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> we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population.

People will point out that the solution would be the opposite: a decreasing population.

But that is not cost-free and basically is swapping a set of problems for another set of problems. Even then "swapping" is a promise at-best. We could end with two sets of problems instead of one.

What is that, precisely?

> overall walk more

Walking more is better for your health. Or are you saying you walk too much already?

The only thing you need to understand about people that make comments like that is that they don't care about anything unless (or until) it affects THEM personally.

The second it affects them, now it's real, now it's "OH this shouldn't be legal". Those people lack empathy.

sacred or scared? ;)

> We have done it at my work to make it cloud agnostic just in case we need to go to another CSP

Have you actually tested migrating Cloud Providers with your cloud-agnostic infrastructure?

You're partially correct.

Whatsapp rose because carriers didn't count any whatsapp payload towards your metered bill. Basically, Whatsapp was virtually free-of-charge whereas any other messaging app/system (SMS included) incurs towards your data cap.

At least that's what happened (And still happens) in Mexico.

Every time, without fail, somebody shows a bug about a piece of code that we take for granted (In this case, the String class) the bug is related to concurrent modifications.

Concurrency is so hard that even OpenJDK developers can't prevent these kind of bugs

I remember a comment (not sure if here at HN or at Reddit)

Whenever a hospital staff gives you a medicine they put it first in your table then give it to you because that way they can bill you twice.

Take it in a grain of salt because I can't verify it and I can be misremembering details.

You're not reading too much into it. That's the meaning of the word.

Because it's prettier than a text file.

Because I can see what my connections (close and not-at-all-close friends) are reading.

Because I like it and have been using it pretty much since 2013.

Goodreads works perfectly for me as it was intended to be used: a nice book database

Glad to hear I'm not alone!

I only follow reputable media in Facebook. My feed consists of news articles from as much non-paywalled newspaper as I can get. I'm from Mexico so most of the media here is not behind a paywall.

I unfollowed all my facebook friends because I don't want to see their shit.

Yeah Facebook can still learn things about me and manipulate me. But I find it easier and faster to use Facebook as an accumulation of my favorite media than going to each website.

I also use Twitter for the same thing plus following programming personalities (famous and non-famous) and some friends.

Even your local news? Local news are more important than any national news.

I think it's a fool's errand to define it either way. An endless task. Even if we eliminate corporate/billionaires greed.

Does this mean the passengers had an instantaneous death?

> Of course the risks were considered.

Billionaire: "Tell me about the risks"

OceanGate: "We use military grade equipment! It's risk-free"

Billionaire: "Sign me up"

Jokes aside, I wonder if billionaires do assess more thoroughly the risks than any normal person. They can easily dedicate a team to assess the risks to their various activities.

I'd say the first question in their minds is "Why do we spend so much money in staff?"

> That’s your choice, I suppose.

Not really.

For personal projects or if you're a freelancer sure. Once you work in a company/startup you can't go and implement things in whatever you like.

It's way easier to convince any manager that Dart/Flutter is a good choice for a mobile app because of the tech advantages than in anything else because of the pool of available developers.

The good old "We have other priorities right now and lack of resources"

Preventing fires will never be a priority. Not even if you smell smoke.

None of coffee stain studios are AAA games.

I think there's a blurry line that separates indie games to non-indie games. Sure stardew valley is an indie game and God of War is not. But those are the extremes of the spectrum.

Is Hades an indie game? It is developed and published by Supergiant Games, but at this point is really well known and funded.

Too bad Dart is only used in Flutter.

Jesus I completely forgot about r/IAMA and Im a daily reddit visitor.

I can't say that that subreddit was better in the Victoria Taylor era than today because I don't visit it anymore. I also can't say I stopped visiting it because of the same event.

But I know at some point I stopped caring about the high profile threads and the answers they gave.

Why do people always ask "What do they do?" when layoffs are announced? You want access to their Jira boards? Is everyone who ask this a shareholder demanding information about the company finances?

This is something that irks me. For sure "why do they need all those people" is not the first question that pops to my mind when a company announces a layoff.

> I'm honestly asking because that term is thrown around in the US, but no one can ever define a number.

There is no definition because it is impossible to define. Everyone will say a number based on their very specific circumstances, problems and expected quality of life (Which will also vary from person to person)

The elephant in the room is that besides trying to define a number for a livable wage there is nothing else but an extreme status quo replacement.

Yes, people will do anything if their systems and tools allow them to do it, either by ignorance or to facilitate them their current task. Both create tech debt and timestamp tech debt is one that is hard to pay.

> if you select a timestamp value Postgres can convert it from UTC to the timezone you want

I dread timestamp issues. Hard to understand what happens and how to fix them.

You mention "if necessary". How does postgres knows if a conversion is necessary?

There's another a step above: I am a lawyer but I am not your lawyer.

Author provides a good example. Linear scripts are a horror to maintain but a project with too many abstractions are a horror to understand.

I'd rather maintain the latter because I just need to understand the code once and figuring out abstraction layers is fun at the cost of my employer's dime.

> the older version better

Better in what aspect? Better to maintain? Better to debug? Better in solving the business needs? If the answer is all of them then congrats you have poorly done refactoring.

I also thought it was curious. There is a wide range of possibilities for this.

My favorite hypothesis is that OpenAI was navigating the unknown open sea trying to answer the question "Is it possible to achieve this?" without knowing if they would ever find a new land.

The rest of them already know the answer is "Yes it is" so it's not an unknown open sea anymore with a dubious destination. They know it's possible, it's just a matter of money and time. They probably hired whatever engineer was available, and they paid tons of money to come up with a competitive product.

Why? Why is that function special?