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The change in your past HN posts from "open source order management system" to "open-source Amazon" is a great case of vision selling better than the product itself.
If someone asks for the median, you supply the median if possible

I wouldn't. I have seen first-hand so many projects that took weeks of efforts, because we assume the person making the requirements used perfect language, when they could have been done in a day instead. One word can be the entire difference.

Maybe it happens to you in a big company: "the VP said '...'", so you must do exactly as the VP said. In practice, it turns out that the VP, just like Mary, could easily agree they didn't care if it's median or mean, they just need some number that summarizes the data.

Understanding the customer is key.
I cannot speak to how you live your life, but I find myself very invested in my job. This is in general a good thing (I think) as it provides me the mental state to try and do the best job that I can as working hard is easy. The question you have posed leads me to believe you may feel similarly.

That said, my two boys (5 months, 6 years) are the most important thing in my life (along with my wife of course). My second son is 5 months old now and I just took 3 months off to care for him. I wish I had more time, 2 years might be enough. When my first son was born I only took two weeks of vacation, which was not even close to enough. It is something I still regret.

While I do not like to give parenting advice, I can say with certainty, you should take as much time as you possibly can. Don't think about work, don't look at work, try not to worry about work, it will be there when you return. As a mother, spend time to recover physically. No matter how the child is born, the process is very physically taxing and your body will change a lot in the following weeks/months. Make sure you are keeping an eye on your mental health, postpartum depression is not something to take lightly. Most important, try to relax (it is hard) and just love your child. The first months are wild.
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It never feels good using them either, I always stick to half doses and even that leaves me feeling uncomfortably out of it.
I’m at a point in my career and as an individual where if someone is on mat/pat leave all my complaints go out the window. It’s just about understanding the situation, and maybe all of us can explain to those individuals complaining that even if they never have children, that them giving the parents space to raise a well-balanced individual is a net benefit for all of society.
Yup, there's definitely some patients that would benefit from a nuclear battery.

> I personally could be realistically looking at 3 replacement devices and at least one lead replacement over the years. In the unlikely event that I suffer from ventricle enlargement long term, I'd need two more leads installed as well.

This is the point I'm making, though: realistically, you have a high chance of needing 2 additional procedures for non-battery reasons, which are likely good times to replace the device, too.
The Psychology of Attraction
I would argue that the average deGoogled device has less apps and Google Play app bloat to decrease the surveillance surface. Less apps translates to less location data.
Maybe - but probably the government could just order Starlink to shut down their stuff as well.

There is always Packet Radio but it is slow as hell....
As someone who had their first child the last couple of years I would really recommend taking the time off when they’re first born. Those are special moments but hard to appreciate through the sleep deprivation. Having more time to be present and not worry about work the better
Do you have a business continuity plan (for your team) that is part of the continuity plan for the overall business? If not, use this opportunity to create one. I am guessing based on my past experience that a fast moving startup may not have had time to fully plan an effective BCP (customer facting processes, technology, organization, people and process). So, doing this is generally valuable in the long run.

When you start thinking in these terms, you will be able to figure out obvious solutions that include rotating responsibilities amongst team members, how to handle inter-departmental expectations and agreements etc., Involve your team members as well so you get a full picture of all the risks and you can come up with mitigation plans (or at the least know the gaps so that you can go to your manager and have an intelligent discussion).

If you have enough time to plan this out, you can consider adding a couple of paid interns to the group to help your team members with the workload, freeing them up for taking on your tasks while you are away. Or if additional hiring is anyway planned for the future, you may be able to talk your management into advancing one or two hires sooner to help the business sail through this.

Most reasonable business managers will be able to look at things wholistically and help you find a solution that helps you and the business. There may also be resources from other departments that they may be able to borrow to help you, so don't assume anything.

Enjoy your well-deserved timeoff with your family.
With Eelco as a cofounder of DetSys, I feel really excited about where we're going here. I think the world is in many ways primed and ready for Nix, as long as we can help Nix "meet them in the middle."

We're working on making Nix more accessible and producing good and usable, production-ready workflows so teams can just pick it up and go. I'd love to hear what y'all think, to help make sure we're going in the right direction.
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Just out of high-school, I worked in a fiber-optic component assembly plant - wave-division multiplexers, optical circulators, etc. It was clean room, bunny suit, microscope work for the most part. But it was also moderate-skill, repetitive work - they'd hire large cohorts and provide all the necessary training. If you could keep up with the quotas and QC, you were in and made a decent wage and there was some room for growth. If not, you were let go. Not the type of work I'd take a pay cut for these days, but for young me, it was a foot in the door, paid okay and provided great experience.

Semiconductor plant jobs may not be as lucrative as SW engineering, but they are indeed jobs that pay alright for low to moderate skilled labour. And on-shoring of tech manufacturing seems like a good idea.
Its easier to get opioids than it is to buy weed in some States. I wonder why?
The Germans show themselves to be endlessly gullible people. I wish I knew German, as I would start piles of scams.
The first part of the article is basically “I’m sorry, so sorry, that I’m about to say something online cosmopolitan types won’t like, please, I’m so sorry, I promise I don’t mean it like that, I’m sorry, I promise I am not saying that, did I mention that I’m sorry”.

This is what it’s like to share ideas under your real name in modern America.
Yes, that exactly was my idea - a decorator still is confusing, but I hope that it is less confusing and more visually appealing to a beginner that an idiom with magic methods.
Thanks for posting this! I'm CTO at a pretty new startup and hopefully going to be on paternity leave next year. This makes me feel a little bit better about it and seems like a great approach.
It's not the YC or typical VC way, but for certain industries - its basically one of the best ways to get going. Healthcare in the US and legal comes to mind. These profession promote for risk-averse behaviors, so selling a predictable service to them then going for a product makes sense.
> An attacker could easilly ask for many ambulances to random addresses, by calling from different phone numbers.

Phone numbers can be traced, and anonymous sources like a payphone are relatively rare. Getting access to more than a few phone numbers is generally going to be difficult unless they all trace to a central source (office, school, etc.) - at which point your odds of getting caught go way up.

> They can order thousands of pizzas with cash payment on delivery.

Um. Really? Is "cash on delivery" even an option where you live? I would certainly expect any sane company to get suspicious here.

There's a huge difference between exploiting a company's lack of validation VS exploiting a legally required lack of validation. The pizza company is choosing to accept cash on delivery, whereas this proposal is to force airlines. That's a huge difference and it's alarming that you don't see the relevance.

> You aren't designing an API

When you force the rule on others, I think you do owe some responsibility to think about the consequences.

> random fictitious scenario divorced from reality.

It seems ridiculous to dismiss concerns about a proposed policy by saying we have no evidence it will happen. Of course we haven't seen it happen yet: the law hasn't passed. Conversely, we have centuries of data on whether men will pretend to be transgender. Again, this is a very big difference.

I'm not against reasoning by analogy, but these are all terrible analogies.
Here's a super detailed deconstruction by a historian: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
One of my favorite creative uses of Excel comes from !!Con 2017, where Kevin Chen used spreadsheet to implement HDR imaging[1]. It’s also just an incredibly well-crafted presentation.

[1] https://kevinchen.co/projects/excel-hdr/
Most of your fellow Americans play tribal politics and turn a blind eye whenever their preferred party does it.
None of that explains what it has to do with cryptocurrency.

You say "a fun idea in crypto gaming is composability", but I don't see why that is specific to cryptocurrency.

(FWIW, I think the idea of composable game worlds created by ML prompts is absolutely fascinating, and I also think a future in which all money is outside the control of the state and corporations is interesting. I just don't see the relationship between the two).
You're not the only one - it does me as well. But unfortunately, the people who make the rules don't care about our suffering.
At some point the ground cannot accept anymore water, no matter what.

Proof: oceans exist.

The key to the whole thing is if you can slow it down enough so that a sudden deluge over a day/week/month has time to slowly drain out.

Getting water into an aquifer takes time depending on how the soil is, but eventually the aquifer would rise to the surface and you'd have a marsh. Or it would rise higher and you'd have a lake.
As a young (ish) person, I wholeheartedly disagree with and reject this worldview, and would argue you're doing others an enormous disservice by promoting it.

There are enormous challenges. Life literally depends on solving them. Suggesting that they can't be solved is tantamount to telling humanity to give up and die.
Many languages with distinct boolean types do not require that the condition expression in an if statement evaluates to that type, and hence do nothing to prevent that error.
Speak for yourself, nihilist. Opportunities abound for those willing to work for them.
Then why do the few weed stonks that I have only go down?
OpenVPN's approach is to have every config key imply a valid config file entry and a long-arg. So if you see the line `tun-mtu 1500` in a config file, you know you could use the arg `--tun-mtu 1500` on the command line, and vice versa; if you see somebody use the CLI arg `--proto udp` you know you could put the line in your config file `proto udp`.

I think mysqld has a similar approach, though I don't think it's as complete. I'll bet both of those projects would answer that there's no such thing as a tipping point where you tell users to use a config file. They're just two ways of doing the same thing; use whichever makes sense for your deployment.
> an attacker could easily book many flights without checking in. This would cause the airline to fly at a loss.

Yes, an “attacker” could “easily” steal the identity of 20-30 people in order to create fake bookings to disturb the a single flight one time. Though it would be easier to sneak a bomb aboard it.
I don't think it's so clear cut. Baumol costs disease already goes a long way, and developers only receive exponential rewards if they have significant equity. Some can go solo or succeed at the startup route but they are a minority.

Furthermore, with AI becoming increasingly sophisticated, we might see a seachange in developer salaries with only the most talented and valuable devs getting massive increases and all the rest being made redundant. Leading us back to the low skill/high supply problem.
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Note the context. Joel is writing his examples in VBScript. VBScript was a dynamically typed offshot of Visual Basic, but did not originally give you the ability to define your own types.

In any modern language you would just use a HtmlString type to wrap html, and let the compiler take care of ensuring you don't mix up encoded and unencoded strings. But absent any kind of custom types (and no HtmlString in the standard library), you had to rely on something like Hungarian notation and very carefully eyeball to code.

Making wrong code look wrong is better than nothing, but making wrong code impossible is far better.
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Android licensing is so complex Google doesn't understand the implication of the APLv2 advertisements in their source code, and has to research it.
>You think murder sentencing can be "fair" and "consistent", but censorship can only be "unfair" and "inconsistent".

I think that murder sentencing can be fair. It's not, but murder is not something that should go unpunished either way.

I think censorship is not and has never been fair. Not only that, historically the point has been the opposite: to oppress. I think "well-intentioned censorship" like you propose is so easy to pervert that it's worse than nothing.

>We've already been over this.

And we're going over it again because the first time around you apparently found my viewpoint incomprehensible.

>I am not a moral relativist or moral nihilist. I will advocate to ban strings of words that have a non-trivial probability of causing stochastic terrorism or genocide

But you're not alone in the world. While you're happy to have those strings banned and none others, other people will want to use the same systems that were put in place in order to ban strings, to ban some strings that you may not care about one way or another, and others that you think should not be banned.

>by the same logic that we choose to ban direct calls to violence

I don't think calls to commit crime need to be banned. I don't think shouting fire in a crowded theater need to be banned. It's one each person to act accordingly in each situation, and not be moved to action by the first idiot who says something stupid. If the justification for censorship of ideas is censorship of calls to violence, I'm fine with having none.

But see what I mean? If I tell you "I'm not opposed to banning calls to violence" I'm opening the door for you to come back with "well, then what about these other strings that have similar effects?" Do you not see how the same can be done to you?

>This isn't relevant.

It is relevant. Unlike crime, which most people at most rarely feel like committing, almost everyone has an opinion that someone else would find objectionable and would rather they didn't voice.
I don't think the impact is as great as they say. Pharma firms collude to create very strong lobby and special interest groups that keeps people elected. Cannabis legalization created a lot more fragmented cannabilizing groups.

Just take a look at Canadian legal market. The grey market always outperforms it and many have begun shunning the expensive legal weed.

Lot's of weird actors in this space, especially these psychedellic therapy groups who are self-licensed and have history of misconduct.

I find these one off studies to be highly sensational and idealizing a very tough market to break into. The impact of marijuana is still not known 100%.

There is reason why some countries like Singapore have been extra careful to adopt these western libertarian ideas. While probably an overreaction, the impact of marijuana needs to be observed over a very long period of time and this is where pharmaceuticals shine.
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Everyone I know who got an apprenticeship after school instead of going to uni are absolutely raking it in and have enjoyed a significantly better quality of life than their uni going peers. I personally can’t see how the uni goers will end up having a better time in the long run as the official narrative goes. The majority of the tradies seem to end up buying multiple houses and going the landlord route for early retirement.
I'm sure he's much more known for this than for SETI contributions.
If you think therapy should be reserved for dire, nigh unfixable problems, then maybe. But you can also use therapy as a regular part of life for fixing problems big and small.
Almost all Joel postings are exercises in "Spot the Howler".

Joel's a very smart guy, but as for most very smart guys who know they're very smart, they are better at fooling themselves than anybody else could be. His justifications for fooling himself are always very, very good. It can be hard to identify the exact spot where his argument veers into the weeds. The road bends a bit, and he doesn't, and things get very bouncy and scrapy.

In Joel's case, it usually is right at the point where he mentions How We Did It at Microsoft. Anything he used to do when he was at Microsoft gets a free pass against re-examination to consider whether it was totally bonkers, and repeating it would leave you with, well, Microsoft code.

So when you read a Joel posting, pay attention. Usually, between lots of very reasonable stuff at the beginning, and a totally bonkers end, there is just one spot where he says something that reads a lot like the reasonable stuff before it, but fatally taints everything after. Sometimes there is more than one, but by that point it is too late anyway.
There were also several incidents from the russian army just up and leaving orphan sources in the wild when the URSS failed e.g. Lilo and Lia (both in Georgia).

Lia was two RTGs, which the URSS used quite a lot, and which regularly got lost or into accidents e.g. two degraded RTGs were found in the north of russia in 2003, one on the Cape of Navarin and one near Kola Bay, and two got dropped by a helo transporting them in 2004.

Though from the Plainly Difficult channel, I feel like the most frequent radiological accidents aren't even orphan sources but either misused / defective radiological devices (à la Therac 25), or commercial irradiation facilities whose opsec degrades until fatal exposure occurs after a jam.
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Win+Shift+S does all kind of screenshots.
Win+Alt+R will record video of current window - unfortunately there's nothing for whole desktop.

Not sure what's your problem with resizing windows but there are all kind of shortcuts for moving and resizing them if mouse is somehow too hard.
I'm not adding insight to this thread, but I love the OpenBSD project. Theo and the team are goat engineers and industry advocates.
Because they're legal?
It’s got that. You can open Wallet, go to your card, hit the button in the top right with numbers and then there’s a button to get a new card number. I haven’t used it, so maybe it’s not instant or something.
You can always do what bookshop.org did and appeal to social justice and hipster oppression. Talk about supporting "small business" and pretend that everyone's not just dropshipping from asia.
Am I going to be a wagie. If yes, then no.
Now all we need is for PROT_EXEC to not imply PROT_READ like Android.
> A single doctor visit is usually $200 to $300, and emergency room visit might as well be your annual out of pocket maximum ($10k to $17k).

In the spirit of sharing data from a very different system:

Emergency room visit was €40 for me (checkup/cleaning/dressing), €55 for my daughter (stitches apparently cost extra).

A simple follow-up doctor/clinic visit in Italy was €15 (first time) / €10 (repeat), I paid this a few times each time I had my wounds cleaned and dressed, and again for my daughter when she had her stitches taken out and a check-up a few days later.
> A) the highest performance aircraft were all liquid cooled

Well, how do you define high performance? Judging by speed at least, Tempest Mk II, Sea Fury, Bearcat, and P-47M are among the fastest piston engined planes ever made.

> B) combat aircraft have to deal with bullet holes

Sure. But an engine that lacks a critical subsystem by design (say, a liquid cooling system with pumps, pipes, radiators etc.), all else being equal, is less failure prone than an engine that has it. Whether that failure happens due to shells or mechanical failure.
You genuinely believe that this is a make-or-break line for a multinational with extensive horizontal and vertical integration across multiple industries and it will fold because their warehouse workers demand marginally higher wages and some guaranteed bathroom breaks?

It’s in their interest to fight unionization, but the catastrophizing is just part of that negotiating game. You’re just buying a PR line that they don’t even believe themselves.

As soon as unionization gains a foothold, that same PR will talk up how they have strong relations with workers and that it gives them a competitive advantage in hiring, quality, tenure, and loyalty.

It’s spin today, and spin tomorrow. Don’t take it so seriously, maybe.
Higher temperatures mean more moisture in the atmosphere and aridification at the same time. That's why there can be drought plus record breaking rainfall at the same time.

Plus, when you have drought, it damages the soil and plant life which would normally aid in capturing and retaining the rainfall. And when the rain does fall, instead of being absorbed into the soil it just creates erosion instead as the top layer dies.

People think about soil as just dirt, which it is not. Soil is effectively a living organism (or ecosystem of organisms).