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any valuable laptop is a tracking device anyway.

You say this but I've seen countless videos of Apple stores getting raided by thugs who steal all the devices. We all know those devices will shut down and be inoperable but they don't know and/or care.

I'm sympathetic to the title inflation issue but more on the problem of the "engineer" title, not to mention the "scientist" title.

For example, I work in Data & AI and we have:

- data engineer

- analytics engineer

- data scientist

- AI engineer

What I don't know is what's the alternative?

Data Engineers are basically software developers.

Analytics Engineers were Data Analysts or BI Analysts but the job has changed so much that neither of those titles fit.

My opinion is that basically everyone should just be a "Developer" or "Programmer" and then have the area suffixed:

- Data Engineer → Developer (Data Infrastructure)

- Analytics Engineer → Developer (Analytics)

etc.

That doesn't change the reality that the Steam Deck is a niche device.

I hope that changes though.

Came across this piece from Discord on how they scaled dbt for petabyte-level workloads and a big engineering team. Some interesting ideas around environment isolation, faster compilation, guardrails, and CI/CD patterns that data and analytics engineers might find useful.

Curious, what have they moved on to? Is it better than Fortnite and the other games you've identified?

Steam Deck has a tiny install base.

Switch 2 does not.

I'm mostly a PC gamer but let's be real here.

I tried all of these debloating scripts a couple of years back but nowadays I just stick with LTSC

I would guess that the overlap between people deeply concerned about display response times and those excited to buy a Switch 2 is tiny. Most Switch buyers aren’t chasing cutting-edge codecs, they’re buying it for Splatoon, Zelda, Mario, and Animal Crossing. Nintendo’s audience has always prioritised unique first-party games and portability over hardware specs.

Speaking from experience, I've been thoroughly enjoying the Switch 2. Even if I knew about this information before I bought the console, it would not impact my purchase decision.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

I've found them to be pretty good for summarising Slack notifications but less so for Messages.

Mycenaean's were Greek. Same as the Macedonians, the Athenians, the Spartans, the Corinthians, etc.

True but if you're referring to the fact that you can play Xbox and Xbox 360 games on newer hardware, I believe Microsoft has a team that has to individually patch these games to work for newer hardware.

Sony does something similar I believe with their new Classics Catalogue as part of their most premium PS Plus tier.

This is all true. Xbox always threatens to leave their current vendors only to end up signing a renewal at the final hours of the contract.

As a gamedev I have a different perspective: Sony and Nintendo would be fools to give up backwards compatibility just for savings on chips.

In your view, is this issue worse with modern consoles now that the Playstation (and possibly Nintendo) online store purchases persist across generations? Imagine a scenario where someone has a PS4 and PS5, they buy many games through the Playstation Store, then Sony selects a different chip supplier for the PS6. I'm guessing this would cause issues with games that were designed for the older consoles, breaking backwards compatibility.

I'd imagine that if the console manufacturers cared about backwards compatibility, which I think they do, the likelihood of them switching chip providers would decrease with each generation.

What's so bad about the developer living in China?

The guy you're arguing with in the reply thread has a point but I think you're talking past each other because you're coming at it from two different sides. I understand his point about syncing everything if you're a small enough company or the data is small enough because the cost is immaterial.

I agree with most of what you're saying and have seen the downfalls of "just sync all our data" first hand. At a late stage start-up I worked at, we would often have teams (finance, CX, etc.) implement a shiny new tool and immediately request to have that data accessible for analytics/reporting. If we did blindly agree, the data would often never be used and it would run up our Fivetran costs to sync the data and our Github actions bill to build the dbt models and include it in our modeling.

We eventually landed on an approach that considered the following:

- Does the tool already have reporting baked in? If so, just use that until you need more.

- How often are you really going to be using it and what makes this data so special that you need to join it to our other data?

- How much work will be involved to implement a sync for this data? Does Fivetran or Segment have a connector readily available?

- If the tool doesn't have reporting built-in and the team did have a genuine business case for the data being synced, we would figure out which specific objects from the source that needed to be synced and sync them at a fairly infrequent cadence (once a day).

So while I offer no reasonable rebuttal, I wanted to explain a happy medium that worked for us.

- Fivetran

- Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift

- dbt

- Looker/Metabase/Tableau

You need to find a way to release this product. I would pay to use it.

I like the idea. Current professional sports are a game of cat and mouse between team doctors and the doping agencies anyways so this should eliminate some of that shadow play.

Whenever I try one of these apps I'm always impressed by the features but my entire life is in iCloud.

Not only that but all the people I connect with for notes/calendars/reminders are also in the Apple ecosystem and they aren't going to switch for me. This means that a lot of the extra features that Notion, Obsidian, etc. offer just aren't valuable for me.

It makes me annoyed that Apple's Notes app is so basic.

I own a couple of Rolexes, neither were purchased from an AD simply because I live in a place that has no ADs and I'm not travelling hours to play the AD waitlist game.

I say this is a good move. You should be able to sell them online. The second-hand dealers do it and it works fine.

This also doesn't really affect the exclusivity of the product either. The ADs still get to control supply and will still probably not sell to people unless they know them (which sucks).

because happiness won't come if games/shows/media/any product or service/ will be sh*t.

We all enjoy that stuff, however, if you derive your happiness from the media you consume, you need to re-evaluate your life.

Are you saying you will have two internet providers at once to ensure you are never without a connection?

A good heuristic that I use is:

can pigs live in this environment?

If yes, in most cases, lions (and probably other big cats) will thrive.

7:30am - wake up, shower, eat something small (fruit, etc.)

7:40am - start work

9:00am - coffee

10:00am - stand-up

10:30am - resume work

11:30am - gym

12:30pm - lunch

1:00pm - resume work

4:00pm-5:00pm - finish work, depending on day

There's a reason that when most people go to Japan they are in awe of the politeness of the people, the safety felt while walking down the street, and the overall cleanliness of the place.

Contrast this to your example, America (I am assuming you mean USA). While seeing rows and rows of homeless people is nothing new, today I saw a video of a homeless person slapping human faeces in the face of another homeless man.

There is more to this problem than just trying to maximise growth.

says economist Duncan Weldon

Forgive me but I disregard the predictions made by economists, a class of people who bear no consequences for their predictions.

You may be correct but this proves nothing.

I partially agree and personally couldn't care less if someone uses PEDs however a problem arises when a fitness influencer is secretly geared to the gills yet attributes his or her success to some product, service, or other consumable which they are trying to sell.

This practice is very common and probably does more harm than good. I agree that looking up to, or aspiring towards an elite physique is good however people need to be realistic and realise that, for most people, it doesn't matter what you do, whether you take every steroid known to man, you will probably never look like Ronnie Coleman in his prime and that's okay.

Strange topic for hacker news but with that aside, I loved the film. Really funny stuff.

If people knew it was a ~$100 phone from a company in China that virtually nobody has ever heard of being sold for $500, they probably wouldn't buy it.

I have never heard of the freedom phone before this but basing the justification for them being banned from using PayPal on the fact they resell a cheap tech product from China is a ridiculous position to hold.

Just be honest and say that you don't agree with their political agenda next time.

Huge fan of projects like this. It is a very straight-forward way of presenting the entire competition.

Nice job.