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I would really appreciate it if my clock actually ticked at one second per second.

In fact, I shouldn't even have to question that.

Yep, my car (a Mazda) has that feature as well. Of course, this is the same car that has physical buttons that were specifically designed to be recognizable via feel so that you can use them without looking at them. It seems like Mazda actually cares about UX!

> this one is prevalent in Asian women who have never smoked.

Does that mean the rate is lower for Asian women who do smoke?

According to my Amazon order history, I've bought 4 copies of The Cuckoo's Egg. One was for me, and I gave the other 3 away to friends/family.

I'm genuinely considering buying another 10 copies so that I have a bunch on hand to give away to anyone who I think would benefit.

Thanks for writing such a great book :)

Go read Lockhart's Lament. Maybe you actually do like math, but school is just terrible at teaching it.

That's why I use ed, the standard text editor

Do you normally solve interpersonal conflicts in your life with physical violence?

If the answer is no: why do you think it's appropriate to do so when dealing with children?

(If the answer is yes, then consider anger management classes, I guess)

Not installed by default on BSDs. Sometimes not installed in minimal environments, e.g. where BusyBox is all you have available. Maybe not installed by default on Unixes? Not sure

Yep, negation does work. Do -site: rather than site:

> I miss the days of "site:", "intitle:", etc.

Those still work, don't they? I use site: all the time.

> Tesla Engineering has their shit together

The pictures I've seen of panel gaps on their cars say otherwise

I agree with the sibling comment; I think Chrome's solution is terrible. If you have a lot of tabs open from the same website (i.e. with the same favicon), then finding the right tab becomes really tedious. And, even if all the favicons are different, I don't necessarily remember which favicon corresponds to which page.

I can't really compare this with Firefox's native solution though, because I use Sidebery (and I used tree-style tabs before that).

> If we didn't have banking regulations, bankers would run off with your money

> What does the crypto have to do with it?

The fact that crypto doesn't have those regulations.

UBI is a bandaid on top of capitalism. It is saying "we have a system where people die if they don't have money, so we'll give people money." It's not a real fix. A real fix would be replacing the system with one where people don't need money in order to not die.

We're going to keep automating more and more things. I think that much is inevitable. Eventually, we may get to a point where very few jobs are necessary for society to function. This should be a good thing, because it would mean fewer people would have to work and could therefore pursue things that actually interest them, but it would be a catastrophe under the current system.

My understanding is that a large number of Unity installs are mobile games, and a lot of those are free to play with microtransactions. So we're not talking $30 earned per user. We're not even talking $1 earned per user. We're talking, in some cases, less than $0.01 earned per user (on average), since some users have paid nothing to play the game.

There's also the fact that Unity charging "per install" also includes things like game demos (which are free), or games given to subscribers of things like PlayStation Plus, where the creator is paid a fixed amount upfront based on an estimate of how many people will download the game--but, if more people download the game than originally estimated, then you could end up losing money thanks to Unity.

Because some people would rather be good engineers than be rich.

I feel like an RSS feed would be more appropriate

Cisco has also had problems with caste discrimination in the recent past.

While I need to brush up on my Shakespeare, I do recognize that name from Skyrim

Having "type MyType int" and defining a bunch of constants isn't a great replacement for enums. Yeah, it "works," but it still lets the developer forget to check for a possible variant, or you could have an underlying int that doesn't correspond to a valid variant.

The addition of enums would move all these runtime checks to compile time.

You aren't born in peak condition.

I don't understand the point of this post. As far as I can tell, it's just a listing of about 30 random ports and their services (which are all unrelated to each other).

Maybe I'm missing something, but I think a trip to https://www.speedguide.net/ports.php or your /etc/services file would be more useful.

Sidney Dekker mentions this in "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error.'"

Always remember: people generally show up to work with the intention of doing a good job. If someone causes an accident by doing something that is "obviously" unsafe in hindsight, step back and ask yourself why the person thought their "obviously unsafe" action was reasonable in the moment.

> Rust is not a problem solver; it is going to fight you all the way through because of its emphasis on programmatic correctness. With Rust, you have to have the solution first, consider the language-specific caveats, and write something in such a way that you don't go back and have to improve it.

You just described my reasons for switching from Rust to Go better than I ever have.

Yeah, I really felt like this article had a lot of words and yet didn't actually convey much useful information—nor did it convey any information that hasn't been written about at length elsewhere.

I also found this sentence to be confusing:

> If you only have time to invest in learning one language well, don’t make your final decision until you’ve used both Go and Rust for a variety of different kinds of programs, large and small.

So, if I only have the time to learn one language, I should...use two languages? For multiple projects? But somehow without learning them, because I don't have time?

> I understand that [Headscale] is (unofficially?) supported by Tailscale these days

I'm not sure if it clears the bar of official, but it seems to be not-unofficial. They were planning on open-sourcing a coordination server once they cleaned the code up, but then decided that there was no point in doing so due to Headscale. On top of that, one of the primary maintainers of Headscale works at Tailscale now.

Source: https://tailscale.com/blog/opensource/

> I advise leaving a place that requires your manager to dictate which tickets you work on

As someone who recently left a place like that: I agree. I'm a highly-paid professional; it was really frustrating to feel like my manager didn't trust me enough to figure out what I needed to work on.

The author says "I had never looked at this code, but was told to take a look," so I assume they weren't doing this behind their manager's back.

Are you implying that it's impossible for a company to be both profitable and have a good internal culture?

That's a scary thought.

> Musk says it was because he was too insistent that the new company should be called X rather than PayPal, but everyone else says that it was because Musk was incompetent

I feel like one of those is an example of the other :)