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I think placebo is a very strong effect most people underestimate.

normally breaks are not paid? in the us maybe

Often a mid level engineer salary at least.

I mean truck drivers make much more money than you'd think.

I have the opposite experience. Goes to show the difference between people.

I've always had trouble internalizing the "physics" of physics or chemistry, as if it were all super arbitrary and there was no order to it.

Computation and maths on the other hand just click with me. Philosophy as well btw.

I guess I deal better with handling completely abstract information and processes and when they clash with the real world I have a harder time reconciling.

But if the alternative becomes more real estate investment than we already have won't that be even worse?

Investing in the stock market at least in principle is investing in businesses that use that money to increase productivity. We should discourage investment in vehicles that do not optimize for productivity (real estate, bitcoin, metals and similar).

Likely a lot of medium posts? That's my theory anyway.

And then you get to the reason why everyone complains childcare is expensive.

What if you get a much better service from Uber?

Most local produce initatives fail because they're not actually better than the global/international variants, especially considered from a price/quality pov.

OOP is for problems that require complex modeling, indeed if you require just complex calculation it is useless.

For sure. Cost for example?

Just pointing out the obvious steelman people seem to be missing.

You can go on sidequests but first you need to accumulate sufficient credibility.

You can configure opcache to never stat unless it's reloaded

Funnily enough PHP solved this perfectly with composer, but unfortunately it's not an enterprise-level programming language /s

Whenever I read HN talking about PHP I am reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. The level of discussion on the topic is abysmal, compared to (I guess perceived?) the discussion on other topics.

It's interesting how clearly 80% of the developers in the community clearly have 0 clue about modern PHP. People mention shared hosting, code in html files, CGI and bad security defaults. To be clear these things have been dead in the PHP world for 10+ years, but most developers here have used it once in 2005 and haven't seen how it looks like in the modern ecosystem.

It's as if whenever the topic was Java, the discussion would center only around the devs working with Java 1.8.

Likely, the rest of the discussion on HN is of the same level, but I have a harder time spotting the errors.