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Yes, your current situation does make a difference in what is important to you and which questions you have. And it also influences the balance at the interviewing table. I can imagine that it is frustrating to feel being evaluated against candidates who have the luxery of saying ‘no’ to a new job and can think critically if they want to work at the new place. Sometimes you have more freedom to say ‘no’ then you think. It can make a difference between night and day.

That livestream [0] looks like a pretty convincing scam to me, with 22k people viewing at the moment. And it indeed sounds like him. The real username is hidden behind the visible SpaceX[Live] name.

Thanks for the stats! Interestingly traveling by space shuttle comes down to 70.000 deaths per 1 billion hours traveled, compared 30.8 deaths per 1 billion hours flown.

For distance traveled flying is safer than any other form of transportation (maybe except trains?). I wonder however, what the stats are for time spent. How much safer is time spent flying, compared to other forms of transportation? Is it about equal, a bit safer or an order of magnitude safer?

Just out of curiosity, what are the things that you’re self-hosting? And what’s your setup for self-hosting?

There is a social issue around death that is quite complex. A wish for a sudden peaceful death at a certain old age is not an easy one. Family, doctors, society and laws should be aligned on this. Right now the norm (at least in the Netherlands) is too keep a person alive as long as reasonably possible.

Yeah, good to hear. I also did this for nights on end. My strategy was to try to solve the puzzle myself first (in a reasonable amount of time) and then check the solutions of others. Always fun to see if I could make my solution faster/shorter/more elegant/etc. with the inspiration of the other solutions.

I had a lot of fun learning Clojure. While I don't use it in daily practice, I learned a lot about elegancy, the advantages of data immutability and using code as building blocks. For learning I used the 4clojure website where you can solve interactive coding puzzles and learn from solutions of others. See: https://4clojure.oxal.org

There’s a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I’m wondering what the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.

In the latest release (v20.0.0) Puppeteer switches from Chromium binaries to Chrome for Testing binaries by default. Since the binary is different the change is marked as breaking.

Background document from Google about the new Chrome For Testing brand: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJvxyqAQjhPfJ0rX84PjfXXb...

I don't know exactly what the impact is for the future of Puppeteer and Chromium. Maybe someone can share their thoughts on this.

This article is written with SEO in mind. Repeating the same information multiple times in different formats (explanation, faqs and ‘conclusion’).

Would you say that Google search has found a way to beat SEO spam sites? If the comparison of the development of search engines and the development of AI chat holds up, then it seems to me that creating prompt injection will trump defeating it in the long run.

That’s lovely and frustrating. 1) The right answer could be visualized higher on the screen, to reduce eye movement. 2) My 15 minute progress was erased after checking the settings and trying out the options. Argh! But overall well done on this project!

Years ago, when we just founded our company, I asked an experienced CTO: 'In your experience, what is the most expensive thing to adjust later on?'. He said: 'Changes in your datamodel'. That advice worked out well. We spent extra time designing our datamodel and it saved us quite a lot of money / time on refactoring later.

So making schema discussions as concrete as possible with Excel together with business stakeholders sounds like a smart thing to do.

There is a truth hidden in here. I would love to spend time at a monastry and code.

That’s quite a brave thing to do.

On first scan, I read that Googles is now available in Brave Search. The oog and ogg are visually a bit similar.

I loved the days that Kongregate.com was thriving. Today, Armor Games is still up and running. It has quite some gems worth exploring: https://armorgames.com/games/rating#games

Please be kind, even when your gut reaction is: this is crap. You probably have valuable knowledge to bring a discussion on ‘How to learn from your mistakes and prevent them in the future’ to a higher level. Can you share how you automate repeating tasks, how you combine this with checklists and what kind of process you would advise for learning from things that went wrong?

The linked article is an English translation from this article in the Dutch newspaper NRC: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/03/09/gedurfde-uitspraak-loot...

You can argue that consciousness has an important role in evolution. That creatures which are aware of their own existence have a greater chance of reproduction and survival. What if we create an AI and give it the goal of maximum reproduction, would it be more effective if it can 'think' about itself?

We have been using Laravel for over 8 years. Nothing but praise. It's a framework we could rely on. No painful upgrades and clear documentation. For us it's a pleasure to work with. I also recommend Laracasts from Jeffrey Way.

To retain knowledge and my considerations for my future self and teammembers I create a document before each major task and update it during the task. The headings are: Goal (why are we doing this), Crux (what is the most important consideration, what will make the biggest difference), Current situation (where are we now), Steps (what needs to be done or what is done to reach the goal. The steps can contain specific details on how to get the step done) and Learnings (what did we learn, what are key insights). The files are named YYYY MM DD Taskname. Looking at the directory gives a sense of history. It’s a delight to find a document like this when doing the same task a year later. It also helps to delegate tasks to other teammembers.

The article mentions that the magnetic field of the earth is changing more rapidly. Why is that?

On your second point: yes, be careful. It feels a bit like a dirty tactic. To support the open philosophy of Sketch we keep buying Sketch updates, besides our Figma subscription. Long term stuff, that we need to preserve, we make in Sketch. One-offs we make in Figma.

Absolutely! I guess the main innovation will be social. Thinking of a way that people feel responsible for shared tools, a non-awkward way of selecting neighbors who you are willing to share with and some kind of emergency-button if you need a tool now and all the shared tools are taken.

I thought about this a lot. What if we just share a lot of tools with our neighbors. It will prevent waste and free up space in your house. However, for me, it's more convenient to have my own tools. I have the freedom to mow the lawn whenever I want. Also on that sunny afternoon when all the other neighbors also want to mow their lawn. And I want a tool that's in the right condition. When I have time to do a job around the house, my tools should work. Not broken, dirty or missing a part. And I don't want a difficult conversation with my neighbor about it. Sharing and borrowing tools with my neighbors directly is fine for me. Co-owning or continuously renting together is not my cup-of-tea.

Yes, it’s spamming at a lot of posts at the moment. See the other comments it has made.

We are also fan of Figma. It's easy to work together inside the same design and the results are easy to test and present. But be warned of vendor lock-in! You can't use .fig files in other programs. Before you move your complete Sketch design library into Figma, think carefully. They make switching to Figma easy, but switching away hard. Converting your complete Figma library can be done with xd2sketch.com for hundreds to thousands of dollars. Our policy is that we only make one-offs in Figma and delete them afterwards.

This seems counterintuitive as it is the opposite of the programming ‘rule’: Tell, don’t ask.