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Warn? Yes. Refuse access? No.

I would close my bank account over this. That’s not saying much though because they literally pay you to open new bank accounts these days…

I don’t understand the appeal (is there any?) of overhead showers. Yeah sometimes I don’t want to wash my hair, but I’ve got a different primary beef. For me, it’s how do I rinse my pits or between my legs or anywhere facing down, folded or partially covered? I’m just supposed to rely on enough water running down the nearby parts of my body? Bend at difficult to balance angles on the slick shower floors? Cup my hand and splash? Garbage design through and through imo, and I regard anyone who has last used one as likely unclean in some rather key areas

Naturally it was only a matter of time before AI would be applied to recreational drugs

What are your users journaling about? Do you think it’s possible they could be journaling about things that, in their region, could lead to prosecution? Ostracization? Take your user’s security seriously. You don’t know what they are putting in “just a journal app”

I just don’t understand this claim that it’s faster to tell an LLM to do something than to just do it. Yes for large tasks, but the author discusses “edits” and being heavily involved with “pedantic” requests. It’s not specific enough to evaluate but what I’m picturing from their description makes the argument dubious to me

According to Wikipedia, four other nations that permit ractopamine are Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand.

Kind of. I’m transitioning to something a little more biochemistry-oriented but I expect to be employing a lot of my tech skills

But yeah I hated being an SWE. 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of my time was spent listening to people bikeshedding about the color of buttons. The direction of the industry is less relevant to my choices

I’m sure my new course will feature similar motifs of redundancy and soul-sucking pedantry, but I’ll give it a decade like I did software and move on to career #4 if I tire

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Man’s Search For Meaning (Frankl), The Color Purple (Walker), Orbital (Harvey)

Not specifically for the HN community but these are the only books I read this year that I would recommend without qualification.

I had a similar experience. I think doctors are just wary of cutting people open due to the risks. Anyway, long history of males rupturing their appendices in my family before puberty. The doctors were not convinced by the family history, however. When they finally pulled it out, after months of painful inflammation episodes they dismissed in a variety of ways, they saw its unusual size (3x!) and scar tissue and fought insurance to get the op covered. This was back in the nineties tho, before LLMs

A: “it’s important to communicate honestly with your kids and spend time with them in a way that provides them alternatives to common yet inferior modes of living life”

B: “To suggest such, you must not have kids yourself”

Is someone feeling inadequate? Better to look into the mirror than to try to turn it on those who challenge you

I think imma convert my blog to XML/XSLT. Nobody reads it anyway, but now I’ll be able to blame my lack of audience on chrome.

Native apps are always better, but having a web page syncing your feeds made it easier to access them, eg from the library or work computer. Not to mention nothing to install (or update) reduces friction. I didn’t have to stop using RSS, but the newly exposed hurdles were enough discouragement that I did stop

Google is widely faulted with effectively killing RSS by pulling the plug on Reader (I, for example, haven’t used RSS since), so I don’t think they’re missing the big picture, I think they just prefer a different picture

If you want someone on your team, give them what they’re worth. Don’t base it on what you think you’re worth, but rather on what you think they are worth to you

If you think he’s overvaluing himself, showing him the door is the best way to communicate that

> I'm not saying serverless is bad for everything

Title is clickbait

Oh no! I’d been noticing an unusual amount of em dash discussion recently, but hadn’t investigated why. In college my professors would accuse me of plagiarizing my essays because I wrote so much more competently than I spoke. Now I’m going to be accused of employing AI for one of the few practices I find too enjoyable ever to source to an LLM. Oh well.

They didn’t postpone season five of Slow Horses despite being exactly the same content

Wow you’re right

I reckon there’s a flotilla joke, in the poorest of taste, floating around here somewhere…

If children are sponges when it comes to learning why do we wait until high school to let them learn eg calculus? And why censor anything from them? Seems like MORE exposure to ideas is better than less. The kids’ll sort out the truth for themselves when they inherit the earth.

(2021)

I never had strong feelings between microservice architecture and monoliths. It was always monorepos that bothered me, and their tendency towards brittle, highly-coupled, incestuous code.

Just the opposite. The good dates I’ve had are treasured memories, but the bad dates taught me about who I am. I wish I’d dated less selectively while I was in the dating pool, to achieve more self awareness.

Exploiting and debugging are not the same thing

What kind of tools are the users familiar with for such tasks? It’s best to make it look like something the users already know, not something HN tells you is their favorite

I almost exclusively read newest posts. I’ll check front page weekly or monthly but it updates so infrequently, the dialogue is saturated, and only highly popular (not necessarily high quality) things make it there. I prefer to act as my own filter.

That’s a lot more topics than your title indicated. I guess in reverse order: to hell with age gap critics; you never mentioned wanting kids so idk why you’re worried about the when; if you don’t have a partner in mind then why bother thinking about marriage; if you know what your dreams are for future education then pursue those dreams, not the ones your parents outlined for you, and remember that trying to imagine the practicality of your possible futures is a dream-killing trap. If you want to kill a dream, then by all means do it, but be honest with yourself about what you are doing.

If it’s any consolation, I’m 36, researching masters programs and my partner just started taking prenatal vitamins in preparation for trying to have kids. You’re worrying about fitting in all the things people nine years your senior still think are realistic to accomplish in their own time.

> A recent study from the Hass Avocado Board reportedly found that the average millennial household spent $24.99 on avocados in 2018, which was 5 percent more than non-millennials households.

That is, they bought on average one more avocado than everyone else

It’s funny how one dev’s pain point is another’s salve

So you know when China is telling you to compromise with the world that it’s serious