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You know you can criticize the monstrosity capitalism became without begin a communist right ?

There are a lot of alternatives between full blown consumerism and eating potatoes in a sad looking brutalist apartment complex.
You're saying, basically, that doctors can be effective for nontrivial care if they get a good night's sleep and then have only you to deal with.

I'm saying that even if you do that, many are going to be worthless.

Look, I've actually gotten one fired before. And blocked at least one premed from reaching med school at all. Plenty of doctors are great people. Many... are not.
Some People Are Mosquito Magnets, and They’re Stuck That Way
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Kids need a ton of help today. Help them.

Almost every year the top request to Santa is ‘I wish I had a dad’

Many dads flee from their kids lives. Mentor them.

Families don’t all look the same.
> and so much Harfoot filler

I really hope we've seen the last of them.

I've not read the books and so can't comment on accuracy, but despite the slow start the last aired episode wasn't bad at all.
I'm aware it's been solved, my company did almost all of the engineering work in the US for in-flight WiFi mods.

I'm sure Elon has a plan, but there's a difference between modding a gulf stream and devising an STC for production installation on 100+ aircraft.
Yes, but only after making peace with not 'striving', and making some larger shifts in how my life is set up.

I experienced major burnout after a 4 year stint in an early stage startup, and I walked away. I had a six week break which was wonderful, but the next step I took after that was essentially a similarly stressful (but rehigh profile) job. I lasted a year.

Now I have a less prestigious job, at a less recognisable (but much more compassionate) company. I've moved out of the big tech hub city and now I work remote. I'm much, much happier, and have something approximating a healthy work life balance. I can walk to quiet woodland from my house, where I work, which helps.

The hardest step, which still troubles me from time to time, is stopping striving. I could be earning more, have a better job title, etc. But I remind myself I don't want those things more than I want a fundamentally comfortable life with ample time to spend with family and friends.
I think the big customers are militaries of nation states. Satellite communications for military drones is a huge enabling technology.
> But an even better response would have been engagement around 5-6 years ago to keep everyone calm and the armies staying home.

This is naive thinking.

Putin has been destabilising, manipulating and annexing parts of its neighbours for decades and it was always going to continue. When reclaiming former glory is your goal talking isn't going to change anything as Obama, Macron, Scholtz etc have all found out.
I did.

I got really burnt out at the beginning of the pandemic. Ended up quitting my job and taking some time off. For a long while, just thinking of doing coding projects would fill me with disgust.

After about 9 months, I decided to make an app for the workout program I was following (5/3/1) as I didn’t like the ones out there or using spreadsheets. Working on something where I was user 0 was tons of fun and reminded me of why I liked coding in the first place. The fact that the response to the app was great did help too.

Can’t say that it would work for everyone, but this got me unburnt out. I just started a new job now and am loving it.
Well, not really a systems language (and strongly dependant on C), but Lua is usually a good choice and it runs virtually everywhere.
> Not taking the Germans seriously after WWI and trying to destabilise their country...

Yes, it's widely regarded as a mistake to be punitive to the replacement regime after you win the war. The Marshall Plan is the new model. If the Russians throw out Putin, we should have a similar plan in place.

> The odds of Putin deciding to do a Hitler...

are a hundred percent, as he's already performed acts of genocide in Ukraine. I hope he takes Hitler's final decisions to heart, though.

> And if the US hadn't spent the last few decades marching NATO's borders towards Moscow...

Russia just triggered the most significant expansion of NATO's borders in years via their actions, and their invasion of Ukraine brings the Russian border even closer to NATO.

The idea that Russia gets to tell countries like Poland they can't make alliances is lunacy, too. Bullies love to isolate their potential victims from friends.
The grammar! Do you use something like Grammarly when writing?

I must say that anyone writing in a second language deserves high respect. English is my second language as well, so I know the struggle... Keep it up! You have good content here.
To calculate a meaningful yearly TCO you have to consider the real useful life of servers which is far longer than 3 years.
Yes, I remember that, although EU regulation was in effect, I still couldn't keep my number when switching from O2 to Tchibo (O2 reseller) because O2 did not allow that "for technical reasons".
I don't know much about the lore, don't know anything about attacks on fans, and didn't find it boring. I watched it alongside a rewatch of the entire Stargate franchise now that it's on Prime again with the change in ownership. What response are you looking for here?
If you avoid the cost, you benefit from an externality and have a free lunch for a limited time (or, lunch someone else paid for)
Ugh yeah. I’m naturally on the less energetic side, and generally need a decent amount of sleep (at least 7 hours) to really function optimally. I am envious of those who can get by with less.

I don’t have kids, partly for this reason. (I don’t have family nearby who could help.)
I’m fully aware. But the changes still don’t address the core problem which is that the UI looks like something from the 1990s.

I’m not meaning to hate in it. I actually love Zulip which is why I spent the time and effort mocking up ways to improve it. But the core developers don’t like change.
I see, that makes sense. In that case, it becomes more of a discussion of boundaries and proper work-life expectations.
The chart doesn't really matter, look at the weekly sales and growth

Despite being much older than Xbox S/X and PS5, it kept and IT STILL sells more than both combined TODAY

> Do you have a source for the statement that xbox hardware is sold at a loss?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have...

> Finally, the clear and obvious win for MS in the console space is their Xbox Game Pass subscription.

Xbox game pass cost them money, it's not a sustainable business model, it's the bastardization of gaming, we'll see how it performs in the future when they'll stop pumping money into it to attract studios/users

Cloud gaming is the future, so that strategy could be a win for them, BUT, it's a very distant future, the current infrastructure doesn't permit it, it's very niche
> I sure remember when the guidelines were that COVID wasn't transmissible through aerosol, only droplets. Then it was revised to include aerosol. Mask warnings also evolved from "not that effective" to "extremely effective".

And yet the authorities and all the big tech bros were quick to censor anyone who disagreed with the blatant false narratives. Even the WHO took a YEAR to admit to aerosol contamination after the pandemic was everywhere.
I just had somewhat of a burnout last winter and left my job. I'm lucky enough that I could take a couple months off to get back in shape mentally and physically.

Invest in yourself however you can, that means doing some sport you love and/or go see a therapist. What I'm realizing is that I have a lot of power over how I feel, way more than I previously believed. Make a conscious effort to let go of negative thoughts when they arise.

Make sure your house is in order, it's an extension of yourself. Do whatever you need to feel satisfied, it's your life. It is a mistake not to live it the way you want to. Be kind and patient with yourself.

Good luck.
Can you afford sabbatical? At least a few months, but possibly more. I was able to reset it that way.
Yeah, I don’t see google ever having the incentive. Apple can onboard people with the far reach of iOS, and pull them into the Mac later on once they are hooked on audio products for iOS. With Android…you are a bit stuck as I don’t see ChromeOS becoming a center for audio production.
Having kids means:

You can't enjoy life normally anymore. Oh, you went on a european tour to appreciate some architecture? Well that's too bad. Little Josh will want all the attention. You had twins? Haha good luck with literally everything. The only gazing you will do is when you look at the night sky after you've put them to sleep wondering how good it would have been without children in your life.

Having them, or not having them. It is bad either way. Just cherish the life you've had so far thanks to not having children.
This is really interesting and something I've been anticipating for a while. An obvious beneficiary would be youtube, whose transcription of every video could with some effort be transformed into a lot of interesting features, same with the chapter markings often supplied by creators. Currently they already detect swearing and nudity, but only early on in videos, which suggests that the costs of running these kinds of models over large corpora of videos is prohibitively expensive.

As an aside, is it me or does it make very little sense to display a stacked bar chart on a log scale? They probably should have re-thought that one.
(take with a pinch of salt)

I've heard it said that Martin is a pantser rather than a plotter, so he tends to let characters go where it makes sense for them to go. The problem might be that because he knows the broad strokes of the ending, being closer to it means it's harder to organically get characters where they need to be - he has to become more of a plotter, which isn't his preferred approach -- sounds exhausting. I think the last 2 seasons of the show demonstrated what happens if you navigate this transition poorly.
> They butchered a guy with no consequences.

They are an ally, according to US policy (petrodollar etc.). On the other side, US is going against every other ruler who is not aligned with its interests for much less. Double standards. Which is why no one (outside of the western bubble) buys fairy tales the US pushes through its political system, diplomacy and media.
Take long holidays. 6 months minimum traveling around.
if you have a family, or a tight mortgage - I'm sorry for you. As I don't have a straight answer. but 6 months away from keyboard is a strict minimum.

It worked for me every time.
Thinking about local industry and environment is a government's job I would say. Government sets the rules, and businesses optimise profits under these rules.

I would say Western governments did a poor jobs protecting their countries from unfair competition from China, but also the practices are indeed unfair, I can't agree Chinese government is not to blame.
I have kids and the thought of going to bed at 11 and waking up at 2 for personal time has never once crossed my mind! That sounds like an awful recipe for severe sleep deprivation. There are plenty of other, healthier, ways to get personal time as a parent as kids age.
Show HN: Makery – Static website builder that works in the browser
I've never really liked using drag-and-drop website builders but starting from a template always felt like too much work.

Makery combines the best of both worlds.

My goal was to create a site builder that:
- Allows me to use modern frameworks like React, Tailwind, and Nextjs
- Build pages from predefined components
- Customize pages right in my browser
- Deploy my website with a single click

Probably the most interesting feature of the product is the page editor. With the editor, you can quickly build new pages using predesigned building blocks, built with React and Tailwind, and customize them to your liking right in the browser. The editor generates the preview on the client side, which makes the editing experience really nice. You can only use a fixed set of npm packages at the moment.

Let me know if you want to build an actual website with it and I can create an account for you.
Yes. I switched careers for a while after being burnt out with tech and that helped me realize just how good I had it doing something I mostly enjoy. I do think the break itself also helped. Even the best musicians in the world sometimes take a break from the grind of regular practice and performing. Recharging your batteries is well worth it and nothing to feel guilty about.

> whenever I’m coding, it just feels like an enormous effort to get anything done

What does feel effortless and get you in the flow? If the answer is "nothing", get checked out for depression. If the answer is something else, then maybe you've simply outgrown coding as a pleasurable activity. It happens.
I third this!
Is latency competitive? 4g is quite laggy in terms of RTT. Not sure what sea-level starlink is like.
> 1. Myocarditis rate is much higher post infection than post vaccination by about 2X

Based on which data since reporting of adverse events after vaccination is constantly suppressed by medical professionals? (and reporting of adverse events is anyway very low in the first place)

> 2. Myocarditis rate post vaccination is 0.02 % . Covid FATALITY rate is 0.3%. Yet we are expected to have "debates" about it

Please explain the excess deaths around the globe right now then, if you believe in such numbers.
I have some experiencing with the burn-out cycle (you can direct message / email me for my story). Suffice to say, I've done software, teaching (Teach for America), and medicine (I'm finishing residency this year). I have experienced burn-out in every one of these endeavors. What keeps me going is having something else to work on alongside my main grind. These have ranged from side-projects (free apps I made for fun), side-gigs (AirBnb, Turo), side-jobs (part-time programming while in med school), side-hobbies (CrossFit, Yoga, BodyPump, hiking, my dog, dating), and so on. There's no perfect solution, but every once in a while you will find something that you really love and it makes the grind tolerable.
I am running this on a fairly powerful machine, yes. I forgot to mention that part. It’s a laptop with i7 10th gen and 32 GB of RAM. And you’re absolutely right in how much Teams hogs memory because my org basically expanded their IT budget by many multiples during the pandemic and upgraded folks from 8 to 16 GB laptops / desktops before they realized that Teams and another software we generally run all day cannot manage with 16 gigs.

Maybe all these troubles go away with more memory but just to be clear, I face almost none of the issues you’re talking about except for the truly crappy search which has only marginally improved this year but is still very, very bad.
Yeah that is a good point that it is possible to ship a pretty good audio app, but it requires a lot of work (especially testing) or you restrict it to eg. just Pixels. I can imagine Ableton surveying their user base, finding them quite Apple-centric and mainly iOS users (just a guess!) and deciding it wasn’t worth the potentially huge amount of extra work to support Android, at least for v1.

Google did introduce Oboe a couple of years ago which was a new, much improved audio API, so they have put in work there. But yeah, there’s nothing like AUv3 as far as I know and the whole ecosystem must be so far behind what exists on iOS that it would be hard to justify many devs putting in the work. But it is possible to ship cool stuff with work for sure!
Very smooth!

I'd appreciate being able to create custom search profiles (like Brave Goggles).

If I'm searching for a famous person, I might want Wikipedia, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, [music streaming service(s)], Twitch, and YouTube results.

If I'm searching for medicine, I might want Wikipedia, PubChem, MedLinePlus, and Examine.com results.

If I'm searching for a question, I might want StackExchange, Reddit, Quora, and Consensus.app results.

With my regular searches, I might prefer a different search engine than Google, a different microblogging website than Twitter, etc. Maybe I'm boycotting Instagram and don't want those results to show at all?

What sources does the news tab use? Maybe it's extremely biased? Let the user decide! Maybe I want different news source profiles (one for serious, less biased sources; one for satire; one for local news; etc.)?

What about localization? FASS.se is a popular medical database in Sweden, so I'd like for those results to be displayed in my medical search profile.

It would also be cool if the results in the Google column automatically filtered out the results available in the other columns. I mean, since I already have the Wikipedia results in its own column, I don't need the Google column to hand me a Wikipedia link.

I'll stick to Brave search for now, but it's a cool tool!
Does SharePoint destroy intranet design? (2010)
Russia shot down a plane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17 and used lethal chemical weapons in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_... ; the problems go further back than the election of Trump.

There was also the Russian spy in the NRA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina

> There was no strategic reason we couldn't have made friends with the Russians

This would cost a lot of Ukranian lives.

> The Saudis are much worse, and they are #1 allies.

This is also a serious problem, and plays out in the same way as the problems with Russia: petro-dollars funding Western political corruption to look the other way.
So their AWS bill is $500k/year.

Hire one person to buy, configure, manage hardware is what? $250k/year? And is this self-hosting more reliable than AWS? For an email service, you'd think that you want the most reliable host.

Weird.
That's definitely a good point. Restricting options and randomization can be great tools for creativity. I also like Splice's "CoSo" app for the same reason. It isn't a great app for making full songs but it's phenomenal for helping getting my creativity flowing.
MITM became some sort of miraculous hacker solution.

To MITM you need to be on the way of the traffic, or manipulate the DNS. None is obvious.
"What I learned is that burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work."
https://thetech.com/2010/04/09/dubai-v130-n18

I recommend reading the whole section on burnout. Although burnout isn't really the topic of the article this is the most enlightening writing I have ever read on it. Hoping it might serve you.
I get your point but it's a sane default for most users. They expect their stuff to magically be there after replacing their devices. They don't make any distinction between local or cloud storage and can barely handle folder structures these days.
I've been very close to a burnout. The only thing that helped was completely quitting what caused it.

I was appointed the role of team lead on top of my normal team member role. The major issue was that management told me not to hold team members accountable for their performance or actions. So suddenly i was responsible for everything within the team but could not do really much about issues within the team or its clients. Trying to solve everything myself made me very tired and depressed.
Firefox Reader View came in handy here; I actually prefer its formatting too.
Have you checked out Outer Range? It's a little weird, but it was a good twist on the genre in the same way as Cowboys & Aliens. You get your usual conflict over land, but the why unfolds with each episode.
One of the most incredible tricks the IT industry pulled was convincing companies to convert a whole bunch of capex to opex in the middle of a decade of historically low borrowing rates.
It's usually perceived control + sense of superiority + confirmation of existing bias.
https://mwmbl.org/?q=hacker+news

huh
Well at least it led to the top post atm, which mentions a FOSS Unity-based pinball designer project :)
Yes, am old, it has been multiple times through those cycles. Many stages in the emotional journey for me. They centered around the key idea that joy/enjoyment must be found- which is active- and in order to perform that finding one has to be ready- rested, restored- and it can take a long time to be restored- weeks/months- because restoration is a building back up, a refilling, of a large infrastructure of capacity. The stories of restoration of creative folks- like novelists needing to take time off after finishing a book- were helpful context.

Good luck.
That is still your choice. On transatlantic flights a WIFI connection would be a godsend.
This is an extremely small percentage of waste for anyone taking part... Feels like a big reach. Buying your kid a lunchable creates way more waste, where's the outrage of that?
Ill as in sick?
Maybe all you need is one more year. I'm bouldering with my 4yo weekly :)
Yep. I go hiking with a mosquito magnet often. By the end of the hike, this friend of mine would have quite a few mosquito bites on the legs. I'd have none.
I really hope their project succeeds, even outside of it being written in Rust. There is a very real and urgent need for a framework for complex cross-platform desktop GUIs, and Qt (which was really the only good solution for it) is currently sinking under its weight.
> It worked for me every time.

How many times? I am trying to cope with the recurrent nature of burnout.
That is absolutely true. The question, though, is whether the OP's fixation on having kids _is_ a goal, or if it's just a manifestation of dissatisfaction with the status quo. They're at a stage in life where probably most of their friends and family (of their generation) are parenting. It's easy, when depressed, to look at others who you see as happy and ask, "what do they have that I don't?", and in this case, the most glaring answer may be "they have kids, so I should get kids too!".

This isn't to say that the OP is wrong, but rather that in their communication, they focused more on their longing than their parenting, implying that the want of parenting is more important to them than the parenting itself.

Consider also that this thread didn't come from a day's ponderings; it's a reaction to another article about how most of the time spent with children is before the child reaches 12 (as quoted in the OP). Such a trigger could suggest more fear-of-missing-out than inherent regret.
>sweatshop workers in areas with human rights violations

Such as USA with $11B of goods manufactured by forced labour in prison camps?

(Note: this is not whataboutism, it’s pointing out hypocrisy.)
I enjoyed the first season as well, but not at first. I thought it was too slow, and spent too much time trying to really send the message "we spent a lot of money on this!" Long stretches of not much happening beyond too-long focusing on costuming and sets.

The finale worked for me, though, and retrospectively made the overall narrative flow work for me as well, so that makes it easier to dismiss the self-indulgent deadwood as ultimately I felt the core story was solid and well-told.

On Tolkien's chauvinism, one review I read noted that Tolkien doesn't come across as especially sexist -- as in, he's not anti-woman -- so much as he just kind of forgets about women. Which, granted, is still a form of sexism, but one that leaves a gap that can be filled rather than a hostile rejection that would be difficult to overcome. So like you, I've been enjoying the Galadriel character, and really the general increased peopling of this world overall, and don't feel it necessarily contradicts Tolkien's writings so much as fills them in.