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Social Network for Startups and Brands (Now What?)
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Archaeologists and astronomers solve the mystery of Chile's Stonehenge
bc; A new utility I did not know about, thanks!
#themoreyouknow
A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file, developed in bash and inspired in jrnl.sh

https://gitlab.com/osiux/txt-bash-jrnl
Germany, probably UK, France?... Any largish country with a high Lidl (sic) marketshare.
High revenue country
Absolutely. The bar we always tried to hit was whether the process we were being asked to change was represented a fundamental way in which this company was intentionally different from other large companies, or whether it was just the way it was before they saw what the SAP version looked like.

90% of back-office stuff is exactly the same between very large companies no matter the industry or history, but that is very hard to get across to the career accounting manager who designed those processes and now is having SAP shoved down their throats.

Secretly, I always suspected that one reason for bringing in SAP was that the senior executives recognized how inefficient their backoffice was but weren't willing to force huge process changes and create ill-will for barely marginal benefits, so they hired SAP to come in and be the bad guy to argue about it for them. Then they can say "Yeah man, SAP sucks, soooo inflexible, I argued against it but what are you gonna do, changing it is really expensive, I guess we'll just have to do it their way" and message boards fill up with complaints about how inflexible and expensive SAP is. Funny how that works!
$1200 is not realistic price for SAP consultants in Germany.
Yep. I'm amazed by how many different hacks, tools, and one-offs get proposed in threads like this when an amazing plain-text note/organization/GTD/life management ecosystem already exists and is supported by endless configurability. Of course, we're talking about org-mode.

(Religious org-mode user for approximately four years.)
I listened to a talk at a web development conference from one of the UK government's accessibility developers. Among other things, they do extensive accessibility testing and discovered things you wouldn't expect. For example, to people who didn't grow up with them, dropdown boxes are apparently unintuitive, so gov.uk avoids them. I was very impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0
The device still requires a pin for most operations (depending on how it's configured), and locks itself if the wrong pin is used too many times.
If the HTML is responsive, why can't it be good for print? And, for the sake of reducing waste, should we not discourage people from printing in the first place?
you forgot the link?
Not quite. I have worked with sap at many different clients. Some Reasons for buying SAP ( by that i mean their ERP as well as funxtional or industry specific tools and applications.) are as follows

Scale: at this size, you pick SAP or Oracle. There's very little else out there in the market.

Proven implementation: speaking for most clients, you cannot get a major ERP implementation done without outside help. You will turn to either the vendors or major integrators. You will then ask them to give you advice and prove their expertise. They will give you a list of prior successes, which is in my sector always going to favour SAP as Oracle have a bad track record. You will then pick the system and configuration and maybe even architecture they are recommending.

Industry Expertise: SAP, in many industry sectors, know their shit. You can try making your own tools, you can try pulling 20 different apps together to get the functionality you want. But that increases cost, complexity and often violates architectural principles. So you just buy SAP and all the modules, because they have every possible business process mapped out, data structures configured, suppliers and product catalogues ready to go, etc. Oracle has this too, but fewer products support or integrate well in my limited experience.

Of course, SAP isn't without its issues or drawbacks, but i have consulted with clients across many projects including the initiak upstream business cases, and these are often the key deciding factors.
Creating currency out of thin air also creates inflation.

Inflation must be kept in check or bad things happen.

Maybe the current levels are sustainable. But not all increases in deficit are sustainable.
I was digging through the sourcecode and package.json and was wondering how the new font changes were being made, thanks for noting this
It is for domestic consumption, and much like Japan it is generally being held domestically. They are indebting themselves to themselves tremendously and (as is in the case of Japan) it's not necessarily a bad thing.

The story looks similar too, which is why the CPC is shifting to encouraging demographic growth (including strongly incentivizing young professionals to form families.)
A majority percentage of social media users have their content catered such that it agrees with their sensibilities. Whether they've heard of blocklists or not, things they don't like are effectively blocked from appearing before their eyes.
Not sure whom Lidl hired for their SAP project, if they hired from one of the big 'consultancies' which I assume, cost would be easily >2000 EUR/day.
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s I experimented with a number of complex rich text, database, and proprietary formats for my notes files. It was a disaster in terms of long term accessibility. Since ~2004 or so I've used exclusively a single plain text file with embedded filepaths if media references were required.

This has worked far better and now offers a remarkable resource for both nostalgia and getting stuff done. It's huge and search is pretty much the only way through it but I still add every day.

Plain text is best. I feel that even using vim to automate time stamps is too complex. I just write it once by hand. It's easy and literally takes half a second.
> (I know a few people who worked on various parts of it and for what it’s worth: they’re all legit. They care, and they’re good. It should come as no surprise that the site turned out the way it did, if they’re hiring these sorts of people.)

I imagine working for a government is interesting from an incentives perspective too, simply because the optimisation is not about profit in the market sense.
The math is simple. This did not require a mathematician, just an cost benefit analysis.

($ * toilet each car) < shunting{($ * action * yard) + ($ * training * employee)} + ($ * accident cleanup) + ($ * customer bad will)
Most of the examples of Python program design that are held up as "Pythonic" can be described as Fortran with dynamic typing.
I haven't seen any evidence that Google is better at computational fluid dynamics than the large aerospace companies. This is just silly fanboyism with no basis in reality.
Designing with your head, not with your guts
Sample size of one in uncontrolled circumstances (i.e. one crash in the real world as opposed to semi-scientifically conducted crash tests designed to give information from which we can infer real world performance) tells us very little.

Depending on the circumstances a barrel roll down the highway and/or median could be a batting practice pitch over home plate because there's practically an eternity over which the vehicle decelerates (or it could be a really tough crash, it depends on the details, we don't know).

Edit: and I'm wrong because? I'm not even bashing Tesla here.
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your comment and will take a look. Keep up the great work!
The final paragraph is my favorite. I have a PhD in mathematics but I've since realized I'm not a mathematician, I'm more of a logician/philosopher. I find the parable very interesting, but I can totally believe a lot of real mathematicians don't. Too many mathematicians, if you crack open a random page of their work, you'll see lots of opaque integrals and calculations. None of that ever appealed to me. Even when I was the top of the class among undergraduate mathematics majors, I was basically doing the bare minimum I could get away with of that kind of "grind", and focusing all my time and passion on things more closely resembling this kind of "parable".
The bigger debt wins, don't you know?
Just a bad translation. umsatzstarke means lucrative, so "lucrative, or high-profit" countries.
> Referring to somebody by the wrong pronoun is a criminal offence in Canada.

Please cite the text of a law which actually says this or any case where someone has been convicted for this under a law which does not explicitly say it.
I’m certainly not a specialist here, but I think it depends on the tree.

The Redwoods didn’t generate enough ground water to saturate more than a quarter inch of soil, so I think they must be able to use the water more directly in their leaves and branches.

So it might not be that you can just plant a bunch of trees that aren’t adapted to getting their water from fog, but it might be possible to build “tree like” fog water capture systems instead of fine mesh nets. Then again, maybe not.

I was mostly surprised by seeing the fog capture up close and how efficient it was.
One of the nicest additions to the GitHub Marketplace is a bot that will optimise your images automatically: https://github.com/marketplace/imgbot

(No connection to me - just think it's a great idea, and totally free.)
I think people may be reading this backwards. I am specifically saying don't try as hard. Don't think about unit tests or anything else when writing correct code for a function.

Once you can generally write mostly correct code then you can work on improving your process. But, until most of your functions are working when you right them just work on improving that.

Edit: And yea quality may drop as part of this transition, but you need to get a feel for how much you can pay attention to.
You can't compare the Euro countries to China because the European countries are borrowing in what, in essence, is a foreign currency. For those countries, constant increasing of the debt is hardly sustainable.

China has not that problem. The only danger for China is inflation (that can be controlled with, for instance, taxes), otherwise, the People's Bank of China can buy directly the debt and nothing would happen. In fact, they could just stop emitting debt, but that would be inconvenient for banks and other big investors.

Private and local government debts is a different issue.
Good luck reading a scientific paper on your phone without lots of zooming and scrolling around.
What is the:

- rank of CO2 emissions, total, currently

- rank of CO2 emissions, total, cumulative

- rank of CO2 emissions, per capita, currently

- rank of CO2 emissions, per capita, cumulative

- rank of CO2 emissions, per GDP, currently

- rank of CO2 emissions, per GDP, cumulative

- rank of CO2 emissions, per capita-per GDP, currently

- rank of CO2 emissions, per capita-per GDP, cumulative

The US is at the top, or near the top, in all of those lists.

Not only it is the biggest polluter according to those ranks, it is also the only country refusing to take responsibility.
Internal or external, I don't see the difference. From the taxpayer perspective, they are the same.
My biggest issue with Linux apps when making it my desktop was basic PIM apps. Any suggestions for those? Even better, are there any sources and places to hang out where you get this information for Linux?

One of the best things about the Apple ecosystem (which I cannot even find in Windows) are the number of Mac focused publications that discuss and critique the variety of apps available. This has been damaged lately since most Mac apps are now discussed as extensions of their iOS ones, but it’s still beyond what I have found on Windows or Linux.
I'm gonna be in Helsinki for a month from next week. Can I buy the €499 monthly deal and get a car for a month?
That split has been shifting in the last 20 years or so. When I first became aware of politics the central valley, high desert, inland (southern) valleys, and orange county were red. However, it feels like the rest of the country has been moving right, causing shifts in voting behavior. Some of that is also that califonia is a punching bag for right-wing speeches- similar to how alabama or arkansas is for left-wing speeches.

Riverside/San Bernardino County are now more purple, with larger blue areas. Orange County is more blue on everything except immigration. There are certainly pockets of red left, including much of imperial county, but southern california is looking much more like the bay area in the late 80s than Reagan-era SoCal.

Even central california has blue pockets with the growth of fresno. Fresno county actually went for clinton in 2016 despite solid down-ballot wins for incumbent R reps.

If current trends continue as the state grows in pop (more middle-class people priced out of the major metro areas, growth of secondary metros in logistics/agra hubs like fresno, riverside, and sacramento, and a rise in train commuting) you'll see R areas shrinking to rural areas and areas without good transportation connections. That is a big "if", though, I admit.
I remember in TLS 1.3, a middle box can not modify a single byte in the negotiation, or otherwise, the connection fails (a checksum validation on server and client side). TLS 1.2 somehow has this but the coverage is less (it only happens for chipers etc).
Sadly, not everything is yet on the new gov.uk site. But those thing which are tend to be presented very well indeed.
I'm not sure if I agree with having a lot of DB tests, but at the same time I definitely have seen the thing where overly specific unit tests make it so painful to change anything that nobody wants to do it.

I think "Why Most Unit Testing is Waste" is a better article on this subject. https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste...
And that's somehow better in Word-generated scientific papers?
Simulations indicate that legacy 4th-generation fighters are very vulnerable to the latest anti-aircraft missile systems that Russia has started selling all over the world. This is happening right now, there's no grace period.
Fox vs. Hedgehog – two problem solving approaches
> They try to teach you more than the immediate needs of your likely job

I would actually take that even one step further - they specifically teach you the things that you're probably not going to encounter in your likely job. I've lost count of how many people I see complain that they never encountered SQL, version control or build management while in school and my response is - that's a good thing! You're going to learn all you need to know about those things when you need them, and they're veryamenable to learning on the job, a little bit at a time. Calculus, statistics, push-down automata, context-free grammars, and all the other "esoteric" stuff you encounter in a CS degree are not.
That was my takeaway from the article. Why on earth are cars being sold which haven't gone through proper safety testing?
>I too wonder how this car is on the market without having passed federal safety tests.

You don't have to crash test a car to sell it. You just get in trouble for selling it if the results (either real world or lab) turn out to be unacceptable after the fact. This system of requiring compliance and then doing spot checks and enforcing after the fact seems to work fine (across many industries, not just cars).
Oh, and I’m replying to my own post to add another advantage of an old iPhone over a cheap android: good included system utilities. On the Kyocera many important tools are some combo of crippleware and spyware. There are ads in the included file browser, unless you pay this random third party.

Also, there are several useless apps that I cannot install, like the Sprint and Virgin game apps, and apps from people who have paid them, like Lookout, but I guess that is more of an android thing than merely a cheap android thing.
I've always found ScottW to be pretty pragmatic. If Martin Odersky favors multiparadigm programming that nonetheless leans toward object-oriented methods, Scott Wlaschin favors leaning toward functional methods as a default.

As far as whether he's in line with "core principles of functional programming", that's maybe a phrase that's well-designed to start a fight. Even more so than in object-oriented languages, different ways of doing things tend to cluster around different functional languages. In broad strokes, what he's doing seems fine coming from a F# developer. I think it would translate well enough to Haskell, though I'm nowhere near as experienced in that language. In Clojure, on the other hand, I'm guessing you'd want to do something completely different.
I still don't get why there's no 32 GB option on the 13" as a non-Intel card. Where's the "PRO" in this version, except the price?
Not sure why you are being downvoted - I used to know a guy who had been head of sales for a large tech company that you will have heard of and he said they did exactly that - delay sales from one period to the next to smooth things out and to be closer to market expectations.

Their sales contracts apparently had clauses allowing them to delay sales for just this reason.

NB That kind of sales reporting isn't just from SAP - Oracle Hyperion and IBM Cognos are the biggest players in consolidated financial reporting.
This was actually how the very first iPhone did it’s location tracking when it didn’t have a GPS chip in it.
This implies your team needs to invest more in getting your local environment to parity. My team invested heavily in making the local setup identical to the pull request environment so that the testing is identical. We’ve also invested heavily to ensure that nearly[1] the exact same tests run in our continuous integration pipeline as our pull requests, with the net effect being that a break in CI is by definition an environmental difference.

This drastically scopes down the surface area for CI breaks.

[1] There are a few exceptions for tests that specifically cover environmental config/behavior that cannot be fully tested locally.
Definitely not. I've been building hardware since I was in middle school and it has never been easier than it is now.

What has happened that may make it seem that way is that the things people want to build are far more complex than 30 years ago. But even accounting for that, the level of effort is far less now.
I have a bit of a dumb question: where does GraphQL fit in a stack? I've seen in used primarily as a means of aggregating a bunch of disparate microservices, but then I see things like this that put it in the role of app server, almost. What advantages does this give over, for example, a Rails API (also on Postgres)? If it is supposed to fill the role of app server, how do you handle things more involved than simple CRUD operations? Like, if I sign up a user, how -- in a GraphQL world -- would I send a welcome email, typically?
If I recall bio from school, they are super adapted to living in animal cells -- they probably couldn't survive on their own.
At first when I read this I thought why not use Vimwiki or org-mode or taskwarrior, etc... but actually I really like these simple aliases.

I use the same approach for a super simple "pomodoro" timer:

alias pomo='echo "Starting timer for 25 minutes"; sleep 1500 && zenity --info --text "Pomodoro break; 5 minutes"; sleep 300 && zenity --info --text "Pomodoro: back to work"'
There is plenty of incentive to make helicopters cheaper to own and operate, have simpler and less frequent maintenance requirements, to be easier to fly, require less space to take off and land, be quieter and safer. It hasn't happened so far because these are genuinely difficult problems, not because of lack of incentive.

No one in NYC, not even Bloomberg, is landing, let alone parking, his helicopter at his office. It is completely impractical in terms of safety, space and noise, even if it were just one person doing it, and absurdly infeasible to think it could be scaled up to, say, just the number of people using the Lincoln tunnel in any given half-hour. There are a few helipads around the edges of the city (a number that is likely to decrease on account of noise), that cater to some of the transportation needs of a number of people that can be counted in the hundreds per day, not hundreds of thousands.

The idea that if there is a wish, a solution would have been found by now, does not stand up to the most cursory examination - for one thing, if it were so, not many people would be dying.
I don’t know if this is true anymore, but isn’t Chinese private borrowing staggeringly low? And hasn’t American private borrowing jumped up again after the crash?

Looking at public numbers by themselves does not tell much of a story.
They do have to make the site usable by everyone including the non-tech savvy, I can definitely see good reasons for keeping the input extremely limited.

One of the "downsides" of it being a government site is that it needs to be usable for everyone. Which can be a bit frustrating for power users.
I don't see the problem here, algorithms are just helping satisfy the thirst for novels with cocky shirtless males.
What do you mean, not use pi-hole?
Wireshark Is Now Twenty
>leading to some HTTP implementations still not working with SNI late in the 21st century

So how did IPv6 adoption go?
It's in an early preview right now, and we should have something in a week or two! Just going through some performance and security checks over the next few days.

Do feel free reach out to us via discord if you'd like to take it for a spin.
He acted like a little kid. Losing faith in the guy.
The launch pads will need to be about 20km from inhavited areas, and 5km apart from each other.
> Significant Soviet forces stayed in Iran until 1945, to prevent Germans from attempting to capture the oil fields.

Significant Soviet forces stayed there until 1946 - and they've tried to annex parts of Persia/Iran.
This was probably ~20 hours over two weeks. (I'm the author of the post.)
If you're reading the Jaynes book, you should absolutely follow it up with "The Muse in the Machine" by David Gelernter. (Gelernter also happens to be one of the surviving unabomber victims)
Pandoc already exists, it's just difficult to use.

You can write everything in Markdown and export to your org's Word template and have HTML, LaTeX, etc. export.
It's a hard fork, it's somewhat similar to a version change. IIUC they changed the system from PoW to PoW+PoS.

[Disclaimer: I never heard about this coin before, I guess I'll never hear about it again.]
“Cheap” by finnish standards - means you pay a maximum of 10 € for a 5 km radius trip.
The "easy" way for cops, cop families, and normal people to be protected is to end the disastrous Drug War. It wouldn't matter if all police were paragons of virtue, applying enforcement rather than treatment to a drug problem is a sure way to end up with multiplied problems.
does rust have mutable package-level state like go?
ERP systems are basically accounts packages with aspirations for world domination.

From a long way, and I mean a really long way, they seem straightforward - but get close and they are Lovecraftian horrors.

Remember, SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world.
maybe for parts only, nobody will drive that thing as-is anyway
Thai cave rescuer considers suing Elon Musk over deleted ‘pedo’ tweets