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wahlrus··on Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?
Cheers, that's awesome!
wahlrus··on Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?
I've been daydreaming about this for years.

How did you get into building polebarns? And then framing houses? Who did you convince to take you on? Did you have prior experience?

wahlrus··on MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule
I've been thinking similarly. I'm not a particularly smart nor informed person, but here are some things I'm thinking of investing in:

- Land near a water source

- Learning how to cultivate land and food

- Learning how to be a good neighbor

wahlrus··on YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
It would be cool of creators such as Jim could start hosting their vids on Peertube or something similar. They could still post on Youtube--just also link to the other option for an ad-free experience.

Hopefully Goog won't bring down the hammer on cross-posting videos!!

wahlrus··on The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival crash so fast?
It seems like quibi raised the equivalent of the entire GDP of Belize without first verifying if literally anyone was interested in their offering.

Classic silicon valley-style hubris.

wahlrus··on Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed
Dang I really hope they do the same with the new xps 15 and 17... But there's probably no market for this aside from me specifically T_T
wahlrus··on Ask HN: How are you holding up?
This abstract says that depression risk decreased by ~8%, but I still think this is an amazing finding.

I also wish I was scientifically literate enough to understand how good the study is :P

wahlrus··on Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
I don't think you're wrong. There will certainly be some sort of correction of the bullish remote-work spirit.

But the 2020 lockdowns will fundamentally increase the amount of remote work permanently to at least some degree.

Like how before Bernie Sanders ran for president, no one in mainstream US politics was even talking about socialized healthcare. Or how before Andrew Yang, no one outside of silicon valley had ever heard of UBI.

This is hyperbole, but you see what I mean.

wahlrus··on Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
What you're describing is a common way of using feature flags—except the percentage part comes from how you manage the servers running the binary with config. I.e. on day one, 5% of servers in cluster get True for the flag value. The double the percentage every day until 100% or otherwise rollback if it's a bad cut.
wahlrus··on Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
Sincere question: is this true in the SF Bay and/or California? $21/hr might not make sense in Cincinnati (edit: Cincinnati is just an example)--local context is important.
wahlrus··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
I really enjoyed the markup/css styling on this piece. While the content is certainly up for debate, it was presented in a very visually clear and informative manner.
wahlrus··on Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
Lol. At my job, I code in several different languages. Sometimes, a new project requires me to to learn to write in a new language. It's not a big deal... Programming is pretty general, so new syntax doesn't slow me down too much.

But I can't tell you what the sleep command is any of these languages. I look it up every single time :P

wahlrus··on Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law
Can confirm--in Cambridge and smashing the up-vote because I like bikes!