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I'm the same, I fall asleep much faster with headphones and a podcast or audiobook playing.

I only worry like that if I've got a flight in the morning, in which case I set multiple alarms.

What should happen is the company also contributes libraries back to the community, although Nintendo doesn't seem to https://github.com/Nintendo. The reason that the internet is as big as it is and as accessible to small and scrappy development teams is because of open source. A lot of the internet is built on code which is given away by companies like Google and Facebook so there is a bit of give and take in this.

Well, it gets added to your CV too. But, theoretically the company contributes back to the codebase for any enhancements they require making the code better for all users.

They have raised prices for the 5000 series of Ryzen - although they still have a price per performance advantage over intel they're pricing themselves as the market leader.

Yeah, there's that well known demonstration that shows that it doesn't really matter the order of letters within a word as long as the first and last letters remain the same.

We banned single use bags in NZ more than a year ago, there was a bit of a learning curve while people got used to bringing their own bags but in general it's been succesfull. People now mostly remember to bring bags to the supermarket, I keep mine in the car.

I've worked with some very good programmers who happen to be devout Christians. I got over my prejudices quickly - it doesn't make sense to me but I don't have to understand it, just accept it.

Yeah, that's how New Zealand got rid of Covid completely, trust in the government and science. But, the government didn't abuse that trust by being very transparent about the response, science, and data modelling.

Suicide dropped substantially during lockdown, a lot of people realised that there's more to life than the daily grind.

I can say from my experience that the economy runs a lot smoother and recovers a lot quicker if people aren't terrified about a pandemic causing them long term health implications and killing their family.

Excess mortality doesn't paint the complete picture anyway, although Sweden didn't go into lockdown they did require people to work from home if able which would have reduced mortality rates from workplace incidents, traffic, etc.

That's a unique US thing. In countries like New Zealand people in the service industry get the same minimum wage as anyone else ($18.90 per hour) and don't rely on tips, they're normal employees and go through the same normal tax system.

That's why there is the joke about people from overseas not knowing how to tip.

I read it the same way and thought they were going to be in trouble from Adobe.

It's sad but the internet has a lot to answer for, the ability for us to access unfiltered and blatantly false information and for it to appear no different to peer reviewed and true information is leading humanity to disaster. Ideally we'd be able to have a chain of trust of information, the same way we have a chain of trust for certificates, with peer reviews from experts giving credence to articles and statements.

Some stuff is plausible but wrong, like taking certain antiviral drugs to combat Covid. Others completely defy everything we know about physics, like 5G spreading Covid. And some stuff is true, like staying at home breaking the chain of transmission. But people believe all of the above and none of the above appear different or are treated differently on social media sites.

Some of the opinions and statements that influential people say are dangerous and either harm directly or cause others to harm and a lot of them build on existing divisions further breaking apart our communities.

A few days ago we had an earthquake in my home city, our liberal prime minister was having a live interview when it happened. On news sites when they played the interview the comments were full of people saying it was Trump blowing up tunnels which were being used to traffic children as sex slaves by the liberal government.

That's obviously insane, not least because I live on a group of islands 3,000 kilometres away from the next country and that's one hell of a tunnel, but also because that's not a thing that governments do in transparent and well run democracies.

Unfortunately there's a subset of the population who are unstable and prone to believe anything, and the fact that it's discredited probably drives them to believe it more. But there's a much larger subset who are susceptible to arguments but not critical of them and may be more inclined to see reason if given information backing that up.

So, the question is how do you debunk blatant falsehoods while still balancing peoples freedom to believe what they want.

How do you police a promise before it's fulfilled? Completely different from lying.

But if phones were built more durable would they be smaller than the thick case or could they make use of the extra space that a case requires by having larger batteries, etc.

Protect your team and make sure they're empowered to do their jobs and are unblocked. Depending on the organisation a lot of pressure may be placed on your shoulders and you need to make sure that doesn't impact on their productivity.

It means something which looks 3d but is actually 2d under the hood. Doom looked 3d through a combination of techniques but the maps were 2d, Ultima and simcity look 3d because of the isometric perspective but are still just 2d tiles.

I prefer the original Quake to Doom as the best arcade style FPS. Doom is too limiting to me in it's movement and level design. Quake still has the abstract level design and that makes it the only 3d FPS that I've ever played to make true use of 3d space. It's almost like parkour as you're flinging yourself from surface to surface, doing rocket jumps, all while spinning in the air and destroying hordes of creatures. It's Doom but more agile.

Having conversations with yourself and re-playing conversations is different from narrating things like a voice over though. I do the former, and I believe that's quite normal, but not the later.

JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it, I've moved on from it and I miss the flexibility that it offers - but that flexibility comes with extreme complexity. Most small to medium sized businesses don't need it and can make do with something with less features.

I don't have the same issues with Windows 10 but I only really use it for work and some gaming so I'm hardly an authority on it. Any issues you have might be due to the fact that they got rid of the Windows team awhile back.

Microsoft used to do stack ranking which puts everyone on a curve and ranks them against each other but they got rid of it when the regime at the top changed.

This sort of ruthless management is a way to destabilise the workforce and disrupt the team. What I've often found is management might cull the worst performing people but the best people follow them voluntarily because of the toxic culture, and then there's the fact that the worst performing person in the best performing team might be better than the best performing person in the worst performing team.

There's differing opinions of BTRFS's suitability in production - it's the default filesystem of SUSE on one hand, on the other RedHat has deprecated BTRFS support because they see it as not being production ready and they don't see it being production ready in the near future. They also feel that the more legacy linux filesystems have added features to compete.

I was going through boxes of old CDs and DVDs the other day and throwing out a lot of crap, I found my old BeOS5 disk. Didn't throw out that one. I really enjoyed using that OS back in 2000.

Under the hood though there's multiple accounts which different applications use, the user might only log in with one but applications are isolated from each other and the system because of it.

In Wellington, New Zealand Uber (Jump) replaced their entire scooter fleet a few weeks ago after just six months of operation, their main competitor (Flamingo) will probably have to do the same as their scooters now look worn and tired vs the Jump ones. Lime has been booted out of a couple of markets locally as they had safety issues, all those scooters are probably in a land fill somewhere.

Always seemed insane to me that pharmaceutical drugs based on Marijuana are bad but drugs that share a base with heroin are okay.

You'd hope so, but I know from traveling for a large multinational that it was up to the individual to pay for their own offsetting and I think most are the same. I tend to just try and video conference with people to alleviate the exhaustion of traveling (I live in New Zealand, going to a workshop in Europe is a 30-40 hour endeavor) and the carbon that flying generates.

I think it's a hard sell, you can contact those competitors and see if there is an appetite to buy an existing product in order to get to market quickly but depending on how mature that product is I can't see there being much of an appetite.

What's your co-founder walking away with? If they're walking away with cash and your walking away with (non patented) IP then you got the short end of the stick.