> My mistake was trying to combine .tar.gz files using cat. gzip plays ball, but tar throws a strop.
> gzip happily combines the compressed members into a single stream, but when tar tries to read the decompressed stream, it finds the first archive’s EOF marker and stops reading.
> gzip would be happy to carry on, but tar has given up.
There was no reason to say this three times consecutively. But when an AI wrote the blog post for you then this is the level of quality HN readers have to put up with.
> Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I'm on Gmail and getting flooded with it... About half of it is going to the Spam folder, which makes me wonder how it decides which of them are likely spam, since they're all very similar content-wise.
My raises never matched inflation but then my compensation is like 700k a year. I don't know whether my raise needs to match the cost of living increase.
When I last worked at a FAANG I was very clear on exactly what they had to pay me to put up with their bullshit (I happen to be independently wealthy). This kind of “nominal raise” below inflation actually meant my salary went down, so I quit.
How did you know you're independently wealthy enough to do this? I'm at a stage where I'm sort of there and getting more and more annoyed by large organizational BS, but I keep thinking "one more year is that much more of a buffer."
Funny enough, it happened because of the 2022 layoffs. I figured I'd be fine (and was), but it made me go though the math and realized I was close to escape velocity. On one hand, it made getting excited about uninteresting work that much harder, but because I wasn't quite there with enough buffer, the bad job market still gave me anxiety.
I’ve never known anyone to escape that situation. The “one more year” attitude is pervasive.
In my case it was easy because I didn’t join the company until after I was already independently wealthy, from an IPO (quitting that company was an easy decision too, due to all the magical changes that happen after IPO).
Most of these will usually make a program crash. Crashes are testable and not a memory safety issue. Exception handling was created specifically to deal with this.
