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New comment by rlabrecque in "Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care"

rlabrecque — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 04:10:26 +0000

Yeahhh; I feel this. I'm in the office 4-5 days a week again; and the rare days where most of my day ends up being in-office only interactions are great. The quick catchups in the hallway; not either forced catchups that always happen at the wrong time for someone, or never catching up. Socializing while going out for lunch; not doing lunch alone, and then having to make time for socializing when I need to be working. Those days are waay better than zoom meeting hell days OR WFH on no-meeting days. Commuting is new to me since Covid and that sucks but those days remind me what work could be like so I put up with it. :/

New comment by rlabrecque in "Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy"

rlabrecque — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:24:38 +0000

I wish I had the time, because it would be fun. Back when I DID have time, I actually got that thug1 source code almost playable on Windows. That source code was only for the console versions, and the code assumed if it was compiling for windows (and not Xbox windows..) it was only for tools, so a lot of pieces worked completely differently.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Home Lab Beginners guide"

rlabrecque — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:00:51 +0000

I think the core problem you have is a lack of consistency. I'd try to trim down the number of different types of device/deployment methods/etc you have. It's too hard to scale wide as a single person or two, but you can go very deep in one stack and both know it very well and also get into a spot where it's kind of like either everything works or nothing works if it's all exactly the same, which means ultimately everything will have to work well.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Losing my son"

rlabrecque — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 03:11:26 +0000

This is so sad and well written. Lars is one of the best people I've ever met, no one should have to go through that, especially not him.

New comment by rlabrecque in "FPGA N64"

rlabrecque — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:24:23 +0000

Similarly they offer very little support, almost no communication, and yeah, just kind of weird.

New comment by rlabrecque in "First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA"

rlabrecque — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:38:15 +0000

yes.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs"

rlabrecque — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:00:44 +0000

I don't work at Amazon, but my C-suite and leadership team is in the office and that really makes a HUGE difference in going back.

Both by them leading by example and getting to have the face to face time with them.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Go Style"

rlabrecque — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:56:54 +0000

This is much nicer for other people coming into this. It's the same problem with spoken language and slang, slang is better if you know it, worse if you don't.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)"

rlabrecque — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 07:07:53 +0000

This is one of the bigger discussions I've been involved with lately; and I agree it really comes down to "bespokeness".

When you have a 'system' which is 500 LOC, and 10 usages of that system totaling 10 lines each; compared to 10 bespoke implementations of 50-100 LOC each... you get into a spot where the system is battlehardened because of all the users, while the bespoke implementation have issues all over. Then when someone goes to add the 11th use-case of this; they are going to learn from and copy/paste the other version, probably exposing some latent bug in the bespoke version.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Terraform should have remained stateless"

rlabrecque — Sat, 28 May 2022 04:59:03 +0000

I suspect there's probably a decent compromise to be made, like some kind of "reconcile" command, that explicitly tries to find orphan resources that reference resources it knows about, and tries to rebuild state.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Windows XP Delta Edition"

rlabrecque — Sun, 22 May 2022 01:24:21 +0000

Similarly I was 'online' much more during my teen years than I am today. I think two key things changed:

1. I started enjoying things outside of the internet more and more, partially due to how the internet has changed, partially due to how I've changed. 2. There's less FOMO due to as you mention, being able to be "online" anywhere. This creates an entirely different atmosphere, I won't miss something because I'm not at my computer. This actually leads me to being online much less, I can be out and about doing things and get ping by my friends on Discord. Very different than when I didn't want to go out because I couldn't talk to my friends.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets"

rlabrecque — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 20:23:19 +0000

Agreed, I'm curious as well. We load tested with real-clients faux-users, up to 1 million concurrent. And only stopped at 1 million because the test was becoming cost prohibitive.

New comment by rlabrecque in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

rlabrecque — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 18:35:25 +0000

Hey there, I'm a Canadian living in the US on an L1 right now, it was a good fit for me. What my company did was set up a Canadian Entity (subsidy) and started paying me through that for a year before I made the trip. It worked out well.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Blogging vs. Blog Setups"

rlabrecque — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 23:11:19 +0000

I feel personally attacked.

New comment by rlabrecque in "macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address"

rlabrecque — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:42:05 +0000

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? ‘Lots of luck with that’"

rlabrecque — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:43:40 +0000

Agreed, though I think there were 2 jumps with cell phones, the original mass produced ones circa the late 1990s, and then smart phones circa 2007-2008.

Also this: https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-maps-insane-backward-compa...

New comment by rlabrecque in "One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)"

rlabrecque — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 05:48:46 +0000

Whew, this hits close to home.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School"

rlabrecque — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 04:59:26 +0000

It absolutely blows my mind that Menstrual cups aren't more widespread globally. I basically wouldn't even know about them if my partner didn't use them. They seem like a better option than tampons and pads 90%+ of the time.

New comment by rlabrecque in "Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive"

rlabrecque — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:57:46 +0000

Are you saying that people would blow through $250k/year? lol

New comment by rlabrecque in "Who Controls Diners’ Data? OpenTable Moves to Assert Control"

rlabrecque — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:54:45 +0000

Someone that works in the industry probably knows better, but OpenTable has your full history of your dining experiences booked through them. What restaurants you frequent, how often, what time you go, how large your party was, how often you failed to show up.

I believe when you booked a reservation the restaurant got to see all of this.