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> high school guidance counsellors in the 1980's had no clue at all what computer science was.

My problem was that the fucking college counselors didn't know either.

When I signed up, I told the lady I wanted to be a computer programmer, and she said "You'll want computer science, then," and that wasn't true. The CS program was only interested in teaching me how to be a CS professor. A few years in I was scouring the course lists for classes on graphics, web, anything with a GUI even, and there was nothing. It was 100% command line C++, and they didn't even bother teaching us about IDEs and debuggers. Just Telnet, vi, g++.

It was like taking a pure math degree to become an architect.
Not only is this unrelated to the OP, but it's also not actionable advice. Sounds like you got lucky and got a bunch of great stock. That's not something most people can count on, and housing in American urban centers only goes so low.
There is a global surge in blue collar fields especially from highly educated crowd. In South Korea, Samsung workers, students drop out or graduate from elite degrees and opting for simple life.

White collar jobs used to be rewarding and highly paid but overtime it became a glorified day care for adults with Animal Farm dynamics. It's especially bad in Asian countries with strict social hierarchy.

It's no wonder more and more young men are ditching white collar jobs for blue collar workers.

But for some growing # of females (and even smaller number of men), it seems like they are opting to sell images/videos of themselves engaging sexually arousing or sexually explicit content while also engaging in legitimate white collar work. Again in Asia, this trend is even more rampant especially Japan, 40 years ago you couldn't dream of seeing 18 year olds standing on the streets of Tokyo but now they seem to everywhere.

I'm frightened by the whole thing. If young graduates are heading to workshop instead of office, it means they aren't going to be consuming like they used to. There is no need because there is no need to be seen with the stuff people covet here vs in office/startup environments where the rich/poor gap is not only in your face but for everybody else to judge.
There were seven models floating around in the early 1600s:

1. Heraclidean. Geo-heliocentric. Mercury and Venus circle the Sun; everything else circles the Earth.

2. Ptolemaic. Geocentric, stationary Earth.

3. Copernican. Heliocentric, pure circles with lots of epicycles.

4. Gilbertian. Geocentric, rotating Earth. (proposed by William Gilbert in De magnete)

5. Tychonic. Geo-heliocentric. Sun and Moon circle the Earth; everything else circles the Sun.

6. Ursine. Tychonic, with rotating Earth.

7. Keplerian. Heliocentric, with elliptical orbits.

See:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...

* ToC: https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...

* PDF: https://faculty.fiu.edu/~blissl/Flynngs.pdf

By the mid-/late-1600s people leaned toward Kepler, mostly because the math was easiest.

With regards to evidence for the Earth's motion, the first inkling was in 1728 with stellar aberration with in γ-Draconis:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_(astronomy)#Discove...

The first for the rotation of the Earth (around an axis) was in 1791 by Guglielmini:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Guglielmini

We finally got parallax in 1806 by Giuseppi Calandrelli in α-Lyrae.

Stellar parallax was considered since at least Aristotle, as he mentions in his On the Heavens (II.14), and since it is not observed then it is reasonable to conclude that there is no motion (it took several thousand years to develop instruments to actually measure it).

Daniel Whitten's "Matters of Faith and Morals Ex Suppositione" is an interesting read.
> Nothing about this concept is incompatible with flexible gig work.

Your example (movers) assumes the workers are already paired up with a customer.

They don’t get paid if there isn’t a customer.

The analogy doesn’t hold. The only way to support minimum shift durations would be to average out fares collected and distribute them to everyone who was technically working a shift, even if they weren’t driving. So the people actually driving would receive less payment in order to subsidize the people not driving.

Once you open the door to paying people for not driving, the game becomes to find a way to park somewhere that allows you to participate in a shift while minimizing the number of customers assigned. Immediately, you’d get drivers strategically parking in far away locations to reduce their chances of picking anyone up, because if you’re getting paid for the time on shift you’d rather sit and do nothing than actually drive.

So actually, the concept is completely incompatible with gig work.
Presumably, the Windows team has various targets to meet in terms of ARPU and things of that nature.
> you and other people here seem oddly insistent that we not discuss the ethical implications of the actions on question.

Hmm, I don't think that's my actual intent; only that we discuss them as they apply to modern morality, not as if we can influence them to be different than what they are.

If I defend them (which I don't think I do), I do so to help explain their attitudes and actions, not to excuse them. We need to understand where they are coming from to see the differences between them and us.
That just seems like a ridiculous argument… People choose to enter the Apple ecosystem and pay a premium for what are luxury goods. At the same time they hold their resale value extremely well, most iPhone users could sell their iPhone and probably buy a competing phone with cash left over if they wanted…

There’s really very little holding people captive. The real problem with the EC’s attempts at regulation is that the vast majority of users aren’t worried about it and keep freely buying into the platform despite other viable options being available in a competitive market…
I tend to work on the docs in NixOS; although I have the patience to write a tiling window manager for Windows in Rust, I do not have the patience to deal with the Python dependency management ecosystem directly.
Since 1900 we have invented painless dentistry.

As someone who got to experience a minor filling done without anesthetic when I was 9 I'd say that alone improved mental health by an order of magnitude.
Yes, it does. I'm not the only one in this thread, the other Windows thread from today, or online that has installed Windows 11 Home in the last week and successfully setup local-only accounts.

When dozens of people say it still works and one says it doesn't, chances are the one person did it incorrectly.

It works.
[CS 402 - Operating Systems][1] at USC during my Master's. I really wanted to develop a mini kernel which I couldn't do in my Bachelor's. This course blew every other thing I ever did out of the water. Was a big reality check too. Fortunately, I had good people around me (thanks Prof. Bill!) who made it easier to squeeze the most out of it. Till this day, it is hardest stuff I have done. Only [MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems][2] course came close which I couldn't finish as I was going at it all alone (to satiate my Distributed Systems curiosity) and hit a wall. I really hope to get around finishing it someday as it, I believe, will take me to the next level just like CS 402 did.

[1]: https://merlot.usc.edu/cs402-s23/
[2]: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
If you can't figure out why indefinite detainment after an arrest is bad, I'm afraid that nobody is going to be able to help you.
I think the discussion is tainted actually by technical people who used Wine in the bad old days, haha. I fought Wine a decade ago and it was pretty bad. If anyone had asked, I’d probably give the “dual boot, may as well keep Windows around as a glorified console” spiel.

A non-technical friend got a steam deck, when I asked what OS he’d used I got a response along the lines of “oh, I guess it must be Linux.” It the thought about what OS hadn’t even occurred.

The future is cool.
I think a better analogy would be swapping tires instead of an engine. Engine swaps are rare, most people understand there are physical complications to using an engine from one car in another, even from the same manufacturer. Tire swaps are common, most people expect that if the tire is the right size you can put it on your car, regardless of who made it or where you got it.

The same is true for apps on a computing device. Installing new ones is common, not rare like an engine swap in a car. Most people expect that if the app is compatible with the hardware you can put it on the device, regardless of who made it or where you got it.
> Either how Apple extracts fees is legal and how much is up to the market, or it isn't.

Whose market? The one that Apple controls?

Arguably PS5/Nintendo stuff is just as obnoxious... just in smaller scale. Do you really own that device you bought?
Unfortunately the world runs on Word and Excel and unless you want the even worse Office 365 experience, you often do need some M$.
"Save while you're earning decent cash" seems pretty actionable to me.
Sorry, I'm really not interested in a debate built on selective quotes and paywalled articles. As I said, the cost analysis is public. It was even translated [1].

If you're interested in reading a 432-page long cost analysis, have fun.

[1]: https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/themat...
It's certainly not impossible though, we now have luxury Japanese brands.

I think a bigger struggle for any Chinese brand would probably be rampant counterfeiting; for luxury goods to prosper, customers need to have a way to ensure they're getting the real deal. And China currently accounts for 75% of counterfeit goods by value seized at US ports.
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> At the end of the day, writing code is not difficult. Understanding what it's actually doing is the hard part.

That sounds nice in the abstract, but in practice it's slow going trying to do web dev when your experience is nothing but command line C++.
Thanks for that insight, makes a lot of sense.
rather kill the program than lose a couple of astronauts. my opinion, Boeing stockholders may feel differently.
Some people do, some certainly do not
Yes but the UK has the NHS, it's not possible in the US where employees have to healthcare benefits by federal mandate.

You can't have an employee on the payroll costing $1,500 a month in benefits who can choose to work 0 hours in a month.
> If you had an efficient market, wouldn't a competitor charge just a little less than others who are using surge pricing?

Absolutely. If everyone raised their prices of umbrellas due to rain, I'd lower my prices a bit to get those customers. I'd probably wind up making more overall too. Hopefully it will also lead to increasing return customers due to goodwill. If everything works out, not only would I sell more umbrellas, but I'd make more money in the future from returning customers. Win for me. And I feel like that's why we _don't_ have surge pricing on everything already.
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I went from SWE to product design, which is probably not the exact decision you're weighing. I agree that the software industry isn't a fun place, but I don't have any other employable skills, so I'm stuck for a while. It's just a question of what's the most sustainable, livable part of the industry.

For me, leaving the private sector SaaS world and working for a non-profit was a good decision, because it put me far enough away from some of the cultural bullshit I despised the most. Timelines aren't insane, growth hacking is a term nobody has even heard of, and I no longer feel like the harder I work, the worse the world is for everyone except the investors.

I'm just implying there may be ways to continue to be a SWE and change your situation.
Should this factor in the braking ability of the car in front of me? That is, should I give more follow distance when behind a 911 versus an Escalade? I think most people don't have a sense for how quickly different types of vehicles can stop if the driver slammed on the brakes.
> I used to use Wine a lot for applications in the early 2010s and it was always hit and miss

IME Wine is still hit and miss for applications in general, even old ones. Games are just a particularly good fit here—they rarely care how well your COM marshalling or shell namespace or transactional NTFS or weird SQL-like inside Windows Installer is implemented. Not to imply that getting games to work is a simple task, just that the API surface is much less spread out, and any emulation improvements for a single game are more likely to improve support for a wider range of other games.
Yep! It's very similar - albeit much smaller - market to watches, collectable vinyl records, trading cards, etc. Just easier to rely on trust and word of mouth sometimes.
I'm working on a personal Win 11 Pro machine right now using a local account. I never made an online one. Also I wonder if I uninstalled OneDrive over a year ago, because I don't see OneDrive in File Explorer or Task Manager. I've had this laptop for over a year, so OneDrive has never returned in all the updates since.
As an anime fan, I wish there were more series that strayed from this formula. So many are either isekai, "protagonist has an ultimate power/entity inside them they can't fully control", or both.
Meanwhile they have crippled the native file history and backup options of the OS.

I was desperate until I found an excellent multiplatform open source project for backups called Kopia!

Highly recommended, even entry level users can work with it.
We use rust for all sorts of stuff at work and definitely don’t find progress on anything to be slow. If anything, we ship much faster and with a lot more confidence than most (all?) of the other teams in our org that don’t use rust.
Not swe, but one man band systems engineer/msp. Own company for 5 years, currently bailing on IT to do construction/carpentry. IT is on the decline and I don't see many job opportunities in the future (so ripe for AI replacement). The companies put profit before best practice (literally nearly impossible to find IT companies to work for that aren't mortally reprehensible) and its all round just generally horrible to work in.

Ditching it for building comes with a bunch of pros and cons. Pros, works interesting, massive demand, jobs last 20+ weeks instead of a few hours/days making it way less effort to chase a dollar. I've got a six pack again after being sedentary for 5 years, my health is the best its ever been and i dont spend a dollar on a gym.

Cons, wage dropped by about 50% until I get licensed. The whole industry in Aus is plagued with bad actors and shit businesses. It's rife with sexism, racism, bullying and just generally horrible people and companies. There are basically bugger all companies offering apprenticeships. The unnecessary hazing onsite is a pita too. Old fellas get grumpy watching IT workers pump jobs it took them 20 years to learn in less than a week. Turns out youtube builders will teach you more tricks than the grumpy old dogs have learnt in their lifetime. Age and experience do not always correlate in a positive fashion.

I still do IT on the side, it helps me fulfill some inner wants and needs (I really like helping folks get the best our of tech).

I would love to try get into building IT infra like datacenters. Mix the two job realms together.

Don't be afraid to make big changes, you got one life, might aswell "send it".
Fair question. Not OP, but I'll add that I prefer to do work that matches what I value, not just go get a paycheck and make other people richer.
Taken to an extreme, I'm happiest when I forage for food to augment what we buy on my spouse's salary and my part-time local utility work. I'm privileged to live on land that supports this practice, and to not do work that I don't agree with. We don't have much of a savings, but we're rich in other ways, notably community, clean water, ~clean air when the wind isn't blowing in from the highway and the neighbors aren't running their various engines, and a sense of purpose.
I considered being a software engineer but after reading HN for years I burned out on that dream and instead focus on land & water stewardship, activism towards the same, and building walking-distance community.
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I would understand that if that were true, but Apple does not "[charge] people $99/yr to use the compiler." I'd also once again point out that even were that the case, that's still the user's problem, not the developer's. At a certain point a user is responsible for the choices they have made, which includes choosing the second most popular cell phone OS, with well known heavy restrictions on applications as their platform of choice. If I chose to do all of my computing using a nintendo switch, the fact that I need to buy a dev kit to even begin to have a chance of installing something like firefox is my problem as a user, not Mozilla's, nor does it make firefox any less meaningfully free.
Apple Disables WebKit's JIT in Lockdown Mode, & BrowserEngineKit Is Restricted
> warned me that it would be quite spicy and steered me to some somosas

This means the clerk was suggesting samosas because they're not spicy.
Most those changes will get reverted after the next Windows update…
When I took Abstract Algebra 1, I had to sit in the front row because I was too cheap to buy glasses.

I learned about commutators from a guy on the front row who was really good at Rubik's cubes. Concrete examples relatable to your hobbies are great.

I also tried to pay for my lunch by commutating, but the lunch lady wouldn't have it.
Would you mind providing your definition of general purpose computer.
If you drive this way in many parts of CA (especially LA), you will be cut off by a never-ending stream of vehicles. All of this lane-changing, happening right in front of you, will put you at more risk of collision than simply following at the distance that most cars do.

EDIT: I’m curious if this is downvoted by people who have driven in LA and disagree, or people who speculate that this isn’t the case.
> it's very hard to convince people who believe there's a Right Way to do things that there is no Right Way

I worked with a guy who claimed they'd worked at Google (probably not you, fwiw). They were SO SURE there WAS ONE TRUE WAY, and I'm 90% sure the actual definition was "whatever way this guy [me] wants to do it is not the TRUE WAY."

I almost quit dealing with that guy, but I ended up wandering to some other random project in the org.

Dude was whack though. I'll never forget when we hired a guy and he was saying "if the hiring team thinks he's good enough, he's clearly not because they hired this guy [pointing at me]." Fuck that guy.

I might not be the best coder in any room, but I'm a pretty solid engineer.
I think you just misunderstand what salary means? If you do not have guaranteed hours you are not a salary employee, salary means you get paid the same amount on a certain schedule. You are describing hourly employees
I see a non-dead comment from you, so it doesn't look like you're shadow banned. I do see that you posted the same comment three times across three accounts on a thread, so that's definitely not behavior that is encouraged here. I'm guessing your original comment got flagged (maybe by humans, maybe not - no clue) and you attempted to re-post from other accounts which likely marked your posts as spam.

As mentioned in the sibling comment, reaching out to the moderator is the best way to figure it out.

Update: the thread seems to have fallen off the Ask HN page very quickly so there does seem to be some penalty applied.
There must be literally tens of you.
4k resolution at a VHS bitrate.
This looks very cool. All other tiling window manager implementations I've seen for Windows fall short in some way, but this looks as close to something like sway or i3 as possible. Keeping the design simple by configuration through message passing is cool.

But the license is a dealbreaker for me. On one hand, I like that the license terms are short and easy to understand. In that regard, it blows other proprietary software out of the water. On the other hand, I know I'd be tempted to tinker with the internals at some point, and the license forbids me from doing that. Even if in practice the maintainer accepts illicit patches, I'd rather not spend my time contributing unpaid to something proprietary, so I'd rather use and contribute to some open source alternative.

But the real non-starter is that I only use Windows at work, and the license forbids me from using the software there in the first place.
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-us-suicide-rates-since-19...

And today the rate is higher than in 1900 and raising. Sounds like whatever we did in the 1950-1980 worked extremely well and what we've been doing since hasn't.
It'd be so nice if Windows went back to offering three tiers: home, which assumes you want to log in and get on with your life and you don't care what the defaults are as long as things just work(tm); Pro, which assumes you know what you want and doesn't give you that unless you ask for it; and Enterprise, which assumes you're made of money and it's literally several people's jobs to manage your windows installs org-wide.

So we can just buy Pro and know we're getting an OS that we can configure instead of an OS that gets hijacked by Microsoft every single windows update cycle.
I never said Zyklon B was developed during WW2?
But people DO break legs from doing exactly that? Falling is one of the most common causes of tibia fractures and patella fractures.
Tech companies in general seem to struggle with consent. Even when they bother to ask, they often refuse to take "no" for an answer, only offering "maybe later."
Sadly I think the enthusiasm with which the market embraced this behaviour in mobile, console and IoT makes it legally difficult for Microsoft to be punished.

How can you penalise Microsoft for pushing OneDrive by default but not penalise Apple for iCloud? Should multiple backup providers be suggested at startup for economic fairness? Or should backups be disabled by default (potentially annoying consumers of mobile devices)?

Not saying it’s impossible for a skilled regulator to build a PC specific theory of harm but it’s hard. Potentially might need entirely new legislation.
While I love Word for academic writing, I’ve found Apple’s Keynote and Google Sheets superior alternatives to PowerPoint and Excel.
For now. The kids (incoming college students over the last couple years) like Google’s office suite better as far as I’ve seen.

Anyway, real documents are written in LaTeX.

Windows lives in this in-between space where it isn’t as easy Google/Apple stuff, but it isn’t as good as Linux. That gap is always closing.
I found the anecdote of retiring in 6 years to distort the message significantly. Sure everyone can save more but that likely won't result in massive lifestyle changes in a short time frame.
This seems like a weird place to be touting memory safety.

It's ntpd, it doesn't seem like a place for any sort of attack vector and it's been running on many VMs without exploding memory for a while now.

I'd think there are far more critical components to rewrite in a memory safe language than the clock synchronizer.