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> The US has gone to war with poor desert nomads.

Okay, so... The "But iraq has WMD lies" that were used to justify the 2003 invasion resulted in a ground war, but not with poor desert nomads.

Saddam Hussein and the Baathist party were the urban elite of the country. In terms of positions of power, financial resources and such, they were the 1% of Iraq.

The insurgencies that formed from "poor desert nomads" came afterwards, after they had defeated the Iraqi army and the paychecks stopped coming for the majority of the Iraqi army and police forces.
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While I agree about Intel's market force, they have a much better open source software story than nvidia. Nvidia is as closed as the other big player, Broadcom.
All good! Feel free to shoot a small donation to the Internet Archive or we can grab a coffee if you ever find yourself in NYC.

Glad it worked for you!
For further reading, this is also mentioned in the AWS blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic...
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This will be fixed in the release 11.9 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/25913
you spend time making a garden, and then tell me if you want leaves blocking the sunlight and suffocating everything you spent time planting.
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I've found the (opensource) Shotcut to be good on Linux (its also available for Mac and Windows).

[1]: https://shotcut.org/
An old Unix admin mentor of mine always said to "do the simplest thing that works properly". I've always tried to do this and it's great advice.
Yeah that's right, I guess it could read like them being underwater matters. Point was that being private and optimised made the jitter go away.
Maintaining services to remote villages is one thing, subsidizing the retirement dreams of a lucky few is another.

Ultimately I imagine it balances out. There's not going to be a library, school, or much road maintenance or healthcare going on in places like that. Subsidizing a boat to a place so remote that a heart attack is basically a death sentence seems a small thing to me in the greatest scheme of things.
Ask HN: Most useful GitHub repos to learn from or to use as reference?
I'm always looking to expand my knowledge of CS fundamentals, JavaScript and best software engineering practices.

I have several Github repos bookmarked that I find super useful and have learned a ton from...

online CS courses:
https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses

frontend related case studies:
https://github.com/andrew--r/frontend-case-studies

cloning Medium.com with with different frontend + backends:
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

literally a CS university online:
https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

How about you?
Or perfectly unsafe. Unlike the somewhat-corporately-one-sided debates of climate change and tobacco, there's powerful interest groups on both sides of the nuclear/gmo debates.

Be mindful of what you read, coldtea.
> We spend so much time dealing with tools that tend to be extremely pedantic and detail-focused.

This in combination with deadlines has caused my resting face to develop into an angry expression. As soon as I stop smiling and return to my “neutral” face, I look like I am angry, ready to kill someone. I now make an effort to smile while walking so people don’t get frightened.
> When someone emails or calls to say, "Let's meet on Tuesday at 3", the appropriate response is: "I'm not keeping a schedule for 2007, so I can't commit to that, but give me a call on Tuesday at 2:45 and if I'm available, I'll meet with you."

Is it just me, or does this come off as exceptionally arrogant? It's literally just telling people to plan their lives around yours. It just seems like time spent with this individual is a token of charitable _grace_. This is the opposite of what I'd expect professional behavior to look like.
Wait another thousand years, and tell us that again.
Can you elaborate? Putting aside rowhammer-like vulnerabilities [that don't fall under "overflows" anyway], how is shared physical memory under a modern protected virtual memory scheme leading to overflows? Additionally, the word "buffer overflow" usually refers to overflows that take place in the same process.

The process crosstalk (information disclosure, heap grooming, heap manipulation) that takes place to trigger the overflow, wouldn't be affected in the least by physical separation. In many cases (exploitation over the network), you have exactly that.
'sh run' doesn't show hardware information.
Well it's important to know what was actually said and who said it. If, by and large, journalists did not actually advocate for displaced workers to code their way out of unemployment, then harassing them with #learntocode is unjustified.

I've wasted the entire morning looking for sources of this by now. Like you, I sort of remembered hearing that message over the years. But now that I'm looking, I'm not actually finding many examples where news outlets are seriously suggesting this.

Have you ever thought you knew something, but end up misremembering it? There are lots of people who swear they remember a movie called Shazzam staring Sinbad as a genie, but there is no such movie. There was a movie called Kazaam staring Shaquille O'Neal, and Sinbad once dressed up in similar garb when hosting a movie showing. But people conflated the two things.

I think that's whats going on. And if so, we should not be harassing journalists who had nothing to do with this.
A sign that these new "source available" licenses and business models were not the right path?
Someone who isn't me had a similar experience. The psychedelics just acted as a catalyst to act on things they already knew needed to change.
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Well, your users are gonna have a fun time when linode has to take down your single vpc for maintenance, or an AZ goes down (does linode even have AZs? There's some evidence that even GCP doesn't have truly redundant AZs, so I doubt Linode could.)

Point being: its a balance. I tell any startup who will listen: App Engine or Heroku. That'll get you REALLY far and strike a good balance between autoscaling, simplicity, and redundancy.

If you're still using a single server, you're doing something horribly wrong. This random guy's strategy isn't something to be proud of. He just doesn't know that there are better options out there. Simplicity isn't a VM you have to maintain, update, and secure. Its a fully managed PaaS.
I agree with you, but I didn't particularly feel like getting into a debate over this topic at work :)
It's supposed to be a jab at fired journalists and not serious career advice which is how the author appears to have taken it. The toxic part is not that learning to code is going to solve all their problems and be all "rainbows and unicorns" but that it is mocking people for being laid off, whoever they are.
Nice visualization at the intro on desktop+. I wonder if Rich Harris and his team were behind it? See recent changelog podcast featuring Rich Harris on being 'a javascript journalist'[0]. Harris is author of the 'magical disappearing UI framework', svelte[1].

[0]http://changelog.com/podcast/332
[1] https://svelte.technology/
Considering the expense, and especially time, involved in gathering street-level data, if I was Apple, I'd put every sensor I could think of on those cars and then let the data scientists figure out a use for it later.
That's what the "brain drain" idea is about. These days, it's not just about the problems caused when doctors, scientists and the like emigrate, it's also about what happens when civics-literate people, activists, journalists etc. decide to throw in the towel as well.
That is amazing. Do you have more samples somewhere? Would be nice to see a "gallery" filled with these art work!
I used the version of Pitivi available in Ubuntu 18.04 yesterday and for the life of me I could not get it to render anything but potato quality video (500 MB file for 60 minutes at 1080p).

The deb from Ubuntu 18.10 had unmet dependencies, which is not a surprise given how interwoven it is with gstreamer.

Finally, I installed the most recent version via flatpak and it rendered fine.
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So basically it's for the already affluent. "If you're rich and have no obligations only work when you want to" doesn't seem that novel. It's productivity when there's little value on said productivity.
These are both good points that I neglected. In fact that's actually what I do, I never do a face to face unprepared, I always have a list of things I've found that I want to review.

Another thing that I maybe didn't make clear enough was it's important to be emphatic, and treat them as equal team-members, even in a Sr to Jr review. Give them an opportunity to weigh in on why they made certain choices and discuss all the pros/cons. Sometimes I even change my mind and agree with their choices when it's clearer what their objectives were.
I don't think most politicians understand how the internet works
Onions, leeks and tubers can be harvested all winter. Gourds stay fresh for a long time even without refrigeration. Of course there is such a thing as planting season but it is perfectly feasible to be an avid gardener in a cold climate. No one is asking you to grow oranges but there are heirloom tomatoes and many other summer crops that can thrive in Minnesota. Having the soil be almost unusable all winter is good for the soil. It’s some of the best dirt in the world. If New Yorkers who don’t own a single inch of outdoor property can grow tomatoes then so can anyone anywhere in the midwest.
I own a house.

I have medical problems limiting just how much I can exert myself. This wasn't true when i initially bought the home.

Raking leaves, is a 3-5 times event that could take me about 16 hours (an entire weekend) each time.

Blowing the leaves takes about 5-6 hours.

I had an electric blower for a long time and honestly, it only shaved off maybe a 10th of my time b/c it simply wasn't strong enough.

I recycle, i drive a hybrid, i compost and garden, i have an electric mower.

But for some people who spout endlessly about "externalizes", it's like there's no end to minimizing my foot print until i just up and commit suicide. You all sit back with your high and mighty judgements and half of you are just kids who've never been responsible for anything but yourselves, or dorky urbanites who have half a putting green for a yard in high crime areas. Or hell..both things at once.
I agree.

I read the article three times trying to grasp the freaking point and I can't see any.

Why on earth go through all that trouble and not get any additional security or convenience... in fact the security is lower and there are more attack vectors compared to own CA. I don't get it.
Not to argue with your arguments but it wouldn't had been so easy to sail from Dakar to Lisboa due to prevailing winds. Sailing to America would be much easier.
That's very US centric.

In the UK the A-levels we do at the end of high school cover first-year uni material and there are no general education requirements at university.

The downside is we don't have the major system either - you pick what you will study at 18 before you go and it is rather difficult to change.

I preferred such a focused system but I can see why others may not.
I'm not saying the feeling is one of "entitlement", but simply a desire for the familiar, and a wish to be around one's family and friends. Hardly unreasonable.
'Distro' makes it sound like a linux-distribution with, in this case, Elasticsearch installed on it. From what I read on the page and on the aws blog this is not the case though?
> it wasn't a punishment when some journalists did it,

But when did they do it? and who?
Please send me any evidence you have. I feel like I'm going crazy here. Not finding anything.
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That makes a lot of sense. Speaking for the "hobbyists" out there, it'd be great to have that as an option in Ardour itself and not have to fiddle with setting up client/server/bridges just to plug in a microphone (which seems like a really common use-case!). FWIW I don't even need live monitoring where latency matters -- I just want to record, then stop recording, then play it back and edit it.

I do know that programs like Adobe Audition on Windows offer that in a plug-and-play way.
One fact that's seldom reported is that RTM's father, Robert H. Morris Sr, started working for the NSA in 1986, two years before RTM unleashed the worm. Food for thought maybe?
This sounds like a much harsher environment than the Florida everglades then.
"... supports full colour, animation and 3D printing.
I don't agree that programming interviews are conducted to see how well candidates will fare in a dysfunctional workplace.

Anecdotally, programmers thrive in quiet environments where they can have focused uninterrupted time. As open-offices have become the norm, most programmers have headphones they use to isolate background sounds.

Constantly peppering candidates with questions while they are trying to do a task that is mentally intensive is not close to the type of stress candidates face on the job.

Even the most work-life balanced places do these same types of interviews.
Not to nitpick here, but Google's cloud libraries and Amazon's AWS libraries work because there're probably a dedicated team of engineers who're assigned to these projects, considering cloud platforms are supposed to make these giant orgs a ton of money.

When Google needs something, it gets built, corrected and optimized quickly (e.g. Go context library). Open source / crowd sourcing doesn't work that way.
Going outside is great if you own a yard, but it's totally doable inside too. One doesn't really need a lot of tech to grow vegetables indoor, some hydroponic systems like Kratky method require just a minimal initial effort and zero technology (just some light source, e.g. a window facing south, a little water and some fertilizers). Or even simpler, if you own an aquarium you can grow organic lettuce on top of it, I did that for a while with a lot of success. It's also helping the fish by filtering the water, so it's totally a win-win situation.
> The Ron Howard movie Rush is a great treatment of his time in F1.

Agree, probably one of the best racing movies in general.
Maybe too many people are trying to find all their meaning in life through their work. It's not a recipe for success for most people, I think the media plays it up a bit too much. They're only covering the success stories in terms of people who are single minded and who make their work everything.

The author of the article doesn't mention any relationships or other interests in life, no passion for anything but work. Maybe that wasn't the case but you can't tell from the article.

Lots of people do something in the arts, music, physical fitness, etc.. on the side along with family & relationships or faith/religion to find meaning. If you're happy from that aspect work becomes just something you do to pay the bills. It doesn't mean you're not passionate about work but the other things can make up for times when work isn't so great.
I assumed that the point was it's a remote situation and so mounting a liveUSB would be costly.
Indeed. That is basically what canada does with the north. The touchy subject is determining where and if such frontiers exist. And, should they become popular, whether such support should be extended to subsidizing a tourist industry. BC has gone so far as to demolish some remote ghost towns (mining towns) because we don't want them to become tourist destinations.

If you have the time, there are some great youtube vids of Kitsault BC, the famous 1980s ghost town in BC.
Arnold Schwarzenegger can afford to lose a job, and his personal productivity can't make or break his ability to pay this month's mortgage.

You have to be willing to work with people, and you have to work with more powerful people on their terms.
These sweeping generalizations in either direction are wrong and counterproductive. Some people need the complex infrastructure, some people don't.

What you should focus on is finding out what your use cases are, and then building the simplest thing that meets them. For some folks, high availability and zonal resiliency is an absolute must. For other folks, like Peter, it might not be. These context-less platitudes are pretty useless outside of the context in which they're made.
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I used to react strongly to antihistamines, even weak ones, that are not supposed to induce sleep (levocetirizine would knock me off), but after mirtazapine I got a semi-permanent tolerance to other antihistamines sleep inducing properties -- so if other antihistamines cause dementia, I'd expect mirtazapine to do so as well.

It's also a pity because I used to feel quite well rested and clear headed the day after antihistamines.
I think my overall argument was that we have barely studied studied e-cigarettes so OP's assertion "Vaping has been pretty well studied (except for the flavorings" is false.

You are correct that it's entirely possible that e-cigarettes are not in the same magnitude of impact as tobacco. However, it's also possible it may be just as bad. The research is too early stage. What I do know (anecdotally), is that most of the researchers in the field have a gut feeling that it is a large issue. Specifically, early findings are showing the product has convinced an entire new generation of teens that vaping is cool even while they believe smoking is gross. It is reseting the gains made in the 80s and 90s on reducing teen addiction to smoking. There is also research to indicate it has a strong impact on health. Probably not as strong as tobacco, but if you are more likely to use it as a teen because you perceive it as healthy and cool, the net effect on public health is just as bad. i.e. the individual effect might be less, but the overall net effect on society is more since its a more compelling product (for young people).

We are probably 5-10 years from knowing with solid peer reviewed research of knowing whether vaping is more like eating a few donuts a day or whether it's closer to smoking a pack a day.
I don't think he did it so much from burnout, but Larry Constantine left tech to become a therapist, then returned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Constantine
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> > industrial code, 20k LoCs, at least 3 programmers involved, specification changed over time.

> Though I would argue that your standards are too high

Ahaha what? 20kLoCs and 3 programmers is a college-level one-off project. Industrial code (and industrial projects) routinely involve orders of magnitude more code and orders of magnitude more programmers.

So no, "anything that you have made" doesn't count until yes, it's not just you working on your own project that you know inside out.

So yes, when you write "My experience with them so far has been more than great" and you can't provide evidence that they work even for a measly 20k-LoC-project with three people, your experience is entirely irrelevant.
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Agreed. When I see news, I open up the comments as a fact and quality checker.
Are you sure these are false? I am really skeptical of that.

Could this be mixed w people unliking and hence the number doesn't change?
> In the presence of Chinese dumping no US facility could fairly exist in the market, so they all shut down. Now that the Chinese economic dumping had ceased, the US is left without a functioning market.

So, uh, basically the business model of venture capitalism? Go into a market, crush all the competition with massive amounts of cheap money and then jack up prices?

Don't call me surprised when China opens its ports for waste again but at 10x or 100x the price...
You can totally shrink an ext4 filesystem.
Plenty on Earth, not enough in space.
Not exactly that, but there are fungi that break down plastics. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sierraclub.org/sierra/fungu...
I think this is not about the number of people, but more like there are too many people on earth with different values and a mindset that they do not agree with other peoples values/beliefs and try to change that. That is where all the wars and stuff comes from
That was Grant. Grant finished his memoirs on his deathbed so that his widow would be provided for by money from their sale. He was also a damn good writer and Mark Twain published it which didn't hurt.
The strong collision avoidance guarantee is mostly a result of the large space of hashes those functions generate. So, yes, if you have a hashmap with 2^128 slots, you're technically right. But you don't have a hashmap with 2^128 slots. So you have to smash that output space into a smaller space somehow. And then you're back to considering what to do when you have collisions.
If its just a message you want share, such as ‘delete all docker containers and images’
Why hire a team of specialists, and pay for only the best in complete server infrastructure, when i can just get it for free from GitHub pages.
https://seanwasere.com/delete-all-docker-containers-and-imag...
Because on the outside, it does look like the ultimate job.

They think it's easy, low-effort, and high-paying. To most people, we sit at desks (or play ping pong) all day, type words on keyboards, then collect a five-figure paycheck at the end of the week.
I think salt is the more likely explanation. If I were dying of dehydration I'd risk the GI distress.
You pay per capacity, not per data transmitted
It's planes and I think also helicopters. I've written satellite mode in the repo because the Maps app button says "Satellite"
> because I'm what you would call a "settler"

Not just "you"; everyone. It is illegal. Even the UN has called for an end to this practice. Most countries don't recognize Israel's occupation of the West Bank. The UNSC has condemned the practice. Israel routinely destroys Palestinian homes and villages for the benefit of you people (the "settlers").

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/02/09/588118/Israel-to-c...

Read more about "settlers": https://www.btselem.org/topic/settler_violence
Is that a Windows thing? I'd investigate an unknown system starting with commands like `systemctl status`, `lspci`, `lsusb`, `apt policy`, `dpkg -l`, and `top`.
Try doing a PCI passthrough to virtualizes that 1080 onto a VM. Then try the same thing with AMD. Sure, the AMD drivers are relatively terrible, but at least they are open source and don't kick you in the knees when you are doing something you ought to be able to do.
I think the question is more like "I have ridden a bike before, but I'm not very good at it. How can I improve?" in which case you could definitely suggest reading a book or watching videos on proper form, training exercises, etc. because just riding a bike will not be good enough past a certain point, and even getting to that point takes a long time that can be shortened by targeted practice instead of just "riding".
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I imagine that OP has done his due diligence, but if it were me, I don't think I'd handle the transition very well. Like any other branch of medicine, psychiatric practice is tightly regulated, and operating outside the standards of the professional community is strictly forbidden. That means that innovation is no longer part of his job description, as that responsibility falls principally to researchers.

In other words, OP has basically left his job as a developer (of software) to be a sysadmin (of humans). Not to disparage the choice, or even remotely suggest that it's the end of the road! Only to say that existential dread can await you no matter what path you choose.