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> most of the companies out there are not "decent"

So you've defeated your own point. If most companies are willing to outsource then the majority of jobs will be outsourced. Maybe you'll be fine if you happen to work for a decent company but this still means the majority of people will be screwed.
Just for an extra data point, I really like it the way it is. Seeing a peek of the next column to give an intuitive understanding that you can swipe for more is really neat (and I'm on an iPhone 8, so not a particularly large screen).
Ah indeed, there are two extremely similar titles on hn currently with very different contexts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33259414
I know we have had cloud for about a decade, but for a while I wondered if we would eventually see a sort of bait-and-switch: Cloud providers raising prices long after most corporations have lost the in-house expertise to run a data center.

Granted, I have no idea how the costs compare. In every company I have been at, the higher-ups tell us in tech we have to "learn about the business side of things", yet the business side never wants to share information.
The feature is implemented. I'd prefer to use it. It would cost them nothing to let me do so. Yet, I can't, because then big corporates wouldn't be milked for as much cash. I accept this as just another one of those inefficiencies of market capitalism, but it's still a little irksome.
>now people are left choosing between a failed unicorn desperate to monetize or a Red Hat knockoff designed to get you into RHEL

There are other alternatives, like Amazon's Firecracker
https://archive.ph/lZmPB
It's amazing to me how virtual and real pinball are really not comparable at all in terms of enjoyment (at least for me personally). I still don't really understand why.
I have to say, this looks like pure woo.

Developmental biology in multicellular organisms is one of the more difficult research subjects, even in apparently simple 'non-intelligent' systems like plant roots and worms. Anyone claiming they have some in-depth understanding of how nervous system development in humans gives rise to the relatively unique features of human intelligence (or elephant/dolphin/chimp intelligence) at this point should be regarded with some skepticism, particularly when flaunting terms like 'bioelectricity'. A complete absence of any discussion of the genes involved in orchestrating the developmental process is also a huge red flag.

For comparison, take a look at an actual scientific talk on development to get a flavor of current research: (Sept 2022, Genomics and Development)

https://youtu.be/pDamnUMtNoc?t=380
Yes. I needed perspective.

I took night classes to get my real estate license and was planning to change careers. Seemed like a good idea. After going through the training, getting the license, seeing how brokerages worked and what was involved in the field...I knew I could do it but I realized pretty quickly that I hated just about everything around how the industry worked. It honestly seems more designed to extract money from people who decide to get their license than anything else. Fees on top of fees on top of fees. My favorite was a Keller Williams speaker who looked like he was on drugs and told us all how to trick rich people into being friends so they would refer people to us. Scouting doctor's offices decorations and inviting them to do things that they seemed interested in, etc. Creating shopping or tennis groups for ladies to hang out where you can mention you're a realtor next time one of them says they are looking to sell. It was all so sleazy.

After that, I took a step back, realized that I was in one of the best fields in the entire country. Decided to suck it up and move forward, realizing that my worst days were better than most other folks best.

Since doing that I've done a lot more training and tried to ensure I get stronger and the things that interest me the most. I do scaled agile training and consulting to help create environments that will help organizations work more effectively together and prevent programmer burnout. I started focusing my energy on finding ways to fix the issues that caused my initial burnout.

It's going well so far. Picked up a good bit of consulting work and will probably be teaching some training courses fairly regularly in the future. It's nice to have an outlet to fix things that matter to me.
To take a different perspective,

I try to remember some argue we've overshot population: https://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/def... , and honestly get leary at seeing how friends are raising kids. One of my friends works with tutoring kids all day and very consciously had a vasectomy after finding a partner.

Why not partner with your spouse on something like ecosystem restoration? https://happenfilms.com/fools-and-dreamers
It is actually the racially driven exercise of economic and political power.
Where can I find out how to build a late-stage startup?
Source? That would actually be quite encouraging, since it suggests an obvious way to fix the problem.
There are fundamentally two classes of error message:

1. Information that can help a technically engaged person debug a problem.

2. Information that can help a user of the system understand what they have to do the overcome the problem.

Since most error messages are created by people responsible for debugging the system they tend to be of the 1st class. There has to be a way to provide different information based on who is getting the error.
Yeah, I was much younger then and much less self confident. If I had it to do over I'd escalate, like you suggest. Maybe get the super intendant involve. Another option would have been to find more parents that were interested and get some ground support.
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I'd recommend to watch the Learn Note video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjjMEZburmQ

It was really cool to see all the things you can do with it.
I don't think your opinion is controversial.

I've been working strictly remotely for 15+ years, and it takes a toll on you. When you couldn't socialise even with your close circle during the pandemic, it really burnt me out.

I do feel like hybrid is the sweet spot, or, at the very least, fully remote with 3-4 actual real-life meetups every year! That's when I enjoyed remote work the most, and if I had a local office to go to with a couple of other friends, that was even sweeter. All of that with the caveat that people do differ, and commute times need to be <15 minutes for them to be bearable (if we are talking hybrid; doesn't matter for 3-4 meetings a year).

I do think you are off on one point:

> why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south?

Assuming you mean "pay" instead of "page", remote IT jobs have seen equalisation of compensation like no other field. This has raised salaries locally as well. I don't know exactly about the countries you refer to (I guess Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia are the ones you hint at), but in Serbia, which has a lower average salary than those countries, I've recently mostly worked for a yearly gross salary around 100k €, which is relatively high even for Germany AFAICT. This has also led to increase in local salaries (because software engineers have an option of working remotely for significantly more if local salaries don't follow suit), where local net monthly salaries of €5k are not unheard of (which is probably like €9k before taxes). "IT professionals" are, on average, paid better than any other profession in Serbia, including managers and financial sector workers.
Maybe fresh dads. I imagine majority of fresh moms like WFH due to the ease of breastfeeding. Assuming they are in a country without 1 year of parental leave.
Actually reading (and understanding, acting upon) error messages seems to be part of the learning process of every developer. And while more senior devs usually do read error messages, even they sometimes, rather than reading it will jump to behavior like "trying again a different way", before looking closely what went wrong.
> care less.

This is the right and timeless advice. Indifference and equanimity towards your craft and output is the way I came out of my burnout. I can't believe that listening to your body has become a hated advice these days. Are we so deep in the pit?
Realtime no gc Web audio I'd possible with wasm: https://glicol.org/

And you are right iOS is still the worst in Web audio. But if I'm to make a choice, I choose Web audio for the cross platform support.
When was it, and with which ISP?
Working for the public domain helped me! Get out of the rat race and start playing the game that al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Leibniz, Lovelace, Marconi, and Shannon were playing.

If you can't afford to we have plenty of work to do and are hiring engineers - breck@pldb.com

Also, watch Caddyshack on repeat.
Taxes and access. I believe Dublin is one of the closest EU airports to the eastern seaboard. There is even an Irish airport (not Dublin, Sh... something) with a USA passport check on Irish soil, so once you step on the plane you're officially in the US and once you land it's like taking a Boston-NYC shuttle.
How many interactions didn't you have, because the developer read the error message, read the Wiki, and ultimately solved the issue themselves ?
> Large amounts of money seem to attract smart people.

I wonder if the author meant the converse, that smart people seem to attract large amounts of money.
It's like America's racial desegregation in the 1960s. Life of white workers did not become worse since colored workers joined the professional workforce.

I am in the US. Let it drop then, I will adapt by becoming a digital nomad. Maybe I will move to Mexico or Argentina for the better life there. You can buy much more life quality with half the funds.

I already know some Spanish, it's easy to pick up once I live there. If time zone doesn't matter I can also move to Southwestern China or Thailand.

Rise of wages in developing regions will also create much growth that I can invest into.

We cannot have real social democracy if there is still cheap labor on the planet to outsource to. Closing the pay gap will definitely brew global labor movement that will eventually make life better for everyone.
That particular VC was on the board of directors of an incubator program which did small $20K rounds.
They put those various in because there was a time when it would autocorrect the other way duck would become fuck if misspelled kind of thing.

And usually a misplaced duck is less harmful in a polite/business setting than a misplaced fuck.

“I saw a fuck on the road on the way to work” in work chat is a different type of embarrassment than “what the duck were you thinking you ducking idiot” in a personal text.
There's a fatal flaw in assuming that there's no overlap between groups 1 and 2.
This reminded me of this biodegradable plant box a company makes to support tree plantings which will not have future water and nutrients supplied. A Shell oil project used the boxes in an Argentina arid steppe. Was interesting to me in their 2018 write-up. They have not yet updated the results. https://www.groasis.com/en/projects/argentina-the-unconventi...
> The Ukrainians don't really have the power to have a say in this situation.

So: The US, EU, NATO, and Ukraine itself shouldn't have a say.

Your comments in this thread seem to indicate only Putin gets a say. He gets to annex chunks of several countries, while simultaneously forbidding European countries from making alliances amongst themselves.
You also don’t gain anything by only exchanging outside air with one room.

Let’s assume people are willing to let indoor CO2 levels reach X PPM over outside air in a room with N people that takes say 1,000 cubic feet per minute to maintain. The same number of people in a room 50x times as large still takes the same 1,000 cubic feet per minute to maintain. In a larger room it takes longer to reach an equilibrium, but the amount of CO2 you’re removing is a function of the amount of CO2 in the air which reaches the same level. Thus you can setup your air exchanger to vent in response to a single CO2 reading above a fixed level in your HVAC system and automatically adjust for a packed multi hour thanksgiving dinner in your living room or an empty house.

Circulating Air within a house is beneficial independent of how much air your venting to the outside. For one thing you can better regulate temperature with increased airflow for another you can filter the air for dust etc. So you really should treat them as separate systems.

If it makes you feel better imagine that 10’x10’ room with ventilation to the outside is attached to a sealed 100’x100’ chamber by a ventilation system you can turn on and off. The larger room will only have the same or better air than the 10’x10’ room and thus can’t make the small room worse off.

PS: Detecting people in rooms or activity levels does let you adjust temperatures accordingly which may save some money. Also, you may want more ventilation for other reasons thus kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans.
It used to be worse under Pierre. His personal mission in life was to make sure no one dodgy ever got a license and to hunt down every possible source of a cracked copy. My manager had purchased a license for me because it was cheap enough that he could approve it… a year later I tried to renew by emailing Pierre about it. He never replied, instead he contacted my manager to tell him that the license was being pirated and blah blah blah. Was very annoying to sort out.
> There are other 2 or 3 year newer apartment buildings 10 meters away in 3 directions which have fiber to the premises

Yup.

Sounds like you've stumbled across one of OpenWretch's many failings.

Sounds like your building is one of the many unfortunate older buildings throughout the country that is connected via EO lines. EO = "Exchange Only", i.e. copper goes direct back to the exchange, not via a street cab.

Buildings served via EO lines are very much "back of the back of the back of the queue" at OR when it comes to FTTP upgrade.

OR seemingly deem it "too difficult" to pull fibre back down the same EO ducts to the exchange. Others might say "can't be arsed" or "easier to sweat the copper assets" or "waiting for another government handout" .... I couldn't possibly say.
But will the best talent continue to be geographically clustered? Geography historically dictated educational and professional opportunities so there was clustering and then, arguably an amplification effect from the top professionals being physically proximate and collaborating.

You can argue how much of this geographic advantage erodes with the move to remote, but it seems hard to dispute that at least some of it will go away.
This just means that the error message needs to be more clear. For example, after the error itself, it could give direct advice: “PERFORM THESE STEPS: You must define ENVVAR. Go to <wiki link>. Set ENVVAR to a proper value and restart the service.”

Notice the direct language. It reads like an order. The less direct the message, the higher the chances that the user will not act upon it.
This is why it’s controversial.

For someone working remotely, a meeting with someone remote or in an office is irrelevant.

For someone working in an office, it makes their “in the office” experience irrelevant and meaningless.

It is not controversial because of the people who like working remotely; it’s controversial because of the people who dont, because they force their choice on other people.

You know how many people have to work remotely before it has to be a zoom meeting to be inclusive?

1.

So, in order for you in office preference to be meaningful, it has to apply to everyone.

No one likes having their choice overridden by someone else’s preference.

Thus; controversial.

When you say “I want that old school in office experience…” what it means is “I want you not to have that flexibility”, “what I want is more important than what you want”.

That might not be the intent, but let’s be blunt and realistic:

The blue sky dream of that in office experience doesn’t exist any more.

It can only exist if everyone is in the office at the same time.

Personally, I think the cat is out of the bag now. What are the chances that everyone will go back into the office full time? Not big.

That means the blue sky dream of the in office experience is probably gone forever.

It’s probably time to start trying to figure out an alternative set of practices and social outlets for people who like in office work.
1. A few friends of mine had kids with woman being over 40. Not unusual.

2. You can adopt.

3. Do not be too sad about it. I for one look at the state of the world around me and feel guilty for having kids. Guilty about bringing them in this mess.

Good luck
For reference, I downloaded a cracked copy off TPB (or some such place) when I was in high school for reversing video games, and I've never seen a legitimate reason to upgrade or get a real license.

It's really a testament to the robustness of the software.
I’ve got a life outside of work, working remotely tips the scales in my life’s favor. I can be whoever I wanna be, not just some dude getting bugged by my sandbagging coworker every 5 mins.
First, thanks for the interesting take.

It kinda made me wonder why I felt so uncomfortable reading it, and I think it's the very deep religious philosophy that shines from it.

Curiosity is fundamentally a desire to discover things by one-self and uncover hidden things. It goes against authoritative advice ("kills the cat") and is self motivated. It is basically the opposite of blind trust, faith. A vice.

Studiousness was the core virtue of monks, and they were the spearhead of shuting down distractions to focus on a single goal.

This is basically the advice we'd give to people to stop looking at the birds, to focus on plowing the field in front of them.
Java requires a certain amount of memory and CPU power (if nothing else because it's a garbage collected language).

I doubt Java is available on some of the smallest computers C can run on, like many microcontrollers or legacy platforms.
With all due respect, this is mostly my problem with the "work-from-office" (WFO for ease) crowd. Generally, the stance of the WFH crowd is that each individual should get a choice of what makes that individual happy. Very few, if any, of the WFH crowd want mandatated WFH, it would make no sense. But then the WFO crowd often says no, I don't care what makes you happy, because you being in makes me happy. That doesn't seem right. Of course you could argue that if some people work from home, the WFO people arent happy, but thats not because they lacked choice, whereas with the alternative, thats exactly the reason.

I don't want that to come across as aggressive or anything, that just the way I see it, and I think thats why its sometimes met badly. If what makes you happy is a condition in which someone else is unhappy, that person is unlikely to react well.
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I wanted to create cool animations on my house stairs.
To show you my work, I recorded a quick video demonstrating my use of Luos, led_strips, and load sensors.

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> But I think it will become increasingly common to divide social life and work in the future.

I am pretty sure that is a already the case in most of the world. The exception really is Asian and US work cultures (and perhaps specific worspaces like Academia or Startups).
That depends on what you do with that. You can also look at this as an investment in yourself that will substantially increase your income later. If you have something to show for it after you sabbatical, you can actually win long term.
When I was a teenager I thought kids were a pyramid scheme. If your life isn't worthwhile, then what point is there in creating another life whose worth will be equally questionable? This sounds like your "scapegoat for meaning of life" idea.

What I eventually gradually realized was that the kid might just be another person, but you're not just creating a person, you're also creating a relationship with that person. And it's a unique kind of relationship, in some ways more intimate than any relationship you can have with anyone else including your romantic partner. (Which adult runs with beaming face to hug you whenever they see you come home from work and you know it's all totally genuine?) I'm not an expert on what has objective meaning in life, but I'm pretty sure that deep relationships like this are one of the stronger candidates.
I'm pretty sympathetic to your view. I have friends I still keep up with from old jobs. I've worked at places where I pretty much hated everyone, but overall I've always managed to connect to someone there, and that was nice. Now it's stilted zoom meetings, Slack gifs, not much else. That's a bummer. I just came back from a 3 day work summit and it was actually great to see people I work with, to get to know them, to read their little mannerisms and find out their quirks. I'm a pretty shy person, and I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed it.

But work is a site of control. I think this is the source of controversy you've discovered. Even if you enjoy your work and the people you work with, it's still an obligation. It took 18+ years of conditioning to get you used to this life. Finally, workers (granted, members of the laptop class like us, already a pretty well-off group) get a bit of a say, a tad bit more control over their lives. You don't have to sit in traffic, or on a train, while your brain rots with stress. You don't have some petty asshole looking over your shoulder. You can see your family more. You can sleep more. It's quite liberating to have that choice.

From where I'm sitting, I see a big push to return to the office in the media. I get the feeling, totally unsubstantiated by evidence, that this is coming from the top. Insecure leaders who need to see their underlings typing. People who genuinely hate that they've lost some control, demanding that the serfs come in under their eye. This is neither nuanced nor totally fair, but I'm trying to evoke some feelings here, to maybe get at why this is controversial.

For me personally, if I could wave a wand, I'd choose a very short commute and 2-3 days in the office. But I also bristle at the back to the office push.
I have found one solution. Take time off, like 6 months or a year. You need to take so much time off that you start to get excited by the idea of going back to work. Do anything in the meantime. You could work a shop counter, travel, play video games. Anything that awakens even the slightest interest.

The idea that that some motivation circuit in your brain has fried. This happens when you spend too much time forcing yourself to roll the proverbial boulder up the hill just to see it come back down again. Your brain will heal itself, but you need to stop rolling that boulder first.
It would likely run on vapor and drama. Seriously, the overpromise and under-deliver from most Elon endeavours is getting out of control.
Judging from the TOC, everything in Part I of Boyd and Vandenberghe appears in some form in the monograph, so I don't think that's it.
The wisdom post from comboy is the bitter truth.
This isn't easily actionable advice, and it depends on what caused the burnout. What worked for me was to really focus on functional typed languages and keeping systems architecture simple. Feels like I'm constantly making progress and getting things done without a feeling of dread over increasing technical debt. Also, working for myself is a huge boon.
Well, imagine the error was simply "RuntimeError: Environment variable not set" instead, then how much of your time would have been wasted by those dozen interactions?