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Options still get deprecated in NixOS and require working around, and while debugging has gotten easier it can be a pain to debug when there’s an error somewhere deep in your configs. I’ve found that NixOS is like 0 maintenance most months and then half a Saturday two or three times a year figuring out why I can’t update.

Nomad?

You’re either exaggerating or don’t spend much time in NYC. Half of Broadway is closed to cars now, same with Wall Street. We have summer streets where they close many on weekends. Lots of dedicated bike lanes and a few isolated paths throughout the city. Could there be more? Sure. Are they completely absent? No.

For things I prepare in bulk myself (eg perhaps sauce in your case), I usually just get stats on the whole batch. Then just approximate per serving or average it over the whole batch.

Anyone know if there’s a a good solution to manage multiple OpenWRT devices on the same network, akin to Ubiquiti Unifi or TP Link Omada? Feel like that would be amazing.

It sounds like you agree. Control of TSMC is out of the cards so doesn’t affect a decision or timeline to invade.

Bonds have (relatively) low returns but almost 0 risk

Each of the asset classes you listed has risks. Bonds are subject to term (i.e. inflation) and credit (i.e. default) risk.

Bonds may be less volatile than equities and commodities, but they can definitely go down (e.g. 2022).

The only free lunch in investing is diversification.

From the perspective of "vehicles on the road" buses make a lot more sense to me:

- They can maneuver around double-parked cars and trucks

- They can switch up the route when there's construction

- There are no tracks tripping up pedestrians and cyclists

- They're [probably] easier to get to a service hub for maintenance

- They don't require overhead wires to provide electricity

- I would guess they're cheaper to purchase and maintain, but don't have a reference

One area where street cars _might_ win is noise. Busses can be loud.

This is a great idea. It would be even better if there were a column for warranty details, power consumption, and slot/port counts.

Luckily we can print the currency the debt is borrowed in.

Rational Reminder is one of the _best_ podcasts I listen to right now. Love the polite Canadian vibe

FWIW that comparison would’ve been identical in Python 2, where to get floating point division in Python would’ve been:

>> 1//2

This is a factoid I didn’t learn until recently, and it blew my mind. I’m not sure how serious they were, but the UK apparently also offered to merge France and the UK into one country before they fell.

I learned a ton about WWII from this series on YouTube…here’s the week when the UK sinks the French navy: https://youtu.be/gRR683NJOwc

In reality, it’s often cherry-picked facts fighting each other.

On the whole Framework handled the issue well, there was no permanent fix without soldering or replacing the board. The company was upfront, provided support, a replacement battery, and even published a how-to on modifying the mainboard after the fact.

IMHO, handling it well would mean recalling and replacing the defective mainboards (so long as they’re in warranty). They must have a ton of brand equity / good will if customers are that willing to roll up their sleeves.

If Hetzner allows custom images, then this tool may help: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators

Cloud-init can be clumsy to get going, but it’s possible.

If society ossifies into classes with landed gentry at the top, it’s not going to end pretty.

Fowler has a longer article on the topic of modernizing legacy systems that discussed this. I found it worth a read, even though it appears to be in flux: https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-legacy-displaceme...

I also used to think like this, but ultimately it reduces your spontaneity / flexibility / optionality. What if you want to host a gathering last minute, but it’s a busy time for restaurants? What if you sold your car because your city has a car share, and last minute you want to get out of town for the holiday (just like everyone else)?

You obviously shouldn’t pay to cover every edge case, but if you can it’s worth paying for the ones you value.

The question naturally becomes: how do you find a small, high performing team in the first place? I think maintaining a good network (previous colleagues, involvement in a broader community) will lead to opportunities, but then you have to distill the best ones.

I have seen situations where a single IC is dragging a division of 30 people yet still being compensated for doing the work of one IC.

I have often wondered about this myself, and believe there's some nuance to acknowledge:

- Yes, it is absolutely the case that individuals often carry teams. It does sometimes feel like they're subsidizing others' salaries.

- There's an old adage in advertising that goes: we know 50% of our budget is wasted on ineffective ads, we just don't know which 50%. The same probably holds true for organizations allocating wages.

- People go through different phases of their lives, where they can devote more or less energy to work. This fact may lend credence to a compensation structure that's based on bonuses and equity versus salary. Flat salary bands seem to discourage meritocracy without this adjustment.

- Organizations themselves are also dynamic. Consider a small org seeded by a prolific worker. They make the org successful, so the org grows and necessarily dilutes the talent (i.e. reversion to the mean).

- Does an organization have an incentive to "slow down" it's most prolific workers so everyone else can keep up? Conversely, should they develop a culture that speeds everyone else up?

- Should / do prolific workers self-select into higher-performance organizations, e.g. after getting fed up being a big fish in a small pond?

- Team dynamics are undeniable; consider two prolific workers with different styles clashing.

I personally would love to work on a team of superstars who mesh, and can capture disproportionate value relative to large, slow, mediocre orgs. The hard part is finding one and keeping it together.

Every team and individual have their own norms, but some people just take the agency to get shit done. In other words, when there’s work to be done they don’t feel the need to ask permission.

Further, with a lot of the batteries-included web frameworks you end up with a ton of suboptimal database queries (e.g. unintentional query-in-loop). Some would argue that you can just profile your code and optimize the hot spots, but I would tend to think it still slows you down quite a bit overall.

Did they switch from Django to Flask, and if so, why?

Shipping is cheap these days because volume is up, and because losses due to theft (thanks to containerization) and piracy (thanks to Team America World Police) are down.

Don't doctors make more money in low-cost rural areas?

I’ve started playing with Nomad recently just to see what it’s all about. There are some annoying things with networking, but overall it’s been pretty fun so far. What made you consider it harmful?

Plus they can be easily cached so you only ever have to do it once, and the result is available to your whole fleet.

This is solid advice. I also live in NYC, and the only time (so far) I've had a bike stolen was actually from my building's basement bike storage room over the winter (that I was paying $15/mo to use). When you think about it, this is a bad way to store your bike...lots of people have access, but it's rarely occupied by more than one person at a time, and of course the cameras either don't work or the recordings last a short while.

But why is happiness later better than happiness now?

Here are a few more to ponder:

- Why does the squirrel bury nuts in the warmer months instead of eating them right away?

- Why save money instead of spending every paycheck?

- Why not spend every day gaming, drinking and smoking?