DaveSchmindel

Cell sizes are not fixed, however, even within a single species. Cells often swell as they increase their production of proteins and metabolites in preparation for division. This is in line with biology’s only rule: namely, there are exceptions to every rule!

Case in point: a giant bacterium called Thiomargarita magnifica can extend about one centimeter in length, so large that it can be seen by the naked eye. It does so by breaking the surface area-to-volume rule, filling between 65–80 percent of its internal volume with an empty vacuole. In other words, it pushes most of its molecules to the cell periphery, thus shortening diffusion distances.

There is also a captioned image of bubble algae in the post.

It’s hard for me to know where my pessimism stops and my realism begins with these kinds of experiences lately. The latest iTerm2 update had me subconsciously questioning my own philosophy around whether I ever would want or need an AI agent [that someone else] built in my default terminal application.

Is it cool? Yeah. Did I ask for it? Ehhh…

...Timeline is the only time I've seen a full accounting of my location in the cloud.

Yes, that _you've_ seen. I think the person you're replying to is referring to use cases of your location data that you don't see.

Even though we have an option to set a billing limit, some people don't use it and sometimes get a surprise bill.

From the PR this links to.

Now do 3d chess!

Happy birthday!

I may be wrong, but I think user 22c may be trying to point out that we put an amount, W, of CO2 into the air by making the collective decision to fly so many planes in the first place.

...government digital services and apps need to become less bureaucratic and formal.

Beijing asserted that it wants a "user-centered approach," meaning users don't need multiple logins, and can instead use a one-stop platform. Government apps should use a government cloud and central authentication services hosted there.

So, not just de-uglifying the UI, but also the UX and login capabilities of multiple applications. I wonder what powered the authoring of the central auth services in Beijing.

I can, from the other side of life.

I was raised in middle-class suburbia, in the North East U.S. My family wasn't wealthy, but wasn't hurting either. I did well in school, but didn't have to try very hard to maintain grades in Advanced Placement classes. Outside of school, I worked easy lawn-care gigs with my neighbor and we made decent cash with 20-30 hours of work per week.

It afforded me a life of coasting, leisure, and throwing away my downtime.

I am nearing 30 years old and just realizing that I'd consider my behavior to be bad habits I need to kick. I want to work harder, and I have to teach myself what that means.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573108

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574313

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34856997

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635066

Why is this comment getting so much heat for being confirmation bias? If anything, we should all rally around trying to guess the name in question. Did you name your kid Butter? Bananas? Campbell's CHUNKY Savory Pot Roast?

I can vouch that this is true in some cases.

I worked for a multinational bank headquartered in the U.S., whose corporate team came up with a sexy program to snatch up recent Computer Science graduates. The program offered them a "fair" market rate for an entry-level jobs in industry, and let the graduates try two to three different teams and/or departments in their first year. At the end, if the company still liked them, the candidate got to pick their permanent team for a full-time position. This position, however, did not see a bump in pay, and by that time the program effectively filtered out candidates that weren't performing at an accelerated level.

The results were great for the business: young programmers that were often more proficient in COBOL than their new peers were costing them $60k-$70k a year. The senior, or "tenured," peers were in the $200k-$400k range in some cases.

TIL about bikeshedding, thank you @[vips7L](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vips7L).

I imagine that many suggestions for prominent open source projects, let alone a widely adopted language, turn into forums similar to small town town-hall meetings.

There are probably a number of people of different walks of life and usage of the lang that voice opinions regardless of their relevance or significance in modern adoption of the lang.

Zoom offers this today! I think Zoom + a custom GPT could do the trick.

Ah, nice, like feeding a custom GPT everything that goes on at the company. That seems dangerous to me, and not in the typical LLM weariness way.

Meetings can be messy, full of ambiguity, and "unsolved" at then end. If you feed a number of these experiences into an LLM, would its knowledge base be _that great_ at helping teach somebody about the company holding said meetings?

I'd argue that in order for your LLM suggestion to be effective, the input to it would need to be human-written content. I.E: the knowledge that the OP is discussing. In that case, the human effort is still required up front.

What qualities should this comment have to vouch for? The art style of the linked video? The accuracy of its content? Should we ask OP if they vouch for the video that started this thread?

Interesting. Isn't that just problem solving? If yesterday's problems are unsolved by today, aren't they just today's problems?

I smell what you're stepping in here, but I grow more comfortable with the idea of big conglomerates continuing to improve their attack mitigation efforts on behalf of their locales when I compare this to the concept to vaccines.

Vaccines inevitably lead to stronger viruses, but would you argue we should go back and not have began to use them?

Cloudflare and Google may be some sites' only hope to staying alive in the event of network-driven attacks. I suppose this landscape is a double-edged sword.

The biggest headache when coming across these menus on the web is the complete disregard for accessibility.

A family member of mine used to be a buyer for the Italian foods department of a mid-market grocery chain in the US. His merchant for San Marzano tomatoes was a really down-to-earth dude. Occasionally, he would host my family member at his villa(s) in south-central mainland Italy. After just a couple of visits and tours of a few farms, it became clear to my family member that the business model of his supplier was more or less a legal Mafia, and the people at the top had a stranglehold on the farmers. I'm sure that _some sort_ of heritage will be protected with this ban.

This seems like an effective way to lose Apple as a client!

I feel like an old man in my own head, muttering, "I remember the Sort feature like it was yesterday!"

Thank you for summing it up this way. It certainly sounds like the original author wants to be taken seriously. In that case they should probably respect the fact that there is literally a word for what they've done. Misquote and its synonyms do not have good connotations, and in their worst form are simply libel...

I experienced something very similar to your "coming of age conflict" so-to-speak, only mine began earlier and had certain... catalysts...

The short version of the story is that at this point in my life, that conflict eventually dissipated at some point. Perhaps my parent(s) arrived at a new inflection point. Perhaps they became more mature. Whatever it was, it seems they've at least come to terms with the fact that I'm going to pave my own way regardless of their thoughts and feelings on the matter. Ultimately, acknowledging that if they want a relationship with me it simply looks different than how they originally envisioned it.

If you ever care to share your story, I suggest doing just that. Therapy and simply talking through the issues that my experience cultivated allowed me to see things from a birds-eye view a bit better, and dissolve my ego from the situation. I'm all ears, FWIW, and I wish you the best of luck in finding peace somehow in your own sticky situation.

I first learned as an end-user, and before I even had a chance to notify customer support at work, I got to watch our bug count climb as an enterprise customer!

AFAICT, the companies that have the most success in launching an engaging and fruitful OSS project are those that already wrote it internally and have an incentive to continue maintaining it for business needs.

If you are finding yourselves struggling to keep your existing open source projects alive, perhaps it's because you really don't find yourselves needing them that much?

That said, if you _do_ need them, but they're simply not getting the traction or Github stars you were hoping for, then it sounds like a marketing or niche problem. I'm not positive there's a particularly perfect playbook in the form of processes that should be the focus over purpose and putting the word out there.

Well, everytime you divide by zero, a puppy dies.

Welp, I was a pretty heartless bastard back in the days of getting my first scientific calculator.

Where's your Tinder bio in this article? I can't imagine creating a new account and publishing something obscene on any social platform today without being flagged or worse.

Uh oh. Putting off their original plans to shift to EV production, increasing their contract & temp worker pool only to then lay them off in certain "down" quarters to maintain their "no layoff" of FTEs policy, and now this.

Pun intended; what the heck is happening under the hood there?