Diederich

> I'm thinking about choosing a new place to live right now. Climate change is a big factor for that.

I'd honestly love to hear your thinking about how to find a climate-change 'aware' location to live, thanks.

> But now, I suspect I might be doing myself a disservice by not exposing myself to all the variants and things floating around.

Honest question: do you know of any source that indicates natural exposure to C19 and variants provides stronger (or equally strong) protection than vaccinations/boosters? Thanks!

The main reason I run my own name server is to support IP over DNS tunneling. Having direct and easy control over the normal records it serves is also nice.

> I've been known to rescind my references and recommendations upon making such discoveries

You understand that most everybody who was born in the first part of the 20th century or earlier believed quite a few things that we now consider pretty abhorrent.

Do you ensure that every bit of material that you read isn't written by someone who also has some really stupid and harmful beliefs about some other topic?

Pugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(programming)

A slightly different formulation:

"All of that is pointless. You're inevitably going to be exposed to ionizing radiation many times throughout your life regardless of what your employer does. Whether you're exposed in the office or somewhere else hardly matters."

Viral loading matters a great deal.

> Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments make the risk minimal.

For some definition of 'minimal', for most people, this is thankfully very true.

That sucks, sorry you're going through that.

I reacted fairly strongly to all three of my Moderna jabs, the most recent was the day before Thanksgiving, and I basically slept all the next day and felt like crap the next two. But fortunately ever since alls well.

> I just became fully vaccinated and each day since I am dealing with dizziness / lightheaded-ness spells.

May I ask: how long have these apparent vaccination related symptoms been going on?

Right. That's why I won't sign a job offer until the background checks are done. Not that there's anything of concern: every one has come back clean as can be, but I just don't like to take any chances.

Companies usually fuss about it, but I insist, and among quite a few orgs over the past 25 years I've never had one pass because I refused to sign prior to background check.

> So the car requires a remote connection to work?

Not at all. You can open it with a phone app (which does require connectivity for both the phone and the car) or a keyfob/proximity key card.

I've operated my Tesla many times well outside of any network connectivity.

EDIT: Full and accurate list of the four ways to get into a Tesla here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29283262

So say we all.

I watch all of his videos and it's always an interesting, learning experience.

> My point being, maybe it is best to avoid categorical statements about "evolutionary perspectives."

Indeed, it's a wide, complex topic that I only know a little about, and I only had time for a brief comment.

BTW love your chain of devil's advocate statements. More people should think/counter that way.

> Specifically, our vascular system is terrible at doing cleanup and nutrient delivery at the same time.

I'd not heard this before, sounds cool. Do you have a reference handy? Thanks.

From an evolutionary perspective, our bodies were designed for fasting. They were NOT designed for 7-8 decades of plenty.

Thank you for illuminating that, it's important.

Wow that's rough, sorry you went through that growing up.

South central has enormously improved since the late 70s up through the early 90s. As a kid, I was personally shot up a couple of times from the street. Crack houses were everywhere, and the gangs were pretty terrifying.

Do you have any mainstream references handy that delve deeper into this? Thanks!

> wretched time and place to be a child

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and can certainly complain about a lot of things about that time.

In your mind, what are the top few most wretched aspects of that time? I grew up in south central Los Angeles, and so gang and drug crime would be the top of my list.

Such dry humor is one of the best things about Jonathan Corbet's writing style.

> Tesla's stats are entirely loaded and biased

Do you know that, or do you suspect that?

> how many miles are driven where AP/FSD would refuse to engage

I've used FSD for the vast majority of the nearly 40k miles on my 2017 Tesla model S. Highways, boulevards, side streets, even dirt roads on occasion.

It's a powerful but subtle tool. Used correctly, I have absolutely no doubt that has made my driving experience safer and less stressful.

It definitely requires an engaged, alert driver.

Where I suspect you and I agree is the impact of Musk's language and claims around the technology.

If he would fully shut the hell up about it, I think it's quite likely that there would be way less ill will toward the product.

Agree with the other reply to you: I'd love to hear more about the nuts and bolts of this if you have a few spare minutes!

I can answer only briefly, and that's a pretty big topic!

I'll skip the apparently pretty amazing integration between the IDE and source control and the build/test system since I didn't use the IDE very much.

I'll just very briefly mention Tupperware, which one might characterize as an internal kind of Kubernetes, except it's so much more, but more importantly, it's way easier to use.

I did write a small, fairly simple stand alone service in Python. It's super, super easy to get something like that 'going', as far as permissions, ingress and egress, storage, all of the real-life complications I've had to deal with, with variable levels of automation/'ease', at other organizations.

I'm out of time for now!

> Really curious what those places are.

We live in a rural area about 10 minutes drive from Olympia, the capitol city of Washington state.

There's a fair amount of public transit in and around Olympia, but none of it comes close to where we live. Uber doesn't serve this area, and taxis are rare and expensive.

My wife and I work from home, and drive our largely hydro-powered Tesla in to town a few times a week.

> That being said, I don't think anything BUT www is written in hack.

I was at FB a few years ending in 2020.

Wherever I work, I end up doing a fair bit of 'code/tech archeology' just for fun and curiosity's sake. While WWW is the vast majority of Hack, I did see it in active use and maintenance in a number of other areas.

Pretty interesting stuff really.

> The tooling now revolves around VS Code

When I was there a couple of years ago, doing Hack development using vim was well supported. Not as slick as the official IDE, but more than good enough for my day to day tasks.

> There's literally no reason to justify the massive investment a complete rewrite would be, like literally none. It's not even close.

Definitely, and my (relatively ancient) background is as a PHP-mocking Perl developer.

In the end, the tooling is far, far more important and relevant than the language, and the tooling at Facebook is better than anything I've seen elsewhere, by a long shot.

Yup, WMT most recently reported $566B in revenue.

> I probably would have been killed if I tried

Wow...are you comfortable sharing more details? Thanks.

Truly? That's great news, I had no idea.

Roughly half of current population I'd guess.