drunkpotato

100% of strict parents would say they have a good relationship with their kids (or within a rounding error). If you asked adult children of strict parents if that was true, you would get fewer than 100% positive responses. People aren’t always reliable judges of their own behavior and relationships.

I have junior engineers try solving their problem on their own for an hour. If they make no progress, ask for help. If they make some progress, repeat. I think it's a good learning experience while also providing a safety net, and I've gotten positive feedback from juniors on this advice.

For the core field operatives, it seemed many had unrealistic expectations of their chance of success, and were pumped on a success-or-death mentality. In retrospect it’s easy to see why that would lead to lax operational security. Now that they neither succeeded nor died in the attempt, the evidence is easy to find.

I have a 2012 iMac that is no longer supported, so I installed the latest Ubuntu on it and it works very well. So if you run into that situation again, Linux is a very viable option.

It seems to be the case that all social networks decline eventually. This one is rather remarkable for the speed and intensity of its fall.

Hey, why have facts when you can guess?

More seriously, Twitter has been a toxic cesspool long before Elon made it worse, and I’m happy I deleted my account and have never missed it. Actually it’s been a boon when I visit a Twitter link and then Twitter nags me to sign in, it’s a great reminder to close that tab and move on with my life.

Yes, in US fintech there are mandatory courses in anti-money laundering and know your customer laws that programmers are required to take along with everyone else.

I don’t know what exists in the crypto world operating in the Bahamas, but I’m not going to lose a lot of sleep if the FTX director of engineering winds up going to prison for this.

I have to strongly disagree with you. In my opinion a policy like this would err on valuing form over content, when content matters a great deal. Downvotes (and upvotes) can be a signal for content as well as form.

For example, an articulate, well-reasoned, passionate argument for why PHP is the best get shit done language? Sure, I can upvote that even if I firmly disagree.

But an articulate, well-reasoned, passionate argument for vi being superior to emacs? I can’t downvote fast enough, but only because we cannot burn the heretic in these enlightened times.

I found the writer’s story engaging, moving, and with a satisfying conclusion. I appreciated his articulation of his struggles with how he feels about art and money. I definitely did not take away the same feelings from it that you apparently did.

I will say this, I love python, and I hate python the way only someone who loves it can. I think everything you said is accurate.

I love writing Python code. I love its standard library and many third party libraries. But I loathe Python’s dependency management, and Python version upgrades are sometimes a huge pain. There are tools to help with this (pyenv or I am fond of asdf for python versions; poetry or pipenv for isolating package dependencies), but they only partially solve the problems and introduce new ones.

It would be helpful to explain what DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin, terrible name!) and CLA (contributor license agreement) stand for. I managed to get the idea from context and google though it would have been nice to be explicit in the post.

The point about the balance of power and power dynamics involved is interesting. I think it applies more broadly as well. Are these really “agreements” when individuals have no ability to negotiate them? They seem more like playground rules.

I dunno, the things you say about Plex I would also say about jellyfin: requires a bit of fiddling, works very well, not always perfect. Jellyfin has bugs, but it's free and works for my use cases, and improves quickly. I like that I can, and have, compiled jellyfin from source when there was a bugfix for one of the features I use that hadn't made it into a point release yet.

I think all software comes with trade-offs and frustrations. It sounds like, for my uses, Plex would trade in a different set of frustrations plus cost money and be closed source.

So I guess it depends what you mean by "compete with" Plex, because for me, it's more like I haven't found anything that competes with jellyfin.

So is xml. Json is relatively unstructured compared to other formats.

I think json has several advantages though. It’s a relatively lightweight and widely known serialization standard, rich enough for most cases and extensible in others, and it has easy to use parsers in all major programming languages.

Also jsonlines is a simple addition that make it easy for json to play well with non-json aware older Unix tools.

It has a few shortcomings but I think its advantages outweigh them, and it’s become a pretty widely used standard in a short time.

It’s not “execs dumb and bad,” it’s that execs have different priorities than you think they do, which I think is partially dandare’s point.

Executives at a large company are divorced from your reality at your level of the job.

Incidentally, that’s part of the fun of working at smaller companies, though the variance is higher there’s also the potential to work more closely with good earnest executives who also want the company to succeed.

The two explanations or interpretations I’ve come across that recover determinism are many worlds interpretation and superdeterminism. I don’t think either are testable with current technology so it’s not a very satisfying or experimentally useful explanation. At least not yet.

My opinion, as in I think this is true but I can't claim it's an immutable law of nature: You don't get a billion dollars by leaving pennies on the table. You need a ruthless focus on money über alles. And that focus never turns off, and doesn't exclude anything. Everything is an investment. Everything is about how it can make you more money, or potentially make you more money. Everything is about increasing that lifetime high score. So it's not that you care about your property value per se, it's that you care about every value, obsessively, all the time.

He doesn't even pay people to complain for him, they're so deluded they do it for free.

A combination of building back-end services and retool admin apps to interact with them has been super successful for us. Congrats on the great product!

I did this because my relationship to social media was unhealthy, and now it feels much better.

Hacker news, because duh.

Instagram is for softcore porn.

Facebook I deleted years ago, no regrets. (I'm aware they own Instagram, and I don't care. This is just a personal issue for me.)

Tiktok I watch funny videos when people send them to me, I feel no need to install an app.

Twitter, I read tweets when people link to them, and every time Twitter reminds me why I'm glad I don't use Twitter.

I understand why other people use them, and some people can do it in a healthy way, but for me, this is the absolute maximum I can use social media without losing myself.

Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6953042...

Definitely a situation that calls for an </s> tag.

Pornography and sex work generally is an issue that doesn’t align neatly on the left and right political axis. It’s an area where the libertarian left and libertarian right largely agree, and the authoritarian left and authoritarian right largely agree. Trying to fit it into a left/right worldview is completely incoherent.

Hah! You beat me to it! I do agree with the overall sentiment however. I think it's important to see whether your relationship to a given social media is healthy or not. For me, my relationship to reddit, facebook, and twitter were unhealthy, so I deleted them. That's not going to be true for everyone; I definitely know people who use them in a positive, life-improving way, that's just not what was happening to me.

You don't need to, but you might want to. It'll make life more pleasant and less angry.

I've found that asdf has replaced a lot of my brew installs. It's great to be able to pin tool dependencies per project. I used, and liked, brew for a long time, but my tooling these days is almost entirely MacPorts, asdf-vm, and Docker + docker-compose (I'm also intrigued by podman).

I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia had encouraged the very unrest that made them worried and indebted. Not because Putin is a Bond villain super genius but just because encouraging chaos and unrest and then playing all sides of a conflict is a standard technique of Russian foreign relations.

Edit: and also used in Russian domestic affairs, didn’t mean to leave that out!

I don’t believe the OP was asking if people are doing things or if there are useful applications, but rather if there are useful applications that can only be done, or done better, in crypto.

This was a terrible, very nearly statistics-free article (beyond one hand-wavey figure about possible future migration by 2100). It had about as much relevance and impact as stating that mounting fears of dog bites cause some to rethink living in neighborhoods with dogs. It's not even interesting as two case studies, if that was what it was attempting. This article was pure drivel.

That said, count me as one who is migrating due, at least partially, to fears of climate change, from a low coastal region further inland. There are other, and weightier, factors involved in the move, but climate change rendering my current town uninhabitable in the next few decades is one of them, and an important one. I would love to see the article this should have been, examining polling, statistics, and drawing possible inferences.

> If "US training" is such a big deal, what the hell happened in Afghanistan?

I think if anything Afghanistan shows the strengths of the US military in regime change. Where the US failed is where many empires fail, in long-term occupation. But the initial assault was a success, and I would imagine US military training is very effective when it comes to toppling governments.

I have a daily.org file I use to capture meeting notes and quick notes into. org-mode automatically keeps it organized as a datetree. I set all my other org files to archive into a subheader of the day it's archived (or done, for todos). So far I like it, but I've only been doing it for a few months. We'll see when it gets to years.

One nice thing is it's easy to see at a glance roughly what I did in a given week or month. It also doesn't insert much process into my flow, which I appreciate.