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Part your experience depends on your organization, as well as your disposition and predilections. My foray into management absolutely fucking sucked.

I was a shock absorber and clutch plate between team members and board/executives/senior leadership. On bad days I was the bearer of bad news or executioner. It was strictly a top-down affair; despite endless bloviating about open doors, open minds, and being empowered to lead and make changes, I was expected to do what they told me, keep myself and my team in line, and if I had any ideas they’d “bring it up in their next leadership meeting” (spoiler: they won’t, or if they do, it will be disregarded). Despite given a mandate, I had very little authority.

You also have to deal with idiosyncrasies with other managers. Lazy ones you have to pick up the slack for lest you become blocked. Bad ones who poison their team and create mistrust that spreads to others. Overeager ones that somehow seem to get their way or maybe have an easier department but who nonetheless get the attention of senior leadership where unfair expectations are placed on you.

The day-to-day was miserable. I’m highly technical and I like to get my hands dirty, being a manager vaporized a significant portion of why I enjoyed working at a tech company and mostly left me with the reasons I don’t. Being a Jira or spreadsheet jockey, filling out PIPs, IDPs, KPIs, budget proposals, expense reports, screening interviewees, managing petty squabbles between people, juggling PTO calendars, scrum bullshit, and endless fucking meetings. I’ve never been so busy doing what felt like so little. Sometimes it felt like I was babysitting people that, as a peer, I enjoyed working with.

I was also utterly repulsed by HR. I don’t know if HR has made a bad turn lately, was always like this, or my experience was just organizational, but these people are Stasi-like agents that seem to want you to spy on every little detail and use it against you and the employee. Yet when I actually needed them, e.g. conflict resolution, they were completely incompetent and insensitive, enraging employees rather than empowering them. They always sided with senior leadership, even when that person violated our own handbook.

Unlike the author, there wasn’t really anywhere else to go. Senior leadership doesn’t have a lot of openings. At best, I just get shifted around to other teams and maybe get dropped in one less fucked.

I enjoyed mentoring a lot, but sometimes reports looked to me like I’m a parent or a therapist and it was too much (and HR useless). I enjoyed strategy and design, but senior leadership was frustrating and frequently didn’t listen or involve me at all. I enjoyed delegating and giving reports opportunity for growth, allowing me to stress about the minute details less, but now my ass was on the line for the entire team which is waaaay more stress than just doing the work.

I generally chalk it up to me being a poor fit for the role in a dysfunctional company, but talking to other managers, it seemed my experience was not uncommon.
Wouldn’t you simply put Kamala Harris permanently in a bunker? I believe these types of weapons are for first strike decapitation.
Too bad no one wants to build AP1000s even though there is a site in FL with all approvals and the new Biden subsidy. That's how badly the two projects fucked up.
> Technically, you can stop evolution from happening.

Yeah, but would anyone do that to an entire civilization? Evolution leads to greater 'fitness' - improved adaptation to the environment. The travellers are jumping from $HOME_PLANET, into a generation ship, onto a new planet presenting novel adaptation challenges. That planet's star-system then eventually sets off on a long journey, until it encounters a new star. Each of these stages takes many times the time humans have existed on Earth. If you consider only modern humans, we've only been around for 50,000 years, maybe.

And "modern humans" isn't a civilization; it's really all of the different, successive human civilizations.

If you could imagine that, in addition to making stone tools and animal-hide clothes, neanderthals had also learned how to freeze evolution, do you think those guys would be well-adapted to a planet-hopping future? I don't.
Xperia XZ2 Compact is almost the same size, has better camera (19MP vs 12MP), the same 4GB RAM + SD card which iPhone doesn't have: https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9082&idPhone2=1...
It does depend on the application. And there's a whole lot of software for which the developers don't have complete enough understanding of everything downstream to really know the significance of incorrect output.
I wonder if it will compile natively to arm instructions or rely Rosetta on host machine to perform translation
Running Linux on an NES Famicon [video]
Are you joking, or do you think meeting people in person is about getting a quick hookup?

It’s about more information and context (and truth), before moving forward. Which is important when you’ve got something to lose.

And it takes time. Which is a good thing, as it tends to weed out a lot of noise.

Tinder does eventually go to in-person yes - but it puts the cart before the horse IMO by putting the pitch first, and doing selection based on that.

It’s a lot smarter, in my experience, seeing the ‘reality’ first, and then seeing what the pitch is.

I’ve personally learned (and seen it from many others) that is far more important when looking for a long term relationship - and in my experience I’m not alone.

But everyone is different, and it certainly can work out well otherwise.

But you don’t see anyone who has something to lose going to the casino when they have money to invest - at least not over and over again.
> so probably the thing still works"?

I’m sure radio operators know this one weird trick to confirm that theory: Turn on your AM car radio.
No, I'm not fuzzy on the definition of addiction. If a behavior has little negative effects, then it's not an addiction.
That's what they did in Russia when some company founders dared go against the govt or own/fund anti-government media. They did call being against arbitrary, excessive and illegal governance something like "trying to usurp the government", but at least they were not quite as extreme and didn't say quite parts like "Whether it’s merited or not is not the point", out loud. And corporations supposedly threatening some "societal norms" by suing the government is not even Putin-level, it's straight out of 1930ies Europe.

If this kind of authoritarian stuff is what motivates people in NLRB and similar agencies, I'd say abolish them altogether. I'd rather be ruled by cyberpunk dictator Bezos than people with such opinions/approaches
By your argument, we should disregard everything Noam Chomsky says on politics because he is a professor (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an elite university deeply interconnected with the government, and thus must be considered a mouthpiece for US government propaganda.
I calculate if Caltrains are running late with the 511.org API
Yes. I’ve seen all of those things happen.
Tangential to the article since that was a voluntary departure, but this is absolutely happening, yes.

My partner decided to get "into tech" in ~2018. Her reason more or less amounted to looking at me and determining "it's a cushy job that pays very well." For a while, I tried pointing her to various sources to start learning a bit about software development and programming; there's no barrier to installing PyCharm CE and Github, after all. But there was zero interest and zero natural curiosity. She just did some certificate coursework, passed, then started looking for a job, and nothing beyond that.

In a lot of ways, software developer has been brought down to earth as a more "normal" career. You don't really hear about lawyers working on passion law projects at night or mechanical engineers designing skyscrapers as a hobby; the path for that is just go to school -> get internship -> get fulltime job -> do your 9-5.

The thing is, my partner isn't alone. She represents the vast, vast majority of new software developers in the past 15 years. The industry has grown, the pay has exploded, people who worked retail could parlay a 6-week bootcamp into a six-figure salary. Obviously people would hop in even if they didn't know what a compiler was.

But in a post-ZIRP world companies are seriously reevaluating the value of the average software developer. In 2010, a software dev was far more likely to have at least some personal interest in software, or even just computers in general. Now, you have software developers who never touched an actual, non-phone/tablet computer before entering their university courses. They're not stupid--they can pass a leetcode interview just fine--they just don't care about technology beyond using it as a means to pay rent.

Even if we return to near-ZIRP, there's going to be less demand for massive software dev teams. Everyone hates him, but you have to begrudgingly admit that Elon successfully demonstrated you don't need massive dev teams to build and run software, even at Twitter's scale. (obviously it has other problems due to Elon's incompetence, but nothing more developers would solve.) Most companies could cut their dev team size by 50% and end up net-positive due to less overhead--the challenge is figuring out which 50% to cut.

So, yes. The tech downturn for this group of people--the non-passionate 9-to-5ers, particularly juniors--will last for many years, and that will lead to many jumping to other careers.
> Perhaps 'because' if the consistency did not exist then the universe would fail to exist.

I think the unsatisfactory feeling I get from these answers is that nobody ever tries to model worlds with different physics or different physical parameters and try to make them work.

It's one thing to know that everything will break down if parameters of this universe change slightly, but I don't think anyone ever actually seriously tried to make alternatives work, and simply assumed that the only model we know that works is the only possibility.

Of course, I understand it's hard, and we might not have the compute to properly run the simulations to see how things actually work out (without quantum computers, apparently the problem is exponentially hard on classical computers). But philosophically it feels lazy and unimaginative.
The title is an allusion to "So long, and Thanks for All the Fish", a book by Douglas Adams.

(For those HNers not steeped in the HHGTTG trilogy of six books)
The company could have been incorporated in such a way that it would have prevented this.

Always make sure you get your own lawyer whose goal is to maintain your interests to review any paperwork of this nature.
Isn't the actual size important, and not the money involved?
So… just add two `e`s?
Once pornhub releases its immersive exp, sales will go thru the roof
In Defense of Eating Brains
If we’re picking arbitrary numbers to attract voters, why not go big?

$50/hr is perfectly logical
Residential electricity has the full rates on everything. Commercial electricity is a bit cheaper because taxes and network fees are reduced, and industrial electricity is even cheaper because the reductions are even higher.

In case of the network fees, residential customers directly subsidize industrial customers: network fees cover the network operation costs, so it's a zero-sum game where one party's reduction is another party's increase.

It's still somewhat expensive to operate electricity heavy industry in Germany, but much less outrageous than the residential prices that are usually used in for comparisons in the news.
Web apps and Electron apps are two different things. Entirely.

> So, let me get it straight. A web app running inside a web browser engine is bloated, slow, and non-performant when it's on desktop. But the moment you put it on mobile it's not?

A web app doesn't require that you bundle an entire Chrome runtime with the app. There's a lot of your "bloated" right there. You've been told this several times, so it seems that you're being deliberately obtuse.

As far as "slow and bloated" as a whole, my (several years old) phone has 64 GB of storage, a hexacore 3.22 Ghz CPU and a quad-core GPU.

I. Just. Don't. Care.

I'm old enough to remember the exact same "slow and bloated" crapola when programs written in C (and, at that time, Pascal) started replacing hand-coded ASM. Now, modern C compilers are pretty whizzy, but at that time coding in C entailed a significant size and speed penalty.

Are you still writing in hand-coded ASM?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

If you don't want to use web apps, or Electron apps, don't use them. No one's forcing you to use them at gunpoint, mang.

Better yet, write your own "fast and slim" apps and take away the market for the "slow and bloated" ones.
Not every form of disordered behavior is best understood as an addiction.
> double the capacity of its AI and data centre infrastructure in the country and expand its training programmes,

So installing GPUs in the existing German Azure datacenters (likely most of the money), and spending some of the time of their existing field teams to train customers to use it.

I think the "bet" is a bit emphatic there, Germany has had protective laws for their data for a long time, which is why they've had local datacenters for a long time.

It's a logical place to start massive deployment of GPUs in Europe if you don't want to exclude its largest economy from the party
props to Raymond Lau for certain, but few can match Waldemar Horwat from this chair !

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TMON was written by Waldemar Horwat. It was almost always used with an optional add-on, called a User Area, that was written by Darin Adler. Both of them were just kids at the time they worked on TMON. Darin Adler was a college student, and Waldemar Horwat had not yet finished high school. According to Darin Adler’s account, Horwat wrote the entire thing (in assembly language), before ever trying to assemble it.
2) Computer crashes cost lives. If e.g. your doctor's device has an issue mid-> surgery, you potentially pay.

Given that software can also crash, I'd go with a different approach: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Computers. For most situations, RAIC1 is good enough.
I wonder if the tribes have enough autonomy to build transmission lines quickly. Just the Navajo Nation can build enough solar/wind and transmission lines within their reservation and probably connect to the grids in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. US is incredibly slow in building transmission lines, takes decades.

And, if they have enough autonomy to import Chinese panels (50% cheaper), a network of these nations can blanket the entire country with renewables.
Yeah, I kinda want to see this vending machine
Agreed w others, a workaround is see if any other VCs want your pro rata at some discount, where they front you the money and you agree on some split. The startup likely has right of first refusal, which begins a negotiation.

Presumably if an internal round, the company is dying, so nearly worthless, just IP and team. The new worth is almost entirely the $ going in, and the team that is sticking around to make it work as an incentive. The new $ dilutes the old $, and to get new employees, additional shares are issued, further diluting the old ones.

For such a rebirth, it's not clear - how much should some person who helped recruit a failing team + 1 year of dev be diluted? For people sticking around and the new $, how much should they be incentivized to stay and put in new $, and what % should go to the former 1-year employee doing nothing? That's the pre-money valuation decision.
I appreciate the reply. I think I would have appreciated a more clear description of how you are reasoning mathematically about your distributed systems. Simply claiming that you can and do is fine, but as an engineer I would have loved more practical examples. The only part that I found which touched on this was when you described how to find clearing errors by simply searching for clearing accounts with a non zero balance. Are there other examples of mathematically reasoning that you could share? I don't need/expect a reply here, this question is rhetorical to demonstrate how I think this article could have been stronger for me.
My uncle went through a very similar situation as the OP. He was CTO at a medical startup that raised a ton of money early on based on promising research and early results. Federal approval in the medical industry takes a mountain of cash and a long runway, by the time they got close to approval the money had dried up and the CEO was deep in the weeds of political infighting among the company leadership.

I forget the exact details as both the CEO and the board were pulling quite a few nasty moves along the way, but eventually an internal round was used similarly to set a much lower valuation before raising more outside capital. My uncle hadn't left on the best terms, the company was attempting to shove him out and block him from taking part in the internal round to protect his early shares.

Not too surprisingly this ended up in court (or arbitration?), but the moral is the same. When you take early shares there are ways the value can be stripped from you even if the shares aren't. There are good arguments for an internal round to reset a lower valuation, but it can easily be used as an offensive tactic to go after current share holders.

I don't think people often realize what all is really on the table when signing up for a startup. I've worked for a few early startups and will take options or shares, but I view them entirely as a gamble and assume outside investors will chip away at their value before anything is ever cashed in. If I were ever to join as an executive level or founding board member I'd be worried more about sizing up the other members than the business itself. Unfortunately its sometimes more about politics and dirty tactics at that level than it is about what the company is actually producing.
That's the thing, not everything had the drivers. Gigabyte in particular omitted the important bits for a while. I'm not going to claim I'm an expert, but I ended up with a very fast SSD which could only be made bootable by extracting parts of another vendors BIOS and creating a custom UEFI image with them added, and life is far too short for that.
Not sure how it went in that specific case but yes, these type of impact studies are usually hands on, you go out into the field with a bunch of people and comb an area completely.

In case of a chip factory currently developed by Intel in Germany, they went out onto the 200ha (roughly 280 football fields) and found and resettled 7 rare hamsters. 2 of those had to be dug out: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/magdeburg/magd...
Will this allow me to compile, let's say Crystal scripts to macOS from a Linux machine?

Because at the moment, "cross-compilation" with Crystal still requires you to be on the targeted system.

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.11/syntax_and_semantics...
I am not convinced you can attribute it to the Empire, a lot of it was in industrial towns that probably gained more from the industrial revolution than the Empire.

The other difference is greater civic pride, and a different sense of aesthetics among the people who made the decisions. In absolute terms all those towns with nice old civic buildings are much richer than they were in the 19th century - but any new buildings are almost guaranteed to be hideous.
I wouldn’t as so far as to say “broken free from societal conditioning” (don’t think anyone can claim that), but that was sort of my point: society is not a uniform hivemind, there’s many different overlapping subgroups and subcultures sharing different values and encouraging different behaviours. Not all of them shame not looking for long term relationships and it’s not about “society giving up”, it’s different values (I’m not talking about a niche subculture here, this is really not uncommon, eg some coworkers)

> Would they say the same to their parents

I get your point, it’s true people tend to get more conservative around parents (who don’t necessarily share the same values as their kids), but even then: for _some_ of these people, yes they do say the same to their parents.

It’s really nothing groundbreaking: people build social circles with other people sharing their values, so stigma related to these values is lesser within these circles
It's not going to get added unless someone like you, who has that problem, sits down and writes a working code that solves it.
Every war kills millions of people, ask the people in China, Korea, phillipines, Cambodia, Myanmar if they were ok with Japanese occupation murder of millions and enslavement and rape of their women. Your argument makes no sense, don’t defend your country cause nothing bad happens. It’s been proven time and time again , bad stuff happens. When someone has a gun at your daughters head let’s see if you didn’t wish you have better defenses
The taxes up there are outrageous. I'm a super woke person, but even I can't agree with some of the ways that they're just handing out money like it's candy. The taxes are driving out the people who work. Are the programs a great idea? Absolutely. Are we seeing the downsides? I believe so.
It doesn't assume that at all. If the valuation on the deal is below your estimation of the true enterprise value, then this mechanism allows you to participate alongside the others and also buy cheap shares.
The future of silk: We are already using it to transport vaccines
It's not even always the optimal strategy playing prisoner's dilemma. If all your opponents are playing "always defect", playing Tit-for-tat will consistently lose (because of the initial good-faith attempt at cooperation).
> MS need its own AGI strategy as they ain’t getting it from OpenAI from that 10b investment

Microsoft will neither get AGI from their own nor the OpenAI investment. The whole story of AGI is just a nice science-fiction story marketing pitch to relieve investors of their money. :-)
ChatGPT cannot produce a black image
It seems no matter how hard you try, ChatGPT cannot produce a completely black image.
I think they mean compared to cross-platform apps that feel equally weird on every system.

There’s some talk in the Mac world about “Mac-assed Mac apps”. I use BBEdit as my main editor because it feels right. The default shortcuts are like every other Mac app. You can use standard Mac tools like AppleScript to automate it. It uses the same fonts, widgets, and menu systems as everything else. It’s made for that environment and it shows in a million ways.

VSCode is a marvel of engineering and I love that it exists. It also feels uncanny-valley “off” on my Mac in ways that make my brain itch, so I don’t use it. Same with Obsidian: it’s a brilliant app, but it bugs me. It’s not bad in any way, it’s just not the right choice for me.
Many plants can grow in pretty any much substrate — even just water — as well.

The main issue, assuming the temperature is right, that stunts plant growth just anywhere is that usually there is not enough consistent water, and then eventually the lack of nutrients once the the plant uses its reserves from a seed.

The reason we use soil is because as a substrate, it holds water and nutrients just at the right amount where you don’t have to go out and water it every 5 minutes.

But if you find any pocket made of any material, even a fold of your skin, threw a seed in, and kept it moist by hand, you could grow cherry tomatoes.
I agree with you overall. But the reason someone is laid off mostly likely has no bearing on ability or actions. Not having the ability to influence layoff decisions doesn't mean you were a bad engineer or providing more value than others