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I’m gonna play devil’s advocate here and suggest that you probably just didn’t know of the skeletons hidden in the closet. I came from one of those good families where things were handled reasonably and I was taught to deal with negative emotions and my mother was a saint and all of that is true; but my family is still fucked up, we still have our skeletons like everyone else I’ve ever met, and I’m still fucked up in my own way from some of it.

After typing this all out, I’m wondering if “fucked up” is not just a vernacular for “experienced”.

The United States military industrial complex would shrug and ask “why not both?” At this question.

Then they’re pairing wrong, imo. I’m a believer in pair programming because of the focus and communication it encourages but it still requires effort and practice.

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> the right to defend property with deadly force.

Which is not self-defense. You’re conflating the two and it’s a poor argument for taking a life over an exhaust pipe with some minerals in it.

I’ve spent a lot of time under a car and I can tell you I don’t think the solution is bolting the catalytic converter down tighter.

I’m a gun-owning full pro-2A believer and I absolutely disagree with killing someone over stealing a catalytic converter. For fuck’s sake, prison or murder cannot be the only two options here.

Could we feasibly send one? Yes. Could we feasibly get data back from it? Less certain. It would necessarily be a multi-generational project in either case.

To your same point about empathy for prisoners- I have a similar point about how I think everyone should be arrested and booked overnight at least once in their life. People speak far too harshly and absolutely about “criminals” and how they behave in situations they have zero understanding of and support laws that uphold those institutions. Getting arrested changed me and my opinions on criminal Justice at a fundamental level. Having no control over your future in that environment, being stripped and searched, it makes you feel vulnerable in a way that nothing else does and I think the average person would come out of it with a drastically different base opinion of crime and punishment.

Note: I’m not advocating for violence or violent crime; I was arrested for an overdue traffic ticket and just that experience alone was absolute shit.

Ah this is such a succinct description of the real value of the town hall discussion format. I don’t care or want to maintain a subscriber list, but I absolutely do want to contribute and actively participate in my area of interests. HN is the best area I’ve found for that.

It may sound it but I promise it’s not. Order filling is surprisingly simple but the devil is in the details, as always.

https://dylanlott.com/orderbook

If you’re interested in reading more. I’m planning a part 2 update to it soon.

Edited to fix my link.

Honestly, I was just reading crypto news about an exchange one day and thought “that would be an interesting problem to tackle” and so I went for it. I have been meaning to post that to HN for a few weeks now, tbh.

I cannot support this advice enough. I recently did this with an exchange/order-filling engine in Go and it was a great little toy project. You’ll learn a ton about some things you don’t typically get to dive into when you take the “first principles” approach.

I don’t think I understand your point. Wouldn’t a browser fidelity setting like this mean you could theoretically request slimmer versions of sites and thus result in better performance/experience? Or am I misunderstanding?

This is great if you want a catchy slogan, not so great if you’re interested in really any honest discussion.

It’s not sophistry to point out that someone has unrealistic expectations.

Furthermore, you can’t ask yourself a bunch of questions and then ignorantly answer them all with “no” when vaccine efficacy studies set a clear definition of “effective”.

Id feel a lot worse for this kid if he hadn’t admitted to cheating before.

> believed it would stop transmission

It did lower transmission. Multiple studies confirmed this.

> remember that wasn’t the messaging

Yes, it wasn’t, because it’s generally considered bad practice to attempt to predict the future, and if they had you’d be complaining about them attempting to predict the future.

> the message was “it’s safe and effective and protects others”

All of the data agrees with this statement.

> A lot of damaged trust in institutions these last few years

Yes, I wonder why that is

This is a super shortsighted view. Every life form in the ocean plays a role in the ecosystem and catastrophic damages like this have first and second order effects all over the place.

> they said that I was not an impartial trusted third party like a police officer.

Some people live in an absolute fairytale.

Couldn’t agree more. There really is something unique about being in a room with a big white board, a few tough problems to solve, and lunch on the table. I’ve done my best work in those situations and I’m looking forward to when my job looks like that again.

Uh, this can’t be true cause I have my Obsidian mobile vault set to my iCloud and use that for syncing and backup and it works pretty much perfectly.

Do you think inflation and supply chain issues could have a similar effect as a decrease in spending?

Ah, great, glad we agree!

The greatest trick that oil companies ever pulled was convincing the average person that it was their fault they had to pollute the air and water.

We didn’t expect consumers to address CFCs and the ozone hole, or leaded gas and it’s harmful emissions. Why do we expect CO2 to be any different?

Did you read what I wrote at all? Why are you being so combative, lol. My partner’s company is not seeking funding and is profitable. Still had layoffs. Another friend’s company is profitable but did happen to be seeking investment. Still saw lay offs. Why do you insist on looking at this through the lens of funding and refuse to acknowledge that companies see a rough economy ahead, regardless of their funding status?

Yes, that’s… why I was upfront about that.

The companies range from startups to enterprise, at practically all stages of funding, but they each told me their funding never materialized or investors gave management ultimatums.

A few were in crypto, two are in fintech, a few more in various b2b tech companies. But they all gave almost identical explanations: management sees a rough economy ahead and tightened their belts accordingly.

I’m not trying to be doom and gloom, I still have a job, but even my partner, who is also a software engineer, just survived a round of lay-offs at their fintech that happened yesterday. They laid off 25% of their company across the board.

Anecdata here but: literally every single dev I talk to on a regular basis has told me their company has laid off a sizable amount of staff in the last 3 months. Every single one.

Al Gore could change everything about his life and effectively change nothing about the climate, what’s your point? It’s a complete non-sequitur to point out one advocate’s lifestyle when it’s a global problem. It’s actually just disingenuous.

I’ve noticed this trend lately as well, I’ve even commented about it on here a few times, and I attribute it to an increased push from opponents to climate reform because real climate legislation has actually started to be passed and enforced. Just look at how the Supreme Court has started to neuter the EPA as soon as they actually started to clamp down on emissions.

I genuinely miss working in an office because of this, and am looking to return to one soon, but right now it seems that just about every company has a hiring freeze in place for the foreseeable future.

A hybrid 3-4 in office / 1-2 out of office per week seems to be prime for my personal and social values at work.

I have found myself day-dreaming about a manual labor job for many of the same reasons. I am supremely jealous of my friends who work these types of jobs and can "leave it at the door" when they come home. I can't do that as well, even when I try to enforce boundaries. Slack, emails, my home office, etc... make it impossible to shut it all out. I'm considering tearing down my home office and working solely from a coffee shop because of it.

I resonate with this a lot and the part about not knowing if that lack of structure is what makes you unproductive is a question I’ve asked myself a lot lately. It’s hard to know the answer and I always get different feedback from different people when asked which almost always just boils down to what they do.