Absolutely keep in touch with people because connection is essential to the human existence. Don't "pretend" to offer connection if you aren't willing to nourish it. The pretense is just mean and does more harm than good.
Yeah. There's a sort of uncanny valley to this that's hard to explain but you know when you see it.
It's like, conversations naturally taper yes, sensitive topics are danced around yes, particularly with people you're not that close with, but there's a grey area people play with generously in genuine interactions, precisely because they actually care.
Conversely in some interactions where you're sort of made acutely aware you've gone 'off script' the moment it happens and you realise, oh, this was always just templated/transactional.
I just think it's generally bad advice to enter into such interactions knowingly, even if you have good intentions, because of this. It's quite likely to happen and it's just an overall negative experience.
I would have taken the yellow book and called every bakery listed there to check if they were open.
I think sometimes the impact of technology is overstated :)
I love mine, it has a fresh battery OEM battery as well. Runs the latest OS with OpenCore Legacy. But it's starting to get a bit annoying. Usable, but it is starting to feel slowish, the fan kicks up frequently.
I might still keep it another year or so, which is a testament to how good it is and how relative little progress has happened in almost 10 years.
If I still had my 2015 I would have applied some liquid metal TIM by now, I did a paste refresh and that worked very well to get the fan under control.
Did you disassemble the fan assembly? And applied new thermal paste?
I'm not using mine any more, but I noticed a big difference when I replaced the battery and got all the dust out this spring. Also installed a new battery. Still quite a hard sell on the used market :)
If it's got a full function row, it will probably work just fine under Linux. My 2014 MBP chugged pretty hard with OpenCore but handles modern Linux distros much better.
Which MacOS version? I upgraded to a newer one and it crawled to a halt, it's unusable now. UI is insanely laggy. It's sitting in a drawer gathering dust now
If I was a hiring manager, I would certainly appreciate this attitude. However, I would value as well a person who would use an already made tool for doing the job (such as yt-dlp). Only problem is that the second type wouldn't write a blog post about it and get traction on HN :D
> However, I would value as well a person who would use an already made tool for doing the job (such as yt-dlp).
Agree, but I think this is the easier of the two skills to teach. So for a junior, I would hire the former if the company has the capacity to mentor them.
Actually my experience is the opposite.
In colder climates such as Russia, Finland I have seen room temperatures to be quite mild, above 20C for sure.
However, in Italy in winter it is quite cold inside.
Needless to say that thermal insulation is awful in IT.
Agreed, not sure what jb1991 refers to as colder climates. Countries with colder climates normally have decent indoor temperatures during winter. In Norway for example, you would be considered crazy to have anything less than 21-22C indoors.
Mine too. I'm from Michigan and my wife is from Hong Kong. In HK they don't have heating at all, and they generally keep the windows open all the time because it's so humid. It's usually pretty mild in the winter, but they have "cold snaps" where it might only be 12C; and if it's 12C outside, it's 12C inside. They just put on more clothes. So in a reversal of the stereotypes, she's usually the one wanting to turn the thermostat down, and I'm the one wanting to turn the thermostat up.
My old Cantonese teacher from HK told me he used to play Theme Hospital growing up, but he didn't understand why or how to stop the patients complaining about/dying from the cold. He didn't realise you need to build radiators!
I’ve experienced more chilling temperatures in a southern brasilian house during winter than my current apartment in poland. I didn’t even had to turn on heating this winter while in São Paulo I often had to use multiple blankets to sleep.
I think that its all about the windows. In warm climate regions they are made to allow air circulation.
> I think that its all about the windows. In warm climate regions they are made to allow air circulation.
Windows, walls, roofs, ceiling heights, …
In warm climates until you have AC you want shade and air circulation / drafts.
Having no roof insulation is not much of an issue (might even be advantageous to trigger forced airflow) as long as you’re far from the roof. Likewise high ceilings keep the heat climbing above head level.
And imperfectly adjusted doors and windows with dodgy (or missing) seals isn’t a bother when it’s not an advantage.
In cold climes none of those is really acceptable unless you want to absolutely nuke your bank account on heating, at least if the house is anything more than a place to sleep in.
It’s because mild climates have bad insulation and when it’s 5C out moving the thermostat from 17 to 21 is a big change.
When it’s -25C out, not so much.
Japan can actually be a case study of that: detached homes on Honshu (the main island) generally have poor insulation, in winter they tend to be quite cold and spot-heated (using kotatsu and kerosene space heaters, with heavy clothing).
On Hokkaido meanwhile, good insulation (including double or triple pane windows) and central heating are common (the island has insulation regs and there are loans dedicated to properly protecting against the cold), and inside temperatures tend to be cosy. It’s a regular occurrence that Hokkaido residents catch colds when visiting tokyo in winter, because they don’t have the habit of bundling up inside.
Though when it comes to Honshu, one of the justifications for the lack of insulation is the difficulty of keeping indoors drafty and dry during the extremely wet summer, to avoid the walls outright rotting on you.
Ofcourse, it chills faster if you don't apply heating when its cold outside.
However that doesn't dictate inside temperature. Well, maybe if you heat with firewood - you will get high/low temperature rises/drops. But people just like 20+ inside. 22-23C for me is comfort. Currently 24C at office - higher is out of comfort, but happens.
Someone like lower temperatures. Someone wants to save some money and keeps temperature lower than comfort.
And yeah, warmer climate results in colder inside temperature, because houses are not very well insulated and may not have advanced heating systems. But that's just experience from few data points I know of (and some HN comments confirms that).
Totally agree with you. However, some times I think most of the people take what they're given and the 'radicals' are just a small percentage of the total. Manufacturers simply decide to make what is cheaper for them (see for example 16:10 vs 16:9 for monitors).
When I got a coin everytime I watch people in newer SUVs being entirely confused why the damn thing doesn't start now completely stunned by the sheer number of stuff on the dashboard and middle screen. Or tell their passengers to go fiddle with the aircon system because the cognitive load is too high while driving. Old cars with knobs you learn it once and you can use it without eyes.
No, I argue it's exactly what GP says. Consumers choose out of what's available on the market, not out of space of all possible products.
When purchasing complex goods like cars (or smartphones), there's way too many things to simultaneously optimize for, and enough confusion (mostly intentional) about relative performance, so most consumers focus on few major indicators like price, availability, cost of ownership, appearance, etc. Few people are going to trade on those major points to optimize something more specific, like lack of touchscreen (or having a headphone jack), so there's no meaningful market feedback on this, and vendors are free to dictate the choice to the market.
Unfortunately I think it's more driven by cost motivations. As noted in the Mk8 VW GTI review [1], the interfaces are often straight up awful, this being a particularly bad design. They're the biggest source of complaints/issues shortly after buying, and three years later.
Additionally, distractions are already abundant in a vehicle. A crappy user interface, which most are, is a safety concern. At minimum, lag between screens loading should be extremely minimal. Staring at a screen for an extra second or two while it registers that you pressed a button and updates the screen is incredibly dangerous and has surely lead to some number of deaths.
Two years ago Mazda announced they were moving away from touchscreens, which was very well received on HackerNews. [2]
And I can't find the thread right now, but 1-3 years ago there was a really good discussion on here about an eye tracking study in a variety of car models.
Touchscreen-only interfaces in cars are kind of like electronic-only voting machines. Technical people who know about computers breath funny thinking about it and see issues left and right while large swaths of people really want it.
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Unfortunately I think it's more driven by cost motivations. As noted in the Mk8 VW GTI review [1], the interfaces are often straight up awful, this being a particularly bad design.
The car producer could save even more money if they released the non-security critical user-facing parts of the software as open source and let car enthusiasts fix the bad user interface.
I'd be good with that. I casually started looking at adding openstreetmaps in place of my outdated maps on my 2009 CR-V. From what I can tell, it's a proprietary system with proprietary formats. It doesn't look like it'll work, but I'd love to achieve it.
As a recent Mazda buyer, absolutely love the Mazda approach. The physical interface makes sense to me. The buttons feel right and work with a near-perfect springiness.
It's that they optimize for 1) what people like when they see it in the showroom, 2) costs, 3) what people like when they actually drive. In that order.
> Don’t feel like you have continue the conversation if they respond. You can if you want, but don’t feel obligated.
Then why did you write?! What kind of "good human being" are you?