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Also a convenient way to remember right of way while on the water is to use the port/starboard lights of the approaching boat. If you see green (their starboard side) that means you have the right of way, and red means they have the right of way. Just like traffic lights :)

> military coups are a problem in many countries, but not the US

I wonder why

> Why do companies pay their regular employees a small fraction of their worth?

A dead German economist might have an answer for you ;)

Good advice about managers, it sounds like it may take a while to settle down and find a team that fits. It's good that you have been able to find a manager and team that actually works as a, well, team.

> IIRC, in US salaried tech employees can effectively have unlimited unpaid overtime as a specific exemption.

Yeah I see that daily with my dad working from home. He works at a local newspaper (wait those still exist?) doing stuff with maps, datavis and page layout/design. He works probably twice the amount of hours he gets paid for early morning until late at night, and can never take time off even with his measly "paid vacation time" allotment. He somehow manages to trudge along, which is unimaginable to me. Generational difference? Or maybe I just don't have the full picture yet

Okay.

> After that, I make sure I won't be carrying a pager that can ever "go off" in the middle of the night. That's a non-negotiable for me at this point in my career.

I'm currently in undergrad so starting my actual "career" still seems far enough off for me, but serious question how do people actually accept that? Will I have to accept that when I apply for junior/entry level positions? I don't think I'm asking too much if I want to have a full night sleep and a strong work/life divide. I might be a bit young and naive, but I hope I won't get comfortable with living at the beck and call of my employer. People are more than just their individual contribution to lining the pockets of their bosses, no?

Thanks for creating such a great tool!

I used Pts around a year ago to make a music visualizer for an art class, it was really great for that use-case and I was really happy about my final result.

I'm excited for the future of your work and the future of the greater creative coding community.

Also while I can still edit: iirc the documentation is high quality. I was able to get a basic prototype working really fast, and the docs were extremely helpful.

From my limited knowledge (basically 0) of supply chains, I disagree. (Though I am neutral on the statement "you can't really trust any part of it.")

The anecdote I heard was that say you have a blockchain to keep track of your goods shipping on trucks. When the trucks leave and enter a facility their payload is entered into the blockchain. The idea is that it will make sure that every party along the supply chain can say "well I got the next person what they needed" so you can easily put blame on and correct for missing/failing items.

Sounds good, right? Well, not so fast. It turns out that some of the items were stolen from a truck (whether by an employee or otherwise). The truck arrives at the next facility, scans in and certifies that they have the proper items and none are the wiser!

Hold on, can't they just physically check at each stop to actually make sure that they have the right cargo?

Bingo! At that point, what problem does the blockchain actually solve? Blockchain works okay-ish for digital goods (cryptocurrency), but completely falls apart for physical goods.

I heard a joke somewhere that the internet is just people libeling each other all day.

I personally think that we should be intolerant of intolerance, until of course that message is co-opted by "elites" (billionaires, politicians or whoever you believe is the group(s) pulling the strings) to suppress any criticism of their power.

I thought GitHub said they were going to assume good faith by the repository and allow it to stay up until a ruling has been decided (as well as funding legal costs), rather than immediately taking it down under the hand of the "rightsholder".

Did I misread their previous statement after the youtube-dl fiasco?

A flagrant attempt to legitimize transphobia with flawed and biased “studies”, flagged.

Okay so I just signed up for the beta of their web browser, why not give it a shot, right?

It turns out that its just a reskin of mobile Firefox, with an extremely, and I mean extremely, limited if-then "extensions" feature. Doing a great job at "showcasing the web's infinite extensibility and customizability".

They also tout the (Firefox's) adblocker, even going as far as to say it will "Block every ad..." on their marketing page (technically impossible).

Just because a company has an orange Y on their homepage doesn't mean their product is good. I'm not saying that it won't be good in the future, but steer clear for now.

Money got us into the mess we are in[1], it is up to the real[2] community to get us out.

[1] Standardized DRM, the impossibility of building a browser engine, etc

[2] By "real" I don't mean corporations that symbolically showcase their "<3 of open source", while profiting off of it