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I missed the "Empty Inside?" section. Apologies for that - I'll be more thorough in future articles/comment sections.

Fair - I missed the "Empty Inside?" section. Just accidental carelessness. I appreciate the correction, though your tone was needlessly aggressive.

I will be more thorough in future articles/comment sections, and apologize for wasting your time, but please mind your attitude next time.

Did they ever consider there could be a hollow core, or filler to account for the discrepancy?

> I just don't like reading other people's code lol.

Do you work for yourself, or for a (larger than 1 developer) company? You mention you only code for your own tools, so I am guessing yourself?

I don't necessarily like reading other people's code either, but across a distributed team, it's necessary - and sometimes I'm also inspired when I learn something new from someone else. I'm just curious if you've run into any roadblocks with this mindset, or if it's just preference?

Wasn't this confirmed what Meta does?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2025/03/25/author...

I think humans can have different motivations. For your son, it seems to be this.

When I was 12, I originally wanted to make video games, but found that I just loved building things and felt like programming was a magical toolbox. For me, it's not a means to an end, but the journey I actually like - I'm a builder, not a storyteller.

> It’s not superpower, because it’s not the local people who are so smart. It’s only small percentile of imported skills.

This is the entire basis of the US, excluding Native Americans. I'm first-gen American, have only ever lived here and wholly identify as an American. My story is super common here - and its not that many generations back that most Americans were European/African/Asian as a whole. So I don't exactly understand what you mean - the power did consolidate here with the mixture of many brilliant minds across the globe, and largely has remained until a recent President has decimated our reputation.

I didn't wear a suit, but in 2012 I wore slacks, tucked in collared shirt, and a tie, and got the same response from Microsoft. It was for an internship which is hilarious.

I interviewed elsewhere and one other time I wore an Oxford. I passed the university interview but the hiring manager told me for the on campus interview to not wear that again, or I'll stick out too much. I wore a plain T-shirt and have been happily employed for 10 years here :)

I'm the same, and it makes me paranoid. I feel like I'm investing purely in one company instead of any defensive diversification.

But my job is very demanding and I have 4 hours after work to spend with my wife and kids before I have to start all over again. I'm just not in a season where interview prep (which may as well be a university 16-week course) is reasonable.

After the Great Suspender debacle, I feel the same. I try to limit plugins/extensions to as many minimal use cases as possible.

It's not possible to accidentally steal $1B when your intention was to steal $10K. Scale does matter - this isn't "luck".

I think there's almost no chance. SBF is a perfect example of someone to throw the book at. He's effectively Madoff 2.0, the people everyone from the lowly to the elite hate.

Ross Ulbricht is a very unique, interesting case. I don't for a second believe that Trump has any moral imperative with pardoning him, but his sentence for the crimes he was prosecuted for was very clearly unjustly large in an extensively murky case. There's also a whole slew of benefits to Trump for pardoning him - it's largely perceived as very pro-crypto, pro-libertarian (ironic), etc.

I completely agree with you. I actually have this privilege and I still would be absolutely grinding until I got any job.

I also think in terms of retirement - it's not just savings being depleted, but it's active months I'm not adding to my savings. And I'm certainly not living off of 50% of what I make post-tax, so the burn rate becomes exceptionally high.

Considering half the comments are “Proxmox” and “Virtualbox/Parallels” are so much better anyway, I’m guessing most commenters in here are extremely naive and not aware of the IT landscape.

It’s odd to me someone would come in here and blame his Christianity over every other problem Intel has had before and during his tenure.

Edit: Ah, not their first time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704262

That is a solution, but not an ideal one for many (most?). One of the great innovations of the smartphone is that I have all 3 devices in one small form factor, so I don't need to carry/travel with the bulk of many.

This sounds like a good case for an allowlist for certain applications - Camera, Spotify, Notes, etc.

> It seems people have a burning desire to live the rural lifestyle, though, even in so-called cities.

I just want like... to not be stacked like a sardine for $3500/mo. I would gladly take a rural lifestyle if I could find a job that would support it.

I use nix-darwin on an M2 as a daily driver. It works great! A few quirks you need to go with Brew (mostly graphical applications), but my setup is almost identical between my NixOS and my nix-darwin setups other than that (and some OS toggles).

It never stops people from commenting “why didn’t you use X obscure technology I made?” unfortunately.

It's also incredibly condescending, at least the way they wrote it.

For those on macOS, yabai + skhd have been part of my workflow for years now. They are fantastic to bridge the gap I miss so much from i3.

Yes.

1. You're already in your terminal.

2. You get to use Vim (if that's your thing).

3. You don't have to use VSCode (if it's not your thing).

> tests all of the possible target images that they claim to support.

Or even at the very least the most popular OS that they support. I'm genuinely imagining right now that for this component, the entirety of the company does not have a single Windows machine they run tests on.

Odd that you choose Windows to swipe at when this was largely CRWD's problem + a mix of awful due diligence by IT departments.

Thank you for the context!

I genuinely have no idea how to read the first diagram presented. Maybe I'm not the target audience - I'm significantly NOT a visual learner, but that first diagram is far more confusing to me than code/pseudocode.

This is not true - you do own your phone if you pay for it outright. Apple cannot take away your phone.

As far as the software - Apple owns iOS and licenses it to you for your device.

I guess they are saying they don't need to ask you anymore - if you willingly give your actions (servers you browse, things you say, chats you react to, etc.), and they can infer from that, then where's the foul?

I think it comes before that - the first pieces of data they are scraping. I don't buy that the problem is that they can and will infer your age/gender/etc. based on that.

Nix + Home Manager is by far the easiest-to-manage system for dotfile management to date for me.

The added bonus is:

1. No need for complicated directory structures that a symlink-like script needs to manage.

2. Dotfile management coupled with package management. Dotfiles only make sense as configuration to packages you have - why would you not tie these together?

3. Minor-to-no tweaks required to have a fully reproduced setup on any machine.

Seriously, I transitioned my dotfiles from my NixOS machine at home to my work-issued M2 within... an hour?

I will never not evangelize Nix.