As a fellow 13-month-old parent, I'm so sorry for what life is throwing at you. Hang in there and feel absolutely no shame or guilt for letting anything go. If some responsibility has to get dropped on the floor, so be it.
Similarly, when the friendly The View hosts asked Harris what she would do differently from Biden, I assumed her team would have drilled that obvious talking point into her with flashcards.
My mind was blown when she said "There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of — and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact."
You don’t even have to start a fight - you can just have an answer about how certain policies take time to grow and you’ll continue to nurture them. An analogy about how it takes time to turn a cargo ship might be apt; how the main thing is steady at the help, and hold the rudder.
My parents who are extreme Democrats called me after that interview to say there's no hope and Trump will win. Harris never understood the obvious fact that Biden's approval ratings were terrible not because he is old, but because people don't like his policies.
As a sometimes-engineer, sometimes-manager in mostly multinational tech, this doesn't reflect my experience at all.
I've worked with plenty of low performing ICs (as both peer and manager), and the trends are clear:
* companies that don't do, or don't do sufficient, technical interviewing
* employees with heavy worker protections, like in Germany.
I've also worked with fantastic German colleagues btw. But one reason they tended to get paid so much less is that they came with much, much higher risk, as they were essentially un-fireable. Even with imminently clear under performance you're looking at a year of PIPs, paperwork, and CYA bureaucracy.
Personally, I've found it more fulfilling to work in at-will places, for much higher wages, with more uniformly excellent colleagues. There's a reason so many of the best software engineers in the world make their way to the US.
I was born in the mid 80s so I don't get this reference - what do you mean?
(I was struck by how erotic the works in the original article were. They would nearly all be censored out of any big name AI today... Which seems kind of a pity)
I've also been on a sailboat put on its side during a terrible storm (a Tartan 42). I was on watch and tethered to the rail. For a moment, everything was at what felt like 90 degrees - but probably less in reality -and I was suspended in the air. One of the scariest moments of my life. Despite "knowing" how keels work, I was sure we were going over, and surprised when the boat righted itself.
As a daily user, I really am curious how you came to this conclusion.
Brave is essentially un-googled chromium with ublock built-in. It's available on windows, Linux, osx, and android. I can't imagine how a reasonable person could consider it "adware."
> Striking, high-definition images that are featured in the Brave new tab image rotation. Advertisers have the opportunity to feature their brand prominently in this coveted space in front of millions of consumers. Designed for high-impact branding and awareness campaigns.
It's surreal to have to explain to someone in HN how browsers work... You can set your homepage to a URL. If that URL has ads on it, like Google or Bing etc, then you will see ads when you open your browser. If you set your homepage to a URL without ads, you will not see ads. This has been true since Netscape Navigator.
> It's surreal to have to explain to someone in HN how browsers work...
It's surreal that you don't know how your own browser works, and yet you think you're in a position to explain how browsers work.
> You can set your homepage to a URL.
And if you don't, the browser shows you a screen, which is not a webpage, but a screen served from within the browser, which is true in every modern browser. On your favorite browser, that screen contains ads, and you have to configure your browser to stop showing you ads.
What part of the phrase "New Tab Takeover" do you not understand?
If you want to use an adware browser that you have to configure to get rid of the ads, and that gets their money from advertisers so they serve them and not you, nobody can stop you. But it's a bit silly to argue that's not what's happening when Brave themselves are advertising this as a service to their users (advertisers--you're not a user, you're the product).
It's clear you're not going to face reality, and nobody else is reading this at this point, so I won't be responding further.
> Striking, high-definition images that are featured in the Brave new tab image rotation. Advertisers have the opportunity to feature their brand prominently in this coveted space in front of millions of consumers. Designed for high-impact branding and awareness campaigns.
It's surreal to have to explain to someone in HN how browsers work... You can set your homepage to a URL. If that URL has ads on it, like Google or Bing etc, then you will see ads when you open your browser. If you set your homepage to a URL without ads, you will not see ads. This has been true since Netscape Navigator.
Brave seemed normal for days/weeks then one day randomly started giving me hourly crypto spam notifications. I had remove it's permission to send notifications.
That's exactly what I thought when reading it too.
Some people have made it into an ebook. I decided to respect the author's wishes and read it online in dark mode. I found that to be not dissimilar to the Kindle app I usually use.
The trouble is some of us have bad eyes, so reading on eInk screens where the text is scalable is always preferred...and we will pay for that. I wish more small bloggers and authors would take these kinds of accessibility options into consideration. I can't really have my eyes on a standard OLED screen for more than 40 minutes of so without experiencing ocular fatigue, so reading books on a browser is definitely a no-go for me. Shame, because it sounds like I'd enjoy them.
I've used Calibre to convert some html publications to eBooks to side load to my Nook in the past, but the results are not terrific and it's rare that I get the font to resize properly. If anyone has recommendations, I am all ears (or eyes, as the case may be)
Thanks for confirming I am not just missing it. I hope the author will reconsider. I really like using my eink reader, and the web browser on it is garbage. Also, I don’t always want to be online.
You can definitely find an ebook, they're around. There are also some "worm scrapers" out there (search github), which are just scripts which scrape the site and compile the book.
I read it on my Kindle, it's way too long to read in any manner you don't find comfortable imo.
I was once offered a job across the country. I was flattered and a friend's recommendation was involved so I wanted to be polite. Instead of saying "no," I said thank you so much but looking at cost of living etc it would really take (to-me absurd offer, benefits, moving support, etc). They replied back: you drive a hard bargain but we can do that. Welcome aboard!
Really well, at least in the long run. I stopped being a "big fish" in a small-town pond and ended up discovering more cool opportunities than I thought existed.
