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Seems like archive.is is using DNS-based load-balancing/fail-over. My best guess is that the person/group that's running archive.is is having some operational issues right now and you caught that issue.

For the record: from GCP (using default resolvers, e.g. Google) region europe-north1-a... archive.is resolves to 46.45.185.30.

It's not, but do you really think that's going to stop true FP believers from upvoting this article?

"Take back"?

> ceteris paribus

I enjoy googling a new phrase as much as the next person... but really?

From WP: Ceteris paribus or caeteris paribus is a Latin phrase meaning "other things equal". English translations of the phrase include "all other things being equal" or "other things held constant" or "all else unchanged".

Developers are undervalued quite a bit in most places outside SV. (And maybe overvalued a bit in SV.)

I agree about your main point though. It's time to put up (salaries in this case) or shut up.

Linden labs. A dying company. Not sure what this is relevant for.

Exactly.

In this particular case (I have personal experience and have done the research) I'd say the two countries are on par, if you are lucky enough to get the top level treatment in each country.

She is having the surgery in the US:

https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/990983271705018368

I guess she has a health insurance as part of her employment at Adam Savage's Tested.com.

Having a Swedish citizenship, she also has the option to travel back to Sweden, sign a form and within a day or so be eligle for free healthcare there.

My then 70 year old mom (three years ago) had this kind of surgery. She was back in action after about a week.

Hesitated whether to share this or not, in case Simone would read it...

My (then 70yo) mom got diagnosed with something very similar three years ago (golfball-sized tumor just behind one of the eyeballs). It was super scary for everyone involved.

The surgeon (in Linköping, Sweden) was one of the top specialists globally on this type of procedure - I did a ton of research before the surgery.

Recovery took a few days. They were wonderful at the hospital.

She's fine now, but her eye-sight on the affected eye is like 30%. I think the reason for this is that it was diagnosed quite late.

I'm quite surprised that such a young person like Simone (she's 27 according to wikipedia) has a golf-ball sized tumor.

Human horizontal FOV is about 210 degrees on average. 140 does not seem like overkill.

I've been thinking similar thoughts and landed on:

I need something to motivate to me to get out of bed every day.

Also: becoming a reclusive is bad for your mental/social health.

I'm a little bit past 40 now. I saw the writing on the wall about ten years ago (hey, why is there like 1 programmer older than 50 in my company's engineering team of 500?) and started thinking about optimizing my career for this. I was the lead engineer for a rising product. Based on this thinking I consistently made choices that led to more engineering management rather than individual contribution work.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still deeply technical, but I spend at least 40-50% of my time dealing with human problems, getting them to work together, resolve conflicts etc etc.

Ten years later, the results are:

- Financially: Check. I'm okay. I can kinda stop working now, if I want to. If I hadn't done that thinking a decade ago, I would not be in this financially secure position.

- Fun-wise: Meh. It was a lot more fun to build stuff than to get people to build stuff.

To be honest, I'm not sure what's the right path here.

I was approached by some Google recruiter for a very specific engineering management role based on my background. I also thought the same about that general pool thing before that.

The process seemed quite different from what I've read here about the Google software engineer recruitment process.

(After a few phone calls/interviews I realized this was not a position I would likely enjoy, all things considered, so I told them I thought I was bad fit because of A and B, but please keep me in mind if you have another opening that's more suitable.)

Special-sized keys like up/down and backspace are more problematic. Mine is going back for warranty repair next week.

I guess Samsung is just not at their top of their game in terms of pushing differentiated product lines for their M.2 SSDs. Perhaps (or perhaps not) they should learn from Taiwanese companies. They would jump on this opportunity to sell a premium edition for lots of extra margin profit.

Have a look at this wonderful marketing page for a Gigabyte Z370 motherboard:

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/Z370-AORUS-Gaming-7-...

It's the most over-the-top glorious thing I've ever seen. Make sure you expand a couple of the sections.

Volvo has been pushing this concept since 2014:

https://www.engadget.com/2014/02/20/volvos-roam-delivery/

https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/10/vovlo-in-car-delivery/

> Apparently Google decides that if the From: address is yours, then you "sent" the message.

Bad design, period.

After the Damore ousting I've been doing all semi-risky searches on Bing. I treat Google as the safe-for-work search engine. I guess I had this epiphany - before Damore I trusted them with everything. Post Damore, I saw that Google was run by a new kind of explicitly political people. That's scary.

(That is to say: I now only trust Google with pedestrian queries.)

I guess it boils down to that - it was built primarily as a vehicle for transferring money in various directions. Not to cost-effectively project military power.

The Schadenfreude part of me is having lots of fun reading reports of the Norwegians' F-35 misadventures though!

These are the people that I will allocate time to listen to, while they "perfect" their "minimum viabable podcast".

> I see no reason that humanity is worth saving over some other, better form of life.

Knowledgeable nihilists are dangerous. You seem to be one.

After reading Nick Bostrom I'm worried Larry Page is similar.

This kind of thinking creeps me the fuck out.

I played with one back when it was just launched. Besides the innovative outdoor-friendly display it was an insanely bad experience. MIT Media Lab (and with that I mean Nicholas Negroponte) gone crazy.

The UX (both keyboard and software) was .. just awful.

Ha!

We have a swearword for vindictive people like you in Sweden. It's "miljöpartist". Prounonced "millowepartist".

I think I'm not able to go any further than what I already wrote, I'm sorry.

Okay. Thanks, we love it. It was a fantastic invention!

Now please bring the the thousands of bulgarian beggars distributed amongst almost all the Swedish grocery stores back home. Please.

Sometimes, for people like me it's hard to keep track of who's who in tech royalty.

Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these levels yet, I guess.)

Anne Wojcicki: CEO of 23andMe. Former part-time partner of Y Combinator, back then along with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of Pinterest; and Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/09/y...

Sergey Brin: co-founder of Google and formerly married to Anne.

Susan Wojcicki: Anne's sister, and CEO of Youtube, owned by Google.

Sam Altman: President of Y Combinator