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> Am I limiting myself by ruling them out from the get go based on past behaviour?

Yes, by definition. You have every right to, of course! But yeah you're limiting yourself.

> what would it take for me to catch up in order to even begin to unpack and then finally even begin to leverage what you just mentioned?

What did it take for you to unpack/leverage k8s? Similar. SF runs on Linux, and is an orchestrator for fundamental components that you're used to: VMs, containers, and bare metal instances. There's nothing Windows-specific there. Particularly if you deal with a mix of stateless and stateful applications, or if multi-tenancy is an issue for you, SF has valuable strengths.

> not a single employer that matters to me thinks your knowledge of windows crapware is a competitive advantage in the environments most real tech operates in.

Hm, the only windows specific component I mentioned is Hyper-V. Other services tend to be solid implementations of open source projects you probably tolerate, like kubernetes or tensorflow. You know, places where MS is a major contributor. I was talking about our blindness to MS contributions across the spectrum - which you seem to exemplify pretty neatly.

You can limit yourself however you want. Be careful with your blanket statements though; you just excluded a lot of companies from your list of "companies you care about" and "real tech." Airbus, Atlassian, Bitnami, Cisco, Dell, Docker, Facebook, Fujitsu, GE, Hashicorp, Intel, Kaltura, Lockheed, MongoDB, New Relic, Oracle, Nokia, Raytheon, Red Hat, Roku, Salesforce, Samsung, SAP, Siemens, Sony, SUSE, Symantec, Tableau, Trend Micro, and others all work closely with Azure and Microsoft tech... maybe those companies don't count as "real tech" to you. Either that, or you should consider re-evaluating your limitations.
I don't have a pi 4 to play with, but is there any chance you could try one of the mini heatsinks that just adhere onto the cpu, without any active cooling?

I'm just curious to see if that helps much, they're pretty cheap and could be useful other places too (I use one on the VTX for my drone)

You can check the temperature though the pi itself. From my experience depending on the material/length of contact, things start to get too hot to comfortably hold after ~55C/60C for most metals, but brief contact might barely feel warm.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Easycargo-Raspberry-Heatsink-Aluminum...
So the author's street doesn't properly have off street parking for everyone meaning if it snows you can't plow. Kids can't play in the street anywhere and you're more likely to get terrible neighbors. I'll pass. My last neighbors used to burn their garbage in their lawn leaving ash to drift onto our cars and the fire department told them to claim it was a cooking fire if anyone complained. I get why people who enjoy cities wouldn't be opposed to this but I'm okay with my property value not going down because the types of people renters brings tend to care less about the neighborhood and having my neighbors far away from my house so they can do their thing and we can do ours without forcing our life choices on each other.
What about something more fundamental? Do we really need layers of management? There are interesting examples of more-agile organizational structures examined in https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
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After those nice coloured boxes in excel don't fill them selves in :-)
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I'm looking for a method that can help me decide how to best design my home. For example are the most suitable wall colors for entry hall, what are not good, how to match the best items.
I'm sure professional home designers have systems they follow through beside personal taste.
> IRC messages are always lines of characters terminated with a CR-LF (Carriage Return - Line Feed) pair, and these messages shall not exceed 512 characters in length, counting all characters including the trailing CR-LF. Thus, there are 510 characters maximum allowed for the command and its parameters.

Yeah, lets just forget how painful it was for non english speaking users to use IRC. 255 characters for unicode and 510, but you have to guess encoding.
Perhaps a side pan for embeds makes sense. upload images or code snippets by providing irc style references in the chat while not interrupting the flow of conversation because images and whatnot are expanded on the embed pane.
The cost of college/university is outrageous, especially for the return on investment for many questionable degrees (questionable in the sense of market demand).

We should funnel many more students into vocational schools where they’d contribute more to society (by not having to revert to waitressing as fall back). They could be nurses, welders, HVAC, etc earning good money. But no, we have many many people regretting their majors and many disillusioned with the job prospects of their peripheral majors.

My pet peeve is the attention elite private schools get. They represent a very small fraction of all students. We should instead ensure state schools remain affordable but also ensure that grades mean something and not everyone “deserves” acceptance. We should push people who don’t fit in academically into vocations rather than string them along and have them fail in a career.
The idea of embedding links to multimedia is a good one. They just need to form an open standard for encoding media and rich text in text streams, and let clients parse the standard and decide how to format it. Text clients could remove any multimedia/rich text, GUI users could render it all, blind users would receive alt-tags in a way that's easily spoken by TTS, etc. Because it's a standard for encoding media in a text stream, you don't have to change the IRC protocol, just add a plugin to the client. You could even format it so the simplest clients could just strip everything but the text.

Something like:

%M!i=//shrt.url/j3f87h38f;t=fr,bb;a=Kitten Mittens!
Finally, there is an elegant, comfortable mitten for cats.

This indicates an image link, a text foreground color of red, text background color of black, and alt-text for the image as "Kitten Mittens". Any existing IRC client can simply remove everything from "%M!" to the "!" + newline, or if they don't, the text just shows up on its own line below the metadata, which isn't hard to read. You could even encode it in-line, such as "This is some %M!t=fr,b!text!." Harder to read if the client doesn't implement the standard, though.
The difference is that the IRC standard is decades old and stable and made for "independent" clients.

Slack is Young and evolving and driven by a single company which wants to push their client
Built into that meaning would be an incorrect understanding of the tax code, which I think one can say is purposefully being leveraged in PR statements like this. Which is to say they are purposefully being misleading.
Are you saying racism doesn't exist because you elected Obama?
Not to be bitchy maybe Poptel should have won the bid to run .org back in the day - not that I am biased :-)
I remember when this was a significant problem but with the rise of UTF-8 it is less so (even if that is strictly against the letter of the spec, it works fine in practice). Are there languages where the 510 bytes per message are a significant limitation?
It's too bad that web browsers are so complicated and expensive to port.

There might be room for something new and different that runs on it's own VM (like Smalltalk) and can use libraries on the host to get things that do not make sense re-implementing, like a web browser. If it gains sufficient traction, the work to move it to a more stripped down environment would be clearly worth it.
Yeah I wrote this before I saw that blog post which appears to have hit most of the implications.
The problem I have with this kind of happy rainbows and unicorns kind of reporting is that focuses on the companies and people where remote work is a success and completely ignores those who tried and failed. There is very little investigation into which situations can support remote work/teams and which ones don't.
Housing is not a free market because its supply is artificially restricted by zoning regulations meant to protect the value of current homeowners' properties.
It has been 41 here lately and I leave the indoors at 22, and the shock is marvelous. That 41 is at greater than 50% relative humidity, so the big impact is that my sweating starts to be effective again.
> I mean all IRC clients are 3rd party so I'm surprised that your sentiment towards 3rd party Slack clients is so bad.

The difference between IRC and Slack is that IRC is seen as a standard protocol while for Slack the network protocol is an inofficial implementation detail and any use other than of the official client is unsupported. I'm not very familiar with Slack, but I've heard about Whatsapp users being banned just for the crime of using an alternative client. That's the difference between an open protocol and a proprietary one.
How to support open-source software and stay sane
That's a lot of repositories for a git issue tracking tool.
Maybe not too hard to believe if you think that one of the main drivers for mesh is the lack of available traditional infrastructure
>On the Hacker News list that shares tech headlines one commenter said: "I feel that even if everybody who cared went on strike, the difference in daily visitors would probably be in the error margin."

>They added: "I think most people who really care have already left the centralised social media or scaled it down to the point that a non-strike day is an exception."

BBC quoted Hacker News!
I'm not so sure about that. Having local power to enforce employee protections is a huge thing. My state mandates things like paid jury duty and extra healthcare coverage, would I really want to wait until the federal government decides we need that? It may never happen!
If you use a high level language like Python you could almost write an IRC server in 45 minutes.
That you take something from an extremely poor place and make it better is not the same has having lifted it to anything close to a satsifactory level.

China has no excuse for not enforcing IP rights and no excuse for their forced technology transfer. There is no defacto improvement in China thats the reality you apparently refuse to understand.

You keep missing the point of this discussion and thus the point of the conflict with China.
If you spend 300$ million in secret research you can realize 1.5 billion in profit.

The numbers for research where you're forced to make the production research public mean your competitors can get to market faster and it may mean an investment of even 3 million isn't worth it.

There are some medicines/procedures/devices where this is the only way to make the numbers work to sell it.
Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales
So what do i have to do to get someones tax return in e.g. Sweden? Whats the process?
Yes, but I am in agreement with you. I was simply saying you shouldn't blame C for being what it is, not that you should use it.
What is the point of that story?
> They are legally obligated by their shareholders to make the biggest profit possible, likewise every other business.

They're not, it's a common misconception: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...
Kranz wrote a book about his experience in mission control which is a good read:

https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp...
I saw a Saturn V at Kennedy. Before that, I had absolutely no concept of the size of those rockets. It is absolutely epic in scale. It is in my view one of the greatest wonders of the modern world.
Thinking Machines (2006)
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I agree, IRC, it is what it is, it's done, if you want something else, you want something else, not IRC.
This is the comment that is quoted by BBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316140#20316792
I'm not an expert on type systems, and maybe I'm misreading this gist, but doesn't Typescript work this way?
Yeah, sorry, the Pell grant thing was out of frustration and not a fully baked policy suggestion. As a regular at our local hackerspace, which has woodshop and welding and electronics and.... yes, I very much wish vocational skills had no stigma :)
I definitely agree that things need to change but I have a hard time seeing this really effect anything.
That goes both ways, though. Apparently, most corporations are against the right to privacy ... until somebody wants to see how many tax loopholes they've used (and how much money they gave to politicians to create them).
The worst thing about this is that I'm _so completely uninterested_ in SO's stupid social/team/hiring product that will supposedly forever revolutionize the tech world.

I'm sure there are little teams of product managers and marketers just brimming with enthusiasm about it, but I have nothing but fatigue for these things anymore. It's not innovation, it's just more suckling at the enterprise teat.
Aren't the tax returns of public companies public?
The only time I'm more open about finances is with people who I know are roughly equivalent to me or above, and usually we chat about expenses rather than income.

Although with those friends we've danced around the income part enough that we know the general income range of each other. I had a situation with work co-workers where we were all the same level and years of experience and we shared salaries, and people got a little salty over <$500 / yr differences.
I find it amusing that engineers are supposed to be somehow responsible for the lack of morality in our corporations.

It’s almost as if the lack of morality costs us less than the lack of revenue.

Maybe it’s time to rethink the value system in the first place?
They can crack down on alternative clients at any time they want. You are living on borrowed time. A guest who is wild camping in their gated community walled garden private property.
The whole domain market experience is utter crap. Commoditizing domain names has created such an unbalanced power dynamic between buyers and sellers where the sellers hold all the power. Gatekeeping at it's finest.

Contrast this with acquiring a business name through any Department of State/Division of Corporations.

I shouldn't have to name my company some contorted bastardization to successfully enter the market.
Obviously anything safety-related is regulated. But nobody is going to tell you what type or color of roof shingles you need to buy.
"I'd rather put my bugs in one, more easily verifiable place." We are in agreement, that is why I was saying people shouldn't use C unless they need it.
Offtopic:
Always Right Institute LOL

Is there a way to join this institute? I would love to have this on my CV and professional profile.
A couple questions about that design. Is it worth paying the cost of an extra word in every slice, if strided slicing is rare in most programs? And when you wrap OS APIs that don't understand striding, do you have to use a different pointer type?
And so how are you then "at risk" if you live modestly, since there is little to rob?

Kidnap? It seems a little ridiculous for most cases.
There was no point in Jony Ive hanging around when the passion was gone. It is good to know that Apple is engaging the new firm launched by Jony to help Apple continue to design and improve their products.
Ultimately, your good manager needs a good manager in order to be effective. I run a department and have amazing support from the company president. Because of that, I don't have to play games trying to raise the visibility of the problems my department solves.
Personally I wouldn't call it understating car dependence so much as underestimating the alternatives. Which reminds me of Cities Skylines and how they did the opposite for what was probably an amusing oversight.

Foot paths are very good for traffic without congestion which makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is the complete lack of time or distance limit meaning the population will happily walk a massive pedestrian walkway the length of an entire sector.

A somewhat more realistic way is to use subways to link your high density residences with no highway access to places like work and retail while leaving the roads for mostly delivery trucks and emergency services. Apparently Japanese developments were practically planned this way - adding to where a new subway loop and putting housing on top for synergy.
Are there any technical differences, though? I'd imagine, with different sets of developers for some amount of time, they'd develop?
Yes, I would say that it is.
Ever since icann lifted the floodgates on all the new gTLDs, it's been almost nothing but unmitigated mediocrity. Follow the money, look at how much a company like donuts pays to icann for the "application fee" for each individual gtld.

Giving .Amazon to the company and not the brazilian-peruvian group that wanted to run it was really a fine example of icann in the year 2019.
It would be also nice to know how much that $270 billion investment cost the tax payer. Only earlier this year an attempt by Amazon to build new headquarters in New York fell through because it hinged on a $3 billion tax break and allowing them to bypass local processes.
CEO pay is out of control and there is no justification for it
We are in agreement, by comment was not saying people should use C. It was saying that a layer of unsafety has to exist somewhere.
Top benefit is access to a global talent pool. Also, in a fully distributed team, everyone logs all time against defined tasks (eg GHI or trello card) so you get useful data. Having no single time zone means no “management by walking around” so you need to embrace disciplined delegation and accountability. Managers are valued for knowledge rather than baby sitting.

Edit: typo
>> 'software', 'hardware', 'class', 'inheritance', 'encapsulation', 'abstraction', 'refactoring' in Thai.
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> Arguably none of these words existed in the modern programming sense 50 years ago.

They did; that's why they were repurposed in computing.

"Ware" means goods, especially something for sale. Hardware means the wares used in construction: screws, hinges, brackets and so on, or any equipment. Extending that to computer hardware is straightforward.

"Software" is new for computing, by analogy to hardware.

"Inheritance" has the meaning taken from biology or reproduction. "You've inherited your mother's good looks!"

"Encapsulation" means to wrap something in a capsule; online dictionaries say it was first used in 1872, and gives an undated example of a pilot encapsulated in a cockpit. I don't have the subscription to see the 1872 usage.

"Class" means a group of things sharing some characteristic. Remember that the code you wrote is a class definition; "class" has its normal, English meaning.

"Refactor" may be novel in computing, I'm not sure. You could also apply the word to a document.
Isn't social control exactly the intended goal? IMO this is the whole point of the article: If the public knows about Amazons tax returns, the expected result is public (=social) pressure against Amazon.
How specifically?

I would start with the idea that it is not right for the same person to be the CEO and the Chairman of the Board for a public company.

The point of a corporation is to be bigger than one person, if you can afford a CEO, you can afford a separate Chairman, so you get another point of view involved and I think it is better for everyone, I mean the shareholders, employees, customers, and the even the CEO in the long term.

That does not solve all the problems but it is a specific step that would improve trust in governance.
I can't take anyone seriously who would believe this guy is actually satoshi. Even ignoring the iron clad evidence of private keys and public signatures, Satoshi wrote a lot of C++. I don't think this guy has ever demonstrated that he can program on that level.

Beyond that, he has copied large parts of research papers, tried to fake old websites to make it seem like he was working on crypto currency many years ago, and has released even more nonsense in research papers.

His end goal seems to be to get seed money and use it to patent as many crypto currency ideas as possible.
true, but the tax return would illuminate that
Agreed. Feels like it's giving a lot of power to employees, employer less being able to know what's going on. I have a developer friend who's working two jobs at the same time for example. The distinction between independent freelancer and employee becomes very thin
For most Americans, yes. I live out in the country, which has some regulations (state regulations involving sewer systems) and some small zoning regs (routinely ignored) but not much else. I can build as I choose, landscape as I choose, dig as I choose (as long as I don't damage infrastructure).

Some of what I do is audited (for tax purposes) but nobody is telling me not to build a shed, or where I should build it, or how tall or what color.

But I cashed out of Silicon Valley and bought 80 acres in the county, build a house on it, so my experience is not typical. City-dwellers have layer upon layer of restrictions.
Think of the car analogy. Did fast cars are allowed to pass slow cars, average speed increases.
You just described 6 use cases for IRC. Then I'll just stay on IRC.
Interesting that you tighten up privacy by adding more tracking to your main website with a cooking spanning sub-domains as well: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/commit/48545495afe1... and JS code from twitter directly: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/commit/30ece47f8930...
I also agree with you. It was painful when e.g. Twitter basically killed 3rd party apps.

What happens here is that I don’t see any significant portion of Slack users moving to IRC anytime soon. Therefore, if you’re forced to use Slack, you should know that alternative clients are available as of today.
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I was simply saying that it's undecideable to do bounds checking at compile time, so it's better to use languages that do bounds checking at run time. But you shouldn't blame C for this.
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Formatting is pure fluff - it's convenient to have bold/italic/spoiler/code tags, and it is possible to implement them in a TUI without degrading anybody's experience. Link tags are not really necessary and a lot of clients don't even have them.

The image upload thing, though, the convenience there is being able to just upload an image directly into the client, rather than having to deal with some external service. That's it. There isn't much preventing this from being implemented in an IRC client.

Character limits are silly and should be removed - enforce them with a moderation bot if you really have to.

Just because most modern chat services are Electron trash does not mean we should throw out every bit of convenience learned. IRC (clients) could stand to gain better text formatting and file sharing options - things that make life easier for users, and in most cases don't really affect how the actual protocol works.
I measure geographical distance using google maps starting from Berlin (52.515277, 13.405301):

The german part of Saxon Switzerland is at most 200km. Distance through Dresden up to German-Czech border is 200km.

German coast of Baltic Sea is 200km, yes.

Brocken, highest "mountain" in Harz, and more or less its center, is 206km away.

Another nice area for canoeing or hiking is Jena/Naumburg(Saale) 200km south-west-ish.

Your distances are probably more useful though, when you want to get there, as I suspect them to be travel distances.
It hinged on tax breaks that, as I understand things, are overwhelmingly available to any other business seeking to locate/expand in the jurisdiction. It seemed like only the real estate portion was project-specific (and is likely to be offered to the next user as well).