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If you want to just code, just code.

I accept you're a gifted coder, and that you're better than your peers. Good, then do exactly that.

Being good at mentoring people is only vaguely correlated with being good at code. IMHO, the main factor that will make you good at something is caring about it, and if you don't want to talk to people you'll waste your skills.

There is someone out there who would love to talk to people, worry about their development, figure out how to best use your skills and so forth. Let them do it.
Here’s a good guide from 1917 — after the Haber process was invented, but before its widespread use in the Green Revolution. https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/ORC00000242/PDF
There is some speculation that the liberal democratic rumblings from Zelenski are what forced Putin to act. I have no illusions that a country with deeply rooted corruption issues like Ukraine can turn on a dime, but he was at least voicing support for the idea. If he managed to root out some of the corruption then Putin would lose the ability to puppet the state entirely, and that's a slippery slope to becoming part of Europe and being lost to Russia forever.
What style of touchpad does the device have? Is it a force sensor style (macbook), hinged (most recent thinkpads), or one-big-button (also some thinkpads had this)?

I absolutely despise the hinged touchpad on my thinkpad as you can't click unless you're pushing on the bottom half of the touchpad. A force sensor touchpad alone would make me put in an order for a framework laptop
Developers Should Experiment with the Fediverse
Only you can stop narcissism.
VCs don’t invest in chip manufacturing improvements because improvements are incremental so there's no return. But the point remains: it's private investment.

They do invest in new chips. There's a bunch of "AI" chips funded by VC which are focused on the outside returns available by improving training performance. These are all funded by private investment.
> If you think "liberal democracies" still carries the same positive vibe across the world that it used to some years ago you are in for a big surprise.

I mean, I agree that it doesn't carry the same positive vibes that it used to, but it still carries much better vibes than "corrupt authoritarian semi-dictatorships".

To those who might try going "muh western propaganda" on this, save your time. I am speaking as someone who grew up in one of those "corrupt authoritarian semi-dictatorships" and eventually immigrated to a "liberal democracy".
"Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music."

He seems to have had his own musical notation, of a sort. You can see him using it at the beginning of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU
Surprising; never knew anyone whose G5s died on them (the systems, sure, but not the CPUs). My dual '04 cpus are still chugging along just fine.
To be fair when MacBook move to typec one can charge on both sides for many years, and I kind of look forward to a future when all port use typec
But when it comes to inside Mac by no mean compares to framework
Working in Public – Bluesky
I've had an idea for a Python web app framework (because that's what Python needs, another web framework), maybe I'll have a "use_cats" option to automatically use these with status codes.
> Nobody should take anything they say seriously

It's almost amazing that the newspapers reprint what Putin says, as if it was something to take seriously. Without explaining to the readers that Putin is trying to manipulate them. -- They're sometimes letting themselves be a megaphone he can use, I think.
As I was reading the article (in which I learned a ton about Rust, of which I know little), I kept thinking "I know that guy!".

Then I realized the OP was THE "Bunnie" of Xbox reverse engineering fame [1]. <3

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang_(hacker)
I really don't see in which way the second case is less verbose especially if you add a non-void return type, e.g. i32. The first case would also be doable like this, which is pretty munch the exact same than your first example with the added "template" keyword

template<std::floating_point T>
void func(T t) { ... }

(also, it's not really equivalent - if I'm not mistaken with traits you can only use what the trait declares ; in C++ you can for instance do something like

template<typename T>
concept CanBlah = requires (T t) {
t.blah();
};

and still be able to do

void func(CanBlah auto t) {
log << "func:" << t;
t.blah();
}

instead of polluting the prototype with all possible side concerns)
omg... I need something like this!
It might be helpful to think about what you mean by “help.” It sounds like people fairly frequently come to you for your opinion, to get an answer to a question or to solve a problem. It is extremely easy to give them what they’re asking for (the answer, a solution,) and it even feels helpful in the moment.

This doesn’t help people grow in the long term, though. It builds dependence on you and your skills. You can quickly become the bottleneck (unintentionally!) and the “smartest guy in the room” by virtue of handing out answers and hoarding domain knowledge instead of developing the people around you.

I don’t know you, so I don’t know if this is what’s going on. If it sounds familiar though, I have two suggestions. First, read The Phoenix Project and pay attention to the character arc of Brent and see if his journey rings any bells. Second, next time someone comes to you for help, or asks for your opinion, instead of giving them the answer directly, coach them through the problem solving process by asking questions until they arrive at the answer themselves. This will help develop that problem solving muscle that they need and help them to level up.
Oh, this is an experimental result? You've found a bug in Github's parser. You should call it a "bug", not an "annoyance".
A small child, laid to rest 78,000 years ago
Oh certainly it is important to have some kind of cut-off to prevent back-feeding the power lines, but I thought that would just be part of the system design.
> So on average, the other team members complete about 3.2% of the work, and he does 71%.

Without further context, though, those numbers are meaningless. There's been spans in my career where those sorts of numbers would apply to me but not because I'm an nX developer but because, e.g., a lot of the stories were related and it made sense for me to do them as part of an ongoing sequence whilst the others handled, e.g., bug fixes in other areas.
Beautiful Simpsons reference, thank you.
It was great in the old days of high interest rates, not so much at low ones.
In 2008 I was 28 and I barely registered something is happening. Mind you, that was in Europe.
> A ponzi scheme is ANY financial scheme where old investors are paid exclusively by new investors

No, that assumption (emphasis added) is popular but utterly false.

In a Ponzi scheme, cash from new buy-ins gets FRADULENTLY reported to existing participants as dividends from the underlying business or investment.

That fraudulent reporting of fake-dividends is essential to the scheme, because it's how the scammer lures in successive waves of investors to keep it perpetuated.

Unsustainable optimistic speculation != Ponzi Scheme
"diatomaceous earth"

This is also a suspected carcinogen. I'd be careful about putting it on food, even if you do wash it.
IMHO this analogy doesn't really click, on multiple levels. Any old timer who uses jQuery surely is also aware of querySelectorAll and friends. There's even an entire website dedicated to catering to exactly that transition[0]. I don't think anyone defending jQuery is doing so out of a sense of hubris towards outdated knowledge, but rather because it ironically is more lightweight than a lot of the modern SPA craze, while still being more ergonomic than vanilla JS.

To try to shoehorn this back into the compiler analogy, modern frameworks would be like the advanced, complex and opaque compiler, and the grey beard is the guy that understands how stuff like HTML streaming and font download prioritization and hidden classes affect performance, whereas the team lead is analogous to the run-of-the-mill bootcamp grad that knows how to use the framework-du-jour but is way out of their depth if venturing outside the comfort of the framework and into the depths of those advanced topics.

And I think the gov.uk use case here might actually be an outlier in the sense that it actually considers performance of an already tight codebase, whereas a lot of jQuery deprecation efforts bring with them heavier alternatives in the name of maintainability or developer productivity or hiring or whatever. To be clear, many of these concerns are quite valid, but it seems a bit disingenuous to create a false dichotomy between understanding of low level concerns vs concerns about SDLC management. They aren't mutually exclusive.

[0] https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
> The business answer for this is properly configured firewalls and proxy servers, but that's too much for the average home user.

So what is the alternative for the average home user?
R.I.P. Vangelis.

That Blade Runner soundtrack was something really special.
Ok, but I still don't see why you can't move that intermediary to the client. Spin up a docker container and run the game server there. Ta-da! You have the same security as with a remote server.

My point is that IPv6 restoring the end-to-end principle need not jeopardise the - real or perceived - security of multiplayer games.
Someone did tests on it before this and found that with how many versions and cdn sources there are, your exact jquery is almost never in the cache.
poor example compared to his lifetime of work, but this was a beautiful advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyyJaX0j3Y
Wow, lucky you!
Exploring the Dow-Jones Industrial Average Using Linear Regression
Only if you use traditional farming. Hydroponics, Aeroponics, and Aquaponics use far less resources (more startup capital but far less inputs), can grow year round (assuming indoor grows), and has 5-10x the yield per sq ft.
They threaten everyone and change their mind all the time. It's mostly irrelevant to what they actually do.
My friends were talking about his. If a food shortage hits the plan is to consume the perishable stuff while massively cutting calories.

The goal is to reduce excess muscle and reduce the metabolism.

Rip off the bandaid and then the food rationing won't be as uncomfortable.

After a few days of fasting you lose a lot of your hunger.
what’s rampant is billionaires ”amplifying” vapid narcissism because they want a disempowered population with no good role models or values other than the worship of money, and the path to money is being a cog in the western MCI/global supply chain/the great satan. people don’t want to build the surveillance state for google if it means they are going to be shamed and looked at as creeps. but if you give them enough money, they can film the crispest videos with their most expensive phones of their most expensive houses, making them de-facto cool, because everyone else is poor/a loser.
jQuery emerged from the market and it's pretty close to what developers wanted to express.

JS is design by a committee full of people afraid to come out as "not-as-kind" and completely detached from reality.

True, doing some of the things which were half an hour on stack overflow or 1 line of jQuery became a couple of lines of vanilla JS but the API is still pretty awful.

Think about XHR > fetch vs $.get or $.post

I agree, I'll try to use vanilla JS and google something when I need to ship some code - but for hacking around I'll just bring in jQuery and write 1-liners at blazing speed.
> consensus is truth, for all practical purposes

Oof, you are definitely right about this. Very few people are able to distinguish truth where it deviates from consensus, and basically no one can do it in domains where they lack expertise.

That said, there is no scientific consensus about the causes of the obesity epidemic, so I'm not sure what criticism you're directing at me, exactly -- though I deduce from your tone that I triggered you in some way.

I'm not putting forth any fringe theory about the causes of the obesity epidemic; the link I posted examines common explanations for the epidemic and tries to figure out whether they're valid, and if not, what other causes there might be. They don't claim anything definitive, in the end, because it would take actual studies to prove any real connection. They're pretty clear about what they can and can't claim.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean:

> it doesn't have even 1% of the rigor and reproducible evidence behind it. That kind of attitude is absolutely glorifying ignorance and is utterly toxic to actual progress.
'Operating System'
It doesn't really matter how good or fast you are at developing, starting a company is a whole different ball game. The overhead of winning and retaining clients will very quickly ruin any 10x advantage you have.

Side note: Judging from the story points it looks like this is a 23x developer not 10x ;)
I don't know what "that" refers to, but I was at Nokia for a long time while they did 5,10,15% layoffs and it did destroy the morale, people started running for the hills as soon as they could.

AirBNB did a 25% one-off layoff and is now doing fine.

I don't know of any 70% layoffs but I tend to agree that cutting once and hard is the best approach, given what I experienced with paper-cut layoffs.
"What they were into, big time, was canning vegetables, and gardening (to grow stuff to put in the cans). Man, were they ever into canning vegetables."

Ditto
> This modern layout has advantages: for example, the space between the keys makes it more comfortable to use with nails, so I no longer have to keep them short.

Layout and the shape of keys are orthogonal concepts.

But yeah, you're right that there aren't many options these days, and the T25 is getting old. :-(
> Shinto has been reduced to consist almost exclusively of ritual,

I really don't think this is true, or rather: it is a view shaped by biased expectations of how a "real" religion should look like, namely like the Abrahamic ones.

Shinto always was a religion of rituals that aim to gain some measure of control over a chaotic world.

>with little belief for gods,

That is definitely untrue - Shinto is all about gods. Just not omnipotent big-G Gods. Shinto Kami are approachable spirits of nature and places, who might grant you a boon if you do the right things and it is in their realm of responsibility.

>souls, or the afterlife.

Yes, Shinto does not have a concept of "soul" and doesn't concern itself much with an afterlife (that's why Japanese people get Buddhist funerals) - but why would it absolutely have to?
I've owned 4 or 5 of the CPUs on that list over the years. I'm sure there are worse.
We're not talking about land that cattle graze on, we're talking about land that is used to grow grains that are then fed to cattle.
And don’t forget that sperm counts have dropped a frightening amount, and that plastics leech hormone analogues.
"Unfortunately, there is no cure for narcissism"

I can't imagine this will ever change. How do you encourage someone who seeks the admiration of others at all costs to simply stop?
Without a shred of evidence, I'm sure the increased use of social media is at least partially to blame.
I always "!wiki http status codes", but I think I like your way better. May start doing that.
That's good to know.

Use "size" to check sizes; the raw file size could be including unknown amounts of extra material like debug symbols.
Isn’t this a bit of a false dichotomy though - solving a (potential) world food shortage or not; being more efficient than industrial farming or not; feeding one’s self/family completely via gardening or not gardening at all?

It seems to me that the more people who supplement their food supply with goods that don’t depend on imported supply (home or community gardens) lessens demand fractionally on the general supply, which fractionally helps with local pricing and household budgets, both of which are positives.

I’m not sure it’s ever been a requirement of victory gardens to be completely autonomous unless ur a hardcore prepper.
It's very much a work in progress, especially since overall progress is happening at the same time.

27 countries need to coordinate to first agree to grant the EU the power to take over some aspects and then those same 27 countries need to actually do the work, together with the EU, to standardize that aspect. Then the standard needs to be adopted and enforced.

The EU has less power than a confederation, which is a very weak supra-statal organization. So everything is very, very slow.

The EU is gradually able to do more and more, but the time frames are decades long.
I don't know if we're just exceptionally lucky, but my friend group - the vast majority of which are still doing coding/sysadmin/devopsy stuff - are in our 40s and we have all had no problem finding employment.

I think a major factor is that the field just exploded so much over the past 20 years. Statistically, people over 40 are going to be in the minority.

I also do think a lot of startups maybe aren't the best place for older people. My brain wastes a lot of cycles on edge cases I've learned to identify from experience, that don't matter if you just need to slop some shit out the door ASAP.
That is strange since the only url showing on the thread is the one I posted.. Could you please repost the link to the source you are making reference to?
It's probably slugs and not squirrels.

Slugs will eat 1/2 a tomato in a night.
It's for two reasons.

1. Not killing linemen by backfeeding power

2. Your appliances don't like brownouts and voltage dips whenever a cloud passes overhead. Try to run a house without a power buffer and you'll burn up power controllers all over your house.

Unfortunately the battery market is extremely tight due to so many car manufacturers trying to switch to BEVs ASAP and stressing the raw materials markets. That and COVID shortages. Prices are very high and availability is usually "8-12 month waitlist".
This sounds a bad but imo it is a smart risk to take. They will not outcompete the payments market, but working directly with creators is something they could wipe the field with. Especially if they treat those creators well unlike some of the other companies like this.
> who have even more money to spend

?

I'm guessing it's a joke about the government printing money, and the surrounding fiascos?
I thought this would be a retrospective on the infamous Good Times email virus. Good times.
I remember evaluating the 960 for an embedded router project and it was quite a nice ISA. Plus the 66 Mhz CA part was fast for the price at the time.
> Few are favor of higher taxes because they currently feel that they get (next to) nothing from what they pay now. Who wants to pay more for more nothing??

Interestingly, a lot of these people also aren't in favor of paying less for less nothing.
Having been at times a manager and other times and IC, there are some great opportunities in each role, and it really depends on your organization.

If you haven't read it, "Staff Engineer" outlines some of the ways more experienced engineers continue to grow and provide value without becoming managers. I'd say the first half of it is worth a read to see if it sparks anything for you.

I will say that it gets lonelier as you go along either track. Reach out to peers if you have any. If not, try to reach out to folks outside of engineering.

It's a tricky path, and I wish you the best.
The subprime space is really interesting vs mortgages. Like others mention, the due diligence these providers run for these is minimal.

The business model has been so successful in recent years because there have been such large numbers of applicants. Even though they approve only a fraction, the sheer volume means their business is booming. This all translates into not having to dig any deeper than credit scores.
If it's not localized, it might as well not exist for 95% of customers in a country.
There's been a couple of comments suggesting that emmental and gruyère are easily confused. I don't find that, with one exception.

With the help of my local cheese shop (mentioned upthread) I came across what they call "proper" emmental, which is a very mature emmental, a bit like a mature gouda. Only a bit rubbery. And silly expensive, but very nice.
Just move to a more intense company, or internal group, or a startup. I'm not familiar with how good you are, or your company, but I can almost guarantee there is a lot of stuff out there much more intense than the current place. And you can totally remain an IC if that's what you like.
Intel was too expensive for me, so I ended up buying a Cyrix => performance (floating point) was terrible in Falcon 3, I was sooo sad - but on the other hand that gave me until today the push to really focus on details before taking a decision => thank you Cyrix for having changed my life hehe.
> Because at some point the West will have to sit at the negotiating table with Russia.

The whole point is that you can't negotiate with Russia. Ukraine gave away it's nukes by negotiations and Russia isn't keeping its end of the bargain. Russia has to be defeated like the Japanese did or collapse like it tends to do from time to time.
Re: your second paragraph, what does that have to do with OPs ability (regardless of appropriateness to the firm, his career arch, or the story) to perform as a manager. He/she might be great, normal, or terrible. How can you tell apriori from what they wrote?
If you plan to move in the next 6-12 months, you are probably better off moving now.
I see you're getting downvoted for this, but NHTSA just released some data yesterday showing that out of 42 crashes involving cars operating under ADAS systems, 37 of those crashes were Teslas. 14 people have died in Tesla vehicles with Autopilot enabled, while only 1 person has died in an ADAS related crash in any other make of vehicle.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTH1w3SXoAEVS7K?format=jpg&name=...
Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete
"If you must panic, panic early. Be scared when you can, not when you have to. "
@nntaleb

I was an independent consultant from a 2001 dot-bomb layoff to the beginning of 2008. I saw hard times coming and took a job with the most bomb-proof client I had, and it worked out really well.
It is! The easiest design is to require existing grid stable power and supplement it. :)

Anything else is difficult to do reliably, and would generally require some kind of smart monitoring system, electrically actuated mains rated switch (not easy, cheap or durable it turns out), additional sensors, etc.

The design we're talking about just doesn't output power unless there is an existing sine wave to follow. Pretty foolproof, since anything that provided it would also be the one responsible for electrocuting the worker.
> It probably won't happen because the West doesn't like to see itself as being involved in the war (in a way similar to what Russia thinks about itself)

Ridiculous equivalency. Your boogeyman "the West" didn't attack Russia and doesn't have troops in Russia.
It depends on the company, on the country and the manager.

I sometimes organize dinners for my team (it's France after all). People can freely come or not and there is always someone who does not come. This someone changes all the time and nobody is keeping count.

I know my team inside out and, believe me, they will say when something pisses them off. Clearly. The dinners are not one of these things.