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> powering human-to-human interaction at a scale and speed we’ve never seen before

Clearly, this is working very well, and more of this is the solution to all of the problems that we're facing as a result of hooking four or five of every single person on the planet's belongings to the internet and connecting them all together.

I just got a brand-new M1 Pro Macbook for my new job.

Can anyone recommend a dock / hub that will let me reliably do integrated screen + 1x 4k + 1x 1080p?

Plug for Lacanian psychotherapy.

Lacanians are focused, disciplined, and smart. There aren't many of them, either.

Dig around, read a little about Jacques Lacan; if it piques your interest, give it a shot.

Do you not think your own time is worth that much, if not more, given the mind-blowing amount of business value added by even the most horrible and unmaintainable pieces of software?

Or are you saying that only midwits charge $100/hr, and that real engineers can and should charge much more, so anyone charging $100/hr is probably a hack?

In the case of the former, here's an anecdote: when I was a baby junior, I was working on an in-house enterprise Windows Forms CRM application.

We had a pricing manager that had taught himself enough C# to be dangerous. The code that the guy wrote was such a disaster that it conjured unspeakable horrors from the void. But because he understood the business domain at a level far deeper than anyone on the dev team, he could crank out forms and custom reports that turned misaligned curly-braces into cold, hard cash faster than any of us could say "DAMMIT MARK, YOU BROKE THE BUILD AGAIN".

The lesson I took from that: turning ideas into code that creates business value isn't the hard part. The hard part is doing it in such a way that you don't create an unmaintainable mess that makes it impossible for the business to adapt to change so that it can continue to make money.

In the case of the latter: I think I need to charge more.

> if you still have a copy

I think you just answered your own question.

Oh trust me, I get it. I think it can be a helpful tool, certainly; but making an equivocation between the two, then holding a trial for the discipline of software engineering for performing poorly in a rigged comparison strikes me as a poor use of one's time.

That's the point that I was trying to make (and likely, what I should've just said in the first place.)

This assumption holds more often than not; but it does not always hold.

HN: the worst thing out there, except for everything else!

It's really weird that we keep using construction metaphors when we're talking about software engineering.

> key differentiators

From browsing comments, nobody on HN rides downhill. Which makes sense. A solid year of no concussions from some forced time off (hey titanium rods, what's up) and I'm a better programmer than I've ever been.

But anyway.

Strava won't track downhill runs as separate from the lift ride. Everyone agrees that this sucks. Nobody has made a move at a solution (as far as I know).

If MTBX has solved this problem, and no others, it's worth its weight in gold.

Have you ever... _been_... on Reddit?

That all sounds nice, but the fact of the matter is that Richard Stallman is one of the few anchors left, keeping the Overton window of the politics of software from falling all of the way into the ocean.

Personally, I used to think that Stalmman was a crank. And as time passed, and as I watched some of his prophecies come true and as I noted ways in my own life in which my own devices became harder to use, and my own data became harder to store and retrieve in the ways that I wanted to - I began to change my mind.

Without that irascible, loud-mouthed, doom-sandwich-board-wearing maniac... who else would exist at the intersection of "knows enough to know what he's talking about to speak with authority" and "has nothing left to lose"?

My advice to anyone reading this is to not be so quick to "solution" on his behalf, or to reason against his ideas, in advocacy of a more "moderate" approach.

Perhaps now that you've violated the Prime Directive, he'll re-appear.

One of the biggest reasons that I went through the trouble of switching to a Surface Book 3 + Surface Dock 2 was to make _damn sure_ that my desk docking station setup worked well. (Plus, I'm a sucker for the Surface Magsafe-ripoff connector.)

I'm running a Dell 27" 4K monitor and a ViewSonic 15" portable 1080p monitor along with the internal display full-time, with both external displays plugged in via USB-C on the Surface dock; and it's been reasonably reliable.

I don't have any other USB-C peripherals plugged in to the dock, and I haven't tried a fourth display; but so far, so good, no complaints.

> and set the new DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium value to 1

Thanks for posting this.

Sure, but in order to do that, you need to know how to teach people how to want; and then, you have to be able to do that. NB, those two things generally comprise two different skillsets.

You need a product that is powerful enough to give you the leverage to change deep-seated bits of human psychology.

Henry Ford knew how to do this. So did Jobs.

$0.02. I don't want to discourage anyone from building something and making money on it; just adding on to your comment.

Web 2.0 -> Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 adapter.

Personally, I've been waiting for an app like this for a long time.

I don't use social media, but I have a group chat with a handful of close friends. Sometimes, I like to insert emojis into a photo for comedic effect.

Now I can do this without fighting with iOS's horrible Markup editor.

(Quite frankly, I'm surprised that this isn't part of iOS already.)

It's very naive! "We were hiding the truth then... but we're TOTALLY not now."

Mmhmm. Sure.

For my part, I find it best practice not to trust government any further than I can (over)throw them.

> while not standard, writing a shader to decode is not hard(admittedly if you know shaders)

Ah, the old "Step 2: Draw the rest of the owl" scenario.

Dissenters and dissidents stick together; you have my vote.

Ah, English: the Javascript of spoken language.

And why do you think that is? Because nobody takes responsibility for their actions or emotions anymore. Why should they - they don't need to - we've pathologized everything, from behavioral issues to depression (nobody ever says "I am depressed", they say "I have depression", which is another thing entirely and delegates all responsibility to manage oneself to outside forces).

And another pathology: "I acted like an idiot because an Internet Website made me feel things and I couldn't control myself. Now I need Someone Else to make decisions on my behalf".

That's how personal liberty gets extinguished.

It's simple: money.

"The Internet" became "social media", which quickly became "the media".

Game, set, match.

Social policy should be dictated by a government that is "by the people, for the people". We the People should be able to make these decisions, by a vote, on our own behalf. That was the plan.

Obviously, the American political system is not in an ideal state (to put it mildly), but at least the sweeping bureaucratic inefficiencies make it hard enough to really change the temperature of the water by more than a few degrees in either direction.

"Silicon Valley" is just shorthand for "massive tech monopolies that have an outsized, inescapable, and pervasive influence on the way that every living person goes about their daily business"; and when you have amoral, profit-driven corporations that can "move fast and break things" - who are incentivized to wield their influence in whatever way serves their immediate interests - the human condition be damned, well... you end up where we are, here, now.

I am suggesting that we are not prepared to regulate companies like FAANG & Friends in a way that keeps them from remaking humanity in their own image as a means to their own ends. I am suggesting that it is horrifying that privately-held companies without any incentive to be responsible for the consequences of their actions against humanity, writ large, are able to effect social policy so much.

The problem here, as I see it, is that Silicon Valley is becoming increasingly interested in moderating and enforcing social policy.

If this doesn't scare you, it should.

It's curious that the current tide of public opinion reckons that we're all going to be in EVs in 10-15 years, when the grid nearly collapses under the weight of everybody plugging in a heater and turning on Netflix at the same time.

The Logitech MX Vertical is the GOAT mouse for these issues, IMO. I picked one up when my Microsoft Sculpt gave up the ghost, and I can't imagine ever going back.

The Scuplt was about halfway to a vertical mouse; the MX Vertical is like, all the way there. It was disorienting at first, but I stuck it out for the first weird day or two and I can't say I've ever been happier with a mouse.

Careful with your line of reasoning.

There is a difference between "ageism", and "being honest about how hard some problems are to solve".

There are a lot of unbelievably brilliant 22-year-olds.

None of them have been building enterprise-scale architectures that turn messy, vague, and incomplete requirements that model even more messy, vague, and incomplete business processes for 20 years.

> Development is literally the simplest part of the problem set.

This is the single most important and insightful sentence that a lot of HN-ers are going to read today, and they don't even know it.