitcoin, I mean literal coins.
This is an absolute game changer for planetary exploration, where RTGs are common.
Why not also examine the decision of the ambitious spouse to marry someone who may at some point add friction to the progress?

Marriage requires compromise on both ends. I don't see the irony.
Runs the linked wiki. Farkup for non-markdown rendered content sound like f*ckup, though. And: why another markup language?
cloud-init does help us, once we have a working linux, but we can also bake the static route into a base image.

The problem is that preseed is a very minimal linux environment and either relies on DHCP to work, or to use the usual network config DHCP sets (address, netmask, gateway). Arbitrary routes are not a possibility there. And ways to run abitrary commands to just <ip r> something come after the network initialization, which fails in that setup. The same holds for the kernel network bootstrapping parameters, I haven't found a way to add an arbitrary route there yet.

And for some reason, kickstart is able to handle this with it's centos/RHEL base.
Even when you consider that you might lose some data in an unlikely event, there still is value proposition in this kind of services. Easy restore compared to external services.
The article: https://theconversation.com/impulsive-psychopaths-like-crypt...

The study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
Zoom is really bad for this. On my old thinkpad there is a "mute" button on the keyboard. When you press it, it mutes the mic in windows sound settings and turns an indicator light.
I've had Zoom un-mute the mic itself with not notification to the user and the "mute" led even stayed on.
In old version of Zoom, the host could unmute you without your consent and this would unmute the mic at the system level too. I resorted to disabling the microphone in the Device Manager so it would show up as unplugged instead. This also disables the popup other commentors mentioned.

It looks like newer versions have unmute-consen which hopefully fix it, but the original behaviour made me feel uneasy and not trust Zoom.
I'm no expert but I think these shots often use slower shutter speeds, for example 0.5s instead of 0.01s. This increases the amount of light, but any movement that happens while the shutter is open will cause blur. Movement causes blur at fast shutter speeds too, but it's less noticeable because obviously you can move much less in 0.01s than you can in 0.5s.
Not to make this a political issue, but the number of uneducated immigrants in southern california is staggering. Add those to the regular number of workers below the median income, and this number is very easy to arrive at.
Maybe "median income" here does not mean "median income from jobs"?
Anecdotal evidence as it is, I'd like to vouch for the fact that I am usually the "mother" in this scenario. Dirty dishes being left out drives me nuts, especially if it's overnight. When I wake up and come out of the bedroom to a clean house, I'm relaxed. Waking up to a house with dishes still around from the night before can set a baseline stressed (need to do this still) mood for a hefty chunk of my day.

On the other end, my girlfriend doesn't seem to mind at all. She does when it gets very messy, but the minor ones don't bother her like it does me. The author's mindset regarding dishes in the above article does remind a bit of her as well.
Finland and Sweden take major step towards joining NATO
Data Skeptic podcast is currently doing a series on K-means applications (similar to KNN). Would recommend it for anyone exploring the topic:
https://dataskeptic.com/episodes/k-means
That comment is like sweet music from a distant room, thank you for that!

I just migrated my Newsboat's urls file and all seem to work, for now.

Seems like in the past I used the https://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html search API for some URLs but ended up migrating everything to https://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html due to some problem that I cannot quite remember, but that was ages ago.

I think that regardless, I might try to write a lightweight wrapper around their search API just because sometimes, randomly it seems, either ebay ignores my search filters and returns many unrelated results, or perhaps it's a client error (never got to research the logs when that happened).
I was planning to part the filtering part as a Newsboat filter, but it might just be easier to implement it elsewhere.
I love the name, might not be a real framework but the name is awesome. Someone make it a framework.
I don't get it. JIRA is working for me.
Size and nesting habit, yep. For example, mud daubers and allies need straight holes in wood, and so do carpenter bees, but they have different size preferences. Social wasps need different sorts of shelters entirely for their nests, and honeybees a different sort again that we conventionally call "hive boxes".
OK, so perhaps it's not the de-carbonization future we all wanted, but this could be an absolute game changer for planetary exploration, where RTG (nuclear-decay-driven thermal engines) are common. The existing efficiency for those is abysmal, which is actually OK since heat is such a useful product in itself.

I'm looking at Dragonfly, specifically, where an RTG provides the electricity and heat to keep everything alive. Imagine what 10x longer flights would do for that mission.
How are bullets and war different?
"Unless lobbying can still stop it the EU parlement will outlaw self hosted wallets."

Absurd and laughable.

I can't wait to start printing and handing out long random numbers.

Now what ?
It means a significant portion income isn't coming from wages (e.g. from benefits, investments, living off of wealth, parents, etc).

EDIT: nvm, mikeymouse's comment explains it.
Tour of Intel Chip Fab [video]
NuGet adds central package management
I work at AMS currently, this is so interesting!
Why even bother mentioning electricity prices except to score cheap points about "green" policies? Energy costs are insignificant compared to housing. Everything is insignificant compared to housing.

California could double electricity prices if they could cut real estate costs and everyone would come out ahead... except all the old homeowners who are grandfathered in under prop 13 and show up to oppose every new development at the local town hall.
Very excited to see a new editor platform offering! This solves some of the problems I had with ProseMirror.

I need code editor embedded in my app. Is there an example of embedding Monaco or CodeMirror with this?
Law has to be proportional - you can't deal out similar punishment for benefit fraud and for murder !!
Again, part of the trouble is it's hard to gain enough certainty that the thing you switch to—self-hosted, or another service—won't be at least as bad. You can look at their past record, but then, when's the last time Atlassian had this happen? (or maybe they've been having similar issues every year or two and I've just not noticed, in which case, yeah, it's probably a safe bet that switching to almost anything else would be an improvement)
I'd imagine the success rate isn't apples to apples - the real measure is "time, energy, and manpower expenditure needed per generated protein"
Hyperphantasia
I've used Request Tracker for years. It's not pretty, it's written in Perl, but I can fairly easily make it do all the ticket tracking flows I care about and it just runs and runs and runs. My scale is admittedly small, but I put tens of thousands of tickets per year through my instance, and i basically never have to touch it unless I'm setting up a new queue or different flow for something.
Really. Here I was thinking a starting dose was 8 grams (from a documentary about magic truffles in Netherlands). Good thing I never had the opportunity to try mushrooms, that'd probably be a pretty wild, unpleasant trip :))
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language. I remember a lot of talk. It was going to be big on the 1990s web but then nothing really happened. Quoting Wikipedia:

"VRML has never seen much serious widespread use.[18] One reason for this may have been the lack of available bandwidth.[19] At the time of VRML's popularity, a majority of users, both business and personal, were using slow dial-up Internet access."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
The other difficulty is if you don't restore the entire state in a single transaction. Imagine you have partial data restored in Table A but haven't updated Table B correspondingly. Now some other program that consumes Table A and Table B and doesn't have error handling will crash (or worse, mutate state in other weird ways).
You knew about bumblebees right? Those are solitary bees (most of them, there are colonizing bumblebees as well)
My parents did this and it was a great lesson.

Scissors and cordless phones (prior to cell phones) got left all over the place. The solution was to buy like 20 pairs of scissors and have a cordless phone in damn near every room. Boom.
How can you arrive at a median that is not the median?
Maybe many people are working multiple jobs?

So your jobs each pay X, but your income is 2X.
Maybe that is the median of all states? (I did not read the whole article.)
This is such a wild take to me, I feel like there's more cool art all over the internet than ever before. Maybe not as a percentage of the total but by absolute volume I feel like I'm constantly discovering cool/impressive artists of all sorts. I mean listen to Denzel Curry's last N albums for any value of N, they're all great and they're all different from one another.

Individual artists have more power than ever before to create art, maybe that doesn't work great to earn a living but we're still out there doing it making great shit. You just have to look for art in places that aren't spotify, dribble and instagram. Those are vehicles to make money, rarely does an artist staying true to their wild individualistic vision make money, change the industry etc. (though there are still obvious examples, Kanye comes to mind) but for every artist doing great work in the public eye there are a thousand you've never heard of because you don't put the time in to find them.

P.S. Limit copyright to like 10 years.
Business users might get different defaults from their admin.
RTGs do not get anywhere close to 1800 degrees Celsius. Even if they did, it wouldn’t be a game changer, because you can make up for loss of efficiency with a bigger RTG.
Once you use something like the Jack Audio Connection Kit it's hard to understand why a user-controllable system-wide audio graph isn't just the default thing baked into the kernel API.

I have full control over all apps. It involved some extra effort creating a fake ALSA device that sends/receives from JACK, but once it's in place, all audio connections become points you can easily make and break in the graph.
Start with the assumption that someone has already done it... Do a thorough literature survey... Ask experts working on the most similar thing. Don't be disheartened if you weren't the first; ideas don't have to be original to have value; some ideas need reviving from time to time, or were ahead of their time when first discovered.
It's a kind of puzzle, much like the shift register memories of old, by keeping track of the order of your data you get rid of the requirement for addressing.

So yes, from my experience, it will take more effort to process mentally; simply because you're doing more work.
Marrying a successful, ambitious man does not, in any way, mean that a woman should defer completely to every single career decision a man makes. I'm sure this executive's schedule was already plenty demanding without the burden of moving to another country.
They are confusing the concepts of an app level vs OS level mute. If the app itself paints a mute button, of course there's no guarantee that it will do what it says. You have to trust the developers at their word, that they are actually ditching the audio feed coming into their application. Some apps even use the audio to provide useful functionality (like a "you are speaking while muted" notification). If you are really concerned about it, mute the app from system controls instead.
My understanding is that an active placebo generates some expected effects so that the patient is more likely to believe that they took something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_placebo

>An active placebo is a placebo that produces noticeable side effects that may convince the person being treated that they are receiving a legitimate treatment, rather than an ineffective placebo.

>An example of an active placebo is the 1964 work of Shader and colleagues who used a combination of low-dose phenobarbital plus atropine to mimic the sedation and dry mouth produced by phenothiazines.

>Morphine and gabapentin are painkillers with the common side effects of sleepiness and dizziness. In a 2005 study assessing the effects of these painkillers on neuropathic pain, lorazepam was chosen as an active placebo because it is not a painkiller but it does cause sleepiness and can cause dizziness.

Here, it seems like an example active placebo might be something that induces nausea, since psilocybin is known to induce nausea. SSRIs are not just an active placebo but something that actually attempts to treat the primary symptom: depression. The above paragraph suggests lorazepam would be a good active placebo for testing painkillers because it is not a painkiller; here, an antidepressant is being compared with an antidepressant.

So I was wrong to say that it's not a placebo if it's a psychoactive molecule. I just don't think it is if it's a psychoactive molecule that's treating the primary symptom you're attempting to find a treatment for.
I'm not always willing to dox myself, but I can say it was a big newspaper in South America.

I also made a comment, not an article or a study. I don't have any ready sources to present you, I merely expressed my opinion and you're free to take it as such.
I'm a Windows user currently and your experience with Slacks notifications sound really irritating :/. One of the things that is mentioned in the article is that the average user expects that notifications will run the way they want "out of the box" and that they aren't willing to fiddle with settings. The article even says that... "Less than 5% of slacks users customize their notification settings". Do you feel like the settings are so limited that this is contributing to users not bothering to even try? Like maybe there's a lot of people who have checked the settings and then realized that they were going to get the results they wanted by fiddling with them?
It takes a long time for the masses to adopt software in the way you mention. I’d bet that discord users are not representative of the masses. The main reason I notice people talking while muted is 1) forgot they were muted 2) multitasking / distracted 3) unfamiliar with the software / how to unmute. #3 was probably #1 in summer of 2020 when everyone was just starting. The #1 and #2 I listed just happen. It’s common to never speak in a meeting. It’s common to never speak in a meeting and then randomly get called on leading to forgetting to unmute. It’s also common that your mic isn’t working and you don’t realize it until you do try to speak and everyone is say “you’re on mute”. This happens all the time with some Bluetooth Bose headphones and my work PC, some configuration has this device matchup to be a constant problem and my IT couldn’t care less about a permanent solution since they found a temporary one (reverts on reboot).

I know people that literally retired early when they were forced to use PCs in the office. Over 30 years later, many people can barely use the most basic features of their computer. All to say, I’m not surprised this is an issue and I don’t see people as a whole digging their way out any time soon.
Well, if California's not caring about the poor, then the poor are in trouble. All those red states CERTAINLY aren't going to give a sh*t about them...
I asked her for more info, but she couldn't elaborate. I don't think it was about her wanting to put the tea ball in (the tea was already in the ball from my cup, and she could put in how much honey or sugar she wanted when it was ready).

The conclusion was mistated. I meant I just won't make her tea unless she asks. If it make her made and she can't tell me why, then I'm just going to avoid that situation.
Trello seems to still be up?
An SMS sending server on an Android phone, to send me OTP code from my VPS
I see a lot of mentions of Aphantasia here, but I'm at the opposite spectrum and think others might also find this interesting.
I would think the point was to have you read an article on the other side, not to find one magic article that presents both sides.
> There is a natural tendency for QA to become a bottleneck to release, and a scapegoat if things go wrong.

As companies tend to grow, this always seems to be the case in my experience. Why can't we solve this as a industry?
While USA does not ban everyone from doing trade with Cuba, USA does ban everyone who trades with Cuba from doing trade with the US.

You can clearly see how this creates insentives for not trading with Cuba and instead trading with the far larger market next to it.
> What prevents someone from securing the system by putting a limit on the number of login attempts

Because, as I stated in another comment in this thread:

That is not how passwords are cracked in today's environment.

In today's environment, someone obtains (via hacking or bribes) the internal password hash list, and then runs the list through a system such as this one:

https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...

A "try limit" on the login page does nothing to slow this monster down.
It's a weird point phrased poorly, seems they're referencing the chart at the bottom of page 11 here:

https://www.chapman.edu/communication/_files/beyond-feudalis...

Which is saying that 80% of new jobs were created at wage levels below the median level. E.g. they are looking at ~1.8 million jobs added from 2008-2018 and comparing it to the median wage in 2018 out of the ~19 million people working in California.
I do not think that this is a widely held view. Regarding the US constitution for example, Part of Bernstein v. United States was the complaint that DJB was not able to legally talk to or teach about cryptography to cryptographers and students that are not US citizens. As for the "freedom of speech" as a general concept, I think that it is more of an individualist than a collectivist principle. It does not refer to countries or groups by itself, it is the right for entities to speak freely.
Good faith would be to lose all of that money to people who are already your customers.

Business-wise would be to stay in their good graces and keep those customers by offering the refund, but you don't lose any money to those who either don't care or won't move to a competitor.
That's like telling the Titanic and the iceberg to just talk it out, but nobody is at the helm. This is a problem far bigger than "Just talk to somebody with a slightly different viewpoint!". This is a problem at the root of our society. It's an existential crisis that has been getting worse for decades.
> (because if you just give services, it doesn't count toward GDP)

And considering GDP as the most important metric isn't peak dumbassery ?
OK, but GP has a point. If you're going to add the immigrants to "the number of workers below the median income", but you're not going to add them to the calculation of the median, then you get a garbage number.
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Buy flowers. They are pretty.
Worst case is probably a lithium battery fire, which could become a big problem and would at least stop the line for a time (which would be expensive)
Zoom launches AI-powered features aimed at sales teams
>"Nobody uses more than 5% of its features, but every company uses a different 5%."

>The saying is apocryphal and unlikely to be accurate

Well its mathematically impossible to be accurate as soon as you have > 20 users.