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you need to see a therapist about feeling guilty about overworking.

You only need to work as much as whats required, nothing more.
If you can close off your assigned 'tickets' etc, given each sprint, do so, then rest. Your personal well-being is #1.
The part you're leaving out, is that once confronted with the fact that his old easy tricks don't apply, the well-seasoned fellow will draw on his years of experience to provide new tricks to save the day.

I think your portrayal of well-seasoned engineers as the derogatory 'greybeard' with a 'bag of tricks' and a hero complex -- glosses over the fact that many of these men and women have real hands-on experience with a multitude of technologies spanning decades, and in my mind there's real value / leadership qualities associated with individuals companies can rely on to just "get things done" in a pinch.
That’s why I grow for value and flavour. Base calories are cheap, making them taste good (in a healthy way) costs a lot more.
Or maybe dictator-Putin shouldn't have started a savage attack on a sovereign nation?
I sympathize with older devs, my dad is an older software dev.

But you kind of do have to be old in order to have outdated knowledge: nobody young is going to learn assembly tricks which worked on MIPS and other past architectures. Older devs and companies not constantly learning new things and updating to best practices is a real phenomenon.

On the other hand, anecdotally most older developers actually do keep up to date with the latest best practices. And there are lots of decades-old frameworks which aren’t obsolete: lots of people greenfield projects with C++ and Spring Boot and .NET, and unless I’m mistaken the C ABI and system calls haven’t changed much over the past ~40 years. So it's not like being old automatically means or even really suggests you're going to use worse, outdated techniques.
72 million passenger cars have been sold in the US since the program so I don't follow how the <0.7 million scrapped in 2009 (valued to be worth less than 3 billion dollars back then) for newer cars have a noticeable impact on any of this 1.6 trillion dollar loan market 13 years later.
I suspect you have an unrealistic view of the country.

Even very poor countries with hereditary dictators are very large places.
Corn produces 4-6 times the calories per acre as wheat, not to mention farmers and distribution networks would have to spend a whole lot to switch.

Many people are suggesting eating less meat to help potential food shortages, switching corn to wheat actually loses about as much food as feeding corn to cattle. (i.e. a cornfield switched to wheat and a cornfield fed to cattle would result in a similar number of calories)

We indeed should stop producing ethanol, but plenty of hungry people around the world could be just as happy eating corn as wheat.
I know you're likely being sarcastic and I definitely understand. I can only speak to my experience and that's in the US, although I can't reasonably doubt that it happens elsewhere
This article is partisan garbage, as usual lately for The Economist. Sure, the war had an impact but most of the problems were months BEFORE the war.

Search for "AgInflation" articles from 2021. I know farmers who skipped this season due to razor thin profits, suppressed prices by governments and major supermarkets, and risk of water controls. Would you put $50k of your money for a 10% return with a very, very high risk of failure?

The farmers that did plant, say wheat, are not benefiting from the price surge because to minimize risk they sold their harvest in advance or sold futures. SPECULATORS that are making a killing. Usually hedge funds like Citadel, ETFs by BlackRock, and others.

And in several countries farmers are being blamed for higher prices. Governments should've given the sector a bit of help and control risks. Help with water management. Help with shrinking labor base and increasing costs. But nothing is being done.

There is a perverse system right now and action needs to be taken to heal the sector. But I bet they'll just keep blaming farmers and impose price controls or suppression of some kind. Fixing farming would take years and populist politicians want magic immediate results and shift-blame. So buckle up.
I debated starting a Youtube channel. I don't think I'm that special. I truly believe that what sets me apart is that I have good processes to get me working, asked a lot of questions to developers I admired as I was learning and read a lot of code to figure out how things work.

It would probably be cool to explain that to others. I enjoy talking about the developer mindset I possess when mentoring Jr Devs that cycle through with me.
I remember when this whole story was "misinformation" and there was no laptop or hard drive.
it would be a crime against Ukrainian people to export that grain though
Quite true, and the potential for gardening is quite situational. OTOH, current forecasts of mega-scale hunger, famines, & death look pretty useful, if you wanted to paint such, ah, busybodies, in a rather negative light, and try to get some rules changed.
It is a good thing that the documentation for different projects looks entirely different. I find that for me, it makes it much easier to keep track of and remember everything you're looking at if everything has a different aesthetic anchoring it, both in working memory (if you're looking at documentation for several projects simultaneously) and long-term memory.
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And? What’s the rest of the plan?

I hear people saying that, but this is very short term with no sustainable strategy.

Just genuinely pointing out he could be replaced by worse options, and you need to plan against it as well.

There is the guy, the system he built, the persons he chose to put in place, all incentivised to continue.
One doesn't. One doesn't need to. Nobody is siting an isolated photovoltaic farm (presumably charging only local storage?) in place of a nuke.

For an off-grid house, the criteria differ. But you won't find a nuke for your house.
I think it’s something like 75% of soy and corn go to ethanol and animal feed (which loses most of the nutrients in the process just to inefficiently concentrate some bits).
Under 700k cars were exchanged as part of the "cash for clunkers" program, or roughly one out of every 400 the cars on American roads. Emphasis on exchanged: most people went out and bought new cars with the rebate.

Plus, all of this was over a decade ago. It's irrelevant on both axes.
Tldr; Start coding less. Start teaching more.

It is super fantastic that you have been able to learn, grow, and achieve so much. You do sound like a super star. It also sounds like you have reached a point where transition is required.

I respectfully disagree with those who say "get a new job". This may be a good idea, but it is certainly not a solution to your issues which are very likely to come with you wherever you go.

I suggest that you stop contributing so much under your own name, and start helping others contribute under their names. "Not much grows under a great oak". You may be casting a shadow that makes it hard for your colleagues to grow?

10x developers are awesome, but very hard to scale. Far more powerful are the "super colleagues" who make everyone around them 5x better. Add a 10x developer to a team of 10 and you 2x the team's output. Add a super colleague to the same team and output rises by 5x.
While I think that’s the right choice, I’d just like to point out that the problem with jQuery today is it was a library built to smooth over and fix differences between browser JavaScript engines (IE, well, IE).

Over the past 15 years or so browser JavaScript engines, except at the extreme edges, are roughly comparable. Further, a lot of the features of jQuery have been adopted into standard JavaScript.

So, the reason of eschewing jQuery, even for small pages, is simply that you don’t need it. Vanilla JS (or typescript) + modern CSS have pretty much all the same capabilities without any of the bloat. Using it today would be a little like using a library made to back port java 8 features onto a java 5 JVM.
Clarifying technical specifics for general audiences is the ethical form of marketing.
I just wanted to look out my window and see something more useful than grass, OK? If I got to enjoy a couple meals out of what I grew, so much the better.
Thank you for your in-depth response. I appreciate hearing from people with first hand experience on topics that I don't personally have experience with. There's things we don't think about when its so far out of our usual field of expertise.
Sounds like the type of thinking that won't get you that quarterly sales bonus!

Seriously though, just like mortgage originations pre '08, anyone who had qualms about that kind of thing left that industry a long time ago, or never joined.
Why? I’ve heard olive oil is pretty good.
In my experience, it takes a couple years to get a decent garden going. If you're reading and you haven't yet -- start now.
The pdp-1 has two architectural registers: AC and IO and they're not addressable as memory. The PDP-10 has a similar internal structure but fetches and stores the accumulator from/to memory* for instructions that use it.

* in the PDP-6 it really is external memory, in the later models (aka PDP-10) it was moved into the CPU
We can probably up production here in North Dakota
TLS uses certificate authorities and a public key infrastructure to ensure the authenticity of a peer. Is authenticity also something PSP provides, or is it focused on confidentiality and integrity?
Middle click is very useful to close tab, which the alternative is to move cursor to a much smaller close button.

Especially on some apps (iirc pgadmin) where the tabs has no close button, that we need to right click and choose a menu to close a tab.
Come on HN all those rants about chromium and yet BlinkOn conference was only shared 3 times in all HN history!

BTW this is cool:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500852
What an outdated policy but I've heard of that happening here too, Stratas not allowing people to use their outdoor space to grow any kind of food.
If you have gluten intolerance there’s nothing you should be worried about? Or are these grains necessary for growing meat?
I heard an interview with a farmer in Western Ukraine today. His area isn't immediately affected by the war (as in, no bombs, no mines, no occupation). His stores are still full with the 2021 harvest. The regular route would be via the black sea, but that's blockaded. He has a contract to ship some of the stored grain via train to Poland. But there's very little capacity to store his 2022 harvest.
Also, do the math on what happens if interest rates do anything but go down - it instantly means a huge swath of buyers can't anymore and the market dries up.
A "register" is just a [core] memory word. ("The PDP-1 uses an 18-bit word size and has 4096 words as standard main memory", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1). Terminology changed since then.

I like how the assembly source code is small enough to include at the end of the manual. A bit of slogging finds you the source code and a pdp-1 assembler, enough to run it on simh or MESS, but even though there's a online PDP-1 emulator running SpaceWar!, I wasn't able to find a way to run Lisp 1 online.

* http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp_...

* http://simh.trailing-edge.com/kits/lispswre.zip
Time to drag out this old classic: https://pics.me.me/what-does-l-use-jquery-jquery-mean-tmeans...
She griped about both, the zoning board demanded I get rid of the chickens.

I was tempted to leave their corpses on her doorstep and egg the municipal building as a petty sort of revenge, but that would have been too obvious.

Those chickens were good eating, though, especially with some homegrown corn on the cob and baked beans. The squash didn't work out so well, unfortunately.
maybe he meant the glitch glassdoor reviews.
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> Now, Europe tries to buy out all grain stock that's left

No. Europe is pretty much self-sufficient for vital crops. The problem is China [1] and the fact that Africa doesn't have much of its own once famous agricultural power left after decades of European and American "donations" - hard to compete against donated products...

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-ove...
Energy is having an even greater supply crunch than food (indeed part of the food shortage is that agricultural inputs can't get delivered in adequate quantities because the energy to transport them doesn't exist).

The energy market is willing to outbid the food market, so I wouldn't expect the conversion of agricultural inputs into fuel outputs to decelerate.
Unless it's about Russia, then flame away!
Disclaimer: I am no expert, have never been to Japan, and know no Japanese people. That said, I've read or watched several pieces [1] which state the complex relationship Japan has with religion.

It is said that modern Japanese see Shinto as one of the factors that drove into the Asia Pacific War and World War II. Aum Shinrikio [2], a sect that did terrorist attacks also contributed to giving religions a bad name. Christianity is practiced only by a very small minority and modern Shinto has been reduced to consist almost exclusively of ritual, with little belief for gods, souls, or the afterlife.

I'd be interested in hearing more perspectives on this from anyone with first hand experience, or that just knows better.

[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJmWVWCdTYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0hxKznLTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gZHuFtuzdg

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
A very interesting point of view.

A theme in replies is that I should be teaching / helping others. I do that in terms of advice, but I am starting to realize that I need to focus more on not giving the right answer, but explaining how I go to it, and ideally solve the problem for everyone if I can.
I have never been able to understand how Soylent has taken off given the name. And I haven't even watched the movie!
I was thinking the same, a generalist looks like an even way to divest ones talents. It's a good perspective that often is talked about in effective altruism, through 80,000 hours, the question is, how should one spend their career time. There are some institutions that seem to celebrate generalist(typically problem driven organisations, philanthropy, venture capital ), while some celebrate specialists (scale driven companies)
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What nobody understands is that this is not happening strictly because of the war or the drought, but because of the fragility of the global food system, which simply cannot bear any shocks.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/02...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1712-3

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-...

We either fix this or we simply won't have a global food system.
>> Because you claimed that a UNSC resolution made it illegal for NK to develop ballistic missiles.

I think what we have here is a disagreement in terms. There is no such thing as "universal international law". Period. Because unless there's a mutual agreement by all countries to accept some sort of governing body, over their own local law, and to supply enforcement, it can't exist.

That said, there -is- an international body, that has had most countries join, with a charter that stipulates certain things that body can decide, and how those member countries promise to respond.

That body's charter says "Members agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council". DPRK is a member. Ergo, it agreed to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council.

A decision of the security council was that the DPRK needs to "suspend all ballistic missile activities" and to "abandon all WMD activities." Ergo, that body has decided the DPRK is prohibited from doing those things (the original discussion, remember?). The DPRK has not done so.

Back to the point of this whole thread, the consequence of their not doing so is that member nations are forbidden from doing certain things for/with the DPRK ("sanctions"). Which is what this document is about. To say "how can it be 'prohibited' for the DPRK to engage in ballistic and WMD activities", -that's how-. That's the point of all of this. The UN prohibited it. And stipulated sanctions, which the US is adhering to.

"Well, that's not -illegal- then!" - what does that even mean in that case? "The DPRK didn't agree to -this- particular rule" - so what? I didn't agree to the speed limit; if I decide not to obey it, the US government can still enforce a punishment on me. I'm not really sure what you're arguing, except that the UN doesn't constitute "universal international law", but I don't even know what that means; certainly, whatever it does mean, given your objection, it doesn't exist, so I'm not sure why you'd think "prohibited" must mean the same thing as it; what are you trying to argue? The DPRK has not upheld the things it agreed to when joining the UN, the UN responded, and that response (and what it means for US based corporations) is obviously what is being referred to in the PDF.

>> In any case, if the UNSC did have this power, why would the NPT need to exist

Because ultimately the UNSC will not agree to non-proliferation. The NPT
has no enforcement provision for those who do not sign it, but becomes a way to establish international norms for those who do. In short, the NPT is a way for a country to say "I believe non-proliferation should be standard, and will agree to not do it"; it is opt in, only applies to those who opt in, and any country can opt into it (or out of it). The UNSC is force; an agreement there can be decided on even against the wishes of another member state (as happened with the DPRK), just by dint of that other country being a member state, and carries with it penalties such as sanctions.
I feel you...

:')
At first I merely skimmed and didn’t think much of it, then after reading your post I looked closer. The horror.
One the one hand, you're absolutely right. Anyone who kills themselves clearly had some sort of mental health issue. But on the other hand, he grew up in a wealthy family and briefly attended Stanford -- he had access to some of the best health care in the world already.

So I'm not sure better mental healthcare would have helped. Probably more along the lines of destigmatizing mental healthcare might have helped, which is a much harder problem to solve, but also something that thankfully Millennials/Gen Z are doing on their own. It's no longer taboo to mention that you're in therapy.
These lenders make money on bad and even failed loans. Why sell a car once when you can sell it 3 or 4 times.

"buyer of the 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue at Auto World Auto Sales in February.

A 26-year-old single mother of three, she needed a car to get to her new job as a home healthcare aide. She agreed to pay $3,899 — roughly double book value — and put down $1,200 cash on the deal.

As the due date for her first installment approached, Fields realized she’d need a few extra days to scrape together the $220 payment. The dealership wouldn’t wait. It repossessed the car a week after the payment was due"

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2012-aug-15-la-fi-bo...
Demand is driven by ability to finance. People buy the maximum home they can 'afford' (really, that they'll be loaned most of the time).

That is determined mostly by loan servicing costs to income ratios. What happens when interest rates go up?

Hint: what people can 'afford' changes. And it doesn't get better.

Prices on the market of course won't dip right away, because most sellers don't have to sell right away, and most owners won't have to sell at all. It takes inventory backlogging and houses sitting on the market a few years (usually) before sellers get desperate and start being willing to compete on price. Short sales and foreclosures can force the issue sometimes, but since people REALLY want to avoid those, they also tend to be lagging.

In rich neighborhoods, often the sellers will just pull the listing and wait, both to avoid drops in nearby property values based on comps (neighbors will hate them, and that matters in places like that), and because they have the capital to wait out a downturn and don't want to take the haircut.

The poor/shitty areas though, once the dam breaks it is quite impressive. I've watched it happen a few times now.

This is why real estate is often considered illiquid and hard to value.
I'm looking at my bag of Soylent right now and sunflower oil is not a listed ingredient. Canola oil is the second ingredient. This is the powder.
> Sales of affordable houses under $250k are down 30% YoY

..because those houses are selling for over $250k now?
Not factual but It's pretty obvious that if MS wants to do business in China they can't NOT help the party outside of China.
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> videos... grain being looted by Russian troops...

Oh, that's new. How exactly do they do that?
Do you live in a place where carjackings are common enough to justify making it impossible to give a random friend a ride, somewhere, on short notice?

If you do live with that kind of fear of violent crime in your life, I legitimately offer you my deep sympathies... I've had the privilege of living most of my life in physically very safe places, and I can only imagine how awful this would be.

That said... Individually authenticating passengers in the car would require some extensive, invasive technology. I cannot imagine an effective way to do it... Here in the US, people convicted of drunk driving are often required to install ignition-interlock Breathalyzers as a condition of keeping their driving privileges. But even those systems are pretty trivial for a somewhat determined problem drinker to defeat.

Also, the major loss of functionality (giving rides to people on short notice) would make it a hard sell, except in place where the crime problem was truly terrifying... And at that point, I'd assume that it's easier/cheaper to just hire armed bodyguards to escort you, rather than any kind of technological solution.
Don't forget:

"We're all going to die" is the default state of reality. What matters is "when" and "how".
There are special varieties of corn you can grow for ethanol, but you don't have to, the ethanol plants do not require it.

There are required varieties and practices for growing corn intended for direct human consumption (i.e. making cornmeal or breakfast cereal).

Most corn though goes to animal feed, industrial uses (corn starch, syrup, etc), or export.

(source: am a 5th generation corn farmer)
If this is earnest, I don't mean to minimize your angst, but I thought this was satire. Measuring by number of commits or story points completed is bureaucratic nonsense. What you're describing is not a 10x developer, but a really good bureaucrat, like Hermes Conrad.

As others have said, get a new job. Prioritize finding colleagues that are better than you are.
In the past decade I've also noticed the word 'crisis' being used a lot more in less inappropriate ways. I just found, in today's DDG news stories, headlines about a US border crisis, a baby formula crisis, Sri Lanka having a fuel crisis, the Israeli govt. in crisis, a covid crisis in N. Korea, a mental health crisis in Alabama, a gun violence crisis, a cost of living crisis.... and many more.

Methinks journalists need to buy a thesaurus.
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Yes what remarkable, 'organic' sound. Also 'l'apocalypse des animaux' and his other early albums really. Despite being old synths, they still sound classic
The Economist is the only news publication I pay for, I do wish they were more economics focused (as opposed to politics, though of course the two are fundamentally intertwined).

Any other publications (paid or free) I should be looking at?
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