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The only fair way to compare the cost to solar and wind, is if wind and solar producers would have to make power guarantees 24/7 and cover the cost of the production gaps (hint: th…

I've had a long career in software and my conclusions is that if soft skills are valued over hard skills, the organization is already captured by talentless engineers and leaders. …

One of my kids are particularly brilliant and what I found is that the combination works best, "you are smart therefore I have high expectations" AND "without doing the work being …

Also a succinct condemnation of HN as a hub for strivers.

For anyone who has or has experienced the latest gen FSD from Tesla this comes across as a complete lie. Why would you spend energy lying on HN of all places?

Normal productive people doing normal stuff reframed through the lens of pettiness and jealousy.

This is based on my personal experience, I used to ride trains for travel a lot. I grew up in Europe and lived there for 31 years so this is not based on ignorance.

Trains will fairly unreliably take you from one place that is not your home, to another place, which is not where you want to go, at a time that is probably not exactly when you wa…

Long time user of Monodraw, such a delightful app. My main use case is to draw view hierarchies, tables and diagrams in source comments.

The only tiling window experience that stuck for me is Aerospace.

But what we can't have is affordable housing and healthcare without private actors effectively involved in value creation. As has been demonstrated over and over again.

Also, this track looks nothing like a competitive drone race track, the obstacles are easier and it seems designed to cater to the autonomous drones.

Donating in times of stress is a great idea, just donated as well.

20% faster for some operations now, but with only a small subset of SQL implemented. Sound like making it as fast as SQLite will be hard with full compatibility given that I expect…

Pre-announcing makes no sense when you're leading the pack, it's a stall tactic for your customers to not leave when trying to catch up.

Nope, it's all there, look again (maybe not great on mobile or something?)

HNHiringTrends[1] is my goto site when I try to explain the current hiring sentiment of software. [1] https://hnhiringtrends.com

By "maintenance mode" you mean shipping more features per year than the pre-Elon Twitter? Remember, the pre-Elon Twitter was completely stagnant and seemingly unable to ship even t…

I really think Rust should adopt one of the popular datetime crates into the std lib - it's not reasonable to offload researching maintainer status and quality to each developer ne…

Where is the proof that Rust can achieve the productivity and design flexibility needed at browser scale?

I know, I'm saying they implementation they ended up with is terrible.

How they basically could not improve on tagged union enum types as you express them in C is to me one of the misses. Modeling data through effortless sum types is a requirement for…

I used vim for 25 years and I expect to use neovim for another 25. Return on investment in knowledge and skill is off the charts.

So we're saying that the reason jets should be able to be tracked by anyone, in real time, is so we can enable targeted moral shaming? Everyone, regardless of wealth or mode of tra…

The ultimate proof that Neovim has a healthy team of contributors, is that they successfully agreed on a new default color scheme. I am now convinced they can succeed with anything…