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There is an Auto-build capability you can unlock. Makes the crafting much less tedious.

As a fellow European, I used to feel that way. Having lived in Canada for a while now, I prefer short notice periods.

It means that I can be more flexible in pursuing opportunities. Businesses also tend to be more risk-seeking because the downside of hiring someone is lower. That benefits me as an employee because it is much easier to get hired.

I’ve been laid off, so I also felt the negative consequences. The key for me was building an emergency fund. Granted, if a person is in an employer's market, the short notice system is terrible.

How did he create the animations?

Following that, capital is potential energy.

Skills are the ability to meet spec quicker than someone who has to learn as they go. Sounds like potential energy to me. Since capital acts like potential energy, it follows that skills are capital.

I enjoy in-depth by first-round review[0], which explores what goes into building companies and teams through conversations with people that have successfully done so.

0: https://review.firstround.com/podcast

Good point. If someone is forced to sell their house and stays in the same area, rental prices should stay the same because demand remains the same. What would happen if an investor living elsewhere is forced to sell?

The fall in house prices will probably not affect the prices of rental units. The cost of acquiring a home should be roughly the same, considering an increase in interest rates.

Rental prices might fall if people are forced to sell their houses at lower prices. In my area, people buy houses on 30-year mortgages with variable rates and require an in-law suite to finance it partially. The margins are so thin that I encountered people who had to sell their homes because of increased property taxes.

I wonder why they didn’t archive the most relevant tweets only. A library keeps only a subset of all available books in its archive as well.

Edit:

From the article, there are copyright issues when archiving tweets. The people tweeting own their tweets. So the archive doesn’t want to expose itself to that risk.

> The 14nm technology is at least three generations behind the latest advances available on the market but it is already the second-best technology that China’s chipmaking champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. owns.

Out of curiosity, what is the west gaining by restricting more advanced chips? China can build computers, smartphones, and weapons with the older generation of chips.

Is it to make their chip industry uncompetitive so we don’t become dependent on them?

If the people steering the robots are located in a different country than the work side, would they need a work visa?

My grandma used to tell me about this situation. Specifically, how infuriating it was to work with people that would do the absolute minimum and be rewarded like people making an effort.

I guess the better we get at keeping up with everything the more competition there will be for our attention.

I think it comes down to how limited our attention is. It is not possible to keep up with everything.

This is only the case if the bonds get issued in the country‘s currency. Argentina doesn’t have that luxury[0].

In the long run, if a government devalues its currency too much, investors lose trust, and the country cannot borrow money in its currency. Not necessarily a problem for current politicians since they will be out of office by the time the trust is lost.

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26S07N

The question is if families are getting smaller because parents don’t want more kids or because of regulation[0]. Maybe requiring people to have smaller cars or use public transport would further cut the birth rate.

I’m only half-serious. I know there is good reason for public transport or having smaller cars in urban environments.

0: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

One of the arguments I heard around corruption caused by lobbying is that centralization of power makes it worse. It kind of boils down to persuading one person is easier than convincing many people.

Let them. This would increase competition and drive down the rent. Making it less lucrative to own property.

Agreed, it is not to be expected that a doctor is able to follow the scientific literature for hundreds of different topics. However, I would expect a specialist to know their field well enough to assist a patient/guardian in making a somewhat informed decision.

I take your point that companies can falsely advertise their products. I think there is a place for a government body to make sure claims about healthcare products are factual. In this particular case we are talking about a drug that appears to not cause any harm. So I don’t see any reason to prevent an adult to make a decision with the help of a physician to administer said drug.

> Nobody has the knowledge base to make a real informed decision on the efficacy of a drug.

This is probably true for most patients, but not doctors. Normally, a patient consults a doctor on what drugs to use for their illness and the risk of taking it.

Ruby is not really slowing us down, the bigger issue is that we have a lot of integration tests and few isolated unit tests. So we are massively parallelizing our builds so we can get p50 build times of 23 minutes when running the whole test suite. The time mentioned in the article is a little bit closer to the p95 time.

> If there’s an intensity of flakiness that can withstand the gaze of a couple hundred engineers for more than an hour or so, we haven’t found one yet.

That is a good approach and we also used to disable tests that would fail on full master builds. When it comes to fixing intermittently failing tests we are now storing every test run so we can analyze our test suite. This way we are able to find the slowest and flakiest tests in the codebase, disable them, and notify the owners of the code to investigate.

> Before disabling the test, does anyone even consider the possibility that maybe it's not the test that's flaky, but that the software under test is itself buggy in a non-deterministic way?

I work on the team that build the system in the article. When we disable tests we ask our developers investigate the root cause. Most of the time it is related to application code, so fixing a intermittently failing test definitely isn't related to the test itself, but is often a result of multiple factors.

I've worked on the project in the article so I can give some perspective on our handling of intermittently failing tests.

Generally, I agree with your sentiment. Intermittently failing test are eroding trust in the codebase. In our case there are practical challenges with the size of our test base. Not everybody has context on every part of the codebase. This makes it really hard for people to decide if a test is intermittently failing and decide to remove it. The other issue is that at the size of our test base, we are introducing more intermittently failing tests than we can eradicate effectively. To combat this problem we build a test-onboarding system that tests test for common issues. Once a test enters the codebase we are disabling the tests if they are failing and then passing for the same commit too many times so that an individual developer doesn't have to make the decision.