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> This was a good read, and the author makes convincing points.

The meaning of MEDIEVAL is at the heart of this. D&D is Medieval, as it has markedly and prominent medieval world characteristics.

When the game world clashes with what narrative is being presented, they retreat to minutia. When the game world makes no reference, a reasoning is constructed without reference. Topics are repeated - eg no feudalism and no vassals and no kings (which is incorrect and handwaved away as it serves them).

I think it's empty prattle, reeking of being edgy, and seems more than a little strange to show up on HN.
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I'll second this. You will learn a lot about operating at scale at Amazon. You'll learn many of the same things at another FAANG/hyperscale company, mind you, but they've all got their problems.
If an Uber Eats guy brings you food from down the street, they get some amount of money. If they bring you food from across town, they get much more money to cover the extra time they spend driving. In both cases they brought you McDonalds.

That said, I think it's more like if you're expected to work 40 hours per week, and your employer mandates you come into work an hour each way, then you should either be expected to work 32 productive hours -- or you should be compensated for 48 hours. But I guess this has always been the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees.
Are there any good how-tos for how to set up a non-trivial container with s6 and s6-rc? Last time I looked at this the documentation was pretty sparse, and more of a reference and design document than a set of how-tos.
"Yes, it wasn't as affordable in earlier times,"

Thinking in peace and quiet was indeed a luxury in past times.

That doesn't mean there isn't a long tradition of walking if you needed to think. And that was the core point of OP - not that the majority was focused on survival, but that supposedly thinking and walking are a new relationship, previously impossible. And they really aren't. (Even as a subsistence farmer, you occasionally have to think, and doing that during a walk is a pretty common approach)
I have an M1 Air 8GB and a 2018 MBP 16GB. Performance feels about the same until the Air hits swap, then the old Intel MBP still outperforms the M1 Air.
I used to work at Starbucks in their corporate office building in South Downtown Seattle. The building used to be a Sears warehouse ago [1]. The walls next to the elevator in the ground floor still had printed some sort of "Sears customer contract". It had clauses like "you can return the merchandise if you are not satisfied with no questions asked. We will refund you for any shipping charges when returning merchandise". Or "if you cannot find it in our warehouse you can have delivered from our catalog to your home". These slogans reminded me of Amazon and their customer obsession.

Sears could have been Amazon if they kept their customer obsession.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_%26_Company_Mai...

and

https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm4RCM_Sears_Tower_Seatt...
> just as secure

no way, itd be more secure...they wouldnt be able to peek into your spreadsheet
what new api?
It's not really about the money, that's just the mechanism of exchange.

The root of the problem is a growing retired population depending on a shrinking group of workers to provide the goods and services they need.
My summary statement saying "everyone" should be taken into context rather than strawmanned. Fwiw, and also across most of europe in a similar time period: "The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected." [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315
Most annoying problems so far..

1. Screen-recording permission once every week ?

2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated.

2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper.

3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” .

4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working.

5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be need to re tweak those again.

Anything else ? Otherwise all good.
An easy way for "them" to stop that mentality would be to take a pay cut and show solidarity in cutting costs, and yet I don't really see that happening.
Honestly, it seems like the same thing that ended up losing them the iPhone back in the 00s. Even if profits might not have been as high as they might have liked, they absolutely needed this regardless to ensure enough used capacity on their foundry division by a third party and to gain experience in working with a customer like this. It would've also potentially secured further wins down the line with Microsoft or eventually the PS7.

Seems awfully short-sighted of Intel when they can least afford it.
Indeed. Both points make total sense. Though on quitting part I am not sure if numbers would significant enough to meet any internal target.
I think both can be true and that seems to track with what you are saying- modern DMs being expected to do much more and overperform in some areas (theatrics, atmosphere, narrative, game/combat balance, make sure players are having "fun" and are being challenged but not too much so) and at the same time are expected to do much less in others (like knowing/refereeing the rules like the back of their hand, being the final arbitrator and having the final and often only say in a ruling). I've definitely noticed the same. And noticed how in some cases the modern approach has "bled back" so to speak and a group I played 1E both before and after 3E/4E/5E, had a completely different expectation of the older game when we returned to it out of nostalgia.

This next part is also purely anecdotal, but something I've observed in several groups so I think it's interesting to note- playing in groups of mostly pre-3E players, I hardly ever see arguments with the DM break out over rules/rulings, both then and now. But playing 3E/5E, or playing other games with people who primarily play 3E/5E, there are many occasions where the flow of the game is interrupted for quite long arguments between player and DM because a player is not satisfied with some resolution or not being allowed to do/play as something in particular and thinks the DM should do it a different way. It feels like there's a much bigger cultural expectation that the DM is there to entertain and enable the players fantasy and not to be an impartial judge for a world the players are exploring. But like all things I'm sure people can chime in with completely different experiences for all the editions
This is one of those cases where a word can have multiple meanings. And anyway, prejudice based on national origin is, in fact, frowned upon no matter what you call it.
Right, I usually prefer to use the built in console methods with some currying when needed so I might not be the audience. This has worked well enough even for "enterprise" use-cases.

If I may give one suggestion maybe drop the dependency on 'vuepress-plugin-search-pro' (48MB) and maybe 'date-fns' (23MB), that seems like some really large dependencies that might not be required.
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If it needs to be asked, historically the answer has been a resounding Yes.
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And lots of capital.

Not even Elon Musk has enough in AI for example.
multicore sel4 is implemented but still unverified:

https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/sel4/frequently-asked-que...
Because other OSes don't kill OOM apps? Or any app they want? It is only Apple and only possible on mobile? The only thing that apple has, is the inability to have background apps, so that if you want to use third party sync services, like syncthing, you can't and have to stick to apple products, the rest is just like anyone else
Does it mean macOS will periodically ask me again and again that Teams/Zoom/etc need screen recording permissions? As if I didn’t have enough pop-ups and prompts in my life already
Sure, being the top 1% of employees (which I'm assuming L7 principal is) at any company is sure to be great. Very few engineers will ever make that position at a FAANG.
I am curious about what the process would be for setting up a full-stack Clojure/ClojureScript project with Nix using devenv.sh, something similar to the .NET example in the blog post.
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Request body normalization is not really feasible, not without having the normalization function be specified by the request body's MIME type, and MIME types specify no such thing. Besides, normalization of things like JSON is fiendishly tricky, and may not be feasible in the case of many MIME types. IMO this should be removed from the spec.

Instead the server should normalize if it can and wants to, and the resulting URI should be used by the cache. The 3xx approach might work well for this, whereas having the server immediately assign a Content-Location: URI as I propose elsewhere in this thread would not allow for server-side normalization in time for a cache.
> while actually putting in only a few hours worth of work each week.

This is the tax for dysfunctional organization and bad management, it has nothing to do with office presence. Most people who work less than expected don’t work elsewhere and have very different reasons for that. They can continue doing that in the office: if their manager didn’t notice low productivity in remote setting, very likely this won’t happen in the office too.
For long running scripts, I like to finish them With something like `say "wake up lazy bastard`.
My previous employer has a wiki full of procedure containing this kind of easter egg.
(I knew the founders and it made them laugh, so no issue there)
I've always felt there was a certain amount of us-versus-them going on in the office -- though I don't think that's the main reason here.

Right now, I think it's a matter of over-hiring the last couple years. This is both a productivity and loyalty check. Anyone not coming in will either be let go, or recognized as an exception.

As for my opinion of there being a level of us-versus-them, I felt it has manifested in things like dress codes. If you're old enough, you might have worked at some place where you wear a suit. That might seem perfectly normal for higher paid management or sales, but it's just keeping people in line at the lower levels.

I've worked at a number of places where "rank has its privileges". Managers would have larger desks, offices, better computers, etc... Regardless of what was needed to do the job.

I'm certain there is a level of "I have to, so you have to", whether it makes sense or not.
> All this imbecility does is to create competition, and weed out the ones that don't comply.

This ten million times. It's about control, and it's about showing you that the only way to be considered to be doing your job, is if you abandon all dignity, and allow yourself to be treated as a child.

The adults (POs and managerial folk) are making your planning, your regime, you constantly report to them them what you are busy with, you summarize what you learned last week and what you'd be doing today, and you present to them your paintings for evaluation. It's so degrading and humiliating, but that's by design!
One you could probably fry bacon on whilst the battery drains in an hour...
Interesting. The word "racisme" in French has also yet another meaning: the word "race" (identical spelling in French) cannot be used for human beings in French (works for cows and dogs) as "racime" is defined by the belief that there are several human "races" (which is scientifically wrong). The word race as used in English is translated by something like "ethnical group" for example.

However, the comment I originally reacted to would be definitely qualified as being "raciste" by most French speakers (and be illegal in France)
You only need to train one person to drive to realize there's a really huge gulf between the bare minimum you're legally mandated to do when driving and what you should do to make driving less dangerous and less frequently displeasurable.
BetterTouchTool has a window tiler built in, too.
Because of the semantics of QUERY CORS rules should apply as to GETs -- one would think anyways. The Internet-Draft ought to say something about CORS though, that's for sure.
So you feel the person who is doing this competition doesn’t feel like they actually need the money in their lives? Or do you think there might be a power imbalance around financial stability being exploited?
> We got semi-scolded by a senior engineer from a neighboring team because we didn't "seem very busy"

What the hell? Hope you told him off, not his job or his business. Weird.
Nice they let employees work from home 2 days a week.
Because Apple had a patent on overlapping AFAIK.
When you hire managers, some percentage of them won't be solid. And even the best managers have to balance giving someone a chance vs spotting abuse.
I don't even think you pay. The x ones are just local ones put on random organizations. They may pay something for the tedx branding, but I believe organization itself decides who to let speak.
Its interesting to see what an LLM might say here, but ultimately an algorithmic prediction of how a person would answer isn't worth much.

If sources are provided and the sources check out that's one thing, but then it doesn't need to attempt to predict a likely human response to the question.

That said, as you mentioned below the note that 17% of emissions is generally attributed to commuting is relevant if true. A person staying home, requiring more energy both for lighting, HVAC, computers, etc could potentially cancel that out. Or not, and that's really my main point above as its an extremely complex situation to attempt to model and quantify.
Yeah, it's pretty annoying at first, coming from Windows and most desktop Linuxes where those things are out-of-the-box. Then you still have to shim in a package manager (brew etc.), git (xcode CLI just for an old version? sigh), etc. It's even worse trying to get a gaming setup going, between dealing with mouse scrolling and acceleration differences, Rosetta and GPT (game porting toolkit, not the AI stuff), etc.

At the end of the day, I don't think us dev types and power users are the core audience for Apple =/ We're just a niche. But at least once you have it all set up, it mostly keeps working after that.

I just hope they don't lock down macOS like iOS and iPadOS altogether. Presumably they'd always need a machine like that if only to develop for iOS and iPadOS and such... fingers crossed.

It's definitely an "enjoy it while it lasts" mindset for me though, like everything in tech.
> I feel like Big Tech management is simply in revenge mode.

Indeed this is how Cory Doctorow explains it: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/
In these bigger companies it is very time consuming and difficult to fire someone. In some it is nearly impossible for a manager, and they can't replace the headcount until they do.

There's a real tradeoff between employment stability and managerial oversight in companies at scale.
> It makes sense if one considers the angle of how single-key shortcuts are much more disaster-prone.

> ...

> Most Mac shortcuts seem to follow this, with those that are single-key by default doing relatively harmless and easily reversible things.

The enter-to-rename behavior has been in Mac OS since near the beginning, when versions were just named something like "System N.M").

IIRC, I've heard they had very detailed UI design documents back then, that explained their choices (e.g. I've heard they explained the reason for the menu bar being at the top of the screen rather than the top of a window was the cursor will just stop there, requiring less mousing precision).

So if that's the case, there should be documents confirming or denying your speculation.
Thank you, now I finally understand why the difference between "enter" and cmd+O!
It's feels unfair that a single Halloween Oreo cookie is 70 calories. The caloric density of modern and delicious food is absolutely insane.

And so, aside from a rare treat, which mostly leaves me sad (because I only get to eat two), I eat things that aren't ultra-processed 5G seed oil based. And my weight remains controlled despite said 5G vaccines, seed oils, and gut flora disruption.

Ozympic seems like a net good if it helps people control their weight. It just always seems preposterous when people blame "ultra-processed food" as the root problem, rather than the over consumption of said food as the problem.
That's totally fair and nothing wrong with that. It could turn out that centralizing workers in an office actually has a lower carbon footprint (if that's the primary goal).

Being flippant is most helpful when the details may be wrong but the direction is definitely right.
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Not if they can just force enough people to RTO and the ones who won't leave. If we don't organize against this, and negotiate as individuals with our individual managers, we can only sit back and observe this happen to us and our peers.
Hopefully it’s a win-win for most. If you are happy with RTO, rubbing-shoulders with peers, you should be happy. If you are a startup looking for bright engineers, quite a few will be in the job market shortly. Good way to distribute talent imo
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I don't know what you think "management" does, but it's not just being a panopticon on making sure every individual employee is performing to their expectations.

In the same environment that is affecting SDEs right now, managers are more and more being asked to do more individual contributor actions, while increasing their span of control.

They have their own work to do, primarily in how they report progress and vision UPWARDS. Most IC's don't realize but depending on their skip level, managing "upwards" may be requiring more than half of a manager's time.

So sure, they know if the overall team work gets done. And they absolutely know their top and bottom performers. But in the middle? Lots of room for variability. Is someone good even if they're not coding becaue they seem to be unblocking others? Is someone good if they're not talking to anyone but cranking out tons of code? This is where most performance management time ends up going to.

And in no point in today's culture, does it account for the possibility of catching people that are moonlighting or coasting.
Ah, you're right - for some reason I was thinking of the pre-SLU one that just had some CloudKit team(s) downtown. Completely forgot they have the SLU one now.
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I feel sort of the same way but I'm desperate to understand what I'm missing. So many people sing such high praises. Billions are being invested. People are proclaiming the end of software developers. What I'm looking at can't be the product they are talking about.

I'm perfectly happy reading man pages personally. Half the fun of programming to me is mastering the API to get something out of it nobody expected was in there. To study the documentation (or implementation) to identify every little side effect. The details are most of the fun to me.

I don't really intend to use the AI for myself, but I do really wish to see what they see.
Screen recording breaks remote access apps
Debunked by EEV Blog and Thunderfoot, et al.
> The secret purpose of Scrum is to get rid of managers and empower the engineering team.

Then Scrum spectacularly fails in its secret purpose, because it adds managerial type to the engineering team and removes power from the engineers.
maybe part of it, certainly many reasons for this decision.

more likely, it's a constructive layoff and they want to justify real estate cap-ex
There was a leaked memo showing that Amazon itself is aware of this risk to their business:

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...
I can’t tell if this applies to AWS as well but companies that have gone on all in on cloud hosted infrastructure should probably come up with an exit strategy pretty quickly given Amazon’s general flailing.

You really don’t want your important systems being underpinned services run either by disgruntled employees about to quit or by the bottom of the barrel types who have no choice but to stay even when treated like this.
I think that's the case. It's doing it for Shottr(screenshots app) and Ice(toolbar management app), the two apps I regularly use and require that permission.
That's the Russian Woodpecker. It would wreak havoc on the HF bands.
They have these big dinner-style machines that you can use to brew a large batch of coffee and then put it in large thermos, but honestly the taste is pretty bad (but it is free!) and it requires you to babysit the process.

We also have free tea and hot cocoa.

In most places employees will also bring a Nespresso machine so you can bring your own pods which is somewhat better.

Writing all that I feel like it will come off as extremely entitled. I just want to stress that I personally don't mind much, but having worked for other tech companies, it's definitely at the bottom in terms of "free stuff".
Apple locking down the OS even more by making Gatekeeper harder to bypass makes me want to skip this version for as long as possible.

The screen recording permission thing also doesn't help since I'm using Ice (https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice) because somehow Apple still can't Sherlock this feature.
Is productivity down? It seems like it's just growing slower than pre global financial crisis.
At least in Sonoma, Screen Time requests crash Messages, fail to work properly on iPadOS, but work fine on iPhone. Now I can approve requests without having to dig my phone out my pocket. A small convenience, but I can’t expect them to fix Screen Time on macOS any time soon.
Market competition will decide which school of thought is right. IMHO, technology companies with stockholders will eventually have to explain why they spend so much money renting huge-ass random buildings for no good reason, and why their asses are being kicked by other companies that don't encumber themselves similarly.
Generally other DSLs are other applications you will need with bash to accomplish your goal like grep, curl, jq and others. For example, to hit a rest API, parse the response and then do something based on the response in bash would require curl, jq to properly handle it. Powershell wouldn't require that since Invoke-RestMethod would return dictionary that easily handled. Also, for applications that can return JSON like kubectl, it can easily turn those into objects with ConvertFrom-JSON

Think of Powershell as replacement for bash AND python with built in CLI library. You can run interactively to do little stuff but if you need heavier lifts that requires a script with prompts and all that, you got it.
I guess I'll follow suit and go back to on-premises.
BetterTouchTool used to be a mandatory install for every Mac for me. Unfortunately, at some point it started putting all my screens to sleep a few times a day. I have no idea why, and it persisted across multiple devices. I switched to Magnet once I narrowed the issue to BetterTouchTool.
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Thanks for this! By the way, does anyone know anyone of the icon designers of Windows 3, 3.1? I would be very happy to meet them or know more about them. For some reason I'm still fascinated with those icons even after all those years.
And it requires pairing and the same Apple account