As a child, I caught a bumblebee in my hand because I didn't think it could sting. Those stings hurt.

Citeulike [1] was great but is sadly no more.

Add any paper you pick up to your tracking system before you read it. Make that part of your reading ritual.

Save the PDF right away, too. You may later lose access to the journal. Or, CiteULike (where I^Hyou uploaded all those articles) may go away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citeulike

And then again [1]

[1] - https://mast.house.gov/2023/11/biden-handed-over-16-billion-...

That money went to the Mullahs, not the ordinary people.

Any significant transfer to the ordinary people will flow, in large part, to the government.

Putting cash into a somewhat closed system is particularly inflationary.

So, this well-meaning humanitarian idea of cash transfer (a) funds an authoritarian regime while (b) adding inflation woes to the people it's trying to help.

Proper grammar on formulaic language is a proof-of-work system. Difficult to achieve but easy to check. It suggests that the author cared enough to put in the time. When the cost of graduate labor is low, careful editing suggests that you can burn a student's time to demonstrate the message is worth reading.

Redundant may be a strong word. NJ ranks at the top of the states for public schools, e.g. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

NJ has effectively a publicly operated system of private schools where the tuition is the tax burden.

My small NJ town has its own school district, containing a single K-8 school. Yet it has both a superintendent and a principal.

Grades 9-12 feed into a regional high school, which also has its own school district containing just that school. It also has its own superintendent and principal.

I don't think "redundant" is a strong word for this situation.

How many employees at each of those schools? How much management? Is the manager / employee ratio lower or higher than where you work?

Sorry but I'm not spending an hour doing math on employee counts just to satisfy an HN commenter. There's no universe where it is sane and reasonable to have 4 separate highly-paid school superintendents in a 3-town area (towns feeding into the regional HS) with total population of only 25k, especially as these schools don't even rank particularly well.

And that's not even accounting for the principals. Think of it this way: if a country's navy has only a single boat, does it really need both an admiral and a captain?

Low-end wired earbuds come in packages with dozens of units. I buy cheap earbuds because my kids love breaking them. Not everyone optimizes for the same thing. Analog remains the bees knees in certain settings.

Just a quick search on Amazon shows a two pack of USB C headphones for $10

Or 100 analog ones for $36.

So you are worried about saving money and consider $5 for a pair of headphones and you bought an iPhone????

No. Going back to what I initially responded to:

> I’m going to need HN geeks to get over analog headphones from the 60s

I am saying that not all adoration of the analog headphone jack is baseless. And we shouldn't universally move on.

So your adoration of analog headphone jacks is you can buy a pair of crappy ones for less than a 50 cents each?

If you are that concerned about price, I’m sure you can get a $20 Tracphone from somewhere with an analog jack.

The game, https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/, mentioned by the companion piece, https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal/, looks quite cool.

I’ve done four play throughs - two solo, two with a buddy - and they have been very satisfying. Highly recommend it. You can play a game with the pdf and a text file, or with a printout and a notepad, pretty much anywhere.

> ...if you want one-click "this snapshot failed; update it" self-modifying tests.

I am envisioning the PR arguments now when the first instinct of the junior developer is to clobber the prior gold standard outputs. Especially lovely when testing floating point functionality using tests with tolerances.

Some things should be hatefully slow so one's brain has sufficient chance to subconsciously mull over "what if I am wrong?"

I would kick him $20. Anyone know how?

Please tell me the username "jeisey" is a play on New Jersey accents and this was inspired by today's storm therein.