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A conventional train and close headways are not an either-or proposition. Freight trains can (and do in places) operate under computerized moving block systems that allow for headway as short as relative braking distance. Automatic train operation with moving blocks is a relatively mature technology available from a couple of major vendors.

There are certainly advantages to single-unit cars that avoid the need for shunting, but the maintenance cost on these will be tremendously higher on a per-unit basis. Hard to say that it's a clear win.
Exactly, it is not daunting and way easier than 20 years ago. We went a long way to improve the process.
> Without that clarity, you end up with incompatible, spec-compliant implementations.

The Go team officially maintains two implementations, gc and gccgo, to ensure that implementation doesn't end up ruling over the specification as has happened in other languages. There are also other third party implementations, including tinygo.

Which spec-induced incompatibilities across these implementations are you referring to?
People make mistakes. Sometimes you can learn from them. A few questions to consider:

- Did you talk to people who were product managers or program managers, and learn more about the role, prior to taking that leap? If not, this might have helped you realize that you wouldn't have enjoyed the role

- Did you do research on the future career paths for managers? This might have helped you realize what opportunities you were passing up on

- Did you do research on the average compensation for managers/directors/PMs? If compensation is important to you, this is definitely something to plan ahead

If you did all of the above, and things still didn't work out, just accept that you made the best decision you could have with the information you had at the time. That's all any of us can hope for. And mistakes are bound to happen despite that.

Regardless of whether or not the mistake was preventable, it's done and it's in the past. Learn what you can from the past, and then focus on the present. If being a manager or director means that much to you, pivot your career back towards the management track. Yes, you will feel frustrated that you "wasted" the last few years in other unrelated roles. But don't let sunk cost fallacy rob you of the best decision you can make today.
It's also worth remembering that unaffiliated is the largest group, and has been growing. Lots of partisans like to poopoo the idea that "independents" exist, and claim that they are just closet-partisans, but I don't buy it. Massive distrust of politicians and establishments is not something people are faking because they want to fake their stance on the internet.
No, but I wasn't doing it in Docker Desktop either. That was the first thing I eliminated as a consideration, since that's an obvious point of slowdown. I assume it would be even slower if I had been doing that. Even a `docker build` which does not mount anything from the host was much slower under Docker Desktop than docker under a custom Parallels VM.

The downside, of course, is that it's a little annoying to keep your code in the VM if you'd otherwise have it on the host. But I still find it worth it because of just how much faster it is. Now that I think about it, I wonder how well it would work to do your own host mounting using either the Parallels guest folder sharing feature or SMB. I never tried it.
Governments are super inefficient with tax dollars because there's no pressure for them to be efficient. If they run out of money they just raise taxes again. There is very little accountability.

Some people believe the solution to this is to privatize everything so that it's more efficient. I can see that point of view, but it doesn't get around the fact that the private corporation doesn't have the pressure either, except at the initial bidding phase. Personally I think we should try to figure out how to pressure governments to be efficient, by tying elections more strongly to efficiency. Politicians should have KPIs.
Thanks. This is mostly what I thought. Thanks for clarifying and adding details.
Here is a source explaining why the CO2 produced by methane isn’t counted in estimates of global warming potential. It seems to come down to the different calculations required for anthropogenic sources.

https://ghginstitute.org/2010/07/13/what-is-different-about-...
I guess it's because it's not anything that hasn't been said before. Go is easy to start with and gets harder as you debug deep problems. Rust is very hard to start, then it gets easier over time. This has been said in many other threads, and we all know it's true.
"Suck it up Butter Cup", EVERYBODY makes career mistakes. It's how you recover from them that set you apart.

Promotions and jobs aren't always based on merit and hard work. A lot of times it's being at the right place at the right time, proximity and how you are perceived by your superiors.
It's pretty much the whole culture now, not just HN. Anything I don't agree with is an evil and must be stopped at any cost.
Granted, sports is a topic which we haven't really figured out yet.

We figured it out long ago, and there were no problems before the gender studies majors got involved. Biological males and biological females should compete separately whenever there are significant physical differences between the sexes that affect outcomes. "Gender identity" is utterly irrelevant in this context.
Apple continues to maintain Apple-signed Bootcamp drivers for the custom hardware in and around their Intel Macs, most recently adding support for their new external display when used on a Bootcamp Mac, so that’s certainly a plausible possibility. It’s somewhat likely they already have them completed and ready to ship.
I agree, it seems it is really all about luck once you are good. But if one wants to become lucky, first they need to get really good.
This is genius. Why didn't Dropbox do this?
Most of the folks I know in their 20s here in the NYC metro area assume they'll never be able to afford real estate.
Covid has shown that is now always possible for those artists.
Well if Malthusian scientists are to be believed then we only really have another couple of decades at best before the global population level causes society to collapse. So you could interpret recent events to be the first warning signs of that.

Personally I remain unconvinced of that, though. Or at least, it seems to me that humans have the unique benefit of being able to problem solve their way out of the issues related to population growth, at least for a while. We don't have to be gazelles grazing themselves to death or to act merely on selfish instinct.
All models are a ponzi that depend on a future generation doing labor. Retirement is ultimately a promise that someone will grow food and the other things you need/want. SS depends on the next generation being willing to pay, while stocks depend on the next generation willing to buy those stocks (or dividends because the company because the next generation bought things from it). Funds in a mattress depend on people wanting your cash.
> Yeah, the thing which bothers me the most is that people don't even try to educate themselves.

Nuance is really important. I mean, I even agree with some of the concerns from social conservatives about transitioning and self-identification and "social contagions" and such. We should try to understand as well as we can, and not push anything on people they may not have felt themselves. It's important to not tell someone they're trans, pushing an identity onto them. There are discussions to be had.

... At the same time, though, that's not the whole story, as some social conservatives would have one believe, and those are not a reason to dismiss trans people. I remember having "gender dysphoria" feelings from a young age. It wasn't about dresses, or barbies, or whatever. I was uncomfortable taking my shirt off to go swimming, assuming my chest was more like my mother's or sister's than my father's or brother's. My genitals just seemed foreign to me. It got worse through puberty as these "male" features became more real.

If you'd thrown me on a deserted island with no culture, I would've still had gender dysphoria.

How do we make life comfortable for people who share in my experience? How do we make puberty less traumatic and do as much as we can to help them feel "normal"? These are questions that social conservatives dismiss as not real problems, but they were real problems for me.

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> What do you think my reaction was, when I first heard of trans-people as a young teenager?

When I was a teenager, there was no talk of trans people, anywhere. It was an unheard of topic. I still had the feelings I did.

When I first heard of them when I was a little older (~20), it was amazing to finally know I wasn't alone in the feelings I shared. I booked an appointment with a licensed mental health therapist the next month to talk about it. On the rise of awareness of trans people, I thought, "Good! They won't have to go through quite what I went through." Today, I worry they're worse off than it being unknown like it was for me.

What ended up making me feel notably better was estrogen. It was strange how well it worked, although I still had distress over my physical features until I was fully transitioned. Now that I am... my gender dysphoria is cured. I still enjoy the same hobbies, listen to the same music, read the same books, play the same video games, and even dress in a similar style. I just don't have distress over my physical features anymore. Like getting treated for any other medical issue, the treatment made the issues I experienced go away. Now the only time I feel distress is when I hear people calling for the death of trans people or blaming societal ills on us.

I don't know why I'm writing all of this, so I'm going to stop here.

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> so all I can do is try to be empathic.

I really appreciate it. All of us do. It means a lot.

> I wish you all the strength you need, don't give up!

Thanks!
> most 'trans women' keep their penises intact, and continue to enjoy using them as a man would. These are men with a sexual fetish, not women.

Disagree, fully. Thinking that genitals define your social gender is exactly the wrong thing to do. If a Trans-Woman wants to keep her genitals as they are, then she should, and this doesn't have an effect on her gender.

If she wants to undergo surgery - fine.

Saying that Trans-Women who "keep their penises" are just men with a sexual fetish is in my opinion a very wrong and mean opinion to have.
IDK if this makes you feel better, but I hope it does: after 4-5 years of being a dev, I decided to go to law school and now hate the practice of law (law school itself was alright and I did some cool stuff), and now I want to go back to being a dev. It's possible, but I obviously gave myself a huge and unnecessary career and financial obstacle.

In any event, you sound like you would benefit from a gratitude practice and looking into other spiritual and emotional type of advice. If you have 25 years of industry experience, you are old enough where you should have the maturity to have a more positive and understanding experience about this, and if you don't, then that's ok--now you have something to focus and improve on that will benefit all aspects of your life.
I like that and would totally love to see that, too.
The question is: what is the truth? What kind of "proof" would you believe in?

I guess the answer of science is: I show you an experiment that you can repeat and then we share our observations when repeatably running the argument. That is what we then call an "objective observation". If it is repeated over and over, people sometimes start to calling it a law etc.

Maybe you can share a concrete video and then we discuss which statements you would like to have fact-checked and in which way?
Yeah, it's a bummer. I actually appreciate that iTunes still exposes the underlying RSS feed (at least programmatically), because for some podcasts that only link to walled-garden platforms, it's the only way to reveal the RSS feed.
> And streaming is not returning enough to musicians for them to survive; it is only serving to increase income inequality in our industry. The revival we need, urgently, is of recorded music income - and that revival is not coming from silver discs.

The fundamental problem is that streaming income is distributed as a percentage of total (worldwide) plays, instead of being normalized as a percentage of plays per listener.

Let's say that Olivia Rodrigo accounts for 2% of all plays on Spotify this month. Even though I have never heard one of her songs, she's going to get 2% of whatever percentage of my subscription goes to royalties (75% I think, or $7.50). So even though I have never heard her music, she's getting my money. By the same logic, even if I spent 100% of my time play Obscure Band, they are getting basically nothing.

Instead, Spotify should pay artists as a percent of plays per listener. So if 10 indie artists this month account for most of my streams, they would each get ~0.75 each. Which is starting to look reasonable.
> As long as the public is not aware of how many fires you put out per week – it can be considered a well-oiled development machine.

I get the impression that this is more acceptable in the IT world than other industries, but I say this with zero insight into how it works in those other industries. Would love to hear how this is in e.g. mechanical engineering if folks are willing to share. :)

I also wonder if this is largely an artifact of the costs of bad software being so distributed and often taken for granted. So bad software is just an externality that isn't accounted for.

By the way, I do see a family member of mine who works in development for a traditional car manufacturer now, and has worked for an automotive startup in the past, and the care taken to document and test things is (understandibly) on another level. (certainly doesn't have any "move fast and break things" to it)
> You made the assertion that the flagged scientific article 'just made things up' that's quite the claim.

No, I didn't.

I made a general claim about why people don't rigorously debunk things they read on the Internet - they're busy - which is simpler, and I think more likely to be accurate than your general claim that people are enrapt in religious fervor for scientism.
Nobody wants to say the quiet part out loud but... It's bad politics in the United States to have a strong labor market for too long: you have lots of anxiety among small and large businesses and you have inflation pressure. So they're going to manufacture unemployment to cool everything down.
Ah, I didn’t know, that’s really mental.
I am also surprised that a reasoned discussion like this gets flagged while comments calling it a "shitpost" are not.
Why is it flagged then? It is clearly an appropriate posting.
Why is the wish important to you?
Raising the retirement age I think is not fair. Asking guys in their 60’s to do the same work as guys in their 40’s is not fair if the job is at all a hands on doing job. Anything as simple as a big flight of stairs can become a major obstacle. If all you do is go up and down elevators, talk, and use a computer then you can go as long as your mind stays sharp and you have the drive. Not everyone loves their job after doing it for 30+ years and would like to slow down just to appreciate the people and world around them for their remaining time.
> Life lessons will be presented to you in the order they are needed.

This is like the catholic mantra of. 'God challanges us' and 'evil is in this world to test us'

Blins to the horrors of the world and all the ruined lives of innocent people
> I actually recoil in pain now whenever I see someone ship something with a giant makefile or a big folder full of system-specific shell scripts.

Out of curiosity, what would be the ideal shipping method for you?

I agree that "giant makefiles" are awful, but a neat, simple and portable makefile is a beautiful sight to behold and a pleasure to run.
CST isn’t built to solve the last mile problem either—it explicitly shows cargo being delivered to and picked up from central hubs.
US real estate has gone up significantly in _desirable_ markets. There are plenty of cities in the rust belt where neighborhoods are in decay, you can buy a home for 20k if you wanted.

What we’re going to see is either govts incentivize people move back to these places. Or more housing in desirable locations. I think the former will happen more than the later.
Completely unreadable for me due to three hovering ads, along three edges of the screen. Easily the worst experience I can remember seeing.
My country has a law that says I have the right to make backups for personal use.
At minimum they could officially release Windows 11 for ARM so it can officially be used in a VM. That already works well. And if they really wanted, writing the drivers shouldn't be an obstacle that can't be overcome, just looking at the progress of Asahi Linux.
Speech can't hurt you. Speech by itself doesn't violate any of your rights.
You commented on another comment about transsexuality I wrote, and as with the other, I also disagree with this one.

Saying that trans-people who don't undergo surgery are just people with a sexual fetish is very disrespectful, I think.

Crossdressing and Transsexuality are not the same thing, as you sure know.

There's also nothing wrong with people who crossdress, by the way.
A potential downside here could be running out of file descriptors if you use one database file per client. Linux has a limit of 1024 open files per process.

Did you ever run into this problem?
That's an interesting case - if you write a book on holiday, but not on contract, and then sell it later when you return, where did the work occur? Where did the taxable event occur?
Here's a Rust example, with tokio: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... - I don't have time to come up with Java/C++ examples, but I'm sure others will.

(If your point was about it being _built into the language_, then it definitely stands, see the other discussion in the parent comment thread)
I like your framework, but I do question your dismissal of raw materials.

The 'green revolution' broke a barrier in our ability to grow food (amount per acre), but it isn't clear if that increase can be sustained for the next 100 years-- the massive amounts of chemicals we put on the land are killing the soil.

That's before we get to climate-change threats to food production.

Or species diversity threats to food production.

Or the elimination of 80% of insect biomass in developed countries, with concordant impact on food production.
That's a reasonable strategy. I do the same thing with movies. I collect 4k UHD discs for my favorite movies, rent movies I want to see in the highest quality, and stream the rest.
>He said if he’s successful, that both the far left and far right would be equally unhappy, has he made any kind of statement to suggest his goal is to “get people back on the same team”? I.E. his goal is to get people to trust the platform, not each other.

Basically what he just said is that he won't be allowing violence or calls to violence.

When you boil down or remove the perjorativeness of 'extremism'. You can have a borderline extreme opinion on abortion. Either on right the right side that no abortion should be allowed or on the left side of 'abortion should be allowed even after birth' Neither of these are extremist positions though.

Extremism comes down to not being willing to entertain the other side and the requirement of using violence to solve the political divide. Those are far extreme positions.

I think we can all agree that violence isn't the answer and if some violent extremist from either side has been censored. Nobody will actually care.
Ancient Egypt's "bumps along the road" were several periods of almost total anarchy and state disintegration that each lasted for many decades.

You're right that there's nothing comparable to the modern era: the modern era hasn't existed long enough to have collapses that total. I think you are not applying the same level of scrutiny to ancient societies as you are to modern ones.
This is the second day in a row where a post about Go in a negative light was flagged. The first one was an extremely detailed criticism, maintained the front page, and was flagged like crazy. What gives?
> I was hard working and [more] intelligent than him.

Ultimately what matters is how well you work in a team and how much you're able to combine the best of everyone into delivering excellent products.

It doesn't matter how great an engine is if the gearbox is lousy.
The technical merits of vinyl are dubious.

But it is undeniably the coolest way to listen to music. It takes effort, it is an event, a ritual executed with great care.
It really depends on your load. I run Safari, a terminal, VS Code, and I turn off Docker and Slack unless I actively need them. Runaway node processes are the biggest battery offender, so those I kill off if I notice them in Activity Monitor. I find 2/5 brightness to be the most comfortable in my space -- I'm surprised to hear others run max brightness which is eye-scorching! It all depends on ambient light I guess.

Also, 6-8 hours is a full work day of laptop time for me. If you have more hours in the day you probably will get less days out of the laptop than me.
That's not what this is though. These carriages will just be going from delivery hub to delivery hub. The deliveries to hubs will be by trucks.

The last mile transport to stores will be by van or bike. And that's a metaphorical last mile; the density of the hubs appears to be pretty low, with e.g. 2-3 hubs in Zürich.

The thing they claim makes this work is bundling all deliveries going to the same receiver (across all suppliers) into the same
carriage on the sending end, which then makes it easy to optimize that last mile delivery with small vehicles.

This doesn't seem very compelling.