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> and it's too much of a pain to have one browser for development and one for browsing.

Why? I am surprised as I use 3 browsers for different contexts:
- ungoogled chromium for everything behind my company's SSO
- firefox with an AWS theme with containers setup for each AWS account under another firefox account.
- librewolf for everything else with containers syncronized under a personal firefox account

I could probably run everything under the same firefox or librewolf browser and different profiles but that way I didn't even had to setup separate launchers for the profiles. I also like that they are all visually different so I can spot them easily when switching windows.
I am browsing from Europe and I don't get why I need to allow necessary cookies just to see the homepage.
While I do agree it has a very strong focus on suggesting more of what you've recently watched, I feel it's also managing to suggest new and interesting unrelated stuff from time to time.

Some habits I have is to subscribe to channels which I truly enjoy, instead of marking as "not interested" I select "do not suggest channel", and be cautious of click-bait titles. If I get lured in, I remove them from my history.

So for me it's mostly great, though I get your frustration as well. For example I recently watched a couple of informative videos on the LA fires as I have some relatives living in the area, and suddenly my feed is tons of that and little else.
> in cybernetic terms, a long lag time in production is deadly.

Does "long lag time" or "deadly" mean something else in cybernetic terms than in regular terms? I found the "in cybernetics terms" insert quite puzzling.
Yeah … instead of fighting to stay mid-level it’s probably better to just skill up as best as possible.

Even without AI the competition from fellow job applicants, overseas talent, etc., would mean we all have to get more productive and more skilled.

But I’m looking to get off the rat race / wheel of futility and looking at things like consulting to augment and maybe replace my job. The autonomy and the flexibility and being my own boss so to speak is what I envy.
For a while I ran Open Solaris with ZFS as root filesystem.

The key feature for me, which I miss, is the snapshotting integrated into the package manager.

ZFS allows snapshots more or less for free (due to copy on weite) including cron based snapshotting every 15 minutes. So if I did a mistake anywhere there was a way to recover.

And that integrated with the update manager and boot manager means that on an update a snapshot is created and during boot one can switch between states. Never had a broken update, but gave a good feeling.

On my home server I like the raid features and on Solaris it was nicely integrated with NFS etc so that one can easily create volumes and export them and set restrictions (max size etc.) on it.
Maybe, but the basics of text editing are quite obvious. There are large buttons that are easily recognisable, and you'll quickly realise that a buffer is something like an open file.

Sure, that might be the case. I'm not as sure it is good just because it might be the case.
Yes. There's also no world where you don't take up miniscule amounts of toxic, naturally occuring chemicals.
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Well, the galactic regulations have been publicly available for some time now. We can't help that you didn't find them in the cellar in a cabinet drawer found in the lavatory behind the sign that reads "beware of the leopard"
Cheers, best of luck! And it's cool enough that you made something and put it out in the world to be used by people. As long as you keep iterating and seeking out feedback you'll find your niche.
Yes, borrowing some stuff from functional languages (like the ability to shadow variables) gave Rust a good boost in ergonomics.
> will be

It's a big if. I personally don't believe starship will ever get as far as carrying humans.
> What of the people whose jobs aren't WFH compatible? "They get what they get?"

What's your proposal here? Should I be forced into the office because it increases the chances I'll buy coffee instead of making it at home?

Macro economic changes are always painful. This is a gross simplification, but cities exist because of an economic network effect based on proximity. Network effects tend to be somewhat stable because they tend to change slowly, but they do change.
Nope, just an analytical chemist who's worked in 3rd party testing labs.
Disagree.

If you post a job then reneg on it that still leaves folks out in the cold who are, in earnest, looking for work. Mistakes happen, and I don't blame hiring managers for the shifting financial landscapes they often have to face. But that job wasn't solid enough to count as a real position.

Lump them together.
I know this is contrarian, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable installing many of the browser extensions offered on Firefox given that they can still be manifest v2.

After building a fairly involved browser extension this last year, I’ve become way more paranoid knowing just how insecure browser extensions can be; especially manifest v2 extensions. It’s not just about ad blockers unfortunately.
Yes, you are right, but I was thinking of the ease of having a high-availability setup and pgbouncer was the first thing that came to mind.

And yes, I read the documentation and it is still cumbersome to have an HA setup that is easy to maintain. This is what I mean and hope it is clearer now.
Someone I know uses them for weight control. Their nutritionist recommended one small glass per day to help control hunger.

But geeze these protein shake/dietary websites are the most dark pattern sites. countdown clocks, hurry only 3 items left and one disappears while you are looking at it, sneaky monthly addons, extra fee at the end. Look I just want to buy a bucket of whatever protein garbage you are selling that will last 2 months. That they have extra junk in them that should not be there, is unsurprising.
I could easily watch a 6yo and do my job at the same time.

I have a pretty chill WFH tech job at the staff level, and a pretty easygoing child, and this sounds like the kind of thing no one who has been a parent would say. My daughter was six during the pandemic when she and her mother and I were all stuck at home, the two of us trying to split our time between watching her and working our jobs, and it was hell.
Yes, the 21st century is the age of simulacra and simulation. Post-truth society.
The part I don’t get is that 6 months later I get responses to applications. I’ve talked to recruiters and the picture they paint is hundreds or thousands of resumes in the inbox. They keep shuffling their search criteria and sometimes someone interesting pops out.

That doesn’t entirely make sense to me, but something is clearly quite broken, and it seems to be as much due to incompetence as fraud
With the Kagi search engine is a way in the settings to bulk-upload lists of domains to block (or upvote) them. Has anyone uploaded a list like this to it?

I may do that.
There is no reason I, a user, will intentionally use your product when you fill it with ads that are, at best annoying, and at worst malware vectors.

You have your right to develop things your way, I have a right to say no thank you. Google, though, is so big it is basically saying "you don't have a choice." That's the problem and one that Google spends billions to enforce. They use the weight of the uninformed to apply pressure to the rest of us.

It was no better when Microsoft did it with IE, nor is it any way proper, now.
I think this would block you from visiting the websites, but they'd still show up on search results. uBlacklist doesn't block them, but rather just hides them for search engines which IMO is a better approach.
It isn't legal for individual university spots either.

What a university can do, or any form of corporation in the USA can do, is to announce goals to have its body be made up in roughly the same was as the general population, according to some demographic metrics.

So you can't say "student #68 must be female"; you can say "we are aiming for a 50/50 male/female student body" and then take steps to get there.
Congrats on the launch! Is deploying to Kubernetes targets and managing deployment to multiple colo providers on your roadmap? Understandable if not, but curious if it has been considered.
This is a question I keep asking myself. My in-laws live in until May and they give free reins of social media time to my 4-years old so I keep pulling him off. And we tightly control what he watches on TV (only downloaded videos, no YT, no network actually).

So far it's OK. But I don't know what happens when he goes into primary school and his friends start using social media because some parents just don't care. I honestly have no idea. I'll probably ask him to text using a dumb phone instead.

Worst case I'll keep a secret smart phone just for baking/maps but use a dumb phone for daily drive. Probably best for me anyway.

Social media is a nuclear blast for any mind who is not strong enough and doesn't have any hobbies. My father-in-law literally live in Tiktok and Red note. He is watching it when he goes to bed, when he is taking a dump, when he is exercising... it's just part of the body I guess. So much brain rot.
Thanks for proving my point. This exact benefit of the doubt is not given to the other guy.
That is more of a confirmation of what everyone knows, many CEOs have no clue what SWE is.

It will take some time but it will die, just as visual programming, total quality management etc...

Anyone who thinks that code generation is the primary issue has no real understanding of the core problems.
UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers
No, it does not.

>plants actually take up very little lead in their stems and leaves, and are safe to eat

They might have, for instance, lead on the level of 1 ppm, which poses no significant harm to your health.
> Europe didn't start any war after WWII.

This is false. We bombed Sarajevo, Libya, participated in the invasion of Iraq and so on.

> thanks to the EU that Putin hates so much

If we look again at facts, the only ones who seem to hate Europe are the USA, Ukraine, and the EU commission.

Who destroyed North Stream and is now trying to destroy the other routes for gas from Russia to Europe?

Who's pushing for Europe to buy USA gas at 4x the Russian gas cost?

Who's trying at all costs to escalate this war, spreading allarmism and calling for wild increases in military spending?

Before the Ukraine war started, Russia actually helped us, as most of our industry was backed by the availability of cheap Russian gas. If nothing, we were increasingly independent of the USA. That mutual benefit relationship has now been severed, but to whose advantage? As a EU citizen I only see our quality of life decrease the more we "help" Ukraine.
The companies that take such a zero-sum outlook will be devoured in the long run.

I think that companies that view AI as empowering workers to produce more, will blow past the ones dominated by bean counters and MBAs looking to optimize their quarterly earnings reports.
No, as there isn't a non-free driver alternative to compare V3D to. For VC4 (Pi 1-3) there was a proprietary alternative driver... but it was a bit garbage.

It feels you may be conflating the "proprietary firmware blob on the GPU which is used to boot the Pi" story with the GPU driver itself.
NPM packages are the most bloated and unreadable pieces of code I've encountered. The creator of Node apparently hates all software and yet Google gave him the captain's hat and we're left with the absolute crap shoot that is web development. I feel guilty with an additional 1KB of code or 500 bytes of RAM but this is seen as an outsider opinion. I hope big tech rots and this is just a symptom.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055154
It's been repeatedly shown that the best alternative source of income is selling to people looking for alternative sources of income.
I agree that this is a "management problem" in the sense that if you want to support Firefox, you should allocate resources for testing on Firefox.

But also - it's not high up the priority list given Firefox's marketshare. In most cases, you'll get the support by default, but I don't really see many US managers being tasked with allocating resources to support UC browser, or Opera, and those are both in the same space marketshare-wise.

My management is actively discussing EOLing several Firefox products because we have basically no real paying customers on them, and Mozilla is unpleasant to deal with in the extension space (genuinely - https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-lite-maker-ends-fi...)
Sieve of Erastothenes is often introduced alongside prime numbers in elementary school math class and it has a funny/memorable name - it's not that weird for someone to know it. It is weird to lie about having a practical use case for it since running it to the point of a cryptographically useful prime length is infeasible and it requires O(n) memory.

It seems vanishingly unlikely that this type of question can provide any signal any more outside an in person interview. The incentives are just too strong for candidates and the tools are too good.
What advantage would that have over what my bank currently offers to kids? How does it address "I don't think he's yet able to keep track of a bank card, much less a smartphone from a company I don't trust."?

How will I, as a parent without a smartphone, manage my kids' account?

FWIW, I live two floors above the main branch in the city for my bank.

I have deep distrust of anything like frequent flier miles and store memberships as I know they are bribing me with my own money and/or building up a persona to try and sell me more, so seeing "RevPoints" marketing on their home page triggers alarm bells in my head. It means they are building on a system which is already extracting too much money from customers, so we need stronger regulations limiting the excess overhead.
> Living standards increased after the Plague wiped out a huge chunk of the population.

That's not the argument people want to hear.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681976
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Published 1h ago and already on HN. Not surprised, Matthias Wandel is always worth a watch!
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I think what you describe is what infecto was saying. You can't use YouTube to find interesting content anymore. You can only use it to find more of what you've already seen. In the past, it was better at unearthing new things.

Personally, I added uBlock filters so the home page is empty and recommended videos aren't shown. I only ever go to subscriptions now.
Trying to protect your job against AI - if it ever becomes good enough - and the efficiency gains that will hypothetically come from it, is like protecting your job against IDEs.
I watched this cool video recently on dragonfly movement. Dragonflies Hunt by Predicting the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i9WMD6xbuA
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As someone who hates the auto-recommendation system on YouTube and turns it off, I also appreciate this is sometimes the safest/easiest way to watch only the videos I actually intend to watch.

This seems intentionally YouTube's UX design fault, they too heavily try to push you to "auto-play". YouTube has a "Watchlist" feature where you can build a playlist. When it works it is exactly what I want, but it feels like every so many months it mysteriously breaks for a while or they hide the button for it behind some new hidden gesture or menu they expect you psychic out of their UI. (If you've never heard of "Watchlist", no wonder. It seems intentionally hard to discover.) Lately I've been complaining that YouTube adds random "auto-play" videos even to a manually curated "Watchlist" if you don't pay enough attention or watch past the end of the list (even with auto-play and recommendations entirely off).
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What are the errors? I tried to show exactly what you talk about.

edit: ok, I didn't consider the exact locations of the parity, I was only concerned with space usage.

The 8 data blocks need three stripes on a 3+2 RAID-Z2 setup both pre and post expansion, the last being a partial stripe, but when written in the 4+2 setup only needs 2 full stripes, leading to more total free space.
Thanks! No, I dont think this is a direction we want to go in. For now we are focused on simpler usecases :)
This is a great use of LLMs.
If you're saying that a bunch of CEOs are jumping on the newest bandwagon in an attempt to get a free lunch (revenue coming in without all those bothersome paychecks going out), then yes, I would agree. Check this space in two years though.
If you get an interview you are already on a short list. The process I usually see is 100's of applications -> screening by recruiter and hiring manager -> phone screen 10-20 -> coding challenge 3-7 -> onsite 2-3 -> hire 1.
Actually it's fine - they go bankrupt. Look at the list of companies that make it through time, it's very short.

Being selfish is common in human nature.
Keep in mind every book on this list is 1 of 3 high-value votes for best of the year.

This isn't a popularity contest, but rather a way place to dig deep into the books people loved above all others.
Of course, I know nothing about your particular situation, but one strategy is to simplify life as much as you can. This could be lowering living costs by moving and getting rid of expensive habits. Lower overhead can be huge factor in reducing distraction and stress. Other strategies are reducing the number of activities, avoid using phones and other distractions during work periods, avoid social media and political discussion and encourage focus on your goals, setting boundaries with family and friends, saying “no” more often to requests, avoiding triggers that distract you or cause stress, create a dedicated and quiet workspace with few distractions, and generally focus on fewer goals at a time.
I write a lot of shell and my advice is don't use plain POSIX shell. Write bash.

It is 2025. bash is present almost everywhere. If, by chance, your script is run somewhere that doesn't have bash then guess what?

Your POSIX script probably won't work anyway. It will be a different system, with different utilities and conventions.

Line count is not a good reason to choose or avoid bash. Bash is quite reliably the lowest common denominator.

I dare say it is even the best choice when your goal is accomplished by just running a bunch of commands.

All that said, bash is gross. I wish we had something as pervasive that wasn't so yucky.
There are countries which can still offer this, but Americans recoil in horror when they convert the salaries back into USD. Even if they would technically be better off.
That’s better than I would have guessed frankly. Internet is making it sound like 4 out of 5
I would like to see this turned into a blog post. Could even be a series.
I get Kagi since you pay for it, but doesn't using a logged in account with DDG defeat the purpose of using DDG? How does having a search history associated with your DDG account improve things? You're just moving who knows your search history from one org to another
They may actually be implementing something on the server side to degrade the performance of connections because they have me flagged as a ublock user.
I'm on book 5 of 7 on Dungeon Crawler Carl, one of the best and most hilarious sci-fi books I've read in years :)
Our kids? Hell, my wife and I don't use social media, except in very limited doses for work reasons. Our kids have zero access to it and never will. Their device usage is kept at a minimum and used for mostly educational or quality conversational purposes.

I hate how many people now, whenever we're around them everyone has their phones out scrolling through 30 sec videos. They want to show you things which aren't funny, aren't entertaining, aren't informative... it's damn near Idiocracy levels of content consumption.

[Insert video of someone badly dancing with caption that says "me."]

Personally, I find it bizarre and extremely boring.
If they're too far up to fire, maybe round up everybody who matters and explain to the shareholders that you're all going to quit and form a competing company unless they choose new leadership.

If they don't comply, make good on your threat.
He's not "just saying random stuff", he was a very serious thinker. Unlike Derrida he wasn't much of a joker.

Perhaps language is fundamentally metaphorical, and perhaps reality is actually abstract.
Worth noting that the exact same applies for environment friendliness, sustainability, pride month, etc.
> Language is a tool for communication, a phrase that will be misunderstood is worse than useless.

Sure.

> Where a particular usage makes a distinction that is important to convey then it may be worth preserving, but when a historical quirk merely adds confusion and inconsistency, the disappearance and ironing out of that quirk is to be celebrated.

It's not a historical quirk, it's the valid and modern usage.

> The last research I saw claimed otherwise.

Then it was clearly insufficient. How deep a dive did you do? What motivated you to do so?

Your entire reasoning here reads like you were corrected and resisted and invented a justification so you could keep using the phrase you are comfortable using the way you are comfortable using it.

> to the best of my good-faith knowledge the older usage

You keep coating your replies with this, but it's not older or historical, just correct.

> (certainly not "correct" given that most listeners/readers will understand it to mean something different)

No, it is absolutely the correct usage.

By your reasoning we should all start using 'irregardless' as well.

> is not active at least in general writing

Yes, it is, and often articles that use it correctly will call out incorrect usage.

> Certainly it's a minority use.

Maybe, but your usage is plain incorrect and is as bad as using irregardless.
It also lets the liar try to trap rebuttals with gotchas. In this case, “so you’re saying there aren’t a higher percentage of black people in prison? A-ha! Facts, not feelings!”, or something stupid like that. Then you have to waste time with that, to which they’ll reply, “so you admit they’re more likely, a-ha!”

I’ve found it more effective to just say “you’re wrong” and move on. The end result of the argument is the same, and it gets them all riled up, which is generally what they’d hoped to inflict on others.
Well actually, "reversible driving" is perfectly apt in the sense of acceleration being a reversible process. It means that in theory the net energy needed to drive anywhere is zero because all the energy spent on acceleration is gained back on braking. Yes I know in practice there's always friction loss, but the point is there isn't a theoretical minimum amount of friction that has to be there. In principle a car with reversible driving can get anywhere with asymptotically close to zero energy spent.

Put another way, there is no way around the fact that a "non-reversible car" has to have friction loss because the brakes work on friction. But there is no theoretical limit to how far you can reduce friction in reversible driving.
excessive rent seeking

What is excessive rent seeking? Isn't rent based on supply and demand?