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Thoughtful and personal, thank you for sharing OP.

Yes to the large desk! I have a dining table with the leaves taken out. I can't believe how tiny home desks are. No one would tolerate a 28" depth at work -- why do we just accept this in the home?

Second on a NICE sizable monitor -- and high pixel density too. I have a Dell and one USB-C cable does the trick. No dock needed, it has enough USB-A (webcam, keyboard).

Ahh, thanks for the memories! If it weren't for my slow reflexes, I would have been much better at that game.

I feel similar. No matter how good at Python I get, I doubt I'll ever write an C interface, I just don't need that. I've used pandas and some of these randomly, but TBH I'd rather write a dataclass with static typing rather than re-construct data in pandas. Does that bump me down to a lesser skilled programmer?

I guess it's easy to pick on any rubric, but I found the implication of this one be unhelpful. I like the training materials that focus on continual development instead -- I don't recall any off the top of my head, but they provide a contextual learning path, like if you've mastered list comprehension now take a look at decorators.

Companies are legally required to keep payroll records for multiple years (depends on where you live, though I doubt most places are less than 3-4). This is ok advice, but these systems don't just work like this. If you didn't have the documentation the bank would likely take your approved tax filings as evidence and move on with their day.

In a real contract dispute your copy of a contact from your documents isn't notably different in the eyes of the court than one from your employer. They're both notarized and if there's a dispute between them there is established processes. Aside from some titles or etc., historical filing ownership is typically relegated to the document originators.

Yes, I think it's kind of odd to see people disregarding some of the pretty impressive efficiency, security, and reliability improvements the phone hardware has undergone. Smartphones are astoundingly good at their jobs.

It would require voting for the other party. The big issue is the parties being willing to back aging candidates. But of course, party leaders are just as old -- so they see no problem.

I used bash and netcat for a queue like this once. I stashed the on disk if the database was down and read them back if far end was down.

The think Kafka really brings to the table is trusting the pipe -- in a case where writing to disk queues would occur often enough, I would run into reliability building my own system, instead Kafka handles that type of indexing.

The reason we have hierarchy in business is to ensure the burden of error is shared. Bosses and managers are there to ensure their employees are providing a reliable service (among other duties). Was a process of sign-offs implemented to prevent errors like this? Was there a process by which the employee circumvented processes that lead to a disruption of the service? Or did the boss/manager not keep tabs on what was happening within their purview?

I'm not usually impressed with revelational experiences like this -- I offer a tidbit to anyone who is struck by this. If you need to power off for an extended period in order to form connections with nature and people, to feel "real" emotions, or to feel like life is fulfilling, you should take that to heart. This experience affected you specifically, do not assume it will have the same effect on others. Your relationship with technology is just as much of a problem as the power off is a solution. This can be true whether or not you're culpable in this relationship -- sometimes we are trapped by circumstances! Use a power off as your tool and not a status symbol. Acknowledge that the same feelings you feel from cutting off are felt by others plugging in.

A good indicator of this is point 5, "Real Connections Are Formed Face-to-Face". Have you cried during a movie or TV show? Laughed out loud at a book? Did you recognize someone in the wild that you had only previously seen on a screen? If you feel some kind of emotion in a non-face-to-face situation it's still real! Do not dismiss this emotion, learn to revel in it -- just as we strive to do when we experience emotions throughout all of our human interactions. When someone tells you they only experience a connection face-to-face you should be skeptical of their claims or warned that they are not sincere. Since the days of civilization to civilization communication humans have made asynchronous remote connections that have kept societies at peace, yet this individual doesn't respond to that (or is trying to sell you an expensive stay at a farm with no electricity).

Idyllic lifestyle is uncomfortable and can be very lonely for some. We're in a trend where "return to nature" behavior can be graded positively on a hierarchy, so I felt compelled to provide this disclaimer.

I tend to fall to this side. If you have anxiety while reading emails, you might also have anxiety while not reading emails. If your anxiety causes breathless-ness, you should focus on treating anxiety.

Really smacks of the you should be drink x amount of water per day, when in reality you should drink water when you're not thirsty or if you have a craving.

That directory is files that are exported from the app or imported from MacOS into Photos.app.

I sign into my work Mac with my personal iCloud account. I use most of the Apple features, but don't sync files. My login account is attached to Active Directory, and admins would have to sign in with a standard local account or their own AD account to manage my device. AFAIK there's no way to access the Photos.app contents from the filesystem. I haven't tried that hard, but you can't look in the directory in ~/Photos. I'm sure at some level most of this stuff is possible, but only in some extreme situation would anyone go that deep to access any of it.

I'm much more concerned about accidentally syncing work things out to iCloud than syncing personal things into my work environment.

We have plenty of licensed RHEL, but in isolated environments the hurdle of connecting to a Satellite server or their subscription hub on the internet is too high -- at least with Rocky and the ilk available. For this set up, the licensing model doesn't match reality, at least not easily.

Are we really going to build out compatible configuration management, monitoring, logging, etc? -- it's not a seamless transition. How much time do we have to put towards this?

And yes -- there is software compatibility issues. Look at the OpenHPC software distribution, it's designed for SUSE or Enterprise Linux: https://github.com/openhpc/ohpc/wiki/2.X

My viewing experience has improved so much since committing to subtitles that I just assume people who are "against it" are missing a decent chunk of the dialog.

I went to a ROMCOM in theaters and still couldn't make out the lines -- it's the mumbling and sound mixing. Without subtitles on an action movie...how do you hear anything the actors say?

I wish I could type the face I made when the alternative to import os is to install a package from pip. The most reliable Python is written only using builtins.

It's just the process of converting every cost center role into a more efficient half-IT and half-HR/Accounting/OPs role. No one will train anyone so what's the next best thing? Automate stuff; or at least pretend to and pay lot's of money to back the idea up.

Just watching the incessant popups was frustrating.

> Historians often rely on new discoveries in order to make breakthroughs. Every now and again, a fresh document, a set of papers or a whole manuscript is found by chance.

Just right off, that's not true. I don't have much objection about the rest of the article. It's a topic like CRT that any modern history education is going to touch on as students finish with baseline skills and move to a more research understanding. Anyone who's been an academic/museum setting knows there's warehouses of unstudied objects to catalog and analyze. It's just boring. Maybe historians are waiting for something exciting, but the small group of object/primary resource studying historians have plenty to work on right now.

History is not static, so many historians focus on re-contextualizing what has "already been studied". This the important meta work that helps to ensure theories and models are always up-to-date. It's similar to math in this regard where finding a new proof to a well-established theorem can be groundbreaking [1]. In history, there are have new translations of The Odyssey that change how a novel that has been taught hundreds of years is seen [2]. A good historian would also point out how these two developments are more closely related than people think -- namely, look what happens when diverse viewpoints are introduced into a well established field of study!

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-... 2. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/the-odyssey-tr...

Sorry that their unfathomable amounts of wealth and massive international brands do not interest you.

If it's commodity, then it's traded on futures. Distributors would sell to retailers who shape consumer-facing pricing to maintain stability. Essentially, Home Depot sells out, looks to their supplier/distributor who says it'll be a few weeks to get enough to meet demand, commodity prices jump as demand increases for short term supply and Home Depot raises their prices.

This is a fabricated sequence of events. It's the SEC/CME/FTC, etc's job to verify the following in this example: 1. Did Home Depot raise their prices _more_ than was necessary to respond to increasing consumer demand and decrease supply? 2. Did the suppliers stockpile or falsely report their availability to result in over charging? 3. Did pricing between sawmills/loggers and suppliers increases proportionally? Did pricing between retail and suppliers increase proportionally?

These questions will help to understand possible unnatural inflation was introduced. In the sequence of events the sawmill behavior is just a single indicator along the way.

Big fan -- keep the good work up!

It's like watching Trump become popular again. It's an aberration that becomes more legitimate every day -- independently of the actions taken by any controlling parties.

> Observe: when the value of people is greater than the value of tools, a society becomes more free and equal. When wages depend on skill and knowledge, when an army depends on the prowess of the individual soldiers, these are the kinds of things that usually go along with mass democracy and empowerment, because economic production and war both require the consent of the individual to work.

This might have already passed -- how many people were sacrificed to COVID because of the "economy". A tool supposedly completely in the power of the people was exposed. Corporations can raise prices and don't have to worry about the whim of the people. Small groups of entrenched executives are now the powerful -- the rest of us skilled workers, arbiters of democracy, can either only dream of such power or disdain it. I think ChatGPT rose from this hubris. You have to be pretty privileged to think that what the People really need is a GPU making sentences up to make you happy.

Humans can know nearly everything that any other human knows (hence...teaching). AI can't know anything (right now). The youth who are critical of capitalism certainly have turned a wary eye on the school system -- after all primary education has been designed to create money makers for corporations. Is a new tool the answer? Likely not. Will it help to change the philosophy of education? Maybe not independent of the change that is already occurring.

Yep! Hit pause on the results until peer validation comes through

Yes, another good example HN users sharing in areas where they obviously don't have anything to contribute. That's to say nothing of the original blog post.

Ok, I'll bite.

I rarely buy a cable and the $30 charger at the store I'm already in is cheaper and easier than hunting for a deal or checking that the cable on Amazon is actually trustworthy. Apple certifying the cables for their devices? Sounds good to me.

USB-C is open...for people to mess up. LTT has a good series where they test HDMI cables and quite a number are just crap. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1387053-i-spent-a-thousand-d...

This problem has been attempted to be solved by software engineers or MBAs -- not people with humanities degrees. Behind every weird convoluted process is a batch of CEOs who don't know what they're doing besides copying their neighbor.

I agree with the commentary about guilds, unions, etc. I'm self-taught and would appreciate the legitimacy that these groups could offer through testing/training/merits etc. By relying on specialist organized groups you're abstracting the non-human issues from the humans themselves.

Yes, two generations of working homelessness and we'll be all sorted! After all, it's the best we can do! /s