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My argument is different. I'm not saying that you shouldn't, or that you didn't try to live a more morally good life. I'm saying that you tried, but we don't know if your actions have the effect you want.

It might be the case that you driving less, and trying to be careful about sourcing necessities. But you are contributing more, rather than less, to the benefit of nations/ people you don't like.

The original discussion was you making the claim that working directly under MBS management is morally the same as working in one of the thousands companies that have to obey the request of Saudi Arabia, and I'm asking you to elaborate how to draw the line.
When I start as a mobile lead at GiantNonTechCorpYouWouldKnow, I was looking at one of the two apps I would be leading part of, just to get familiar I looked at all network connections it made and found it called Facebook. I asked product team why we pinged FB given the app it just for our business; they had no idea we even did that, and it was immediately ordered the FB SDK be removed from the app. I never did discover why it was there in the first place.
Just a random, semi-related thought, but maybe if there is a recession, then software as an industry will become more connected to business/engineering fundamentals? I see a few people mentioned Jira busy-work here... maybe the market will actually correct for all of that?
Because they're annoying to wear and unsightly. Simple as that.
They're not easy. They certainly weren't easy for me, but I'm putting in the work and seeing results. My genetics and habits aren't that great either, but habits can be fixed and genetics are a cop-out. Am I gonna end up jacked like a Hollywood action star? No, but that's not genetics; that's money and steroids.
While I miss the ability to create epics, I would say is an Asana otherwise wonderful replacement for Jira.
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To add a different perspective about why someone might not know how legitimate the pills they’re buying are, here’s a photo of a Haitian street vendor with pills: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/67/21/e2672163011a5853ae66...
> I dislike using Jira as much as anyone, mainly because it's so excruciatingly slow.

But there is no competing product (suite) that offers comparable functionality and provides the same long-term flexibilty.

This is maybe true, but the future belongs to more flexible software. Eventually Notion [1] or Fibery [2] will replace Jira. They may do it now for smaller team already (10-500 ppl), it just takes time to enter large companies.

[1] https://notion.so
[2] https://fibery.io
I think the bad outweighs the good here. I'd also add aesthetic, comfort, price, and availability to his "bad" list.
"...This generally leads to AMD vs Intel situation. Don't do this."

Which situation is that? The one where the major player uses its power illegally to stifle its competition?
Featurewise, Taiga is the closest competitor. The only missing bit is mobile apps and real-time notification. Other than that, there's almost nothing that Taiga doesn't do.
I have a pretty serious audio setup for WFH. I assessed throat mics and bone conduction headphones and IEMs, I then ultimately decided against these options and instead went for a front-address microphone on a boom and open circumaural headphones.

In my testing, all of these technologies intended for stealth (primarily) were uncomfortable for long periods of wear/use, and traditional options were massively more comfortable. I wear headphones all day, for instance, as I listen to music when I’m not in meetings.
If I'm not mistaken, Amazon has its own game engine.
But Americans celebrate tolerance and diversity of ideas, that is unless you actually disagree with us.
I'm open to this. I can't believe after 2 years of work from home zoom calls are so bad. Headsets really arent as good as they should be. I'm experimenting with regular shotgun mics but they aren't ideal either. How come if you sit in a room its easy to talk to someone but online people are muffled or too loud or just hard to understand.
Look up ESG scores.
Also:

> People can hear me gulp

Imagine being on a video call with people constantly gulping.
That and people looking like they are wearing some kinky gear.
We seem in fact to gravitate to tribalism if my (admittedly shallow) grasp of history is worth anything.
Maybe I'm just scarred by the fact that I grew up poor when the 2008 crisis hit. So for many people, it might have just been a hiccup, a budget cut here or there. For me, it meant not eating every day.

This is already a reality for many Americans. So it might turn out alright for you...but it will not turn out alright for many many other people.
Hence: Pi-Hole at home, and a on-device VPN that blocks 98% of all that crap.

I am sure they can still get some info and that some requests slip through but I wish them luck building a coherent picture of me by a few scraps of random info.
or to put it another way

anyone who cares about ethics enough to take a job doing it is likely working at a large company whose corporate goals are directly opposed to the ethical limitations of AI because, right now, AIs tend to be biased as !@#$ and it's a bad idea to use them for anything that could have consequences on someone's life, but if you don't use them, then the company doesn't profit, and if you're standing in the way of company profit, you're not going to be in your job long.

[edit: Holy run-on sentences Batman!]
Optimisation algorithms like simulated annealing require some representation to optimise. The most general representation is a computer program, in which case genetic programming might be a better fit :)
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I'd take the author's "final bet" on "Lindy" principles alone, but I also have what I think are good additional reasons to think that physical books are going nowhere.

Perhaps the biggest "negative" one for is, big picture, how utterly silly the ebook experience generally is. I say this thinking about how many of our collective sci-fi dreams are easily achievable today and we still don't do them. As in, I'm old enough to remember fantasizing about the possibility of the Library of Alexandria in your pocket -- and perhaps more importantly -- the excitement of the possibility.

That second thing doesn't much seem to exist. Replaced by utter silliness like *lending* ebooks from the library" which, sure, I get why it happened -- but if you step back it's just absurd.
Isn't it obvious? They look and feel very uncomfortable, and they don't offer any significant advantages over the alternatives. Sometimes being different isn't necessarily better.
Because microsoft dominated a market segment with mostly no competition for long enough to make people dependent in a way that users couldn't simply choose an alternative. There are idiosyncrasies in windows usage that users think are normal, but are actually legacy behavior which can't be changed because it could break other peoples tools. This makes windows users not only locked on the platform but also expect those misbehavior if they try to change. Also consider that depending on the hardware, software or services you use, there is NO alternative to windows.

I don't think the same is true for Unity.
You are optimizing virtues to your convenience. Others are doing it too. Still you are seemingly coming up with a superior attitude about other's behavior.

So, unless you are putting up serious personal sacrifice in real world for your beliefs, this is pure and unadulterated virtue signaling.
Lightning wallets are basically Venmo. Change my mind.
The segment of the population which is both interested enough in what their colleagues are saying, and are interested enough in what their colleagues experience to required change is minimal.
I can't wait for the enterprise version that gets tighter when my code output drops.
Whenever a cheaper Uber would come to my city, I'd drop them within a second.

Isn't the stickiness that drivers will only switch if customers use it, and customers will only switch if drivers use it?
Convection works because density of warm fluid is less than density of cold one. The gravity causes hot fluid to rise, and cold fluid to sink.

For this reason, switching off the gravity stops the convection.
> that is, users can switch to a competitor product like Asana, Basecamp or Monday.com with minimal cost (other than the initial hassle of switching to a new system).

I can tell the reporter has never used or operated something as integral as a ticketing system at scale. These systems are integrated everywhere to automate operations flows. They’re used to continuously enforce compliance. The list goes on. Ripping them out at an enterprise company is very painful. Then on top of all that, you have to re-train everyone on how to use a new system.
Seems like a US recession is 1/3 chance based on current estimates.
The headphones thing is very much a matter of morphology and personal preference. I know for instance anything other than IEMs is intolerable over any significant period of time for myself.
Depends on the device. I had Tomb Raider on my PDA in 2002 and it looked and played just as well as it did on the PC back in 1996. Feature phones like the Sony Ericsson series obviously couldn't handle anything like Tomb Raider but they did an excellent job at stuff that looked reminiscent of the SNES era of gaming. I had a few Zelda-style action RPGs (not Doom RPG weirdly though) that were great fun to play.
HTTP GET is idempotent by the spec. If you login by visiting URL it is not according to the HTTP spec. You should any case have a button that says Login and does HTTP POST.
Yes, teensy 4.x is much faster, probably about 10x, but is also ~10x more expensive.
I can be a fan of Nintendo's game designers without being a fan of their legal department.
Could this be trimming the fat before a potential acquisition by Apple?

I noticed quite a lot of Unity talk in WWDC this year, even helping developers add a11y to their Unity games, whereas Unreal Engine was not mentioned at all.

So I could see Apple adopting an engine like Unity to help build out their games and AR offerings.

SceneKit and SpriteKit have received very little attention over the past few years and RealityKit is still anemic in terms of features.

Unity could also be a weapon to wield against their newfound rival, Epic.

On the other hand, Unity would be an awkward fit into the Apple tech ecosystem because of its reliance on C#.

It’s also buggy as others have mentioned, but Apple has the resources to pay down their technical debt.
Great overview of that art style, its origins/goals/shortcomings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOom5YYv1qQ
"It’s an unprecedented level of openness—and engagement with the community."

Hard to rationalize "unprecedented" with a lack of a Git-repo link for scientific software.
So the ASMR directory of Twitch.
Argentina is not like that. Althought in decline, large part of the population have an apetite for books.
Qala is a program designed to train African BTC and LN developers
gulping sounds & chokers... boy that would make for some fun team calls...
So there were a few.

One of the biggest was that there was an investment tax credit of 7% in the 60's and 10% in the 70's, which I believe was uncapped. I think those were also able to be rolled over to cover multiple years. That means that if you invested enough, you could pay essentially no taxes. This was repealed in 1986.

[edit] Another that I should probably mention is the treatment of asset depreciation; in the 1960's and 70's the government was incredibly generous with regards to asset depreciation. For example, they allowed more rapid depreciation so you can have assets fully depreciated while still within their useful life and potentially if you sold those would pay capital gains tax on them, meaning you reaped significant tax savings over the asset's lifetime.
I think the reference to "too big to fail" (as was the justification for numerous 2008 bailouts) suggests that the author has already made your observation in regard to modern analogues.
I totally see the point, and I wonder if true (really high price) buyers exist, the sums are lesser (but still) but there recently was another story, for simply fake rare games :

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/inside-the-100k-forge...

That I found 'fun' (sorry for the victims) is the amount of storytelling around theses items, it seems there is a lot of roleplaying, storycrafting and even work to create fake old legit copies.
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The gradient is one issue, the other is sending wholesale prices to zero for extended periods most days. That messes with the economy of baseline power generation especially nuclear.
Linear and Asana are far better.

I refuse to work on any project using Jira. It’s the first question I ask in interviews.
not for the joke it isn't; i am not, in fact, thinking of the racial slur; we all have google (but not all of us will idly assume to know the etymology of a project's name based on this); semicolons are awful punctuation
Documentation please. Perhaps SRI originally prototyped on Mathematica, but I do not believe our iPhones are running m scripts in a Mathematica interpreter.
TortoiseSVN is IMO the best way to do SVN. I never got into TortoiseGit though.
I don't know. I'm using the original Pico and not doing WiFi.
That was Amazon Lumberyard, a licensed fork of CryEngine. I don't think it ever got much traction and has recently been rebranded as "Open 3D Engine" and handed over to the Linux Foundation.
Testing a comment.
I am also cryptophobic.

That is why I only use Bitcoin.

Bitcoin, not crypto.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932273
That link to mass movements such as communism is an important point.
I went down this path once. For normal life everything about throat mikes is awful: the sound quality, discomfort, difficult to get positioned correctly, and get to transmit your swallowing sounds to the world.
Thanks for the heads-up!

Some of the site is just ancient and I'm doing a big rebuild right now. I've added a note to fix that. Cheers!
Hot water lines connected to hot water tanks will contain more impurities. Those impurities will slow the melting rate of the ice cubes.
Every time I see articles about Godot on HN I get the impression that it is much easier to beginner developers, hobbyists and amateurs. I think the only thing keeping Unity popular among these segments is popularity. This will probably be fixed after Godot 4.0 release.
Define productivity.

A previous colleague at my company rushed out a load of new code in 3 months, then left the company. What a steaming pile of crap he left us. After nearly a year and a half we have had our first week without support requests related to this. This guy wrote order of magnitude more code than the others on the team, but we have spent many more hours cleaning up the crap he left.
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> I read the article, but it still seems like he went to a huge amount of effort to avoid a little bit of effort.

Yeah. That’s the pivotal part. The story is about where that pivot took him.
Yeah but get this: we'd bring some with us because we'd need it for other stuff.
> People can hear me gulp

That's one of the biggest reasons you don't see them in business settings apart from the tacticool tackiness. The point of a good microphone is not just to clearly hear the voice and to cancel out outside noise but also not to pick up the meat sounds.

Especially when using headphones, other people don't want to hear your meat sounds. They don't want to be constantly reminded that you're made of meat because they're trying their best to pretend that they aren't either.
They doubled their workforce since going public in 2020? Insane
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I am simply listening to what people say when I ask them. You're free to do exactly what I predicted above: attempt to downplay my anecdotal evidence with yours. Not a convincing reply.

Shame that you think a random guy is on a crusade to prove that many (not all) managers are morons. Borderline conspiracy theories.
The problem is not people using shitty external mics, the problem is people using internal laptop mics that is horrible. Any external mic would be a huge upgrade, just don't work from a noisy environment or at least don't take calls from one.

People appreciate good sound when they have to listen, but rarely when other people have to listen to them.

Just buy an dynamic mic if you want a mic that work well even when there is people around you.
It’s challenging to actually buy a Raspberry Pi these days unfortunately. All the official resellers are out of stock of all the other models and resellers have these on eBay for 3-4x the list price. Maybe this one will be in stock for longer…
Clearly we both take the seriousness of her claims differently, yes.

I don’t doubt that it was an unpleasant environment for her to work in, I do not read it as though it was horribly abusive as you seem to though.
> I would guess there are many cases of solo founders shutting down their business other than founder death...

Sure, but it really only makes sense to consider cases where:

A) The business has paying customers

B) It's very important to the customers that this product remain available

C) The founder is unwilling to give or license the source code to those customers

In practice, all three of these factors being present is uncommon. Usually if the product is actually important to a customer, they just pay to acquire the assets. And there is usually no reason for a solo founder not to take that deal if the alternative is just shutting down the business.

For a venture backed business, maybe the lawyers decide there is too much legal risk or whatever. But for an indie hacker, that doesn't happen.

We hear stories all the time of folks getting burned when venture backed startups shut down without giving people any time to switch to another product, or sometimes even to expert their data. When is the last time you heard about this happening from the paying customers of a solo founder? Literally never.
> Could Throat mics be the ultimate in high quality audio for cheap? (not really).

Awesome.

I'm glad OP wrote this up, though. I've always wondered how well those work.
Sure, I am not claiming it's only here or there. I am saying that the average HN poster is very likely to be much more privileged than many other tech workers.
This view is also wrong as inflation is running higher than interest rates so discounting future cashflows at negative real rates should be a win.
Love it. Throat mics and subvocalization are a place that I think would really change how we use devices. Genuinely surprised there's not more investment in this area.

Imagine being able to use an audio interface without speaking, just by subvocalizing. It'd be like magic, you could basically think something and get the answer.
Have you tried to open a PR on the main project? No idea how welcoming they are to outside contributors, but feedback from an instructor, complete with code to fix a pedigogical problem, I would be surprised if they didn't at least give it some consideration.
> is probably the only way to be profitable while doing e-commerce on your own website

This argument is like in sports: Woe me I can't win a price everybody is doping!
No, this was publicized by a respectable publication, not some criminal fly-by hacker operation. So no room for the CEO to press charges.
Grey hair is easily fixed when you can afford to dye your hair. I couldn't do that until I was out of college and had a real job.
> pulseaudio would sometimes stop working, and periodically be broken after upgrades

Some things never change!
The Picos, I believe, are readily available still.
Roblox is not a video game. It's a platform.
I love obstacks, after a lead at a job I was at a decade ago pointed them out to me I always look for a chance to use them, but haven't really had much of a chance.

There isn't a lot of info about them though. Go hunting for performance metrics on them, or discussion of them generally and you won't find much. The glibc pages themselves don't give much justification why you would use them vs malloc, or an arena allocator, etc.
On Bluetooth audio issues: try switching from PulseAudio to PipeWire; it’s better in every way now save perhaps for one or two remaining tiny niches, and pipewire-pulse lets it act as a drop-in replacement for pulseaudio. The usual installation experience is completely uneventful: you install it, restart your session, and everything works at least as well as before.

On the throat mic itself: what does it sound like? I need a sample. I’m having difficulty finding any not-obviously-bad audio samples (e.g. not recording the microphone, but rather the output of a speaker after radio transmission!).

> Good mic sound quality, switch was not detectable to people on the other end, and was clear.

From the impressions I’m getting, I’d be surprised if “not detectable” was accurate—rather, people are used to lousy audio and are not likely to comment on it unless you ask them or it’s just too bad. But yeah, I’d rather like a sample to judge myself.
No portuguese? Weird. 6th most spoken language.
And choice of headphone! Open versus closed headphones lie much different on your head; clamp strength and weight vary hugely as well. I'm on my third set of AKG k702s as the only headphones I can wear for hours; finding the right pair for anyone takes time.
I should write up my solution using a parabolic dish that focuses sound from a relatively small zone where my head (usually) is, into a good cheap mic. You get good isolation (even from keyboard sounds) requires nothing on your head or throat, and ... physics! (You just need to accept a big dish in your field of view, and you also can't pace, walk around, as with bluetooth solutions.)
What does any of this have to do with how the word 'woke' was used?

The word 'woke' has one applicable dictionary definition (and not thousands of years of teachings, etc.) which doesn't align with how I see it used. I'm not asking for a theology lesson, just how OP intended their usage of 'woke' to be interpreted by the reader.

This isn't some 'gotcha' question or start of a debate. I literally am just not understanding what 'woke' is intended to convey, outside of the dictionary definition, especially when used in a derogatory or negative way. Your comment does literally 0 to answer the question, and I fail to see how it is even related.
This is such a tired argument. LGBT+ acceptance is fortunately not limited to « what people do in their bedrooms ».
I guess the cancer is analogous to JIRA itself, not to the migration of JIRA.

Migrating out of JIRA is analogous to "trying to remove an invasive cancer".
Its disparaging to ask for the public codebase that you claim Microsoft is using inappropriately or for you to explain why you think they owe you something?

And how is it disparaging to suggest that if you really think Microsoft somehow harmed you that you go and do the thing that would actually resolve the issue?

I try and learn from my mistakes. Can you describe exactly how I am being disparaging by these comments?

Also, following up, will you share the codebase in question? You said its free, and its clearly something publicly hosted in GitHub otherwise its entirely out of scope from this conversation.
It definitely reads as a personal project and not one claiming a superior solution (“People can hear me gulp”)
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