I do satellites now but when I worked in insurance the work we did was meaningful. People need insurance, their policies are stored as data, and the company had to manage millions of policies.
Increasing click-through rates may not feel meaningful, but writing unit tests for a satellite which has already launched and been decommissioned will eat your soul, and you likely won't become a better developer because of it since you won't be given a budget to improve things or try new tech.
I've used it as a 2nd browser for past 2 years although on Speedometer benchmark it constantly gets a much lower score than Firefox. You can feel LibreWolf slower it on heavy sites like YouTube.
I also notice Chromium browsers get lower score than official Chrome binary. Apparently Google make further modifications to Chromium before compiling (that they don't make public).
A larger percentage of HN users were pass users when HN was less mainstream. Late adopters (of forums, technologies, etc.) tend to be GUI lovers because late adoption and a preference for GUIs are both linked to uninquisitiveness.
Hi, yakattak. Like you, I also created my HN account in 2010.
Browsing HN stopped making me happy years ago.
Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon that is indicative of knowledge relating to my interests does make me happy. I search HN multiple times per day using a search shortcut that uses the following URL:
I agree with you, in general this place doesn't increase my happiness but finding insights from the submissions and more often, well crafted comments, does. This is going into my browser search shortcut - thank you!
Can you provide examples of sources of information that MAGA considers neutral? The MAGA in my extended family who live in rural America think that scientists promote evolution solely because they're God-hating atheists who are trying to convince Christian children that God doesn't exist.
>> Infrastructure should aim to be bland, try to stay on the lagging end of controversies, and aim for universal support. Trying to use it to win some controversy just makes it vulnerable.
> Can you provide examples of sources of information that MAGA considers neutral?
You're missing the point. I'm talking about how common institutions should behave in a diverse society. Like I said: stay on the lagging end of controversies (e.g. avoid controversial issues until they're truly settled) and aim for universal support (e.g. have good representation of all the factions and their points of view). It's not about what "sources of information" faction X "considers neutral," it's about not egregiously and one-sidedly poking faction X in support of faction Y. Give both factions reasons to like and support you. Maybe it's not full-hearted support, but that's a hell of a lot better than opposition.
You think commercial software is meaningful? You think web apps, mobile apps, etc. are meaningful? If so, you are very lucky!
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