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Poetry does a lot of good stuff: lock file, dev dependencies (and other customizable groups), easy to use virtual env, dependencies pulled directly from git.

I do not recommend pip in serious projects, as it lacks the above. Here's things that I've seen:

- add dependencies and not save them in the requirements file
- forget to activate cenv and install packages globally
- different package versions across deployments due to absence of lock file
- main dependencies mixed with dev dependencies
> How sick in the soul I would have to be to choose to harm your family to increase the safety of mine?

First of all, this is human nature 101. Secondly, simply owning a large vehicle does not equate to 'harming your family'. Bad/impaired drivers are responsible for that. Any other inanimate objects people shouldn't own because you don't like them? People aren't going to simply put their families in Fiat's with Escalade's on the road to show solidarity with the "we need smaller cars" movement.
Incorrect.

The number of stations does not appear in the bill.

https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf

The 500,000 charger was a campaign promise in 2020 not directly connected to the funding allocated in 2021

https://grist.org/energy/biden-wants-to-build-500000-ev-char...
That a newly released phone is advertised as purposely missing features "better" phones have. Not only that but such a lack of capability is deemed important enough to proudly place in the product advertisement

It is worth wondering how long product designers can keep adding features to smartphones to justify the frequent upgrade cycle

And also worth wondering about if all the increase in capability of devices is really an meaningful increase in usefulness/happiness from the device usage, if some consumers are starting to crave less capable phones
When the English army or paramilitary militia came to burn the ancestors out of house and home to make room for settlers, I doubt their level of suffering was “adjusted”.

If they were lucky, they starved in the woods, hiding like animals.
They're great if you need raw processing power but they have a very backwards, German view of the internet where even a port scan is considered abuse. It's very easy to get your machine nullrouted or account closed.

I use them a lot for backend data processing but anything public facing I host at AWS or Digital Ocean who have a more reasonable approach to the internet.
It sounds like the safest thing for you and your family is to buy a heavier car also. You’re also not literally making that choice between someone else’s family and your own. How many people have you killed while driving? Me, zero, after decades of driving. My parents are well into their old age, have driven heavy cars their whole lives, and still haven’t killed anyone. In fact, out of many people I’ve known, with all shapes and sizes of car, the only one (as far as I’m aware) who killed someone was drunk, and drove a small sports car very fast and killed someone.

To be fair to your argument, you _are_ talking about a “line of escalation” and an issue with a lot of moral complexity. I’m not even saying you’re wrong, rather just that I think you can’t view it so simply. Do you have kids or a husband or a wife? Could you _really_ put their own lives before strangers, or do you just want to see a world where people give more compassion to their fellow human? Because I want that too; I’m just not willing to sacrifice my loved ones for it.
While I agree in principle, this is a professor sharing as foolproof a method as he can find to get many students, whose existing knowledge, setup, and CLI avoidance he can't control, to the meat of the course experience he has designed for them.
Salesmen are not an expense, they're a profit center. Every company knows this. They will sell more expensive cars and increase the dealer's profit, that's why this model persists.
I-HTML, an inline-HTML import element
No it's not. Many language are designed so certain performance aspects are invisible. Take golang and python: The garbage collector.

The garbage collector is something you should not think about when programming and most programmers don't even need to know it exists. You only think about it when you need to seriously optimize things.

For SQL it's a bad design choice because of what SQL is and what SQL is targeting.

SQL is a high level abstraction that automatically determines a query plan based off of high level input. The problem here is that it can choose a bad query plan. So you need to "hack" the query in order to trick the query planner into doing what you want.

It's also targeting the slowest part of the stack: Non volatile memory and IO. The slowest part of the stack should be targeted with a zero cost abstractions to maintain speed while the fastest part of the stack you can use a language like python for your web app it's fine because databases are magnitudes slower.
Mayo is weirdly great for understanding nuclear fusion experiments
Your list doesn't include a lot of "doing". It's only achievements.
This is something I am currently thinking about. I am a software engineer who also happens to be a amateur musician. I used to do at least 2h of exercise on my instrument for a year, and then not less than that for many years after that. Lots of time I did allocate to fundamentals and standard songs I did not want to lose - and even today, more than a decade after my peak and active time, I have a feeling of where I am skillwise when I comes to those things I practised.

But for software engineering? This seems a lot harder to me. What seems to make most sense to me currently is really high-level stuff like "build up a local dev environment from scratch", "implement a minimal change than is visible in the frontend, but results in a change to the data storage in backend" and "write an integration test". Those seem to touch on many areas of skill and should be "trainable" in some sense, making them a good target of deliberate practice.

Thoughts or experiences anyone? :)
Credit where due: <https://www.xkcd.com/1814/>
I am a hetzner customer for around 5 years, and DO customer for 12. Hetzner is always on point. Botched your vm? they mount a live cd and let you rescue the system. Got provisioned hardware? they provide hardware reset services in case software reset doesn't work. They continuously check if your ip is blacklisted and warn you. They check for vulnerable ports and EU security mandates. UI and prices are competitive. Overall great experience.
Td-watson (a CLI timetracker) is going to adoped by Jazzband
The article mentioned that plug-in hybrids slow down pure EV transition. But that is kind of expected.

It is strictly cheaper to make a car that can drive on a battery 30 km and then switch to gasoline than a pure EV that can drive 500 km and it will be so for few more years.
When athletes exercise they keep track of series, repetitions, weight, how many miles you are running, distance, times, etc.

If you make an adjustment that enhances your performance you may notice it.

Tactics and strategies are more situational and harder to track because they are not universally superior but rather situational. You can still see results if the athletic performance of the team is enhanced... you can see it in metrics like ball possession and such.
You're right, I confused 2 different South American elections and am dumb and sorry.
The article starts with a legitimate problem but meanders to false or suboptimal solutions. It is true that, for example, when I read a text, I can usually only (consciously) remember a few high-level points. But the solution is not note-taking, spaced repetition, or "Inbox Zero". This might be anecdotal, but I have tried all these and failed to discern any noticeable improvements. One technique the article mentions that might work is Ben Franklin's practice of rewriting a previously read text in one's own words.
'Emotion AI', a growing trend for business software, could be problematic
Dealerships are owned by rich people and they contribute a lot of money to local politicians. That's why they won't go away even though they are nothing but parasites.
> You can say that eventually we'll run out of [resource] but as we do the price goes up making alternatives more attractive.

Except for oil. Oil is basically what backs the global economy. What it means is that when oil’s prices are raising a little, the global economy just automatically slows down enough to reduce the demand and keep the prices where they are.

That’s why oil prices are an illusion.

But more importantly, the issue with oil is not (only) the price, it’s that there is still enough oil reserves for the humanity to fuck the climate for thousands of years.

In both case we are going to lack oil. But we will suffer pretty differently given it’s voluntary or not.
The problem is that very few manager-capable younger folks can truly embrace the thing that has to be done to become a great manager, and that is to cease being an IC.

Every startup actually discourages this, which is why so few startups have great young managers.
You’re not wrong. But only because Democrats are terrible at messaging (and seem allergic to getting better at it). “We’ll get you needlessly dead for our own power” isn’t exactly a popular policy position if someone is willing to call it what it is.
Yes. If the solid-state battery people deliver, we get 9-minute charging. Then chargers can replace gas pumps on a one for one basis.
What about yogurt, kombucha, kimchi, etc.? Those have been around and globally common "forever". They're low profile, though, in their ubiquity.
I wasn't able to compile edge for some reason but it looks cool :). I'll try to do it again when I have some free time. Thank you for sharing your insights. I totally understand what you say about the dedication part, especially when it comes to projects becoming bigger and bigger through the years. It's hard to keep focused and not get overwhelmed at some point
Plastic recycling is a myth. It is effectively impossible to do it in an economically feasible way.
Recycling itself was invented by plastic companies to divert blame from the company creating the plastic to the consumer. (Just recycle it!) if you don’t believe me look up the origin of the recycling symbol.

Which isn’t to say recycling of meta and glass is useless. Recycling plastic is a myth, other recycling may be of some benefit.
Do you inspect your neighbors garage workshop for branch safety standards & best practices? Context and proportionality.
I don't believe the typical CEO is working harder or longer hours than the workers. The few that are may be as part of a lifestyle, because they want to.
I own a EV and I love it. But it was pretty expensive (60K+) and from what I've seen, the trade-in value for my car is effectively half of what I bought it for after just 1 year of ownership.

I'm not complaining too much since I plan to keep this car until the wheels fall off anyways, but it does seem like the accelerated depreciation of EVs versus gasoline cars is a good reason not to buy at the moment.

EDIT: I should clarify, my vehicle is a PHEV. I couldn't commit to giving up gasoline given the added convenience of being able to quickly fill up on gas for long road trips. That being said, I drive less than 10K miles a year and probably only use ~1 tank of gas every 2 months.
> I would guess that previous drafts of this essay had concrete examples

It's always bothered me to no end that PG has his essays read by others prior to posting. This isn't academia (or an application to college or a job application) and he's not writing for a journal and requiring peer review (or comments or suggestions). Fine it's his own style apparently.

Now what would be very interesting is to see some of the reply comments on the drafts of the PG essays (and how extensive they are).
If you’re trying to imply it’s No Big Deal… well you’re right, but not in the way you expect…
btw, what was the Chrome extension you were prompted about on your macbook?
Thanks, I like the design of your site better than the other alternatives I found and it came exactly when I needed it. As other have mentioned, a way to run it locally would be great to not have to deploy live or create a tunnel in order to test it.
Is a near ideal example of why free markets can lead to a worse overall result, yeah. Everyone wants to be individually safer, this is all a reasonable trajectory brought on by incremental steps in that direction.

We desperately need regulation. The market won't turn itself around, it'll just ensure the ones that are helping are killed the quickest.
I'd strongly advise against 1Password, several answers here recommending it and I suspect conflating personal use with 'good enough for business', hard disagree.

Your company can apply various aspects of threat modelling and more often than not several companies I've worked with find that Bitwarden self-hosted can meet a lot of requirements, this is the best solution in terms of privacy and security and controlling your trust boundaries. Failing that, Bitwarden Enterprise (they host) is also just as good. In either case there's granular controls for controlling what your new hires can be given access to.

There won't be a perfect solution such as notifying everyone about rotation, it's not needed though - simply rotate it and the next time they need it they get the new version.

Of course the general advice is something I agree with - use SSO where possible, but I fully recognise that it isn't always possible with some third party services that haven't implemented it yet.

There is a cruder solution I've often seen too, it's a bit painful but KeePass2/KeePassXC on a company hosted SAN is the ultimate offline, fully controlled solution but comes with extra hurdles to access, whereas Bitwarden is browser based and simpler to use.
The whole idea behind tariffs on Chinese products is that cheap prices will NOT be tolerated. The US is stuck with expensive cars for the foreseeable future.
Has anybody tried vagus nerve stimulation? I tried it but didn't get anywhere much.
I checked various subreddits that were related and they were dead
I think it will change, but the fact is, the U.S.A. is so darn big, and so EV range is super important to Americans.

This is also seen when comparing how much Amerians drive compared to Europeans. Americans drive about twice as many miles per capita annually than EU citizens [1], which is probably related to more distant commutes in the US.. [2], e.g. average commute in 2014 was 8.79 km in the U.S., but 5.03 km Germany, and 1.68 km in France. But also, The USA is big, and we are more likely to travel by car and further than those in other countries.

This is all to say, that adoption in America will go up, but only as electric cars improve their range.

[1] https://frontiergroup.org/resources/fact-file-americans-driv...
[2] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Transport/Co...
In academia this is typically accomplished through staying up-to-date with top tier journals and conferences. I would say this is one of the benefits of IEEE--they have quite a few high-quality venues. However, there are also plenty of top-tier venues that are not associated with IEEE.
I work for a financial, we take security seriously. Production secrets like passwords, private keys etc are stored in Hashicorp Vault. They aren't stored on disk anywhere else. Privileged system account that runs the production processes can't be used by interactive users. SREs can get access if they have to but its locked down and every session is recorded. The secrets are rotated regularly. So your new hire never gets to see production passwords effective.

For developers, everything is done in their individual accounts, no system accounts. There is a dev system account that does leak out some times but this is frowned upon. Production data that is synced to dev environments have to be scrambled so devs dont get to see all the real prod data.
I viewed source

It was not minified.
Urban Dictionary might be a better place for recent internet slang: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracked
That is only vertical scaling though. Serverless' advantage is that it almost always has horizontal scaling/resilience/failure handling built in
I'm not anti-psychiatry per se, but I always keep in mind that every industry has perverse incentives to not lose their customers. Every once in a while, a professor or journalist checks themselves into a psychiatric hospital with some temporary fake symptoms, then behaves perfectly healthy, but are unable to escape without a lot of outside intervention. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_in_a_Mad-House (1887), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment (1973) .
I don't believe those messages are really removed for users from any country by the fact of having the word in your tweet, just use 1337 wording if the warning bothers you.

Advertizers which don't want their ads next to right wing content should really prefer seing their ads next to left wing extremism elsewhere. Nazis are really a different talk, they are not even the right wing.
There is no such thing as "conventional wisdom". Wisdom will guide you to treat convention not as instruction, but as input - one of many.

PG did not go far enough here. The problem isn't 'bad advice', the problem is that advice is no substitute for thinking. Neither is looking at what Steve Jobs did at Apple for that matter: what really works is to think about all of this, considering problems from multiple angles.

However, as Bertrand Russel said:

“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!”

Which also applies to businesses!

Indeed, another prediction I'll make about founder mode is that once we figure out what it is, we'll find that a number of individual founders were already most of the way there — except that in doing what they did they were regarded by many as eccentric or worse.

Based on that quote, here's my attempt to define 'founder mode' in terms of what TFA is suggesting: be an independent thinker. Does it sound like common sense? It probably is. But remember what Charles Munger said:

The so-called common sense is common sense that ordinary people do not have. When we say that someone has common sense, we are actually saying that he has common sense that ordinary people do not have. People think that it is easy to have common sense, but in fact it is very difficult.
More populated cities and shorter distances make EV’s a lot easier. The only only only way they’ll take hold in the US is more networks as reliable as Tesla, integrated navigation in the cars, and fewer stupid charging apps.

Tesla is the only EV I’ve owned with zero range anxiety because it plots the trip - and is correct. My LEAF’s tiny battery and famous guess-o-meter made it a totally unknown when I needed to charge, and then had to figure out in PlugShare or ABRP where to charge with at least one backup nearby because of how unreliable other networks are. Too stressful.

Tesla is the ONLY good network. EVgo costs a fortune - 3x as much as a tesla supercharger near me! And EA is basically always broken.
Cool! This other project of mine (1) is a more finished product and might be better for testing. It's a terminal periodic table with the same display principles as C-edit but should be less buggy. (1) https://github.com/velorek1/terminalperiodictable
The truest XKCD ever: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python_environment_2x.png
I didn't notice but the dedicated machines are indeed "vCPU". But isn't that how all VPS providers do it? How else would they manage/sandbox the machines?
I don't find this compelling at all. There's no substance here. Summary to save you the time: there's a stockpile of plastic for an under-construction plastic processing facility that needs a large stock of plastic to be economical.

Unanswered questions:

1) Is the project on schedule?

2) Is this stockpile unexpected or unmanageable?

3) Is there actually any risk that storage space runs out before the plant becomes operational?

The only remotely substantive part of the article has nothing to do with Airtags and is a shallow, uncited critique of an Exxon technology. It isn't clear if the upcoming Cyclix facility even plans to use this Exxon technology.

> One more issue that many environmental advocates raise is that the advanced recycling technology that Exxon claims to have made for recycling all kinds of plastic isn’t exactly effective.

Who are these environmental advocates you cite? What were their actual words? What does "exactly effective" mean here?

> They would also likely demand a lot of fossil fuels to superheat the recyclables, which adds more greenhouse gas emissions.

Likely? According to who? Based on what information? Texas has abundant renewable energy, where's the evidence that this requires fossil fuels?

This is a trash piece that does not pass the sniff test. It is just shallow, lazy sensationalism that plays to anti-sustainability cynicism. Don't waste your click.
That argument might get SV crowd all riled up, but the bulk of Starbucks employees were and are not WFH. Pretty sure the average Starbucks barista, shop worker, coffee roaster, factory floor worker, delivery driver, etc.. never left “the office”.

So some PMs, SWEs, HR workers, and accounting folks are butt hurt? They can quit and find remote work for another company.
What kind of benefits do you find valuable?
Blocking everything inside of .ru domain in Ukraine is marked all over the text as "sociopolitical resilience".
TBBQF I have no idea what the value proposition of this project is actually supposed to be.

Edit: It seems to have almost 100% feature overlap with graphviz, but it is a paid SaaS? I don't get it...

Edit 2: This has to be a troll post. "Up to 3 graphs" for free --are you kidding me? I can run `dot` a million times in a second for free
Wonderful but almost all startups don't have a cultural icon (and btw he was one way back after Apple got started and obviously when he returned) nor do they have the resources to 'hire great people' and fire anyone and replace them.
It is socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else.
Nvidia GeForce 256 is 25 years old
The current 21700 batteries is something like 250Wh/kg (just shy of Tesla's 270Wh/kg or so) and cost (looking at AliExpress) $125/KWh retail. So a current Chinese car with 50-100KWh has 200-400Kg battery at the cost of $6000-12000 (and if that 100KWh battery with typical sustained 4C (ie. 400KW power), peak 10C, is paired with a 400-600KW electric engine under $15-20K - that is luxury/exotic car territory). Comparing to ICE drivetrain there is only one conclusion - the ICE is inevitably going to be pushed out of the mainstream into a niche player ( even Formula-1 is hybrid already).

The US tariffs will delay that a bit, yet the writing is on the wall - nobody can go against such an economic paradigm shift.
This is really elegant. What a nice solution; single-step and reversible.

It’s also excellent documentation, written by someone who clearly knows their audience. It keeps all operations in GUI-land, which most users consider more safe. It avoids almost all technical explanations.

Folks responding with “Terminal is easier” are missing context. You’re not the audience. The fact that you can come up with seven solutions for this proves that :)
This just sounds like PG overly fixating on “founder” vs “manager” as the distinction, when the actual focus should be on relative skills of delegation vs skills in the business domain.

Whether or not you are a founder, if your strengths tend toward understanding the business domain and implementation, then you probably should lean more hands on. If your strengths lean more towards the management side, then hiring strong people to manage parts of the company.

Of course, which works better is very company and culture dependent. Larger conglomerates that don’t have a focused mission probably shouldn’t have leaders that aren’t geared toward that.
Sure, but there are plenty of roads that don't see much, if any, traffic of that type.