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I'm sad I missed the office-with-door era. I started working in 2011, and my first company still had some real offices, but you had to be pretty senior. I made it to that level right around the time they got rid of them :-( and no other place I've worked at has had them for anyone but execs / senior managers / sales and the like.

To date the best working condition I got to actually experience instead of just watch others have it, was when I interned at a federal government agency in 2009 and had a real cubicle (and an electric standing desk!) -- the same thing Dilbert comics were complaining about so hard in the 90s, but far better than the open office pits that replaced them.

The best part about offices with doors is you didn't need to worry about formal schedules and meeting rooms as much, because anyone could have an ad hoc meeting in their office any time.
> There were only two popular programming languages: C++ and Visual Basic.

And COBOL. Vast, vast plurality of the business economy ran on COBOL. We also had mainframe assembler for when speed was required, but COBOL had the advantage of portability to both mainframe and minicomputer. Anything fast on the mini was written in C.

When I started we had a PC to use for general office tasks ( documents, e-mails and such ) and a 3270 or 5250 green-screen terminal for actual work. The desks groaned under the weight and the heat was ferocious. Overhead lockers were jam-packed with code printouts on greenbar and hundreds of useful documents. "Yeah I have that in here somewhere" and Bob would start to burrow into stacks of pages on his desk.

Cubicle walls were covered with faded photocopies of precious application flowcharts and data file definitions.

Updates to insurance regulations would arrive in the post and we were expected to take ownership and get them implemented prior to compliance dates. There was no agile, no user stories, no QA teams, no 360 reviews. Just code, test, release.

You knew who the gurus were because they kept a spare chair in their cubicles for the comfort of visitors.

Good times.
Oops, my bad. That's correct.
> But pretty much anyone that works in gaming.

Game dev is packed full of young people and regret, burnout, resentment, and depression are perennial reasons that people state when they leave the industry in their late twenties and early thirties. Game dev is the canonical example supporting this thesis.

Yes, there are certainly exceptions, but as a broad comment, it aligns very strongly with what I've seen among many many programmers both in games and out. It's very hard to make the kind of sacrifices that lead one to spend insane hours programming. Some people do that because they just straight up love it so much. But most also have mixed with that some other harmful psychological motivations: a need to prove themselves, compulsive perfectionism, escapism, feeling that they are only worth as much as they produce, etc. If you just give into those instead of addressing them, the end result is often, well, deep regret, burnout, resentment, and depression.
> 100% of people riding them rode them on the sidewalk

A few months ago I saw a man in Seattle die while riding an electric scooter on a street going down a hill. He was going way too fast, probably trying to keep up with the cars I think, started wobbling, fell, and bounced his head off the street. Dead on impact. Two points:

1. These scooters are not stable enough to operate at road speed safely. The wheels are too small for it, the dynamics of controlling one at speed are all fucked up. They are substantially less safe than even bicycles.

2. Rental scooters don't come with rental helmets. I think a helmet would have saved his life. But the whole supposed convenience of the scooter rental scheme assumes no helmets, since virtually nobody leaves home in the morning carrying a helmet on the off chance they may want to rent a scooter.
The USD isn't the "only game in town." It just happens to be the best game in town because it's backed by a successful, resource rich country with a mighty military and a massive, diverse economy, and no capital flight controls.

No other country can match it. Switzerland has an economy that's far too small, China has capital controls in place, and middle eastern countries are too reliant on oil.
I have not kept up with modern Catholic teachings, but I recall the idea of infallible sources or truths and that conflicts with the scientific process.

A religion compatible with the scientific understanding of the world would be one that is open to amending its assumptions at anytime. At least that is my understanding of science.
I’m surprised as well. In his SXSW talk a few years ago the conclusion was that he was starting a new religion with the goal of finding exploits in “the simulation” (our universe).

I did not expect to see the bible references here.

Also his presumption that we would think the bible is the closest thing we have to an origin story also suprised me. There are hundreds of origin stories that have been part of the tradition of different cultures throughout the millenia.

Surely this is true for most of modern Western culture, but it seems to hint that he’s gone down the concerning path of seeking mystical metaphors in the bible, to not acknowledge the above in a post otherwise about corporate management.
Increasing application performance and deep-diving into open-source code
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve is a independent federal agency with regulatory powers. They even have a federal police force.

You are correct it is completely separated from the Treasury Department and the Department of Commerce.
Euclid's Elements is the foundational text of western civilization, popularizing reasoning from first principles. The Bible is a foundational text of western mythology, not much different from the mythological texts of any other part of the world.

You will find no mention of The Bible or any of its characters in The Federalist Papers. You will find much discussion of classical governments and several references to Montesquieu. John Locke specifically cited Euclid as his influence and structured his writing to match. Lincoln, perhaps the most stridently moral of America's presidents, was known as the village atheist when he was a young man, studied Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which put much of the blame on Christianity, and Paine's The Age of Reason. He carried Euclid's Elements with him until he could derive any of the propositions in the first six books at will.

It is only by the power of the ideas that Euclid's Elements (written in Alexandria) survives today. The Library of Alexandria was partially burned when Caesar set fire to the fleet in the harbor, which spread to the library and destroyed some part, to Caesar's embarrassment. Later, Christian zealots under Theophilus destroyed 10% of the collection. Finally, Muslim zealots under Caliph Omar destroyed the rest. Nobody looks to Theophilus's or Omar's governments as models of good government today.
Unlikely, the CPU is an arm with old arm cores (A72). I don't think ESXi supports arm.
You had to wear a tie but your could smoke at your desk.
> The government spends too much money.

How about solving that before cutting taxes?
The people that use them ride on the sidewalk because they will get maimed or killed by distracted or belligerent drivers if they scoot on the street.

It's not the scooters that are the problem, it's a city environment that encourages aggressive and careless driving.
Twitter suppressed the NY Post's story on Hunter Biden's laptop right before the 2020 presidential election.
Calling a surgeon who performed sex reassignment surgery a criminal is what got Jordan Peterson suspended until he'll remove that tweet.
Trump was banned despite never telling anybody to go inside the Capitol building and even posting a video telling his supporters to go home.
Milo Yiannopoulos was banned for making fun of an actress.
Alex Jones was banned for posting a video where he insulted a CNN journalist.
Nick Fuentes was banned for repeated violations but Twitter has never made clear what the relevant tweets were.
These were just off the top of my head. I also remember tweets calling for mass reeducation of white people or the eradication of whiteness being allowed.
Any kind of straight-line prediction is likely to be wrong. A world war (possibly) appears to be on the horizon, which always re-arranges if not wholly resets things...
Curious - why are these all 2 years off election years? I guess I'd understand being 1 year off, but 2 seemed odd to me.
My double-edged Occam's razor for extraterrestrial life:

Due to the vast scale of the universe, the probability of other life existing rounds to 100%.

Due to the vast scale of the universe, the probability of finding other life rounds to 0%.
https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/usage

There's a whole section dedicated to installing it in UI applications.
Because themes are Halloween costumes for IDEs.
Strictly correct but practically not, and the party making this point changes reliably based on who is sitting in the Oval Office.
Validation is important, but the serialization layer is the wrong place to put validation logic.

A protobuf is a low-level abstraction, like a struct or record type in your favorite programming language. You want validation logic to be a separate layer on top. You don't want it so coupled to parsing/serialization that you literally cannot parse/serialize something that doesn't validate.

Protobuf has a rich facility for adding custom annotations to anything (messages, fields, etc). These annotations are the right place to put validation predicates. That will let anyone build a validation layer on top of protobuf, for example: https://scalapb.github.io/docs/validation/
That doesn't make sense: a camera doesn't get more pixels just because the camera is taking a video tracking something. Neither if it had zoom and a controlled gimbal.
> Why is it always framed this way? This is NOT the solution.

Because it's the actual solution.

> you can't just remove car infrastructure and hope people adapt.

You don't have to hope. They will adapt.
They're listed on https://rockylinux.org/about/ under "Backed By". They don't have to "own" rocky to contribute.

EDIT: Although in hindsight, yes I should have phrased that a little differently.
I'm reading "The Vital Question" right now and it seems to have a really good answer to how life formed on earth from inorganic processes and chemicals.

I think given that explanation and the specifics, it's just realllyyy hard to get the conditions for life. It's super rare to not only have the conditions to start making amino acids but even more rare to have them assemble and create an actual single celled organism.
>ideally protected

Very much the ideal. Unprotected bike lanes end up as parking for gig workers way too often.
I didn't start that long ago but at my first fulltime job I also had my own office. An unthinkable luxury compared to now. Also figuring out requirements on my own was nice. On the other hand I think work was much more isolated, the office was in the middle of nowhere. Also during that time it was still normal that every second project failed or became some sort of internal Vaporware. Functioning Management seemed almost non-existent.
In select northern cities sure, not in Atlanta.
Can you expand more on the one truck pony? My understanding is that they have some of the best build tools, AB testing infra, and global scalability.
Yeah, all of these problems just come down to local politics. If your city’s political class values pedestrians, they’ll make the companies liable and it’ll magically turn out that they are actually capable of enforcing where their GPS-tracked devices are parked.
I'm really surprised they don't get more shit for it.

People love to make fun of Java for being verbose but then go all googoo eyes over Vanilla JS. As a Java developer for 20 years now, using it makes me think a Java developer from the '90s designed it.

But, you know, it's JS so it gets a pass.
The ultimate Dependabot setup guide with a working real-life project example.
There is no need to take my word, it's the law. Read the statues. Or, there are tons of cases (which is then settled case law) on this very subject.

Funny you care enough to post false information to shape a narrative of your choosing but not enough to educate yourself on the subject.
you can listen to "Inflation", the song at the center of this story, on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0PUWmPna5P0hKtSwXWin9o?si=1f8... and apple music: https://music.apple.com/au/album/inflation-single/1651110334

it's actually pretty catchy and funky, so worth a listen, as well as to support an unknown but talented artist (earnest jackson).
I saw helmets on rental scooters recently - they were green and maybe in Miami? If provided people might use them but I bet we could make a technology that would prevent the scooter from moving unless the helmet was attached properly. At that point people would "know" you have to wear them so it wouldn't be terribly uncool.
>This is largely down to GOP-administration tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and to a lesser extent the Iraq War.

Source for this? Based on a cursory search the numbers don't seem to match up.

* The current national debt is $24.19T or $30.85T, depending on how you count[1]

* The CBO estimated the bush tax cuts to have added $1.5T to the debt between 2002-2011[2]

* The CBO estimated that if the bush cuts were fully extended at all income levels, it would add $3.0T to the debt over 2010 to 2019[2]. I skimmed the article and it looks like that obama only partially extended it, so $3.0T is more of an upper bound

* The CBO estimated that the trump tax cuts[3] would add $2.289T (or $1.891 trillion "after taking into account macroeconomic feedback effects") over 10 years. Again, this is also an upper bound because the tax cuts have only been effect for 5 years but the figure is for over 10 years.

If you add all the estimates you get an upper bound of around $6.8T, which is a good chunk of the the current debt but I wouldn't characterize the debt as being "largely" due to the tax cuts. Not to mention, the figures above are overestimates due to the reasons I previously mentioned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017
> American software engineers get paid more than basically anyone else in the world, but we also have less job security. What's preferable just depends on your risk aversion vs marginal utility of money.

Of course, this comment is predicated on the assumption that America's loose labour laws are the reason for this salary disparity, and I'm not personally willing to follow you to that conclusion.

I think it's far more likely that American software engineers get paid more because the industry was effectively born there, and it was born there due to historical accidents like the US being where the transistor was invented, the advancement of technology due to government spending during World War II and the subsequent space race, etc, not to mention the US being the center of the VC world, which has its own deep history.
Another interesting facet is that US debt (and other sovereign debt) is also used as an oil of sorts to lubricate the wheels of the global monetary system. At the moment not enough US debt is being produced to satisfy demand.
The premise is the Dark Forest Theory where alien life doesn't share any evolutionary or cultural history (therefore intent is unknown), and technology advances fairly rapidly beyond a certain point, so other races become a potential threat. To survive the Dark Forest, it's best to assume hostility and either hide or attack first. Most attacks are done remotely with advanced physics instead of sending an invasion force. The Dark Forest is full of war and genocide, because most races reach the same conclusion. Take out the other before they can take you out. Or keep quite. Humans seem to be naive in that regard, doing neither.
Interesting topic, but I don't find the answer to the headline in the text.
I agree entirely. If you try to get a patch to be accepted, be prepared to explain exactly what it does bit by bit to people whose entire job it is to make sure that the kernel quality does not degrade.

If you can't, quit.
You may be able to blame someone in a court of law, but you'll know deep down you were responsible so that will be of little comfort.
One caveat to note[1] is that apparently you cannot promote those threads back onto the performance cores using setpolicy.

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/24/how-you-cant-promote-thr...
I've been really proud of Amazon for recognizing this a while ago and creating a path to Distinguished Engineer for ICs, which is VP-level (and then actively promoting ppl to that level, it's not just a special role for hiring externally).
Towards the end of the series, his redeeming quality was that he actually did try to care about his employees a little bit. He usually tried to "do the right thing" but failed in terms of execution.

But yeah, he was still pretty incompetent the whole way through the series. That was the whole reason for the character to exist, so I don't know where the "good at his job" came from.
They are similar.

If I trade X dollars for Y amount of goods, I by necessity must owe x dollars.

That "IOU" can be transformed in many different ways. But you can't erase it (without consequences that would end the flow of goods). If we have a trade deficit we have X dollars of IOU now in our economy that most go somewhere.

Where does it go?

Into debt, and eventually erased by either paying, inflating away, or printing money.

China has massive foreign reserves holdings, and it's been trying to hide that recently with some clever numerical juggling by having state banks hold it all (someone at the top said they have to reduce holdings after Russia got screwed).

I'm not 100 on how you can have internal debt and external surplus, sorry. You'll have to talk to someone smarter for that.
I've reported hundreds of cars parking in the bicycle lane this year alone..
I never said it was my reaction or his, or that I hate EVs (if you read again) - I'm saying that if that "limp mode" happened, to a business owner or someone dependent on their vehicle, I can fully understand why they would start to view the entire environmental movement and everything tied to it as full of BS. It's a reaction (partly rational) caused from how upsetting that event is.

> It's like if I was angry at a bank so i littered at their branches

Sometimes, if you are angry enough, you protest in the only way that you know of, regardless of how rational it is. No policymaker is going to listen to your concerns, valid though they may be. What else are you going to do? Shut up and take it? I would hope that when we see people who oppose EVs, and "roll coal," that would be a sign for us to ask how they got there, instead of assuming they are idiots.
“During the Clinton administration” is a description of time, not a description of control.
Because writeups are done at the last second, rather than as part of the project.
Off the cuff, I suspect I would feel proud to work in one of two conditions:

A) A place delivering support to those in need, within my geographical community. For example, working for an organization running a food bank, career oriented learning, and similar services.

B) A team working on a cutting edge area of science and/or engineering, which would advance human understanding in a way that will lead to overall societal improvement.

It's possible though, that I'm conflating pride and fulfillment.
Good news! The government has carefully listened to your reasoning, and has agreed.

It will now take less money from everyone richer than you. However, it is also going to now take more from you, and everyone poorer than you. No fear - this is the exact same as taking less from you, because you will get richer, just as soon as all the people richer than you get tired of having money.
How does one form such a misconception? What did you read or watch?
The credence given to UAPs on HN after recent declassified reports is puzzling. Ufology is a very cool field, but it's astounding to see people shape their worldviews based on such scanty "evidence." And who's to say that the whole thing isn't just a massive disinformation psyop?
<<just handing out money to random individuals? Randomly taking it away?

I do not want to derail this thread, but one could argue that post-2008 FED response almost exactly just that[1]. Granted, I guess I myself am stretching word random here as it is highly likely that criteria for selection for cash infusion were almost certainly not random at all.

<<It isn’t nefarious and is something that is done by central banks all over the world.

It may not be inherently, or even intentionally, nefarious, but it does undermine investor's view a little bit. It is not the same, but it is a little like me trying to pump shares of my own company to give it an appearance of strength. And just because everyone does it, does not make right.

<< The fed purchases treasuries in order to fulfill several different goals, all under the broader umbrella of monetary policy.

I would have been willing to accept this rationale pre-Powell tenure. His clearly political response to badgering from, at the time, Trump WH ( and then Biden WH ), made it clear to me that monetary policy is dangerously aligned with political issues ( where by design it was supposed to be apolitical or at least independent of political pressures ).

[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/kohn2010051...
The reason health care costs so much more in the US
It's 43k deaths per year in the US.
This is really inaccurate. TFA is just referencing public debt. If you want to treat the US like a company, you should include private debt as well. If we do that, you will end up with a figure that is 5-10x GDP (depending on what you include).

Then for some reason you're comparing 10x valuations with debt loads...which aren't comparable in the slightest. Do you know how many companies have outstanding debt at 5-10x their revenues? Go look at most major debtors and you will find they have debt loads under 1x revenues.
A major reason that scooters were banned in Atlanta was because cars (and a bus) kept accidentally killing people on scooters.
About 30 years ago was my first for-pay gig. Still a student I worked for 3 weeks at a small software company (100% daughter of Siemens though and using their office). I was placed together with a recent hire in an office larger than my living room today. We each had a glass terminal connected to the group's i486 (not PC compatible, I believe) workstation with a whopping 32MiB RAM running SCO Unix (crashed about once a day but was said to be much more stable than Siemen's own Unix ;-}

I was to port some C code implementing TIFF into their graphics library. This was before the WWW took off (or known to me). They had Internet (with a host naming scheme incorporating building and floor, so byzantine that we found it easier to remember the dotted-quad IP address), but I don't recall for what or to which extend it was used. So a good part of the job was to read printed documentation.

vi was used in that group as text editor and I was expected to do the same. I hadn't seen it before and when given the two page cheat-sheet, I thought it was worse than WordStar in (already long obsolete) CP/M. Learned the basics quick enough though and even grew to appreciate it when using a terminal connected via 9600baud RS232 ...

We enjoyed flexible working hours, with a core time from 11am to 2pm where people were expected to be in the office (in order to ease scheduling of meetings, of which I recall none; we met at lunch in the cafeteria though). I had to leave before 8pm though, as then the porter would lock up the building.