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If you're in it for quick results, absolutely agreed. If I had to earn a living making furniture or any kind of carpentry, I'd definitely use power tools. Even Paul uses them. I.e. as far as I know he does the rough cutting and planing for projects using machines but finishing is done using hand tools.

Something I totally forgot until your reply made me remember. Paul Sellers actually made a piece for the president of the USA. He used to live in Texas.

https://paulsellers.com/2020/11/a-white-house-design/

That's not what we're talking about here tho if you ask me ;) The point is to to do something that is not easy. Something that takes time. Skill. Mastery. And do it badly lol! I sympathize a lot with the OP here, i.e. in software, I make a boo boo and I force push a `git commit -a --amend` and (almost) nobody is gonna notice. In any case I squash it all before merging, whatever may have happened "in between" in the course of "getting there". This is quite different when physical things are concerned. It's much, much harder to hide your mistakes when woodworking. It needs more knowledge and skill to hide the mishap when cutting that dove tail :)
He can’t actually, he’s an inventor and afaik the pantorouter is his invention.
That isn't what it means though: it means everywhere getting fewer resources and less investment.
>the pot calling the kettle black [is] used to convey that the criticisms a person is aiming at someone else could equally well apply to themselves.

I think this is accurate here. The new yorker is opening their own slave factory is this example, not buying products from said factory. Or manufacturing cars without seatbelts or being an oppressive Lord. All while denouncing those who do the same. That may have a positive effect, even a net positive effect, but "the criticisms a person is aiming at someone else could equally well apply to themselves" because they are doing the same thing, just being aware of it. If the new yorker was a zero profit company then your point would be valid but they are instead a subsidiary of a Condé Nast which is owned by one of the richest people in the world. It's more like the Washington post (owned by bezos) writing an article about amazon's absuse of workers while also abusing their own workers.

When I tried to go back to the article, I was greeted with this message:

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These dark patterns are not necessary to run a website. They are strictly profit seaking acts meant to charge you at every turn, exactlty as in the story.

So yes, the pot is calling the kettle black
I'm dumbfounded that something so serious (even mentioning Article 5) was rushed to publishing without at least a second source/more clarification. Really damages credibility of news reporting.
Only marginally from personal experience
£100 in 2015 is equivalent to £131 today due to lost Pound Sterling value.
That means little for the long term. What happens, is many companies do such things to "make a story of it" to appease some advertising base, and then quietly when no on is looking, or cares, in a few months companies quietly re-allocate budget back to such media channels.
It's terrifying to know that this is the process for an alert like that going out. I agree with other commenters that this looks like an editorial mistake, but even if not-- a bad-actor journalist (or someone having compromised their Slack account) can get a headline like this on a major wire service in ~10 minutes!? What?!
"Like a lot of other things, this has suffered from computerization making it yet another small part of everyone's job (which also increases context switching, the amount of shit you need to know and keep track of, and generally makes jobs more stressful) rather than a specialty that's the main focus of a few workers."

Nicely said. I am getting really stressed out how complex things are becoming. It's already hard to keep up with git, Jira, Bitbucket, AWS, k8s, Helm, JS frameworks, databases and whatsoever. But then add hard to use document management systems and f...ed up processes that are mainly designed for management to get nice reports and not for productivity. Now you are a bad developer and you are a bad document management person because it's simply impossible to be good at all this stuff.

I am constantly preaching to management that we need specialized tech writers and specialized devs that are good at their respective. But I guess it looks cheaper to waste time and energy of engineers on stuff they aren't good at.
The damage of a screenshot of the ads next to horrible shit going viral. Many brands probably also have concerns about potential subconscious impacts of the association, even if they would be hard to measure.

Brand teams at big companies, especially those in regulated industries, are incredibly risk averse. With Twitter typically being a small minority in a marketing mix, there’s a quickly diminishing benefit to sticking it out.

Add in a buggy ad platform that can steal your money? Lol nope.
Update: One of the two AP reporters who broke this story was fired:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/11/21/james-laport...
I guess you could say doing it right wasn't exactly rocket science.
Entire careers can be made by being first on the spot or first to report - this has been the case as long a journalism has been a thing.

And journalists fight over that - it’s going to be hard to countermand as long as we want “news” and not “olds”.
This didn’t work for me. I don’t like shared resources and it wasn’t particularly fun the few times I went into a makerspace because you can’t take your time, make additions to the machine etc.

I really started doing new things with a machine once I had my own and could run 12 hour jobs overnight.

The maker community online is pretty robust so I had no problems being able to pick up the necessary information that way.
For me the fun is getting a colony to a self sustaining state where I don't have to micro manage it. Then grabbing two colonists and go off exploring, trading etc.
All subjects are well suited to sweeping generalizations by the Washington post.
But the difficulty is separate from these characteristics.

Cassandra always tries to push you to 5 colonists. The events she chooses are separate from the difficulties or quality of the events.
And so many companies straight up refuse to give competitive raises at any time other than title bump that it fuels the meme of having to leave every two years if you want to not be underpaid.
> with a skeleton crew of DevOps and SREs

Except didn't he fire them too?
The copied it from a comment they read and didn't bother doing the math.
interesting, had no idea of those limitations / considerations in competitive programming
> ...spent time understanding the business and environment...

You're probably right, but there's a decent chance that Elon's heavy-handed approach was necessary.

I've seen the "gentle" approach fail.

For example, at $dayjob a bunch of on-prem stuff is being slowly modernised into the cloud. Very slowly. Slow enough to give the dinosaurs time to play politics and protect their turf.

For example, the networks teams that are used to legacy in-line firewalls will cozy up to some non-technical senior manager with a budget and get them to approve a project to roll out this legacy technology in the cloud. That way they don't have to retrain or -- worse -- risk being made redundant.

If instead some team comes in and simply bulk-migrates workloads from on-prem to the cloud... breaking a handful in the process and just fixing forward, then it appears to be messy and crazy, but the effect is that the legacy data centre teams are made redundant virtually overnight. Now they've got no clout, no time, and no pull. They're simply walked, and will find jobs elsewhere.

I've seen both approaches, and the latter style worked better long-term.
So basically these companies are proving allegiance to a single political agenda. If you don’t censor those who are critical of people in power, (but only on behalf our specific friends who are in power) then we pull your funding. This has got to be the most unsettling thing I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever.
Coke and Nike don't directly deal with twitter tho. Agencies deal with all the delivery of adverts to the different advertising platforms. The agencies use what ever is available. They would sit and make dozens of different sized video files to fit different adverters specifications to upload into Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc.
I though the idea what that everyone has to write their own...
As of this decade, we need disproportionate impact on coal, oil, and cars to have any chance to get to net-zero emissions. A country completely built around single-passenger ICE vehicles and burning coal for electricity is what's disproportionate, not the response to them.

We wasted a decade in the 00s, we've mostly wasted a decade in the 10s, and we're starting off by wasting a decade in the 20s. You can keep ignoring late notices on your bills, but sooner or later, they do come due...
If you want to display infinite fractional zoom levels, WebGL is mandatory. That's what most consumers will expect from a high fidelity map application, because that's the way Google and Apple Maps work.
It's amazing how hard it is for humans to understand compounding growth.

England's GDP has historically grown at 1.5-2.0%. That implies about 20% growth in a decade.

Let's say Brexit leaves GDP 2% lower than it currently is by the end of 2023. Now to grow 22% in 9 years (i.e. get back to even), they need 2.4% annual growth, which is a 20-60% acceleration sustained every year for 9 years just to get back to the baseline.

Less GDP today, in many ways, is less GDP forever.
“SSO is free with the Enterprise bundle”

Atlassian: not even then!
Property and violent crime disproportionately affects poor and disadvantaged people. Not just because they might be forced to live in "bad" neighborhoods, but because they have less money for home security measures, they may have to walk, cycle, or take public transport more frequently, they may have to work nights and odd hours and in public facing service jobs. And because the relative cost and difficulty of replacing and repairing their home and belongings, or getting physical or mental health care for the damage to themselves and time off work to heal, is far far higher.

The idea that police services to poor people and less advantaged neighborhoods should be cut, is one of the most out of touch, limousine-liberal notions that I have heard in a long time. The fact that it's an overwhelmingly popular idea on places like this with no discussion or concept of any potential downsides, shows how out of touch the crowd is when it comes to the problems people face.

Just because you've had to walk past some homeless people on the way to a restaurant in the city, or been occasionally offered drugs, or had your car broken into, or hear gunshots and sirens sometimes, or driven through a place where people don't stop at red lights, or read things on the internet, does not make an expert... My point after that long rant is, don't be surprised or upset by people pontificating on this subject with no idea what they're talking about.
As a tech writer, I think this is because it's hard to concretely quantify the value that a tech writer brings, and thus it's hard to make a clear business case for.
That’s not my experience at all. My employer is way below $1m annual spend on FB and our in-house ad manager has regular check-in calls with a FB rep who is local to our city. Same with Google and LinkedIn.
This was part of my solution after burning out at a previous job.

The other part was getting more sleep and preferring to socialize with people I met independently. Sounds rude but yes that means genuinely new people. Not your family, old friends from school, coworkers, ex-coworkers, or anyone you met through any of those people. Keeping your social life fresh has huge benefits across the board really.

The slower paced job made all this much more realistic. Work-life balance is important for your mental health. I used to scoff at the idea, but I don't anymore.
What does fee for service model look like? Charging every user?
Construction trades like electricians pay really well these days (>100k with a few years of experience). I have a similar issue and I’m trying to learn in case I can’t figure out the software development thing. I definitely don’t feel the same attention issues doing more hands-on work.
I feel as if this is putting the cart before the horse. If a brexit is a net benefit to countries, then they should leave the EU. There is no problem unless the country is ideologically attached to the EU.
Are there any limitations regarding hermit running programs which emit code at runtime?
My mantra is that it’s always bad management. Insane that none of the managers or editors got fired here. What a mess!
Twitter Pre Elon had not figured out content moderation but advertisers were fine with that?
First time I've seen aliases using other chars other than a-z; care to share your dotfiles?

It's a neat trick to explode your alias namespace, since you'll never see a tool published named `ls-` So you have reserved a huge "address block" for your personal aliases :)
Tell HN: Searching for videos on Google gives better results than YouTube
I don't know why YT's search quality is so poor. If I want to search for something on YT, I'm much better off googling it instead of using YT's search engine (sometimes also appending site:youtube.com to my query). It all seems like a lost opportunity for YT. Then again, maybe it's designed to increase views rather than provide actually useful information to users.
The UK does need to lift up areas outside of London but it cannot afford to do that by bringing London down. Before the pandemic, "London had the highest net fiscal surplus per head at £4,030." [1] If London were destroyed as a financial centre the rest of the UK will necessarily get far less resources & investment.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...
I’ve advocated for hiring a librarian but I haven’t ever been able to make the case successfully. So yes, I agree with you, but the “how” of structuring and the “who” are orthogonal.

This is about prioritizing the documentation you write.
Thank you for posting these!
> By that interpretation both sides of war in ukraine are russian

Well, no, I made a pretty clear distinction about what context we were using "Russian" to refer to.

By that interpretation both sides of the war in Ukraine use Russian manufactured weapons. Which isn't a crazy thing to suggest, since it's manifestly true.

It seems very likely to me that the journalist meant "Russian-fired rocket". But is that what their source meant? I could easily see a conversation where a source said "Russian missile" referring to the type or manufacture of the missile, and the journalist misunderstood that as "Russian missile" referring to the army who fired it. Clearly, from the context of the slack conversation, this happened quickly without a lot of time to clear up the context.
Also Sumatra on Windows.
Companies only have one political allegiance. The almighty dollar

Turns out people don't really want a Big Mac when it's sandwiched (ha ha) between Nazis and Crypto spam
It may take more time to explain it to a tech writer than it would for you to write it, but in most cases the final docs written by a tech writer will be much better.
The micro-management goes away somehow as the game goes on? I should cancel the refund claim LOL?
I’ve been noticing bugs, particularly around not having tweets load, and for a few days it seemed that iMessage previews were quite broken.
On the plus side, we now live in a time where more such internals come to light (at least in Western democracies with free press) and news consumers can make their own informed choices which sources they read and trust. I've personally come to view AP more critical over the past years long before the rocket story. Their quality has gotten worse and they've become slightly political which a news agency should never be, their job is to report what happens in a neutral manner. Not that they're the only ones, it seems to be a general trend that media outlets increasingly feel they need to tell people what to think.

Anyway they definitely messed up big time with that rocket story but if the chats are to be believed it seems like an honest mistake. I agree with you that this isn't how things should be done but in practice there's always been pressure to break stories as fast as possible. It's just the way the industry works and I'd at least partly blame this on the readers as well. People should prioritize quality and truth over speed but that's not how it works. Social media needs its news and it needs it now. If you wait hours or even a day until the situation is clear, at that point the discussions have already moved on.
That’s fair. I would add the Oracle acquisition of Sun and subsequent missteps shouldn’t be ignored. There was a huge wave of negative publicity and uncertainty which played off of the perception of being the new COBOL with a helping of factory.factory_endless_boilerplate_word_salid.

Java’s fragmentation also didn’t help as even just web technology evolution though Applets, Servlets, JavaBeans, Spring, JSF etc without letting people settle into something that just worked reasonably cleanly. The perception was always that there was tons of legacy options and sometimes multiple hot new fads creating an endless treadmill where working on the same thing for 4 years left you behind the curve rather than a productive environment.

By comparison .Net benefited from the second mover advantage. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish didn’t work but uniformity brought it’s own advantages and they could always copy and tweak something when it was clearly better.

Finally, there was a perception that the kind of companies using Java where exactly the kind of companies that would soon outsource jobs to India or just underpay and replace everyone with H1B’s.
Thanks! WAL support is in the `main` branch and we're just doing some testing and bug squashing right now. I'm hoping we can release v0.3.0 next week with WAL support.
> Lawyers cache everything in language that doesn’t pin them down in any way. They are like spiders weaving these webs throughout society.

> The lawyers create all these binding relationships but absolve themselves of anything and everything.

Lawyers are professional social engineers...they achieve their goals through manipulation of the social fabric. There's a reason so many go on to become politicians.
Man. If you had told teenage me that on the 2022 equivalent of slashdot, tech folks would attack a communications platform for offending the sensibilities of Fortune 500 advertisers, I wouldn’t have believed you.
"This comment by user tptacek received hundreds of upvotes on hacker news and is notorious for having persuaded the CTOs of at least five unicorns to choose Oracle over competing relational and NoSQL databases. In twenty long and detailed paragraphs that combine facts with anecdotes from personal experience building and running an Infrastructure-as-a-Service startup and scaling it, tptacek dives into all the technical and business reasons to choose one database product over another and covers the major pros and cons of all serious competitors in the field. This is the text of the comment, quoted here in its entirety:"
Markdown + .webp, mostly. Some 'TeX.
It's also what Musk's fans often refer to as 'moving the goalposts.'

Keeping Twitter up is not success for Elon

He needs to make it worth well more than the $44bn he paid for it in order to achieve anything resembling success; the Twitter is going to crash thing was just a dumb hashtag, no one believed that he's just let it go down and stay down.

what would that even look like? Yet, not achieving that insane failure is now what people cite as success.
thats basically what I do... I didn't even realize there was the 'service' thing till a few months ago. Login, start the daemon, and go :-)
Because the juxtapostion of the ad with the offensive content makes it look like the advertiser endorses the content. Which in a sense they do because they're paying to keep the lights on.
And I must say, such rhythm is totally normal for large projects and for real life businesses - they usually first half of month do nothing, and after 20th, spent weekends and even nights at work.

Looks like managers have some condition and live under their rhythm, force other people to synchronize to their rhythm.
Thank you, had not heard of him and found some useful info in various places including: https://usesthis.com/interviews/andreas.kling/
> He needed another source or more context (just an identification of these as AA missiles would have been enough to kill the story) and didn't get one.

Did you read the slack chat?

The journalist 100% does not need another source to inform his internal team of the initial story or the sourcing.

Did the journalist make the decision to publish? NO! They said that decision was above their pay grade. When people asked for clarifying information, they said they didn't have any.

That's why it was an editorial mistake.

Frankly, I simply don't see how you can conclude the journalist needed another source, given that it clearly it wasn't their decision to publish the article. That was an...editorial decision! Which is why I think the blame for publishing without enough information should go to...the editorial team
Yeah, but isn’t the issue a long term problem now? If he is committed to little/no moderation, when would things change in a direction that would bring advertisers back?

If he wants a free speech free for all ala 4chan, he’s going to have to find an entirely new way to monetize that doesn’t rely on ads.
The advertisers will return eventually. I'm anti-elon and anti-twitter, but as much as I would love to indulge in the schadenfreude, the collapse of twitter seems totally unrealistic.
I don't buy it. Ok, I'm not a veteran ad spender, but the claim that after two weeks on Elon-Twitter the metrics shifted so drastically that it wasn't worth it doesn't make sense to me. If anything there's more eyeballs on Twitter than before.