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how does something like this not support pinephone and librem5 from day 1?

But how many wrinkles?

Don't underestimate the importance of timing, for both the company you're applying at and the industry/economy as a whole.

As they say, you can't get blood from a turnip.

Writing this comment reminded me of a personal experience, story time:

Many moons ago I interviewed at a mature startup in silicon valley, they shipped a tiered storage appliance and were in the process of pivoting to a new storage medium (think transitioning from spinning rust to SSDs, something like that).

This was in-person, and everything went swimmingly well, before departing they stated an intention to make an offer and I should expect an email w/offer attached within a week. I got an offer letter, and accepted immediately, as I was super excited about the stack I'd be playing with.

A week before the start date I get a call from a founder, they said I couldn't start because their funding round didn't come through. The economy was going through some sort of financial crisis and it was one of the many blood baths where silicon valley startups shuttered by the hundreds overnight. So in essence, this was a job I got fired from before I could even start, wee!

What followed was a pretty frustrating few months of interviewing and not getting anywhere.

But there is a silver lining to this story, that founder who called me sat on the board of other storage startups. One of them managed to get some water in this funding desert, and its founders reached out to me at his recommendation. I ended up building some great stuff over 4-5 years at that company.

> kids have freedom to go outside, good friends with lots of neighbors and parents, my social life is busier than it was when i didn’t have kids

Don't have kids myself, but this aspect seems incredibly obvious just reflecting on my childhood in suburbs of Chicago through the 80s-90s.

But the causes for what's keeping the kids indoors now instead of literally running the neighborhood are manifold. In the 80s there were far fewer indoor forms of entertainment to occupy the kids without driving mom batshit insane and making a mess of the place. Now the kids have tablets and gaming consoles, the outdoors is such a scary place when it's not full of gangs of children who know all the backyards better than the parents ostensibly owning them.

It's all rather depressing and the longer I live the more convinced I am that not adding my own kids to this state of affairs was the right move.

s/cube/square/

I suspect the positive effects of consuming nutritious forms of fish-centric meals has as much to do with what you're _not_ eating in those meals as contents like omega-3s.

There's a bunch of less harmful stuff you can fill your diet with that just by virtue of displacing terrible things has positive effects.

now we get to watch an entire generation of clowns who struggled to create anything at all learn the need for self-discipline in the face of newly accessible NIH traps

For quite some time even games technically written in C++ were more appropriately described as C compiled by a C++ toolchain with a minimum of actual C++ syntax - more like C with classes.

It's no coincidence HN is hosted by a VC. VC-backed tech is all about boom-bust hype cycles analogous to the lever pull of a giant slot machine.

Sounds like you're experiencing an "agentic moment".

ffs https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/ibm-closes-6-4b-hashicorp-...

My father worked concrete construction and stayed relatively fit from all the activity, but his skin was trashed from all the UV and he smoked into his 50s. I've never met a person with more wrecked hands since. It was like shaking hands with 40grit paper.

Construction workers are not known for taking care of themselves, and it's a notoriously machismo culture. Sun screen? ok dandy.

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> And it will be 100% the kids fault, but the headlines will look terrible.

I wouldn't be so certain on the fault front. I share the SF streets with Waymos on the daily, and they are extremely far from perfect drivers.

I'm genuinely concerned not finding my handle in the leaderboard will subconsciously have me believing I don't have an HN problem.

References to his books should carry a warning - something to the effect of:

"may inspire circuitous road trips involving many stops dangerously examining road-cuts on busy interstate highways"

> I breathe in smoke every day through the copious amount of weed I smoke

It shows.

In my teens I ran a combination ipmasq(NAT, this was back when we called it ip masquerading) firewall and dial-up POP for my girlfriend at the time off a scrap 386 motherboard some ISA NICs and a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive. It was packed full of SIMMs, I don't remember how much probably 8MB RAM.

The userspace was all in the initramfs, linux booted directly without any LILO or GRUB (this was back in the days the kernel included its own boot loader), and the floppy drive was totally out of the picture once the system was up and running from RAM.

Prior to adding the dial-up aspect for my gf to share my internet from her home, the init was deliberately exited which technically panicked the kernel. Basically it was a /linuxrc shell script setting up the networking then deliberately breaking userspace - not even PID1 existed while it was just my firewall. The kernel keeps doing networking stuff even if panicked.

Fun times.

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In recent weeks I've found myself driving in downtown SF congestion more than usual, and observed Waymos doing totally absurd things on multiple occasions.

The main saving grace is they all occurred at low enough speeds that the consequences were little more than frustrating/delaying for everyone present - pedestrians and drivers alike, as nobody knew what to expect next.

They are very far from perfect drivers. And what's especially problematic is the nature of their mistakes seem totally bizarre vs. the kinds of mistakes human drivers make.

Off-topic but curious if you experience this issue my Librem5 exhibits - I use my L5 mostly just to play mp3s. Regardless of being powered over usb-c or running on battery, it frequently has audio blips reminiscent of some old laptops briefly going in and out of deeper sleep states long enough for an audio blip.

Have you noticed something similar? do you listen to music on your L5?

Edit: I should also mention it does this regardless of audio out the internal DAC+3.5mm TRS, or over a USB MBox attached to a dock. It seems to be something quite low-level disabling interrupts for too long, something like that.

> A year or so ago, I fed my wife's blood work results into chatgpt

Why would you consult a known bullshit generator for anything this important?

This "knowledge source" sponsored by $influence...

What happened to Jitsi?

I need a time machine.

Glad I didn't give these people any of my hard earned dollars.

How is this not an instance of "perfect is the enemy of good enough?"?

Some people drive to their jobs, some people climb shit as their jobs... where's the problem?

It will never cease to drive me batty every time I try find a metric fastener for an automotive purpose at a local hardware store.

There are many reasons I can find for leaving the US, but engaging in DIY projects utilizing local suppliers are what's come closest to pushing me over the edge. Especially in this post-SEARS hellscape of low quality made in china junk the market's flooded with. Now not only can I never find the fasteners I need, the tools suck too!