The "career" in question could be autorouter developing.
That said, I'd suspect it's similar to CS: autoprogrammers are "known" to not work. If you can understand and articulate the business logic in a concise way, understand and articulate all the components of the system and how they may interfere with each other, understand and articulate the system's nominal and practical input ranges, etc., then sure something might autoprogram the code for you, but it's not the autoprogrammer doing the real work.
HN is no different. For a handful of select hot-button topics, any deviation from toeing the party line will result in near immediate downvote barrage and eventual [flagged][dead].
On the flip side, for some (usually the same) topics it’s easy to write banal karma-fishing comments sure to rise to the top of the thread. At least HN has a time-decay aspect on those.
Unfortunately while US's NOAA provides all the data needed free of charge (with an API to boot), the UK government's equivalent charges an MSRP of £38.30 and requires finding and contacting an authorized distributor, though the data does seem to be more worldwide. I haven't seen other offerings.
It will change station to station, but if you open the station details page, adjust X Range to something like 28/180 days, then tune low pass to filter out all the high frequency (daily) fluctuations, you might get your answer. Some stations don't have strong Solar contributions, and won't change much on an annual basis, you can enable the Harmonics toggle and see if any show up on the outside in yellow (disable Sun).
I did consider adding a "max finding" mode of some sort, but that's never really been my use case.
A website to see a map of the world's tides, and bidirectional predictions for individual stations (edit: worldwide too, forgot I added that). The UI/UX is... archaic, but that's just how I wanted it. It works fully offline. https://solunar.pages.dev
Most fun part was transcribing 70+ year old NOAA tide calculation mathematic/astronomic/hydrologic research papers into modern TypeScript. Approach is semi-documented here: https://github.com/JacksonKearl/solunar
Maybe not patronizing, but it does hurt your case. My team recently went though to remove “please” from all dialogs because user testing found phrases like “please reload to active X” resulted in more people ignoring the dialog and later wondering why X wasn’t activated than just “reload to active X”. I assume the bartender has run similar experiments.
Just don’t be mean. I read this a while ago, then observed an interaction at a bar that made me want to respond:
A party kept moving from table to table. I have no clue why. But the waiter would need to go and clean every table that they left, for both basic sanitation reasons as well as COVID. Waiter didn’t know what to do to get them to stop. So he goes to bartender to tell him the issue.
Bartender immediately says to them: “guys, every time you move we have to clean a table so pick a spot“. Party never moves again.
Bartender could have thrown a bunch of “if you don’t mind”, “we’d really appreciate”, “please”, etc’s in, but didn’t. They also could have thrown some less pleasant adjectives in, but again didn’t. They explained the problem, proposed a solution, and left it at that. That’s the “nice” thing, IMO. Anything else is patronizing or aggressive.
> Your last check should go to the funeral home and it should bounce
Not GP, but this line in particular is dangerous -- that funeral home will do everything they can to harass whoever they can to get their money. Is that how you want to be remembered by your next of kin? Speaking from experience (homicide of a college student, so no blame for not paying), homes will charge tens of thousands just to release the body.
Well then aren’t I glad the US intelligence agencies don’t have a history of collaborating across national boundaries!
Some nodes can be under hostile control, but as the number increases the likelihood increases that they can link entry to exit based on timings. I consider it quite likely that the us govt can say “hey Germany/UK/Fance/etc., we have this batch of exit times, do any of your nodes correspond on entry?” or vice virce.
Saw an article a while back (years) saying NSA/FBI is able to track TOR connections and won’t say how even if it means they’d forfeit some cases.. anyone remember this?
Edit to add: Also, it’s public knowledge that TOR is funded by the DoD, it seems extremely feasible that they privately control a sizable chunk of nodes. Based on what I know of American 3 letter agencies, I don’t think one could resist designing a “secure” system only they can listen in on.
I consider TOR a very secure messaging channel between you, the other party, and the American government (metadata only, but that’s really not too big of a limitation in this case).
I honestly don’t believe anyone would look at the phrase “we will no longer be supporting X” as awkward. The meaning is immediately obvious, and the construct is used frequently. Calling out a trivial style problem like this in a technical review is amateur.
This does nothing to discourage keeping data around. A company does not care if they, while following best-effort GDPR practice, release data to a hacker that causes harm to a user. They can simply hide behind the GDPR legislation to say “we did nothing wrong, the law is broken, we were trying our best, we accept no liability”
That said, I'd suspect it's similar to CS: autoprogrammers are "known" to not work. If you can understand and articulate the business logic in a concise way, understand and articulate all the components of the system and how they may interfere with each other, understand and articulate the system's nominal and practical input ranges, etc., then sure something might autoprogram the code for you, but it's not the autoprogrammer doing the real work.