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hey OP, i'm loving your blog.

I think the idea of "just pick one and get to work" is SO under valued. I often find my own self overwhelmed trying to find the best way to do something, when pretty much every option is good enough. Not only do I burn time, I expend emotional energy (which ends up leading to more burnt time)

This type of problem comes up time and time again in the context of music production. Each choice creates a thousand roads not taken (which vocal take is the best? what bitrate should this audio file be? where exactly should the song start? have i layered too many synthesizers on this? which ones are the extraneous ones? oh god i'm overthinking this, should i just scrap everything and start over?) If i'm not careful, the what-ifs pile up and I never finish the damn song. And nobody cares except me!

To that end, as much as I can, I try to remember and embody the relentless pace of John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees, who releases like 50 records a year and doesn't let anything in the world slow him down. Oh Sees records are never "perfect" (there may be some technical flubs here and there), but they're always just right. As perfect as anyone would want them to be.

Too many good-enough choices is one of the weird curses of our age. Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go spin up a React app the way I assume John would.

(who am I kidding, it's because I'm too lazy to learn how to use Svelte)
that is a good feature, it just seemed like the reading I'm hearing off of the samples for these audiobooks is a tad less robotic.
I mean a company is, inherently, a money-making concern, and the ideal company obeys both the law and a code of ethics more restrictive than the law. Even a company that devotes all profits to charity has to end up in the black or else it ceases to exist and can't be a charity anymore.
People think the "resource" in human resources means that the team is available as a resource for employees should they need anything. In reality you are the resource they are referring to.
It's more than fine, it should be the default. The default absolutely should not be a social expectation to support and maintain something just because you made it available.

The commitment to run an open source project is huge, it's time consuming and draining.

Just putting the source code of something you built out there and saying "I built this, do what ever you want with it" is an incredibly generous thing to do and should always be encouraged.
What a disappointment - just a regular touchscreen, no trackpoint... :)
Any tips for the rest of us on how we can "money guy" our way to one of the richest people on earth?
You are making inference & unsupported assertions.

Please feel free to investigate and provide educated feedback
I fully agree on your closing proposition. I think my only concern is I'm worried that is, itself, turning into a weapon.
MegaThreats, Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini might be an interesting read https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/nouriel-roubini/megathrea...

It helped me understand inflation, deflation & stagflation.
I would assume it's something to do with exposing the source of leaks and verifying or debunking the content therein
no. they have specific laid out bounds with which they can operate in. it's deeply dangerous and disturbing for them to try to exceed that. especially because they aren't elected. they don't get to just exceed those bounds and wait for legislature to issue a ruling to roll it back. it's quite the opposite.

its the equivalent of if the tsa started trying to pat you down before you got in your car. and then saying its okay because congress can just roll it back.
I am one of the lucky ones! I had the hand me down erector sets- WE made race cars with Rat traps as the motive force. I had several Gilbert Chemistry sets. I asked my favorite aunt to get me sulfer and Saltpeter - I made some rather good black powder- Solder the bulb from a "flash cube" to about 100 feet of found telephone wire, put powder and bulb in a rigid tube, stand behind large diameter tree and touch wires to D Cell. While I do not work in the field, I still love chemistry and will occasionally do silly chem experiments like Instant fire from antifreeze and a strong oxidizer. Make my own lime by calcining shells, and then disolve in water, filter and show how blowing through a straw generated CaCo3 again. Being child like means you can always be entertained easily.
Apples and oranges. One assumes there is a relatively fixed supply of plumbing problems.
Software in the last 30+ years has created new industries which require more software people.
Honestly, I agree with you. (And I'm a lesbian). In my opinion, if we want to be accepted members of the community, we need to hold ourselves to the same standards as any other community members. It's also, unfortunately, a bad cycle: The boring gays like me start staying home and being quiet but then there's nobody around to say 'uh, maybe there should be a public and private distinction in acceptable behavior and attire'.

If we expect people to trust us with their kids, we need to be trustworthy around kids.
All of these concerns, even #1, have applied to communist car driving America and its 25% theft of everything..

I would tax the beejesus out of energy use and personal road use and invert most income tax to make something closer to a free market than the US is.
People justify purchasing large vehicles with their fear of being hit by one.
Trains are only useful within and between densely populated areas. The 200 km weekly trip might well be to a cabin in the mountains, definitely no train.
Sounds good, yet real life is more complicated

* many governments will call illegal whatever they want. Will you happily enforce governmental censorship?
* even if government acts in good faith, there is no good definition of porn. At some point some person will have to look at a picture and *personally* categorize it as porn / not porn

(I guess first point doesn't make sense, since it's not a question of preference, you have to comply to at least one government if you want your company to survive)
> addiction to food and shelter

well put :)
Next two years will be challenging for tech teams: Satya Nadella [video]
Heavy EVs do nothing compared to the semi-trucks that Americans have inured to. If freight was predominantly hauled on rail lines, that might be relevant.
YouTube has a new monetization policy regarding profanity
I’m on a 5950X and AMD 6600 and getting stutters on Fedora 37 with my two 4K displays. The weirdest thing is this wasn’t an issue with my Intel NUC with measly 6th gen Iris graphics :(
That is GitHub's job to decide. I am not talking about what GitHub thinks of it, but with what third parties think of it.
I think your personal experience actually captures my concern: "Or something like my sister who thought she was bi for a while because I was the only decent role model she had and I was gay"

Kids are very malleable at a young age and they build themselves based on the rolemodels and influences they are exposed to. I take this into consideration when deciding what they can watch. As to your question on do I apply the same concerns to depictions of straight romances, to a point but very much not to the same degree. I am biased in that I would prefer my kids be straight, generally for selfish reasons such as wanting my kids to have kids of their own but also for general reasons such as its just an easier life for a straight kid than a gay one. I am not advocating for gay kids to have harder lives, its just unfortunately the facts on the ground. I don't let my kids watch anything that is openly sexual though, gay or straight. I know the furries question is a throw away but it does raise a point. I think a lot of sexual fetishes (not including homosexuality here) are due to exposure to them via media. No one wakes up and thinks I'm a sexual [insert animal of your choice]. They are exposed to it via media and it sparks a flame [the nurture component]. I try to limit my kids exposure to media that I think could influence them in ways I prefer they not be influenced.
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> As a manager in a company, I've both had friends in HR and also had HR been my friend. Need to fire that horrible employee who is demoralizing the team and not being productive? HR is your friend. Need to hire the next best engineer? HR is my friend.

That's not a friend, that's a co-worker doing their job. There's a big difference between a friend and someone you get a long with well in a professional setting.
More precisely: They are totalitarian dictatorships. You receive orders from above and maybe hand them down further.
Could Neanderthals be described as "heroes of old, men of renown"?
Oh yea, my favorite aunt also bought me a lead casting set along wiht 1 mold for toy soldiers. sigh, I wish I had not lost that mold.
> I mentioned Rust

Ah sorry, overlooked that.
HR as a function will always represent and serve the company. Thinking anything else is foolish.

But building a strong and friendly relationship with your HR partners is universally a good thing and something one should strive for (be at as as people leader or individual contributor).
I have FSDbeta so I'm very aware that it doesn't work on highways.

As far as the fatalities, the article itself states clearly that the data doesn't indicate whether autopilot or FSD was active (both are ADAS). The article also indicates that one of the incidents happened while the car was not moving. An article with any real value would dig a little deeper and share the circumstances of the accidents rather than two rows of a spreadsheet.

As a Tesla owner I would say on a personal level that the automatic emergency features of my car which leverage the self-driving work the company is doing are spectacular and have likely been a net benefit to road users. I think the Euro NCAP safety assist score reinforces this opinion (not to mention the overall score). I'm extremely happy to drive my two young girls around in what testing (not clickbait) reveals to be the safest car ever built.
When I want to leave a company and look for a new job, I hate non-competes.

When I want to stay at a company and a good co-worker quits to go work for a competitor, I love non-competes.

When I want to stay at a company and a toxic co-worker quits to go work for a competitor I cheer that a non-compete did not block that move. And yes, I’ve been in this situation and the toxic employee was CEO of the start-up. I’m pretty sure the competing start-up he went to failed because he went there. Smartest move the start-up I was at ever made to let him go there.

I think the best solution is for companies to make damn sure that good employees don’t want to leave to work for a competitor, instead of making them sign a non-compete, especially before you really know if they are toxic or not.
Well don't go to a lawyer in a big city? You can easily interact with a lawyer virtually.

Even if all they do is tell you what you could find out in a Google search if you knew what to search, it's going to be more useful for the average person because lawyers have the confidence to interpret legal terminology, contextualize what they are telling you, and recognize what is and is not normal (e.g. notice predatory terms in a contract).
If you've ever seen El Camino near Stanford, there are people one step ahead of you. It's technically illegal since they're supposed to move their RV's every 72 hours on the street, but as far as I can tell a bunch of them don't.

I've never linked to Google Street View, but I'll try...
https://goo.gl/maps/d6DvdC9gmhumQRB17

Of if you look up "860 Betty Meltzer Memorial Hwy, Palo Alto, CA" you'll see what I mean.
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Slightly different angle than the parent post:

What about the state and federal subsidies for road infrastructure? A locality that wants to go a different (less car dependent) direction would be leaving that infrastructure money unspent, which isn't fair to the local voters who contributed tax money to the state/feds. They rigged it so that the locals paid for the roads via their tax money, their only choice is to take the money and build more roads, or kiss the money they sent to the state/feds goodbye.

Wouldn't the above kind of hamstring local politicians? Would it be safe to assume that the pro-car lobbyists at those higher level of government want to keep it this way?
HR loves hiring more HR

the growth rate from 1 HR to 10 HR is slower than 10 to 50.
> I'm so sick of the cynicism in general.

Cynicism is just self preservation on topics like this. Most people can’t afford the risk of behaving otherwise.
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If they pay me close to my salary for doing nothing I’m all in. I can always side hustle something completely different on the side or just take the money and focus more on my kids. Please do enforce the agreement :D
Why is the nature of being a cop unethical? I agree there are abuses of the power but from what I've seen in real life it's important work.
Well if all companies are doing it, employees will have no option other than to agree. This is the current case with non compete afaik.
Basically every aspect of Amazon's retail business is solved by now. Getting all of those indivodual pieces together, and working, at scale and continously is what sets Amazon apart from everyone else.

eCommerce stores? e.g.Shopify

Logistics? e.g. CargoWise

And it goes on.
Boring maybe. But I'll take the sheer joy of plugging in a random USB device and having it just work over the absolutely pain it was dealing with serial and parallel ports and I/O addresses, DMA channels, IRQ conflicts, etc. And everything talks WiFi today. It's amazing. I have 64GB on my main machine. I can run (virtual) machines within machines! That's a goddamn miracle if you ask me. I bought some cheap HDMI capture stick for $10! I plug it in to USB and the thing just works. And in Linux. How?! I had Hauppauge WinTV PCI capture card in the late '90s and that thing barely worked (with their awful proprietary drivers and software) in Windows, never mind Linux support.

> The board was huge in comparison to a modern board.

The ATX form factor is still the most popular. Mini ITX is around today, but based on the fact that vendors only make a few models compared to their ATX selection tells me most builders still use ATX. I guess the AT form factor was larger, but ATX has been around since '95 or so.
They announced they were moving to React Native three years ago. Since then, they’ve set up a mobile enablement team, they’ve set up an internal training programme, and they’ve ported four out of three hundred screens [edit: see discussion below]. They are choosing to do it gradually because their estimate for a rewrite was three years. They are choosing not to go with the “new features in React Native” approach because their estimate for that was four to five years.

They seem really happy with their “We all get shit done, ship fast, and learn” progress, but I’m sure I’m not the only one reading this article and coming away less likely to choose to migrate to React Native, right? This does not sound compelling at all.
Didn’t they do that with cell phones?
Not true. It is an option by virtue of the fact that is a public repository. (If you fail to specify a license on a public repository, the terms that apply are not the default "all rights reserved [by the owner/creator]" that prohibits anyone else from using/displaying/performing or making their own copies. Instead, the terms that apply are the default terms that are specified in the GitHub TOS that you agree to--terms that, in fact, do allow forking.)
I just want to add a comment to the horde, to let you know that I agree with you completely on all these points.

Looking at the other replies, it occurs to me that the debate is often framed solely as a moral issue, but actually, we have considerable evidence of harm, several decades worth. Unfortunately it's difficult to get people to even consider the latter, when they want to focus solely on making their arguments for the former.
I doubt employers just won't hire. That would be self defeating. They'll look to protect their trade secrets in other ways, mainly through aggressive enforcement of non-disclosure agreements.
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Personal cars, EV or ICE are not the largest source of wear and tear on roads. Trucks and other commercial vehicles are. Their weight is significantly greater. EVs are mostly about 1000 pounds (~500kg) more than a similar ICE.

In many US states, EVs already have to pay hundreds of dollars extra during annual registration to offset the state gas tax.
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Hmm. Is it strawmanning?

I meant to explore the logical possibilities, but in hindsight that does sound cheap. Apologies. For what it’s worth, all of the recent AI art deplatforming has me a bit jumpy. It did seem like a possibility that people might call for certain repos to be taken down, but I meant to phrase it as more of a question.

In fact, my comment reads as a cross-examination, which I’m disappointed by. I’ll try harder to write more thoughtfully.

As for automatic, no doubt he’ll be surpassed someday. But ML is one of the few remaining “Wild West” areas of code, before everything has been productized and polished. I hope he gives the competition a good run.
"Excellent acquisition. Twitter will definitely compete and take marketshare from Substack" did not age well.
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I agree will all of the above points but the last is not really true, there is a concerted and clear agenda across the board to transition everything to electric and then use mostly wind and solar to power the grid (with already available solutions for energy storage due to fluctuations in wind/sun).

I don't see a lot of people really pushing for others to fundamentally change their habits and lifestyle (even getting people to eat less red meat is incredibly hard) and I think that's just because it's fundamentally harder to convince a large number of people to change their habits vs. a small number of dedicated people working towards green energy.

We should strive for both of these things together and share the same goal.
There is a psychology problem with skilled trades and younger generates in the US.

I've known Gen Z folks who thinks it's better to work at a sandwich shop or small restaurant than skilled trades. They were raised up (through the schooling environment) to look down on trades. Even if it pays them significantly more with better benefits.

Many places in the US school system they only prepare people for college. Schools do this in subtle ways like providing AP courses while cutting hands on shop classes.

When it comes to subsidies... there are some trades areas where you can be trained for free. The people are needed so the training has already be made really easy. Sometimes it's on the job training and you're paid well while you learn.

This is very much a cultural view of skilled trades.
I get what you’re saying but don’t think the Catbert analogy is apropos here.

What I have seen as a senior tech executive and old person is that young people entering the workforce after around 2015-6 often rely on HR to be a neutral arbiter in workplace conflicts, analogous to parental chaperones or university administrators.

What I believe the author is trying to convey is that this misunderstanding can have disastrous consequences on a young person’s career. HR is not a neutral arbiter between you and the business. They are the business.
If that is the case, I would personally throw in the towel.

My project has zero revenue, but thousands of users and many people use it daily. That's what keeps me going.
> I think Tesla will pivot from a car manufacturer to a battery manufacturer

Tesla buys their batteries, though. They could/should sell the motors perhaps?
> HR represents the company. Where your goals and the company's aligns

HR very often does not even work in the interests of the company. Instead, it works in the interest of the HR employees' own political beliefs, which they then cloak in the language of doing what's right for the company, and connect no matter how loosely to any laws, regulations, etc. that they can use to justify imposing the beliefs they wanted to impose anyway.
Well this will be an interesting fight if nothing else.
Again, I understand why most people think this way, and I'm not going to call you naive - just cynical.

From my experience (not all of it, but a bunch of it) -- HR has been the balancing force against bad management and even CEOs because, like the lawyers, there're there to protect the company. I've not been in a room where the CEO is sitting there telling the lawyers and HR how to abuse employees -- sorry.

Likewise, I agree there are plenty of cops who are POS, and there are plenty who are not. You're missing the part of the equation where people treat all cops like POS, and frankly -- if you've watched shows like COPS and seen what some of them deal with -- it's not hard to see why some of them probably become worse over time.

Both sides of the equation needs to change if you want a better world.
Full-access database queries? Indexed queries are going to randomly read blocks and PCIe 5 doesn't help. The only way I've perceived improvements from SSD linear access > 4GB/s is when doing gigantic ETL jobs that were not CPU-limited. Unfortunately a lot of ETL jobs are CPU limited and some of the formats I work with are too intensive on the compute side to benefit from faster storage (like GeoJSON, ugh). Formats that are more CPU-friendly also tend to be smaller, making the storage less relevant.

I think for general use most desktop and workstation users are going to get more benefits from faster random access and won't notice very high linear access speeds. I have two recent SSDs and one of them has a median access time of 12µs and the other has a median of 30µs. Even though the latter has gaudy benchmark numbers, can stream at many GB/s and can ultimately hit almost a million IOPS, higher-level application benchmarks lead me to prefer the former because random access waiting time is more important.
This is bigger than 8bit cores.
Can you say more about how they were helpful?
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