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Redoubts··on Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?
Seems completely unrelated to the comment at hand
Redoubts··on Abolish Zoning
Strikes me as orthogonal, really.
Redoubts··on Abolish Zoning
Sounds like an expensive place to build an industrial factory.
Redoubts··on The SEC's response to the 'meme stock' rally
the socratic method gets pretty close to trolling, if you try a little bit.
Redoubts··on Apple is not defending browser engine choice
We have 40 years of worse-is-better history in computing to look at. Why even ask this question?
Redoubts··on Running systemd without systemd-journald
> This is true, but the author seems to be running their services on several Raspberry Pi like devices whose flash storage may be unstable or quick to wear out. Eliminating unnecessary writes and swap space (depending on the application), those megabytes of extra memory may be just enough what tricks the system into committing memory into swap.

Well the author seems to want text logs instead, which seems much much worse for this.

Redoubts··on Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
BTC is about to hit new levels of support ;)
Redoubts··on Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire
It’s really weird to give him this benefit of the doubt, given his post in /7.
Redoubts··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
In which prior downturn were they even listed?
Redoubts··on How San Francisco became a failed city
Meh, this is a bad plan because they could be booking people, building stats, and busting out Willie Horton redux ads to get the politicians they want.

But they don’t do that, because maybe they really are lazy assholes.

Redoubts··on How San Francisco became a failed city
This is why San Francisco is terrible. The people there refuse to admit basic problems, staring them right in the face.
Redoubts··on How San Francisco became a failed city
> No idea what is going on with the public perception of this city

Really?

> I’ve lived in a lot of places.

Really?

How much broken car window glass have you seen in SF, vs other cities? It’s easily the top for me, by far.

How many times have you personally seen someone shooting up on the sidewalk, or shitting on it, vs other cities? San Francisco takes the cake here vs any other city I’ve seen, in the US or abroad.

Redoubts··on How San Francisco became a failed city
We have literally not been there, and done that.

> but more public housing projects

Who brought this up, other than you?

Redoubts··on Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
or you go to where the people are, and talk in the way that’s expected there.
Redoubts··on Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techies Feel Underpaid
> If you're a senior delivering 10x the value of a grad,

If you are, you’re not getting paltry 2-10% raises yoy.

Redoubts··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
> If you don't think a lot of places aren't gatekeeping on degrees, you haven't looked at many.

I can only think of aerospace, and other engineering-not-software companies that do this. They also don’t pay sw developers much to begin with, so this looks like a very false economy.

Redoubts··on Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
This sounds like a comedy of errors.
Redoubts··on Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
> I use the wireless Apple keyboard and trackpad, which both have similar battery lives,

?

The keyboard has 3-5x the battery life of the trackpad. Not sure how they can be similar to the mouse if they’re not even similar to each other.

Redoubts··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
This is honestly one of the better interfaces for financial instruments and services.

:(

Redoubts··on USPS sued by states and environmental groups over purchase of 8.6 mpg trucks
Isn’t that where the people voting for republicans to defund it are? Why give them something they don’t want?
Redoubts··on Getting hired after fifty
Finance in NYC
Redoubts··on Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD?
I developed on it just fine, and that’s certainly not the only task a laptop is useful for.
Redoubts··on Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD?
Meh, the older 12” MacBook (not pro, not air) was also fanless. I miss that 2 lbs design quite a bit.
Redoubts··on Taxation of illegal income in the United States
This was tested, specifically about weed, in 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

Redoubts··on MIT graduate students vote to unionize
> If their members were really convinced of the value that tragedy of the commons wouldn't occur.

It’s called a Tragedy for a reason.

Redoubts··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
Contact II: Total Commitment
Redoubts··on Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
> Why do people simply assume big tech companies are dumb and they haven't thought their hiring process through? Amazon literally has a research team focused in hiring ...

Well it's been a while for me, but "we just do what the other guys do" was the impression I got when I interviewed there. Except they added a lot more "here's a terrible workplace situation, how would you handle it".

I'd love to know what their research is revealing, beyond questions like the latter case being emphasized.

Redoubts··on I have been terminated from Zoom for refusing to remove the following tweets
You should at least consider pseudo-anonymity
Redoubts··on GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi
Honestly, people can be weirdly difficult about some things. I've had a few cases in business where a vendor will say "this is the only way, nothing else is possible" for an obviously silly solution, only to reveal an alternative after the third or fourth push back.
Redoubts··on The Unbundling of Airflow
* > - Python developers don't seem to grasp the notion that installing a lot of python dependencies on a production server is not a very desirable thing. Doing that sucks, to put it mildly. *

I do find this pet particularly annoying, since this project sits uncomfortably between library and appliance.

In an appliance, yeah sure you can pick and lock down whatever dependencies you want. But as a library you need to be lean and hyper flexible in what’s an acceptable dependency.

Airflow invites you to put a lot of logic into what runs in their venv, which may mean your project’s dependencies must include all of theirs. Being in that state is rather unfun.

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