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Notanothertoo··on We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt
This reads like it's in a vacume and assumes the business requirements were comunicated, they were clear, and and static. None of which is reality. Additionally things get updadated and need con rant maintenance. Gone are the days of writing code and letting it run untouched for years.

Tech debt usually occurs when the people implementing it aren't aligned with the with the stakeholders.

Notanothertoo··on We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt
There are two types of tech debt in my experience, things get out of date because they weren't maintained and it's harder to do now years later than absorbing some of that work a little at a time throughout the years. And the other kind is because of poorly written code which is often caused by poor business practices and changing requirements.
Notanothertoo··on Swisscom to discontinue MMS service
Signal
Notanothertoo··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
None of the current markets are sustainable
Notanothertoo··on Please make a dumb car
I've never paid anywhere close to that. Virtually no parking expenses, and I've had 3 reliable vehicles all have been around 12-15k and I've gotten 5-8 years out of them with a couple major repairs. Also the grocery store is very far away and dangerous to bike towards, and I would have to rig my bike for storage. American stores are also geared for bulk larger purchases and you save a substantial amount of money, and even if you for simple things like toilet paper or paper towels.
Notanothertoo··on Ask HN: Which VM orchestrator do you use?
On prem Vms setup manually. I cloud provider Vms have their own primitives (aws asg), with something like terraform. Then a kube flavor for all the real orchestration.
Notanothertoo··on Reasons for servers to support IPv6
This is why I haven't swapped, but I didn't realize they've accounted for this at the client level. Makes sense, still makes me think about IoT devices though and things I don't have 'control' over like my chrome cast.
Notanothertoo··on Apple Reports First Quarter Results
While I don't disagree so you have specific things to read on this topic?
Notanothertoo··on LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
Zfs is king imo. Brtfs is the more liberally licensed oss competitor and Refs is the m$ solution.
Notanothertoo··on Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
This made a lot more sense imo when rights were less equal and the expectation was for the wife to stay at home. I think as thinks become more equal the more irrelevant an doutdated the current legal expectations are around marriage. Especially because the state will enforce child support regardless of martial status.

At some point the narrative has to change when things are more equal. I think there is a lot of data supporting that they have in many ways changed already. Women are more educated on average and more are completing higher education degrees than men and have been for the last few years.

Notanothertoo··on Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
Where are these people? The benefits ended a couple of months ago.
Notanothertoo··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
I wrote software for a company that sold software to Texas hhsc, they use this to look for hidden assets when assessing benefits. This is the only system I know of that contains salary info. We integrated with their apis for a number of products and their data is a mess and often not very accurate. Also their api has a decent error rate. 5 years ago anyway, their api would break with any non unicode characters in a name. There were some foreign companies that we couldn't get data from for example.
Notanothertoo··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Gf
Notanothertoo··on Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?
I hate this and find this just as academic and problematic as the whiteboard and quiz styles. Success in software development is about making the right trade offs to deliver while saving cost (ie your time). When you leave it so open an abstract, the dev looses the ability to discern this. "Production" standards are entirely based on context of the project and very specific requirements. Do you need structure logging, or rate limiting, or error handling, or notifications, or system status ect.. With do you already have systems in place to integrate these. Do you need a custom solution (like your own lambda engine) or do the off the shelve solutions (like aws lambda) meet the requirements.
Notanothertoo··on We created a new programming language just for our interview process
"Damned be your 10 yoe because we can't learn how to be dynamic and flexible in our interview process. "

This is akin to having candidates answer questions by calling a automated line and recording their responses in two minutes.

Notanothertoo··on What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
I agree with much of this as I think some of this has contributed to people's economic agency. But I think we should analyze the impact of these and not just chalk them up as actual improvements in people's liberty.

For example does enabling a person's ability to vote actually increase one's liberty in a corrupt/narrow system.

Notanothertoo··on Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?
This.

The conversation had was entirely one sided with no grace or responsibility. Furthermore if they don't appreciate it that feeling isn't going to change. They are rolling their bullshit down to you because they lack the maturity for something else. Also juniors are expected to need hand holding to adjust academic expectations for real world and if they haven't done anything to correct or provide more direct technical feedback that is also on them.

Notanothertoo··on CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.
Prions are doubly terrifying because it's not a typical disease. From what I understand it's proteins folding in a different way that come into (the prions can be dead or alive) and the healthy proteins will take on the new form. It's scary because typical sterilization (high heat) for surgery does not work guarantee it and the heat required is not currently practical.

The shakes from that cannibals get are prions. I also though I saw a link to a subset of alzehimer cases but can't find it.

Notanothertoo··on American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond
I think you extrapolated a lot on very little.
Notanothertoo··on American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond
You get 1/2 weeks paid at chic fila as a cashier. Grocery stores ie stocking shelves full time is also the same at nearly every chain. Tradesman have it better.
Notanothertoo··on American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond
As a tech worker with 3-5 years experience you can begin to demand 4-6 weeks pretty easily.
Notanothertoo··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
This is not entirely unique situation. There is insurance for all of the above. It's just not everyone has access to it, but I'd wager if you don't then you like shouldn't be having kids.
Notanothertoo··on Earth’s magnetic field illuminates Biblical history
The problem with the Bible is that it's so unclear and contradictory, the reader is able to cobble vastly different theological perspectives together. Hence thousands of denominations who do not get along and historically were violent towards each other. The church up until recent history was a violent institution of power.
Notanothertoo··on Quebec shuts down schools, bars, gyms and more
Or yea know, I let people asses their own risks and rewards, forcing people out of work without fully compensating them is criminal and comes at great cost.
Notanothertoo··on A simple proposal to humankind. Global Peace Dividend
And many like me have looked into this to discover higher local taxes..
Notanothertoo··on Ask HN: How do you manage direct updates to databases in a production system
I use go migrate. I basically a tool that has a version number associated with a. Sql file. You write an upscript and a fow of script in Sql, commit that to source code. If you use the tool to deploy. It gets a lot for very little extra.
Notanothertoo··on Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
Nwa?
Notanothertoo··on Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
I think this is the naive take. Depending on company size and industry lawyers do have business input. There are man tech, and insurance, and finance companies that employ legal strategies to drive business. The big ones that come to mind would be Microsoft, Intel, and oracle.
Notanothertoo··on Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates
It's a 'new' tech with a lot of shady political hand waving that impacts your body. Like redefining vaccine, a rushed testing process and... oh yea the feds waived all legal liabilities for the private entities that developed it.

I think given the context that if your under 65 you are more likely to have medical complications driving to the grocery store its a pretty understandable perspective.

Also the mandate has no exception for natural immunityI. It is I had it and no symptoms of it except I couldn't taste anything, given above, I why would I get a vaccine.

Notanothertoo··on Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates
In London they are taking butter knifes from people and bragging about it on social media.
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