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> I am an expert Frontend Engineer now

I wonder how much you know more than a Fullstack Engineer?

I ask because I am a generalist "fullstack" and want to know what kind of things an "expert" should know in the frontend that would make them unable to do fullstack personal projects

From my POV, unless you are working on very new tech like WebGl, Wasm, etc, everything else frontend is pretty much resolved. Would "expert" mean the breadth of knowledge on frontend frameworks? Writing JS compilers? Ajax?
Sure, my recent (gaming) desktop runs exclusively on Guix [0, 1]. I love working in all things lisp. Since those were written I've only continued to get deeper into Guix, and now help maintain nonguix and contribute to Guix. I can't imagine going back, it is just so much more fun and educational (to me).

[0] https://boilingsteam.com/how-i-built-my-new-linux-gaming-des...

[1] https://boilingsteam.com/i-love-arch-but-gnu-guix-is-my-new-...
Somebody who puts up a box of books near their house and doesn't give credit to the person who invented the idea: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/that-litt...
Thanks for sharing your rationale! I tend to agree -- the practical alternative for Linux anyways is some kind of key agent, and it's unclear to me (having written a few password managers at this point, including an age-based one[1]) that the attacker model for an agent is any different. The only advantage is the "public" channel one I mentioned, and that can of course be done out of band.

And since I forgot to say it earlier: excellent work!

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbs2
Object Pascal has two magic types, dynamic arrays and AnsiStrings. These are automatically reference counted. Objects and classes have to be managed by hand, yes.

In general, expect a lot more compiler magic out of Pascal, a lot of concepts were hacked into the Borland compilers over time.
I think you're missing what I'm saying if you are reading my comment as anti-capitalist.
ans * 5 also works.
You got me curious as to which states require ID to pick up prescription narcotics as I've never heard of this living in Illinois and Colorado. Turns out each state has its own set of unique and sometimes bizarre rules:

https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/menu-pdil.pdf
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My father has dementia and I have had to step in to manage his financial life, and there are a bunch of inconveniences with this process (nothing major, but certainly a hassle). Would love to hear if anyone is facing similar problems and what they've found works well

Problem 1 - He lives across the country, so I am not in person with him / don't have access to his computer

Problem 2 - He's constantly forgetting user ids and passwords and changing them (and increasingly accounts have 2FA), so if I want to monitor his accounts its very difficult / sometimes impossible to log in, and many services don't have "view only" access. I have joint access to some services / accounts but not others.

Problem 3 - He's increasingly naive to scams (email, phone etc), which means that he either should not have access to all his accounts or I should be monitoring them closely (probably the former).

Problem 4 - His balance of stocks / bonds / cash etc is likely not "optimal" for his age / health / expenses etc.

Problem 5 - On various days he has varying levels of cognitive ability. On a bad day he will write someone a check and not know or remember why, on a good day he can create a new bank account or open a new credit card

Problem 6 - There are a bunch of things I need to do for him / at least make sure are done - housing payments, taxes, random government payments (i.e., paying tickets), etc.

Would love to hear if anyone has a process to help with this.
They really don't have to be "AAA" to be a decent product. My nieces and nephew(ages 4-6) are all playing a Hotel Transylvania app on their tablets, which is a pretty straightforward collectathon platformer with a gajillion levels and a three-star ranking to encourage them to speedrun it. There are a lot of games like it, but as a plain-vanilla flavor of platformer it definitely does the job, and those kinds of games are F2P and generally well produced, with plenty of animation; the mobile market has some of the most extravagant budgets for 2D gaming, it just doesn't read as "premium" because of the business model and positioning.

When we go upmarket from that it's more often a sidestep into indie games, which can address a specific niche better.
They did. To (only partially) guard against that, I made it clear that I wouldn’t be hiring them to hang a gas boiler. (That still allows them to prefer someone else’s gas boiler job over my air-source job, but at least prevents me bidding against myself.)

And there definitely would be more labor, more piping, and more electrical work to switch to an ASHP; that’s part of the market forces problem that is hard to overcome with anything other than large price increases for gas or larger direct subsidies for switching.
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1. Cars have had computers in them for a very long time now.

2. The code, in many cases, is probably an unmaintainable mess. Embedded programming is not always modern programming, for good and bad.

3. Today, the computers in cars are doing more, and the systems are more complex. It's reasonable to expect more serious problems as a result.

4. Companies do safety testing, of course, but there's no such thing as as "100%" test coverage for complex physical machines running outside of a lab.

5. The best way to judge the safety of cars is the best way to judge safety for airplanes: let other people test them out for a while and then check whether or not they report problems.
> Any car running CANBUS is vulnerable to a potentially fatal attack.

No, it isn't. CANBUS is a non-safe protocol ("black channel" in safety parlance) and if anything safety-relevant is sent over it, there is a safety protocol on top.
Have you written more about this anywhere? What was your daily routine like? And how exactly did you avoid distractions? Didn't all that take a lot of self-discipline?
All of these comments that are trying to pin it back to facebook is quite interesting. Whatever hole the depression creates will be filled by any other content consumption, may it be TikTok, Youtube, Reddit, etc but there is a big pattern, time and time again, to single out Facebook.

Why is that? Youtube spreads misinformation too, most recently about election if I recall correctly. I mean hell, there are subreddits that full on organize crime / hate speech, all of them are just as bad, however facebook, every single time, always gets the active hate. I guess this is why PR is an industry, yes I just now realize this as I type the whole thing haha.
My favourite is rST headlines:

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American conservatives (myself included) generally dislike the book, for its incorrect account of the motives behind the American Revolution. But interestingly, many old-school economic leftists also disagree with it, as by incorrectly chalking up every historical injustice to "white supremacy", it obscures the economic forces that were the real driving factors. Some of the best rebuttals were published by the World Socialist Web Site, which is Trotskyist.
It does if they have some patience, I guess.
>"There's really no way to hide you're currently unemployed"

It is absolutely trivial.

>"but you'll also get tons of interview questions about skills and projects and challenges from your current job"

Your last job unless it is 10 years old should provide all of the answers. Any really identifying details should not be asked / answered as the employee is normally under NDA.

Same for references. Reference from "current job" can simply be refused. I can hardly imagine employee going to their boss and asking for a job reference while still working.

Anyways I am independent and run my own company. Maybe I am not up to date about how deep the US employers are able to stick their fingers up that proverbial hole.
I use them all the time, in their original meaning. What's important about those bytes is that they are part of the POSIX non-portable ASCII character set, and thus can safely separate objects whose contents come from the portable character set.

My shell library uses them to pass portable data around in groups of records, to parse and modify portable filenames, to construct shell commands and scripts automatically and to prepare plaintext data chunks for binary encoding and processing.
Get this — if you’re a generalist, you can actually decide to become a specialist in one area for the sake of money and career advancement, the same way you’d pick up any other piece of knowledge to solve a novel problem.
Like I say, I don't know of any piers built only 1 foot above sea level (they start flooding as soon as there were waves no?), and built about 100 years ago... If you do please share!

https://www.google.com/search?q=pier&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa...
So I can walk into your house as long as I start chipping in for rent and buy some of the groceries myself?
Woops -- I'll take those down. Thanks for pointing that out.
It sounds an awful lot like timecode. I'm used to syncing my audio mixer's timecode to cameras. Are TBCs similar to timecode?
Is Twin Peaks casually enjoyable if you’re fine with everything being esoteric and weird, or do you have to really focus and study it to get much out of it?

Ie. if I don’t have the energy to really be fully mentally present for the series, should I not bother?
And Stallman TECO for ITS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)#Example_cod...
I don’t know. I think this whole discussion is very vague if go by the example in the article, it sounds unlikely the developer described as the wildcard in the article would do very well on LeetCode.
> It takes a few extra seconds

That's specifically the part I was extremely unhappy with, as a former pass+dmenu user, who has migrated to 1Password. It's a cold, autumn evening, we're down from the mountain hike and running to catch the last train home to return from the trip, and I need to buy the ticket either before or as soon as I'm on board; my stiff fingers are trying to make things happen on a phone with a small screen, poor reception, and a slowly dying battery. I need that password *now*.
I don't know about tesla since I haven't had a chance to drive one yet, but the number of bugs especially in the interface but also in driver's "assistance" in other cars(VW, BMW) makes me doubt that it makes a noticeable difference - at least with tesla there is a chance they will fix it
Iso26262 is the safety standard (a slimmed down version of industrial standard by the way).
misra are the coding rules recommended to apply for these standard.
Autosar is an OS definition to make modular SW
For testing I usually have 4 VMs running the latest version of macOS (spread scross 2 Macs), but they are currently broken after upgrading to the latest version of macOS and Xcode.

I also have a few more VMs running legacy versions of macOS for building stuff that needs to be built on older versions of macOS, but I only run them on demand.

And I use a VM for collaboration (multiple people can code together and share a screen remotely on a designated VM that doesn't have any personal stuff on it).

At most I probably had 6 or 7 VMs running on the Mac mini simultaneously, but if I bought a Mac Studio I'd really want to be able to run more of them. I don't want to have to quit VMs that I'm not currently using because suspend/resume always takes ages and I'm never sure if networks drives are still mounted afterwards.
> Honestly, if someone showed up with a gap in their resume and claimed that they were doing start-up, open source, etc. for an interview, I'd dig deep into that hard

Hah, and you called gp's advice toxic! Taking stock if your financial well-being after being laid off is too late. I fear your advice (take time off) may be toxic - depending on circumstances. My advice is this: as a general rule, avoid interviewing while desperate. Getting an offer generally takes longer than one might think, so interview early and often, before you get near the end of your mental/financial runway.
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Thanks!

I have a part two planned to comment more about the languages / days themselves.

This post was just getting too long to include it here.
Would you mind sharing a link to the part you mentioned?
My company is currently paying through the roof for Datadog. While I'm not certain that it's cheaper to staff a full-time observability platform team, there are a lot of open source off-the-shelf TSDB solutions like M3, Timescale, Influx, etc. that should make maintaining an in-house platform less arduous.
Short version of the difference: Safety = This shouldn't cause harm. Security = This should be hard to hack.
If people aren't pushing then people won't use it. There are plenty of niche and esoteric languages that could be considered "good" (whatever that means) but aren't being actively used.
Systems Engineer can also mean someone who designs jet fighters, robots, or medical devices
> the fact the mayor is an idiot, that obnoxious chicken

Man, for real. Literally every other episode this lady loses her chicken and the paw patrol have to risk life and limb to get it back. Like, at some point, maybe you shouldn't have a pet chicken?
I've encountered this, in real life and on HN, way too much. Nothing worse than overly opinionated people with a superiority complex to boot.
This is true when it’s warm enough outside that you don’t need the heat pump anyway. When the temperature becomes cold, it’s a different story.

Heat pumps might make sense when you have a well-insulated house, like the kinds in Northern Europe, to trap heat and reduce the power required to heat the room. American houses in most places are far too drafty.
I will say - most people don’t like hearing that. And you’ll certainly not be a hit at parties if that’s your style.

There is a high correlation between specific types of high performer and people who do like (and benefit) from hearing that type of truth though. At least unless it hits too close to home.

Which is why the article is getting upvoted.
Which makes GNUs argument for deprecating egrep all the more frustrating.
The Twin Peaks theme always makes me think of The Locomotion by Little Eva. Play The Locomotion at half speed and compare. https://youtu.be/eKpVQm41f8Y
I think when I hit 50 my fire went out. I'm not 1/10th of what most HNers are I trod my way through jobs IT or not. As long as money comes in and I can bear the job. I like technology but it can drain you and at some point burn-out is a possibility if you can't recover like you could decades earlier.

Certainly save money now and always especially if young like 20s. Stuff money away learn how to invest. Even if you're older save like your life depends on it right now. Even for emergency funds I'd suggest a year's worth not as cash but something just as easy to liquidate that won't lose much value.

Yes I'd say plan to retire as soon as you possibly can. Or switch gears to part-time work since younger workers will become increasingly annoying to you. You may like them but generational culture clash is natural.
its actually like a hydraulic cushion , with a self renewable matrix between the bones. we are close to mimicking tissue renewal with some of the recent materials advances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_joint

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-healing_material
Then I think it's time to rethink your approach. Maybe it would be good to join a university and get a few more degrees. A career is antithetical to personal growth. A family is antithetical to personal growth. They cost way too much time.
Clickable links:

https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/453
https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/714

How do you know the issues were generated with ChatGPT? It's not immediately obvious to me, but this is the first time I've crossed paths with svix.

Edit: Looks like this was also discussed yesterday~

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34150261
100% this! The games I play on the steam deck are completely disjoint from the games I play on the desktop. I hadn’t anticipated that at all and I actually get more utility out of the steam deck than I had anticipated!
I have started using this immediately as I saw the release tweet - solves a real problem for me whenever I am working on a project that doesn't use Docker. Good stuff!
My takeaway is that if you are ever on trial for a crime you didn't commit, you need to make sure that your defense attorney knows about this junk science and has a good and usable plan to tear it to shreds, or the jury will listen to some random cop talk about the quaver of your voice and accept that hunch as all of the evidence needed to show that you're guilty.
Some of them are even women.
"Most" may vary by locale at this point. At least here in the US, automakers started migrating to throttle-by-wire in the 00s.
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I wonder why they hold separate mens and womens competitions.
> Yeah no, you don't get to dismiss half the population as "fascist".

The Republican Party isn't half the population, and, even if it was, it is quite possible for half or more the population of a country to support fascism. Popularity isn't a rebuttal to accusations of fascism.
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> Honestly, if someone showed up with a gap in their resume and claimed that they were doing start-up, open source, etc. for an interview, I'd dig deep into that hard.

This is just as, if not more toxic than the advice that you're opposed to. I've had similar experiences with interviewers for non-technical questions, and it comes off as aggressive, antagonistic and traumatizing; especially in your example where they left it off their resume as a gap. The interviewee's perspective might have been to say that they've been spending some of their spare time keeping their skills sharp and now you're hammering them to see if a project left off their resume qualifies for some "high bar," while all they see is a negative and dismissive attitude.

Personally, I would much rather be programming my own projects or doing leetcode than play video games, but I wouldn't judge someone negatively if they told me they played games on their own time.
My AC runs just fine at -15C (+5F), the problem is when temperature swings between zero and sub-zero, it causes formation of the ice in the outer unit which can break the fan.
ed's terseness was advantageous and doubly so when working with a thermal printer terminal over an acoustic modem. Source: personal experience.
That is not necessarily legal. Nintendo's lawyers for example have the view that a copy made dumping one of their games is a copy that violates Nintendo's copyright.
I get that you don't agree, I just think it's a shame that you're not clever enough to articulate why.
I was correct in the first try, it does send CR, and the tty subsystem replaces it with a LF (icrnl setting in stty).
You can enjoy it without having to really focus on the details. Seasons 1-1.5 was good. The last half of season 2 is terrible. You can slog your way through it if you want to get all of the lore (and the movie Fire Walk With Me). Season 3 is my favorite, which takes place 25 years later and seems to have references to other Lynch's films.
I feel like this is describing a class in an RPG. I’m not sure people fit into these boxes so well. I’m not sure I have seen many of these ruthless mercenaries in the wild.
> One year of lazing around and playing videogames is a good way to lose any self-discipline you would been building up to this point

Do you really want people to devote their life to their jobs, even while unemployed?

I don't see a thing wrong with spending your down time doing whatever makes you happy.
> At this point I don't believe it is present.

Why rob banks for $10k when you can whip up fervor on social media for millions?

Criminal activity is there, basically, cuz people want to get what they want, norms, morals, and the well-being of others be damned. Musk doesn't have to rob banks to get what he wants, and probably never would have since his family owned gemstone mines in S Africa.

If you want to judge the man, see how he treated his ex's, his children, etc. That paints a far less flattering picture.
About this:

"If you had asked me right after I got laid off how long it would take me to get back to work, I would have said three months – including two months of vacation. It took me a year."

That is fascinating. I'm glad they shared this experience. It is very different than my own experience. I'm trying to imagine what that would be like, to go a year looking for a job.

Here in New York City, at the end of 2022, I am still seeing very strong hiring of software developers. I was recently hiring at FutureStay.com. And I recently had a friend lose their job and they found another job after 6 weeks, of which 3 weeks was pure vacation.

The one group that I see struggle is new developers who have just graduated from dev bootcamps. Some of these developers struggle 6 to 12 months to find a software development jobs.

But of experienced software developers? Going a year without finding employment? I heard of such stories during the recession of 2001, though I never saw it among my personal circle. And this was very much true in the aftermath of the crisis of 2008 -- it wasn't till about 2011 or 2012 that things got back to normal. But even then, when I went looking for a job in 2010, it only took me 4 weeks to find a job.

A year without a job?

I will say the industry has gotten slower about hiring, with more and more rounds of interviews. In the extreme case, some companies now have 9 or 10 rounds of interviews, which is far past the point where the Law Of Diminish Returns sets in. By contrast, when I was hired at WineSpectator.com in 2010 the CTO interviewed me for 2 hours and then hired me on the spot, I didn't have to talk to anyone else. Likewise when Mark Herschberg, the CTO of ShermansTravel.com, hired me in 2011.

I feel like the industry is driving away possible talent by adding in so many layers of testing and recruitment.

There is absolutely no good reason why an experienced software developer should go a year without a job. That such a thing can happen suggests something is broken with our current hiring processes.
So, it's closer to C++ wrt safety, not Go or Rust.
Facebook addiction is just the tip of the iceberg of mediagenic illnesses that people are suffering in ever-increasing numbers. Articles like this will be used as evidence in future class-action lawsuits.
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