FatActor

A long time ago, naive me learned that tech companies also invest their money and that those returns count toward their valuation, and that seems wildly backwards to me, but I'm an engineer, not a financial expert.

> are way older than me and I first started college in 1999.

I was told not to major in "underwater basketweaving" in 1983, or otherwise I'd be garbage man--as if that were not one of the most important jobs in a society! It's been the same class-warfare BS for coming up on half a century: demean low paying jobs at all costs for reasons I still don't understand.

I don't understand your comment.

> You’ll be offered personalized coaching.

Thank you for reading this so that I don't have to. Coaching for walking is an Onion article I swear.

Even if the claims are valid it is still Windows/Linux only and ignores the cost of getting M1 customers to leave macOS which is like trying to get a linux user to switch to Windows .... not bloody likely. Maybe they are trying to get a design win at Apple against Apple's own silicon also not bloody likely.

I agree with your sentiment and also understand that this won't stop the world's thirst for a commodity (see: dole bananas, hersey chocolate, all mined gemstones, and dinosaur juice). If we really are a global economy I would like to see proactive protections for these countries (like fair trade agreements) that guarantee environmental regulations are imposed and observed and that workers are fairly compensated and not exploited ... i actually think that might be possible if the the US and EU lead and lithium-block operations from more authoritarian companies with similar interests like china who have already taken over large parts of africa's mining operations through truly nefarious (IMHO) belt and road investment.

This article is a great example of how to draw conclusions from changing data, and how to call out the sources of uncertainty at every turn. I think a few were missed based on the comments below but I don't think that was done out of nefarious agenda but rather an attempt to keep the essay short as the author seems to have done enough research that i trust they didn't overlook these second order implications.

That's a lot of asphalt.

What I remember most of mine was the smell of the exhaust: a bit like overdone cheeseburgers.

Let's talk about Estes model rocket D-size engine bazookas. Because that's where the 70's really shined.

I didn't know that. Maybe I was too hasty, and this was a looooong time ago. Curated lists would be helpful.

I ran little snitch for about a week years ago and there were hundreds of thousands of requests just from typical apple services so trying to curate that list was an exercise in futility. It's a nice GUI but not a useful tool. Plus the knowledge it takes to use LN ends up pointing you to using the more effective tcpdump+bintools and modifying your mac's packetfilter config file.

> 5. Show up in meatspace

Clearly not a future-proofed essay.

I already find myself creating multiple personnae so that I can enjoy the internet without having to worry about being scanned too deeply without my consent but it turns out to be a lot of work and effort and i'm not even sure i'm doing it right. I realize this is antithetical to the HN community of let's all be real people and create a community but even participating in this community still is an exposure to harvesting by bots and a security risk. The fact that all HN threads are easily accessible to anyone is problematic in my opinion and i think a bit naive which is why i don't comport with the true spirit of this site.

I was curious how this person was paying US$0.22/kWh when that is 2x Oregon, and found this interesting table:

https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/

Not sure how accurate it is, but what is up with New Hampshire at $0.32?!

Hawaii seems like it could knock it out of the park with wind and solar, but they're at 45cents. Ouch.

I will never understand why people like you start fights in disingenuous attempts at discussion, with practically know knowledge of the topic. I guess I fell for your trolling. Well done.

I drove around New Mexico four years ago and there are a number of ghost towns between Las Cruces and Roswell, these are towns that have nothing but boarded up buildings and no people. A waiter in a restaurant explained to me that once the population drops below a certain level the grocery stores disappear then the schools and finally the post offices and police where people are expected to drive to the next town for any of the above. At the point people just migrate to a city even if they don't sell their houses (which seems wrong to me like who would just abandon a house?) but I didn't actually stop in the towns, i just drove through. A handful of remote techies aren't going to bring these ghost towns back but they might prevent others from collapsing.

I think that's the hot take here. $150k/yr for that much work and future instability compared to an office job with a ton of benefits... Hmmmm... For non-techies maybe this is the golden goose, but for people in the tech world for more than a decade it would probably be a no go, it would be for my family.

There is an experience to using a UI (bad colors make for a bad experience), but it is not UX. Totally different. Here's how it Don Norman makes the distinction: there is no medium to UX. That's a fairly large conceptual difference.

Here's another example: user focus. When an important event occurs, should the user not be able to continue a task and be stopped until a decision is made, or should they continue to work and have the error as a notification? At what point in the experience is the user flow of execution halted for input? This is UX because it doesn't care about the UI. UI is after the UX decision and whether you implement it with a popup, or an alternate screen that overlays, or even a CLI prompt in the case when it is not a graphical UI. Maybe a good way for you to conceptually separate them is to think about the behavior and forget whether you are using a GUI or a CLI to implement it.

I can see this is pointless because clearly you have no experience with either in a professional context. I feel like you're just trying to "win" here and not really listening.

> Considering these to be separate disciplines is just more of the same madness. They're inextricable.

Not if you've actually done both. ;-)

Here's an example:

UX would be: on beginning a customer purchase, do we use a funnel pattern (isolating the purchase experience from the layout template), or is there backout that allows the user back to the store instead of back through the path.

UI would be: how do we design the checkout template, what colors and fonts from the corporate palette do we use where

Totally unrelated.

Make sense?

You are exactly confusing UX and UI.

Usability--what you are describing--is the UX or user experience, buttons colors composition affordance is the UI, connecting the buttons to the REST endpoints is frontend, servicing the REST endpoints is backend, making sure the backend is running and so is the gateway is devops. At least that's what it has been for 20+ years.

I don't know why it is so pervasive, but programmers think they are inherently good at UX/UI for some reason. And they are very possessive about it. I was until I married a designer, and they actually went to school to study visual composition, balance, color language, etc.

I'm fond of saying UIs designed by engineers look exactly like UIs designed by engineers. I'm not saying that all designers are always better than all programmers, but when you've studied visual composition, it shows.

I mean just look at the scorching replies you are getting. You definitely offended some people who fall into this "I know better than any stoopid artist" category.

The bottom of the screen, I literally lol'd over the moreicons.dll and the STILL persistant Win3.1 MFC-ified file properties.

I see things like this and I think, "Wow, should I be calling myself a programmer?" ... even after ~40 years at it! But that feeling makes me love programming even more. I adore this project!

Biggest problem is any of these can be rehearsed and the best interviews are spontaneous ones where the person opens up into uncharted authentic territory vs canned responses.

Of these, I've only been asked questions 5-9 back circa 1990 when I was just starting out and the "where do you see yourself in 5 years" and "what are your strengths/weaknesses" were ubiquitous. Something must have happened in HR world in the 2000's because interviewers stopped asking these questions even thought I was still hiring for dev positions so maybe a memo went out or possibly the internet was blowing up. By the 2010's I was 20+ years into my career and at that point your CV speaks for itself and they just want to know if you are going to be behaviorally difficult person. Interviewing very senior people is a much more difficile proposition.

When I was 20 (cusp of 21) and hiring for internships my mentor told me the answer to "where do you want to be" should be "in your seat" but I my mentor was so old he didn't understand the concept of HR people giving the first interview lolololol.

It screwed up my capital one password change by not filling in the "re-enter" field, or offering a different password for this field, and then not asking to remember it, causing me to have to reset a forgotten password.

Don't blame CapitalOne, it is 1P's fault for offering a broken feature: if you can't properly update an "update password" form, don't offer to do so. Like tesla and its bogus FSD.

I've been changing some passwords and 1P constantly overwrites the password it just generated or when I click on a password to change it overzealously copies it which means i repeatedly have to go back to the generated password vault look at the history and copy it into the password entry. LastPass was a bit less trigger happy with the click-and-copy and smarter in detecting when a password changed. Like I said, both have bad UI, 1P is just a little worse than LP.

> scrubbed from the internet very effectively.

that sounds a lot like conspiracy talk to me like when people talk about how the united states government scrubs articles about free energy, moon landing conspiracies, and lizard people from the internet so that the citizens don't know the truth.

putting aside GDPR and the right to be forgotten that is law in most of europe how does one scrub controversial things from the internet when we can find things like Mormon secret religious ceremonies are on youtube.

If you explain what you mean I could comment but I don't know what you are getting at.

No. I don't see how "surely" is meaningful when Kinsey demonstrated the entire population is kinky a/f with much larger, rigorous surveys four decades ago.

Just because someone is on Fet doesn't mean they are in kids or dogs. There are lots of "just here for some experimentation" or "just had a divorce, need to party" or "20 somethings wanting to be edgy for a few months so they can say `I did that thing`" types of people that pop in and leave in a few months and don't really build the community. They seem like normal vanilla folk who wanted to give it an honest go, which makes me think surveying Fet doesn't mean "extreme kink" is over-represented because of it.

That's a good clarification. Thanks for the example.

Hmm... perhaps my concern is that expert opinions matter way more than non-experts, but we still can't blindly trust them.

...and I'm sure you're not saying to take everything they say as word of truth.

I withdraw my argument on the grounds it is poorly constructed.