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oh this one. "X isn't as bad as Y (where Y is worse) therefore X is OK, deal with it"

X and Y are completely unconnected and X is still bad and should be fixed.

Imagine if you went to the doctor with a fractured ankle and they said "well, it's not as bad as this baby I saw last week who was dying of sepsis. I suggest you count your blessings and deal with it"

And 6-figure salaries ? choose the value from the tail of the distribution to support your argument why don't you
> This sounds like an argument for having a single stand-up meeting instead of communication through slack and email spread throughout the day.

It's an argument for having meetings when you need them, with whoever you need them with, with no particular schedule or routine attached.

> I care quite a lot what the people in my team are working on.

Do you really? Or do you just want to signal that?

> Otherwise why are we even a team?

You are on a team because that's the unit of organization above the individual.

> It's the opposite: if developers are not communicating, they're probably not cooperating with each other, which means something is very wrong.

If developers need to cooperate, you have a problem that you should avoid at great cost. Of course, sometimes cooperation is unavoidable, but it's not a good thing in and of itself. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Aim to split up your work to require minimal cooperation. This may sound like unconventional advice, but anyone with enough experience managing developers will likely agree.
Or, you could view this as being a developer addressing an inefficiency in a process. I, for one, view that as a positive trait for someone in this profession.

I’m not nuts about standups, Slack or the multitude of distractions dressed up as productivity tools, but I understand their value as a means for helping distributed teams feel some sense of camaraderie, even if that’s not the original intent.
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I'm curious about _your_ position, actually. If a user doesn't have admin privileges and doesn't have the credentials to gain admin privileges, that's a clear indication that they both do not own the device _and_ haven't been trusted by the owner of the device to do whatever they want with it. Why exactly should they then be able to install and run random untrusted software on it?
So basically we are not on the way of bursts exploding from the poles of the center, we are perpendicular to the bursts trajectory?
You should get that fixed.
> NEVER learn a new word without learning what is its sound.

Would that I had learned this earlier. Native english speaker, but I grew up reading voraciously from quite a young age. This meant that though I got a big vocabulary and context as to the appropriate uses of a word, I would have difficulty pronouncing them and often come up with something completely wrong. I'd go and look words up in the dictionary, as taught by my parents. Unfortunately, I was not aware of the meaning of the IPA symbols, let alone how to decipher them; they looked to me as foreign script might to another. It was rather amusing for friends and family, but rather humiliating for me.
There are restrictions on what you can do with almost all products, commercial and open source, e.g., see licenses, copyrights, moral right, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc.

What do you want “own” to mean, exactly? What do you want to do with your software that you can’t do right now?
How about when your PM who doesn't understand Agile in the slightest combines two 5-10 person teams in a single, painful 3x-weekly standup.
Breaking my state of flow is also something I don’t like about stand ups. And yes, they tend to be in the morning when I have my most productive hours.

One solution I found is to write a quick status in the chat and excuse myself from the stand up.

Sometimes I finish 20 minutes before the stand up and think about what to do next. I usually won’t go into deep work but plan something, write my todo list on paper or review some PR to make use of the amount of time that’s to small to get into flow.
I had the same idea. I forgot about it before I was old enough to reason about it. At the time I thought the size of the mirrors would be the biggest issue. I guess I thought faster-than-light travel was easy.
It's not about real time, is more about sound, lot's of people are not used to the sound of words, and if you are from a place whose native language pronounces the letters very differently, you won't adapt easy. It's not timing, as people's brain might even change to english as base when writing and it's immediate, not translating, but when you can't understand well the sounds, than conversations go south really fast.
I agree. I've had other devs call me all sorts, in public, and it's not nice. One Ruby committer called me an "asshat" on his Twitter feed, simply because he failed to read my pull request properly and then seemed unable to admit it. Weird. One maintainer on another project called me a troll for opening an issue. Recently, I had one of the Rubygems maintainers be rude to me for the heinous crime of… suggesting client side validation in an issue thread! I think they have the Contributor Covenant but it doesn't seem to apply to maintainers. I get this stuff so often now I'm never surprised.

Still, like many things, it's a choice between one bad thing and one worse thing, and these "covenants" and other well-meaning straitjackets have the same old free speech arguments applicable to them - it's not nice to hear people be nasty but it's worse to have some jumped up little authoritarians choose how us plebs should be "nice" while they get free reign to be horrible.

I wonder, has Torvalds ever acted like that to people's faces?
Oh, I agree there are plenty of scenarios where you want to restrict a user's ability to do something. But to draw that line at the admin level seems a bit overkill to me (and de-values the idea of having varying levels of privilege, which is more or less exactly what's going to happen for organizational users anyway). I'm not super familiar with Apple's business features but in a Microsoft shop this would (to an extent) be managed through group policy on the domain controller anyway.
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That’s reasonable. I think law’s especially well suited to that, too, because the lawyer job market is in tatters compared to medicine right now (no idea about finance.) The comparative advantage of using the degree to complement another field can be worth more than actually practicing.
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I cant really recall good in-depths descriptions of how an AGI might evolve or be designed.

Any thoughts ?

e,g, the HAL AGI malfunctioned due to conflicting goals, but we dont really get any e more details.
> We are only missing that Sauron who would consolidate all the power.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21074907

“And nine rings were gifted to the race of men, who above all else desire power. […] But they were all of them deceived.”
> Eh, in some instances you can define extremeness relative to alternatives, not number of believers.

Relative extremeness, sure, but that makes something more or less extreme, not “extreme” without a comparative.

> Execution as a punishment is more extreme than a fine regardless of how many people favor execution over fines.

But execution for most serious crimes was for a very long time a standard position, not an extreme one, while not executing people was an extreme position (though it's now pretty standard in most of the world, with broad—or indeed any—use of execution being an extreme position.)

> I would argue that generally a position being extreme results in fewer believers, not that fewer believers results in a position being extreme.

If you would argue that, go ahead, but you've provided neither evidence nor much argumentation, just conflation of absolute and relative uses of “extreme”, and your example of capital punishment seems to disprove your thesis.
Me too, and when I need to install non-Apple-approved software, I log into my admin account, do it, then log out of it again.

Once the software is installed, I can use it from my regular account.

> Staff do have local administrator access to their machines, but are not supposed to use it for regular operations for safety.

The point of this exercise is that installing random software from the Internet shouldn't be a regular operation; users should take extra care when doing it.
Codelco was the right choice, even after counting sanctions.
The other person who replied to you is wrong (edit: assuming they meant in general, not for only software that you have specifically already downloaded and run on a single computer before upgrading it to Catalina.)

Non-"notarized" software, when freshly downloaded to a computer running Catalina, will not run. A dialog will be displayed, telling the user that the developer needs to update their app for compatibility. There is no further indication telling the user what to do, and no "run anyway" button.

The developer will need to "notarize" the software with Apple, and receive their approval. If that happens, then the "notarization" information for the app bundle will be available via Apple's servers when users attempt to run the program, and Gatekeeper will attempt to look it up from the Apple's servers if the "notarization" information is not "stapled" into the app bundle. Optionally, and probably preferably, the app developer can "staple" the notarization information directly into the app bundle, and Gatekeeper won't need to look anything up over the internet the first time the user attempts to run the program.
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Yep, I can't see myself doing the process of downloading this via the store just to check a trivia fact.

Perhaps there's more than the catchphrase that can justify the smartphone-only format.
Americans generally don’t want to hear that our influence globally has been replaced by a combination of deference to autocratic regimes (the whole Russia / Turkey / Syria situation) or direct antagonism of rising powers (China, Iran).

I think Trump’s legacy will be as the symbol of American decline. He represents a hollowing out of core institutions that started long before him, but his presidency will be remembered as the time when the world realized American hegemony was over.
> I even saw once a developer on his last day throwing the speaker's token (a teddy bear) to the trash can LOL!

Are we talking adult employees here? :D Anyway, if I ever become employed, and will have to work on-site, I want the comfort token to be a stuffed baby gnu.

https://shop.fsf.org/gear/stuffed-baby-gnu
In the real-world countries often referred to as "democracies", most meaningful choices involving voting are on too large a scale (country-wide, and decade-long time horizon), and rigid (binary choice, irreversible), for voters to get any taste of democracy (other than the average citizen being mostly protected from extreme abuse).

In the end, decisions are taken by a republic. If this republic doesn't serve its constituency, there isn't much the constituency can do apart from waiting for the next term and then vote for the second most popular party.

This is well examplified by the fact that protests are still a thing in countries thought to be democracies. Historically, protests are a tool against dictatorships. If citizens had proper democratic agency, they would not have to disrupt their own country's economic activity in hopes to bend their leader's arm. It's a very inefficient and fuzzy decision-making mechanism.

That's why the proper term for the current popular government system is "democratic republic", not just "democracy". An actual democracy on the scale of a country would be way more complex than what we have now. It would probably be closer to the economic market in terms of complexity. We might get there one day, but calling our current systems "democracies" is proper newspeak.
I heard that from an engineer there. He was aghast too.
Seems appropriate to me, but what do you feel is loaded about it? I haven’t followed this too closely so I imagine there are plenty of nuances that I haven’t thought about.
What kind of solutions do you think are possible for this issue? I can totally see your point, but I am unsure how to fix it for a person who really isn't interested in learning tons of recipes for each season.

I think the first flow is still fine, but maybe should just include going local and buying in-season items.

Knowing what you eat is important but I can understand why people are drawn to the easiness of a cookbook filled with recipes from any season.
I find it funny, that in effort to "catch criminals", government tries to pass laws to make things those criminals do, illegal. If you make encryption illegal, its not going to stop the human trafficker from using it. They are already breaking the law... what's another smaller law to help protect them? So they go to jail for encryption rather than human trafficking. The laws are now helping them, while hurting all the good citizens that just want privacy.
I am criticising what they are doing now. Which is making everything harder if you don't go through the App Store, and they have been doing it for a while now. It's the same they are doing with their hardware and everything (you can't repair it yourself because "quality") so I can't really see them doing anything different.
The MacPorts .pkg installer is probably the only thing affected, and they should be able to get that signed. (Plus, anyone using MacPorts should be capable of the right-click+open workaround.)
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Good time for the managed cloud platforms?
I would like to open a discussion on managed cloud platform projects - do you think this is a good moment for them?

Render just won the TechCrunch edition.

I also run this type of project myself - www.haiku.dev - we have just applied to YC and we are in a hatch by DigitalOcean.

Let me know what you think!
Very grateful if you take a look at Haiku.

Best wishes!
> In the event, I’d been able to persuade GPT-2 to express the thoughts that I wanted it to express, although I didn’t feel any more confident in my own knowledge of language or my own prowess at predicting what it might say. After a few minutes, I went on to the next page of GPT-2’s work, and the computer revealed a series of explanations about why words used in “Atlas Shrugged” had apparently been chosen. “Liking is true universal,” the machine said. “It applies to all individuals.” “Everybody is drawn to success,” it said. “Not only do they do what they want, but, to the extent that they are successful, they also help others.” The most interesting part of the text, however, was the last line: “You don’t have to like it. But you should care.”

I like how in this generated piece, the model writes as the author, and quoting the model itself has some form of a reflective second-person view of itself. Quite hilarious and hella' sci-fi.
It's a unbelievable that we take the output of these seminars as gospel. They are just groups of people - with no more authority on what "proper behavior" is than the rest of us.

...and yet the community that supports them vehemently punishes anyone that strays from their constantly changing and often contradictory directives.
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> I purposefully make my primary account a non-administrator and elevate permissions with my administrator account when I need to perform administrative tasks

So...elevate permissions when you need to perform this new administrative task? I don't see how that changes the crux of the matter (you still are the de facto admin, even though you've applied artificial constraints to yourself, because you hold the admin credentials).
People have different definitions of “self interest”, hence the tragedy of the commons (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons). It’s basically the problem government exists to mediate.
Even as a native speaker English spelling is hard. I was working on reading with my son last night and hit the word "love". Pause, and think about that word and its pronunciation. Well, he starts la-a-v-eh, and I correct him "the e at the end isn't pronounced", and later we get to 'make', ma-ah-k, Mac!, And I tell him, "no, this word has a long a, Ā, eh, because...of the e at the end" -_-, "but only sometimes."

Then we hit 'night'. Ni-eye-ga..."no, no", I say, "gh" in the middle of a word isn't pronounced. Luckily the book didn't have "though" and "thought" in it.

English pronunciation and spelling are basically no more related than second cousins at this point. I can't imagine having to learn to pronounce it simply by reading it.

That's only the German bit of the language, the French bit is subtly different, and then the Greek bits work just a little bit differently as well.

Then there are native American loan words, usually as place names, that weren't regularized (or maybe they were but aren't anymore?). Is there another word with a gh pronounced like the first pair in Youghiogheny (j ɒ k ə ˈ ɡ eɪ n i)(yock-a-gain-y)? I think it's probably via Scottish? But I'm not sure.
The current state of Perl 5 for Python fans:
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Perl 5: I'm not dead!

TIOBE: 'Ere! 'E says 'e's not dead!

Internet: Yes he is.

Perl 5: I'm not!

TIOBE: 'E isn't?

Internet: Well... he will be soon-- he's very ill...

Perl 5: I'm getting better!

Internet: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

TIOBE: I can't take 'im off like that! It's against regulations!

Perl 5: I don't want to go off the chart....

Internet: Oh, don't be such a baby.

TIOBE: I can't take 'im off....

Perl 5: I feel fine!

Internet: Well, do us a favor...

TIOBE: I can't!

Internet: Can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long...

TIOBE: No, gotta get to Reddit, they lost nine today.

Internet: Well, when's your next round?

TIOBE: Next year.

Perl 5: I think I'll go for a walk....

Internet: You're not fooling anyone, you know-- (to TIOBE) Look, isn't there something you can do...?

Perl 5: I feel happy! I feel happy!

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But seriously, Perl 5.30 just came out in May. It's not dead yet.
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Can someone explain what this means, and how its not illegal? Arent pensions a contract?
One of the best things I did that boosted my English level was playing WOW at a young age.
For me, less-commercial electronic music is still pushing the boundaries and developing (in no small part down to technology), but popular music is less catchy, less exciting, less sophisticated, less tuneful, less imaginative, more derivative, lacks humour, is more vulgar, covers a far narrower set of themes, and is of a far narrower range in terms of genre than in the past. I still discover popular music from the 70s, 80s and to an extent the 90s that is new to me and that I rate highly. Every now and then I catch TOTP2 and what really stands out to me is the sheer diversity of what was on offer: virtually every genre one can imagine, novelty acts, one hit wonders, cult acts having one big hit, super-groups, the utterly commercial, all races and sexes represented, etc. etc. Contrast that with today. Western culture has gone backwards.
Speaking for the Netherlands here, though I'm assuming it's the same in most EU countries.

> How do people in the UK (or other cheque-less places) deal with the transfer of large amounts of money between private or nearly private parties?

Bank transfers. If someone wants to give you money you give them your account number and they can then either transfer money directly to your account from the banks website or if that's too modern you can fill in a slip of paper and mail that to the bank though I don't know how common that even is these days.

Do note that an account number is enough for transfering money in, it's not enough for transfering money out. That generally requires at the very least a username/password/one-time-code combination.

> All of the shops I've worked for have paid me by check - nobody wants to screw around setting up direct deposit for one or two employees.

There's nothing to set up. You ask for an account to deposit the money and that's it. Presumably banks don't feel like receiving money is a security risk.

> Several of them pay suppliers by check; suppliers don't want to take the hit on credit card fees.

Normal transactions cost €0.20 at most, if a supplier feels that that's too much they probably have other things to worry about. Some companies charge the customer this fee, but still it's not a large amount.

I'm not entirely sure on what the costs are of taking money using chip&pin but I'm assuming the costs are roughly in the same ballpark.

I've got some nits to pick on the upsides you mention for checks as well:

1) Banking with chip&pin or transfers doesn't require carrying any cash either. I can't recall the last time I had actual money on me and not just a debit card.
2) Fair enough.

3) If a company wants your money they can instruct your bank to send an "acceptgiro" by mail. You fill it in and return it by mail to your bank. The bank from there on out processes the transfer the same way as online transfers. To be fair this does cost €0.50 since it involves all this
kerfuffle with scanning in handwritten digits and whatnot.

4) Unless you count getting a business account or collecting account numbers as set-up, neither do bank transfers here.

5) Unless you deal exclusively in transactions that are less than one euro it's generally free to a rounding error here as well.

6) Transfers, once confirmed -- which takes seconds, are definitive. No take backsies. If money needs to go back then that's a separate transaction. It's not the banks job to check if transactions are fair, or if breach of contract has happened.

I hope that answers some questions, If not feel free to follow up.
> Anyway, were any of you who are complaining in this thread planning on actually publishing an app for macOS

Yes. I take offense to you generalizing all complaints as just wanting to "beat a dead horse"
I don't think it is only English, I find this happens with native speakers of other languages as well. They fail to accommodate their language to fit the people listening to them.

I always wonder what it is that prevents people from switching to a more standard version of the language, is it not obvious the message is getting lost? is it some sort of pride in the accent? lack exposure to foreigners?. I've experienced this many times in Spanish, English and German.
My issue is that many mainstream pop songs around now seems to have meaningless, lazy or silly lyrics.
If the black hole was only 1,000 light years away, and the angle of divergence of the beam was only 0.1 degrees, by the time the beam hit our solar system it would be about 2 light years across, or 126,000 AU.

Compared to interstellar distances, our solar system is tiny.