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selfawareMammalon Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk

You're entirely relying on a false dichotomy and an unsupported causal chain, assuming (without evidence!) that unions inherently reduce efficiency, slow growth, and lower living standards. The fact is that there's evidence that unions can correct power imbalances, raise wages, reduce inequality, and even support long-term productivity and social stability

selfawareMammalon Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame

How much money does he have in order to make such a big donation? Has stardew valley made that much?

selfawareMammalon Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

What are the coordinates? Been looking for it around 100km west of jiayuguan but I can't seem to get it right

selfawareMammalon The history of Casio watches

The Garmin design is hideous in my opinion. It's the only thing keeping me away from them.

selfawareMammalon Facts about throwing good parties

> Once an event crosses a threshold (maybe 70%?) of male-or-female dominance, most people of the other gender are likely to decline (or just not-come to your next party) as a result.

This is not true for men.

selfawareMammalon Show HN: Quibbler – A critic for your coding agent that learns what you want

An agent's agent?

selfawareMammalon Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

I'm too european for this.

selfawareMammalon DBeaver – open-source database client

Imo it's not just about being functional so I can get work done. It's also about enjoying what I'm doing and having aesthetic tools is important to me. It's still functionality the most important? Yes. Do I prefer non-ugly tools to ugly tools even if I had to trade a bit of functionality for a lot of prettiness? Yes, every single time (as long as I can still get done what I need to get done, ofc)

selfawareMammalon Relativistic Spaceship

Lots of intelligent comments and I'm just here finding it scary.

selfawareMammalon Culture Change at Google

After being in multiple orgs and having been in touch with c-suite, I have suspicions that lack of total empathy and psychopathic tendencies are a must to get to really high social-based positions.

selfawareMammalon Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid reminder of life's value

Aaaah gotta love me some Corinthians 14:34-35 in the morning

selfawareMammalon Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs

A green plastic watering can...

selfawareMammalon Light No Fire – A Fantasy Game from the Makers of No Man's Sky

It feels kind of an old-gen game with those colours, water and movement. Not too excited

selfawareMammalon Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

You can afford that when you have a monopoly.

selfawareMammalon Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore

But when you say hybrid, does that mean people can go to the office if they want or they're controlled and forced to go at least X days?

selfawareMammalon Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore

European engineer here. All you said is totally valid, but still, what people complain here is "forcing" to go back to the office. What advantage does forcing people to work out of their homes bring? It can only be justified with "companies don't trust their employees"

selfawareMammalon Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070

Or lower pensions

selfawareMammalon AI powered realtime fluid simulations are here

Website not working

selfawareMammalon EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers

Layoff is used correctly here. What gets on my nerves is when the companies talk about "impacted employees" instead of "laid off employees", as it if had been a meteorite.

selfawareMammalon Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis

Hmm Im trying to open a few csv's but none of them seem to work. The ui opens but I have no filters or ways to display anything, I just can see the name of the columns/fields from my data. Am I doing something wrong?

selfawareMammalon Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis

Amazing! Does it work with Pyspark?

selfawareMammalon Orion Browser

I'm not good, would you like to pay me? I won't stop you

selfawareMammalon Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

Sorry but how's Spotify's service worse?

selfawareMammalon Life Is Short (2016)

It's still a social construct. As knowledge and science advance, the need for religion decreases and it's really on us to accept there are some questions we cannot answer.

selfawareMammalon Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?

Thankfully it's not all about height, even though it's important. I'm sure you can sharpen other skills to make things go your way.

selfawareMammalon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022)

  Location: Barcelona
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:  
   - Concepts: Node.js/Go/Python, React, Relational and non Relational Dabs, Jenkins, Docker etc 
  Résumé/CV: Full resume available on request
  Email: adrienaranda@gmail.com

I was part of Bolt's layoffs and I'm based in Barcelona! I have ~1YoE but I'm not afraid of asking and I have a proactive profile so I'm confident I could bring value to any dynamic organization. Feel free to hit me up and thanks!