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Re:Encephalitis on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:08PM (#48390085)
Man, the origin of your screen name is the same level of lore as Rust being named after fungi, and not corrosion. Love it! Glad you're in better health again. Been using your software for nearly 10 years spanning before and after my career started. Thanks for all the work you do in open source.

Cheers

Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:48PM (#47337985)
Rust ownership model ("stacked borrows" I believe it's called) is basically this
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @02:48PM (#46800610)
I finally installed Windows 11 last year so I could use Wifi 6E. Other than that, it is certainly a downgrade. With some debloating and ExplorerPatcher, its mostly the same as Windows 10 now, but I'm praying that an update wont brick my install. Thankfully the latest forced feature update didn't affect me.
Re:When employees feel slighted, they work less on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:53PM (#46746373)
I received a title bump without pay increase to Senior after doing senior work for 4 years because our senior bracket is capped by lifers waiting to retire (I like them as people but they are checked out, professionally). It just left a bad taste in my mouth that it took so long to be recognized officially.

To put things into context, I'm basically operating as an engineering consultant to the rest of our senior staff and directors across multiple teams. In larger companies, perhaps I would be an intermediate IC, but in this company I am definitely responsible for more than my ICs.

It's my fault for not holding them to it, and should have realized earlier that I'm working under management that only reacts to things immediately happening to them.

Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:54PM (#46167163)
> especially in the age of TikTok

Shouldn't grey beards, grizzled by years of practicing rigorous engineering, be passing this knowledge on to the next generation? How did they learn it when just starting out? They weren't born with it. Maybe engineering has actually improved so much that we only need to experience outages this frequently, and such feelings of nostalgia are born from never having to deal with systems having such high degrees of complexity and, realistically, 100% availability expectations on a global scale.

Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:15AM (#46158718)
she's back
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:10AM (#46158611)
seems related to CF tunnels... policies are being enforced but perhaps origin servers are not being properly served.
ever heard of "Laurentian elite" ?
Re:Celebrating 20 Years of MDN on Friday July 25, 2025 @02:21AM (#44680149)
the best
Re:Cloudflare Investigating Incident on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:03PM (#44261744)
proxy seems available in general, must just be local to workers because only one of my sites going thru ZT tunnel with identity access rules is affected
Re:Axum 0.8.0 on Sunday January 05, 2025 @05:26PM (#42605587)
I had the same thought about both axum and diesel
Re:Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:21PM (#41803711)
ugh thanks, I just thought that the snap release hadn't been cut yet, lol. pretty dumb UI decision
Re:Azure DevOps is down globally on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:43PM (#41001099)
I have also noticed strange behavior that was not present before this perceived update, e.g. basic auth challenges and pop-up windows if I'm waking up my computer and still have azdo pages open.
Re:Azure Central US region is currently down on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:48PM (#41000827)
DevOps is down globally!
its pretty obvious he's saying its because the main brakes dont get used because regenerative breaking is enough to stop the car.
Re:With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:15PM (#38850253)
Switching from chrome to Firefox isn't the same as switching from qwerty to Dvorak.
the alternative is letting people work from home if they want
Re:Thinking hard makes the brain tired on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:33PM (#35415980)
Exercise helps a lot in my experience. I also got stuck in a position of "Context switching and constant hard thinking" for a long time. Just stepped back and let it burn because it was also an "unofficial" position.
Re:On Twitch, you can never log off on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:55PM (#33965001)
I think a more interesting story would be about the people that grind for years and years and never make it. You're left without a useful skill and no money, and probably a deficit on your mental health because you didn't go out and talk to people in real life for years. I think its not at all worth getting into as a career because making it big is like starting out as an actor, you have to know people. If you hit it big and are complaining about being burnt out, just walk away. Sorry that you pissed away your money and don't own a house, I guess? Could live pretty damn well on the money you made from it for a decade or more if you have self control, and have zero debt. Find something else to do in the mean time.

What other career can you make as much money, with such a low barrier to entry in skill and capital? Pretty much every other job requires just as much sacrifice of your time with nowhere near the same earning potential. Most of the big earners started streaming within the last 5 years[2], and even then, the top 2000 streamers are making 100k+[1]. I heard YouTube streaming is paying even better now.

1. https://twitch.pages.dev/en 2. https://twitchtracker.com/statistics/active-streamers

Re:How Mondragon Became the World's Largest Co-Op on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:08PM (#32625100)
The dynamics of Mondragon participating in free trade are no different than any other corporate entity. The internal dynamic works because most people that are participating share the same core values of shared ownership, and there is no corporate ladder to climb. IMO, leadership making these values core to the business is going against the grain, putting your probability of survival below or equal to that of others, which is why they are a rare occurrence

It's objectively a better model for ensuring the sustainability of a corporation, with respect to operating in a free market. I would say that being an employee at a high productivity co op is the same as being a highly skilled software developer working for a contracting firm or maybe a sizeable startup. You have a valuable impact and have skin in the game.

I think there is a tipping point where greed can end a corporation, but e.g. for western corporations, the beast is fed by central banking. The problem with that, is that there are clear winners that are chosen, which go on to buy out their competition. At that point, you have management making working conditions less and less favorable, for the sake of share holder bottom line, to the point of societal unrest. Take a look at Amazon.

Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:54AM (#32575396)
Land/housing is the one asset worth owning outright. Nothing else compares in utility and as a safe (assuming you didn't buy in the last year) store of wealth.
Is Tesla still the only fully electric manufacture worth buying? If it is, all this legislation and subsidization are creating a monopoly. Also I'd rather not have a vehicle that can be software locked, so I'll continue to buy old used cars until I can just get a fully electric car that isn't connected to the internet.
Re:Ask HN: Google Search down? on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:26PM (#32393604)
chuck
Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:52PM (#32228246)
>validated negative view of the current society

can relate, especially about things out of my control e.g. banking system and monetary policy

>Everyone who were COVID+ despite being vaxxed were allowed to fly, go to gym, restaurant etc

This isn't true at all, plenty of businesses have a no-symptoms policy. On the flip side, I don't think they could effectively screen everyone anyway.

>If this virus killed 95% of people would you be arguing against lockdowns?

This is the dumbest argument I've ever seen made on here. If it killed 95% of people, no sane person would be arguing because it becomes obvious that you are in danger. If 1.1% of the population dies and you don't have any of the health risks coinciding with mortality from the virus, then you have little reason to put your life on hold, unless you're unlucky and don't realize you have some unidentified health issue, which at that point, is a rounding error.

I guess if you're on the side doing the coercing then, yeah, at that point you probably think you're saving everyone from themselves.

Re:How I went about learning Rust on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:49AM (#32105367)
The author fairly regularly live streams on youtube doing more advanced Rust programming, and is responsive to questions coming in.
Redpanda talk was pretty interesting. Apparently some documentation on certain client settings is flat out wrong regarding consistency guarantees, IIRC written by Confluent.
Why would you ever make a rabbitmq node on a VM/server connectable from the internet? You would explicitly have to set up this networking for it to be a problem. In Azure it is for sure a non-issue, would need an explicit security rule(s) set up on subnet and NIC, probably the same thing in AWS.

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