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ssully··on Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI
I was more surprised about the personality tests that were part of their interview process.
ssully··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
I am very aware of that.

I think you’re not familiar with a King as a person or an author based on your comment.

Finally, you thinking Musk was mocking is also wrong. He was using Kings viral tweet as a jump off point for the tweet this HN post is based off of.

ssully··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
I think King is better served by continuing to write and live his life.
ssully··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
Of course it offers him value, but Stephen King being on the platform is more valuable to Twitter than it is for King.
ssully··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
I don’t think you could have misread this interaction more than you already have.
ssully··on The great semiconductor drought may be about to break
I can’t speak for the EU, but the USA passed a bill earlier this year directing almost 300 billion towards growing chip production in the USA.
ssully··on Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees
I’ve never encountered someone who is pro-abortion that believes a late stage abortion is “business as usual”. It’s usually considered a tragedy because rarely does a mother get that late in a pregnancy and want an abortion. They get them because something terrible has gone wrong.
ssully··on More energy on less land: The drive to shrink solar’s footprint
I am not saying this to be pedantic, but people will 100% complain about solar arrays in parking lots. Green energy is a politicized and having solar parking lots will be used as a political talking point. It already happens with electric cars, wind farms, and much more.
ssully··on Why is recruiting developers so difficult?
I am in the Midwest and have interviewed at a handful of places (including FAANG) over the last year and recently accepted an offer (non-FAANG).
ssully··on U.S. employers added 528k jobs in July
I would be interested in actual data on if this is an increasing trend or not. When I was in college (graduated in 2015) most of my friends still had a job; be it to pay for school or to fund their weekend drinking activities.
ssully··on Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession
"Why did two military thriller TV series succeed when two fantasy TV series (one of which isn't even out yet) did not?". Seems like a lot of competing factors here chief!
ssully··on A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s
Oh I do. I've gone to a number of games for every major team in my city (Chicago). I always have a good time. Some of that is because of the game, but I don't think it's surprising to say the people and environment are what makes a game fun to go to.
ssully··on A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s
This is just an anecdote, but one of my favorite parts about reading Devil In The White City was the social aspect the World's Fair had on Chicago. The people of Chicago were very personally invested in winning the bid and making it a success because it was part of their city's identity, which in turn was a part of their identity. They wanted to show other cities that Chicago was able to do great things just like New York or Paris. It became a big part of general life for people in Chicago during that time.
ssully··on A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s
I honestly wish I gave a shit about sports, because I feel like it's possibly one of the most unifying things amongst males imo. Growing up I always felt like I was playing on a slightly harder difficulty when it came to making friends because it seemed like everyone enjoyed sports but me so I had to make those early connections in other ways.
ssully··on It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)
Yup, it sucks. For me it isn't even so much the song as it is how it transports me back to that job. Like, I hear the song and can picture myself doing certain tasks in the retail store I worked at while listening to it.
ssully··on Nearly a third of new subscribers to news publications cancel in the first 24hrs
Are there any publications that have tried to recreate the experience of buying a physical paper? Like pay a one time fee of $2-3 dollars and get access to all of the news from this past week? Or maybe get an additional 10 articles?
ssully··on Nearly a third of new subscribers to news publications cancel in the first 24hrs
Apple News+ or whatever it is called does this. It has a good spread of papers across the country (Houston Chronical, LA Times, Kansas City Star, etc), but obviously doesn't include the bigger publications like the NYTimes or Washington Post.
ssully··on Giving a shit as a service
I wouldn't call it winning the lottery; it's just that people remember people they admire for whatever reason. I am early in my career, but I definitely have a short list of people I've worked with that I admire for a number of reasons (integrity, empathy, getting shit done, etc). I have pushed to work with them for those reasons, and I feel like I've gotten work people admiring me for whatever reason.
ssully··on Give up GitHub: The time has come
As a whole, you are absolutely correct. But 99% of your daily interactions with Git come down to a handful of commands. Hell, print out a cheat sheet and tape it to your desk for the first few months of using it and you will be more than fine.
ssully··on What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
Seriously. I can find social media posts of friends in April of 2020 sewing cloth masks to donate to hospitals/medical clinics to help them backfill their mask shortages.
ssully··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
I wouldn't use Reddit for anything but general product usage information. You can get some honest reviews from Reddit users, but I find a lot of it is people justifying their purchase instead of honest feedback.
ssully··on Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming
That is kind of what survival games or "minecraft-likes" are. A lot of those games have little to no combat. Most of the game being enjoying the setting while engaging in the light game systems. No Man's Sky is probably the best example I can think of; while there is combat it is almost entirely optional or avoidable.
ssully··on Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
Based on your other posts, I don't think you would sound much different if you had a partner. You clearly have a lot of anger and I encourage you to find someone to talk to. I mainly mean a therapist, but if that isn't an option than a close friend. Those feelings will eat you alive.
ssully··on Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the Roman Empire
It was a viral post from a few weeks back. From what I remember the main cost increase was because of gas prices.
ssully··on The human toll of Fallout 76’s launch
I won't say it will never happen, but Obsidian has basically already made their own property in the style of Fallout with The Outerworlds.
ssully··on California Sends Democrats and the Nation a Message on Crime
In what way does this give you hope that the right is moving more center?
ssully··on Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
If you go there when it's busy, the checkout lines can get pretty large (they don't have dedicated baggers) and crowd parts of the store. With that said, I've noticed a similar trend at bigger stores by me lately as they added more self-checkout lines.
ssully··on Why unprecedented birdflu outbreaks sweeping the world are concerning scientists
Possible alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow
ssully··on Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession
Yeah it did, but I don't think it was that big. I had a final interview call the day my job at the time started WFH (March 2020). I remember we were kind of joking about how wild everything was, but how they seemed well situated for it (they were a mostly distributed team). Call ended with them saying that they were looking to move forward and would send over paper work, but they ended up ghosting me. My job at the time also had a small wave of layoffs, but by the end of the year started hiring again.

Had a friend have a pretty similar experience with a different company at the time, but ended up landing a job there by the end of the summer of that year.

ssully··on Proper use of Git tags
It's not semantic versioning, but a project I am on started using calendar versioning[1]. I was hesitant to try it at first, but it's kind of growing on me. It's really easy to organize and sort. We have a pretty regular release cadence so it was easy to implement, but I could see it being more complicated for certain projects.

[1]: https://calver.org/

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