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At some point companies may even try having some employees offer to work from somewhere other than the office, like a coffee shop or even home if you absolutely had to, to deal with any over-crowding issues that come up from this. You can’t really work in the office if it is over-subscribed. Can’t have people standing around waiting for desks. (Hmmm… or conference rooms for that matter…)

Sure you won’t get the in-office perks, but the company appreciates your understanding.
What do you use customer support for? Do you have that much trouble?
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I have gotten random spam email to one so far from https://parkmobile.io/ and it came from them getting breached.
A lot of projects will never need beyond the scale that a SQLite host can offer, and gain from the lower bills and simplicity of a single host.

$8/month of GCP gives you 0.6GB memory and a single shared vCPU (no SLA), and you still need an application server. So with the same 'micro' specs for an application server, you are paying $16/month. With SQLite you can easily deploy to services like Hetzner Cloud and get 4vCPU + 8GM RAM for ~$15/month and use Litestream for backup.

There are definitely trade offs with SQLite around low write performance (due to single writer limitation), and definitely not as feature filled as Postgres, but I think a lot of people underestimate the read performance and simplicity of a single host setup. And now with sidecar setups like Litestream, backup and disaster recovery of data is also a lot simpler and again, cheaper. With added attention, hopefully SQLite will continue to improve with extensions like Spatialite and others. Schema changes are still a point of friction as your data grows larger, however fairly stable heavy read scenarios, the simplicity of a SQLite setup is very nice to use.

Don't get me wrong, Postgres is a great default, but for a growing number of use cases, SQLite can be an extremely portable, cheap and efficient setup.
.NET5+ its my choice as a SME with this challenge. I run the same code across every device and only support what MS supports. These days u could likely redo this with a webview and wasm... Let the webview handle the graphics abstraction for you!
Cupertino should be annexed by Sunnyvale.
Good question. I toyed with this idea for a while but realized that it doesn't work (if you do it legally/ethically) because most businesses aren't sensitive to the types of incentives you can offer them. If they signed up for $500 in year 1, and they can refer someone and get 50% off in year 2, they don't care. Either they have the budget allocated for year 2 or they don't.

Of course, you can offer the incentive to the individual, not the company, but then you're on thin ice. Giving someone an iPad as a thank-you? Not something I'm comfortable with. Taking someone to an expensive dinner? That happens quite a bit, both as a thank-you for referrals, and in the sales world in general. That sort of stuff makes me feel uncomfortable, although I get that it's a continuum from 'regular business meal together' to '$300 per-person meal at fancy steakhouse'.
Well then.. has.. it worked? No? What went wrong?
Or swc https://swc.rs/
I love the style of this blog.
Depend on what size the webapp is.

sqlite.com seems a pretty good cut off traffic volume, I would guess between 95-99% of all web apps are probably consistently getting less traffic than sqlite.com
We used SQLite to store the time series data used to show network activity in McAfee.com Personal Firewall circa 2002 or so. Anyways,acording to the Wikipedia page for SQLite AOL funded the development of at least some of SQLite 3 in 2004. I remember that we didn’t upgrade right away, or if we ever did for that matter.
I think one of the issues is that there's just so much of it. In many part of Europe you can find archaeology pretty much anywhere outside of cities and other areas that have been developed in modern times. The article mentions "250,000 monuments in the Republic". I went hiking around Co. Cork a few years back and you can find neolithic monuments all over the place if you pay a bit of attention.
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the travesty is actually that these religious cults are being remembered instead of the natives who they committed genocide against.
It's not exactly normal, but it's probably a common enough experience in the US with 120v circuits and 15A breakers. Especially if in an old building with imperfect wiring causing excess resistance.

Many devices also operate less efficiently in high heat. If the AC unit is on a circuit with other devices, it is possible that the influx current when starting the AC unit trips the breaker. One might even be able to get away with 2 AC units on a 15A breaker as long as both compressors never start at the exact same time, but cause a trip when then kick in together.
> To me the beautiful thing about trying to get randomness is that as long as you have one random source then you have randomness. I.e. non-random XOR random => random.

Only if the sources choose their numbers independently of each other. If the non-random is a function of the random source (e.g. the identity), then the result isn't random, it's a constant 0.
Who wants to spend all day and night in the same place unless you live in a mansion?

Don't people get sick of staring at the same four walls all day?
It just makes no sense to use AWS.
You sleep better knowing there aren't extra charges you can't expect on sudden egress traffic rise by choosing sane providers.

The only place it's good for is for backups where traffic is almost one way.
Ask HN: What made you leave your comfortable tech role?
I've often wondered what it would take for me to leave my current, cushy, position at `big tech`. When I say cushy, I'm talking about the stereotypical tech role that you could coast on for 15 years, live a 1% (globally) life, retire early.

Every so often an interesting role comes my way, but it's never been "enough" (pay, prestige/title, lack of risk, and so on) for me to seriously consider changing paths.

I'm interested to hear everyone's story; so, why did you leave your similar-sounding role.
There may be a forum somewhere where those people don't post, but I have not yet found it.
Tried Mandrill/Mailchimp transactional email earlier this year and it was trash, we already had an established marketing account and they insta banned me for sending a single test email to myself before we even started using it. They flagged the account for "suspicious access" with no way to resolve even though I followed all their steps.

It seems that most of these transactional email companies concept of "100% delivery guarantee" excludes you from that guarantee... they aggressively and pre-emptively protect their servers from being blacklisted by autoblocking you first based on some heuristics and then very slowly or possibly never unblocking you manually later through useless support staff. Guilty until proven innocent.

Settled on Postmark (after trying pretty much all the popular transactional mail services without success), which has so far been golden, customer support will actually help you resolve an issue if there is one, plenty of forewarning with transparency before any blocking, the front end is exemplary of clear usable UX. It also lets you sandbox transactional mail into "servers" so that one bad source can't affect another.
>> Emotion is beating logic here I think

It is not.

>> the only people pushing for return to office are the managers against the wishes of many employees. They are the ones who felt slighted and made obsolete

This is the organizational logic working.
I love when I read headlines like "Actually people who get paid less are happier and more productive."

Yeah sure, maybe if you include the middle management staff in your regressions.
Yes, it was Toy Story 2.

https://screenrant.com/toy-story-2-movie-deleted-accident-re...
The takeaway is that you are sailing your boat perpendicular to a very strong current. Modern technology will try to fight/overcome it; the suggestion is to let nature exert her forces. Don’t point the boat at your destination!
Yes. Thankfully, laptops are fairly portable.
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If what you're doing works for you, great, but in case it stops working at some point (or if for some reason you need to build on a current-gen distro version), you could also consider using this:

https://github.com/wheybags/glibc_version_header

It's a set of autogenerated headers that use symbol aliasing to allow you to build against your current version of glibc, but link to the proper older versioned symbols such that it will run on whatever oldest version of glibc you select.
That's the failure mode for bad disk, but are you saying that in the normal case of live migrate (eg BIOS update needs to be applied to host machine), that the (data on the) local SSD is a also seamlessly moved to the new host, seamlessly and invisible to the guest VM?
Wine-like things have long been called emulators.

When I was at Interactive Systems Corporation in the mid to late'80s and we were porting System V Release 3 to the 386 for AT&T, we wrote a Wine-like program called i286emul to run 286 System V Release 2 binaries. We and AT&T called it an emulator [1].

Later AT&T and Microsoft and Sun were involved in various projects to merge features from System V R3, BSD, SunOS, and XENIX into System V R4. As part of that they wanted a way to run 286 XENIX binaries, and Microsoft contracted with Interactive for that. We wrote another Wine-like program for that called x286emul. We and Microsoft called it an emulator too [2]

The XENIX emulator led to the stupidest meeting I have ever had to attend. Microsoft said there was an issue with the kernel that could not be resolved over the phone or email. So me and the other guy working on x286emul had to go to Microsoft for a meeting.

A flag needed to be added to the process data structure that would tell the kernel to make some slight changes to a system call or two, due to some differences between System V and XENIX. It was something like XENIX having separate error codes for some things System V rolled into one, or something like that.

The meeting was about how to set/clear that flag. Microsoft wanted to know if we preferred that it be done as a new flag to an existing system call or if a new system call should be added. I looked at the other guy from Interactive and said something like "A flag's fine for me", he said he agreed. We said "flag" to Microsoft, and the meeting ended.

That couldn't have been handled by phone or email?

[1] http://osr507doc.xinuos.com/man/html.C/i286emul.C.html

[2] http://osr507doc.xinuos.com/man/html.C/x286emul.C.html
It’s usually the whales.
You can have spontaneous discussions with people you know to be disclosed (three websites sucks); you don’t need to re-look them up every time. You can also talk about things that don’t require disclosure.
> different people have different ideas and requirements about how they want things like this to work

Agreed. But I can't convince people and family to use Signal if I know that one day they will inevitably lose the pictures of their loved ones. Because that's how most people use communicator apps.
Yes. One of the funny things about having a lot of money is that it makes a lot more sense to borrow someone else’s money than spend your own. I can’t speak to the specifics, but I’m willing to bet Apple took out some very large loans to build Apple Campus.
I really like WFH. But I also enjoy working with people F2F.

Discussions around topics happen spontaneously without a meeting and an agenda. Insights created in these type of meetings is very hard to replicate in remote settings.

Also, going for lunch with colleagues is something I don’t want to miss.

That said, I have been most productive working at home.

So for me, the winning model is a mix. 2 days to mingle and have spontaneous encounters, 3 days to work and have scheduled meetings.
I can understand that this is how those who participate in caste discrimination may justify it to themselves.

But, I do not see how in the US, that claim somehow makes its way around racial discrimination laws, where to someone not sharing that religious belief, it very much appears as though people are simply discriminating based on ancestry i.e. race.
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Then tell the dammed FANNG recruiters to keep to the collage kids and stop with the linkedin.

They need devs to grow their revenue, these companies were built on attracting talent. That was the 00s.

Gone are the days where people were gullable enough to think have an inhouse chef was for the employees benifit. lets face it, bigtech would tape you to a chair, itubate both ends and pump processed nutriants through your system if they had a choice.
> Emotion is beating logic here I think.

Emotion may be beating logic for many of the people in this thread.

Our company has been super transparent with us from the outset that we're about 30% less productive as a remote-first company compared to everyone being in the office. This was deemed acceptable. We're biotech, we employee an army of medical doctors, and as long as COVID remains a real threat, we'll remain remote-first.

We got rid of maybe a quarter of our office space, but our company has made it clear that it intends to eventually move us back into the office at least once or twice a week for most employees to regain some of that lost productivity and especially to help new hires get up to speed more quickly.

Some high performing, individual contributor, highly self-motivated knowledge workers may be more productive in a fully remote environment, but I think it's very much the exception. For better or for worse, most people just want to do the bare minimum amount of work that they can get away with while still keeping their job, and they can get away with doing far less remotely than they can in real life.
According to the city website, there is a vacancy in the planning commission. Apply for it, you'll probably have a lot more success getting the permits you need if they see an official making the requests.
Those forums are all over the internet, generally from people running a phpbb instance by mistake.
Not sure what you mean; I've been using the Firefox zip for over a decade now with zero problems.
I'm dealing with a particularly stupid inter-departmental fight over hot desking right now. I'm not in the office enough to "justify a dedicated desk", but I also have lots of sensitive hardware others aren't allowed to touch covering "my" desk. I attempted to compromise with the relevant department by suggesting that we just mark the desk as permanently reserved the way other teams have, but that was rejected because "rules say...", as was API access to reserve it automatically.

The joys of bureaucracy...
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From what I understand, IRC is decentralized whereas Discord hosts every chat. Not comparable.
Coffee shops are so much better than offices. The only time I get interrupted is to ask me if the seat next to me is taken. I can go to any one I want to at any time. I am not required to stay there for any length of time. The cute barista remembers my order. (Ok, that last one's a lie, but we can't have everything)
Telegram is first and foremost a social network, and that type of service is incompatible with what we expect from a modern secure chats.
Good opportunity to talk about it. An awful lot of people are extremely solitary. I’d wager this is more of a problem than racial discrimination because:

- Lonely people aren’t visible, by definition,

- Solitude increases racism, so it would be worth solving,

- They often end up creating companies and being one’s boss.
>For example, the free market price for insulin is basically infinite because type 1 diabetics need a constant supply of it or else they die.

I've been to places in the Philippines where all available water is either on private property or being sold by private vendors. The price of water did not go to infinity, in fact you could buy a 1L bottle for something like 10 pesos, which is like $0.20. I'm not so sure a free market for necessities results in infinite price. If the price were truly near-infinite the entire economy of workers and capital would flock to it in seek of infinite profits and competition would become fierce.
Sometimes I even risk going outside.
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Easy: just don't block bots.

Problem solved.
It would also include re-registrations, fwiw.
iOS has looked like shit since iOS 7, with its flat design.

I picked up a device with iOS 6 and marvelled at how beautiful the design was.

Android needs only to give up the flat material design to beat iOS entirely on the design front.

And yes I use Apple.
Would your company be willing to fund the development? Or would you be willing to post a PR? We would be happy to take a look.
>Perhaps I too should transition to something like ubuntu, and just not worry about any of it :D

Something like this (fedora, debian are fine, I've heard arch is fine, no doubt others also) is the /only/ fair approach in comparison it to an apple or windows laptop. It's the only approach _possible_ with microsoft & apple.

Doing fun stuff like re-writing the default kernel scheduler and putting a bug in there on linux is really just not a point against linux in any way when you can (a) choose not to do that and (b) can't choose that at all with windows. Apple? Does anyone compile their own laptop kernel on apple? Common enough on linux because you can make your use as complicated as suits you in all the ways you can't on windows and apple...

It is true that apple sysadmin gets super complicated and hard with the answer usually boiling down to something not far away from: "you can't do what you want even if it used to work fine and you paid apple for the privilege. But you can pay apple an ever bigger subscription to do something related the way they want and stop complaining, apple is so user-friendly! Apple knows best. Freedom is tyranny."

I mourn the death of the Nokia N900. I hope for the oncoming pine phone & pine time revolution because Apple really are every bit as foul as Google. These things aren't yet easy the way laptops really are now.
Starbucks should just open co-working spaces. It's literally just a Starbucks but with monitors, keyboards and mice.
I've found one from https://startupschool.org, built a project together (i am the tech one), didn't continue finally because he wanted to continue with his startup and I don't feel like I can code and commit my time further.

Weird experience, I would love to have another co-founder who can code together or even work together in something tbh. I guess having someone who can code with you together makes it more fun? Rather than having a product guy waiting for you to code
https://www.meetup.com/

Find meetup groups and start social networking in them. Try the startup, computer science, programming, business, etc meetup groups.
> "...not having the calculator take 10sec to start due to telemetry..."

Calculator fires up in 2 seconds even on my elderly Intel m3-6y30 machine.

Not to pick on the parent poster, since I've seen far too many on HN say the same thing, but if the person who started this topic wants a prime addition to "unpopular opinions here that should not be", it's that those who aren't skilled enough to use Windows properly are also pretty much guaranteed not to be skilled enough to use other operating systems which expose much more complexity to the user, like Linux, properly either.
I feel this is the chief reason why the fabled "Year of the Linux Desktop" will never be a thing.

Microsoft expects Windows to be a means to an end: You run Windows to use your computer.

Linux neckbeards expect Linux to be the end to a means: You use your computer to run Linux.

If Linux is fragmented so bad that it is completely incompatible with the way software development and support work in the real world, the problem is Linux because Windows, Mac/iOS, and Android (incidentally a flavor of Linux) can all deal with it.

Of course, if you're not interested at all in mainstream desktop Linux adoption and are content hacking away at FOSS code while grumbling about the evils of capitalism and proprietary code, then more power to you.
I hope to play with Appsmith soon. It looks really cool. It doesn't seem to have an sqlite connector but I wonder how hard that would be to build. Note that I know nothing about Appsmith and almost nothing about sqlite, but I'm intrigued by the possibilities. https://www.appsmith.com/
Mostly ebay and craigslist. I had some alerts set up and was patient.
I can actually say that not supporting this really does hinder crossplane adoption. At work we operate large shared kubernetes clusters. A team attempted to use crossplane and we immediately had to remove it from our clusters immediately because it made kubectl and a variety of other tools completely unusable due to all the rate limiting and how frequently it refreshes cached discovery data. They wanted to use crossplane for like 10-20 of its supported object types. Instead, they had to actually run crossplane inside of a vcluster because there is no option to filter the number of CRDs it creates.

So while I can get behind this sentiment philosophically, until something changes upstream in kubernetes, this makes it really difficult to use crossplane in a cluster used for anything else and it probably makes sense to offer a workaround until then. Also, in practice, any security conscious users running crossplane in production are probably going to give it AWS credentials scoped to only the resources they want to allow it to manage, so even if you do install all of the CRDs in the cluster, 90% of them won't work due to their AWS credentials anyway.
Even better: being able to create money out of thin air…oh wait.
The trick is to have separate work/home spaces. Most fulltime remotes, myself included, either have a dedicated work-only area or work from coffee shops and the like.

The whole point is flexibility! If you don’t want an office, don’t have one. If you want one, have one. But jobs that force you into a specific office remove the choice.
Hosting postgres on your own computer is free. Why would you possibly pay someone $8 / month for a postgres instance to replace SQLite? Postgres is free, and super easy to set up.
Since plants are only about 2% efficient in turning sunlight to biomatter, you'd need a lot more space if you wanted to store winter reserves in biofuel than if you generated electricity and turned that into hydrogen.
This. I'm glad these guys are running their own crawler, but their story doesn't add up.

Most likely this is an outfit that does a lot of webscraping and wants to minimize the amount of manual banning they incur. So they set up a plausible indie search engine as a front. Of course the search engine has to actually work when the scrapees notice and try it out.
They can mandate whatever they want but if there's another wave everyone will quite rightly stay home again. And the current wave is on the downslope, but it's far from over.
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