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$82/hr with 56 hours of overtime a week. Okay that's just excessive union bullshit.

If the company can afford it and still make a profit (which would mean their labor is generating >$82hr in value!), then it's not "bullshit." It's smart moves by the union, and evidence that the higher-ups who don't do dangerous work are/were the ones being absurdly overpaid.

Good prices are what consumers determine are good prices.

Sometimes that's razor-thin margins. Sometimes it lets you get away with high margins.

This is it. This is the answer. It's shameful that nobody else here gets it.

Many of these people are autistic and/or ADHD. Autism, ADHD, and job interviews do not mix. The prejudice against these groups that's baked into the process (for no real gain) is unbelievable.

I think "retirement = doing nothing" is an incredibly strange assumption to make.

Pay-per-search

Yeah, the last thing I would want my search history to be tied to is my payment information.

It's a self-contained application using the Dear ImGUI library rather than a bloated framework, and is designed for a single language. It's not simple compared to the likes of vi, sure, but it's almost certainly many less lines of code and much more architecturally simple than just about any other (popular, in-use) IDE out there.

Nothing is stopping it from going faster, unless the framerate is forcibly capped by the developer. It renders the same way a framerate-independent 3D game does.

For most people, it isn't; using the mouse only feels slower. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html

In Plan 9's Acme, the mouse is your edit mode, the keyboard is your insert mode. I find I'm about as fast for most tasks in Acme as I was in Vim (after using it for years).

"I'm less sure why fierce nerds are impatient, but most seem to be. You notice it first in conversation, where they tend to interrupt you."

The answer is pretty obviously ADHD. Interrupting and "impatience" are very common traits in people with ADHD.

the inability to hold down a job, eccentricity of style, rudeness

It's called the autism spectrum. These are not features.

Source: on it.

Part of that was the widespread use low-resolution, high refresh rate, zero-latency (CRT) monitors, and the use of hardware interrupts instead of a serial bus for input.

Tangentially related - I wish there were a way to browse HN in Acme.

Here's a somewhat obscure one that fits your description: http://www.headcannon.com/HCGE/

The Headcannon Game Engine, HCGE for short, has been in development for over a decade by an '80s kid raised with classic computer and game console hardware. Borne from a deep fascination with these machines and a thorough respect for the developers who could make the best of them, HCGE is highly specialized for getting the most out of the 2D realm on today's hardware; Retro sensibility meets modern raw power!

Bitcoin would be great for this in theory, but the problem is that customers will not pay you in Bitcoin. People want their porn and they want it now, that's why they're paying. If you don't make it practically seamless for a layman to pay you for your porn, they're either pirating it or looking elsewhere. Sure, a few people might pay, but you're looking at probably a 50-75% revenue loss, best case.

"The UNIX command line and most programming languages are ineffective and slow tools, because they do not make use of the brain’s ability to process visual inputs quickly in parallel and contextualize large amounts of details into a cohesive idea."

"Too much reading!"

"Linux programmers are stupid."

This reads like satire. Surely this must be satire?