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fileeditview··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
Sure. What I meant is that you don't need the 100% to go private. But maybe that was obvious.
fileeditview··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
I think you only need the majority of shares to go private and then the rest will be payed out automatically for the set price.
fileeditview··on Generics can make your Go code slower
That calculation assumes that Go and Node have the same performance and the only gain is by parallelism. But I agree.. the performance difference seems strange. On a 1 core basis I'd expect something like a factor 2-5 gain.
fileeditview··on Oxidation makes tea black
Not sure where you are located but e.g. here in Germany there are quite a few online tea merchants where you can buy good tea. I would never try to find tea on Amazon or ebay.

Aside from the online merchants you can find small tea shops in all cities usually.

And aside from the quality the taste preferences vary a lot obviously. Most tea shops offer some set/package with a lot of different teas in small quantities for testing.

fileeditview··on Oxidation makes tea black
I actually prefer green tea and would urge you to try some "good" ones instead of the Lidl one :)

The difference is huge if you have a high quality green tea. Also make sure to use the right temperature to infuse. I would never go higher than 80°C and for some teas I only us 70°C. This is the most important thing a lot of people do wrong. Hotter water destroys the flavor and makes the tea bitter. Also very short steeping times from 1m to 1,5m are the norm.

Another thing noteworthy is that you can actually use a portion of green tea for 2-3 times depending on the quality (on the same day).

fileeditview··on Go 1.18
You can also use a map[T]struct{}. I like bool better because of the default value behavior but struct{} is very clear and does not take extra memory.
fileeditview··on A word used only by Postgres developers
Hehe.. I once was asked to retrieve someones mail account (he lost is password)... sigh. People have all kinds of ideas what you can do if you are a programmer.

Told him to contact the provider.

fileeditview··on Review of Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Toshiro Kageyama (2011)
For a pretty good client and a rather large western player base https://www.gokgs.com/ always was a good place to play.. Didn't play for a few years though, so things could have changed.
fileeditview··on Review of Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Toshiro Kageyama (2011)
You might "suffer" from Aphantasia[1]. I learned about this a few years ago. Before I thought it to be totally normal to not "see" any images in my head. Turns out it really isn't that normal. There is definitely a grey area here but for me it's pretty black. I cannot imagine any picture in that sense. I also play chess and it always was a mystery to me how people can play blindfolded.

I always got lost somewhere in the middle game.. probably just because I could not visualize the board in my head. I am still pretty good at calculating tactics in chess and Go.. so it's hard to say what is actually important for what aspect of the game.. the brain is a complex beast!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

fileeditview··on Do Not Change Your Job
I absolutely agree but there is this conceptual problem. I think it's the same as with retaining and finding new customers. There will always be great offers for new customers while the current ones can be happy with what they have.

There always is a barrier of changing things. Especially changing the job involves a lot of decisions and brings risk. The pay increase in the new job (and maybe a signing bonus) is trying to convince you to switch.

I guess what this means in the end is that you are seen as replaceable and are not valued enough. I heard similar statements from middle management once, when a bunch of junior colleagues left the team. They didn't realize that, although junior, they were doing a great job. It's funny because a good raise for them would still have been quite "cheap".

fileeditview··on Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Why then build the pipeline in the first place?
fileeditview··on Fengari – Lua for the Browser
I deeply appreciate the stellar naming of this project!
fileeditview··on Ask HN: How can I calculate my market value?
Where in Europe? 32k seems very low for your role.. I am not sure how people without university degree are paid but I still think it should be a lot higher if you have all the required skills. Also maybe clarify what cloud architect means exactly.
fileeditview··on Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
This is what i meant (profitable). Sorry bad translation. However their vaccine research was highly funded by states (at least here in Germany and I suspect everywhere else too) so.. not sure how easy it would be to calculate all of that.
fileeditview··on Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
Thank god!
fileeditview··on Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
I doubt that. Consider no one was vaccinated and 1% of humans would need medication because of a "serious" case. Then the medicine would need to be 100x more expensive than the vaccine considering the alternative is everyone was vaccinated. Now consider many people got 3 or even 4 shots. It's 300x-400x now.

Also you can give the medicine to already vaccinated people that also have serious cases. So you still can sell it in a lower capacity. Also you can sell both vaccines and medicine to states in large batches which is great.

It's a big golden goose for the pharma industry.. let's never forget that.

fileeditview··on I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety
I am certain there were quite a few people back then saying "the same" about Galileo Galilei. And maybe that the church only had their best interest at heart... to protect them from quacks and heretics.

I find your view dangerous. You believe the chances, that his person is "right" are vanishingly small? That's of course a good reason to flag (delete) that article. Why allow an discussion or other to read the piece and have their own opinion. I cannot believe people are saying things like that with a good conscience.

fileeditview··on Can artificially altered clouds save the Great Barrier Reef?
I would be happier if nobody did these kind of experiments. I have the feeling that playing with the weather may be our last and most stupid failure. Doesn't have to have crazy consequences after the first, second or third time. But at some point it will just turn everything to sh*t.
fileeditview··on You people are just vectors of disease to me
I am still not sure if his performance is serious or satirical.
fileeditview··on Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
I am not sure if they want to be accepted by the majority. My guess is the want to protest against the Covid measures by the government..

BTW I just found this https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article236205086/Ver... by accident.

So even the Verfassungsschutz is saying that the majority of the protesters are "usual citizens".

I don't want to persuade you of anything. You can think what you want. You should just leave the same freedom to others and not frame them because some nutjobs are part of a protest..

Have a nice day.

fileeditview··on Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
Is it defined by you who is allowed to participate and what makes a protest legitimate? If people there make illegal actions, the police has to intervene. That's it.
fileeditview··on Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
You make it sound as if this was the majority but it is not by a long shot.
fileeditview··on Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
Not agreeing with your world view does not make people "an unholy mixture of racists, anti-democratic groups, anti-vaxxers and lots more". You just show your ignorance and the lack of accepting a difference in opinion.
fileeditview··on Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
It's not a problem who is walking among them or what their message is. Anyone has the right to express his opinion. I am getting really sick of hearing this argument. No there is nothing in the constitution that would forbid you to protest peacefully alongside whoever. Also the message you are allowed to voice is not defined by you or some politician.

If you have a problem with some of the protestants you can voice your concerns. But stop judging everybody participating.

fileeditview··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
Concealing all kinds of information to "protect" the sheep-like citizens is counterproductive and dishonest. An honest discussion is the best way to avoid spreading of false information which will always exist to some degree.

However politicians more and more try to avoid all discussion with the voters and just convince them of the rightfulness of their doing. If you don't accept their way you must be wrong, maybe even protected from false information, shielded for your own good..

fileeditview··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
The flu can also make you miserable for weeks. Not sure why you'd miss it.
fileeditview··on Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
You didn't understand my point. It is that leetcode does not help at all (for 99% of jobs) because you are not faced with these problems.. you can of course claim that the juniors which excel in leetcode questions will be good at these other things I mentioned but I don't think there is much proof for that.

Of course you will gain experience anyways over time. But all your leetcode skills will fade into meaningless very fast when you see what the actual problems are.

fileeditview··on Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
Just to think that people who do good in leetcode alike tasks will not get things wrong is funny to say the least.

When I was young I also was pretty good at these interviews and loved doing coding contests and such for fun. However when I joined a big company I learned what really is hard about software "engineering".

It's dealing with legacy code, finding and fixing bugs in highly distributed systems, understanding tickets from customers, managing integration of different components, balancing tests to be enough but not to be too much.

In general the hard tasks are very rarely one specific well determined problem such as finding a node in a tree in the most performant way.

fileeditview··on Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?
Not disagreeing with you.. big companies truly mostly ignore Linux but there are more than a few indie devs who support Linux as a platform. And I tend to play only indie games these days anyways because all the big commercial games have been reduced to some kind of click-and-succeed or free-to-play-and-milk-some-whales crap.

I personally am kinda happy where Linux gaming has come to be. Sure it could always be better but I remember times where there were only like 3 games for Linux and you had to compile them yourself..

fileeditview··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
To me it sounds a lot like the German "ä", which can also be written as "ae". I wonder if this is somehow related.
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