Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job — and More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey

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Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job stevenbuccini.com \| points: 762 \| comments: 456

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More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey omglinux.com \| points: 436 \| comments: 410

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Stable Diffusion macOS native app github.com \| points: 355 \| comments: 81

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BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption borgbackup.org \| points: 313 \| comments: 166

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Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023 spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 311 \| comments: 211

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Facebook addiction increases depression severity among already depressed people psypost.org \| points: 300 \| comments: 135

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Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars propublica.org \| points: 277 \| comments: 164

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Apple Lightning (2020) nyansatan.github.io \| points: 266 \| comments: 123

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What Is a Wildcard Person? wildcardpeople.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 240

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Ask HN: What’s a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 185

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Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia smithsonianmag.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 197

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I’ve just started mixing shaders with Pygame dafluffypotato.itch.io \| points: 229 \| comments: 20

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US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F electrek.co \| points: 211 \| comments: 253

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Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019) nrk.no \| points: 186 \| comments: 139

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SQLite’s Automatic Indexes misfra.me \| points: 178 \| comments: 33

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Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated with 19KB of JavaScript synthtopia.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 76

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Bra size calculator calculator.net \| points: 174 \| comments: 69

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Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers news.ycombinator.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 117

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Experian Vulnerability Shows Any Report with just SSN, DOB, ADR infosec.exchange \| points: 168 \| comments: 35

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Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs wsj.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 102

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