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It's tempting to tell yourself you would be doing a disservice by learning to be a better communicator. After all, why give up technical skills?

When framed that way, it just seems completely obviously false.
I mean every single editor has fuzzy file finding these days.
FYI There is a podcast series about this from WSJ.
A good overview of this Ozempic phenomena if you have not been following.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qijsxLd9QvGe3cwWBNAwk
That's because you are not hoping for a rate cut in September to boost the economy right before the election.

The employment numbers have been so sketchy that this was pretty much predicted by the people who looked at them
What's jerf is saying is that the systems and procedures end up being selected (to some extent maybe unconsciously) based on political considerations. This isn't a radical view. Economists and many other kinds of academics have a long history of adapting ideas, metrics and systems to please political masters. Or more accurately, to appear useful to political masters.

For example the famous 2% inflation goal is regularly presented as an apolitical target based on firm economic theory. In reality it was invented out of whole cloth for purely political reasons:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/mouse-that-roared-new-zealan...

What if, they asked, they just told everyone the rate should be much lower - say roughly 2% - and then aim for that?

"It was a bit of a shock to everyone, I think," said Roger Douglas, the Labour Party finance minister at the time who worked with the Treasury and Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to pioneer the policy. "I just announced it was gonna be 2%, and it sort of stuck."

Like that, inflation targeting was born.
Progress continues. The biggest press in the world today was built in 2018, is rated for 60,000 tons, and is in Los Angeles County, California.[1][2]

[1] https://www.lightmetalage.com/news/industry-news/forging/web...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNFIMy8BuHc
Not sure why you're getting down-voted, it's a common meme for people to think everyone just died by their 40s. It seems like if you made it to 40 you often could be living into your 70s [1] throughout much of human history.

Now I'll take our modern scientific advances over not having them. Give me modern sanitation, surgery, antibiotics, and vaccines for sure. But I'm not sure I'd call the way many American elders around me are living in their 70s to be healthy lives. Many lack mobility, are obese, are on a fistful of prescription drugs daily, and have constant pain. Except for the ones that ate well and in moderation, didn't drink much, and exercised their entire lives.

I just hope people take these GPL-1 drugs but also get their bodies moving (particularly strength training).

[1] https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-lifespan-history/
Absolutely. I don't plan to go anywhere until it no longer works for me.
Makes it seem more tenable huh. Honestly they could charge me $200 a month and I'd pay it.
It's a lot easier in SQL to know the right way than in writing prompts especially with non deterministic models.
Yeah, because there's a (previously observed) paradoxical effect where decreasing blood glucose levels can accelerate the progress of diabetic retinopathy.
I'm surprised there aren't more studies in how code going into the kernel is reviewed. There are various subsystems that have different levels of review. And it is largely done "in public" for the final set of changes. Heck, many of the tools we take for granted now were sharpened on the kernel.
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Some states already require annual inspections, Pennsylvania being one of them.
I find it much easier to judge my speed in my 90s car than any modern slightly nice car. Insulated to the point of being impairing…
Maybe just don't even go out in public!
No you don't. Just install Linux and never, ever, ever look back.

I did. Now I just sit outside the window and watch everything burn to the ground.

100% on electron. Electron everything, as far as the eyes can see. Electron this, electron that. Javascript, everything, on all four cores!
> As it turns out, literally zero companies (at least in the US) have ever been sued by an engineer who received constructive post-interview feedback. As some of my lawyer contacts pointed out, a lot of cases get settled out of court, and that data is much harder to get, but given what we know, the odds of getting sued after giving useful feedback are extremely low.

Wait, so is there no evidence because they quietly settled or because no one ever files suits? Are lawsuit filings public even if they settle out of court?
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Long term the patent expires and it becomes a generic. That's I think when the real transformation starts.
Is this an actual backdoor, as in, put in there on purpose by the manufacturer? Sure sounds like it.
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> don't advertise wooly claims about performance and security

And about privacy ...
One of my favorite most elusive bugs was a one liner change. I didn't understand the problem because nobody could reproduce it, or show it. Months later, after my boss told his boss it was fixed, despite never being able to test that it was fixed, I figured it out and fixed it. We had a gift card form, and we stored it in localStorage, if for any reason the person left the tab, and came back months later, it would show the old gift card with its old dated balance, it was a client-side bug. The fix was to use sessionStorage.
was the separate village to keep the creatives in by themselves, or to keep them away from everybody else.
Well, Atom has been around possibly longer than you've been alive. You can use it in any Atom/RSS reader. These were the OG blog syndication tools, they're platform/company independent and provide a standard interface. Atom was huge back in the webcomics era. You can use an Atom/RSS feed to build your own google news page, effectively, and carry/sync it between devices. I haven't used it in forever, but 15 years ago most every site offered feeds for both their entire site, and main sections
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I've been a OneNote user for years, but a few months ago MS sabotaged the clipper extension for Firefox - and for no apparent reason except, apparently, to force people toward Edge.

If they're going to maliciously break my workflow, then who needs 'em?

So I've switched to Obsidian, although I'm finding it a little clunky and I've also been playing Zoot.
Intermittent fasting is different than calorie restriction. There are calorie-restricted diets where you eat small amounts constantly throughout the day (this used to be the go-to recommendation of doctors). Intermittent fasting doesn't even necessarily entail calorie restriction.
Meanwhile an OS uses the filesystem for just about everything and it is also a garbage collected system ...

Why should memory be different?
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Ask HN: Why do agnostics have children given afterlife uncertainty?
For example, what if the afterlife consists of eternal torture for everyone who has ever lived?

How could an agnostic rule out such a possibility and be confident that any children they have will not suffer this fate?

Wouldn't it be better for agnostics to play it safe and not have any children?
Fundamentally, SpaceX chose to go with the cheapest approach that works rather than the "best" approach.

Take, for example, the engines. The Falcon rockets are kerolox (kerosene + liquid oxygen) engines. You get substantially more performance from hydrolox (liquid hydrogen + liquid oxygen) engines. The faster you want to go the more difference this makes. However, they recognized that kerolox is far, far easier to work with and that to put a kilogram in orbit on kerolox is cheaper than hydrolox, even though you need a bigger rocket to do so.

I can't find any other western rocket that's anything but hydrolox by the time it reaches orbit. But SpaceX decided that standardizing on the same engine (the upper stage of the Falcon rockets uses the same engine, different engine bell) was a better deal. It's all about mass production. They build a *lot* of Merlins so the cost per engine is a lot lower.

Starship is using the same philosophy. Metholox (liquid methane + liquid oxygen), a bit harder to handle than kerolox but still far more friendly than hydrolox. Same engines throughout. (Although they might have different bells on some of the engines. A bell meant for vacuum works better in vacuum, but at best worse in atmosphere and at worst will be destroyed. The Shuttle OMS engines had a minimum altitude requirement (actually, maximum pressure) and could not be used to help with a bad landing. Light them too low and they would crumple.)
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I haven't been able to do that too, but, here's my experience regarding smartphone use--When I was using an Android, I'd go to accessibility settings and turn the display grayscale. It felt so /tasteless/. Like food without salt. And my smartphone use went down.

When I switched to iOS, I deliberately chose the little SE 2020 edition with a terrible battery so I wouldn't use it much and it has worked. I still click a lot of pictures, use the banking apps, whatsapp here and there, readonly email access but haven't been wasting time on it and it makes me happy :D

In fact my first smartphone ever was a BlackBerry Q10 (in 2018!), deliberately chosen to not get into smartphone addiction.

By the way, kome, would you please get in touch with me? My email's in the bio. I'd love to chat with you about your time prior to having a smartphone :)
I had a coworker who would leave nitpicks and bombshell in the same review round. Like 30 comments, 29 of which are irrelevant if you read the last one.

Couldn't explain the problem to him... I just learned to read through full review from him first before starting to address anything. Otherwise he was one of the best people I worked with and the feedback was valuable.
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This is the one I get hit with constantly.

The Ransom Note

> This particular patch seems especially important to the developer who submitted it. (Maybe they said that outright, as part of their argument trying to persuade you to take the patch. Or maybe you just read between the lines.)

> But this patch isn’t especially vital to you – so you’re in a position of power! Now you can hold the change they need hostage until they do lots of extra tangentially related work, which doesn’t really need to be in the same commit, but which is important to you.

The reviewer outright denies this occurs, and it occurs every time.

For a commit on changing the documentation, he will then want the entire documentation redone, including pages that aren't being changed.

And will refuse to approve it until every issue he's brought up has been addressed.

I've just stopped asking them for PR reviews, and ask other teams to review my PRs.
> safe

Have you read the drug label?

I actually just picked up my first dose today and I’m still not sure if I want to take it.
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I think that's unreasonable to ask for just about anyone. The only time that's going to work is if you're helping them with an issue that's critical to them. Otherwise you are never going to get their full attention, it even close.

Much easier and safer is to drill into your own head that your own engagement level may be at 10, but the other person's is probably going to be more like 2. And that's fine.
This is really the best answer. I finally learned to go to bed on time when I had to quit caffeine. It took a couple of weeks for my body to learn to fall asleep and I supported it with calming music (singing bowls and chants at a quiet volume) and not using screens within an hour of bedtime, as well as getting more exercise during the day. The results have been life-changing though. Some words of wisdom: never stay up late to do something you wouldn’t wake up early for.
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Right you are, but culturally they're equivalent entities.
Not necessarily a culture war thing. People who aren't familiar with the subject might take "unskilled" in the plain-english sense, as a pejorative. And who can blame them? We're english speakers before we're technical speakers.

Make gracious assumptions.
Light bulbs have energy ratings – so why can't AI chatbots?
Not to nitpick, but in this blog post, mostly every first sentence after a heading doesn't add anything, but simply repeats the heading in a longer, more rambling format. Are you bumping your word count to achieve some imagined length goal/page count?

Brevity and Ruthless Editing should be incorporated into your final cycles of 'finishing' working on projects.
> Mental models of UV exposure are not always intuitive.

100%. On this front, the study notes something important that helps explain the lower overall mortality, which is that "Most melanoma is a disease of intermittent burning sun exposure, particularly in childhood."

In other words, skin cancer doesn't increase exponentially with total lifetime UV exposure, unlike say, regular alcohol use or smoking. It's much riskier to get burned repeatedly in early childhood than it is to have regular moderate levels of sun exposure long term while avoiding being burned.
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I remember that, too, and switched to IE for the next X years
Why would a state as large as Russia have limited air defense?
Ramjet has a high minimum flight speed. (Although this is an issue across most missiles--ground launch versions of missiles are the air launch version with an extra rocket on back that boosts it to a suitable flight speed.)
This is why I like Github's feature to add comments before posting the full review. You can do a round of nitpick comments, take some time away to let the rest settle, come back and re-review with the big picture. You can then add those comments as well, remove some of the nitpicks if they aren't relevant/important enough anymore, etc.
"Seemingly" in the title of the article seems important (since the point seems to be to debunk, in the terminology of the abstract, "folklore notions of hygiene and referential transparency"); why was it stripped?
What kind of load is code review bearing in your process that you want 3 days of active work to approve? Some mixture of automated validations, acceptance testing, and manual regression testing should cover whether the code is correct beyond review.

That seems like a level of rigor that only systems with very significant failure cases could sustain and still be built.
It doesn’t seem that way with a charitable reading.
> being ghosted after helping a customer

I guess that's a matter of expectation.

A ticket system I've worked with in the past had an "autoclose" state where you could set the ticket to automatically close after a set date if no reply comes in until then.

If a reply comes with the info that it worked, I get a smile and close the ticket. If not, I never see the ticket again, no hard feelings.
> Seems like a reduction to a harder problem :)

Yes, but there may be other positive benefits to solving it as well. :)
As far as I know the pharmaceutical companies have not adopted a strategy of attempting to undermine or block surgical treatments, which you'd expect if their operating strategy was as you say.
Why do we need web standards for the semantic web anymore when we have LLMs?

Just make LLMs more ubiquitous and train them on the Web. Rather than crawling or something. The LLMs are a lot more resilient.
You just have a storm shelter and home insurance. It's pretty rare for a tornado to actually hit your house.

>Economically, tornadoes cause about a tenth as much damage per year, on average, as hurricanes.
I'm not sure I understand what you (and others in this thread) are getting at.

Non-technical users can simply subscribe to the newsletter with their email address. If they don't understand what this project is about, they probably don't need and don't want it.

Users that prefer RSS over email use kill-the-newsletter for outlets that don't offer RSS.
> Wouldn't it be better for agnostics to play it safe and not have any children?

Why would you consider yourself even remotely qualified to comment on an agnostic's lifestyle and whether or not they are capable of raising children? It is entirely their decision, you are embarrassing yourself by trying to moralize their situation with your own logic.

People form their own opinions. You don't inherently have to believe in an afterlife to be agnostic of God, and you certainly don't have to fear damnation to raise kids.
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> I'm a terrible speller and I do this all the time

Why are you not using a spell-checker in your IDE? I don’t get why people don’t do this, it’s so easy, and it makes you look a lot more professional when you aren’t submitting constant spelling and grammar errors.

FWIW I would never bring it up in code review though, waste of time.
Putting the blame on cyclists for dooring requires missing problems up the chain which cause them to be in the door zone. Road designs (marked bike lanes that are 80% or more in the door zone) and automotive traffic overtaking unsafely are two contributors that directly or indirectly push cyclists into an unsafe space.

To ride out of the door zone in many cases requires taking the lane and riding outside of a marked bicycle lane, if present. Cyclists can and should do this, but it is no surprise that many don’t, and it is no surprise that drivers complain of those who do.
It seems that Iran is an exception to such US conviviality. See, the US under the Obama administration, the EU Russia, China and others signed a deal with Iran to alleviate sanctions in return for an end to Iran's nuclear program.

The Iran nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers: the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China—plus Germany) and the European Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework

Then the US, under the Trump administration, withdrew from the deal:

The United States withdrew from the pact in 2018 and new sanctions were imposed under the policy of "maximum pressure". The sanctions applied to all countries and companies doing trade or business with Iran and cut it off from the international financial system, rendering the nuclear deal's economic provisions null.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
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Wow, that's a nostalgic domain name. I could have sworn I saw pieces by other authors on chiark.greenend.org.uk decades ago, perhaps even before the Internet became widely commercialized.
In case you need a few more:

The Nitpicker's Gambit: The reviewer fixates on trivial style issues like whitespace, bracket placement, variable naming conventions etc. They make the developer conform perfectly to their preferred style, even if it's not specified in the team's coding guidelines.

The Silent Treatment: The reviewer provides no feedback at all for a long time after the review is requested, but does respond just often enough to keep the review "active". The author has to ping several times to get any response.

The Tunnel Vision: The reviewer only looks at the specific lines changed, without considering the broader context of the code. They suggest changes that are locally valid but deliberately inconsistent with the overall design or architecture.

The Ad Hominem: The reviewer makes snarky comments about the code in a way that implies the author is inexperienced and/or incompetent without directly saying so (and opening themselves to accusations of meanness).

The Philosophical Debate: The reviewer gets into a long back-and-forth debate in the review comments about a matter of opinion like whether inheritance or composition is better. The actual issue at hand gets lost in the abstract discussion.
I think this issue is a lot of why ChatGPT feels smart to me. It actually parses all the parts of what I say and tries to respond to it comprehensively. It doesn't always succeed, but it's usually better than my experience asking a multi-part question to a random real-life person in a support role.
I get especially annoyed if I have to tell patch submitters to fix the same thing twice. Carefully read everything I wrote!
I subscribe to Readwise, their Reader portion is awesome in that I can subscribe to RSS feeds, but it also gives you a feed email (and a library email, which would be like Instapaper) that you can subscribe to newsletters with and they go directly into your feed reader as an item to be read.

Worth it imo, to just have it all in one place.
I decided to actually try this out mostly because of the overwhelmingly negative comments here. No need to commit, just a little `nix-shell nixpkgs#oh-my-posh --command zsh` and `source <(oh-my-posh init zsh)`. It's fine! It's not a PowerShell script anymore (and hence it's not insanely slow anymore). I'm a happy Starship user and on my machine this performs comparably (they're both a bit slow in very large git repos, otherwise they're quite fast), but not too bad. This has a really fun aesthetic, too! Much more like old-school Powerline than my Starship config. Taking it for a test drive was a fun change for me. :)

Y'all, I don't like the update check either. Self-updating behavior and similar crap sucks in all apps, imo, and it seems especially out-of-place in command-line prompts like this one. But a lot of people seem to like it, especially on operating systems that don't have first-class package management. I'd turn it off, and I'd expect a decent free software distribution to disable it by default in their packages.

At the end of the day, this is the work of some guy to try to make his own shell prompt delightful to him. It's not a slow PowerShell module, although a project of the same name used to be that-- it's a younger cousin of Starship. And it's pretty good.