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I have no comments on the project itself, which I’m sure is very nice. If you’re taking suggestions, the mobile web view unfortunately captures 75% of the viewport on the side menu, it’d be nice if it were collapsible or flexible.

Keep on keeping on!

Very patiently, and to be honest, I think it’s kind of a gamble. I shoot my CV and the kinds of jobs I’m looking for to recruiter agencies and let them sort it out.

Some call me a year later with a job opening and I take those as just an opportunity to de-rust my interviewing skills, and maybe a bit of catharsis, no expectation of moving forward. On the more selfish side, I just enjoy the chat, recruiters are pretty and they make introspective questions I don’t get to answer often.

Some offers move forward, some don’t, I got my last 2 jobs that way (8 years). Not a programmer btw, I’m in IT.

Usually the other way around is the case. For example, you text a friend "I'm thinking about buying a bike' and you start getting ads everywhere about bikes and motorcycles and such. WhatsApp messages say they are encrypted but if that kind of thing gets out and is sold to advertisers, one can presume its not very private.

I guess some lawyer at Meta got creative, saw this as defensible in court and now selling phone numbers wholesale is a standard practice from now on. I hope not.

Que bueno ver otro Uruguayo aca en HN, somos pocos pero buenos!

Que estes bien Fernando, me alegro que prefieras quedarte en el paisito y cultivarlo ayudando a otros.

I did this as an exercise just now, and I noticed I answered mostly in networking terms. Sockets, ports, explaining what an autonomous system is and how DNS requests flow between them, explaining a TLS handshake, and HTTP and HTML and what a server is, and how it works, there's always more to cover.

I realized I know very little of what happens _inside_ the computer during the typing, what libraries are involved? How does data flow _inside_ the computer? I like to think I know enough about my hardware, but this has been humbling.

Thank you for bringing this up.

This is going to come off as a bit of a rant, and it is, but maybe if a reader feels like quitting they'll learn something reading my take.

First job I quit was because of the terrible bosses, had a real tiny tyrant sitting in the high chair, though I cited inflexible scheduling on the next job interview.

Then there was this one, I was lied to when interviewing and there wasn't any upward mobility nor a structure to help me develop as a professional. Their idea of developing as a professional was teaching me about ergonomics and repetitive motion injuries. It was dead-end, so I left, again. I said that 'I had grown as much as I was going to in that company' during interviewing.

Another one I left because I hated what I was working on and the boss I was under said 'I was too valuable to the team and could not let me go', yet refused raises, or shorter shifts, or to pay for some certifications, or even give me a few more PTO days. I went through a period of grieving where my ambition was being fought against everywhere, I sacrificed my social life, my education, and so much more for nothing. My identity as a professional shattered irreversibly, I no longer care about work at all, it's just there to pay for rent and food, that's it.

I've since joined to be the only a small business that pays me full-time salary to be on-call, and calls me like once a week for very very basic IT support. Unprestigious? Unambitious? Dead-end? Boring and unstimulating? Yes to all, you bet, that's just the way I like it. I took up gardening and bookbinding and I put my goodwill and energy into that now.

If something is to be learnt from this post, is how to spin bad things into good ones when you want to sell yourself, or to not tie your identity to your job. I had my middle age crisis at 27, it seems.

Nobody asked but I'd like to chime in with my method.

I have a lot of aliases, for example to start my QEMU VM with my development stuff in it, I make an alias for 'qemu-system-x86_64 [...]' with all the switches and devices and files required, called 'startvm'. I have another that takes me to my current project's folder and pulls the repo. And a third that creates a new folder called 'newproject', creates a small set of folders and empty files with specific names, and finally makes a git repo in it. I am a serial abandoner of projects so I use this more often than I care to admit.

It's not pretty, but functional; and since I always copy my dotfiles when I change computers, I've kept these small helpers with me for a while now.

>Fez, for example, had pretty mediocre art.

Are you in the camp that says the creator was an insufferable man that did a lot of damage to the credibility and likeability of indie developers for years to come?

I remember reading about that a while ago and it wasn't until the last 5 or so years that indies got back into magazine covers and such.

Maybe one day we'll speak about these silos and systems the same way we speak about the communist bureaucracies of old. Minus the crimes against humanity and all.

Perhaps centralization is the problem? I can't help but think all those people in crypto that said "we buy into the protocol, not the coin!" were onto something after all.

I had an extension (that I found here) that transformed all NFT avatars into Jared from Subway. It really takes the edge off of whatever they say. Even the most serious arguments just turn into kids' spats with that picture, it made the site more pleasant to be in.

If space is a concern I'd venture a guess that you live in a dense urban area. Try buying a batterypack + low-end smartphone to use as a hotspot, and go outside to work. To a park, or a cafe, or if you can afford it, a coworking space. It'll do you some good to see other people and/or the sun.

VR is, in my opinion, a walled garden being sold to companies looking to justify some budgets. I'd explain but my post looks negative enough already, it is left as an exercise to the reader.

It means 'watercraft' or 'sea worthy ship' in Spanish, too. :)

In what language does it mean 'hay barrack'?

How did you get into e-ink screen programming? I read here that e-inks are a market dominated by one company and that all the toolchain is owned by them, did you make your tools yourself?

Nice product, btw.

I think the article you refer to is this one: https://www.reforge.com/blog/balancing-user-vs-business

It looks like an interesting read about what this decision looks like from the other side.

Thank you for introducing me to reforge, I know what I'll be doing with tomorrow's downtime now.

TIL about Muntzing.

From the Wikipedia page about the practice [1]:

> he reduced his costs and increased his profits at the expense of poorer performance [...] so the Muntz TVs were adequate for a very large fraction of his customers. And for those [...] where the Muntz TVs did not work, those could be returned at the customer's additional effort and expense, and not Muntz's. He focused less resources in the product [...] and focused more resources on advertising and sales promotions.

While reading this I thought "This guy is a used car salesman if I've ever seen one", and he was! haha

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing

I espouse a belief that apps have two cycles, one of growth, another of exploitation.

In the first, cash is burnt/used to give free goodies and provide good quality services. Rents are a byproduct and not a goal during this phase of the operation, the goal here is to build goodwill and market share through measures that the competition can't match. All in all, it is a good experience to use the service during this stage.

The second stage of the operation is all about rent-seeking. Portions get smaller, ads are deployed in full force, all of the bridges in and out are lifted so value can stay inside the ecosystem. Prices in general go up and it is time to cash out all of that goodwill and market share for money. Owners and founders generally sell during or before this stage, as the business will lose consumer confidence and competitors will gnaw at its heels until it becomes just another bad app/store in a very saturated market.

I remember reading a multiwork series on The Office (US) and it used terms like 'psychopaths' and 'sucker' to describe how organizations grow and die when the 'psychopaths' at the top decide to cash out, I'd point to their exit as the turning point in my text.

I can't back up what I feel with books or research, just what I've seen by looking at the progression of big businesses in my country. Apps, burger boutiques, consulting firms, even the furniture builder guy that lives around the block, all of them went through this cycle.

Yes, you can use a ruler and the scale to get closer with each guess, regardless of what the picture shows. I use the built in drawing app on Linux Mint.

Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles written (don't judge me)

Attempt: https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png

I got 0 mi! [1]

After the first 2 I stopped attempting cities and figured the picture didn't matter, it was a game of triangulation.

Nice game, I like it, even though I've never set foot in the US.

[1] Spoilers! - https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png

The article's timeline ends in '96, two years before the release of Starcraft.

I think it's more about the origin of the genre rather than it's greatest exponents. I believe an honest retrospective on RTS should also include Warcraft 3, RA2, AoE2 (!) and Cannon Fodder, among many other titles.

I share your sentiment about Stormgate, I hope I get to play it without having to upgrade my PC, at least.

Where I am, we use BugZilla which is open-source.

I don't believe it has a customer-side access like Jira or ServiceNow (at least we don't have it set-up) but it does have e-mail hooks which you can make open tickets for you. Here's how: https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.6/en/html/api/email_in.html

I hope it helps you.

PDFs could destroy paper-based books, alas, the publishers of said books took measures to artificially limit supply of ebooks.

It'll happen to other forms of supply decoupling like replicators and infinite energy.

I have no proof, yet I'm absolutely certain.

A guy with a history of bombing buildings has more bombs at his house and you say it's not demonstrative of future bombings?

I don't see it, man, I think you just want to go against the grain, here.

Explain yourself.

> It's unlikely the average C programmer has never written a program with undefined behavior

I'd add that the average C programmer can't spot UBs before they cause a problem, they are not your average bug. Unless you're very well read or are just told about them, that is.

> Certifications are a poor replacement for a degree [...] HR also favors degrees [...] Since you don't have a degree/certs and we can't pay you what we would pay someone who is qualified

What a joke, I see it all the time. The worst part is that by the time this happens it's too late to do anything about it. What are you going to do? Let me get my 5 year degree real quick, brb. I'm almost 30, I can't go back to school and stop working.

I bet on work experience and self-learning as a substitution for paid education because I was dirt poor and it was the wrong bet, apparently. 10 years of work experience and I have little to show for it.

Good write up, than3, thank you for this.

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I'm an SRE, supervising and mentoring a multinational team to maintain 6 branch offices in 4 countries, with 500+ users using our services, keeping inventory healthy and people happy with their tools. I work with lots of service providers, and can run an office smoothly, in an organized, transparent and predictable fashion.

I'm looking to switch jobs since, due to my condition of being a contractor, I am unable to progress further in my current job. My employers are very willing to offer more responsibilities to me but since the pay won't accompany, I just can't stay in good conscience.

I'm looking for SRE Jobs where a similar level of responsibility is expected of me, I'd like to have a job where I can be more proactive instead of reactive, in a company where vertical growth is possible. Any schedule that begins and ends within 5AM~5PM GMT-3 is alright with me.

Thanks for reading.

Led lights, PIN numbers, and ATM Machines are all members of this phenomena, I wonder what it is called...

If you're doing reactive work, an oversimplified explanation of Kanban is to just put pending jobs on the board sorted by priority and that's about it. Doing proactive work means you can choose what goes on the board and that's where the nuance could happen.

In my previous job we used it and I liked it, but I haven't used Scrum before so I can't comment as to how effective it could be.

Managing the confidence of your benefactors is a big deal in business, I'd say you can make a career out of it alone, no other skills required. So in a sense you could say that Scrum is the businessman's brainbaby to handle engineering types.

This is an old thread but here goes my answer nonetheless, I hope you get to see it.

VO2 max capacity is an adaptation that all athletes develop through cardio training, so much so that there are drugs that make this adaptation in red blood cells abnormally abundant, like Epoetin Alfa/erythropoietin. If a drug can do it, making it permanent could be possible too.

As far as we know, the drug that Lance took makes you have high blood pressure, introduces iron deficiencies and (in people with previous heart conditions) may cause cardiac insufficiency, so it's not pure benefits.

In short, your argument of 'all mutations have benefits and drawbacks' is right, but if the benefits are that high, there's no question of who'll do it but what counter-indications are you willing to put up with for the massive benefits it brings in sports (and life!) performance. Lance said he felt like a god when he was on it, he slept like 3 hours a night, rode for 12 hours a day, and won the Tour de France with it, with no sequelae, neither (according to him, so take it with a grain of salt).

Before anyone says 'just take steroids, man', I'm all in favor for a separate league of juicers in all sorts of sports, be it team sports, combat sports and solo endeavors. To me it'd be super interesting to see what humans are really capable of.

If live editing of cells is possible I would like to see enhancements. Say, increase VO2 capacity in our blood or something that processes lactic acid to make muscle recovery a faster process. That'd be nice.