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There's also the rare situation where guarded euphemisms abruptly vanish off the end of the treadmill without a successor taking over.

This lengthy 2018 video on the phenomenon [0] discusses two examples, where:

> When "Illegal Immigration" comes up [...] one of the candidates says he wants to tighter the border because "Mexico is sending us rapists and thieves." I'm sorry, what? What just happened!? [...]

> Now they're talking about "The War on Terror" [... ] but then that same candidate pipes up that, if elected, for the sake of security, he wants to create a "Muslim registry" and--what the hell is going on? [...]

> The guy seemingly tanking his candidacy by appealing to extremists is the one who finally secures the nomination. You realize with some shock that in each of these cases you are witnessing the death of a euphemism. The death of a euphemism is a rare celestial event. Politicians only let a euphemism die when they don't need it anymore. This does not imply good things for Mexicans or Muslims.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBJIkp7qIg - "The Alt-Right Playbook: The Death of a Euphemism"
They didn't say that, they said the checklist is there for liability reasons and not for genuine care reasons.

The "won't let mom walk to the door" thing is a great microcosm of that—it's a blanket policy applied to all mothers regardless of need.

My wife had our youngest at home but we had to take her to the hospital afterward because her lungs were a little sticky and she needed a respirator for ~4 hours. I took our daughter in and my wife followed a few hours later, walking all the way into the hospital.

The NICU wouldn't discharge us for two days (which is a whole liability > care story of its own), but when they finally did they insisted that my wife—who had had the baby at home and driven to and walked into the hospital while mere hours postpartum—needed to be in a wheelchair to the curb.

We liked that shift of nurses, they clearly cared, but no one in that room looked at my wife standing by the warmer and thought "she needs a wheelchair". They had a checklist and they were going to be darn sure they followed it.
Yeah that part is lovely. Having steam games “just work” for the most part is absolutely phenomenal.
Because, this is how the scammers described themselves, in Mandarin using colorful language.
I mean, I think the answers are unbiased, but I am admittedly biased.
Stretch it in one direction, then grab in the middle of the stretched area and pull sideways, and it pops open like nothing.
We have a culture of "nothing is safe, always hire a professional", and a culture of companies working against the right to repair.

Most simple electronics repairs and household repairs remain very doable for everyone, and would save them a lot of money.
Weird that they only have the short form "no wukkas" which I've never heard.

Full form is "no wuckin furries"...

Also, no mention of whether they're here to fuck spiders or not.
Is this less relative to broad historical trends, or less compared to the boom of 2020 and 2021, when people were flush with cash and suddenly spending a lot more time in their houses?

And even if it's less relative to more typical times, how much of that is people "pushing forward" projects back in 2020?

I wonder similar things about computer manufacturer sales. As much as they'd like us to all be on a one-year upgrade cycle for both phones and laptops, modern hardware happily lasts three to seven years depending on how you use it. Many people bought new hardware during the beginning of WFH times in the pandemic, and now they don't need to buy a new PC for a few years, but Lenovo et al act like the sky is falling when they see a lower quarter after a huge boom.
1977 was 47 years ago.

TLDR a magnetar (neutron star) flash
I have a Phillips as well. If I get a decent amount of sleep the light will wake me up, otherwise, it starts making bird/owl noises that will wake me up. They come in soft and gradually get louder. It is much better than a loud electronic beep.
Where's the Jepsen suite tests?

Without it this is alphaware at best
More like be wary of false security that App Store instilled
It's not fair to point out very real impacts of Nuclear failures. But it's fair to compare to hypothetical-yet-to-occur "Mass Solar failures".

Solar relies on Light, just like life does. So you are kind of referring to mass extinction events. no?
Yes, but will it wipe out the advantage of solar by adding cost to the generation capacity? As I said, batteries still aren't cheap, and their replacement lifetime is still not good. We could rely on future technology, but is that a sound investment plan?

If this project is viable, then it'll probably be more viable to have a massive solar farm coming from India, where the timezone shift is in the correct direction, and it would outcompete Australia.
If only thermodynamics was this easy. Heat pumps ain't magic, alas, they are still subject to physical limitations, including the laws of thermodynamics.

Also keep in mind that cooling the hot part of your space heat pump is very limited: there's no convection nor conduction in space. You can only lose heat energy via radiation or ablation (= shooting away hot pieces).
Good idea, tho personally I've never encountered a newsletter that didn't have a feed for my RSS reader (Feedbro). Usually people use some web platform that happens to also email, rather than composing them in email
George Carlin has a great bit on euphemism where he makes the case that euphemisms are used to soften the meaning of things that are painful to the point of being meaningless, e.g. shellshock -> ptsd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

The author of this article pointed our some similar examples:
welfare -> cash assistance -> TANF.
Your argument has a logic leap in it: The fastest way to your goals is using money, but that doesn't mean you need lots of money to achieve your goals.
Perhaps it's similar to the high speed rail projects that get announced and quietly shelved every election season?
We'll at some point support the tabGroups webextension API, so it would be fairly straightforward for add-ons to do that. We're also looking at automatic grouping options though.
Maybe PWAs shouldn't set icon and name should be a hardcoded url user can't change
The cut makes it sound like she “isn’t familiar” with the Bureau of Labor. I assume she said “with that figure” or something of the sort :)

It’s a bad response, but also not surprising, since her job is to be ra-ra-ra. (Which isn’t me excusing her, not by any means.)
Because the measurably do none of those things.

There is no performance benefit that immutable structures offer that cannot be had by mutable ones. It is asinine to assert otherwise, especially when literally every single measurement ever done demonstrates that immutable structures perform orders of magnitude slower.

You do not need immutability to create a slow moving cache. Immutability is not where any semblance of performance is coming from here.

If they didnt succumb to idiotic bullshit nonsense, they wouldn’t have even needed this post. If you see any of your senior architects reading medium, fire them immediately.

Immutable structure can, in a single use case, meet mutable ones for performance and that single case is:

-read speed on aligned, flattened data

But, that ignores that fact that getting to a point of aligned, flattened data with immutable structures is incredibly slow.
End-to-end tests might get tricky. But unit tests should be owned by the person/team/squad that owns the unit.

And unit tests should never break/be red. If the code needs to changed, the test needs to be changed at the same time.

End-to-end tests can be flaky. Those probably shouldn't prevent deployments and can be red for awhile. Should probably manually confirm if the test is acting up, there's a change in behavior, or if something is legitimately broken before ignoring them though.
I can relate to a lot of this. The customer emails in particular. I was experiencing flashbacks while reading the article.

Back in 2014-2015 I created a platform for building crypto trading bots in the browser with Python scripts. You could write a bot, backtest it and trade live on multiple exchanges. It was a lot of fun to build, initially. I kind of stumbled onto the idea without any trading background.

It got some early traction. So I raised $100k of funding and went all in on the idea. I worked like mad.

But I slowly realised that all of my customers were "technical analysis" bros. Basically horoscopes for trading. I received endless support requests for exotic new indicators and obscure features.

I added a marketplace that let you sell your bots to others. It quickly jumped up to $10k/mo in commission after the fee I took. That seemed bananas to me as a 24 year old.

But the bots being sold were pure snake oil. I distinctly remember that the guy who sold the most didn't even run his bot with his own money.

I felt like was running a gambling site. After 14 months of this I was completely burned out. I quit and I wasn't able to work at all for four months.

Glad to see you figured out a smarter solution.
Stuff like this is why I really dislike music streaming services, or anything that tries to match songs in a library an upgrade them with “higher quality” versions. It’s very jarring, and going back isn’t always easy.
Yeah with the wired stuff back in the day it was a little wild in that their idea was basically put a mini PC on a card which offloads work. Never really turned out that beneficial for gaming but it was at least unique. Then later in their life they just started OEMing Intel and Qualcomm NICs and sticking a driver layer for overcomplicate QoS which wasn't even offloaded anymore. The good news was if you just use the base driver it means you more or less end up with a standard e.g. Intel NIC though.
Australia has the per capita highest rooftop solar capacity on Earth and it's generously subsidised.
wasn't aware that 'anonym' existed. I don't care if PII is stripped or not. the answer to 'helping advertisers' or anything with advertisement metrics in any fashion is always 'No.' - training things so that there's better data on how to best manipulate our psyche / give people data to psychologically manipulate us in to buying/doing things is a hard 'No.'

> Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base, many ardent ad-blockers among them, will oppose Anonym, a spokesperson for the Firefox house told The Register advertising as a business model is what allows the internet to be free and open to everyone, though there's still room for improvement.

No, the internet being free and open is what allows advertisers to exploit us. They can find other business models other than advertisement. It's not our problem. They need to stop making it our problem.

I turned it off in about:config
It's vastly more simple to run one cable through the ocean than run heaps of high voltage lines between all the remote renewable generation sites and the consumers. Even with the solar built into a suburb, you need to built much thicker connections to transfer it to other consumers than what you do in the old generation system.
Distributed grids are complicated.
"Tidy drawings of trees" and "Tidier drawings of trees" are good papers, I'm glad they're referenced.

But the true solution is to use GraphViz. Text "dot" language output to a file, process the file to a PNG.
Is there a link between Solar production and Cancer? I mean there is a super obvious one with Nuclear.
Way too expensive for what? If you're making under the $40/h that they do and you're still young and fit then maybe you could switch? I hear this sentiment a lot though but knowing plenty of blue collar workers they aren't so desperate for bodies they're beating down the doors of middle aged softhands like us.
to me the main feature that makes arc browser appealing is how they combine the features of open tabs and bookmarks into one intuitive system, and making switching an open tab into a tab in the saved section really frictionless, and allowing you to view a tab in the same section in the same manner as an open tab. It also then automatically takes care of the memory management aspect of closing unused tabs for you while keeping the visual representation of open/saved tabs the same, and letting you be confident that the state of the saved tabs section is persisted.

No browser that I've seen comparing itself to arc really does this.
I downloaded zen and looked at it for like 30 seconds and it doesn't look like it does this either.
Interesting that this doesn't appear to be treated as a public health emergency or front-page news. (At least in the US). I'd expect all possibly-sexually-active heterosexual women in the world to be actively skeeved out by plastic in semen. And the idea that brains are accumulating plastic bothers at least me more than a little bit.
Is this very specific to the culture? In many cultures, there are standard written greetings that always appear at the start of a letter or even email response.
I'm confused at your argument. You're talking about inclement conditions where you're supposed to be driving below the speed limit anyway.

If everyone is at or below the speed limit, there is no situation where the reasonable maximum that exceeds the speed limit.

Perhaps you could safely drive faster, but nobody actually has to drive faster. And when you're driving slower your stopping distance is less, your chance of death in an accident is less. It's basic physics and accident statistics.
Ah understood. Makes sense now!
EDIT: One thing I attempted was to have claude keep a running artifact for a readme while I worked out a problem - but that didnt work so well. Also, as it hallucinates, one of the first indicators that its losing context is that I keep a header section on artifacts it makes and a version and description ad path for the artifact...

when iterating and the header gets stripped in the response, the bot is taking a turn...

Sometimes ask it to spit out the full context and its understandings in a manner I can use to re-prompt itself for best efficiency, and it gives a nice summary of the concept I am thinking through, and I use that with vary degrees of satifying results.
Going to disagree hard here, numerous studies have shown checklists improve patient outcome. Similarly, they improve safety in numerous industries. And requiring two person sign off on dangerous actions in the hospital also improves outcomes. Sure, following these practices is helpful in a lawsuit, but primarily because they are best practices.
This comes at a decent time for me. I am pondering a new piece of software and customer service is the number one thing on my mind. I've mostly decided that the first hire I would make if it were to become any kind of success would be customer service.

But the economics of hiring are brutal. Customer service don't get paid a huge amount but if you consider vacation, benefits, taxes, and all of the other costs of employees then somewhere in the range of $100k/year is reasonable. Then it is just math: how many subscriptions do you need to cover that cost?

Even if you price your product at $100/month then you will be losing some large portion of that to taxes, payment processing, etc. It's unlikely you'll see it all but that is maybe $1000/year. So you need over 100 stable customers at that rate tier to cover one customer service employee. Going from 0 to 100 customers paying you $100/month is risky. I can't imagine the pressure if you are closer to $10/month (or $100/year) where you need 1000 stable customers to cover the same cost.
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Touché. But it's certainly leagues more "everyone" today than it was yesterday. It used to require arcane knowledge of deep Discord server bot navigation. I gave up after 20 minutes and never figured it out. Today I tried it in seconds.

I have about 40+ google accounts for reasons, so I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/facebook/etc account under their hampster's name, but many of my closest friends are just like you so I respect it anyway, whatever principle it is.
It's particularly strange considering YouTube now has a wealth of videos showing practically all aspects of how to do something.

In my down time I've been helping out a bunch of home improvement projects being done by several other people just to help out

This type of thing is a major major source of post educational adult male socialization, and I think it's something that adult males need in a serious way. I agree that the culture that surrounds it is kind of dying off.

But it also might be a sign of the fact that housing is simply out of reach of an entire generation or perhaps even two generations now.

Only old people have houses anymore might actually be true in a very very general sense.

And young people with lots of energy and healthy backs have the time and motivation to DIY, if only they had their own houses.
"nothing is safe, always hire a professional"

Very true. I used to do much more myself but this culture has really gotten to me. Trying to fight it at the moment.
Tell HN: EndeavourOS kept randomly freezing until I upgraded to Linux-RC
To be fair, I'm using a new laptop and driver support just isn't their yet.

https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook-s-14-oled-m5406/
But this is the type of thing that would probably get a normal person to buy a Mac. I'll admit I was tempted.

First I tied to install Linux Mint, I wasn't able to finish the install and now anything Ubuntu based refuses to boot with a weird TOK issue.

Cool, time to try the Arch ecosystem . First up is Manjaro. Things are working great, and then it started to randomly freeze on me, including once during an interview ( we mutually agreed I wasn't a good fit before the actual freeze though). The actual Zoom call was still working while my UI was completely frozen.

To be clear, I generally prefer Linux in my day to day use. It doesn't inject ads into my start screen ( Ubuntu is coming close though). I retain some aspect of control over my own hardware.

After reading about the issues with Manjaro I figured they might of did something weird to Arch that's causing my issues. To be exact the UI would completely freeze randomly. You might get lucky and get to enjoy a full 30 minutes before this happens.

Switched to EndeavorOS( I'm not hardcore enough to go straight to Arch) and it got worse. For some reason the Live installer was fine, but I found myself completely unable to use the computer for more than a minute or so once installed.

So I had to boot into TTY and install linux-rc. This was not a straight forward process in anyway. AKM didn't even list rc.

So after installing rc, everything basically works. Can't figure out how to get that new fancy Zed editor to work, but aside from that I'm happy.

I will say that I'm planning on using my old M1 MacBook Air for my next interview though.
I'm confused at this argument. It sounds like the driver has already lost control? Or is this just making an excuse for assholes who accelerate too fast? Or making excuses for cars that are sold as dangerous toys instead of transportation devices?

Like, yeah, maybe there should be a 0-60 limit imposed on manufacturers, too. I would think that this would be complimentary to my argument.

I think it's also potentially strange to think that a chime is going to cause people to dramatically lose control of their vehicle in this imagined scenario.
Haha, I thought it was just me. I was trying to generate a spork for a silly card game and was really frustrated/confused about what the issue was.
We’ve really screwed the pooch on this one. How many cancers, chronic diseases, birth defects, are a result of our mass pollution of this once pristine oasis of life, the only one we have?
We also have a culture of building complex systems that rely on constant support from industrial society, over simple circuit boards which can live for decades.
I think the assumption that diets have materially improved needs to be clarified and challenged. I very much doubt that in the West, our diets have 'improved' since (say) the 50s/60s. The increase in sugars in just about everything, the increase in consumption of highly processed foods and acidic drinks - none of this is good for oral health.
Those are pretty neat. Their main advantage is being able to move quickly and with extreme precision (think down to nanometers). They're not particularly strong or efficient.
> You'd be amazed how bad hospitals can be at keeping track of fairly critical things.

Got to experience that first-hand when my partner lost her pregnancy. We went in for the procedure to remove the nonviable fetus and were advised we had 14 days to arrange for a mortuary to take the remains if we wished to keep them, which we did. At 7 days when the mortuary tried to arrange for pick-up, we were informed that the hospital had disposed of the remains. It was "very uncommon" for people to want to take the remains, so they got lax in following their procedure and jumped the guns. Left us nothing to take home. It still sucks.
I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say people are unhealthy because insurance is cheaper. The average person does not live in a way they want to harm themselves.

I would say it’s because most Americans don’t walk or bike much, food desserts are plenty, transit infrastructure sucks, overworking, and lack of time for vacation/self-care all contribute.

You are forced to have a job if you expect typical medical coverage, and making people do something they don’t want to do won’t incentivize them to take care of their health.
Yep, internet censorship drives the creation of a whole lot of modern euphemistic slang like unalive, grape, pdf file... You take them as just being workarounds for having discussions online - but then you start hearing people say them in real life and realize they've actually entered the general lexicon.
The right analogy here is that you make 50% of the beds in the world and you are preventing anyone from buying sheets except from your own official supply.

When someone wants to read a book in a bed you manufactured, you charge the author 30%. When someone wants to watch a TV show in a bed you manufactured, you take a cut of the subscription revenue and force them to use your accounts and billing system.

When someone wants to have sex in a bed you manufactured, you have to vet them first and you only let them deploy on Tuesdays. And if they don't know the latest moves, they're out. Also they have to wear your condoms, meet people through your dating app, and pretty much obey your rules or they're banned from your beds.

And the other bed manufacturer? You get kickbacks from them. It's just the two of you, controlling all the beds in the world.

The problem is the bed shouldn't really be yours anymore. And you've extended your reach way beyond the original moment of sale into literally every activity the purchaser performs.

Why does Apple get to control what dating apps I use? Why do they get a cut of Kickstarter revenue? Why can't I write software the way I want and give it away to others? It's just silicon, after all. Whatever happened to open computing and monopoly busting? Apple's vice grip just keeps getting tighter as they ensnare more and more of the world.
I very much feel you.

Choosing customers is crucial.

Patio11 has some great write ups on the type of customer who will suck your life force: Retail, not much money, not very busy.

Rather have business clients who are less price sensitive and have better things to do than argue about font choices.

I had one lady who spent 75 emails sending me on wild goose chases for a $30 app. At one point she mentioned a refund and I processed it before she could change her mind. She then offered me a job. Noooooo.