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I’m poking around while on an airplane, so the network speed is pretty slow. The site crawls to a stop with each character I type into the search box. As a performance booster, perhaps consider adding a short delay before firing off queries to update the results or decoupling the the search box from the query result?

They ask it where the next eclipse is, and where best to watch it. They got the date right, but the suggested locations of Timor and Australia are not in the eclipse path. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8

The tl;dr of the entire article is “buy and hold low cost index funds” (see final two or three paragraphs).

Related to this quote, I don’t think we’re guaranteed access to better content. I think we’re guaranteed to more prolific cheap to produce content. Think Instagram era relative to Flickr era. Less about the art, more about fast fashion, or fast art, to capture your ever more brief attention. Certainly the next chapter of Tim Wu’s book, The Attention Merchants.

You need to keep your head on a swivel walking around Hoboken. My son got hit in his stroller in a well marked crosswalk by someone improperly passing a car that had stopped for us; I couldn’t even see it coming. Luckily he was not injured but it was extremely close to severe injury or death.

The last paragraph rings absolutely true for me. Me and my wife stagger walking in the street now, or I walk out first and the pull the stroller behind me if I’m alone.

I do commend them for making safety improvements, it is clear there’s been investment in pedestrian safety … but stay vigilant.

A society in which almost all are working not out of pure altruism, but out of necessity to satisfy their own selfish needs.

Directors and/or VPs of the various service organizations. It’s not a matter of it being a technical problem. It’s a business problem. The reported status has business consequences.

I figured as much, and just wondered about the challenges of trunk based development with a large contributor pool. If so many teams are working in different subtrees of the monorepo, it seems like trunk based development could be just fine.

Well now you have to tell us why and how 600 people are sharing a repo! That’s a lot. Granted at Microsoft thousands of people worked in the same codebase. But in my recent experience we’ve generally been working on a repo per project, which typically maps to a small team.

It’s a train of people up Si with a slammed parking lot… I think that’s the point. It is difficult, but it is also highly pedestrian as far as trails go in WA. We are lucky to have such high standards here where even the most accessible and trafficked trails are incredible

Agreed. We should all take being a billionaire more seriously.

Never mind the giant red bear dining at the table in the background.

Edit: they’ve updated the headline photo. But it is still visible in the Internet archive link: https://archive.is/8vJ6m/b50770e322140d2616cad8e4f5ae3c45d32...

Me too! Hard to justify using my regular brewing machine anymore. Aeropress just makes a higher quality cup. Quantity be damned, I’ll make multiple cups on the aeropress all day.

There’s no reason you cannot be both transparent about pay and still retain the power to define the terms of the relationship with your employer. I understand that it might feel “equitable” among a group of employees to be paid consistently, but it is not equitable at all between you and your employer. They don’t own you. Don’t let them.

I don’t think no-negotiation is a selling point here for candidates. If anything, it’s a filter. People willing to accept less vs not.

Good video. And like all good criticisms of Facebook it leaves me wondering, “but what can I do?”

What an interesting idea. It's like an anti-advertisement. I can easily imagine how this could be replicated as a political campaign (and this does appear to be political -- why else end after Nov 3 election?).

I wonder how the economics (or outcomes) work out paying targeted, undecided, persuadable, but likely voters in key states to withdraw from the advertising blitz of the opponent, as opposed to continuing to compete for ads.

"Reduce Motion" in Settings > Accessibility.

At some point in the last 8 years, Apple changed the animation for how a window becomes full screen. The default behavior is to expand while simultaneously shifting the window to the right, or conversely expand while the desktop shifts to the left.

Enabling "Reduce Motion" eliminates that behavior, and the full screen window fades in and out instead, which personally I prefer.

If you are able to float free for 4-6 months, I encourage you to do it. It can be scary, but also liberating. Sometimes you need to grant yourself the freedom to realize that something isn’t right in your life, and it may take time to reflect, heal, and grow.

I quit a job that I was miserable at after 3 years out of uni. I traveled and I enjoyed life on my own for a few months. And when the time came, I ended up taking a job that paid even less than the job I quit (it’s not all about the money) — it set me up for real success later down the line, and I regret nothing.

Granted, now is not an appropriate time to be traveling, so that isn’t really an upside ... but if you have other interests such as your side project, that can be just as gratifying.

Is an(other) alternative to Facebook the solution? Can we evolve beyond this? It seems to me like we all have what you’re building in our pocket already.

Layer Name and Layer Arn (the Layer Version Arn without a version suffix) are interchangeable in APIs that require a Layer Name parameter. I understand that you're trying to extract the "LayerName" field returned in the API response in ListLayers, but you can do it more concisely.

If you just need the Layer Arn to call other APIs:

a) You could eliminate steps 1 and 6, and use the Layer Arn value from 5 to call APIs that require a layer name.

b) Alternatively, you could yourself chop off the version number from the Layer Version Arn string(s) in step 4, and skip the GetLayerVersionByArn call in step 5 all together.

If you explicitly require the name, not the Layer Arn:

c) You could parse it right out of the Layer Version Arn yourself.

When it comes to doing your own string manipulation for (b) or (c), there are many ways to skin a cat ... but you could use regex (the pattern is in the API documentation), or split on colons and index the second to last element in the array.

Is it useful to return the Layer Name in more APIs? What is your use-case?

Which API specifically are you referring to (GetFuntionConfiguration ?), and which APIs are you comparing it against?

As a Lambda engineer, I can happily report that we found this very amusing.

I have personally told them this, and my rationalization for "closing the door" so to speak is that there is (hopefully) no future reality in which Facebook is the only place that I am getting an employment offer that I'd accept. If I can get an offer from Facebook, I can almost certainly get an offer somewhere else.

Users generally do not like the UIs when they feel they cannot control it.

A scroll event is not very intentional to do something. People navigate the page, and if they want to call an action they mostly click or touch (known as triggers). They inform the UI about their decision. But scroll is triggered without any decision.

Looking at you, TechCrunch! I’ve been burned by the suddenly disappearing article too many times.

In iOS: Settings > General > Restrictions > Toggle Safari

Frankly, addiction and bad habits make it very difficult to sustain that when it’s easy to re-enable things.

I have hardly any notifications, my phone is perpetually on silent with vibrate disabled (I often miss calls and texts), and I have no “social media” apps beyond iMessage/Signal. But I still reach for it at every idle moment (most time being spent in the browser).

The one app I truly need is a keepass client. Not sure how I will overcome that without a smartphone.

Can you remove the preinstalled FB/Twitter apps?

I have previously contributed to that project :)

Amen. In my opinion, SO has become a very toxic and discouraging community to participate in. It's a shame.