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I'm on the other of the spectrum apparently, I'm annoyed that I even have to carry a key/fob. I'd rather have a fingerprint sensor or something, with the key as a backup (i.e. when I let some borrow it).

I also have a smart home ;)

The higher up the food chain you can go the more effective this is. Someone who thinks that negotiating is part of their job and/or persona is more willing to call the place they think they can get a deal on rather than the fixed price offering.

Whether they're correct is a separate question, but it's an effective strategy if you're targeting that buyer.

The tone here isn't great but parent is more correct than not. This is why large companies don't use freebie services. They vet companies and partners, sign enterprise deals with support, SLAs, penalties, insurance, even bonds in some cases. It costs more, and it's hardly fun for most people, but it's all part of mitigating those risks. And it's not just tech, you see the same thing in non-tech industries like manufacturing.

Basically the difference between sympathy and empathy. You can validate someone's feelings by simply acknowledging them (sympathy, "I'm sorry you feel upset about that, how can I help?"), or you can participate in that emotion (empathy, "Yeah, that pisses me off too! Let's fix it.").

Neither is definitively better or worse, sincerity is paramount, and it's all contextual, including the personality of the person involved. I think aligning on what mix to use is possibly the most important thing in a relationship, especially a professional one.

I agree with you, but that's a hard sell to many people.

There's been a large amount of social conditioning over the past few generations in America that says that if even a tiny slice of the population would abuse a program, that program is worse than the problem itself.

Anyone who's volunteered at something like a food bank will have seen the person in the nice car and nice clothes show up and take food and it requires an unfortunately rare level of benevolence to just move on and remember that you're there for the far larger number of people who really need it.

I'm not sure selective is the right word, there were just far fewer choices. A typical record store would have O(thousands) of different titles, whereas spotify has over 100 million. Obviously much of that is trash, but it's still a huge difference.

It's also worth noting that a big contributor to the 90s spike was people replacing tapes/records with CDs, which were a far superior medium for most usage. The decline after 2000 was not streaming, since that didn't exist, but the wind-down of the upgrade cycle and the rise of file sharing and 0.99 digital track purchases in lieu of $15-20 album purchases.

> effectively reducing income for artists.

Does it though? Revenues are off their 90s peaks, but coming back[1], and keep in mind that in the 90s a _huge_ portion (~50%) of that went to the retail store and physical media manufacturing.

[1] https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc

For me the line between a small and medium business is if you have HR.

> I never saw a kid that can't ride this instantly.

As a data point, we tried this with my son, who is physically very capable if not advanced, and despite many attempts over months, it never clicked for him. We eventually went the training wheels route, which he instantly adopted, and once he was comfortable on that for a while, he learned to ride without them in a single session.

We've since met other parents who had similar experiences, so I think it's definitely not a universal thing that balance bikes are better or even useful.

I can't wait for IntelliJ to get where Cursor appears to be. Being able to combine a great IDE with project-level AI coding will be a huge leap forward.

+1, I've had mine for 5+ years and it is still genuinely a joy to use. I went with the "buy your last tool first" approach and splurged on a 5HP ICS and don't regret a single penny spent on it.

They can both be dangerous but one difference is that the band saw _seems_ much less dangerous and people would take it less seriously. In a shop full of adolescent novices I could see this causing more injuries whereas the tablesaw is probably more closely supervised and people will respect it more.

I'd say overall a tablesaw is more dangerous compared to a band saw because it has the additional failure mode of kickback which happens occasionally even to very experienced operators.

  > === How to Learn in the First Place
  > 
  > (1) Play with something.
  > (2) Read the documentation on it.
  > (3) Play with it some more.
  > (4) Read documentation again.
  > (5) Play with it some more.

(6) You're starting to learn it! Now fix the documentation

I think there's more than a quantitative difference between "slightly more convenient" and "with no effort". A centrally maintained list of labelled "enemies" that you get forever with a click is materially different than having to research people who gave you a reason to do so.

There is definitely an obvious fix, just have collateralization be considered realization. You're welcome to have as much money on paper as you want, but if you want to post $Xm in stock against a loan, you need to pay taxes on it first.

Does this mean that you could be prescribed an Apple Watch if you were at risk of apnea? Or even use an HSA?

Is there a German word for the feeling you get where you want the opportunity to apply a hard-won skill, but also kind of don't? I feel that reading this all-too-accurate comment.

Like many/most of us, I've been through this, but by virtue of luck and experience, haven't in a while. I think I've learned to spot the symptoms early enough that I avoid the companies/teams/projects that are on that path.

For those who think this is inevitable and unavoidable in a tech career, take heart in the fact that it's not!

As someone who grew up with a handful of channels and no recording or TV guide besides the one that came in the paper, this experience is pretty accurate* , so kudos on the execution, but in contrast with some other comments, it is not nostalgic in any positive way. I will gladly take clickbait thumbnails and titles over wasting time flipping through garbage.

* It's missing the part where you get your little sister to hold the antenna in a certain position so you can get a clear picture.

A good handyman is an incredible asset. I've had periods where I had one available, but they are very hard to find, and like most professions, hard to keep as someone else will often outbid you (or offer full time employement in these cases). I could keep one busy for weeks right now, if not longer...

I too lean towards DIY but have had to learn to make the hard decision on projects. "Will I realistically get this done in O(days|weeks)?" "Do we actually have any weekends free in the next ~month?" This usually leaves enough low-pressure jobs for me to do on my own, while maintaining domestic harmony by paying someone to do the rest.

It possibly could be, if they were organized as a non-profit that paid them a reasonable salary (which is probably an overambitious goal for most authors). After all, IKEA is a non-profit.

I actually did this not too long ago and observed an interesting phenomenon that I had kind of noticed over the years, but never really tested.

I found a pair of shoes that I liked, but they wore out quickly with daily use (3-4 months). I bought 3 more pairs and rotated them and those three lasted for like 2 years.

As silly as it sounds, I wonder if there is something about giving shoes a "rest" that makes them last longer.

It's confusing, but if you add a "Site search" and then set it to your default, it becomes a "Search engine".

Predictable, certainly. Consistent, not so much. They seem to start with a decision and work their way backwards through the reasoning, cherrypicking from a versatile and whimsical set of "principles".

Originalism not cutting it, try textualism, conservatism, or maybe even a little liberalism if you want to spice things up! If none of those are really doing the trick, there's always the "tradition" sledgehammer that you can use for anything you want.

Many of these things (E.G. "hardworking") apply to almost any career, or can be trained, but to me curiosity and patience/persistence are the things I think have an outsized effect on whether someone is a great software engineer.

Counterpoint: I spent several years in construction, and the assistant superintendent on the project, who was at the end of a ~50 year career, often complained that so much had changed he had no idea what was going on. The tools, machines, materials, techniques, schedules, laws, etc. all changed so dramatically he was really only able to remain expert at the human elements.

In the sense of Sapiens†, yes, copyright is a fiction, but so is money, or any law or contract or agreement. In as much as it affects people's lives and societies and economies it is "real". The question of the article isn't about realness, it's whether it can evolve or survive this latest shift.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Hu...

While I'm always in favor of accountability and transparency, measuring success by counting things that didn't happen is very difficult even under the most benign circumstances. Mix in politics and careers and it's almost certainly guaranteed to misrepresent the goals and work being done.

When I see "open" I read it as "I can do what I want with it". I don't read it as any obligation on the part of the provider/creator to incur ongoing costs on my behalf.

I started my career with VB/VBA/Access, but got burned by one of their non-backward compatible upgrades (I don't remember which versions) that derailed an important project. This was around the time that Java was what the cool kids were using, and I was very amenable to trying open source after that experience, and I never looked back.

It was a great experience though, especially for a self-taught beginner long before code academies and YouTube.

My father discovered this on a trip to Chicago long ago, and brought a few home to Massachusetts. They were great for playing in our yard, where the fence was too close for a real softball, but these are much harder to hit >100ft so they let us use the whole yard.

We always called them "Chicago softballs"