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> You know what I haven’t seen? not once in 15 years? > A company going under. What a wild assertion: The OP hasn’t personally seen a company fail, and therefore software quality d…

The listing says it's compatible with Pololu pinout. That has become a common term in stepper motor control. It's little more than a standard IC on a simple board with a standard p…

As a counterpoint, my YouTube feed is great these days. When I open it up, I get more of what I want to watch. The hardest part is choosing which video to watch in my limited time.…

> I have never in my career had to do anything like designing a large scale system. Giving large scale system design interview questions for a role where someone never has to work …

8K is four times the pixels and therefore four times the bandwidth as a 4K monitor. It took us a long time to go from 1080p to 4K. It has taken even longer for 4K at 120-144Hz to b…

> I do not know how many developers use VS code, but all of them are using electron and it seems to be fast enough for them. At this point, I think the debate about slow apps is mo…

> Of course this is just a toy example. But suppose you had a different task that is I/O bound, like processing terabytes of jsonlines files. If this task was the bottleneck in a l…

My best managers have been umbrellas, but with transparency. If something was happening in the company we would be informed, but could rest assured that our manager would do their …

It’s not really a significant safety difference. The visibility difference isn’t that big. It’s nowhere near on the level of removing airbags.

> I tripled my salary in two years by starting off woefully underpaid, Unfortunately, this is how most "I tripled my salary in X years" stories look when you dig into the details. …

Because the value of accounts that browse extreme numbers of posts per day is near zero to advertisers. Someone who has seen thousands of ads per day for years on end is basically …

> Because legally, that's as meaningful as saying "they are quooquaquams". I don’t see how this is at all equivalent, given that “psychedelics” is a well-known term that can be fou…

> But with the internet, you can find the absolute best book or video or tutorial in the whole world that blows your local teacher out of the water. I’ve done a lot of mentoring, i…

> When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society? If you judge society by the worst headlines and stories from social media then it’s going to…

Rear view cameras are a safety feature. You’re not sticking it to anyone by refusing to look at it. I understand that you’re upset about data collection, but refusing to use a basi…

Is everyone on HN running their computers in some parallel universe where apps are running 10X slower than my computer?

> AVX-512 is still not present in the chips with E-cores. Why would they put a dig at Intel’s consumer chips in a slide deck for their server parts? The Intel Xeons don’t have E-co…

> Except, that they are not, What a weird claim. If the new apps aren’t doing anything more, then just use the old apps. Except you’ll quickly find that the old apps are quite simp…

Tim Ferriss is very good at downplaying the effort and costs that go into businesses. Good for inspiring people to try, bad for actually being transparent. In this example, the (cl…

Fitness influencers and podcasters took the Vitamin D story and ran with it to extremes. The number of people who think more is better with vitamin D or assume that their levels ar…

Could be true, but it's worth noting that Gergely has been wrong about his "confirmed internally" facts before. To his credit, he did issue a correction when it was discovered. How…

> I feel like this is one of the things that Gergely has sensationalized recently to drive attention. It's important to remember that Gergely is in the business of clicks and views…

> This is a shockingly simple product to make "self driving". No, it’s quite an engineering challenge to develop any robust self driving code, especially in safety critical applica…

> The longer Bitcoin survives, the more it will get adopted and integrated into the world's financial fabric, e.g., as a store of value. If this sounds far-fetched, consider that m…

> I've considered upgrading to a 12th or 13th Gen motherboard, and while I have no doubt they'd be great for me as a Gentoo developer with the greatly increased core counts, my hes…