I'm also not trying to get into an argument, but totally disagree, and honestly believe that your attitude leads to an untenable breakdown of the social contract. I don't agree with use of the tongue-in-cheek term "riff…
> Maybe some of my difficultly understanding is being American In the UK, in winter, ambient exterior air is both fairly cold (let's say 40F) and extremely humid, often around 80% relative humidity. Houses are both…
After finishing the article, I am left with a much deeper suspicion of the felony murder rule, and of plea deals in general, than I am of giving minors the same sentences as adults. That's not to say that I agree with…
Source for the claim that nicotine use "ruins" gut health? My understanding is that the relationship between nicotine and gut health (indeed, overall health) is much more complex and nuanced than that. I know that…
> like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work It's not inconvenient to bring a phone, but it is very inconvenient to have to conduct personal business on a phone rather than on a laptop.…
> It isn't reasonable to expect a non lawyer to understand it A closing argument - the specific example the parent comment used - is made to the jury. It is intended to persuade the jury. If the jury can't understand…
diagnostic does not mean "not covered", it just means it moves out of the "zero cost even if you haven't met your deductible yet" categroy defined by the ACA, and into the regular category where you pay your deductible,…
> I believe that in the US, there is a certain age, after which, they're covered. There is a lot of confusion over this point, even among support agents for health insurance companies. i) The Affordable Care Act…
> does anyone else have their entire day sidelined by a 10-minute call? is that common? It's extremely common for me. It really comes down to the point made in the article. If you have five or six calls already, the…
>It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text. I really couldn't disagree more strongly. I think it's much easier to correct misunderstandings over text. In a spoken discussion, there is a…
> You can just spin up a raw VPS on EC2 or Lightsail, give it a public IP, and call it a day You could do this, but for the life of me I can't imagine why you do this over using a platform like DO, vultr, hetzner or any…
> This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard” It is also a surprisingly common pattern to adopt very complicated solutions for applications that are…
> US HUD says it's ~16% of homeless people, other sources give different numbers, but it's certainly not a majority "Homeless people" is a broad category that includes people temporarily living in vehicles, bouncing…
Increasingly, my reaction to AI-generated content of basically all types is simply a deep, resonant sadness. The growth of AI feels a little like losing a limb - there is an initial shock of sadness, an initial dose of…
I can't help but wonder about the relationship between fathers (and, in fact, all parents) spending more time with their children, and people choosing to have fewer children, and later. I think it's unquestionably true…
> living paycheck to paycheck. This phrase is used so often, but I don't know how meaningful it is supposed to be A family might make $300,000 a year and be living "paycheck-to-paycheck" while also maxing out 401k…
I deploy prod by running a shell script I wrote that rsyncs the latest version of the codebase to my server, then sshs into the server and restarts the relevant services how could k8s improve my deployment process?
I'm trying to estimate how much better than git a new system would have to be to convince me to abandon git and learn the new system I don't know the answer, but I think it could easily be three times as good and I…
certbot and ssh keys are things you set up once I haven't rebooted my DO droplets in something like 5 years. I don't monitor anything. None of them have been "retired".
>Swap to diff and start reading through the changes this forces the reviewer to view the entire diff at once, which can greatly increase the cognitive load vs. being able to view diffs of logical units of work for tiny…
Developing for Android is also a much worse developer experience than developing for iOS, because there are thousands of devices to support, and much greater stratification of operating system customizations and older…
> Instead use an inside source, an employee you know at the company you are interested in I have been reading this advice for a decade, and I have been working as a software engineer as a decade, and I don't know anyone…
Seeing as it's the A18, are there any concerns about third-party "desktop" software not running on this new platform?
Presumably you mean me, and every current and former team-member I've ever had? If so, you're talking about hundreds of engineers.
being fired and being made redundant are very different under UK law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_in_United_Kingdom_l...
I'm also not trying to get into an argument, but totally disagree, and honestly believe that your attitude leads to an untenable breakdown of the social contract. I don't agree with use of the tongue-in-cheek term "riff…
> Maybe some of my difficultly understanding is being American In the UK, in winter, ambient exterior air is both fairly cold (let's say 40F) and extremely humid, often around 80% relative humidity. Houses are both…
After finishing the article, I am left with a much deeper suspicion of the felony murder rule, and of plea deals in general, than I am of giving minors the same sentences as adults. That's not to say that I agree with…
Source for the claim that nicotine use "ruins" gut health? My understanding is that the relationship between nicotine and gut health (indeed, overall health) is much more complex and nuanced than that. I know that…
> like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work It's not inconvenient to bring a phone, but it is very inconvenient to have to conduct personal business on a phone rather than on a laptop.…
> It isn't reasonable to expect a non lawyer to understand it A closing argument - the specific example the parent comment used - is made to the jury. It is intended to persuade the jury. If the jury can't understand…
diagnostic does not mean "not covered", it just means it moves out of the "zero cost even if you haven't met your deductible yet" categroy defined by the ACA, and into the regular category where you pay your deductible,…
> I believe that in the US, there is a certain age, after which, they're covered. There is a lot of confusion over this point, even among support agents for health insurance companies. i) The Affordable Care Act…
> does anyone else have their entire day sidelined by a 10-minute call? is that common? It's extremely common for me. It really comes down to the point made in the article. If you have five or six calls already, the…
>It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text. I really couldn't disagree more strongly. I think it's much easier to correct misunderstandings over text. In a spoken discussion, there is a…
> You can just spin up a raw VPS on EC2 or Lightsail, give it a public IP, and call it a day You could do this, but for the life of me I can't imagine why you do this over using a platform like DO, vultr, hetzner or any…
> This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard” It is also a surprisingly common pattern to adopt very complicated solutions for applications that are…
> US HUD says it's ~16% of homeless people, other sources give different numbers, but it's certainly not a majority "Homeless people" is a broad category that includes people temporarily living in vehicles, bouncing…
Increasingly, my reaction to AI-generated content of basically all types is simply a deep, resonant sadness. The growth of AI feels a little like losing a limb - there is an initial shock of sadness, an initial dose of…
I can't help but wonder about the relationship between fathers (and, in fact, all parents) spending more time with their children, and people choosing to have fewer children, and later. I think it's unquestionably true…
> living paycheck to paycheck. This phrase is used so often, but I don't know how meaningful it is supposed to be A family might make $300,000 a year and be living "paycheck-to-paycheck" while also maxing out 401k…
I deploy prod by running a shell script I wrote that rsyncs the latest version of the codebase to my server, then sshs into the server and restarts the relevant services how could k8s improve my deployment process?
I'm trying to estimate how much better than git a new system would have to be to convince me to abandon git and learn the new system I don't know the answer, but I think it could easily be three times as good and I…
certbot and ssh keys are things you set up once I haven't rebooted my DO droplets in something like 5 years. I don't monitor anything. None of them have been "retired".
>Swap to diff and start reading through the changes this forces the reviewer to view the entire diff at once, which can greatly increase the cognitive load vs. being able to view diffs of logical units of work for tiny…
Developing for Android is also a much worse developer experience than developing for iOS, because there are thousands of devices to support, and much greater stratification of operating system customizations and older…
> Instead use an inside source, an employee you know at the company you are interested in I have been reading this advice for a decade, and I have been working as a software engineer as a decade, and I don't know anyone…
Seeing as it's the A18, are there any concerns about third-party "desktop" software not running on this new platform?
Presumably you mean me, and every current and former team-member I've ever had? If so, you're talking about hundreds of engineers.
being fired and being made redundant are very different under UK law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_in_United_Kingdom_l...