anon9001

> but the fact is that most people turn into couch potatoes

> stop working and so will your body

Citation badly needed here.

I can tell you that before my peers joined the workforce, everyone was part of sports and clubs and community activities. After they joined the workforce, that stuff largely dropped away, because work is too time consuming.

Just out of curiosity, how much do you have to grow to sell and where do you sell it?

Is that the kind of thing you could do in your backyard for a side business, or do you have to have acres of property?

Not sure if it's a farm->wholesaler or backyard->ebay or maybe backyard->shopify.

> You think a life where the only people who really know you and care about you actually kind of just loathe you?

You mean my coworkers?

> Contriubting nothing back to the scioety that created you?

Sorry, I'll get right back to selling ads.

> Leaving nothing on this earth after your gone then a collection of garbage?

Don't forget a pile of proprietary code.

> What does mentally can't handle work even mean.

It means that some people feel cornered and constant anxiety and occasional panic attacks due to their work obligations. Those people can't handle work.

I used to have your view about this too, but I've lost confidence in your premise that "society works and thrives when we've a common goal".

I don't think we can really know what makes society thrive, and some of the traditional measures like unemployment and productivity may not be the right ones to use.

I think the answer is in some sort of UBI, where everyone can have a base level of existence for "free", but if you want nice things, you have to work for them. It seems to me that we would hit an equilibrium where everyone who's content not working can leech a little, but people who do want to work will have much greater rewards and would be higher quality workers.

Based on the number of people that I've met who are concerned about status symbols and having the latest and greatest toys, I suspect we'd see most people actually working in a UBI scenario. We would certainly see more risk takers, which could be the best possible thing for society.

I'd like to think that I would have founded a startup by now if I didn't need an income.

Is there an acceptable way anywhere?

I can understand suicide rather than work, but that only takes you as far as "not working". I want to get to "not working so I can follow my passions".

Yes, that's one way we get homeless people.

Another option is to be so toxic about the situation that you force the child out of the house. That's what would have happened to me, so I left before that.

I actually use RAID6 with mdadm, and it's also portable to different machines. I was kind of surprised the first time I moved the array to a new machine and it all just worked.

What I'm saying is that the cost of being on a non-standard distro is greater than the benefit the freenas UI provides. Even if you want to run RAID, it's one or two commands with mdadm. FreeBSD and ZFS makes everything more complicated than it needs to be.

> Some are living in their parents basement until they're 30 to 40.

I understand this is considered a bad thing, and it makes sense at a societal level, but honestly it sounds like a pretty amazing life. Maybe that would have been boring and depressing pre-internet, but it seems pretty good now.

I know one dude who essentially grifted his way into the disability system, and I've watched him go from an anxious mess to a budding artist, literally living in his mom's basement. All he does is read the internet, take classes, and paint. His art keeps getting better. If he lives in his parent's basement for another decade, he might emerge as a great artist. Frankly, I'm kind of jealous.

The obvious down side is that he has a hard time finding a date, and family interaction is not optional. IMO those are both relatively minor penalties for a lifetime of freedom.

The real inexplicable thing here is how parents are letting this happen? I was never under any illusion that I'd be able to receive indefinite support from my parents, and society has given me every possible indication that this isn't an acceptable strategy.

Maybe we need an acceptable way for people who can't mentally handle work to be able to exist in society.

Sure it is! Cosmetics are an enormous industry for this reason. For men, it's more about having a proper haircut, facial hair that suits your bone structure (which is kind of men's makeup), clothes that fit, and good posture.

If you don't believe me, consult with some of your more attractive friends, and have yourself a makeover day to try it out. You can look like a million bucks for the cost of a haircut and a new outfit. Even if you're out of shape, you can present yourself just fine.

If you're feeling really brave, doll yourself up as nicely as you can, and consult a forum (not HN) on your appearance. Reddit has a few communities that do this sort of thing. You can dial yourself in to what most people would considered "beautiful" pretty quickly if you want to do it.

I had to buy a mattress last year and did a pretty deep dive into the world of mattresses. What I learned is that there's no meaningful research on what's "best", and sleep experts say that it's 100% personal preference (and marketing).

So I bought the cheapest thing on amazon with the best reviews in the size that I needed, which was maybe 25% of the price of Casper or Leesa (and those are about half the price of a traditional mattress). It's absolutely fine. If anything, I sleep better knowing that if I destroy it or have to move, I can just throw it out and buy another one.

One note: if you read enough reviews, you'll notice that some budget foam mattresses can have a smell to them. I assume this is the main thing that "premium" foam mattresses have actually addressed, but obviously it's not advertised as "we have the least smelly product!".

It's really as simple as finding a well reviewed hunk of foam, or at least it was for me, as mine arrived odor-free.

Remote work probably makes social skills more important, because your coworkers lose the benefit of non-verbal cues. I work remotely and I try to convey a lot of personality and availability to stay integrated with the team.

I think this cuts both ways. I'm getting older, but I get along really well with the fresh meat.

What works for me is to come across as an OG hacker and stay up to date on whatever the hot tech is. I'm also as immature as ever and have a pretty good command of dank memes, which I think helps more than people want to admit. I'll follow the culture wherever it goes, the same as I have since I was a teenager.

I just always try to expose myself to everything so I know what's going on, from 4chan to reddit to HN to NPR to Fox News. IMO cultural awareness is the key to appearing "young", even if your physical appearance is older.

It's also not a bad idea to be rich, and whatever the most desirable gender and ethnicity are for your area, but those things are less actionable than social skills, fitness, and beauty.

I'm pretty convinced that the most important thing you can do for your career after achieving basic technical competence is to be more attractive, both physically and socially.

The reality is that you're going to have an easier time making connections and getting access to opportunities if you're well-mannered, sociable, and attractive.

I looked at running FreeNAS, but it didn't make any sense to me. I can put as many hard drives as I want in a cheap PC with a ryzen cpu and run samba. It takes maybe 5 minutes to set up, and then you also have a distro of your choosing to use as a server.

FreeNAS probably makes sense if you're an industry IT person and you want to make sure anyone in the future can figure out how to admin the thing. That's probably got a lot more value than I'm willing to admit, and I'm sure that's why it's popular, but I see a lot of posts about people trying to set up FreeNAS at home and it seems silly.

It's also annoying because SR-IOV would be a wonderful thing for consumer GPUs, but it would make it too easy to use consumer GPUs for cloud providers.

Right now, you can run a VM with qemu and pass through the GPU to the guest OS, getting pretty close to native performance. With SR-IOV, every VM could have the same GPU attached, and you could manage performance with the hypervisor. This would let you toggle between VMs instantly, getting full performance on each one (assuming the others are idle).

AMD and nVidia do make SR-IOV cards, but they're extremely expensive, intended for data centers, and don't have display output. If it ever hits consumer cards, Linux will be the hypervisor of choice for pretty much everyone, because there will be minimal performance penalty for using VMs.

> In 2000, that would be like seeing forum posts from 1980.

That's the premise of Jason Scott's project launched in 1998 :) http://textfiles.com/

I got into coding by writing hacks, cheats, and bots. It's one of the few ways to directly translate code into something that feels like a super power.

It can't federate with peertube yet, but there's an issue open for it with the author's support: https://github.com/mayeaux/nodetube/issues/32

I think there's a good case to be made for multiple federated clients and servers to ensure the health of the ecosystem.

This kind of training seems like it would cause a lot of injuries. Is that just an accepted part of it?

I've been out of school for over a decade and I'm still gaming the system to earn the highest for the least amount of work.

Pretty excited for retirement tho...

I was going to write a lengthy comment to say the same, but I think you pretty much nailed it.

> which is a bit like saying anyone who moves to SF for a tech job is a victim of human slavery

too real :(

> What if you don’t speak your mind and create an organization that continuously lowers its expectations, or have to let these people go eventually?

As a manager but not an owner, what actually happens is that I keep the same salary but the expectations are lower. I'm comfortable with that.

The only way to get a meaningful raise is to change jobs every few years anyway. That's pretty common knowledge.

If people are fired or bullied out of an organization by others, but I'm friends with them, then I have a bigger network that can help me get employment at another organization. I look at every friendly coworker that leaves as a probe sent out into the world to see what might be better elsewhere.

It's far more valuable for me to maintain a positive relationship with my coworkers than it is to provide negative feedback. Pick your battles. Who cares if one of your workers isn't very efficient?

There's so much incentive to expand my network of people that would love to work with me or for me, and so little incentive to crack down on employees to try and get them to perform better.

If anyone here has ever prepared earnings reports, how is that process usually handled?

I'm guessing it's just a spreadsheet on some finance person's computer until it's certified for release?

Are there best practices for making sure data doesn't leak ahead of the official earnings report?

He does. The thing is you have to hang out with the right people, and even then it's a low percentage chance that you'll become an owner.

Yeah, sometimes. There's an ATF concept called "constructive possession" which means if you have all the parts, you're in a legal grey area. If the ATF thinks you have the intent to assemble an unlawful weapon, and you have constructive possession, then you might be a criminal.

I think it's unlikely (but possible) a case would be brought against you for just having the grip, and I'm not sure if that's ever actually happened. As opposed to if you had all the parts to make a machine gun, where there could only be one use for those parts.

Also interesting, drilling the extra hole in your AR-15 lower so that it could some day accept an auto-sear is a serious felony, even if you don't own the auto-sear.

I'm fascinated by how insane these rules are after I learned that I can't legally own or operate a firearm because I'm a medical marijuana user. If cannabis ever gets unscheduled, I'd like to build a little arsenal.

> It'll usually get you the medium bucks, though, before topping out, which ain't the worst.

Can confirm. I make medium bucks. The way the economics work, it made more sense for me to make medium bucks remotely in a cheap CoL area than it did to try and get big bucks in a major city.

It entirely depends what you're trying to do. If you want to make a bunch of money, it's unfortunately more about politics and luck than merit.

If you're trying to maximize income, you should focus on understanding finance/business and building soft skills. You're probably over the threshold of how much you need to know about computers. Maybe get some training on how to work better with others, or how to negotiate effectively. In other words, soft skills are going to be the value you have over your peers that have been cramming CS for the last 4 years.

> I've been coding for half my life, out of pure interest for the building things and never got into it for the money.

The reality of working in tech is probably similar to what you've already experienced: Lots of people working with computers, but most know less about what's going on than you do. I was kind of shocked by this when I started working, but now I realize it's because most people don't need to care about how their tools work to do their job.