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I'm not American; I also wasn't blaming you for anything - I took care to avoid that!

I appreciate the reply none the less.

You mentioned targeted rebates, which feel a lot more "active". My personal ethical barrier seems to be where its a direct interaction with the problem domain. e.g. I'll work on a tool for email marketing, which incidentally gets used by gambling orgs, but I wouldn't work directly on say, Roulette software.

I was hoping to get some insight/context into how they actually feel about it, rather than guessing. You can certainly come to peace with a past decision, change your opinion later etc etc.

It really seems like you have effectively caused the deaths of many people through your actions. Does that have a lingering impact on you?

Took me ages to realise I never get ads on IG. I'm in some sort of permanent control group.

I have bad news about realtek networking...

Same. My usage is via an internal corp gateway (Instacart), Sonnet 4. Used to be lighting fast, now getting regular slow downs or outright failures. Not seeing it with the various GPT models.

Which things are the US ahead in?

Windows containers work* on Windows 11 Pro.

That said, work is a strong word; Windows containers in general are pretty jank.

Totally agree for non-technical users. For anyone technical, and willing to suffer a little bit, go with Arch. The docs are incredible, and you end up with a much better understanding of how everything hangs together.

FYI, you've been hellbanned for seemingly 6 years. Probably the account name triggering a spam filter?

Email hn@ycombinator.com, they may be willing to unban you, so other people can see your posts.

I'm surprised it continues to exist at all. The main content ltt puts out these days is purely mass market entertainment. Physical products are still pretty good!

Just switch to Linux. It's very accessible for anyone who might have an account on here.

You still can; its a pain in the ass tho. They keep changing it, I suspect in the hope that out of date tutorials will deter less technical users.

Ditto; ~20 years of dotnet dev, 1000+ games on steam. Couldn't be more baked into the ecosystem. Its just the work laptop left with windows now, and the team is working to support a non-windows dev env.

Docker supports either hyper-v, or wsl2 as a host for the Linux kernel - they generally push people towards wsl2. I vaguely recall wsl2 uses a subset of hyper-v the name of which escapes me atm.

Shush please. I wasn't old enough to cash in on the Y2K contracting boons; I'm hoping the vibe coding 200k LOC b2b AI slop "please help us scale to 200 users" contracting gigs will be lucrative.

Rider; however that's on a Windows work machine. We are a solid way to getting a linux/mac dev env going; maybe 30% is netstandard2.0, 10% is net9, the remainder net472 (including an old school non-sdk web app on IIS). Maybe ~ million LOC in its 14 year lifespan.

My personal dev is shifting to Rust.

Just pull the trigger. A surprisingly large amount of software just works on wine.

I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience, and I finally got the shits with advertising in the start menu. Arch Linux, because I figured why not do it properly?

I game a fair bit, and find most things on steam just work.

I'd love your thoughts on why it might be hardware. I reason that my hearing is generally fine - there's no issue picking apart loud complex music (I love breakcore!).

But play two songs at the same time, or try talking to me with significant background noise, and I seem to be distinctly impaired vs. most others.

If I concentrate, I can sometimes work through it.

My uninformed model is a pipeline of sorts, and some sort of pre-processing isn't turned on. So the stuff after it has a much harder job.

Because it can use the full set of information of the audio - people with hearing difficulties cannot. Also interesting, people with perfectly functional hearing, but whom have "software" bugs (i.e. I find it extremely hard to process voices with significant background nose) can also benefit :)

> if you feel that Israel is a threat

Israel is very clearly, without any question or doubt, a serious threat to every one of its neighbors.

Do it now? I use Firefox on all devices, it's completely fine.

NZ is pretty unique, there is quite a lot of farmable land which is protected wilderness. There's a specific trust setup to help landowners convert property, https://qeiinationaltrust.org.nz/

Imperfect, but definitely better than most!

Ahh yes, software development, the discipline that famously has difficult to measure metrics and difficulty with long term maintenance. Months indeed.

Absolutely. Everyone has a price.

You could frame it a different way; what level of risk would be acceptable vs. the reduction in cost/time/use of resources. If you're 10% faster for 0.1% risk, is that a better outcome for society?

The suggestions generally still work towards my goal; this is a different phenomena to "holy shit the consciousness is trying to kill us again" panic switch. Maybe its some low level optimisation to reduce energy expenditure, so we can last longer, and find even more food!

Anecdotally (but an experience shared at by at least some other long distance runners), when I get quite far into a calorie deficit via exercise, my brain will start suggesting shortcuts - urges to cut the corner on a trail, take a shorter path back etc. Its quite interesting!

Huh.

>> There are no layoffs plans at Automattic, in fact we're hiring fairly aggressively and have done a number of acquisitions since this whole thing started, and have several more in the pipeline.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1hxnh73/automatt...

It likely writes request logs to disk as part of the request!