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vkhn··on Managers need to stop giving people feedback on their personality
Apologies, but regardless of being one sided, there is no acceptable professional reason to shout at someone in a meeting.

I’m not sure why you are writing this take, but I’m not sure how this is constructive.

vkhn··on 9,000-pound electric Hummer shows we can’t ignore efficiency of EVs
One thing to note is power isn’t consistently generated M from the same source. Sometimes more wind, sometimes more solar, sometimes more gas. There’s currently a surplus of wind power overnight in that region and There are several companies teaming up with utilities to shift EV charging to lower cost, lower CO2 producing times.

This is a very complex problem to measure.

vkhn··on Robinhood aims to court users with 1% interest rate on cash
Except if you’re a pattern day trader (even with more than 25k) in which case you get the middle finger and nothing. Zero interest. Which is ridiculous because they make more money on these people.
vkhn··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
On thought #2, I'm with you. While I'm planning to retire early (thanks to software, I will have the money, and not much brain power left), I have yet to figure out what the heck I want to do, and I won't retire until I figure that out.

I also think the "financially independent" life has a pretty wide definition. I don't need a job for an alarmingly long time, but couldn't retire on what I have. It still gives me enough freedom to work where I want, when I want - which is what proponents of this life talk about.

vkhn··on Deriving Keys from Chords in Music
In college I built a project that could reasonably well predict the key of a given piece based on the distribution of note usage. For example, most pieces written in a major key would have the highest usage of the root, and the dominant of a key.

This obviously has a number flaws, but worked remarkably well for western music written between 1600 and 1900.

vkhn··on Native desktop apps are far superior to Web/Electron
This is such a silly article. Of course they are technologically superior. This is like saying bare metal is better than a virtual machine. Of course.

But they are not universal for several reasons you fail to account for.

I won't bother categorically defending anything in this article, but I will leave a single statement:

good, fast, cheap - pick two.

vkhn··on Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
There is no law of averages.
vkhn··on The myth of the teacher pay gap?
Do these questions have a point?
vkhn··on The myth of the teacher pay gap?
Pensions, bonuses and scholarships seem to be exceptions.

Median income is also a poor indicator.

vkhn··on The myth of the teacher pay gap?
Paid propaganda or not, I hold that these men have no teacher friends or family, or they would not have written this.
vkhn··on The myth of the teacher pay gap?
I am willing to accept that there are studies and statistics that seem to contradict what is commonly accepted. I'm also willing to accept a lot of the evidence here that the problem is not nearly as bad as believed.

This was, however, clearly written by statisticians that have no teacher friends or family. If they did, they would have asked more relevant questions of the data. For example WHY do teachers work "on average 40.6 hours during the work week, compared to 42.4 hours for private-sector professionals".

My wife is a teacher, and I can tell you exactly why.

Also, I laughed particularly hard at "teaching jobs are not particularly stressful or unpleasant compared to other occupations"

Hilarious.

vkhn··on New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
oh good, I wonder if they realize developers frequently refer to GraphQL as gql.
vkhn··on Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work
ctrl+f for phenylephrine.

That was my first thought.

vkhn··on My Infant Daughter’s Life Shouldn’t Be a Variable in Tesla Autopilot's Beta
While I don't disagree with regulation of this tech, this is ridiculous take. Please stop acting like autopilot is more dangerous than all the other drivers on the road not paying attention.

If you really fear for her safety in a car, stop putting her in a car; or maybe put her in a Tesla because it's probably safer than the car you're driving.

vkhn··on Coldfusion is “Unpopular” – I don’t care
You're right of course, but I'm betting that development didn't start with the open source implementation.
vkhn··on Coldfusion is “Unpopular” – I don’t care
The problem with Coldfusion isn't with it's popularity, usefulness or value. It's with Adobe and the cost of licensing.

The only reason right now someone would choose Coldfusion over literally anything else free is their existing skill. That's the very definition of dying out.

The other problem with Coldfusion is the community that all seem to have this same chip on their shoulder.

vkhn··on Repair delays for Tesla owners
This story sounds so familiar it's painful.

Took 5 months to get my 2016 Model S back after I was hit.

I loved this car, but frankly I never again want to deal with them. Cancelled my Model 3 order, and now tell everyone that asks me about the car to stay away.

vkhn··on Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?
Bro.
vkhn··on Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
Exactly. Of all the groups that might know how to spoof UA, the linux community is the most likely.

Clearly they didn't think this through.

vkhn··on Using Gmail “Dot Addresses” to Commit Fraud
I've used dot addresses in referral queues to bump myself up the queue.

Remember the Oneplus referral based phone ordering/shipping? Yep, I cheated that one just to see if it would work.

It did.