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Inflation today is largely due to higher energy costs due to the sanctions with Russia, as I understand it.

Money is worth less because the cost to make and move things is more.

It's not the case that workers have too much cash, which would make goods less valuable relative to currency.

(In the US the fed has stated that they don't think the interest rate changes will make things less expensive)

Inflation today is independent of employment.

If it were the case that employees are paid too much, a recession would depress wages and stop inflation.

But it's not.

So us normal folks get it on both ends.

Things cost more and we foot the bill by getting paid less
I've never looked back since WSL came out...I'm not promoting Windows but growing up in a corp environment, Windows is where my comfort zone was...I tried switching to Textmate on Mac back in 2007 but really hated not having a direct map of various shortcut commands using CTRL key. The closest I got to this Win experience was on Linux Mint using XFCE...but again, it was pain anytime I was sent MS Office docs. Sublime/WSL has been my goto since it dropped! Slowly getting used to VSCode as well.
Because I’ll have a week day to do everything I need to do. Also I would push back or not attend meetings where I’m not needed. Team meetings and collaboration would still happen. A lot of people have to do late or weekend deployments and it would take the stress off of a lot of IT workers in all areas.
This is no longer a question of economic axioms, but of the facts on the ground. How do we know that the scale effects relative to lithium mines as they stand today will be sufficient to offset the price increase inherently caused by the increased demand? Do you have a source for this?
Loved EasyJet for that.

I also had a buttload of flights planned for March/April 2020 and EasyJet was by far the easiest. I got a Trenitalia refund probably 18 months later and I had to PayPal-chargeback some OTA which eventually emailed me asking to reverse the chargeback. Sure. The OTA capitulated soon after.
I'd do it in a heartbeat if they paid the 3 months severance upfront. But the way things are going, Twitter might not be around in 3 months to pay monthly severance, and I'm guessing if Twitter files for bankruptcy, there goes your severance.

I'd probably click the link to stay, start looking for a new job, and take unemployment if they fire me before I found a new job. I wouldn't work more than 40 hours for that asshole though. He's just coming right out and saying "Are you willing to take a huge pay cut to bail out my ass?" And for me, the answer is "No fucking way you nutjob billionaire!"
Well, 2008 was 14 years ago. If QE was "the cause" then why did it take so long to have its effect? Whatever the reason, why isn't that thing "the cause"?

It's a bit like an unhealthy person dying from a heart attack. What's the cause of death: the heart attack or decades of unhealthy habits? And if the later, which habits and how should the person have changed? Even then, something is missing if the explanation omits the heart attack itself.
Covid wrecked no supply chains. The overblown human reaction to it did. Oil prices were on the rise well before the Ukraine invasion.
Distributing unique, but similar documents is a pretty standard method of document control/leak detection. It was certainly not invented by Musk or anyone at Tesla.
I have a similar experience with my current dosage. I don’t really notice it unless I’m spending most of my time in a meta-cognitive state and self-analyzing my behavior. I find being self-aware of my executive function to be quite tiring, which means I don’t really notice. As you say though, the effect size is significant.

I think one of the risks is the initial euphoric effect is what people associate with it “working”, but that’s really just a side effect.
It's crazy how many people you can put in a bus a tram or a train.

When abundance is over, we will finally make less cars.
> 2) What in God's name are you putting on your tax forms that warrants being that paranoid about who sees them?

Well, it includes social-security numbers for starters, and may also include bank account routing information (where to send the refund check, or withdraw in case of extra payment needed).
I know, I know the Vasconic substrate hypothesis is rejected by a lot of linguists, but I know some linguists that find it intriguing. What do you think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasconic_substrate_hypothesis
Making committed history disappear isn't something I would call a "simple action". That's something that is almost never needed.

The common case it to amend mistakes. Git makes it very easy to accomplish that.

The other thing is: Git is conceptually very simple. There are almost no "esoteric" concepts. It's just a Merkle tree and some pointers to nodes on top of a very simple plain-text database.

My experience with people that have problems to understand Git is that most of the time those people never tried to understand how Git actually works. But everything (besides the concrete commands and switches, oc) becomes almost obvious when knowing the inner workings.

The main problem with Git is its UX.

I don't know anything of this stuff out of the top of my head! I have to look up the concrete commands or switches every time. But from the conceptual point of view Git is very easy to use. Because the underlying concepts are indeed so simple and straight forward.
In terms of authority figure respect - - I always get the feeling that's something thats innate. I have the same aversion to authority and has gotten me into trouble not reading the politics of a situation / power dynamic. I probably could attribute it to be raised in a public school system though my recollection is did respect the teachers. Interesting take.
Where do journalists get their information? What social class do politicians and business owners belong to? What social class do university-educated literati aspire to and identify with? I don't know why you imagine a conspiracy of any kind is necessary.
Agreed, I think it’s useful to discuss whether war framing is an effective tool to create desired outcomes, but that’s beside my point. I’m addressing OP’s implication that it’s ‘hilarious’ to think running a business is worthy of a war-time framing.
Lol, read the parent. It’s because a relative had a blender die after 3 years. He gives his justification.

5 years is quite a long time for modern devices. It’s sad, but I rarely see something last as long as 3 year; 2.5 ish seems to be the norm.

As an aside, my MBP16in 1st gen has had two motherboards die, each in less than two years. The tech blamed dirty power and said because the customer next to me had a 2012 that was still working it was my fault… he’s right, this was my fault for buying apple.

I routinely find products with obvious faults. My JBL smart speaker had an obvious mechanical problem, that killed it. Same for my acer, which had faulty connectors on two laptops almost a decade apart. I could tell as soon as it was plugged in that it was gonna die.
You might also remember a pretty awesome tool called Cain and Abel that not only did hash cracking but also revealed all sorts of passwords stored on Windows including the user passwords and credentials used in Internet Explorer. As an adolescent, Cain was like God Mode for Windows. Boy did I have a lot of fun using it to mess with school computers! I did nothing seriously harmful, but pulled relatively harmless pranks. Though I did once use it to get the FTP password to someone's site and defaced it with a meme, but I soon reversed it because I felt guilty. :P
Really impressed with Nuxt 3, much faster with Vite and tons of devx improvemnts.

Also very much enjoying MDC https://content.nuxtjs.org/guide/writing/mdc to embed components in Markdown, much like https://mdxjs.com/
There already are posters on this very site openly admitting in their profile they use GPT-3 to write their articles and they get decently upvoted. Confronting them on it didn't go too well...

Perhaps I'm just a Luddite and the only idiot that's fighting against AI-generated content invading the Internet.
I think it’s important to distinguish GiveWell type stuff from the organization and belief system as a whole. Giving money to malaria nets and prevention is great, and really effective. Weird Ender’s Game navelgazing and crypto scam polycules are stupid and don’t help anyone, they’re much worse than the excesses of normal charities EA is supposed to stand against
I do a lot of projects that are once and done. Once it's out there, there might be a maintenance budget, but it's minimal. Stuff just runs, until someone notices that there's an issue. (that's not so bad with sites that are essentially static SPAs, for ones where there are servers it's more risky)

It's a constant battle to build projects that shipped 18 months ago. One thing wasn't pinned. Or the build system used node 12 and doesn't run on CI anymore. So Babel needs updated. CDK did a major rev and now we have to force pin the old version.
Wife’s a teacher. 40-60 hours at school. 10-30 hours outside of work doing lesson plans, report card comments etc. Always responding to emails from parents.

She Has collapsed before when total was getting above 80 for several weeks.

They want to promote her to VP. They work even more hours then she does.

I make more then triple what she does.
My sincere fuck you goes to all the miserable transhumanists who give up all their human essence, including creativity, to their corporate-controlled AI overlords.
> Legacy tooling can literally cause breakages and security concerns.

Absolutely. My domain is a little different, but I've taken to keeping the installers of every version of a specific CAD program I've used, due to compatibility breaking updates that it has had, in the event that I might need to go back and open a design from a few years ago.
Imagine if the training set includes personal data similar to copilot and particular licensing... that would be horrendous. Notion should at least disclose how the training set is created.
I have a feeling that the answer is yes - because economics is kind of cyclical. We can't have a boom without the inevitable bust, so to speak.

Plus, keeping interest rates unrealistically low for over a decade just to please the highest echelons of financial power (under the bullshit guise that lower interest rates == more jobs) does nothing more than pause the natural economic cycle and, honestly, it just makes the bust that much more inevitable and dangerous.
Dreambooth: Image synthesis driven by images and text prompt
The problem is that the effort to do collaborative editing creates a lot of other problems.

I want to be able to just start typing, on my phone. Instead, I have to wait for it to sync. If I am in a place with bad reception, that will take a while. It lags and freezes, all in order to support collaboration that I do not want.

I want to add pictures. I want to add links to other notes. I pay for a subscription to get bullet proof cloud backup. Sometimes I want to share notes. I don’t want to collaboratively edit my personal notes with my private thoughts and journal entries.

Evernote stopped focusing on that.

I might switch over to Muse. It was designed to be local first and uses cdrt for sync.
That’s okay, but still bad UI for a critical safety component. It used to be much harder too. In practice it is okay, but the only driver for this is design aesthetics, even after knowing it is highly disliked the way it is. Wiper controls were one of those little issues that really turned my partner off of her Model 3 over time.
I don't think that information is public to protect privacy...but any balances over the limit in a failed bank would result in non-insured losses.
Yep, those are some ridiculous restrictions when the library could (and should) just buy a retail copy and lend it out how they wish.
This is… a really good idea? Do any tech companies do this? I’ve had tech writers on staff but never a trained librarian.
Yeah.

> And enterprises of great pith and moment,
> With this regard, their currents turn awry,
> And lose the name of action.

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

I was employee #3 at original Evernote, when we were just implementing that brilliant idea.

Here is the photo of pretty much precise moment when Evernote was born: https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/11/motivation-and-a-bit-of-...

What a memory, I really miss that atmosphere ...
Any economic predictions made around 2018-9 were demolished by the COVID-19 pandemic. Knightian uncertainty is really something.
We're _aware_ of that, but the past forty or so years of software development have been extremely anti-hierarchical - or the "hierarchy of one" / "benevolent dictator for life" flat structure.

Hierarchy has its own failure modes. Into the valley of death rode the six hundred ..
It's not a case of "hard work is bad". It's a case of forcing your employees to work an unhealthy number of hours, on pain of sacking, should be illegal. It certainly would be in the EU, where an employer must ensure staff do not work over 48 hours/week on average.
I gave takeout chicken from 600 miles away.

Context: My wife grew up in Guatemala. There one of her favorite things was a restaurant called "Pollo Campero" (literally, Country-style Chicken"). Well, they opened a few restaurants in the US. I was on a road trip, and passed by one such. I bought about 8 pieces, put them in ziplock bags, put them on ice in the cooler, and brought them home. She said it was the most romantic thing I have ever done.
> I'm reminded of e.g. the term "neurodivergent." It's a good thing to look at, but how do you falsify it? Who can stand up and say "I'm definitely not neurodivergent?" If you can't do that, the term is not very helpful.

I mean, that's not a diagnosis. If you mean just generally and not psychology specific then you are going to have to throw out most english adjectives. Like you can't falsify "im hungry", "im smart", "im dumb".
And Obsidian for the privacy conscious
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What will it search for?
> micro-service architecture imposes a heavy penalty on team co-ordination

This is, by far, the hardest scaling problem in SaaS: How do we divide responsibilities amongst our (code|services|teams) efficiently?

You can only grow each so much before they become unwieldy to manage.

Divide scope too much and communication becomes complex.

Divide along the wrong abstraction and you get duplication, overlap, and confusion about what's responsible for what.

And as time passes, decisions of the past constrain and complicate your options to redesign/rearchitect/reorg today.
Spam callers come to mind. Some of it may be due to some technical nature that made it difficult/impossible to enforce but we've had donotcall.gov and all sorts of legislation for fines and penalitoes and I still get slews of spam solicitations to this day.

I think the general consensus for your average citizen and consumer these days is that they are voiceless and powerless in most these situations while lots of posturing and theatrics go on between government and businesses, all while fleecing your average citizen and consumer.

Most see a lot more erosion than we see realized improvements in daily life from rights, regulatory action, or market trends/shifts.
Some time ago, a Notion engineer was telling HN that their old principle of hiring slowly was blocking growth. This was around the same time Notion started launching half-baked feature like https://www.notion.so/help/guides/creating-links-and-backlin... which, last time I checked, still doesn't have the smoothness of Roam or Obsidian.

My gut says that every engineer they hired in the name of growth is trying to get their own little feature in to show impact. They prematurely scaled the company and it shows in the loss of focus.
Bear was amazing but I dropped it because there's a lot of good enough alternatives (I use Craft right now) with more features and wider support.

Bear should have been ported to Android and Windows/Linux(browser version?) years ago.
I am not a physicist or astronomer, but I would think detectable levels of trans-iron isotopes would call into question some of the assumptions about heavy element production in stars. IIRC anything heavier than iron is not an exothermic nuclear reaction.

I speculate the astronomers are trying to figure out how detectable amounts of a very heavy element are in the outer layers of the star where the emission lines can be detected. Later stage stars are layered by the elements produced in fusion.

I thought that dwarfs resulted from stars lacking the gravitational pressure to create fusion in the core to reach those elements. So how did they get there at all?

And if it's detectable in the halo of the star, that means there is enough in the lower levels (since late-stage stars are basically layers of each atomic number where they are fused) that some of it migrates to somewhere where the lines show up in the star's light emissions?

Maybe it's just stuff left over from a previous star's supernova when the star formed? I can't see that resulting in enough that it would appear.

Anyway, those are my amateurish questions.
Did they not offer to rebook you? I've never had an airline not offer to rebook someone at the airline's expense for an airline-canceled flight, whether in the US or Europe.

As an aside, originally written as a response to a now-deleted comment about noise regulations that shouldn't excuse your compensation situation at all:

> The airport in San Diego is abnormally close to the downtown area more than virtually any other major airport in the US or Europe, barring dedicated urban airports like London City. To paint a picture, while landing there it feels like you're flying between skyscrapers, and that's probably actually the case. If there's any commercial airport that should have noise/time regulations, SAN is probably up there on the list.
I would settle for knowing I could still build it. It is amazing how fragile build chains are and the amount of maintenance they require. The build tools themselves, let alone pulling in dependencies.
I never understand why a brand with great name recognition and branding does this kind of thing.

Also, I'm really getting to the point where all scrolling low information eye-candy landing pages should have a giant <Take me to a simple landing page> button.
Reid Hoffman extends this idea in an interesting way by talking about how you need different types of teams depending on what stage the company is at. One team to storm the beach, another team to capture the city, and another team to hold and police the city after.

In both the case of the teams and "wartime" vs "peacetime" leaders I don't think one is better than another, just different skillets for different situations.
Sure, but that was then and this is now. I guess it's simply not possible to get it back into the "discourse" as a thing that should be changed.
You're saying a Tesla won't drive if Tesla goes bankrupt?
"the API makes Pandas look good"

It sparks joy in my heart whenever I see shade cast against pandas.
It's not just a CPU usage issue, either— vmmem leaks and holds onto several times as much memory as the actual guests are using, inevitably chewing up whatever you've set as your maximum quota for WSL even when the guests are only using a few hundred megs of RAM.
In 2008, no. "No depositor in an American bank lost a penny to a bank failure." [1]

But they were bailed-out by larger banks, and eventually the taxpayer. Next time, there might be bail-ins instead. [2]

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/financial...

[2] - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090716...
Personally I’ve always seen them allow you to get up and relocate as soon as cabin doors closes. But yea, you didn’t pay for a seat assignment so you might get stuck where-ever. They’re pretty clear about this…

Flown Frontier many dozens of times, since I usually travel alone with just a backpack. It’s probably saved me $5-10k in my adult life. Very often it will be $150+ less than the next cheapest option.
This was my first thought as well. Is the file size really that precisely deterministic from a mammoth program like Word given different dates, machines, versions, etc?

Given that Musk is not the most reliable narrator, to say the least, I'm skeptical of this story. I'm sure he sees plenty of utility in appearing omniscient to frighten potential leakers.
Impact is a good way to put it. At least dumb, unwise people have less impact.
Obviously if I haven't personally done it, it isn't possible.

I could also get rich knocking people in the head with bats and taking their wallets. For a little while.

It's telling some people who let their true colors show, espousing ideas like "hey if I can make good money hurting others I'll do it, and why haven't you!"

Crime is not hard, most houses are easily broken into, many people can be tricked, the human body is fragile, and society runs on a shockingly large amount of trust. Do not conflate the fact that most don't engage in the worst of crimes with the actual difficulty in doing it.
MIT solved an old math problem to break 'liquid' AI's computational bottleneck
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding how prices work (as does the vast majority of people, including journalists who report on these things). The price of anything is dependent on one thing alone: how much someone else is willing to pay for it. Any improvements you made might entice someone to pay more, but if they don’t care about the things you changed, they won’t pay for them and therefore the changes didn’t add any value.

If people are willing to pay 30% more from you doing nothing, then the value still went up simply because that’s the definition of value.
>Maybe unpopular opinion, but I think libraries should give up on best sellers or at a minimum embargo them for 12+ months. They'll end up with better terms from the big 4/5, and can be a discovery place for new authors in addition to/rather than Amazon KDP where many end up now.

I'm 100% in agreement of this for ebooks given how disgusting DRM practices are.
Only an Absolute Bureaucracy Can Save Us
As a general rule, the key I've found is to have a system in place that doesn't let things slip through the cracks without acknowledgement. It's fine to not complete something if it's less important than everything else, so long as you are making the conscious decision to do so. What you can't afford is to let something go by unnoticed that'll catch you off-guard. Practically what this means is having a place to record all of your outstanding tasks, a way of prioritizing them, and a regular review of those tasks. Tools like Shortcut, Jira, and Basecamp do this really well.

Also, keep notes and action items from meetings, and make sure to block off time to put those action items into whatever tool you use to track tasks. A lot of useful insight gets lost the moment a meeting ends if you don't!
I grew up watching Star Trek :)
microcontroller & fpga programming, all kinds of usb and serial port stuff, all unusable on wsl2, works on wsl1, hell even cygwin. wsl2 is half-baked crap.
I wrote C code with dispatch tables to implement "virtual functions" for structs with method calls .. those were local to a dot-c file, with corresponding external dot-h interfaces defined.. all of that by my own design, for a framework for graphics programming .. in the early 90s. The techniques were known, just not common. Borland had great products, and was killed by "bloody means", by MSFT, in public view.