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levythe··on Angular 9.0
This isn't a bad thing if the things the framework does aren't terribly useful for what you want to accomplish.
levythe··on Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
I don't believe the assertion was that these genes are ethnogenetic. I find gp's assertion dubious as well, but I think you may have misunderstood it.
levythe··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
Since you seem to have doubt to the name you were fishing for, I've heard the term intrusive thoughts.
levythe··on You Can’t Choose to Be Trad
Personally, I've seen a number of individuals (mostly Zoomers) upset by the void of purpose left by the deliberate aimlessness of postmodernist thinking turning to religion for answers. They can't articulate it like that, but they have consistent things they mention that led them to this, "I've been told my whole life to do what I want and I don't even know what I should want, let alone what I do want." "I feel like I've lived my life just laying around doing nothing, and now I feel like I suddenly woke up from a long sleep." Outcry against cancel culture has similar subtext to it.
levythe··on Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’
It's an argument that cars and bicycles don't mix well.
levythe··on Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study
You both fundamentally misunderstand. American conservatives don't trust the government to do right by the people. It's as simple as that.
levythe··on You can't just rename your IT Ops team and call it DevOps
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks like this. Every time I read someone referring to, "a DevOps," I wonder what they think they're referring to. No one person is going to be everything you need for effective development and operations combined outside of small, extremely focused scope. DevOps is about avoiding the, "Just throw it over the wall," mentality, not making one person handle the whole thing.
levythe··on Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
Care to elaborate? The connection is not clear to me. Fine movements of fingers and arms isn't exactly the same as intensive full body work.
levythe··on Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over
How is building a ride sharing network not an area with high barriers to entry?
levythe··on Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee
Has this actually held up? My understanding is that what specific and specialized areas of work on off-time is considered company IP have to be enumerated, and must depend upon availability of unusual proprietary information.
levythe··on Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee
Have you read one of these agreements? They're vague and defer all the important details to litigation.
levythe··on Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
Public gathering points on scales much larger than any public square could facilitate ought to abide by the principles of the US Constitution, even if, and this is an if since I'm admittedly ignorant to this detail, their behavior is not legally obligated by it.
levythe··on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
Wakaremasen would imply that you are incapable of or forbidden from ever understanding. It would be very strange.

I've honestly never heard anyone use ga before hanaseru. It's always been wo that I've heard.

levythe··on Some Indian Twitter users are leaving for Mastodon
$5 is not micro. 5¢ is.
levythe··on Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales
There are plenty of concerns around the reliability of a single payer system or a publicized care system aside from what has already been mentioned. For instance, the sustainable quality of care is brought into question, as is the incentive for continued development in the field. There are reasons to be upset about the current system, but these are two things it undeniably excels at.

There is also simply anxiety over giving one of the most if not the most powerful government in the world power over its citizens in such an intimate fashion.

levythe··on Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
These comparisons will be made all over the place, since these designs are always inspiring each other. When I see the new edge logo, I see something that resembles some of the unused branding of the Xbox One and Xbox360, something that resembles the Firefox logo, something that resembles the new design direction of the office suite, something that looks a little like iOS gradients, something that looks a little like the Chrome logo, and so on. I'd say it looks a lot more like old Xbox branding than Firefox branding, though.
levythe··on iPadOS Discoverability Trouble
I'd rather just pay the little bit extra for a 2-in-1 of that size.
levythe··on iPadOS Discoverability Trouble
I honestly don't think a chromebook accomplishes much I would want a computer in that form factor to do. Guess that goes to show I'm perpetually not the target audience.
levythe··on Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
When did it change to first to file?
levythe··on Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
It's typically considered the best approach to cast a broad net, then narrow down until a patent is granted. That being said, in the US, patents are given on a first to invent basis, so if you are awarded a patent that is overly vague, it's pretty likely it won't hold up if challenged. I find myself questioning the value of a patent office that awards patents that are vague enough that they wouldn't hold up in a dispute.
levythe··on Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman
An voluntary or involuntary manslaughter conviction may be less severe a sentence, but it's hardly getting away with it.
levythe··on Software Link Suspected in Airbus Engine Blowouts
I wonder how two different teams can be so different in culture saying they do the same thing. My team looks at velocity only as an indicator of how much we think we can reasonably take on looking ahead and as a warning sign if things are falling apart.
levythe··on When everyone suddenly started using “impressed” as an opener
It's much less amusing when it's used seriously by a lead engineer who clearly hasn't actually thought about what "the needful" is and who clearly just wants to pass off the "ask" you "brought them" to someone who clearly doesn't know what "the needful" is.
levythe··on How to prepare a technical interview (and why good programmers also fail)
Frankly, typing the code is the least important part of software development.
levythe··on Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
Fruit juice is only marginally better. Most of the good stuff in fruit is removed when you just extract the juice.
levythe··on Why don’t we have good code editors?
When I use emacs, I hardly have any shortcuts memorized. I just use smex, which has fuzzy matching for commands. When I wanted to open a file, I wasn't sure what command would do that, so I pressed M-x and typed "file." One of the suggestions was, "find-file," so I chose that one, and it gave me a prompt for which file to open, I entered the path in an interface that also had similar fuzzy matching, and I was ready to go. Afterwards, a brief hint told me the key command if I don't want to bother typing, "finf," but I don't really use it.

The command pallette in VSCode is pretty nice too, but I don't recall having quite as nice an experience using it. I still do my professional work in VSCode, though. Emacs is for fun.

levythe··on New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat
One could spin it around and argue that what that maintenance level is depends heavily upon the individual's metabolic processes, which depend upon gut flora, diet, weight, exercise levels, timing of consumption...
levythe··on DoorDash will change controversial tipping model
I'm American born and raised. I find tipping as it has become in America to be abhorrent. It's purported to be a bonus for good service, but if I'm given poor service, the social expectation is that I still add at least 15% in tips or I'm stingy and rude. It's never even considered that perhaps the one paying my waiters is the stingy, rude one. Hiding an additional mandatory fee and enforcing it through social dynamics between two people who experience it as something entirely different from what it is purported to be while continuing to insist it's just a bonus is simply rotten. Tips should not be an expectation, and if it takes doing away with them entirely to separate ourselves from that expectation, so be it.
levythe··on Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
To turn it around, if I'm going to grind for you, I had sure as hell better be properly compensated for the grind. If I hustle to get you what you need, you bet you're ass I'm going to expect a commensurate return. If there isn't a mutual benefit to my hustling, why would I put it in? What makes you so entitled to my time and effort that you can't make an equitable exchange for it?
levythe··on Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
I have been blessed to have an office to myself. The day they move me to an open office (read labor pit) is the day I only come in half the week and take the rest of the week remote. Face to face has its uses, but I can't get meaningful thoughtful work done if I don't have my own space. Judging by my observations passing by open offices, I'd wager most people have the same take.
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