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ttymck··on Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. Drop in Global Happiness Ranking
> die at around 80

Or, you blow past that and die at 88, 93, 99 like my family seems predisposed to do. Of course with a staunch reprehension for assisted living and no means to pay for it if you wanted to.

ttymck··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Did Romans enjoy walking to the coffee shop or the grocery store?
ttymck··on Dead Air on the Incident Call
Surely you'd want to instead share a link to the logs being investigated so others can investigate concurrently, instead of having 2 backseat drivers observe someone observing logs.
ttymck··on Ask HN: Who writes plain SQL in production?
Isn't the ORM the mapper from rows to objects? Every ORM I've used has support for "plain sql", in addition to a query builder/dsl.

How are you deserializing query results and serializing inputs?

For context: I work on web apps

ttymck··on Ask HN: Hiring.md Repository File
Forking and typosquatting. If, for example, Google is famous for HIRING.md and someone squats The username Goog1e with their own nefarious HIRING.md, it seems like a great vector for phishing.

Hiring scams are increasingly common since the pandemic, as far as I can personally gather from linkedin.

ttymck··on Why Can't We Have a 'Discuss' Button for Hiring Posts on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767319
ttymck··on Why Can't We Have a 'Discuss' Button for Hiring Posts on HN?
This seems to be asked once a month. I am surprised there isn't a spam filter explicity for it at this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022116

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767319

ttymck··on More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages
The problem is that they do not care, and they are not incentivized to care.
ttymck··on Show HN: Bocker-compose, the missing layer to Docker-compose
Do you have any example use cases for multi host docker?
ttymck··on Sweden Is a NATO Member
Yes, I am asking: all else equal, would more NATO members reduce the number of US soldiers deployed.
ttymck··on You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
Zoom meeting links often have the password appended as a query parameter. Is this link a "private secure" link? Is the link without the password "private secure"?
ttymck··on Sweden Is a NATO Member
I understand what you say is true in theory, but does this mean the US will deploy fewer troops in NATO theaters, in practice?
ttymck··on Pains of building your own billing system
> but there is no success; a functioning billing system is just what is expected. It's all downside and no upside for you personally.

I just wanted to say thank you for giving a robust voice to the frustrations I've felt after building multiple billing systems. This and your linked comment were a pleasure to read, and simply spot on.

Coincidentally, I am also pursuing a career transition toward data analysis. If I understand correctly, you are lamenting "data engineering" in contrast to "ad hoc data analysis deliverables"?

ttymck··on JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons
I think you've described the "punitive" notion of prison. There is, as I understand it, also a "reformative" notion of prison: removing dangerous people from society and attempting to rehabilitate them.

In the US, I believe the overwhelming preference of the public (the "obvious layman view") is that prison should be punitive. Other cultures seem to find success with more rehabilitation-focused approaches.

ttymck··on Show HN: FastAPI wrapper for recognize-anything image recognition models
Whats the bulk of 6GB of dependencies?
ttymck··on Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants
I wouldn't mind
ttymck··on Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants
Sorry, what?
ttymck··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
I am not quite sure what point you are trying to make, as it pertains to the TSA
ttymck··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Perhaps that was my point exactly?
ttymck··on Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
> Would I think positively about a service trying to monetize email?

I think quite positively about my experience with fastmail

ttymck··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Most establishments in the United States.
ttymck··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Yet most Americans would vote to maintain the TSA and its mandate.
ttymck··on Ask HN: How does one get into contract work?
Do you have any advice for finding a firm worth joining?
ttymck··on Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
In practice it's not that bad
ttymck··on X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
What should replace it?
ttymck··on How the open source Caddy server uses Grafana Cloud for full-stack observability
I'd have preferred more technical details. But it's interesting to get a sense of the rather "cowboy" (in a positive sense) approach of the caddy maintainers for their "online" service offering (a build server).
ttymck··on BBC: Big Tech jobs have lost their glamour
What makes one tech stack worse than another?
ttymck··on Falls are a leading cause of bone breaks, brain injuries for U.S. seniors
Is that a no?
ttymck··on Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks
What is "the whole thing"? Did HackerNews readers write the article?
ttymck··on Updating Gov.uk’s crown
Can you enumerate the costs of those inaugurations?
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