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>Hate unlimited vacation

In my company it means you can take the time off whenever you want, but we are understaffed, so if you take time off the whole project will be stopped and we won't raise money. But of course you can take vacation as much as you want.

So for the last 2 years I have had max 3 consecutive days off (and only once). I will never buy bs "unlimited PTO" again.
It isn't? That seems cripplingly stupid.

WinForms is very old and doesn't do DPI, but one thing I like about it is that it always works.
> And then, when you start growing, that's when you break out an independently scalable part of the system into a microservice (with it's own data store!).

Wasn't this the rule of thumb for microservices from the very start? That the main driving force is to ensure separate teams work independently on stand-alone projects they own exclusively? Scaling tends to only become an issue when the project grows considerably.
Huh I know nothing about cars. How would the angle affect the gear box? Isn’t that just for getting the right torque ratio?
Keep in mind that Posteo recycles email addresses after a few months or so once the account is unpaid and/or deleted. This means, unless you have a difficult to guess or uncommon email address on Posteo, the chances that someone else might intentionally or inadvertently get your old email address is higher.

But I like the fact that Posteo allows prepaid credit balance in the account (but it allows only a maximum balance of EUR 60). That could help in keeping one’s address alive for longer.
If I'm carrying my phone around anyway, why not just put my music on there? I've been using my phone as my mp3 player since the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone (W800) came out in 2005
If you leave a normal job, you'd be paid your accrued vacation leave. In "unlimited" setups, this gets murky, and normally turns into two weeks. Without a decent ledger, there becomes a stigma to actually using the time. When you "own" that time, it removes the anxiety for both parties.
I agree that Wuffs [1] would have been a very good alternative! ...if it can be made more general. AFAIK Wuffs is still very limited, in particular it never allows dynamic allocation. Many formats, including those supported by Wuffs the library, need dynamic allocation, so Wuffs code has to be glued with unverified non-Wuffs code [2]. This approach only works with simpler formats.

[1] https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/wuffs-the-lang...

[2] https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/note/memory-sa...
I've sent them a reminder about the missing attribution [1] via the contact form on https://www.winnipee.com/about.php?tab=contact

[1]: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Remi...
The problem is that "unlimited vacation" is (obviously) not actually unlimited. All it really means is that you can never be quite sure how much vacation you are entitled to. It will of course depend on the company, but as I understand it, "unlimited vacation" rarely actually means that you get even as much as is legally mandated by most European countries (4-6 weeks a year).
Remote ranks number 1 for me. Being flexible with working hours and PTO is another.

Most other benefits can be solved with your base salary figure. For example, if you don't offer health insurance but you pay +$15,000 more than a competitor then it doesn't matter. You could make a case this is preferred because now the employee has a choice on what to do with that money.

I've seen a number of interesting things over the years like every Friday off for 3-4 months during the summer or $250 towards holiday meals near the end of the year. Gestures like this go a long ways and could be an indicator that the company understands employee happiness.
It's funny to see all the US comments being like "what Europeans are getting by default".
Dark mode?

That's understandable for a website, read late at night on a device-with-too-bright-screen.

But who wants white text on black pages while soldering electronics kit under bright ambient conditions? Makes no sense.

Looks like form over function? I'll pass.
The standard in Germany is put down in the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) as four weeks to the 15th or the end of a month. That means when you have a working contract which doesn't specify explicitly something else, it automatically applies as put down in the BGB. Still, it is perfectly legal (and also not unusual) to have longer periods. Anyway, it is still a market economy and contracts are negotiated between (in legal theory at least) two equal parties.
Yes! I've followed the progress of Loki/Oxen/Session since a talk I gave at HOPE 2020 surveying the field of p2p messaging approaches, and since then a mutual friend introduced me to the Session/Lokinet team and we had a great meeting.

The Oxen/Session approach of having a bunch of crypto-incentivized, investor-subsidized always-on servers to do stuff for you is very powerful and makes a lot of things easier. Where it really shines is supporting iOS devices where the OS gives you very tight constraints on how much CPU and time you can use to connect to a peer and sync messages. I true

We decided to start without depending on a cryptocurrency or a cryptocurrency-incentivized network because I don't think we need it. I know some people hate crypto too. I don't but it keeps things cleaner to not depend on it. Also, when it comes to onion routing Tor is a lot more battle-tested and has many more eyes on it, so I'm fairly confident that it's superior to the extent we only need that piece.

There is also some actual worrying ambiguity around what happens with lokinet if their coin price drops but their traffic goes up a lot. (Though the same thing could be said of Tor, swapping out "community support" for "coin price", so we may have to roll our own network in the future anyway or give users more options for connecting directly when they feel it's safe to do so.)
Sounds like DB2?
My recommendation is to try the language first hand.

If you can't see right away why people care, then try asking around (ie any of the Zig communities) for insight on specific use cases. Give it a fair shake and see where you end up.

Asking right off the bat why something is getting popular is basically begging for marketing pitches, plenty of which you can already find on HN on every single thread that mentions Zig:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37447960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36996756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37449994

etc

To give you a more interesting answer, the Zig Software Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization (the c3 means that it's tax-exempt, unlike c6 orgs) that pays core contributors, which means we can move the project forward steadfast.

There are also more "subtle" (ie actually very blatant, but people in tech most of the time don't realize how important these things are) reasons that I talk about in the latest Software You Can Love keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJdDdqWmQtk
I expect a reasonably large holiday entitlement, fully remote working and a realistic salary, not reduced by the benefits package.

The benefits are however much less important than not working for complete fuckwits.

Edit: +healthcare if I lived somewhere that was a problem!
Absolutely this. So much this. I dont give a shit about how modern you want the look and feel of everything to be. Sometimes I just need to not spend weeks pulling out my hair trying to wrap my head around something so basic and simple as a UI. Even VB 6 had ways to make stuff scale. Can't be that hard.
You can feed it JSON.
I use the Caddyfile, but I found the documentation well done.
Unrelated, but couldn't find a better way:

Is there a way I can reach you for a comment you made:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34593834

Thanks.
> It is akin to someone knee deep in credit card debt taking a second job only to use the new income to open another credit card account and load it up with more debt

Any time an article compares government financing to your household finances, you can stop reading. The author is either misinformed, being disingenuous, or both.
I don’t see why I can’t get at least another year out of my 13 mini. Fingers crossed for a 16 mini and if not then I’ll figure it out then.
If you have a fixed PTO allocation, in most states and circumstances, you literally "own" that time. If you are fired, that balance must be paid out. In most states, if you quit, that balance must be paid out.

Like GP, I'm strongly opposed to "unlimited PTO" policies. For the few devs and workers that are helped by it, I think there are too many cases where the ambiguity and uncertainty makes people take less PTO than under a fairly generous, spelled-out policy (and there is usually no accrued balance to be paid out if you leave having taken less than the normal amount).

I won't go quite so far as to say I'd quit if my company made the transition, but it is a strong negative if that is on the benefits docket.
Scientists figured out how to write in water
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.. however, you're then stuck in the UWP sandbox, I believe?

(edit: crucially I don't think you can use either of those with dotnet core?)
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Feels like it must have, otherwise what would be the point? But perhaps the CVE will come from Microsoft or some other vendor, if it's Renderer -> Kernel exploit.
@19s?
The system should have just rejected the FPL, notify the admins about the problem and keep working.
The admins could have fixed whatever the software could not handle.

The affected flight could have been vectored by ATC if needed to divert from filed FPL.

Way less work and a better doutcome than the “system throws hands in the air and becomes unresponsive”.
The kitten is not like the other purchases. It may start at $50, but it doesn't stop there. Cat food. Litter box. Yearly trip to the vet. Replacing your furniture after it has all been destroyed.

Don't get me wrong, cats are great. (Work from home, getting paid, with a cat on your lap... that's just amazing.) But they aren't as cheap as $50.
I upvoted you out of spite :-)
I am a scientist and over the last years I stopped using notebooks for notes... I lost something, you connect deeper with your thoughts by writing with hand. Now I occasionally use A3 papers when I see need, but still. I will take a notebook tomorrow!
How com GUI isn't scriptable? Most GUI is made from scripts. Or do you mean the ability for end user to extend the software with a software-provided scripting system. In that case that's not related to GUI and TUI, all application no matter GUI or TUI can be extended by scripts if the software author wants to support that.
Cool. I didn't know about "Ctrl+T, Ctrl+Z"; I've always used "Alt+D, Alt+Enter" to duplicate tabs. This other shortcut might come in handy if I want to immediately edit the URL.
Your son could have dysgraphia. My son (14, homeschooled) struggles with writing, and it was hard to not think of his poor writing as a result of him being lazy or not caring.

We purchased some material from Dianne Craft to help with his dysgraphia:
https://diannecraft.org/dysgraphia-what-is-dysgraphia/

The exercises definitely helped.
Maybe something like fly.io?

I know they support Elixir/Phoenix.

https://fly.io/docs/elixir/the-basics/clustering/
Eh, intelligent table design should knock most of that out. If you've got an 8 page query implementing a naïve solution to the knapsack problem (I've seen this in the wild) several mistakes have been made.
> And “nobody else cares” shouldn’t be a _major_ part of that argument.

I disagree. Nobody else caring is a strong indication the skill isn't that valuable. If nobody else cares and he can't see a reason to care himself then why would he decide it's a skill he wants to put time into improving?

Tbh it sounds like your son has considered the merits and decided it's not a skill worth working on. You just disagree.
This is the best case scenario.

I too subscribe to "unlimited PTO" being a scam.

1. It is NOT unlimited and should be illegal to advertise that

2. It is still at management discretion so it's not like you can be sure you can always take off whenever you want.

3. It is usually capped at 2 or 3 consecutive weeks so even if there is a minimum of 4 weeks you can't take all 4 at once at many companies.

4. Companies are happy to nickel and dime you but they abhor it happening to them and this is, IMO, largely a play to avoid vacation accrual and/or vacation time payout.

Then there's stuff like this:

> Paid time off (PTO) is not considered part of an employee's salary, so it can be docked without jeopardizing the employee's exempt status ... the court held that PTO is a fringe benefit with monetary value, not a component of salary under federal law.

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
The idea here would be that I'm visiting Reddit, someone uploads a malicious WebP, and now my Reddit account is owned, right?
Presumably when we're talking about actually traveling across the galaxy at anything approaching the speed of light, we've developed something more sophisticated than "burn a bunch of fuel" to both get to space and travel through it. Anti-gravity seems the most likely candidate, but who knows if that's even possible.
Out of interest and only if you're comfortable sharing, what is this medication?
Thanks for the detailed explanations, makes sense.
I keep a very strict boundary between work time and not-work time. I quickly respond to emails and phone calls during work hours, but I do not have email on my phone and I don't check my email when I'm not at work. Only my boss has my cell number. It's not published in the company directory.

There are rare times when a critical report has gone down (I'm a BI developer) when my boss will call me, and that's fine. But I make it a strong point to keep those to a minimum and to keep the boundary between work and home life very solid.
I still don't understand how "dialog [box]" became "modal", just because "modal dialog box" was a thing. It's annoying that "non-modal modal" is a grammatically valid sentence now...
You’re the first person outside of the c-suite I’ve heard demand in-office work for everyone. Maybe you are in the c-suite?
Sounds like a problem for management, not you. Go take your vacation and stop being abused and exploited by management.
It's the same thing as both make life miserable. Hundreds/thousands may lose hours of their lives. Some may lose a job, a life opportunity, some may die. And all for nothing because this kind of protest is counterproductive as it associates climate change talk with narcissistic clowns.
Worked in Germany for 6+ years. 3 months is pretty standard for engineering roles. I've frequently seen managers and other employees with higher responsibility having a 6 month notice period, although people are encouraged to resign, i.e. start interviewing, when things don't work out.
You guys have the luxury of picking jobs? I'll take whatever I can get at this point.
I've had constant brain fog / fatigue for the last 6 months after a brief stomach flu. Got a tip to try the sauna for 3 days a week, which apparently doubles human growth hormone production. After two weeks of this I've finally had 5 days in a row where I don't feel tired. I still need to sleep more than usual, but before I could sleep 10 hours and still feel very tired, now I feel great after 9 hours.

The person who told me this had a patient who lost her sense of smell after Covid, and it wouldn't come back. It came back after a single session in the sauna.
I’m more interested with the story behind your username OP.

What Alt Data are you selling?
Microservices are not a solution to the problem you describe. Nothing in your problem description requires the micro part.

Microservices are about splitting the application into very fine-grained sub-applications. It's not about modularity in general, it's about making things as modular as possible (up to one function per service). That's why they are micro. Otherwise we'd just call them "services" and nobody would have any problem with that.
Please don't blame Microservices insanity on JavaScript and Node.
Absolutely, but you're missing the most inflammatory part of all! The robot had to "eliminate the threat" -- when this was about a human who got in the way.
I love Elixir, but I don't agree that it's the only language with a great standard library. Go has one too.
Are AI Top Lists and AI Recommendations Better Than Answers from Search Engines?
The thing is, my domain registrar can be contacted by phone. They have a support desk. Google will give you the cold shoulder when you are flagged by their AI system unless you can create an outcry on social media.
Is this finding consistent with Wolfram's hypergraph?
Bad: Crystal Meth

Good: Eyemask for sleeping
Between 07:00 and 18:00 Monday-Friday, and 12:00-18:00 Saturday-Sunday, it costs £15 to drive into central London. Delivery vehicles and so on must also pay.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge

Restricting all vehicles except some/all during some part of the morning is often how pedestrian streets operate in Europe, but this is usually a much smaller area.
I wouldn't consider a job that's not 100% remote.
AMD, Intel, Nvidia, ARM and their partners
I’m curious about what the HN community’s thoughts are on the current state of partnerships between semiconductor/processing units-manufacturers and software/electronics manufacturers.

To me it feels like Apple and Google have tied up ARM almost entirely to themselves (just a matter of time until Apple also will cut Qualcomm completely). ARM seems to fulfill each of their custom needs.

As a result of the successful Apple/ARM & Google/ARM relationships, Microsoft seems to have decided to partner up with AMD. (Recall the rumors in May about them working on AI-efficient chipsets together & the fact that Starfield works exemplary on AMD GPU/CPU compared to Nvidia/Intel chipset). Will we perhaps see all of Microsoft’s future hardware products run on AMD processors?

Meanwhile, Nvidia is so far in the lead of its field and thus does not seem to need concentrated partnerships.

Qualcomm are somewhat being left in the shadow..(?)

And lastly Intel is completely left in the shadows to rotten(??).

What are your thoughts?
"unlimited PTO" is not a benefit. I want the clear right to an amount of PTO, not the opportunity to negotiate for it . As such, a company advertising "unlimited PTO" goes to the bottom of my list as having dishonest management.

Remote work is my #1

Health insurance didn't used to be important in the UK but it's looking like it might be in the future.
In my experience this support was rare. I had an issue a few years ago with multiple USB 3 cameras (Intel Realsense) on a mobile robot that would periodically freeze up and need to be hard-reset, and a power-controllable hub seemed like the least-bad way to hack around it. I found my way to this tool, with its convenient list of compatible hardware:

https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl

Of the USB 3 options on the list, several were EOL or impossible to find, and when I ordered one each of the remainder, there was only one I could get working, and it wasn't reliable about being able to reset a device that had frozen to the point where Linux no longer had sysfs entries for it.

We ended up instead using a hub with an internal jumper to disable bus power, and then putting the self power line through a separately-controllable relay.
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Ideally with the rule being company wide so that your not ostracized for taking it.
Because Steve Jobs was a smart a-hole. Musk is just an a-hole by all accounts. Nobody wants to read a book about a pampered South African neo-nazi racist and how he has consistently taken credit for other people's work while peddling to dictators across the world and treating his employees as actual slaves.
The most likely way people will get killed by robots is by taking their job, forcing them into poverty and eventually letting them die on the street.
Apt is the default thing that manages dpkg for you, does dependency resolution, etc. dpkg is quite low level actually. Snap and Flatpak and others are en vogue now, they are basically more app-storey approach to application installation, permissions and more. So apt/ dpkg or if you are on Fedora dnf/yum/rpm are the traditional approaches and Snap/ Flatpak is a very different approach altogether.

I would probably just deinstall the Discord from Snap and keep using the .deb/ dpkg approach.
I thought Crimea was about warm water ports?
We are super small company, there is no management. I'm teamlead/backend developer/project manager. If I go, the whole development stops. That's how it is.

But yeah, I started sending my CV already.
Doesn't Xitter require you to have a paid account to use SMS authentication?

So one way to secure your account is to refuse to pay for Blue.
I'm really enjoying your book of essays, So You Think You Know C [PDF]:

https://wordsandbuttons.online/SYTYKC.pdf
No, not at all ! It can only be the case of the maintaining entity is the one that sells support. That's actually the definition of commercial software!

It may be the case for company-backed FOSS projects (that use FOSS as a marketing channel and have a business model around it). You might be used to that because Redhat, Elastic, Mongo, ...

But for very large number of FOSS projects, that's not the case. Either there is no paid support, or it is done by a third-party. But then this third party doesn't call the shots what's deprecated and what's backported where.

I was under the impression that OpenSSL is a community project, and now it appears that that's not the case.
On the other hand, if projects like this, as a side effect, increase the number of relays, and normalize using Tor, it's a win for everyone. Quiet should pay for a few servers to be used as relays and exit nodes, and also encourage users to do so, or to donate to that.
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Without an enforced minimum you could be pressured either actively or passively into not taking as much PTO as you would have otherwise.
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Mounjaro. There are similar ones, such as Wegovy. They’re both over $1k/month, but an absolute game changer in weight loss and weight management. Unfortunately the studies following discontinuation of these medications, show that the weight comes back - yes, even with diet and exercise.
From The Netherlands

1. Company culture where people are not dickheads to each other, and take into account that their colleagues are also humans with lives outside work

2. Working 4 instead of 5 days

3. Allowed to work 50% or more remote
unlimited PTO - rewards slackers, punishes workers and when you leave, you won't get paid for any untaken.

Also, it's BS: unless I can take a year off on my first day, then it's not unlimited.

IOW, "come work for me if you're gullible"
Sounds very much like management at least.