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Don't have kids to fill a perceived hole in your life.

I absolutely understand the vicious and cyclical nature of what I'm saying, but half the time people feel like you go on to have kids and then discover that feeling of emptiness was just them all along. Having children can just as much separate and ostracise you from your existing life and social circles, and make things worse. So if you do have kids and it turns out you have a deeper depression, it's not the best environment to introduce somebody who needs all your attention, every day for a few years. It's not fair to the children.

You're 40 and you're not enjoying your work. Fix that first. It's a struggle many have, even parents. Honestly, life as a whole makes a lot more sense when you enjoy what you do every day, when you feel appreciated and see value in your work product.

Once you're grounded, you can look at options. Surrogacy might be an option for a biological or semi-biological match. Consider your partner's feelings in this too. Fostering might be the best on-ramp, but you're not going to be handed a kid to care for unless you're in top condition.

If you're setting that as a goal, make sure you consider that becoming happy with life might take a while, and it might take so long children stop being an option altogether. Make sure you don't tie yourself to a post if you're unsure which way the tide's going. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. Don't let it get in the way of your enjoyment of life.

Best of luck.
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No advice to offer you, as I am in the same boat, but I am hoping there is something in the comments that will help pull me out of this too.
Forth is available for more platforms than C, and like C, it is usually but not always a compiled language. Because Forth always has an interpreter, and a powerful one, it's more obvious that Forth doesn't have to compile to run, but again, true of C as well: https://gitlab.com/zsaleeba/picoc exists, and it isn't the only one.

Edit: an important difference between them is that C implementers take the standard very seriously, while Forth is culturally resistant to standardization, Chuck Moore being on record as having considered it a bad idea, and disliking the resulting ANSI Forth language.

If the goal is to compile "the same code everywhere", well, good luck doing that with C, but with enough #ifdefs it can be done. The Forth approach is to have a personal base layer of words, which one either adapts or implements for a given system, and target the rest of one's code at that dictionary.
This is how I imagined textbooks would be when "multimedia" became the dominant discussion in the tech world.

This was great.
If i may ask, why do you keep using Docker for Teams/Business? what stopped you from moving to any of the alternatives?
Alright I'll pull. You're not really saying anything different than your parent. Their entire point is that Kong has enterprise exclusive (i.e., non-FOSS) plugins, and some of those are important.

In a discussion comparing an Open Core offering to an Open Source offering, saying Open Core is not fully open is never untrue.
The Gogo 2Ku service that Delta offers on TATL flights works very well.
Their RDS and ES are 500k. They still need to pay for EC2, S3 and any other services they might be using, like ELB and Elasticache. So probably higher than that.

He also did not mention if they are going to self-host, colocate, or rent bare metal in a more traditional host (like softlayer). Probably colocate as I think that’s how they used to run?

Both your points are still valid though.
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> They sold everything not truly needed, and made it happen.

And I think that's the right choice in general. We know many people are too risk-averse (status quo bias, etc).

That said uprooting the family and moving to a completely new place won't solve the fundamentals, and definitely won't help with "kid doesn't have friends". (Again, in general, there are obvious exceptions, eg. if kid is bullied moving to a new place at least has a change of helping with that.)

> But if more people gave up on trying to live like the Jones, and just did what needs to happen for themselves, then I think that gap would disappear more and more.

Yes, agreed, true. Yet at the same time reality is very different :/

> Kids need to experience what life is really like without all the technology

Yes, agreed, true 2.0. Yet at the same time what life is really like is that it's full of said technology. Kids need to be prepared for that.

> Or rather, really shouldn't be in, without some sort of parental supervision.

I think it's already clear that ~90% of people already need some sort of supervision, both in meat and meta and other spaces. It's not about the age IMHO.
In the case of Copilot, you don't even have a speedometer.
I think you can do that only if you have Enterprise at some point, but I might be wrong
Siri is unusable except for the following:

- open an app. (Say Apple Podcasts, otherwise it'll open deezer)

- call a contact (but randomly replaces your most frequently called person with someone I've spoken 10+ years ago)

- set a timer

- set an alarm

that's really it. Reminders work like shit, exactly like you said.

If siri doesn't know what to do with a contact, it asks you what you wanna do, and then doesn't understand it. I turn all this crap off as much as I can. Just a bunch of wasted dev-time, battery-time, and chip/die realestate which could be used for anything else.
How many kids and how old? If you have multiple kids under 5, just remind yourself to chill. It will get better.
The are also efforts to develop a safer live attenuated vaccine, using more modern genetic methods.

Sabin developed the original attenuated vaccine in the 1950s-60s, which is basically the stone ages, as far as genetics goes.

We now know that the attenuated vaccine reverts to a more dangerous form of polio after it's administered, but that the time it takes to revert is long enough that the vast majority of people develop a robust immune response and don't develop paralysis. The problem is that there is an evolutionary path that the virus can take to revert, and that that path is heavily favored once the virus is actually inside a human gut.

However, using modern genetic engineering techniques, it is possible to introduce a set of mutations into the polio virus that make it much more difficult for the virus to revert to a dangerous form. Scientists engineering viruses in a lab could sound scary to laypeople, but it's vital work that might lead to the final eradication of polio.
It is and you can.

But the vast vast vast majority of people want to interact with (places in Firefox lingo) bookmarks, history and downloads from the browser instead of closing the browser and open a deeply nested file in a database manager app and write SQL queries to get the data they want.
Yes! I can ignore suggestions, but when the autocorrect corrects my correction I feel like I'm in a game of whose's on first? Eventually you need to tap another button to keep the spelling you want.
Just create an open wifi called „free wifi” in any crowded place…
There‘s a new hybrid system in Europe called EAN, based on a specialized LTE network and an S-band satellite to fill in gaps in coverage (mostly over the oceans).

I recently got to use it, and as expected latency is significantly better than on a pure GEO system.
Often at outdoor things, others remark on how few skeeters there seem to be: It's because I'm there, and all the available skeeters are working on me. If one gets in the house, It's likely to find me before it dies.
> Rust is a bit esoteric, but it can run anywhere you have a working libc.

I don’t think that’s true. Doesn’t Rust only run on platforms that LLVM supports?
> Democracy is better than all the other forms of government, but democracy in Ukraine it isn't worth getting everyone killed for and ratcheting up nuclear tensions.

The Ukranians - whose opinion seems most relevant in this decision - seem to disagree. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/18/ukraine-vict...

Giving in to nuclear blackmail when Russia takes a chunk of someone else's country encourages the taking of more chunks in the future. The 2022 invasion of Ukraine was motivated by the West's inaction when Russia took part of Georgia, Moldova, the Donbas, and Crimea in fairly rapid succession.
The Linux kernel uses GCC (for a long time, it used a specific version of GCC), and it uses some flags to disable certain notions of UB, some of which were particularly added for Linux. Do these work for C++ code? Possibly, but who knows.
Why not scrape your bank directly? For semi-auto I used to use TamperMonkey to help turn a statement into a CSV if the bank didn’t have a download.
Do something that reminds you about the value you provide - to users, not managers, not administrative bureaucrats, not marketing people - real users.

I have ~40 years experience delivering software around the world in a variety of industries. I have found that whenever I get burned out on the subject of software, its usually because I haven't had a good hard look at my users.

The people whose lives will actually be impacted by the value I provide in the software I write.

If you can't conceive of how you're going to see your users, or get a feel for the way their lives are improved by your work as a developer - there's your problem.

Everyone needs to have their work acknowledged - everyone, no exceptions. If you can't get access, fix that. If they're unhappy - fix it. If their lives are not impacted positively by your efforts - fix that.
If you're in the car, it's nice, but it simply doesn't work.. So what d you do? You first struggle 2 minutes with the phone, and fixing all the mess it made, and then just pick up the phone and quickly type a message in 10 seconds. With or without autofrustrate
1. True RCS isn't supposed to go through internet, it's supposed to go through same way as SMS and voice calls (which is also a data connection, but specific to sms/rcs/voice)

2. That's not a requirement even though Google does their best to kill all alternative implementations. (Samsung had one, but Google paid them a lot of money to get rid of it. I have to admit I don't know who is left with their own RCS client)

> So, RCS is not a replacement for SMS.

It's 100% a replacement to SMS, it's literally defined in the same spec as SMS over LTE, as an upgrade to SMS. Though yeah Google made it, this... uh... thing. RCS is technically a federated standard, but Google killed every part of the federation and some parts of the standard.
The backend can of course try to guess what type of register data should live in, but it's not always going to make the right decisions if it doesn't have type information to work with.
In this particular context I would argue almost non existent.

Assuming that a tech startup will mostly be around a digital product there are no borders on the internet or trade barriers. I can just as easily take international payments using Stripe as I did before. If TikTok can go global from China then any other tech startup can go global from the UK too.
I got burnt out switching jobs while fixing up a new home. What helped for me was finding another hobby. I made sure to not bring work with me home, I started riding a bike in the woods nearby and once my brain was a bit better I picked up electronics.

After some time I could enjoy the challenges at work, but I've almost stopped programming at home. I still do some embedded firmware programming for my electronics projects, but programming is no longer my main hobby.

It was weird at first, but at least this way I can enjoy work and enjoy going home.
I always get the feeling that most cloud ideas come straight out of California, where hiring even an unexperienced administrator could cost you a couple hundred grand a year. Of course cloud services look pretty attractive if you can just instead hire one consultant for a one time fee and pay way less until your business grows.

The problem is that mostly anywhere else in the world, you can get personell for much cheaper.
To me, the worst part about flying is landing. As soon as you land a ton of inpatient people stand up and just rush to stand and wait in the middle isle. Every single flight this happens on.

Planes need to have exits on the rear, middle, and front of the plane to make deplaning a lot easier and quicker.

If this issue is ever solved it will be a miracle.
Unfortunately, you have now made it easier for corpo IP and copyright parsing of the collection. They will undoubtedly butcher the archives using this clean tool to find anything still profitable in their eyes.
I want to try the M2 on the iPad for stable diffusion photo editing.

Who will make that app first?
So they'd need to hire a person to setup and manage hardware. And another person to setup and manage RDS, ES, etc.

If it's $250k each, that's already $500k. Unless they can find someone who can do both for... $300k?

I don't know.

He doesn't provide enough details to make the math work.
Every kid is different. You've got a real challenge on your hands. Our first was the same. Good luck!
Copyright is about encouraging creation. I don't think that many people will not create because they are worried that they may not get discovered until after their copyright protection expires. In fact in cases like this the expiry of copyright may increase their visibility which may make this re-discovery more likely. Then they will be able to produce more with their newfound audience and profit off of that.

> Or book authors whose work is picked up decades later

This is an interesting one. I think this rings close to the "dilution" argument. Where movie studios will be more likely to wait until copyright expires than pay the author. I think this is a legitimate concern but I don't know how big of a deal it is. There are already many public domain works but studios still choose new stories where they need to pay the other. Obviously shorter copyright periods will shift this equation but IDK how much. Likely it makes sense to move slowly here, start at a high number like 80 years and slowly reduce it to see if this becomes a huge problem.
if you think your life is shit now, wait till you have an unpaid second job as a babysitter.

Seriously, whatever you think of kids, one thing is absolutely true: it's hard, it's very hard. Not in a poetic sense, but simply in terms of man-hours you will have to come up with.

Unless you live in a traditional patriarchal society, but if this were the case, you would probably have had several kids by now
Right, the problem in China is lack of regulation and weak rule of law. So much for 'Strong Governance'.
I do not own an iphone, but what you are describing sounds similar to what happens when the touch/screen calibration is off.
Charming optimization here:

> This function is designed to help telephony apps cooperate in implementing "toll-saver" features. When no messages are waiting, COMDIAL picks up after five rings. When messages are waiting, it picks up after three rings. This way, when I call to listen to my messages and the phone rings four times, I know there are no messages waiting. I can hang up before COMDIAL answers and avoid those hefty long distance charges.

These days I just tunnel TCP over DNS (badly)
Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic?

The most obvious and profitable use case were those ISPs who returned 404 pages riddled with advertisements for domains that were unregistered (e.g. if you mistyped a URL)

Certain ISPs even injected JavaScript into every page.

“I” in the OP’s comment probably means “government” or “ISP” rather than a friendly roommate on the same wifi network.
> So it's no surprise that the first digits of 1/89 contain the Fibonacci series as it's just 10/89 shifted by one decimal place.

>If someone is not aware of generating functions it's essentially impossible to understand why this generates Fibonacci.

??
My Siri experience seems to degrade over time. Months ago all my lights used to respond individually. "Turn on the floor lamp in the living room" would turn on the lamp. Now that command turns on all lights in the living room. Last week my HomePod started responding with "uh-huh" within .5 seconds of it hearing "Hey Siri" well before it's given me a chance to actually say anything.

And then there's so much trouble with connecting to the internet or even setting an alarm. Like setting a timer needs to connect to the internet even when there are zero issues with my connection. Please give me a local DumbPod.
I haven't looked into the RCS protocol myself but what is preventing others from building their own RCS clients? As I understand the protocol, it's IP based rather than modem based, so external apps should work, right?
Quarto is also pretty interesting for this.
"Yes. I have burnt out a couple of times" a couple of times? Dang. My near-burnout scared me so much, i can't even imagine surviving a couple.
>You actually like hanging out with your own kids

My parents never liked being around me and made sure I knew it.
>The national average is going to be lower than cities with housing crisis,

How do you know the unnamed company in the article is in a city witch such a crisis? To me it appears there was not enough demand so it had to discount its rents by a lot to get to the target 97%-98% occupancy and thus lost revenue.

And yes, I don't have a real estate license in Louisiana, so can you please name the specific laws you had in mind?
Best response here is disable slide to type and maybe predictive text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33257455

Another approach is to murmur to your phone -- the voice to text has gotten remarkably sound. I see lots of people press the Siri button and literally murmur sotto voce, texting paragraphs impeccably much faster than typing.
I stepped away for a few months to sort it out. Did not like where I worked and love where I am now. Same line of work different company.
You are wrong in pointing your finger to the business: we the buyers are to blame! We don't buy "good", we don't buy "local", we don't buy "our farmers are fairly compensated", we don't buy "ecological": we only buy "cheap".

We lost our manufacturing jobs because we insisted on pretending Western wage but Chinese prices:

1- We discovered ourselves rich when we found out that a median Western wage could buy us much more stuff if spent half a planet away, but we never took the time to appreciate the consequences of such huge capital flows (hint: our wages made us rich up to the moment the wages were no more).

2- We stopped accepting polluted air in our cities, but did not tolerate the higher prices of those factories that installed filters. Net result: industries either outsourced or collapsed.

There is no bringing back manufacturing without ensuring that a Western and a non-Western blue collar enjoy the same quality of life.
I've been burned out a few times and I'd suggest reducing work to minimum hours to give yourself some recovery time. Keep exposing yourself to new things and follow your inspirations. Eventually something will take and that spark will turn into a flame again.

I've been burned out a few times, some I didn't think I'd recover from at all. Each time though, learning something new is what brought me out of it.

Good luck.
You're likely at a career inflection point where passion isn't going to cut it anymore. Passion and motivation are fleeting and unreliable emotions. Realize that what your employer is asking you to work on isn't going to align with your interests. You likely are seeing patterns of how organizations function (or dysfunction), patterns in what you're being asked to build, and technology trends cycling their way back into the fold and it all feels the same, right? That is just how things go - I've spoken to people in other fields and they observe similar patterns.

Its like playing a video game with a leveling system and you have an aha! moment where you recognize a grindy pattern from the past has come back and are sick of it. The difference here is your employment is directly linked to being able to eat, etc.

Be more disciplined, put in the hours, slog through the work and also be more disciplined about stopping the work when the day is done and taking vacation or time away to recharge. Discipline is something you will need to build up but is much more reliable than waiting for passion or motivation to stop by (they still will). Find hobbies or interests outside of computing/digital things.
>Its hard to describe the complexities and weird error or latency or other conditions that happen in cloud environments.

As oppose to complexities of self-host using self purchased hardware?
Gwern's comment under “US restricts GPU sales to China”
We have the $15k enterprise contract.
I want to specify that mundane might be super mundane. My kids (1,5 years) absolutely love 1. emptying washing machine 2. emptying laundry 3. picking up toys to a box when cleaning 4. peeling potatoes with me. They will give me potatoes, I peel them, and they'll taste the raw potatoes and put them to a container.

This surely takes more time than doing the tasks alone, but this way is much more fun.
Wow, really feels like “mobile-first” on my phone in a way that Google never managed.
It's on the roadmap, can't do pinball machines without legs >.>
What is the % of IT teams directed to reduce overall spending? If that is more than 81% then cloud is even impacted relatively less than average during the current contraction.
None of that is practical. In reality, biosafety procedures in those labs are extremely good at preventing any incidents. If you think it's easy to infect yourself as a BSL-3 researcher, you probably have that impression from watching a movie or TV show.

That's why isolating the researchers is not necessary. Also you underestimate the number of such labs and the amount and variety of work that such labs are doing. "Synthetic Pathogens" are not a thing. Synthetic viruses are hardly pathogenic at all.
Years ago we had a strategy meeting hosted by our VP Product and in his presentation he outlined the 5 "Priority 1" projects for my team for the next quarter (the slide was literally titled "Q3 Priority 1 - <my team>"). As the VP talked, the CEO kept looking from the screen to me and back again.

Finally the CEO couldn't take it anymore ... "Ensorceled, I was expecting your head to explode by now." and I replied "What? This is great, if you give me 5 priority 1 tasks it means I get to choose and my favourite is on the list!"

In the ensuing "discussion", I brought up the Jobs quote about 5 times.
I'm sorry to harp on this, but if you don't know the basics of virology, how do you know whether that technical definition of GOF is hard to defend?
I enjoyed the article a lot. Not only the burnout part but also to enlighten me why free marketeers true believers incorporate as their moral ground on it.

This quote brought to me how naive that view can be:

> I’m a free marketeer. I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system — goods and services represent tangible benefit to people, market prices represent the true value of goods in society, and wages represent the value that a worker provides to others. Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man. A high income is not only justified, but there is nobility to it.

Truly believing that free markets have some inherent morality in its mechanisms was not something I considered before, probably because I came from a poor background and have seen how flawed that assumption is in reality.

Thanks for sharing it, definitely worth the read much more than just the burnout section.