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The game will always be imbalanced. People will seek to find a way to give their offspring an advantage.

I argue that this is good for society overall. It’s far better for my wife and I to do our best to raise successful children (for whatever definitions of success we choose) than to leave them to fend for themselves.

Inherent in parents trying to do their best with/for their kids is that some parents will do that more effectively than others. Other parents will simply be not good parents. Being born to not good parents will suck for sure.
Maybe this is a cultural thing, but did you ask what you were doing wrong when they swore?

For me, if somebody swore about something I was doing, I’d likely laugh and challenge them to either ask how I’d fucked up or how they’d recommend doing it.
If I had to guess, resolution issues due to a monitor reporting badly, bad drivers, or a combination thereof.
How much of this would be fixed if you lived in the woods and did the same job remotely (which is my situation with similar work).
> Sucking fuel out of the air anywhere you like has to be more viable than [...]

Pretty sure it absolutely isn't.
How about simply taxing processed foods and subsidising unprocessed ones?
it gets dang's attention and he'll handle it.

That attention is easy to get with an email. As to the story, it just becomes a story about an irritating periodic modal which is not very interesting once the title misunderstanding is gone.
I've taken a similar approach for reading sci-fi/fantasy, where authors/publishers seem obligated to make everything a trilogy. I'm tired of reading a great book and waiting years for the next, so now I just don't bother until they're all done. If they're expecting to use the first book to decide whether to do the remainder (which seems rare) I'm not helping the situation, but hopefully I'm voting with my dollars that writing standalone books is appealing.

There's enough good stuff out there, or series being completedthat even at 20-30 books per year I'm not lacking for anything to read.

I'm looking forward to reading The Kingkiller Chronicle, The Stormlight Archive, etc. ... someday.
"The word is..." is how you preface gossip.
My approach to that problem is to oscillate between large companies where the pay is extra good and you get to see huge things but the work as a cog is not very appealing, and smaller companies / startups where work is fun and personal growth is noticeable even though it pays less. I think it also accelerates professional growth.
Planning an exit, if you truly want to leave, is possible and takes time (years). You don’t have to keep on but just know the time horizon is long and you need a solid plan.
I too had a certain distaste for the leadership decisions of both camps.
I might be crazy but a lot of the 1-2 season cancelled shows are still worth watching. A really fun journey that ends prematurely is still really entertaining.

I suggest... acquiring... them.
If you have kids and quit while your family is used to the standard of living there is a good chance a divorce is in the cards.

You will then owe 20% (pretax, 30% post tax) of your "imputed" salary for the kid, as well as possible alimony. If you don't come up with 20% of your generous salary you git tossed in a cage, even if the kid only needs a tiny fraction of that for a decent life. For many it's impossible to step down their career without being tossed into prison, as the judge uses "imputed income" to calculate what you owe based on what you can potentially earn. That is if say you go from engineer to carpenter, you may now owe over 100% of your salary for support.
Different strokes for different folks. At least the author of the OP had the humility not to call anyone else's perspective 'crap'.
I see software engineers lament about a lack of fulfillment in their career (heck, I'm one of them). The author doesn't have fulfillment and decides that they should quit their job and move closer to nature to be fulfilled.

I don't really understand the problem or the solution. Is this sustainable? Will the begin to feel unfulfilled in the mountains? What is fulfillment? Could a steady cadence of vacations to the mountains have bridged the gap? Does it require such an 'all or nothing' solution?
Yeah given the numbers of shows being produced, as long as 3-4 new ones per year are worth watching what more do you really need? There's tons of back libraries of good shows and HBO and Apple TV is still making high quality stuff.

Let Netflix produced a pile of garbage and I'll sift through the diamonds the year after... I have yet to have a year where there wasn't 3-5+ high quality streaming seasons (this yr = White Lotus, The Offer, and Severence).

If not you can always rewatch The Wire for the 5th time.

The only losers are those looking to binge watch new stuff every week... AFAIK those people were previously the audience for garbage prime time network shows on FOX/NBC/etc that no one even remembers the names of 5yrs later.

So I guess it sucks for them - being the guinea pigs for the rest of us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hmm, would that be enough?

Consider a darknet marketplace. We start some kind of DAO/smart contract, where people put in crypto to get shares, which are used to fund the creation of the marketplace. Let's assume it get's built, the DAO could transfer funds incrementally with votes on the progress or something.

The profit generated from the ads are then deposited back in to the DAO, with a portion going to the voted CEO and the rest to the shareholders.

But what hinders the "management" of the marketplace, who controls the servers, to just stop transferring funds back in? The CEO could be replaced in the contract, but as long as you control the servers, that doesn't matter, right?
The system I use is somewhat similar, but with a twist: I wait for the author to die.
I found this in a non-development role, this lady would constantly phone me for 'help' and I found that if I just ignored her (in a nice way) she'd fix it herself in a few minutes.
So there are two problems I guess, user-based and technical.

User problem: since I use Vim for everything, my expectations as far as responsiveness goes are probably not calibrated correctly. It is almost always very good, so the moments of badness are noticeable. The user (me) is unreasonably picky.

Technical: LaTeX syntax highlighting. It is I’m pretty sure, generally known to be a bit of a pain. Lots of nested environments that can go back dozens of lines and change how commands are interpreted. It is happy in a decent (not huge or anything) sized Fortran code, so I think config is mostly OK. Maybe I should look around and see if there’s a nice LaTeX plugin out there.
What I feel is perhaps missing here is some sort of a plan, so the author can either generate enough income or control the spending well enough not to become homeless. It's nice to (hopefully) have savings for these sorts of situations, but for many out there the end result of something like that would be eventual financial peril.

I recently also submitted my own resignation, except I've figured out that my current savings could last me around 3-5 years, so my plan so far is to take one year off work for personal projects, books and other ways of upskilling myself, as well as handling various larger events, such as moving to the city from the countryside (healthcare or even getting to the store is problematic otherwise), as well as just hang out with friends occasionally and visit some museums.

Though maybe my plans are too much work and too little play.
It's a rat race if you never enjoyed software engineering and computer science from the start, and joined due to the growing SWE hype in the 2010s.
Most people in the world have to work 40+ hours a week, and on weekends. It's kinda crazy to not take your career choice in perspective, which is relatively cushy, good perks, good pay, often wfh or decent offices, and call it a rat race because... you think you deserve to earn even more money and get more recognition? Okay, don't we all...
>Hey, if being in nature makes you happy good for you but your outlook on the rest is kind of crap.

It reads like you are stating a fact, but really, it is a matter of opinion. Perhaps, you can just say what you like without invalidating what others prefer.
I was in that office today, weird eh
I sympathize with the writer, but have to ask, what solution would make it possible to resolve this situation without weakening the security for another case that sounds the same but is being used by someone malicious?

I think you have to activate the Apple 2-factor authentication so that your key Apple ID info cannot be changed without corroboration or that 28 character code.

If Apple were to let this situation be reversed, who is to say a hacker wouldn't be using this exploit to take over someone else's account?
It's not vim, but the OS/graphical system that you are most likely using underneath. While having Firefox/Chromium open for reference to what you are working on.
So which peak is pictured here? I’m visiting the UK this summer. Might want to check that out…
It depends on what era of the Catholic church we're talking about. The medieval church got very expansive about which relations were illegal to marry, including in-laws.

> until the 13th century, the church forbade marriages with consanguinity or affinity (kinship by marriage) to the seventh degree— a rule which covered a very large percentage of marriages.

https://www.thoughtco.com/consanguinity-and-medieval-marriag...

So it would forbid you marrying your brother-in-law's first cousin, for example, even if you have no consanguinity with them. Even not counting affinity, you'd still be forbidden to marry third cousins, which nobody has had problems with for centuries.
I currently live in a less densely populated area than before. And it feels terrible - I want to bring my rat race back!
Isn't it the classics of downshifting? Move to a cheap place, do some remote work, maybe time to time. Plan not to need much health care %)
Let me tell you, Apple's iCloud policies are STUPID. Once upon a time you could sign up to an account WITHOUT verifying your email. Someone signed up under my Gmail account, and it's been stuck there since.

As the author found, support is useless . It took me close to 2 weeks after emailing Tim Cook about the situation, since I was seriously considering an iPhone. Executive liason had it reset for me.

I was able to change the password, login, and the VERY next day the password was changed (presumably from whomever is using it on THIER phone). I've given up. My time is not worth chasing this down.

I may eventually just start harassing the douchebag who thinks they have my email address, but there are like 3 or 4 people whom i get email for. AFAICT every single one is a boomer.
I just listened to a section in the audiobook We Should Hang Out in which the author describes how people in a Blue Zone in Costa Rica hang out in groups outside every evening and have bbq together. Families with neighbors we etc.. It seems so healthy and I want something like that. In the Portland, OR area houses are required to have porches to foster community, but still most of them are to small to be attractive to hang out on. My house has one, but it's smaller than my other outdoor spaces. I was thinking after I listened to it, how to create a front for a potential future home that fosters community like this. We all seem to long for something liked describes here or in the part in Costa Rica, but nobody does it. How much is architecture/city design vs smaller families vs everyone being busy vs other, isolating entertainment?
I have two units that are heated by heat pumps in Massachusetts.

One has mini splits. You definitely don’t generally put mini splits in every single room (like bathrooms or interior hallways) because each mini split requires tubing, is large, and expensive. No, I think it’s way more likely that you would have them in the bedrooms rather than the hallway
He's also dissing engineering as a rat race, as if we're all idiots and morons for adhering to some 9-5 job, and he, a software engineer at a "top bank" can see the light while all of us are just plebs. Yea, you're not Tyler Durden...
That is so amazing! I also attempted creating such a concept but never got anyone of my friends to use it... I ended up heavily using (and abusing) the Google maps share your location feature and I was so excited to see they are adding features related to notifications when people get close - only noticed it a few months ago. Telegram had also released similar features but only when you share your location live witch you can only do for a limited amount of time. Nevertheless interesting to see these kind of features are slowly getting implemented even if easy too late and not close to how I would like and imagine they could be... I also have my live location broadcasted here: https://chagai.website/location.html when it's not broken
Yes. I'm learning Russian, traveling all the time, studying philosophy, working with a small think tank and I've become a black belt in Krav Maga. I hate stuff, don't miss it and learning a language has changed my writing, thinking and it's actually fun.
This article suggests it is not the contrast, but the inherent positive impacts of being outdoors. Even people who do it as their day job are happier.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/06/happiest-...
I thought this was absolutely the solution but backtracking a little now based on experience so far.

We have a two-level, five bedroom new build in Auckland which came with a single-zone ducted system. So outputs are the bedrooms plus upstairs and downstairs lounges. The vents are tidy and unobtrusive - much less space than a wall unit in each location.

We're having major issues balancing the temperature across the different rooms as there is one thermostat.

Think setting the temperature overnight for one room with a couple plus a cat vs another room with one of the kids. Basically the wife and I are always far too hot because otherwise we're freezing all the other rooms. Or setting a reasonable temperature in the lounge makes all the rooms icy in short time.

I'm now thinking about forking out the couple of thousand to get a small heat pump installed directly into our room so we can run it separately from the rest of the house.

So if building from scratch, either look into a multi-zone system or separate heatpumps. If you can get separate systems but hidden in the walls/roof that would be the best.
The hard part about working with CSS is that, beyond syntax, nothing is an error. No matter how far it is from doing what you intended to do it's always going to give you a layout with no hint how it's actually different from what you wanted beyond "that doesn't look right".
Today, you can use aspect-ratio (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-rati...).

I had to once do something similar and I ran into 4 cases (which can be collapsed into 2 cases): add vertical borders if the window is very wide or a little narrow. Add horizontal borders if the window is a little wide or very narrow.
The time horizon is long, very long. I may make the most I ever have, but it’s a paltry sum compared to most HNers.

One way or another I will leave, it remains to be seen what that will actually mean. For now all I can do is keep putting money away and praying I get lucky.
I'm old enough where I've been through these pits of despair. Unlike this chap, in didn't have the FU money to just walk away.

At some point I realized that without this massive dehumanizing system to fire me regular income, the alternative is that we are out in the wild fighting for survival every minute, not knowing where my next meal is coming from.

What our system gives us seems decidedly better but man, it can be mentally tough to keep trucking along.
That's about the worst that can happen if you rely on any cloud. With that risk existing, I think people are massively miscalculating the time / money / complexity they save on cloud offerings.

"You don't have to worry about anything, we've got you covered. But there's a 0.05% chance on any given day that you lose access to everything and we won't bring it back unless you personally know someone at our company."
The Windows installer does an awful job at guiding the user through this. If Secure Boot is turned off, it doesn't tell you this. It just says "Your computer is not compatible with Windows 11"

I have a brand new desktop and Windows just flat out says you can't install it when I'm sure it just involves changing some settings.
I mean, I've cleaned two beaches (my father 3) from oil tanker sinking close to my home. So at least 4?

And I also have cleaned woodland when I was youth camp counselor. Pretty sure some of the kids are now activists.

I agree that the government have less power than some Corp overall, but I mean, for some demands it's easy: homeowners should have government help to pay for their main house insulation , and pass a law that prevent rent hike in poorly insulated homes. Also create a insulation minimal requirement for new buildings.
I think you're overanalyzing what is too brief of a blog post to draw any sound conclusions about the author's meaning or their character.
You being unhappy in your life does not mean that there is anything wrong with the world. Looking to pin the blame on society at large and other people's choices is a convenient escape from looking at yourself and your own fears, disappointments, choices made, etc.

I grew up in a rural place, no mountains but we substituted beaches, marshes, and ocean. When I go back to visit I can't believe how beautiful it is. But, I prefer to live in the city where I can walk to coffee, pizza, chinese, mexican, etc. I never visit city parks, the grass and trees don't speak to me at all of nature and as an engineer I see beauty in architecture and construction and (after studying economics) the dynamism of human striving.

It's fine to decide to drop out of the hurly-burly, but don't call your fellow city dwellers rats, they're people making a go of it. The carbon footprint of the average New Yorker is among the smallest in the world, that's what population density gets you, and rural areas? they're filled with human suffering, don't kid yourself.
Maybe, but they never say!

It's strange to me how often I'll read a post like this that conveniently leaves out the crucial detail. Leaves a suspicious feeling in me that they have some nest egg or something they're not telling us about.
>it is like "if there is one thing you as a developer control it is the compiler".

>I understood this: that's what you put in your sysroot

You're advocating mixing compilers and libraries that are not from the same distro release. While it may work for you it's generally a recipe for disaster.

The correct and least-mental-overhead way of building packages for $distro is to build on $distro. The fact that users of $distro can then build your package themselves using the standard distro method is an extra benefit.
I am leaning more to this solution for this reason. Trying to get any tradie quickly these days doesn't happen. Trying to get an aircon person in an Australian summer is worse.

I despair for the rental market right now. High prices and landlords are generally crap at amenities they don't personally use.
The ATIS recording is here: https://archive.liveatc.net/kjfk/KJFK-D-ATIS-Jan-14-2023-013...

They were landing 4R and 4L, departing 4L and 31L at KE. American 106 ended up departing 31L full length since that's where they had decided to taxi to and it was probably easier to just get rid of them that way rather than have them cross 4L again to depart where everyone else was departing from.
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Years ago I came to the conclusion that CSS should be treated as just a place to dump reusable styles, and all logic should be in the html/templating language. It's made my life significantly easier.
As to [2] I am very skeptical of the value of all the NaNs, -0 and Infs floating point has. NaN breaks x==x which is a pretty fundamental relationship for numbers to have. +-Inf sound useful in theory, but in practice they rarely give you a more useful result than NaN or the maximum/minimum value of your type (returning Inf on overflow has infinitely more error than returning the largest positive value, and if that isn't meaningful than an Inf probably wasn't either). Once you've gotten rid of -Inf, it becomes clear that -0.0 is a mistake. It breaks the identity 0+x==x and 0-x==-x. Furthermore, IEEE specifies sqrt(-0.0)==-0.0 and log(-0.0)==-Inf which are both nonsensical if you consider -0.0 as a limit from the negatives. Floats also have the unfortunate property that inv(x) can be infinite for finite x.
In a similar vein, I can't use Siri on the EcoBee thermostat without also owning a HomePod. It's either not a technical limitation or a very poorly conceived one.
An open letter to someone who's received lots of rejections
It always amuses me when people on Hacker News use Luddite in the pejorative "caveman" sense of the word instead of the actual "skeptical of the societal drawbacks of advancing technology" sense, especially since people on this site like you effect an air of being so much smarter than the average pleb.
Tl;dr If you value your freedom to choose your own path don’t get married or have children.
Many years ago I had my iPad stolen on a train. Realised what had happened while we were still between stations. In theory all I needed to do was use the find my device function on my phone and walk the train until my iPad connected to my phone.

Except the bloody thing wouldn't work on my Android phone. The page was just telling me to download the iCloud app from an Apple device.

I didn't get the iPad back and haven't purchased anything from Apple since.
Inflation is a bitch, and the current status quo cost of living will be exponentially more in the future. What I thought was an unfathomable amount of money in the 90's ($100k / yr, and $1m net worth) is not good now in 2020's. Healthcare in the 90's was $500 / yr and is $1.5k / mo with $5k deductible. Property taxes, utilities, continue to increase. Basic child daycare is $2k / mo after tax.

$300k / yr is the new $100k / yr, and I'd hate to project what it'll be 20 years from now ($2m / yr?)
Inactivated COVID-19 vaccines (that is, vaccines using virus copies that have been killed - live vaccines would be ones where the virus has been weakened) have been a thing for some time. IIRC China used a lot of them.

My understanding is that they're not quite as good as mRNA in terms of efficacy (though I haven't looked this up in some time.)
I grew up in the suburbs, in a lower-middle class neighborhood. We were always out in the woods near our house. The children of the neighborhood would work on the horse ranch next to us. Every weekend was all day rugby games in a massive field we had near us. It was great. We weren’t wealthy, but had an amazing childhood.

Having lived in multiple major cities — they aren’t ideal. Particularly, for children.

With the advent of starlink and wireless networks I think increasingly (I hope) children will be brought up with space. I know with remote work I moved and built a homestead, we are nearly breaking even while supplying all our food. I know me and my family are happier with the space, being outside, etc.

Less pollution, less noise, better air, better food, and generally safer.