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As computer programmer in the web field, I find it awfully pretentious when web developers or any other programmers call themselves engineers when they are not legally licensed engineers.
>(Of course, the real terrorists are the bankers and financiers)

You lost me at this point. That's hateful populist rhetoric.
Recently I was doing some mean stack development ram was maxing out 8 GB and system was struggling to run smoothly
Mongo alone was hogging around 1.5 GB and webpack was hogging 1 GB there are three seperate expressjs servers hogging 500 mb each

And then there was slack
PPL ASEL will cost you about $8k (doable if you really want it) and a 172@$105/hr wet to travel around in at 110kts. Take two fearless friends and you have yourself a private airline.
Yep. And we all have different levels of sensitivity to blue light. I'm super sensitive, so if I'm doing anything on screens at night it pretty much completely shuts down my melatonin production. If I'm coding, working, reading, or watching something on a device I literally won't become sleepy. And when I do go to bed I'll lay there for a long time before I can fall asleep.

Bottom line is that in order to go to sleep and get 8 hours, I have to be avoid device usage at night.
What advantages does the user receive for running the Slack Electron app, as opposed to having the site open in a browser tab?
What is VSCode doing that's impossible to do in a native application?

I'm curious, since I use PyCharm and I wonder what I could be missing out on.
It's really not that simple at all. A multitude of things could have happened in SDF (Louisville) causing the crew there to be unable to fly. Since it was a whole crew I would guess they hit up against FAA mandated rest requirements. In the interest of making sure that flight in SDF still went out the airline scrambled to get a reserve (flight crew members that are on-call) crew down to SDF. These things often happen at the last minute with no warning.

Not at all am I defending what happened on this flight. Just want to point out that last second adds of flight crew members is a VERY common occurrence and without it the number of cancels would skyrocket astronomically.
Nobody changes clients if Slack disappears and is replaced by another webapp. It's all in browser.

The UI might change, but the UI also changes when you go from a Mac IRC client to a Windows one, which doesn't happen with web apps.

I say this as someone who's used IRC a crapton and is a strong advocate for open protocols (and for more than just ideological reasons): Realistically, if Freenode disappears, IRC will most likely die as a protocol as all major projects switch to non-IRC solutions, which is happening today anyway. A protocol needs users.

The only thing IRC has got going for it is federation and openness. It's not easily extensible, it's not secure, it can't benefit from most of the advances we've made in comms and protocols since the 90s, and there isn't even a common format for your messaging history - most clients just use text logs!

If you want to advance the state of comms and ensure humans are using open protocols to communicate rather than walled gardens, you first have to acknowledge these flaws and needs. Propping up IRC as something it's not doesn't do anyone any favours.
Not everyone is going to use the same client.
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Those countries are essentially part of the EU; they're in the EEA or EFTA, have access to the common market, have to obey most of the rules, and don't get to vote. They chose this situation as politically preferable to the EU from a public opinion point of view; it has few practical advantages.

That'd be what was referred to as a 'soft Brexit'. However, the UK, with its immigration fixation, is now basically committed to a hard Brexit. They won't be in the EEA and they won't have access to the common market. Totally different situation to the countries you named.
Perhaps, but as you said it's not catastrophic.

Even so, you don't need to be the center of the world.
Choosing a platform isn't really premature optimization -- if you base your project on electron, and electron is too slow, your alternative is to... rewrite your project?
This guy compares electron to react native...totally invalidated his opinion, in my eyes.
That's really interesting. Can you elaborate?
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Oh, you're right. For that I would need to explicit the construction of the sequence n0, n1, … but that's impossible : if I can find such sequence, my proof holds but at the same time such sequence shows that the set is countable => contradiction, hence there is no such sequence.

But well, now that we've proven that such sequence doesn't exist, we've proven that the given set is not countable !

Not the most elegant proof ever, but I think it works.
>At present, the rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the "base" or historically typical rate of extinction (in terms of the natural evolution of the planet) and also the current rate of extinction is, therefore, 10 to 100 times higher than any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth.

From wikipedia, Holocene extinction. By what other metric could you possibly define "killing the planet" than killing the life on it?

I hate this argument because it feels like moving goalposts. For one thing, I don't think its hyperbolic to say that an uninhabitable planet is dead. It's dead as far as it matters to us. Moreover its so hard to read something like that and not feel like the message is "Don't worry, it'll be okay". If life is reduced back to single cells, is that okay? Will the planet still not be dead? If there is still water and organic molecules, so that life may evolve in the coming millions of years, is the planet still alive?

Due directly to human actions, species are dying faster than they ever have. Global warming has the potential to erase more species than ever before. Given the speed it's happening at, it may be a very real possibility that plants will not be able to adapt to changing conditions. Given that, it may be a very real possibility that the overwhelming death will cause runaway greenhouses faster than new plant and ocean life can reverse it, which would end all life on earth.

Life on earth would probably survive a nuclear holocaust. If you wanted to have the beast chance of permanently killing all life on this planet, this isn't far off from how you would do it. Push as much co2 as possible into the air as quickly as possible to change global conditions enough to kill all plants at the same time. If you just try to nuke everything, you'll leave a niche that other organisms will expand into. It's like antibiotics- you can't take just one huge pill, you need to keep taking them to make sure absolutely nothing survives.

Saying we aren't killing the earth is like watching someone that is getting stabbed repeatedly and saying he still has blood left.
Not to mention that MS assumes the only companies with competent sysadmins are companies running Enterprise.

Windows 10 Pro is a slightly-less handicapped version of Home. To call your product Pro and prohibit users from turning off the Store and all its ads for games is bullshit.
London is the idea that a city can have and respect both a past with all its cultural heritage merits/baggage/identity as well as a future as a globalized hotspot. The corporeal hope that you don't have to give up one to have the other. If post-Brexit London turns out to fail on the globalization side of that balancing act, that hope takes a hit not just for Londoners but for everyone who values both sides.

It's the hope that is feared to fall, not the bricks and stones.
The airline called the cops to enforce its rights; the cops could've ordered everyone off the plane to de-escalate the situation peacefully, which should've be done in the first place due to the space constraint in there causing safety concerns. What if the guy wanted to fight? Other customers could've gotten hurt. I've been in that situation before the cops ordered everyone to disperse first.

They could've listen and ask if anyone else would be willing to give up their seat for the doctor.

There are many options and based on the videos and what the other passengers said, the airline nor the cops gone through all of them before escalating the situation like this.

Sorry, the cops were in the wrong as well. They may have all the laws on their side I'm sure but if we treat cops as right all the time, we normalize their behaviors as acceptable as well.
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Yeah, but pre-deregulation there were plenty of seats for employees and dependents to fly and airlines were making money. Airlines didn't have to have police with rubber hoses beat randomly selected passengers until they could be dragged off the plane. Source: dad was a middle-class airline employee during this period. I flew on his pass. Could not wear tights, though. I am currently a middle-class schmuck. Don't fly because I'd rather stab myself in the eye..and, oh, can't afford to.
Does YC explain why they don’t use SAFEs somewhere?
I use GalliumOS on a Dell ChromeBook 13 (i5/8GB). I don't have any issues except that the machine reboots itself during sleep sometimes. That's not a big deal for me, so I am very happy with the experience besides missing Ubuntu Unity after working on it for several years now.

EDIT: I used chrx to install it. I don't recall any issues during the process. I also upgraded the SSD to 256GB.
I have seen quite a few broken legs as well, and my mind goes to the same place as yours each time.

It must happen near processing time otherwise I suspect they would not be healthy enough for human consumption. There must be other ways to use the most damaged animals.
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The definite way it talks about the herbal section towards the end of the article is unfounded. Some of the herbal has in fact been the key to an attempt to translate a few words in recent years.

It may be hoax, it may not. But declaring "the plants in the book's herbal section never did and never could exist in nature" is nonsense.

Not all pages depict impossible plants and the drawings themselves may be highly derived, second or third hand illustrations.

IMHO it's unlikely to be a hoax due to the expense of such a hoax at the time, and I understand language patterm analysis looks about right - i.e. if it's a hoax it is a damn clever one and seems to defeat methods of analysis far ahead of its time.

Either way I doubt it contains the secret knowledge of the ancients.

--edit-- In fact inconsistency and weirdness in medieval manuscripts is really not evidence of a hoax to me - evidence they got things wrong, evidence of magical and mythical thinking, sure. But not specifically of a hoax.
Slack behaves perfectly fine for me and I don't have incredible hardware. It's non-Electron apps that are typically mentioned by macOS' energy management system as "consuming significant energy", in my experience.

Edit: Mass downvotes; lol ... Just stating my personal experience!
And BMW is, for the most part, encoding more into their designations. They split the 3 series into the 3 series coupes and 4 series sedans (ignore the GCs, as beautiful as they are) and for the most part the even numbers are supposed to be the coupier cars compared to the odds (see X6 vs X5).

Owning an M4 I didn't realize how often I'd have to explain this to random folks at the gas station when they wondered what the hell an M4 is when they've only seen M3s.
According to that link that is just one of several possible interpretations. In fact the author seems to prefer the "camel" translation, as there are contemporary examples of similar hyperbole.
I think you already forgot one of the most deadly terrorist attack on the European continent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

Nevertheless, we don't have the same security circus when boarding train.
sure but the types of jobs on offer in London may not be on offer elsewhere.
I have an i7 860 as well. I've added 32GB RAM, a new 1050 (cheap, but very fast for what I do with it, panoramic stitching.)

The 860 is feeling a little sluggish these days for me. My laptop is about as fast... I'm excited about the jump once I decide to upgrade though and I've pretty decided that if it isn't a 2x improvement it's not worth jumping.
"log in to slack" vs.
"deploy 3 services in the cloud by yourself and force everyone to use a specific irc client (good luck)"

There's a reason people like slack so much. It does a ton of stuff out of the box with no headaches. Nobody wants to maintain all that stuff.
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They've also created new rules for grammar.
On top of that, webassembly could see some improvements across the board.
That's odd; it was wonderful to experience on my desktop pc. :)

I guess a really big screen and a beefy non-laptop CPU helps.

Maybe they should start making laptop versions of these "interactive stories".
I've seen a movie where a bad guy entered password and a good girl counted the number of characters: one-two-three-four-five. Then she noticed that his suit had "GREED" badge on it. Combining these two facts she succesfully hacked into his laptop and prevented some shit. Since then I started to always mix few backspaces into my passwords. Not that I'm really bad, but life is life.
IRCCloud can, they're a client too :) I highly recommend them if you are serious about IRC.

But yes you're right, nothing in the IRC protocol for it. There is something in IRCv3 to provide chat history but I don't know if it's even in the current version of the spec.

https://www.irccloud.com/
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If there was a "security patches only" option in there, somewhat akin to a LTS distro option, i think there would be less complaining.

That said, it is hard to find a good time to do updates, and not everyone notice that popup about "we are about to reboot for an update" while in the proverbial zone.
London has been a "world capitol" ... meaning I guess that it has deserved that description as much as any other large city ... since at least the mid-17th century. Whatever affect brexit has on the UK economy and place in the European sphere I doubt it will fundamentally alter London's status.
It sounds like this outage was last week although the article is dated today. The title is misleading.

>"Ouch: last week, Digital Ocean took the GitLab fat-finger pill, deleting a production database and triggering a five-hour outage"
Hey, I think you're doing the right thing, in 1) asking for help from the community in an area where you feel lacking, and 2) by making it available to the best your ability. Many projects fail at one of those two, which dooms them to never have a community. Keep up the good work.
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But these apps aren't "proof-of-concept" apps - they are fully functioning, working cross-platform applications.

So are you saying that these companies which have implemented these apps should instead say "You know what, we have this app developed, and working on the major platforms - but let's instead devote three new teams, one each for Windows, Mac, and Linux - to re-implement this app natively! I'm sure upper management will agree!"

That's not going to work. That's going to be shot down and laughed at. No company is going to re-implement a working cross-platform application over to three separate native contexts, and maintain all three. That just won't happen. It works already. The users probably like it just fine. What benefit to the company will this get them? Nothing - just more costs for maintenance across three platforms.

If native is wanted by the users, likely what would happen - if it happens at all - will be the company says "Ok - we'll make it native for Windows, maybe even Mac - maybe. Linux? Forget it!"

It's not the developers. Developers would love to make native apps, for all the platforms. But developers are limited by the companies they work for, and by the economic realities that all the platforms can't be supported natively; at most, only one or two can - because at that point, with the number of users on those platforms, the additional costs of maintenance and support are pretty much saturated. Adding additional native platforms doesn't just add onto those costs, it actually (in theory) multiply them - because a single person might use the application across multiple platforms. So if they have problems on two or three different native platforms, now there are three different support issues (needing more people to support) - instead of a single complaint for a single platform.

I get it, though - it would be great if these apps were native, and worked on every platform, from now and into the future (even on platforms that don't exist yet!). That's just not going to happen; if native is wanted, then only the most widely used platforms will be supported, and even then, one of those will likely be dropped, and it won't be the one from Redmond.

So - what can be done? I dunno. The concept the author brings up ("use React Native") might be the solution. Or some other interface that abstracts a platform's OS and other native functionality out to an API that is the same for all platforms. But now you have issues with security and other access - which you still have with Electron, but it is more contained and constrained, since it has to go thru the Chrome engine and the various rules/settings browsers have for sandboxing bad actors. Or - you leave it to the user and their operating system (and slim it all down - maybe that's what React Native does; I don't know, I've never used it).

Or - you (that is, the company) just says "Sure - we'll do a native only implementation - for Windows only." - because that's how it usually goes.
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That's actually pretty funny.

Article mostly talks about the validation that security companies got from recent leaks, when before it could only be based on update and domain registration times.

Kind of makes the US look silly with that oversight. Though even if they did fix themselves, it's not like you could change behavior on the old stuff.
Startups have yet to solve the problem of legacy code. At the very center of Internet companies too old to still be called startups is some ancient Perl or PHP written by the founders, back when they were around, and even wrote code. That might seem less archaic than COBOL or faxes but it's the same root problem. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" didn't account for "well you see, it's not catastrophically broken but it's holding us back"; maintenance programming isn't sexy, like maintaining bridges and highways that have already been built, but just as necessary for continued operation.
The current answer to that is basically "Use IRCCloud", and that's what I link people who don't already know IRC to.

It's a web/android/iphone client only, but it's IRC. The moment someone grows tired of the client, they can get their own.
This is why using fingerprint sensors makes sense. Impossible to guess this.
I'm not sure what you are complaining about but there is such an indicator on the graph.
This is a well formed opinion. It shouldn't be downvoted; if people disagree there are better ways to express that than by downvoting it to fade out.
yep definitely. and there is definitely a cost and effort required to make Electron feel as good as native. depending on your feature requirements, this can get really hairy.

i'm just exhausted by the "web apps feel so much worse than native!1" argument which is an over simplification and not a rule.
And this is the reason that I've become such a huge fan of Rust... back to the metal, high level interface like Java.
To be fair, it's a very deep clean.
All 3 of those countries are still in the single European market though, with freedom of movement. Given UK appears to be heading towards a hard brexit and doesn't seem to want freedom of movement I think comparing them directly is a bit disingenuous​.
Lots of people commenting to say "of course not, article is stupid". Ignoring the fact that the article doesn't really say it will, that view seems unnecessarily dismissive. At the very least, finance is massively important to London and many firms are considering their options. Of course, we don't know yet how that will play out.

Having recently moved back after 10 years, the country seems massively behind the times in most ways. Everything is slower and less efficient than in Europe; more bureaucratic, worse technology & infrastructure. Half the service at twice the price and takes three weeks to do anything. I don't feel farming subsidies are going to cut it going forward.
Thanks for the bug report, we'll look into it
Yeah, but Python still doesn't seem to have a great cross-platform desktop GUI, as far as I can find. I'd prefer to code entirely in Python if I could, but I haven't liked a single GUI library I've tried for Python.

Although to be fair I haven't really tried PyQT out still, but I don't like the idea of having to buy a commercial license for it.
Some people want to do this precisely because it's hard to do. And getting harder with every update.

What's bad is losing control of the software running on one's system, not necessarily the content of the update itself.
Right at the end:

"She pays $750 a month for a room on the edge of the city with seven roommates".

Financialisation of housing is killing the UK. Work has no real meaning because value created is unrelated to fiat money appropriated. The divide between have and have not is massive. Immigration is being used to prop up demand for housing as nobody can pay for a small apartment any more so people live 8 to a small house.
> So get over it or provide a solution, but stop complaining.

Complaining is a necessary first step in finding a better solution. Before being able to solve a problem, you need to first articulate what the problem is.
This is not the fault of any passenger.

The airline ceased to be civil when they shifted from an auction, to inviting police power on board. It was morally wrong for them to do this, and it was even worse for the police to agree to it.

There's no ethical, legal, or contractual argument for what the airline did; or the power they claim to have in this letter. They do not have the power to deplane people for the reason stated, their contract lists out numerous reasons for passenger removal but this is not one of them.
The problem is that in popular usage many GIFs are not 16x16. People are sharing high resolution GIFs that can weigh tens of MB, and rendering several of those at once (whether directly in Chrome or in Electron) is not a negligible amount of CPU. It shouldn't peg a core, of course, but it's definitely higher impact than videos of similar sizes, since video rendering is considerably more optimized for these cases than GIFs are.
I suspect I'm feeding a troll by replying, but what the heck. Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are countries. London is a city. It is a truly global city, unlike Zurich, Oslo or Reykjavick.

London is currently one of the top few cities in the World in terms of wealth, culture, diversity and other measures. If it 'falls', it will probably still outrank the vast majority of the World's cities still, but lose its status as one of the jewels in the crown.