deprecative

This has to be what it's like at Google. You have marketing on one end of a table and developers in another county.

But then lazy "people" would benefit and we don't like that.

Given how vehemently wrong you are I can only imagine you don't understand what's being communicated and don't want to learn what's being communicated.

There's no need to strawman. Even if storms weren't getting stronger we'd still have to contend with rising sea levels and the loss of arable land just for starters. While it would be ideal to live in a state of progress such that most folks didn't own nor operate a vehicle there is no credible threat at this point toward not being able to own and operate a vehicle.

While I like a good conspiracy, it seems to me as though this was a perfectly appropriate outcome of technological advancement. Surely old storms would be biased high given a variety of reasons.

> - Take a long break during the day

Your status goes yellow and you're fired.

>- If you code, try to cluster your meetings together to reduce context switching. Block focus time on your calendar to avoid drive-by meetings that break up these clusters.

If you code, you don't have enough authority to do this.

I wish. I take some amount of pride in having pretty solid video and audio for meetings. I get stuck with people using their awful macbook microphones and webcams, and most don't bother with headphones.

Then they wonder why everyone hates meetings.

> Kind of eye opening and makes me think I should move somewhere like Denmark while I’m still young and working.

No part of the US wants any of us to retire. You are to work until you die and please do so after giving two months notice and please expire at home. If you can leave you should. We all should. Not many of us can leave.

Then you get to me going "Who the fuck is Nat Cole?" only to realize you meant Nat King Cole. Now I know exactly who it is.

As someone with (not diagnosed) depression and (diagnosed) insomnia I have never thought about it but I think this tracks with my experience sort of. I regularly go 24 hours or more without sleep and tend to feel only tiredness - not my other symptoms of depression.

Most of the country? I was happy to cross the $60 barrier after a decade of experience and job hopping a few years back and now all of the jobs are in the high $40s now. I got laid off and I can see why now. These companies wanted to save $20 an hour at least per developer per team and they can.

It's not that HN folks pay inordinate attention to headlines in isolation. I don't think you meant it that way, but that's how it comes off. The issue is that people often don't read the articles that the headlines are for. We can see this on any social media app. For the purposes of this comment, maybe discussion?, I think that HN, Reddit, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, etc., are all social media. Some folks might want to squabble over exacts but to make things simple to discuss I chose to define it as such.

For science in particular, I think it gets a bad wrap generally because people don't like it when you tell them something might be true then say it isn't. The general population really doesn't seem to like it when the scientific community says "we may have the answer for x, y, and/or z but we don't know for certain." as that's too complex of a thought to keep. We, generally, love to be told simple truths for complex problems.

We see this in politics broadly, as well. When discussing tickets as a SWE I know we tend to understand this by the time we're intermediate developers and adapt our language appropriately.

> both the actual consequences and the decision processes that led to them.

Forgive me if I'm not going to click on a Twitter link, but the YouTube video only covers site infrastructure. I see no evidence that Elon won't Elon again. 4/20 blaze it.

> The point is it will never achieve anything if it keeps getting delayed by the FAA.

If Elon didn't want things to be delayed so bad by the FAA maybe he shouldn't have launched on 4/20 for the lulz without adequate launch site infrastructure for such a launch.

The FAA shouldn't let them launch until SpaceX has proven they've done the work and have done their best to mitigate these issues going forward - both the actual consequences and the decision processes that led to them. From what I remember the FAA basically rubber stamped SpaceX's incident report (or whatever it was called) that the Internet reported as being from the FAA itself.

> If the MPG standards were addressed, I think it'd be a hard sell for a real 80s style small truck

They'd just have to be EVs instead of ICE.

People love to hate on PHP then love to love JavaScript. It's bonkers. PHP is clearly better than JavaScript, it's just that we're all forced to use JS.

> 43% of US households have fiber-optic home internet. 60% of households live in areas with 5G coverage.

I'm doubting both of these numbers. Even if 5G coverage is there, like in my home, it's not a good enough connection to do anything beyond watch the 5G symbol play tag with the LTE symbol.

Even when we live in that world we still live under data caps.

> I'm not in some magical internet wonderland inhabited by just my family and me

You are to an extent.

You're not a child but a child is what enables that behavior. I do not have a child nor am I a child. If I am out of the house I am driving, engaged in an activity, or there socially. When I was a kid I had my gameboy and I'd play it nonstop. Then I started driving and having adult responsibilities and all of a sudden I'm not able to do that.

Then again, I wouldn't have gone to the park to watch my infant while I played games. I could do that at my house.

> Are scientists comepltelty oblivious to this for what is obvious to so many others?

Science requires evidence. Plenty of folks don't gain weight as they age and others can't gain weight if they try. Anecdotal evidence is not sufficient for scientific endeavors. So we must create hypothesis and rigorously test them. Science is really the process of proving yourself wrong and then looking at what the data dictates. "Look at your facebook feed" isn't conclusive nor compelling as evidence to anything other than our crippling need to post everything on social media.

> If the ads were guaranteed to be funding the creators (as well as the platform), I could stomach that.

The payout of Premium does go to creators but I understand the hesitancy toward giving Alphabet even more money.

For me, I pay for the highest speed because I know I'll never get there. If I paid for a 300mbps line I'd get maybe 10-20. If I pay for a 1.2gbps line guess what? I get about 500mbps. That's definitely more than enough for basically anything I do right now but lowering my speed to the lower tier will mean I'm invariably half way back toward 10mbps.

> I highly doubt we’re ever going to comprehensively fix all of our infrastructure issues in America.

We won't and we don't want to. People think that we're just a "few years out" from being able to fix things. We don't want to fix things. We love our country this way. This is what we vote for. This is what we pay for. This is us. We love being covered in the fetid scum at the bottom of a dumpster. It gets us off.

> So, now Google isn't quite as fussed about fibre.

Even if they were they couldn't get into a whole lot of markets. It sort of piggy backs off of municipal fiber which is a nonstarter in some places due to costs or it straight up being illegal.

Google also has Google Fi which is a mobile provider.

> Brave + Tampermonkey + Disable YouTube Video Ads + ThisYoutube = no more adblocker popup

Or you could just pay for the service you so clearly utilize?

> Good luck getting that flexible of an experience with a full console or desktop.

You could stream your gameplay without resorting to Cloud. Steam has (had?) a great service where you could stream your game from one computer to another on the same network.

Admittedly, I'm not in the cloud gaming market nor would I ever be. First, data caps prevent me from doing this. Second, let's say I wanted to stream from some public place. I have to connect to their wifi? Non-starter. Not going to happen. Stream over mobile? Data caps again, this time they charge an arm and a leg and the connection quality is garbage. Third, if I am out of my house I'm probably driving. A Switch, Steam Deck, or Cloud Gaming can't do anything for that.

It turns out I'm no longer a child. I cannot game while out of the house anymore and that's ok. I will never sign up for a cloud gaming service until they can get over the infrastructural issues that prevent adults like me from engaging. For starters that would be public transit, and better Internet infrastructure and services.

I'm happy you found a use case for it. Most of the United States in particular, and I'd wager the world as a whole, does not and will not be in a place where that's viable.

My assumption for why "World of X" games didn't pan out under ActiBlizz was because Project Titan destroyed all appetite for other MMO games at Blizzard. You've got the MMO team on WoW. Are you going to split that team up to go work on MMOs for Starcraft or Diablo?

This is as equally true of "it's shit now and will continue to be". Capitalism demands profits and enshitification ensues. Might as well enjoy what you can while you can.

This has been true of every employer I have ever had. It's true outside of "tech" as well but nearly all of my experience has been as a software engineer.

Most employers I've had are all about getting engineers to be everything. Designers, infrastructure, QA, UI/UX, and even product/project managers.. everything.

The ones that are still there. Let's not pretend like Blizzard, or the games industry broadly, kept their employees around.