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I don't understand why so many people are afraid of arbitration either. Filing fees are lower. Documentation required to file is easier.

Federal courts are drug courts. Wait in line. Motion practice is discretionary.

State civil courts are backlogged. Lawyers will file delaying motions to wear you down. You must know what you are doing. The response to a complaint is not an answer, it's a motion to dismiss w/request for sanctions and fees.

In roughly half the States, judges are elected and draw campaign funds from the attorneys who appear before them. You didn't contribute? Back to the end of the line.

AAA arbitrators are often retired judges anyway. The process is easier. There are some negatives but these do not outweigh the pain of a state or federal civil case.
If every pc comes with a free live in support person then sure. You likely have better hardware than the windows 10 PC and have spent far more time an effort in the last year keeping your PC up to date, where the windows PC had none of that.
I'm sorry to hear about your kid. I don't know about your situation to give you any help.
Most of the people have no valid reason at all, they imagining the chains that are holding them down.
There is not always meaning in life, sometime you can just go with the flow and still enjoy life. Travelling is not the answer to everything but it will make you a lot happier if you do it right. It's the not the Destination, It's the journey -- random smart quote.
It might make sense to have both. Its rare to see a home backup system that has as much capacity as this truck. It'd effectively extend your home capacity and also provide a resource that could be charged away from home.

We don't have many grid outages here, but the ones that happen tend to happen around large weather disasters. Commercial areas, often with DCFC tend to get restored a little more quickly than more distant suburban residential power and tbh, most people aren't driving that much during those periods anyway.
Reminds me of Richard Feynman's explanation of a computer as an extremely large and fast filing system

https://youtu.be/EKWGGDXe5MA
For someone who needs to add visuals and deals with more messy content in general, Bear.app is still the best native Mac/iOS solution.
> source ethanol-free gas, rotate gas supplies,

Convert your generator to run on propane. In my experience, propane tends to be more available during natural disaster power outages than gasoline. And it's way less messy. But make sure you have a sufficient number of tanks in advance. Those tend to disappear when there's an outage.

> practice running extension cords to everything so I'm not confused in the dark.

Have an electrician install an inlet outside your house along with a transfer switch:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Reliance-Controls-10-Circuit-30-...

Instead of the transfer switch, your may also (depending upon your local code) be able to go with a simple lock out device in your panel like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Generator-Interlock-Kit-Breaker-Panel...
How well does 4coder support users who like using the mouse?
Yep. Scientists need to learn to differentiate between what needs to be done, and what they want to do. Many are woefully bad at estimating what needs to be done, and therefore they spend many hours doing what they want to do with the stressful mindset that it is something that needs to be done. It happened to me a few times, it happens to everyone to some degree, but the sooner you get a good compass for what you need to do the far smoother your life will be.

My personal example is when I was doing a theoretical project that had a very intense pure mathematical underpinning. I thought I needed to understand it, but my supervisor kept saying "just work through examples that you know the solutions to". I could have spent 100s or even 1000s of hours learning all this pure mathematics but actually if I would have done so it would not really have helped me today. Instead I just needed to do a few simple examples, which took maybe 20 to 40 hours? And then I was basically done with the research and could write the paper. Maybe if you ask some they will say "you didn't really do it, you didn't know the theory, you were just pretending!" but in the end I got the work done that I wanted to get done, and then went and had a beer.
Glass also presents a logistics problem: It's quite heavy/dense! You can save a lot of fuel costs with lighter packaging, and it makes handling pallets of goods much simpler. A pallet of peanut butter in glass would require a motorized hydraulic jack, whereas in plastic could probably (guessing) be moved with a normal pallet jack.
Imran says Pakistan rulers ‘tasked with recognising Israel’
I always thought the 10x came not just from superior skill, but from the particular instinct and ability to write small programs that help you write big programs.

This computer-aided leap in output actually does separate software engineering from every other discipline except things like pure math.
There is, but this is a novety website meant to be shared around with the goal of making an immediate impression. And I didn't even notice the button because everything else is so in-your-face
Frankly, I have a Mac too and I don't like it much. I keep it for the ability to run some pieces of proprietary software like Cubase and Garmin Express and similar tools to keep my gear updated, but OTOH I really dislike the overall software experience. If only it wasn't so painful to dual-boot linux on it, it would probably live running Linux 99% of the time (but when I need to flash some gizmo or import some proprietary music files).
First of all, you are not alone. When I read your post it really resonated with me. I've been developing software professionally for 25+ years and have had 3 bouts of burnout and have gone through the same fear, uncertainty and doubt you seem to be going through. It can get better and there are a few things you can do to help (at least these helped me):

1) Take a break, even 1-2 weeks can make a huge difference. You need to rest and recover so you can get persepective. It's really easy when your in the thick of things to loose sight of how bad things are or see a way out. If you can get away from that for a week or 2 you can start to think clearly again and figure out what you want (and do not want) to do next.

2) Stop working crazy hours. There are times when we need to work really hard to get something delivered, but if you're doing those hours all the time you're going to be exhausted which means you're getting less done in the regular hours and have nothing left to give when it's really needed.

3) Don't sweat about side projects. I have several hard drives full of half-finished or abandoned side projects that will never see the light of day. It used to bother me that I couldn't get them done, but now I treat them as hobbies which should be fun. If it stops being fun I stop working on it.

4) Believe in your abilities. It sounds corny but if you're shipping software then by you're doing the job. Sure we all have things we wish we could do better, but accept that you have skilla and then figure out where you want to go next. As an aside, hacking together snippets of code found on the web is how most software gets built...it's our indeustry's worst kept secret :)

5) Learn from smart people. This one is harder to do but if you can find some really smart people to work with you will learn more than from any other source. This doesn't have to mean changing jobs (although that really helps) it could mean contributing to an open source project you really like.

Hope some of that helps.
This tool is good for making simple UML diagrams and even lets you do it with simplified syntax

https://plantuml.com/

I'd say the big problem in visualizing big systems is that you can't usefully do it in one graph. For instance I worked on a system that had 2000+ database tables if you were going to make a diagram of that which shows everything it is going to take up a long wall. (This can be useful, but it is a big commitment)

A useful tool is going to let you make meaningful diagrams that show the subset of entities that are part of a story. I went to an art show of Mark Lombardi's works

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lombardi

who (before he was murdered) drew elaborate diagrams of conspiracies. One thing they showed was drafts that he made in the progress of creating his visualizations and he would sometimes make 40 or more of them. He would start out with a "hairball" that was disorganized and gradually figure out how to lay the diagram out in a way that made the meaning obvious.
I agree, is a complete fallacy, 10x engineers spend 10x the time solving whatever problem they have. People often confused domain knowledge(gotten through spending time on it, while other were having kids, dinners, you know, ... a life) with genius or exceptionalism.
> it can draw up to 20A

can being the operative word - the LRA (Locked Rotor Amps) of a typical fridge/freezer's compressor might be that high, but starting current is not unless something is hideously wrong. I've never metered mine, but I have ran three fridges and a deep freezer off of a 2200/1800 (start/run) watt generator with zero issues, and plenty of headroom left. The generator has tiny dip when the compressor kicks on, and then it jumps back.

You are correct that sizing cords is very important, though, and something that most people don't do. Also if you have a roll-up extension cord (the kind with multiple outlets at the end), it's vital that it is completely unrolled when in use, so the cord doesn't heat itself.

I run 12 gauge splitters --> 14 gauge for individual loads, but I also know exactly how much those loads are pulling, and have verified it's within safe limits for the wiring.

It's worth remembering that a house's wiring is almost always 12 gauge, and is rated for 20 amps assuming the correct outlet.
just curious - if someone is "fired for cause" (don't feel that this term is universally accurate in its implications but thats another discussion), do you feel they should never get a job again? its some sort of Scarlett letter or brand on them?
> Startups just fundamentally don't have the level of repeatability/predictability at an early stage that would make bulletproof planning possible.

Agreed, startups are often low margin, chaotic businesses at the outset, with poor product/market fit. At the start, these are not "good" software businesses, many of these startups will fail/be bought early/struggle.

Early in my career I sought out teams who had strong "hustle", when I eventually went to work at a big tech - I was surprised at the slower pace.
Why is it a shame culturally? What values are you using to establish that one form of the language is "good" or "pure" and another is "worse" or "eroded" and why should others subscribe to that value system?

Languages change and always have, people noting this is as old as written record about language. People have also always been complaining about it, and ascribing to it some meaning about the increasing degeneracy of the youth or the decline of society or whatever.

The language obviously continues to work fine for the needs people have of it, as it always has. You don't need to like the changes, but you should understand that that is an aesthetic judgement and nothing else. It doesn't indicate or represent anything "going down" or a cultural loss of any kind.
Your reply I'm sure won't be the most popular with the younger generations, but this is more realistic.

edit: A sabbatical may be a good idea in the OP's situation and need not always mean travel. Could also be a pursuit of arts, further his interest in physics etc.
As if Google's response (that they, the largest tech company in the world, can do nothing about it) wasn't antagonistic…
Tell HN: Android Kindle app doesn't allow in-app purchases anymore
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I love (not) these posts that assume we know what it is.
If you live in London, Black Sheep sell high quality Robusta beans. They are very very good and work for different styles (I usually grind and drink as "Turkish").
That's only NY City though. If we consider the trains in Buffalo/Utica/Syracuse/Rochester/Albany I think you'll find it way more grim compared to equivalent German cities than what you're describing.
Ok, I found the answer: it’s supposed to be the average of the difference of temperature over close to a million of region on the earth.
Perhaps they respect it too much. When government is used to control what words people are allowed to use and say, all talk of virtue is meaningless.
Now you want every state to compete for scarce development talent and pay developer salaries? Even on the low end , in most major cities, developers cost $130K-$150K and that’s twice what teachers get paid.

You want every state to be an expert in the literally dozens of areas that they need software?

So now you’re taking budget in the public education system away from teachers to hire developers and hoping the public sector can do a better job. Not even the private sector is dumb enough to bring software development and IT in house for things that are out of its core competency.
Something like "Pandora is a cyber incident response tool automating common analysis methods. Currently, it is focused on office documents" would already be immensely helpful.

... _if_ I understood its purpose correctly that is.
Adding an additional perspective. I'm on the board of directors of my condo corporation, and we have to deal with escalations from time to time for various claims, and threats of lawsuits, etc.

From what I've seen, a perspective of I've collected a bunch of evidence that I'll refer to, but not actually provide, does seem to correlate with those with baseless claims, or those possibly trying to scam the corporation. This is anecdotal from my experience, but has happened more than once. In this case, it might be slightly irrelevant, because the insurer probably has easily verifiably facts on their side to know the calls happened, and the computers were a problem, etc.

But something like the invoice that's being claimed, is an important piece of information. We may want to know what work was done, was it in scope of our responsibilities, call the plumber and verify their credentials, ask them for details not documented, etc. If we have any suspicion the individual is trying to defraud us, not knowing the evidence that supports the amount claimed makes it really difficult to agree to. And if this goes on for a long time, it may be difficult to follow up on those facts.

I don't know about the rules around arbitration specifically, but if this hadn't settled, there may be deadlines involved just like the courts. And anything your doing to make the other side unprepared or to ambush them may be held against you. I don't know that it means you have to lay out everything on day 1, but I wouldn't want to leave anything to the last minute and allow even an argument that I prejudiced the other side by knowingly withholding relevant information.
Comparisons to developing countries usually forget about demand - the average electrical demand in a typical Indian home is hundreds of watts to a few kilowatts depending on how affluent the home is.

The average north american home has several kilowatts of connected loads, not to mention equipment that must run such as heating/cooling, large fridges and myriad electronics.

Banks of lead acid batteries can indeed work but they are large, may leak and always require some sort of hazard protection. You can get around all of this in a country with lax standards but are unlikely to do so in the west.
> If a language has only immutable data structures, it is easy to make it so that self-reference becomes impossible, just by making sure your primitives for constructing values don't permit cycles to be constructed.

Much like the Y combinator comes out somewhat unexpectedly from the pure lambda calculus, my suspicion is that any sufficiently rich data-construction language will allow, intentionally or unintentionally, for some sort of self-reference.
I've worked as a contractor at a large corporation when they were having layoffs. It's mostly luck. From an accounting standpoint, cutting contractors does not have the same impact as cutting full time employees, especially for publicly traded companies. Analysts want to see reduced headcount. But keeping a bunch of contractors when employees are getting axed makes everyone uncomfortable. In the end, it's mostly luck and out of your control.
Such a database would be hugely helpful across chemistry. Right now it’s extremely expensive to access databases like Reaxys or Scifinder, and they’re not usually programmatically searchable at scale. Some databases do exist based on the patent literature (https://depth-first.com/articles/2019/01/28/the-nextmove-pat...) but they’re not as well curated or complete. A pubchem like database for reactions would be really awesome.
Writing or riding? :)
I wonder if aluminum-air primary batteries could be useful for home backup. The energy stored in aluminum anodes is very large.
Buttplug: Open-source standards and software for controlling intimate hardware
Reminds me of:

When Peña downloaded the Bird app and agreed to its terms in August 2018, he unwittingly indemnified Bird against any lawsuits. Bird now claims that Peña owes the company $322,171, the amount it has spent so far defending Los Angeles against the lawsuit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908416
That's good to know, but it is way too much, besides I hate all kind of virtualization (Docker, Wine, VMWare), hate it. The only one I tolerate ins QEMU 'cause I can play with my toy OSes there. From time to I design a plan to make some sort of Sumatra version for Linux, but it is probably more bite that I could chew.
As a dev, if I had to choose a single platform it would never be Windows.

It’s fine as the OS that I use to play games or occasionally poke at a hobby project in Visual Studio (full fat version, not VS Code) with, but the moment I start trying to use it for actual work it starts driving me insane. It has just as many papercuts as desktop Linux does, just in different places and with far less flexibility to fix any of them. Like yeah, Linux has some legit annoyances but at least I could fix them either by installing a different package or writing something of my own if it’s bothering me badly enough.

I certainly wouldn’t choose Windows over macOS. Among macOS, Windows, and Linux, easily Windows is the one that gets booted out.

> People that will disagree haven't used Windows in years.

Nah, I have a Ryzen 5950X/3080ti tower running Windows 11 (and formerly 10). It gets used at least every other day. I’m plenty familiar with Windows, and it still drives me crazy when using it for anything more than a fancy game console.
There are municipal resource colleges. They're called community colleges. They are extremely affordable. Very few people want to go there.
Out: Emmanuel Orangestein.

In: Elonnuel Goldstein.
> I'd suggest joining a Crossfit gym or similar.

Isn’t there a popular joke about these being cult-ish?
Matt Parker attempted to run dozens of random Python scripts on his LED Christmas tree. Python is notoriously bad for repeatable builds. Evidently most people don't even bother to write down their dependencies in a pip requirements.txt file. Or Matt doesn't know how to use one. Or both. There's a good reason he began the LED challenge by limiting the third party libraries to just a few specific, well known frameworks. I don't think he indicated any particular version (of the frameworks or of Python).

It's 2022 and there are still broken widgets that target 2.x. I believe the Doge guy when he says Musk can't even run Python code due to his ineptitude. I also believe Python is a gamble.
DRM and traffic shaping to stop file sharing are better examples of loom smashing.
> Side note: it's funny how formerly closed-source projects always open up to have tons of spaghetti code and bad design planning.

I was curious after you said this, so I took a look at the 4coder source. It looks like very straightforward code. The files are clearly marked so you know exactly what they do, the APIs look simple and reasonable, and they have clearly marked folders containing all platform specific code. I'm not sure why you put this side note here, but it doesn't seem to hold water in this case. The code is definitely not spaghetti, and it looks like it was designed with quite a bit of forethought.

Edit: I would just like to add that I saw the author left several comments about the state of the code in the Readme that imply the code is very unstable. I think developers tend to be very critical of their own code, but when I took a cursory glance at the code from an outside perspective it seems much easier to follow then many other projects I've tried to take a look at. For example, for a quasi-open source project, ffmpeg is extraordinarily complex and hard to follow. So I definitely don't think OSS = super well designed code haha
Electricity isn’t free. You should include that in your comparison costs.
Specifically for TypeScript I created a CLI to visualize the call graph

https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph

Works for _functions_ not classes. I'm unsure how useful this tool is, but I suspect it might be helpful in some codebases.
Pop_OS is Ubuntu without snap but Flatpak instead. I love it :)
> What kind of idiot is going to shell out six grand just to drain his truck battery for the same purpose?

This one, I already have. I paid more than that for two Tesla powerwalls. I use them for load shifting. I charge at night when electricity is cheap and use them during the day. They already paid for themselves in savings. Oh yeah, no more power outages either.
And how you get mainframes managing their unemployment systems that can’t handle the load when unemployment spikes during a worldwide crises like what happened two years ago.
Based on my experience running all manner of clapped out junk with engines 2-3yr for an engine that sees dozens of operating hours per year and runs on propane/natgas seems fine. You're not pampering it by any means but you're not neglecting it either. Engines running on gaseous fuels tend to have really clean oil.

I'd be more concerned about things nesting in it than anything else.
The Need for New Communities in the West: How Ayahuasca Changed My Perspective
Yes, that is still working, I don't know about the buenos aires city project.
I've considered it, yeah. The truck's other advantage of course is that it's a truck. I have an older Honda Ridgeline that is perfect for me in terms of size (I don't tow anything, but frequently load the bed), but it is horrible on fuel consumption. 14 MPG (~ 17 L/100 km) or so is common for around town, 20 MPG (~12 L/100 km) on the highway if I'm lucky. With fuel costs rising as much as they do, it starts to make a little more sense.

The ROI on a new one would still be extremely long, but it starts to become more justifiable as features like this are added. If Ford makes an electric version of the Maverick - their small truck - it'll be a very easy decision, assuming it can still power a house.
M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
Regarding your side note, they're at least transparent about that. :)

> I DO NOT recommend learning from this codebase, especially not with an uncritical eye. It may be a useful reference for certain algorithms and architectural ideas, and it certainly contains some cautionary tails. But if you are a beginner, I encourage you to aim for more than emulating the style and structure of this codebase.
https://archive.ph/85OiW