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Ask HN: Is it possible to have a structured work day in software dev?
Lately, I feel exhausted with all the late night meetings thats required of me at work. Discussed it with my manager few months ago and he offered to take me off on-call rotation and put me in a leadership role. While this was good initially, lately this has come up with its own set of challenges, where in I'm required to have nightly meetings with other teams who are outside of my timezone. Since I'm in a leadership role now, my manager says its inevitable as I've to be present in these meetings.

I feel so burned out and anxious all the time, not because of overwork, but due to a lack of formal structure in my work day.

I'm thinking of starting out on my own someday, but I wonder, is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field ? Whether i work for a big org / startup / myself, is it inevitable that I have to work round the clock and I've to accept it as a way of life ? Is there a sub-field in software dev where in I can login at a specific time / logout at a specific time and not have to worry about work after I log out.

PS: Honestly speaking, I used to work at IT service industry not too long ago (perhaps in mid 2000s), where I was working on a boxed software. Except for some crunch time during major releases, there was no pager duty expected, the pay was average at best and work was monotonous bug fixing, but I felt much more at peace since work was always predictable most of the time. With this on-call culture thanks to the 99.99 uptime thats become the de-facto industry standard for most companies, I wonder whether such companies exist anymore !
They are typically referred to as Porter Duff blend modes, so I assume that these algorithms were invented mainly by those guys. (by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff)
That does not help much when everybody is gone in some trip, which is the main reason why I have made that automated watering system.

Except for the plumbing work, which may need some experience or using the services of a professional, such a completely automated watering system is actually much simpler and cheaper than a humidity sensor that sends notifications.
Oh whoops, I totally misread the library book part. Okay, unquestionably a joke. Nevermind my response.
Right, and with the current legislative environment they lower their risk/maximize gain by keeping it empty.
Good thing nobody suggested that.

Allowing landlords to actually build would drive prices down but overregulation and zoning laws have broken the supply end of the market.
I left Ubuntu for pop_os for the 22.04 release, on a Thinkpad p14s. Whent well, except mouse crashed sometime when suspend (left click anavailable !) And video crashing (geometric pattern all over the display). I'm not sure I made the good choice.
I agree that those are both significant advances but having transactions and wallets reside on exchanges nullifies those benefits entirely. The fear early on was that you’d never be able to achieve mass-adoption due to the upfront cost of setting up a wallet and waiting on transactions. Despite crypto’s popularity today, that fear has never truly been overcome.
Light outside the spectrum can be measured in other ways.

I'm saying that there needs to be some observation to form a hypothesis and there isn't any for psychic powers.

It's the equivalent of starting research on dogs to see if they can predict the future. Why am I doing it in the first place?
Postman used to be extremely fast, lightweight. Near instant to open and use. Those were the good days.

Now it's hot garbo.
Tell me you don’t know anything about construction without telling me you don’t know anything about construction
> $2774 / month is definitely less than I'd want to charge to deal with a tenant that cannot be evicted,

Being a landlord isn’t really a full time job unless you have a lot of units. I think my landlord puts in <1hr a month of work so anything I pay over his mortgage seems like “free money”.

Most people are normal innocent people who won’t cause trouble even if they can’t be evicted.

Most apartments in SF are rent controlled and you can’t be evicted (everything in SF is rent controlled unless the city exempts it from being too new). It seems like that’s the least of the cities problems. If anything, the city needs more rent controlled units to encourage land development.
Im not getting it
You just described a low budget shared VPS. I’m running everything on these for a few EUR per month :).
Who says the malevolent actors aren't the ones intervening? For a common person there's no difference.
In-memory computing is just barely in active research. Unlike quantistors, memristors are being built (and have already been built) in many research laboratories.

If you are interested in learning, the idea of memristors (and other computational memory technology) is not to replace traditional memory, but rather to augment small portions of it with increased/additional computational functionality.

For example, you could add a (relatively speaking) extremely small number of memristors to an existing memory module, load two matrices into that area of memory, and reading from the adjacent region of memory would immediately yield the result of multiplying those two matrices. If you could simply instruct the RAM module where the existing data lies, this would be an immense boost in efficiency to AI/deep learning prediction algorithms. Here is a video explanation of how this could be use to perform matrix vector multiplication in O(1): https://youtu.be/30K5i8bdiyg?t=1492 .

That video mentions later that something similar can be used in solving linear and partial differential equations. Applications for deep learning training is discussed at 40:20 .

You'll notice everything discussed in the keynote has experimental results. At 41:27, he mentions that you can actually send images to their memristor chip over their website . Though the link is unfortunately dead, it definitely worked, and was in fact performing neural network computations using memristors over the network.
Should be "32-ish architectural registers". Real processors have a lot more registers but they are not directly visible. This is the whole reason why x86-64 is usable despite having only 16 architectural integer registers (or actually a little less than that).

The article doesn't get RISC-V instruction encoding right. It mentions compressed instructions, but instructions can also be longer than 32 bits. The important thing about RISC-V is that the instruction stream can easily be divided at instruction boundaries (unlike, say, x86 which is horrific to decode). This gives you most of the benefits of fixed size instructions and the benefits of extensibility when you need it.
Yup. You can’t be “half in” the market. You’re either entirely in or not. Otherwise every intervention just squeezes the balloon and it bulges somewhere else.

The problem is a lack of housing. You either live with higher prices (reduced demand) or increase supply.

Everything else is just a shell game.
You forget margin calls (mortgages with margin call provisions are illegal in California, and probably some other states in the US).

Basically, your mortgage says you have to maintain N% down. So, if the house price drops enough, you make a balloon payment or the bank forecloses, and sells the house at auction.

Once margin calls start triggering, there's an automatic sell off of whatever asset is impacted, causing more margin calls and a feedback loop.

90% of Britain's pension funds were hours away from being zeroed out by margin calls a few weeks ago. The Bank of England intervened.

It made for some great reading. This is why the UK gov't keeps walking back the mini-budget, and the IMF is making noises usually reserved for failing dictatorships.
Not every bug manifests itself right after reboot. You can easily have a bunch of generations you just think are ok.

The point is entirely different: if you update the channel-list you need the network for any changes to the configuration and I don't know of a way to go back to an earlier channel state.
Intel Core I9-13900K Blasts Off to 8.8GHz, Breaking World Record
one "anime" girl, 2 "anime" girls, 10 dev bros, I don't really care at this point. Color me impressed at the skillz required to make this to the point it is in the time it is. Way past anything I might dream about doing myself. So many kudos to any/all involved male/female/other doesn't matter in the slightest for the possibility to use the hardware to whatever I want.
VMware bug with 9.8 severity rating exploited to install witch’s brew of malware
Facebook threatens to block news content over Canada's revenue-sharing bill
> web and software technology has actually almost consumed every inch of our reality.

Has that happened DURING the dot com bubble as well?
U.S. judge: Passengers in fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes are 'crime victims'
deps.edn isn't solving the same problem as lein. Lein you install it, run "lein" and it starts telling you what to do to get a running Clojure project.

Deps you install Clojure and ... no hints how to get to a running project.

"touch deps.edn"? Still no hints how you get from here to functioning clojure dependencies. It isn't a YAML file. Isn't JSON. No template.

Read the reference page (https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli)? We quickly learn that you can execute a function by invoking "clojure [clj-opt] -X[aliases] [a/fn] [kpath v] kv-map?". Still not much closer to installing a dependency, a lot of people probably give up here.

Oh, there is a guide! Read the guide (https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli). Now we get to our first dependency.

Lets add a 2nd one!

{:deps
{com.github.seancorfield/next.jdbc {:mvn/version "1.3.834"}}
{clojure.java-time/clojure.java-time {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}}}

$ clj
Error building classpath. Error reading edn. Map literal must contain an even number of forms (~/deps.edn)

This is a pretty plausible on-boarding with deps. Beginners should be using lein, it is a lot more forgiving and doesn't leave people staring at an error message feeling stupid after 10 minutes being confused about what the docs are trying to prepare them for. It'd be good to include something like that in the default distribution so they don't have to figure that fact out by failing a bit with deps.
Isn't that what has been happening since humans have existed? We have to wear clothes to live in most environments for instance, that is a good sign of not being naturally adapted.
Re energy:

We're all in an energy crisis as we have to quickly ramp down fossil use to stave off the global climate catastrophe, and emissions are a global, not local problem. This is very badly overdue, and doing it now is still much easier and cheaper than the much steeper drop we would need later.

Don't know where you are getting the high oil price idea from, oil price is low now, way too low from climate crisis pov. It's lower than 10 years ago.

There's a lot of headlinse about winter and heating but actually most energy is used by non household users, it's mostly a industrial inputs problem assuming the regulators/politicians have the decency to prioritise households and essential services. And there's a lot of stored gas for the winter.
Sorry? Homeless people?

I am taking the OPs use of "house" as "place to live" not "detached residential building with single family occupancy"? Are you ?
The "materials and methods" attachment is free and includes some images: https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.abi9407/su...

(paper is not yet available on scihub)
I am yet to bother with WSL, it hardly brings something I wasn't already having with VMWare and VirtualBox, and in any case "developer != UNIX".

The cleverness of WSL is that Microsoft came to realise, thanks to Apple, thank many folks only care about having a POSIX userland and don't really care about Linux as such.

Given that current generations mix up Linux with UNIX, it made more business sense to add Linux compatibility than revive SUA.

So now those folks mostly jump between Apple and Microsoft platforms instead of supporting Linux OEMs as they should in first place, genius.
MEMS means Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, iow. a category of a type of sensor/actor elements that work with mechanical effects but are minuscule and often constructed using lithographic processes, not milled or the like.

Memristors are a specific electric component.

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

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

While MEMS is already huge and still getting way bigger, memristors ain't really a thing yet.
Every economist knows price caps never worked and yet you're being downvoted for stating a plain fact. Price controls only make it so that nobody can buy the thing in the first place by exhausting supply. It's way better to let the thing be sold at whatever price it has than to just exhaust it. In this case it means property sits empty which is the worst possible outcome.
That’s a very limited thing, at this point almost every frame in my UIs is autolayout, it’s that indispensable.
Inelastic just means that it takes more time for supply to match demand or demand to match supply than in a more elastic market.

Ebbing and flowing is a typical effect of inelastic markets.
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I'm not a biologist but the whole term "junk DNA" always felt a bit off to me. Millions of years of evolution and having a significant portion of DNA in all living organisms being "junk" doesn't make sense at all.
It's not like Windows is not a disjointed experience, UI-wise. The Win 98 days are long gone, when all the apps had a nice uniform native Windows UI - and even then, maybe it's just that my glasses are rosy. Maybe macOS fares better in this regard, I have no experience, but they have got the reputation.

To zoom out - the reasons desktop Linux is not adopted on a wider scale have nothing to do with its technological prowess. It's working as well as any other desktop OS would. The reasons are rather political, and especially business-related. With making schools teach Windows and MS Office, giving governments and public offices deals, having vendors bundle it by default to new computers, not enforcing anti-piracy, is the way Microsoft achieved that their software is the desktop standard, not by making the software superior in specialized contexts like a uniform UI, or a better architecture. Their blend of adequate software, vertical integration, ruthless business, and some support for every type of user is what won them their current status.
Enforcement should start with a warning shot. A business should first get a warning and, say, a month to fix things.

My car light was broken once without me knowing. The police stopped us, gave an official notice. I should go to theur building in a week and show a working car light, or I would get a fine.

Here we have random people standing at the side of the street, demanding money from everyone with a minor spec of dust on their taillight.
I always used this, on rare times I need a layered image editor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes

Informative article, but non-zoomable interface with tiny images on mobile is not great.
"So what about gas? This did very slightly increase from 40 TWh in 2002 to 52.2 TWh in 2021. A growth of 12.2 TWh, vs the 109.4 TWh reduction in coal. So Germany reduced coal by almost 10x as much as gas grew.

Did this increase reliance on Russia? No, it decreased it.

Of the coal that is burned in Germany, the lignite is domestically produced. Hard coal is imported for use in the electricity sector as German hard coal is economically unfavorable. "
Pretty ingenious, reminds me a bit about how Elite double used its own program code as a lookup table for building a procedurally generated universe in order to conserve memory.

I figured it was ingenious back then but I had no clue it‘s biomimetic :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
Just because a PM makes "the decision" doesn't mean this should not be informed by the engineers. Consensus is not needed, but accountability and buy-in of all involved is essential.

Just because engineers are "informed" doesn't mean they get to make "the decision" (or indeed that they are the most suitable agents to do so in terms of goals and incentives).
How about "cloud computing"?
I was surprised to find how easily https://accessibe.com/ can add some accessibility options to an existing site this week. I was half expecting it to break the site styles when toggling through the options but it did a really fine job while keeping the character of the site intact. It was a one-line script include. Sure, it’s complex to build that all from scratch but thankfully we have services coming in to help.
You could say the same about Linux in general. It does takes some time to really get comfortable with the complex surface area of the system, but once you do, the benefits are tremendous and without doubt. Same goes for programming languages, driving a car, learning guitar, etc. I don't think people really understand the fundamental shift of moving to declarative config. It's absolutely worth the cost of admission and offers "superpowers" for many of us. Others may not need or desire these powers, and Ubuntu or Windows or MacOS will do the job.
Do you mean “Junk DNA” is a junk term?

At least until it gets repurposed.

Apologies for getting too meta.
Too much focus on the UI and very little on OS frameworks.
You can solve it yourself from scratch in a few minutes by running my Fhourstones benchmark [1]. Other interesting connect-4 tidbits may be found on my connect-4 page [2].

[1] https://tromp.github.io/c4/fhour.html

[2] https://tromp.github.io/c4/c4.html
Genes that already provide a protective function alone but cause problems in combinations like 2 copies or with other similarly protective genes are naturally going to stay around but not become prevalent. A serious event or events creates a situation where these genes become common enough to hit the bad combinations much more often.

Naturally not everyone has type I diabetes and MS.
Sketch no longer offers a perpetual license. They have moved to a subscription model.

Here are some other desktop apps where the software does not expire. (Updates or upgrades can be paid for new features).

- Affinity apps: Designer, Photo, Publisher

- Sublime text

- Fontlab (Lifetime license, type design app)

- Glyphs (Mac-only, type design app)
I remember an interesting message about 'scalable' vector extensions which pointed that they weren't necessary compatible with loop unrolling.
An interesting point to keep in mind.
Let me guess: You're one of those people who said that the US Space Force "violated the treaty" because it "weaponizes space", right?

The treaty bans weapons of mass destruction in space. It does not ban military activity in space at all.
Inelastic means consumers buy the same amount of some good regardless of the market. That means there's a constant demand.

This is not the case with housing, at least in a local area. Prices go up, people move away and demand goes down. That's elastic.

If housing suddenly cost 10 billion dollars a day in Manhattan, the city would be a ghost town tomorrow. Elastic.
Exactly. It ties to the excessive startup overhead. If you rename things and change stuff you must run the tests in a fresh JVM to ensure that everything has been evaluated in a consistent state rather ad hoc evaluation in the REPL. This means running from the command line in addition to your REPL or restarting the REPL regularly.
Nice question! I am also wondering how it helps for the IoT devices...
Up to now, What we found out is that Pull way makes more sense instead of Push way for the fleet of more than 500Ks devices in the field.
We use Ansible Pull, but would also considering of such a way through GitOps approach.
Not sure, if it would be also provided via Pyinfra to get such stuff via Pull way.
A Q&A with Tony Yen, VP of Tech Development at ASML
Once again, why wouldn't you keep the last few generations around? No network is required to use them.
Anyone who likes The Waste Land should try and read Four Quartets, and his plays, especially Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, The Family Reunion and The Elder Statetsman. They are all unique in their own way and reflect Eliot’s mind and ideas at least as well as WL.
Yeah I’m pretty well off thanks to the current system. But the same system is also leading to fair percentage of kids going to school hungry, people homeless or close to homeless (if any emergency happens) and a shitty chromebook if they are lucky and it has been getting worse. So I think the system is broken?

I’m from New Zealand.
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It’s a thing in DC. $0.85 for occupied, $5 for vacant, per $100.

https://otr.cfo.dc.gov/page/otr-vacant-real-property
So just wanted to get few thoughts down

- western house prices are driven (up) mostly by available mortgages and a vaguely poor future discounting ability by most people. In other words adding 10k to the offer just to get the win does not add much to your mortgage but gets you a house.

- increases in rates badly hurts people

- a free market in real estate is never really going to happen (because politics) but if it existed it would move the politics over to other parts of the economy- if people could not afford to live in the city, wages would need to be adjusted.

In short there is no place for a "free" market because the point of human civilisation is to protect (ourselves / our tribe / those we sympathise with) people from the cold winds of unfettered nature. Whatever part of the whack-a-mole politics is being focused on, the end goal is "decent lifestyle with minimised suffering / extremes".

Ie - insurance against the worst.

providing insurance against the worst for all society is either a question of paying the huge cost of tragedy for everyone as their tragedy hits, or it is a question of government laying their hands across all ye whack-a-moles and trying to prevent anyone from having the worst outcomes.

I think I am arriving at a theory of government that has the goals of totalitarianism but different methods - probably Thaler's Liberterian Paternalism.

Anyway - understanding the mechanisms of the housing market is important from mortgage availability, land availablity, road and infrastructure building and workers available all seem the big parts.
Your wish has been granted: https://connect4.gamesolver.org/
Is there something similar for video?
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Yes, reading this answer and also your more elaborate reply to another commenter, I think I agree.
It's not really DIY Shazaam. It's Shazaam for mods.
It's good to point out a lot of nimbyism is defensive. As much as we like to demonize it, people are legitimately worried about their life savings investment getting cut in half if suddenly tons of new places were built
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme
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Facebook is just following its playbook from a couple of years ago when Australia did the same thing. Eventually Facebook capitulated and made deals with media companies.

It's a pretty dumb negotiating tactic to go ahead and prove that you have a lot of power over online content by threatening to remove it. Facebook is making the Canadian government's case for them.
Lots of people live in vans by choice, I've considered it. A PO Box, a cell phone and a van is pretty cheap.

Furthermore, in context of the topic at hand, we're talking about housing _in NYC_, which people certainly don't need. I certainly don't. I don't even want it.