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> Doubly so when we have a pretty strict "no overtime" policy of working no more than 40 hours a week.

The post mentions an exact clockout time as well - 5pm. Out of interest is it a strict 9-5 schedule, or is it flexible but 40 hours a week? Have you written anything about the no overtime policy or 9-5 schedule (if that's enforced) and how you find that?
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about "never not UTC" (but otherwise unrelated to the OP):

There was an article recently, describing a very important, and also very common, "exception":

If you want to schedule/synchronize real-world appointments/events, you need both the _local time_ and the political zone, like 2018-12-11 9am at Europe/London.

The reason is that between time of entry and time of event, the defined timezone for that area may change. As a result, your previously translated appointment would not match up the local time.

Which is bad, because humans, when meeting, or events, when being announced, announce the local time. Not UTC. And they stick to the local time.
If you are sent to prison at least you get out after a while. But online banning has no such provision.
> Yeah, those people are called "voters". That's how it's supposed to work. We want congresspeople to feel beholden to them.

No it's not. It's to the people with money which let's them get to the voters. Because otherwise that money is going to an alternate candidate that plays ball. Have you ever wondered where the blue-collar Democrats of the 1970's went, for example? Businesses and those with money instead financing better campaigns in return for business representation, won. It's why both Democrats and Republicans have generally represented corporate interests since Reagan.

> Isn't this just motivation for more cronyism?

No, it's motivation for making the existing cronyism even more transparent. Or, incentivizing those who did their terms to return to the communities they helped represent and move on with their non-political life.
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At least in Italy it is stamped on the package to refrigerate after purchase.
The other party(ies) could do the same, so I don't see how this is any worse than the current system.
Cool. Python has libraries for practically everything. :)

The SQLite libraries seem to be built into Python, so nothing extra to add:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html

And the PostgreSQL equivalent:

http://initd.org/psycopg/

Hmmm, there seem to be several PostgreSQL Python libraries around, all in active development.

You'll probably be fine with SQLite though. :)
I agree this could be the case, except that there is no pressure to work on anything work-related. You can literally contribute to any OSS project, whether it's your own video game side hustle, a learning project in a language we don't use, or, if the mood strikes, also one of our projects' dependencies.
One thing to consider though is that all the big companies like Google and Facebook and many others have dedicated employees on their payroll whose primary responsibility is contributing to open source projects and the more critical a piece of open source software is, the more likely it is that there are contributors being paid by very large corporations to push the project in the right direction for them.
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...keep going...
Is the amount of energy you spend building and maintaining that network more than what you're already losing to inefficiency?
I guess they'll have to work overtime to process all the applications ;)
Two times I go to the Indigo near me: a) wander around after I get a coffee at the attached starbucks, and 2) my kids have giftcards to spend from birthdays/christmas.

Only once in the last year did I have a focused reason to hit them up, I wanted to get a certain book for my kid to start reading together THAT NIGHT.
agreed, additionally, there's an interesting behavioral phenomenon where people are perfectly willing to help strangers on the street when asked for free, but the willingness rate drops dramatically when someone offers them a small amount of money because it reframes the conversation. Once people see open source as a way to make money, it becomes a very different thought process.
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Fitness influencers are full of shit
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Question to author of the post: How are these hours reported?
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It goes into pentium architectural points as well which is far more modern than 386. Built-in math coprocessors, Glorious! Though your point remains.

I am guilty of having a fair bit of nostalgia for this book. Memories of sitting in the back seat of my parents car in middle school. Pouring through this book. Fascinated by these inner secrets of machines I knew so little about at the time. Presented in a way even a 12 year old could mostly understand.
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Specifically, how does one measure democracy? I hadn't thought about this before, but I'm intrigued and no good answers are springing to mind.
They do say they pay for personal hack projects too, so I read it more as "hey, go do whatever OS projects you feel like/do some skill building and we'll pay you $20/hr". That makes sense to me - the company benefits if you bring more skills and knowledge to the workplace
> and of course its general direction has a leftist slant (and why should it not?)

Because when you go into every news story already convinced that the left are in the right in a given situation then your reporting is compromised.
But he didn't make a statement, he asked a question about why the previous poster mentioned Japan with regards to extraversion when they have such a thing as hikikimori.

By comparing the two he appears to be suggesting that hikikimori are just introverts, and as such proof that Japan does in fact have a cultural obsession with extraversion.

It's not the assertion that Japan is a largely extraverted country that I took issue with (though I would say it is debatable), it was the (it seems to me) equating of introverts and hikikimori.

I just wanted to point out that hikikimori are not introverts. Introversion is not a mental illness. Hikikimori may very well be, depending on the individual.

I find that most people have a poor understanding of the introversion/extraversion spectrum and wrongly attribute things like social anxiety, timidity, lack of confidence agoraphobia etc. to introversion.

Then again I may have misunderstood the point of his question and read too much into it.
Are most of The Guardians offices in London?

It did start off as The Manchester Guardian after all.
> Someone will write a function assuming the user is only going to pass in a list of ints and someone else will extend that function to take a list of Tuple[str, int]

There are plenty of pitfalls in leaky abstractions. Establishing that fast numeric calculations only work with specific numeric types seems to help.

One thing you seem to be encountering, that I've seen a few times, is that people don't realize NumPy and core Python are almost orthoganal. The best practices for each are nearly opposite. I try to make it clear when I'm switching from one to the other by explaining the performance optimization (broadly) in comments.

Regardless, any function that receives a ``list`` of ints will need to convert to an ndarray if it wants NumPy speed. If the function interface is modified later, I think it's fair to expect the editor to understand why.
I'm a maintainer for an Apache project. My company pays me to maintain the project because we use it internally. If they did not pay me to maintain it, I would not be doing it. I imagine I'm in a similar spot as many other open source maintainers.
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Well, honestly, it often directly creates cruelty, I've witnessed consistent breathtaking cruelty from one adult on the spectrum; but in contrast to that, people on the spectrum have explained to me that emotional over-stimulation is just as painful to them as any other kind; and that those on the spectrum (but not too severe) therefore have the difficult choice to become empaths affected by everything others experience (or evince) or just shut it down and (functionally) lose empathy. As a general rule, most human beings choose to avoid pain, but not all.
Wonderful article, RSS needs to make a comeback. Especially among friends and family who love to make large posts about important topics. I try to tell them to build a blog and then just link to articles that they write. Your article and others inspired me to finally just put together a system to make it easier to start blogging. I just mimic a social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a full website. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/

Everything is owned by the end user. This is only providing a recipe for people to use.

I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
If used as a single source of truth, the DBMS should store true propositions about the world, and that generally means that events are recorded as happening in the correct time zone.

Also, datetimes that predict forward or recall back far enough may be a case where a timezone is incorrect. The deciding factor is whether you're able to make a true statement.

If you're using a DBMS as a dumb data container, and there are plenty of good reasons to do so, then it may also make sense not to use timezones. If you're doing intermediate calculations or sharing with systems that don't support timezones, those values often shouldn't have timezones. That's also why all datetime libraries support times sans timezone.
The problem then is editor support. When a language has only one (or two, in javascript's case) static type systems, editors can cover those. But you're not going to get support from the IDE you actually use for your bespoke type macro. (But emacs! yes, I know, but many in the Clojure world for example use IDEA.)
Amen, brother!

(I am the author of The Tau Manifesto.)
The rationale is they have stupid followers who commit the actual damage.

I fail to see why they aren't prosecuted. You're not anonymous on Facebook. And you shouldn't be on twitter, and youtube as well.
sorry, i don't buy it. it's not a matter of attitude, it's just common sense and sanity. if i maintain a library X and i recognize that some behavior is producing dangerous/harmful results - no sane person should ever complain about me deprecating something i consider dangerous/harmful.

either don't upgrade or fork away, don't make others suffer for your unwillingness to change.

the Rules example is mentioned often - i suggest not to take everything written on the internet so literally, or is it really impossible to convey sarcasm without /s?

a better example commenters could focus on is the type `money` - if best advice from postgres about handling money is to not use `money` type - it shouldn't be part of postgres. how is that in any way controversial?
The vast majority of carbon emissions is out of individual control.

The longer you keep parroting this corporate propaganda, the more fucked we are. This needs strong government intervention, now.

Preferably paid for with massive, backdated windfall taxes on every company and shareholder that ever materially benefited from environmentally destructive companies.

Obviously not going to happen, but let's not pretend me or you are responsible for the industrial levels of pollution, and the last few decades of climate change denier lobbying, when those companies full well knew the damage they were doing.
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Not quite. At the very beginning of the first chapter in the Quran: https://quran.com/1/2
Stochastic determinism is still determinism, in the philosophical sense. On the other hand, certainly, the probabilistic (and metabolically/computationally bounded) nature of the mind is an important part of why it doesn't seem to fall into certain "paradox traps" the way a nonstochastic axiom schema might.

You should probably go right up on compatibilism about free will, because at this point, you're re-litigating a debate that hasn't been considered philosophically interesting or nontrivial for ages.
A confusing vocabulary kills the curiosity of casual observers — those who'd gain the greatest joy from seeing how seemingly separate concepts coalesce.

The world is an endless adventure in ever-expanding tendrils of interest, if not gated by rote.
If there were problems, would anybody notice?

On a more serious note it's cool to see how far the IBM cloud has come (terrible name, but oh well) but they still seem a few years behind the major players
> I guess this is better than bleeding millions/year but we can hardly call this a good business.

Maybe real journalism just isn't profitable in a capitalist economy. This model works for organisations like NPR and Propublica.
Out of curiousity, is there a site where people can put up some money for an open request on development? Like as opposed to hiring a contractor, and specifically developing the requirements, it would be more similar to a feature request with a bonus.

Like specifically, my company has been yearning for a more complete solution to indexes on ORC files (there exists something, but the solution falls short for our specific siutation).
Then you need yours ads to also come from those areas, and I am not sure the ad dollars are there, especially if they are being shown to people in western countries.
In my experience in biology new professors provide a lot of ideas, old professors just steal new ideas from their students and post docs.
So if your real problem is with money in politics, why not get money out of politics instead of targeting this weird, roundabout, more difficult to implement, and antidemocratic method that may not have any actual impact on the problem?
No, they are beholden to whomever can help them raise enough money for re-election. It is far easier to have 1-2 industries you make happy and can write you a big check every 2 or 6 years than reaching out to raise grassroots support from thousands of individual voters.
This would be an interesting strategy to apply towards measuring how an open source community feels about difficult tradeoffs in design where there is no clear winner among many proposals, such as the recent survey meant to measure how people feel about the various async/await syntax proposals in Rust.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/biw1ic/asyncawait_syn...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bju8di/asyncawait_syn...
Nah, these tests aren't real measures of intellectual capability, and that isn't a huge difference anyway.
I'm none too fond of the evolution bookstores into coffee shops and sellers of bric a brac but quite frankly a landscape devoid of any semblance of a bookstore is a frightening alternative which has been realized in many communities. I also realize that I can't have it both ways, sniffing out the second hand bargain on Amazon or Ebay while bemoaning and fearing the fate of the local chain store. Accordingly, I'll occasionally pay full price at a physical retailer and hope that it adds to their bottom line.
Without going into confidential information, how could a report that didn’t analyze the code find possible sql injection attacks or over posting vulnerabilities?
In a way, The prime videos alone now is worth the price. Get access to wide range of movies and exclusive TV shows for 79£ (coming to 6.7£ per month - less than netflix). + Prime reads, magazines, prime music etc. One day and same day shipping is already a side benefit.
f.64 wasn't exactly about realism, either. Black and white film (though they didn't have much choice). Burning and dodging to add drama. Depth of field way beyond what eyes would perceive.
This actually looks like it could be applied very effectively to open source communities on a single project when setting priorities for future feature development. For example, you have 20 features in the backlog and you're going into a two month sprint in which you can only focus on 3. Might be an interesting way to open up voting to everyone. On larger projects this would be useful even if it's only the developers working on it that are voting.
> And if you hold The Guardian by that metric, they should be reporting the other extreme of the debate - advocates of 'no deal' in the 1922 committee.

But don't they do that already? I've seen JRM quotes in every brexit live feed on The Guardian.
Your example is a time without a date, which of course does not need a timezone.

Any use of the word time above actually meant datetime.
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I don't care about it now as a full time employed adult. As a university student I could have well become a full time maintainer of some of the scientific libraries that have been neglected since the 80s.

Now as a gainfully employed productive member of society I like the idea of going on a legal tax strike when the government does something I absolutely detest.

>Oh by the by, since you are trying so hard to destroy civil society again this year, here's my bill for keeping it running. You're welcome.

Which is precisely why it would never happen. But you should definitely spend some ~money~ speech on politicians and lobbyists to start some of them thinking about it.
> Increasingly partisan news media made possible by more fragmented media (first cable, then the Internet)

Isn’t the entire mainstream media owned by only like 6 corporations[1]?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/these-6...
> bulk of society does want these ideas

This is completely unproven.
Last I tried Brave it still felt very Beta-esque. Has it improved in the last year?
timestamptz does store the timestamps in UTC. The difference between timestamptz and timestamp is that the former understands that time value represents a particular instant in time, whereas timestamp does not, the value of a timestamp field is essentially opaque because those values can be in any timezone and the system has no way of knowing.

[postgres] # create table test(ts timestamp);
CREATE TABLE
Time: 29.807 ms

[postgres] # insert into test values('2019-05-03 17:51:00');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 6.637 ms

[postgres] # select * from test;
ts
---------------------
2019-05-03 17:51:00
(1 row)

[postgres] # select ts at time zone 'utc' from test;
timezone
------------------------
2019-05-03 20:51:00+03
(1 row)

Time: 17.506 ms

[postgres] # select cast(ts as timestamptz) from test;
ts
------------------------
2019-05-03 17:51:00+03
(1 row)

Time: 0.428 ms

[postgres] # select cast(ts as timestamptz) at time zone 'utc' from test;
timezone
---------------------
2019-05-03 14:51:00
(1 row)

Time: 0.329 ms

[postgres] # alter table test alter column ts type timestamptz;
ALTER TABLE
Time: 14.477 ms

[postgres] # select * from test;
ts
------------------------
2019-05-03 17:51:00+03
(1 row)

Time: 0.399 ms

[postgres] # set timezone = 'America/Los_Angeles';
SET
Time: 9.281 ms

[postgres] # select * from test;
ts
------------------------
2019-05-03 07:51:00-07
(1 row)

Time: 0.364 ms

All that said, I think it's unfortunate that timestamptz stores values as UTC and I think it would be better for it to store the actual timezone for reasons others have already mentioned in this thread.
I love you, I really do

That manifesto should be on the front page of the NY Times
Just from my personal experience, having lived in both London and Berlin within the past 2 years, the affordability gap seems to me to be closing fast between Berlin and London.

If anyone is making a London vs Berlin decision in 2019, I would advise take a really detailed look at the cost of living numbers if it's an important factor in your decision.

To be honest there are many other important differences and tradeoffs between the two cities that make a like-for-like lifestyle comparison basically impossible, but just assuming for a second you could do so, the days of simply assuming Berlin will be significantly cheaper without having to think about the details too much I think are over.
Didn't expect to see that mentioned here, playing that myself currently.
But trust doesn't mean you won't have demand for plan B. It doesn't mean you won't have STD's. Society is, indeed, based on trust but yet, none of these products means you don't have trust.

Humans happen and make mistakes. Condoms break. Therefore, plan B.

One doesn't have to be promiscuous or untrustworthy to have an STD. All that means is that you've had sex with someone. Someone might not even know they have an STD either. Even if folks have more than one partner, it doesn't actually mean they are sleeping around or that they are being dishonest, nor does it mean they'll get an STD.

In addition, if you are trusting that your partner has taken something as required, you probably are in a sexual relationship with someone you are familiar with. Otherwise, the prudent thing would be to use a condom and hope it does not break.

Contraception working as expected leaves a lot of room for error. Again, condoms break. Medications interfere with hormonal birth control and most folks don't take it like laboratory settings, which increases risk of pregnancy. This is all still "working as expected".
A lot of people in tech don't seem to realize how big the advertising business is. It was gigantic even before we came along. The behemoth has turned its attention from TV and print to online, but it's still a behemoth. The amount spent on advertising just in the US is more than Facebook's entire market cap, each year. It should hardly be a surprise that an industry that big can have a significant effect on web-based companies' profit models.

BTW, the finance industry is even bigger, and has a correspondingly larger effect on how the tech industry really works. I've even seen it said that Silicon Valley is basically just a (not so) well disguised extension of Wall Street, and it's not wrong.
Very interesting shift that happened over the last 2 decades.

We likely haven't designed OSes or CPUs to match this new reality.
@rdelval cool, but that's totally different form Apache (the foundation) paying you. I think that's a really nice thing to do and have nothing against it.

My main point was simply that the history of open-source, as you can tell by all the amazing open-source released over the last decades by Apache itself, point to the fact that people created something of extreme high-quality without any direct economical reward.
> There are autistic people who will do alk these things, have a slight road bump on life, and it will all fracture apart.

This happens to everyone, including neurotypicals. It's what used to be known as a nervous breakdown, and more recently is labeled as acute stress disorder. Sure, the level of stress resilience can differ greatly among individuals, but that's the point: it's a difference in degree, not in kind!
It is not a civil offense. It has civil penalties in addition to criminal ones.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
Totally agree, that's where my mind went to immediately. Features and/or proposals on design in larger projects.
> ...suspended in a liquid helium pipe...

Where would we get enough helium to cover more than a small city's worth of power transmission lines?