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It feels natural to me, but of course that may well be because it's all I've known.

ISO 8601 dates are formatted this way, from biggest period to smallest (e.g. 2019-10-31). It makes them universally easy to parse, and removes any confusion over the date and months parts (common issue between US and UK).
I assume that is checked by default, so the instant you installed everything they can swoop up from any and all caches is transmitted. Then any random update they can forget to preserve that setting and redo it. It breaks my heart that it isn't even hyperbole.

The future sucks.

It seems the goal of most companies is to create a seemingly legitimate need for apps/permissions, no matter how convoluted, just so they can get access to data.
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The only reason I use the app is also the most useful: switching between paired devices. I have them paired to 4 different products (laptop, phone, tablet, and tv) so switching the active ones is much easier with a visual menu.
It does exist, but sadly not widespread enough for those that care about quality.
Uh, no, I did not say that.
"...support slots and are analyzed at definition time"

I don't know what you meant by this. As we speak, is there a standard implementation of this "Web Templates" thing? Can I open an editor, type "native" html, incorrectly assign to some attribute some callback with the wrong type and the editor tells me it's wrong without running the website?

As for "ALL web-template based libraries beat React...", is there evidence to substantiate such claim? Surely SOME of them are not that performant.

Also slots exist in most frameworks including Angular and in various 3rd packages in the React ecosystem.
I wrote about the same topic here: https://redbeardlab.com/2019/04/08/on-dignity-and-self-respe...

I disagree with the author, some of our work is definitely not engineering, making yet another e-commerce look nice is not engineering) developing browsers, web servers, cryptographic libraries, databases and all the basic tool used in the profession is definitely engineering.
Job titles matter to people, why pay someone a raise for being good when you can add an extra buzzword to their job description or change their job title to something that sounds posh? It is a win-win for the company, they can introduce their 'junior assistant' as 'senior engineer' to impress whomever is being given the show and tell.

What I find objectionable to the pigeon-holing is that 'engineering' is one of the most creative disciplines there is, whether you are engineering a bridge or even software. But the wider world of artists can't see this. If you use maths to make something then that is not 'creative' it is 'technical'.

This segregation of 'technical' and 'artistic' starts out in school, so if you end up as an artist making brown pots then that is deemed 'artistic' and thereby wonderfully creative despite the fact that brown pots have been made in a similar way since before recorded history. If you teach an AI system that has been trained on the Utah Teapot to make a brown pot in polygons then that can't be 'artistic', even though art only ever innovates when new mediums come along.

There is a related wrong-phrase with 'Computer Science'. How much science is there is new ways of doing things with ones and zeroes? Or is this 'technology' that we are talking about?

I am not entirely happy with the word 'developer' either. Therefore the phrase 'computer programmer' works for a general audience as in 'I just do programming' or 'oh, here is one of our programmers' (before door to darkened room gets shut). If your work gets used by people then the validation should come from the metrics that come from that, not from a title that is slightly inflated.
I think the article is right for the wrong reason. There is nothing in engineering that relates to public interest particularly. I am sure there are good engineers in the tobacco industry. I hold a formal engineering degree myself, not a single line in the curriculum relates to public good.

But I think the article is right that programmers are cheapening the term “engineer” by their incompetence. Anyone can call oneself a programmer and for a non technical business owner, there is no way to know that their programmers are not going to pepper their systems with rookie mistakes: sql injection vulnerabilities, unvalidated user inputs, unpatched software, default, shared, hardcoded or missing credentials, clear text passwords, etc. None of this is hard or expensive but this is the cause for the quasi totality of data leaks in the past.

How do we create confidence in this profession? It’s not a university degree, I am not sure any CS course even covers this basic stuff, and that does nothing for the stock of existing programmers.
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>It makes them universally easy to parse

Don't you mean easy to sort?

If not, what makes YYYY-MM-DD any easier to parse then MM/DD/YYYY?
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> If they heavily push something for a task that clearly has no reason to require that something then it's probably fishy.

See also ninety-plus percent of existing javascript, and literally the entire existence of intel management engine.
Not propofol specific, as I'm not sure what I was administered, but "rebooted" is the best way I've found to explain it. I've only been put under once, and similarly for knee surgery.

After everything was prepped, my surgeon and I were chatting about something and the last thing I recall was the anesthesiologist putting the mask on me and saying "nemasu" (Japanese for "sleep").

There was no countdown, no drowsiness, no sleepiness -- I was just gone and then waking up post surgery. It felt as though no time had passed, but it had been hours. Completely and utterly trippy.
I wish these newspaper paywalls would take into account whether you actually read any of the articles you previously clicked into as part of your “free limit”.
It's a UX tradeoff. People are used to services having unique usernames for everyone which they can use to look friends up. No one wants to say oh just add me on X I'm Qmeufhj32f84hfnejcn438f. Or Add me on X I'm one of the 100 people with real name Bob. Long term it doesn't need to be physically centralized and would make a good candidate for a blockchain with consensus. It's already an append only merkle-tree which is mirrored in other nodes for privacy of public key look ups.

The other effect it has is it allows us to have a global filesystem with all the semantics people are used to from filesystems with human readable paths of the form /$username/$path_in_users_space
There's an order of magnitude difference between enrichment levels for reactors and for nuclear weapons. It's like saying that any nation with orbital rockets can throw asteroids at you.
Their example is like saying if you want to open a restaurant you better take the two day course on food safety. Equating GDPR compliance with multivariate calculus is just a gross exaggeration. Yes there are risks, you get those with every venture you start. You're pretty well covered with the technical due diligence we as a sector should have put upon ourselves in the first place and you can externalise the rest easily, just like people do with many other regulations like taxes/finances.

We should really separate the protection of scummy business models and down to earth stuff like data takeout / account deletion and transparency as to what companies do with user data. The latter is neither rocket science, nor should it be particularly hard for any startup that's over the "my company is a fancy slide deck" stage.
It’s really system 1 and system 2 fighting, the temporal aspect just makes the drama more striking.
It is made worse by the fact that Bluetooth Low energy requires location access on Android.
Cool! Well done!! Love the techniques used and the way you find photos. Also like the design. Good luck with being indi developer.

I launched a similiar app a few weeks ago (LibreContacts), but did not make much fuzz about it yet because: busy. It adds profile pics from whatsapp to your contacts.
From April 2nd.

Not that things are looking any better now, "no deal" is probably more likely now than it was then.
Sorry, but it's the GPL that prohibits GPL licensed software from being redistributed in the Apple appstore, not the other way around.

The Apple appstore doesn't facilitate GPL licensed software, and neither does the Google Play store. They don't prevent GPL licensed software from being distributed on their stores either, the GPL software authors do. As an example of this, see VLC making it onto the Apple appstore unofficially for a time, before the VLC devs requested it be removed, as it was violating their license.
A professional title brings a certain level of expectations regarding the quality of work.

It is hurting everyone at the end of delivery chain.

Until people start doing returns in mass for software that breaks fast and fails to deliver, this won't change most likely.

As a teacher of mine used to say, feels like buying shoes that explode when tied the wrong way.
This looks absolutely fantastic, what’s the catch?

Do you know of any other apps that use this App Store + native iOS and macOS client model by the way? I’ve never seen this done properly before (i.e. no electron, cross platform UI)
For certain kind of workloads renting bare metal is waay cheaper than VMs. What the small time bare metal providers cant compete with is all the different services sold along with the VMs. If it was just price per VM I suspect bare metal renting would be a lot more cost efficient in a lot of scenarios.
If you have an university degree, validated by the Order as providing the necessary knowledge to be one, then go ahead.
You can always delete cookies / use incognito mode etc. I've used https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome for a couple of months now and it's been good mostly
Here, have an amusing 4chan thread about this

https://warosu.org/sci/thread/8913970

There should also be a /v/ version of this but with filtering bosses/sections.
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FYI, this from before May resigned and even before the EU granted the 2nd extension to the article 50 deadline. It's from "April 2, 2019", May wrote the letter requesting the 2nd extension on April 5.
Some countries do require certification, just like doctors.
I'd disagree with that. Check out how many European countries have an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_clause.

"The German eternity clause (German: Ewigkeitsklausel) is Article 79 paragraph (3) of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Grundgesetz). The eternity clause establishes that certain fundamental principles of Germany's democracy can never be removed, even by parliament.[6]"

"The Parlamentarischer Rat (Parliamentary Council) included the eternity clause in its Basic Law specifically to prevent a new "legal" pathway to a dictatorship as was the case in the Weimar Republic with the Enabling Act of 1933.[7]"
On the one hand, I applaud the effort to take expressjs forward, but OTOH I fear with ES6+ we're loosing the practicality, robustness, and backward-compat nodejs stood for most of the time in pursue of "perfectness" (aka cool shit). I have gone through subtle and not-so-subtle changes introduced in newer nodejs version since around 0.4 (mostly around low-level stream semantics and error handling/domains, and also npm woes), and I think even nodejs core developers would agree these aspects suck and aren't very well conceived. In the current LTS release (v10), the streams API breaks, again, for example. The problem at this point is I've lost hope we're changing nodejs for the better; new APIs just suck in another way and I can see a real risk of loosing everything as APIs are being deprecated.

So I guess I'm saying we should kindof appreciate the classic nodejs ecosystem (which is mostly a fantastic place to be in considering the alternatives). Newer developments might not come to fruition because devlopers are underestimating the energy required for maintainance, loosing interest as new developments are getting the focus, attention span problems, etc.
Sure, all pronunciations ultimately derive from China.

But "chai" pronunciations do not derive directly from China, where there is no such form. And so the use of "chai" can tell us something about how tea got into a particular culture.
We can use spent fuel to make more. It's just too expensive now because we still have a lot of natural sources, so this will fix itself by supply & demand process.

And fuel costs are really tiny fraction of nuclear energy cost so this won't even affect nuclear costs much.
This.

I've often thought the main difference between us humans and other animals is that we come up with "complex" (not necessarily better or worse) solutions for our problems, even when those problems are also common in animals (e.g. hunger, mating, thirst, etc.)

Animals seem to find the shortest path: if a lion is hungry, it hunts a deer. But we have made this task [somewhat unnecessarily] complex: there are tons of foods available, each with a number of cooking methods, and thousands of combinations of those foods to sit on our table. Suddenly it's not about hunger anymore, rather it becomes another need (e.g. seeking variety) that arises due to our complexity-loving minds.

Complexity led us to build civilizations, but it also brought about more complicated new problems (e.g. air pollution). Complexity also consumes vast amounts of energy. With our limited power and time, this means extra complexity actually hurts our lives, leaving us with little energy (mental/physical) for ourselves. In my opinion, the most successful people just know the threshold/type of complexity they need in their lives.
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>You seem to be ignoring the fact that nuclear power does produce a lot of green house gases "passively".

> Not that other renewable energy do not produce any green house gases.

I mean... it is about comparisons, right? Here's just a handful of reports showing lifetime emissions of energy sources. Spoiler alert, nuclear is better than PV, but not better than wind and hydro. But that's besides the point, because you can't load balance with PV, wind, or hydro. So you can't completely replace coal with renewables.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA/Publicat...

(page 539 (29/88)) https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

https://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...
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The usual fearmongering that the UK won't be able to trade with anybody anymore if it leaves the EU.

Actually countries that are not part of the EU have been trading for thousands of years. And Non-EU countries are even trading with EU countries.

It's quite the miracle.
Bypasses Turkish government blocks on Wikipedia etc, which I hadn't been able to figure out even with google/CF over HTTPS.

Awesome!
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I just started my career as an SRE. I am really passionate about this field. I do watch videos and read blogs regularly related to different architectures to increase my knowledge.

I want guidance from the HN community to become better SRE. What should I do in my free time? Which blogs, articles, books, videos you recommend me to watch? Please consider me as a beginner in this field. I am interested more in developing scalable architectures and distributed systems.
Then we better start with it soon, right?

Also we should start subsidizing batteries (and their research) more.

How else do you propose to eliminate CO2 from electricity production?
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Correction, England (Outside London) and Wales has gone mad.
Who said that the UK won't be able to trade at all?
Oh there will be trade alright. Just not under the (favourable) conditions people envisioned. Simply because the bargaining position of the UK isn't that great.
I'm not sure anyone is actually arguing that. More that there will be a big upheaval changing a complex system that's been built up over 45 years.
Im upset. Can't use this in Germany. We don't have 4pcs. And 10pcs is a 9pcs over here.
For the record, only England and Wales "have gone mad". Scotland and Northern Ireland voted solid stay.
Having read the article, I suggest that if you think it states "the UK won't be able to trade with anybody anymore if it leaves the EU", then you have NOT read the article.

If you DID read the article, then your own preconceptions have blinkered you to a dangerous degree. Now you know.
There is a very important use-case which you can do on a local network but can't with this: setting up a DHCP server and pushing a default DNS server address even to clients which network settings you don't have access to, is possible locally. Xbox, streaming devices, non-geek friends devices, etc. Pihole can do this and ohmygod it's life changing!
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Isn't that what the "read more" button that loads the rest of the article does? Thought nytimes had those previously.

They have a pretty disgraceful cookie policy though, I don't think highly of an entity that produces this:

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This article gives the whole effort too much credit, even naively so. Brexit is nothing more than an ambitious attempt by british money to avoid the expensive tax, aml and human rights legislation imposed by Brussels. Calling it out for what it is is the only possible way forward in my opinion - accusing disgruntled, starved, easily manipulated parts of the nation of being mad or stupid is just divisive and counterproductive.
I don't think plants are a viable solution for quite a number of reasons.

The most fundamental is that they are inherently temporary storage. Plants absorb various gases as they live, and then emit it as they die. So you're just kicking the can, and not even especially far. For instance a tree can absorb up to around 50 pounds of CO2 per year. To put that into contrast an iPhone 7 results in about 123 pounds of emissions, so you need 2.5 trees per iPhone per year. Alternatively a gallon of gasoline releases about 19 pounds of CO2. So for every 10 gallons of gas a person uses you'd need about 4 full grown trees. And again that is per year, per person. Look around your house and imagine how many trees you'd need just to temporarily mask just your own personal consumption. It'd be a small forest, per person.

That leads to the second problem - scale is limited. With an unbelievably massive planting effort we could probably work to temporarily mask our emissions today. And while our emissions today are a problem, you can't ignore the future. Right now the vast majority of the world doesn't emit much per capita, but that's because most of the world lives in less developed areas. As China, India, Africa, and other areas continue to develop their emissions per capita are going to continue to increase. We should expect worldwide emissions to sharply increase over the coming decades, and so we need solutions that can scale accordingly.

And the final issue is that these solutions can, at times, go up in flames. For instance a recent study on wildfires has indicated that wildfires in places such as California can end up contributing even more to their CO2 output than the vehicles in those areas. [1] Mass planting of greenery would work as temporary storage, but it's not an especially stable form and so the net effect would be very difficult to accurately predict.

[1] - https://www.livescience.com/1981-wildfires-release-cars.html
> > > > And I do still spend my fun money, I just spend it in larger chunks. She's more likely to spend regularly on things like lunch and events with friends, I'm more likely to save up for a while then buy a new power tool, or rent a cabin for a weekend ski trip.

> > It never went into my savings, and eventually got spent (usually after several months of 'saving' in the 'fun money' account, in order to buy a new phone / other gadget)

> This is wrong since they specifically talked about saving their fun money.

Saving multiple months of fun money to blow on something frivolous should probably not be the same as a savings account. That's not what the article (nor myself, nor I suspect the GGGGP) was talking about. Savings are for long term planning, for long term investments, for large scale purchases. If you need to save >12 months of 'fun money' for a purchase, then this might not be the correct approach for you, as you're right, and that's effectively a savings account at that point.
It might have arrived to India through Persia but it derives directly from (Northern) Chinese.

'Tea' also derives directly from Chinese but through another Chinese dialect (Southern).
Yes, I should probably have added the month in the title.

I think it's still quite relevant though. Especially so after May's resignation - which seems to have left Boris Johnson at the head of the race to replace her.
Our politics has been stale and unrepresentative for some time, ticking along with party divisions that don't represent the political divisions of the populace any more.

The brexit fiasco has exposed this very well, and the main parties are tearing themselves to pieces over it.

I'm not especially keen to leave the EU, but I did consider voting that way precisely to provoke this. I still hope for meaningful political change in the uk to come from this time.
That’s a best case scenario based on lab results, not feeding cows at scale in the field. The number looks a lot closer to 50% in other trials. In a addition there are tremendous challenges in producing and transporting enough seaweed to implement this even if the kinks get worked out without doing as much damage to the environment.

It’s good to keep all options on the table but seaweed is far from the silver bullet some people want it to be.
Wouldn't that destroy a bit of the magic?
Even Scotland voted around 1/3rd to leave. Without that Scottish leave vote the UK would have been majority remain. NI was closer.
On the plus side some of the debate seems better than it was. Or am I imagining it? I was thinking of Farage vs Cable the other day - 5 min highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KV2cNZVXM
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Sure they trade. But when China slaps you with a tariff, as it has done for a thousand years, you no longer have a 400 million consumer gorilla on your side. Apparently, this is a good thing and testament to a country's sovereignty.
There are two[1,2] BBS (in Japanese) related to airplane addons development for YSFlight[0] simulator: first is related to C.K.Packs[3], and second is related to ORANLEED COLLECTION[4]

[0] http://ysflight.org

[1] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/cgi-bin/joyfulckp/jo...

[2] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/cgi-bin/joyfuloran/j...

[3] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/ckp/

[4] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/
Well, meaningful political change has certainly come about as a result of the Brexit referendum. Nigel Farage is the rising star of British politics and Boris Johnson is poised to be the next prime minister. The old guard is out and in are a bunch of unscrupulous, incompetent idiots who don't even care to maintain a semblance of minding the future of the country, or a semblance of interested in anything like sober, reasoned politics.

But is that the change you were hoping for?