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CoffeeOnWrite··on The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins
Record of relevance is important for validating oneself, but not the same as the quick discrete feedback the article describes for engineers. Your first two examples the feedback loop is very long. Recruiting a great connection is a great example of an endorphin hit for managers though!
CoffeeOnWrite··on The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins
Managers get endorphins on some special occasions: Closing a star candidate, getting a high-level promotion approved for an engineer, smoothly managing someone out, observing a brand new team make their first significant delivery.. what other circumstances?
CoffeeOnWrite··on Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
fluentd today is a popular (most popular?) log collector in k8s land.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Autonomous vehicles are great at driving straight
Off topic, but when you’re waiting for a gap to make your turn into your driveway, do you pull the left edge of your lane to allow people behind you to pass on your right? (I observe people that don’t do this, they dwell in the middle and often even the right side of their lane, and I’m wondering if they are just oblivious to traffic building up behind them, or there’s a safety reason to block people from passing on the right or other safety reason to stay to the right of their lane..)
CoffeeOnWrite··on Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
Erm human population is pretty far from uniform, and is a certain population threshold is a pre-requisite for building one of these sites.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
Did the delta show up on the strobe? Or is issue that the quartz is off and it’s feeding both the motor and the strobe? (Sorry if this is a dumb question. I don’t recall seeing speed calibration in the mk2 manual when I was setting up my secondhand decks)
CoffeeOnWrite··on Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
On a quartz deck like the 1200 mk2, the strobe is also quartz right, not mains? (Otherwise the strobe would be far less accurate than the motor..)
CoffeeOnWrite··on Blog posts, sorted by sleep
Sigh, missed opportunity to use sleep sort to do the ordering. https://web.archive.org/web/20151231221001/http://bl0ckeduse...
CoffeeOnWrite··on Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)
Before ngrok we set it up in 15 minutes by configuring ssh and nginx a la https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/4586758
CoffeeOnWrite··on More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages
+1. They also will write new prescription for low-risk things. And you don't necessarily need video, they do it over messages and just ask for photos of symptoms, in some cases.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Plastic bag bans work
Yikes. I occasionally forget bags, and appreciate that we can get paper bags here for 20-25 cents. I also reuse those paper bags once or twice, and then use them for collecting compost on my countertop, and then throw the whole bag in the big city compost bin. This system means I don't need to clean or line a proper countertop compost container.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Plastic bag bans work
I live in CA where we have a ban on single-use plastic bags. We still have single-use paper bags. So your footprint would be the same here, not higher.
CoffeeOnWrite··on The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
I also use a moka only when camping (French press and espresso machine at home).

Why it’s great for camping: 1. Indestructible 2. Cheaply found at a garage sale (no worries if it gets lost in a pile of camping gear) 3. Takes up less volume than a French press 4. When camping, everything tastes better. Even “ok” coffee is a luxury

All this to say: a $500 device is a tough sell for camping

CoffeeOnWrite··on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
For what it’s worth, I lived 50 yards from an at-grade freight track in the city, where from 10pm-7am the trains did not blow their horns, relying on the crossing protective lights and gates only, and that worked for me. Charming train horns during the day (yes they occasionally interrupted me when speaking during video meetings, but it was quaint and no big deal), peace and quiet at night. Great neighborhood, quite desirable, and I would be happy to live there again in the future.

Not sure the safety track record, but if it’s favorable, perhaps this kind of program could be expanded.

https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-office...

CoffeeOnWrite··on The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun
Great book. If you like fiction, also check out The Monkey Wrench Gang.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
Yes, let’s free the incarcerated, absolutely!

In my opinion, drug testing should only required for certain roles (like driving or operating machinery). And it should only look for active intoxication.

CoffeeOnWrite··on Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
In my opinion, it should depend on their role. And only look for active intoxication.

(Separately, regarding business and political leaders in particular) I’m not in favor of the “blackmail vulnerability” arguments in this discussion. Substance use should not be stigmatized.

CoffeeOnWrite··on Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
Exactly! It’s the same distraction as the noise about Hunter’s substance use. I do not care about either.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
I would look at the behaviors and decisions made by the CEOs of Boeing and Raytheon. If they meet my expectations I would excuse the substance use.

If it’s a problem, it’s a minor problem, not justifying the attention. Elon has a lot of major problems that this distracts from, and creates the suspicion of a media bias against him, which is harmful.

CoffeeOnWrite··on Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
Yea, I’m a downright Elon-hater. I could not care less if business leaders use drugs responsibly. This is the wrong tree to bark up, an utter distraction when Elon’s actual meaningful behaviors and decisions are so objectionable.
CoffeeOnWrite··on With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People
Also, it mentions no precedent, when REI started #optoutside in 2015 (and received a lot of positive PR). Now I wonder who did this before REI?

Even when Patagonia is closed, their items are being sold by other retailers, so it seems like a way smaller sacrifice than REI closing on Black Friday when it will lose sales to competitors. Patagonia's thirst for PR annoys me and detracts from their credibility (some of their products are pretty good though..).

CoffeeOnWrite··on Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database
What is notable about this submission?
CoffeeOnWrite··on Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database
Would you share a reply that is more helpful than this “technically correct” reply? IE what is this “database” useful for? Why is it noteworthy? I’m genuinely curious.
CoffeeOnWrite··on Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database
This, uh, isn’t a database? I clicked through to the GitHub and see only a hard coded html file with the small handful of Tesco comparisons, and a single screenshot. Where is the database? What am I missing? Why is this interesting?
CoffeeOnWrite··on In the long run, we're all Dad
I am not familiar with the author, and read it as genuine, examples where they exhibit humorous self-awareness and humility:

"If your brains are still too small to process such esoteric terms"

"It’s a crazy thing to try, when even your own local predictions are so far from perfect accuracy."

"I cannot quite remember why I thought this would be a good idea. I blame the pronatalist influencer conspiracy."

CoffeeOnWrite··on In the long run, we're all Dad
That's a half-joke, for what it's worth.
CoffeeOnWrite··on In the long run, we're all Dad
There's a segment on HN that comes out of the woodwork to poo poo artful writing. Parent commenter was not going to appreciate this article. I'd say it's a testament to the author's writing ability that they were able to pull parent commenter in a couple hundred words before they recognized it was "balderdash"!
CoffeeOnWrite··on A decade of Have I Been Pwned
Well said. I should have said “you don’t have to use the API if you don’t want to” instead of “don’t use this”.
CoffeeOnWrite··on A decade of Have I Been Pwned
Have you ever operated an online business? Poor password choice is practically harmful to business. Marginal reduction of entropy by blocking breached passwords, what's the practical harm from that?

1234websitename is objectively better than 1234.

I'll go with NIST on this one (yes, and have a minimum length too):

> When processing requests to establish and change memorized secrets, verifiers SHALL compare the prospective secrets against a list that contains values known to be commonly-used, expected, or compromised... If the chosen secret is found in the list, the CSP or verifier SHALL advise the subscriber that they need to select a different secret, SHALL provide the reason for rejection, and SHALL require the subscriber to choose a different value.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecret

CoffeeOnWrite··on A decade of Have I Been Pwned
We’re evaluating different options in this thread. The right move is based on the circumstances and your judgement. I would support a new leader with the courage to close a security hole, maybe respect them even if I don’t love them.

By the way, I don’t feel paranoid to flag bad passwords on login (perhaps triggering an email OTP and forcing a password reset), personally. I responded to this thread because a commenter made an unfounded implication about using HIBP data to reduce vulnerability to credential stuffing.

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