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Man, this helps me understand so much of what I’m experiencing. I had to switch to cheap stuff about two months ago and I’ve been all over the place. Absolutely terrible sleep, too.

Yeah, this is pretty standard behavior for Ford, I think. Similarly blurred lines with Autonomic. Honestly it was hard to keep track of who actually worked for Ford when I was at FSM.

This is one of the more challenging parts of turning 3D scenes into pixel art in real time — making them pixel perfect. There are definitely ways of doing it, but it honestly rarely gets closer to looking like pixel art that’s created pixel perfect to begin with.

I think that’s a bit reductive. The health tech industry as a whole fits this bill — do you question if startups in that sector have a real purpose? There are loads of green engineering teams that have to figure out how to comply with really tricky data handling regulations.

It’s not the same at all. You don’t bring sheet music home and tell it to write a brand new symphony in the style of Beethoven.

My college girlfriend was hit by a car right next to me going those speeds during a turn. It seems slow, but meat on steel is pretty brutal at any travel speed. It was a four or five month recovery. Remember that the velocity of the vehicle is only a part of the picture — mass is the damage dealer here.

Right, I know. You’re not wrong. I was meaning you wouldn’t want to do it in Go because it’s not idiomatic (and likely impossible as discussed). I use it all the time in other languages and don’t mind exception patterns, but method chaining feels very out of place when reading Go code.

Method chaining, while possible, isn’t something I’d say is really encouraged in Go. Returned values should be handled explicitly. There are plenty of cases where it could be fine, but if a function can error, you wouldn’t want to chain anyways.

Shower. I work from home, so the ten or fifteen minutes of shower time lets me relax my focus enough to settle into family time. Sometimes I bring a cocktail in there with me.

The issue is not parking. The issue is that these cars remain on the road all day, creating congestion. Commuters are only clogging the roads during commutes. Thus “rush hour.”

I think in your scenario we’re augmenting humans, not horses.

Meanwhile, I’m hoping that global competition increases tech pay for non-US companies and I can land a remote gig that has some actual benefits like paternal leave.

Actually, there were many clues listed, but they didn't directly connect them to "slaves" as such. The rough timber used in the bedding, the amphorae under the bed, a chamber pot, and lots of evidence suggesting the room was used for storage in addition to sleeping. These all point towards someone of much lower class (slaves of some kind) than the owner of the villa.

I think there's another side to this coin: very small software teams moving quickly in markets where truly senior devs are scarce. It makes far more engineering and business sense to invest in cloud infrastructure than it is to build and control all of those systems in-house. I can hire a middle-of-the-road developer and trust they've (at the very least) heard of the AWS or GCP tools/services we're using, but if I wrote my own systems in clojure/elixir/whatever (even though that's what I'd prefer to do), then there's nowhere near the likelihood that the new engineer will know what to do, and it'll take months to train them up to even a basic level of competency. You can make all sorts of "it's better in the long run" kind of arguments, but those don't help when the C suite says "yeah sure, maybe that's the best approach, but we need to get this done right now." That's where clicking a few buttons to spin up a load balancer in front of a handful of serverless handlers becomes rather nice.

I personally don’t think many people are banking on colonizing another planet, but rather the technologies created as byproducts of that effort. Between energy creation, energy storage, thermal regulation, extraction and refinement of products necessary for life (oxygen, water, etc), and transformation of atmospheric gases, there’s plenty that can help keep our current planet healthy and suitable for human life.