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I did not realize just how much nostalgia I have for that original Game Boy start-up sound.

Also, I honestly would love if more modern mobile hardware was built as solidly as the Game Boy was.

The last thing I owned like it that felt kinda similar to it was my netbook, an Asus Eee 1005HA-P. I have an absolute powerhouse of a laptop now (Lenovo P51) and I'm extremely happy with it - it basically feels like I own the power of a desktop PC but in portable form, but I have to say, that little laptop served me really well for many years (especially after I put Lubuntu on it). It had an unbeatable battery life, and trying to squeeze as much performance as possible out of that little machine was weirdly addictive. I'm considering pre-ordering a Dragonbox Pyra to see if it will have a similar feeling, or I'm just being nostalgic but really prefer this big beast of a laptop these days.

[0] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
I was wondering about that as a colleague of mine got a gig with our national broadcast tv for producing a podcast set up i the future and based around geeks looking after a gameboy.

I had a Gameboy as a young boy. It was cool. But we got way better tech and stories now.

This all feels like the 60-70-80 and now 90's marketing cycle to me.
Is agile an urban legend and waterfall a taboo in project management?
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reforestation has been ongoing at a massive scale for quite a while now - I drove on a motorway for days across Brazil, for example, and only saw forests of trees lined in perfect rows by the road.
No doubt SpaceX is solving lots of cool engineering problems. But portraying those cost-optimization efforts as “pushing the limits of spaceflight technology” is a triumph of marketing. And it obscures how little real progress has been made in aerospace over the last half century.[1] (Also, your last sentence is obviously not true. The physical sciences are a harsh mistress. Lots of things never work.)

[1] Even with computer aided design, composites, laser sintering, etc., the thrust-to-weight ratio of a Merlin engine is a factor of two better than an RP-1/LOX engine from half a century ago. That’s about the same factor improvement as we achieved in subsonic jet engine performance over that time period. Aerospace technology moves very slowly, there is no reason to be hopeful and optimistic.
What is the relationship between burning fossil fuels and medical breakthrough, wealth and progress?

So you don't care about it because you don't care about the people as well as species that are already impacted by climate change? Just because you're afraid of having to change your lifestyle? What you should do about it is maybe stop freaking out first about your lifestyle, progress doesn't require screwing climate....
Could you tell us more ? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=norway+tu... first result is your very comment at the moment :).
Calling it anomaly smells of corporate newspeak to me, also it makes me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Call it "malfunction discovered during testing", could you not?
Eg it would be quite a waste to drink the 16.1% ABV Mikkeller Black (https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-%E9%BB%91-black/8383...) straigth from the fridge.
This man is a legend. He should publish, damn. I wonder what knowledge only exists in the minds of people who just thought to solve their own problems.
This book, a mix of research and speculation (chapter by chapter) was helpful to me in making the abstract threat of climate change real:

https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Wars-Fight-Survival-Overheats...

It will definitely change geopolitics for the foreseeable future.
I watched this as a kid.

From what I understand, the chimpanzee was pretty awful to work with, and would occasionally attempt to bite cast & crew.
I don't think Heineken is bland. It's got quite a unique aftertaste.
As someone who's spent plenty of time moving machines with pry bars and rollers I content it's not the shape of the boulders but the flat and level floor that really enables this feat.

In order to move something of a given weight against earth's gravity you need to expend a certain amount of energy to do that work. There is no way of getting around that because physics. While few people could theoretically move a boulder up a hill it would be very, very challenging to do without additional sources of energy.
Yeah, some military stuff has pretty impressive longevity. I’ve got a surplus Lee-Enfield No4 Mk I that my grandpa gave me years ago. Stamped 1943 on the receiver. I didn’t realize until a few months ago that these are now considered vintage collector’s rifles... I’ve just been using it as a great deer rifle all these years!
this is amazing idea. Happy to share how much monthly users you got, and what tech you used?
> To be fair I don't think anybody saw systemic violence upon civilians during a war between states (as opposed to a civil one) as a realistic possibility during the inter-war period. It was well outside the customs of war in our corner of the world at that point.

Really? Atrocities against civilians in war were common even then. No need to look further than e.g. the colonies.
As I understand it, it is an optimistic experiment: almost a third of people can think for themselves and won't torture only because they were given an order.

Some of us are not automatons :) https://www.xkcd.com/610/
It's standard speak in the space industry, not marketing.
I have a question on climate change: what's the most accurate prediction for the climate in 2050 at the current rate things are going?

As in, are there predictions in temperature that have been made based on current models that we will hit by 2050 that we can measure in 2050 to see if the models are correct? Have such predictions been made before for, say, 2020 or 2030?

I don't dispute climate change, but my belief in it rests on authorities telling me it's true. It's not based on anything I myself could look at. I'd love to hear some predictions made now or in the past that we could observe whether they're true in the future.
>I have given a reason why incarcerating adults...

You haven't actually answered the one objection I have, namely, why do you think it moral to let distressed individuals who cannot make decisions for themselves live in filth and squalor. Apparently, this is a human right - which is insane.

But let's leave it at that. I'll simply state that I disagree with your position. Moreso than that, I find that position highly immoral.

>I have never argued for such an absurd claim at all, in any form whatsoever.

I didn't say you argued it, I asked what your position is on that. It is actually illegal to pitch a tent on a sidewalk and live there. It is illegal to setup a 'tent city' for purpose of long-term habitation. There are plethora of laws preventing that kind of behaviour. And I get it, you don't admit to the moral imperative of institutionalizing those individuals to provide care, but then are you OK with enforcing laws on the books against those individuals - because that isn't done either if you go to cities like San Fran and LA and enforcing those laws would lead to heavy fines or incarceration, if you treat those individuals as rational actors expected to live up to the responsibilities of living in a society.
Chimpanzees, like most primates, are meaner than homo sap. Gorillas might be nicer.
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The relationship between the armed forces and the Nazi party was indeed complex.

Eg the noble officiers didn't like the Nazis' populism. They were however mostly happy to fight a war, especially when it was going well.
Paypal is esay, but other players getting into this http://ipaymentsystems.com
Can I just say thank you ripgrep?

In my usecase ripgrep is killer, I use it both to search through something around 10GB of a monorepo, and to search through 400GB of textfiles (custom format, similar to json) every day and not having rg performance would make my life considerably worse.

When you have very large sets of data to search through the difference from rp to other solutions is like night and day.
Pushing the cost floor lower certainly falls within the scope of "pushing the limits" to me.
It's wrong to assume that those of us fighting climate change are anti-nuclear. The only reason I didn't include nuclear in my parent comment is because it isn't currently competitive with either clean or dirty energy sources.

Solar and wind plus storage is way cheaper than nuclear (and that gap is widening over time, not shrinking), so there's not much reason to include it in a pitch for getting a job fighting climate change unless the audience is primarily PhD physicists and researchers.
> I think climate change is the biggest current threat to humanity, and almost nobody is taking it as seriously as they should.

Here I disagree. We're trying to colonise Mars, but at the same time believe a somewhat warmer climate is an existential threat to humanity. How is that logical?

Climate change will not destroy humanity, civilisation, or even the planet. We will adapt easily. Look to the 20th century for examples of actual threats to humanity...

> This is 0% of the deaths that will be caused when one of the alternative "wind down the economy" or "uncontrolled temperature rise" plans triggers World War 3

Exactly, only that these aren't the only possible triggers for a WW3.
I think Racket has a pretty sensible GUI kit. A little Hello-World dialogue box looks like this:

#lang racket/gui
(require racket/gui/base)

(let* ((frame (new frame% (label "Hello, world!")))
(msg (new message% (parent frame)
(label "Hello, world!")))
(btn (new button% (parent frame)
(label "Exit")
(callback (lambda (b evt)
(exit))))))
(send frame show #t))

The first two lines just tell Racket what language you're using, and conjure up the GUI library. Then, each definition of the let statement is a control you need, supplying its properties; the body of the let statement shows the window frame. I find it simple and obvious, but I've only been able to use it in anger a couple times.
This is why I recommend every developer read Deep Work by Cal Newport and Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.

Deep Work in particular made a bigger impact on my programming than any thing else in ~25 years, including languages frameworks and tools.

What I’m saying is, good sleep and the principles from Deep Work made more of an impact on my productivity than switching from Java Spring, to Ruby on Rails, or to functional JS and Serverless. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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> Buck looks at the contents of your inputs, not their timestamps to figure out what needs to be built. As a result, incremental builds should always be correct, so there's no need to perform a clean build.

At least one of these new-fangled tools gets at least one part right. The salient point is now of course whether Buck considers the correct set of dependencies as well as negative dependencies.
The other one is to acknowledge and believe deeply that your acts were wrong. I cannot think of another country that breathes these values so sincerely and profoundly. I am sure everyone knows that Germany is in no way unique in its killing of millions.

I have no German ties whatsoever but I am in deep admiration of their capacity to accept, correct and be vigilant of repetition.

I know neo-nazism exists. I hope it continues to be an aberration.
It is not just American companies but big companies treat different labor markets differently.

For example, I used to work for a big company in Denmark that has a sattelite office in Bucharest.

It is questionable to see that even the equipment the developers get there was subpar. The fulltimers there were treated as contractors (e.g.: no career incentives), expendable (high turnover).

The office just existed because when the company was smaller and needed more than now cheaper labor, they made it so that remote managers could be there as a proxy.
Well many build systems don't even try to work properly, many new ones included. E.g. anything using timestamps is unequivocally an incorrect build system.
Not at all. It is neutrally called anomaly, so that there's no premature explanation out there that would be difficult to correct later if proven wrong. NASA had that problem once and that's why it is done like that today.

Edit: Here's an example search (excluding SpaceX): https://www.google.de/search?q=anomaly+rocket+launch+-spacex
I like my Lagers & Pilsners cool but Americans (generally!) really do sometimes take the cooling to extreme measures (such as keeping even the glasses refrigerated). In Central Europe a least even the cool-served beers aren’t served at quite the near freezing temperatures you’d sometimes get in the US.
I agree it is subjective. I actually open Clojure for The Brave and True book from now and then just because I find so much of it truly hilarious. The hilarity is what really helped me get Clojure. I also like the Land of Lisp and find it funny as well.
"Enter global heating (a better word than “warming,” which carries misleading connotations of comfy and toasty)"

That's it. I'm gonna call it "global heating" from now on.
I find it interesting you put words in my mouth. That actually is exactly what I want. I’m sorry if you don’t like it but I’ve watched conservatives destroy my country for the last 30 years so will pardon me if my view of them is a little less historical and a little more practical. I believe the international conservative movement is posion.
The analysis part of engineering is, thanks to modern computers, practically "done". However, we are still not able to do synthesis well. We also have exact mathematical models for that, but it usually amounts to NP-hard problems (think integer optimization).
I guess any sort of significant power imbalance.

Does your team generate good revenue for the company but you still get paid peanuts? Does your work ask for overtime but fail to allow you to take time off when you need it? Do they ask for commitment to the job, while being prepared to terminate you at a moment's notice when time gets tough?
> What happens when the population and the economy are in a steady state, where we don't expect things to increase at 2% forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy

https://steadystate.org/
You're setting up an imaginary strawman. I grew up in the 80s in one of the most environmentalist households you could imagine. My mother was a local politician for the German Green Party, everything was ecological and fair trade in our household, from the food to everything else. She was fighting for windmills, against cars, etc. Our bread was baked by an ecological farmer with a long beard, for some time we fetched the milk directly from a local farmer, and so on. We participated in marches for peace and the protection of the environment, my mother helped voluntarily in the local fair trade shop ("3rd World Shop").

So I've had plenty of experiences with environmentalists over my life and heard many crazy stories, e.g. one of her friends really thought that honey is harmless for children but sugar essentially poison.

Despite all this, even the most radical and craziest person I've ever heard of does not fit the description of an environmentalist that you attribute to this subculture as a whole. There are radicals like VHEMT but these are in a ridiculously small minority. The vast majority of all environmentalist believe that it is perfectly possible for a large number of humans on earth to life in harmony together with nature while sustaining high standards of living. It's all about reasonable consumption and studying ecological lifetime calculations of products.

Where I grew up, Swabia in Germany, is a pretty good example of reasonable & realistic environmental politics. I used to make fun of many of her claims, proudly eating my bacon sandwich and visiting by plane, but it turns out in retrospective that she and her friends were right about most of the issues that most of the things my mother has been fighting for are now in the party programs of all major parties.
I personally replaced Google Inbox with an app called Spike that turns your existing email into a chat like conversation. It has a unified inbox so you can manage all of your accounts simultaneously.

It sits on top of your existing email (Gmail, Office365 (e.g Outlook), Exchange, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account and is available on all platforms (web, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android).

It has a lot of unique features like: encryption, snooze, Amazing search capabilities, voice and video calls, unified inbox with all of your accounts, and it organises my emails automatically into the ones that are important and the ones that are not (like newsletters and various unknown senders).

I also love that it is “conversation” like mail so the layout is really easy to read and follow.
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> About 30% of the homeless suffer from severe mental illness

80.2 million Americans (25% of the 325 million total population) suffer from mental illness so severe they take drugs to treat their condition:

https://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/people-taking-psyc...

This does not include the number of people who suffer from mental illness that does not require drugs for treatment or those who would benefit from drugs but who do not wish to or can not afford to take them, or who are undiagnosed. So the actual number with severe mental illness is much higher than 25% of the population.

Above, DanHulton tracked down a study that also found that 30% of homeless suffer from mental illness:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19707763

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/loose-link-f...

> Their results, released this week, reveal just over 30 per cent had a mental disorder.

> "The figure was much lower than the community perception and what other researchers had put out there," Dr Johnson told AAP.

> About 15 per cent had a mental illness before becoming homeless, while slightly more, 16 per cent, developed a disorder while on the street.

Since only 15 percent were ill before becoming homeless, this means that homeless people are much less mentally ill than the general public.

It is a disproven myth that homeless people are more likely to be mentally ill than the general public. It is also a dangerous myth since belief in this myth drives nearly all discussion and proposed solutions (such as institutionalization, imprisonment and forced drugging) to address the problems of widespread poverty, lack of universal basic medical care, lack of affordable decent shelter, etc, in the US and in several other industrialized modern countries.
If the interface is so wrong that the implementers actually can't use it safely, that's not a microservices problem any more than it's a monolithic architecture problem.

It's important to design interfaces before they are implemented everywhere. And the D in SOLID stands for Dependency Inversion, I think it applies here. It asks:

When you design a dependency relationship between a big (concrete) thing and a bunch of little (concrete) things, which way should the dependency relationship between them be arranged? Should the big thing depend on the little things, or is it the inverse?

There might seem to be an obvious right answer, but the way I phrased it is deliberately deceptive because according to Dependency Inversion the answer is neither. You should have an abstract interface between them that both depend on, as I understand it.

(and I'm learning, I got my CS degree almost 10 years ago but just now finding out about these things, so nobody feel bad if you didn't know this... and anyone else who can explain better is also welcome)

This principle is important here because keeping interfaces simple and abstract makes it easier to spot issues like this one, that should never make it into production. An authentication interface that only takes one parameter username is something that would never make it past the first design review meeting, unless it was a specification buried in a majorly overcomplicated concrete implementation (or if they didn't look at the interfaces at all).
> 6. Freedom to choose the right tech: This is true, but as they say having all these extra technologies comes with a lot of extra dev training, dev hiring and ops costs. Maybe it would have been better to use a 'second best' technology that the team already has rather than the best technology that it doesn't, once those costs are accounted for.

A variation of this pushed me to implement a couple parts of an application as micro-services even though I wanted to stick with a monolith. I wanted to use existing open-source packages written in languages other than the primary one that I had chosen for my monolith. It's really a shame that a cross-language, in-process ABI like COM didn't catch on outside of Windows.
(In some views) morals are relative and personal, not absolute.
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There's a video of it with an audible countdown and the anomaly occured at T-8.
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This example certainly constitutes a "shortage", especially from the point of the employer. He has a demand which he can't fulfill. Due to not fulfilling it, he has problems investing his capital as productively as possible.

The idea that job applicants get offered wages which they perceive as too low does not mean that there is not a shortage of similar talent on the market, even at reasonable wages, if there even is such a thing.

The analogy with the Ferraris breaks down for developers and engineers because their qualifications are hard to quantify and their added value is hard to predict.

Employers will especially talk about talent shortages when they can't hire additional talent at the wages of their existing workforce. That may be because they got lucky and found very cheap engineers ("suckers"), but it also may be that they are running against the wall of the talent shortage, meaning they can only hire new people if they embark on a potentially ruinous wage competition with other employers...

If wages are perceived to low compared to profits, than I'd rather question the potential collusion among employers. There have been dramatic cases of such sollusion in silicon valley, as I recall. Less drastically labor market regulations and workforce protections will also play a role.
No, it's not "just digital". It's subscription-only through Safari Online! You can "stream" books and learning videos from there, but you'd never own one. You cannot buy a DRM free O'Reilly eBook anymore, unless it's from one of those Humble Bundle sales (where the selection may or may not suit your needs). I just stopped supporting O'Reilly when it went subscription only, and I'm guessing there are lots of people and companies with Safari subscriptions that don't really use it as much (compared to the percentage that uses it).
> those drawing "processes" formed the basis of the Processing environment

Processing(.org and proce55ing.net before that) has been around since roughly 2001, proceeding the work shown in the video by a few years.

How is the 'basis' of something formed by a derivative work that came years after?
> But if society is already floundering around with aimless discussion in a lot of areas, with big conflicts in terms of the basic moral or ethical premises of the world, then writing succinct, direct stories that have a point may be more useful.

Maybe more useful, but I think purely utilitarian writing does less to broaden a reader's mind than more ambiguous writing that they have to struggle with. I know it did for me. But I understand what you are saying, and I too outgrew reading "challenging" novels because I feel like my mind has been broadened enough and also I feel like I just have less time (although maybe I am just getting older).

I haven't read this essay in a while, but as I remember it Jonathen Franzen's essay "Perchance to dream" takes on this exact subject and is an excellent read. Regrettably it is not available online.