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Wait, a person expressed views in favour of democracy and felt he had to backtrack because of pressure from a dictatorship?

Here's how this works: we express views that anger dictatorships, and if there is even a minute chance that your business tanks because of it - then you were in the wrong market or had the wrong owners.

The right thing to do here for the NBA would be to stand behind this tweet. Corporations need to be constantly trolling China. I'm talking megacorps marking the anniversaries of Tianmen, or calling Taiwan "the totally independent country of Taiwan" and so on.
>central role gender plays in our language,

You mean 'English'. (Although most[all?] Indo-European languages do have a gender concept)

There are languages that have no gender specific pronouns (or cases) and the best/funny part is that native speakers of a similar languages tend to call everything 'he' in English.

Personally I don't care what people would call me at all, if the rest of the argument/discussion is on point.
Not sure I understand - who is she that you're referring to?
I thought rendering layered volumetric stuff is where RTX would shine but I don't know much about that type of rendering tbh.
For some people there are more important things than a small risk of death. I suspect these risk-takers make up a disproportionate number of paramotorists
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We do standups, however the questions are more like

What task moved yesterday? (handover?)
What task is going to move today?

and the most important one:
What is blocked? (Who can help to unblock?)

I can recommend this format for everybody.
That sounds like a fun project, where did you get the data from?
Wow, you are pretty funny! Accusing me of being feminine in a thread like this. May I ask, what drugs are you on?
Thers's an idea - revise the expansion of the acronym to say
Giraffics Interchange Format. Make it an ISO standard and donate proceeds of sales of the paper version to protecting the giraffes. Problem solved.
You have a right to have whatever identity you have, but others should not be enforced to respect that. That they do is a courtesy extended to you by the person you're interacting with. This much I'm fine with. Doubly so with assumed genders, which is IMO, a perfectly reasonable thing to go on. We don't fit to outliers after all and simply correcting when requested seems like a reasonable approach to me.

However, I've seen a steadily rising trend of weaponized fragility and crusading on this particular topic, along with a particularly virulent group which uses this as a tool to force compliance and control. It's bad enough that while I can observe my personal opinion of the T side sliding towards the negative through frequent contact and exposure with that sort.
> technical Q&A forum like StackExchange.

I believe most of these issues have risen after SE has opened doors to topics beyond tech. As soon as you stop talking about things but about people, you will encounter people problems.

> We don't continually mention each other's race, hair color, handedness, or preferred sleeping position on every tenth word,

In many written languages, and English in particular, you have gendered pronouns which you more or less have to use. Sentences that avoid referring to people with pronouns are awkward and forced.

> yet we often know someone's gender even before we know their name. Why is it so?

In real world relations you often see a person first and "assume their gender" based on how they look, before knowing their name. In some cultures the greeting is different depending on the gender of the other person.
I haven’t had time to watch the documentary yet, but my first thought about a $5 price tag is that it can’t possibly be accounting for inflation.

$5 in 1977 is about $21.15 give or take a few cents according to most of the website i checked the numbers on.

So while it might be $5, that was definitely not as cheap as it might otherwise seem.

Regardless of the inflation adjustments, ~$20 is surprisingly inexpensive for a commuter helicopter ride, I wonder if the economies of scale really do bring it down or if they were still eating their losses trying to grow business at that price.
> What they did to her was wrong from my point of view, but it certainly was not 'based on pure hate'.

Seconding this. It was not hateful, it was just grossly intolerant.

Of course, as usual from to CoC-crowd, this great intolerance is done in the name of tolerance, and anyone who has a problem with that is "part of the problem".

Yay for internet echo-chambers and circular logic.
>Please explain to me how giving producers, traffickers and consumers of child pornography would not benefit from easy and hurdle-less end-to-end encryption.

Oh yeah. Forbid encryption, good idea.

I have another good idea to you: forbid bombs. If you forbid bombs, terrorists would not be able to use them.
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The deep flow disturbance can be caused by any sort of communication. So basically, that’s an argument against communication, as opposed to being an argument against standups.

If anything, by being at a fixed time, either at the start, or the end of a team’s day, it’s far easier to prevent a standup from disrupting deep work than a Slack message would be.
I work at a standing desk, as do many of my colleagues, so that doesn't really apply to everyone.

I have never been on a team of any more than 3 people where the standups have been as short as 5 minutes.
Probably not less difficult but definitely similar. I tried TIS-100 but it just feels like it exercises the part of my mind that does programming. It’s not relaxing or unwinding (for me).
> Kind of like we look back today on 1987 and think what was that kerfuffle all about.

Between January and December 1987 the S&P500 had a positive return. [0] Yes, there was a big crash in the middle, but if you were not over leveraged and didn't look at your investments except in January/December, this was a year of very ordinary returns.

Certainly no biggy for long-term, pension fund type investments.

[0] http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/SP/1987/0/contin...
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I don't know if they daily standup is necessary, but there is some value in frequent synchronous meetings. Some people just feel more comfortable bringing things up during a meeting, despite the myriad ways they could otherwise communicate.
Plus how many of them care about pronouns other than he/she?
This is ridiculous. And doesn’t even cover the costs due to 40,000 deaths every year, and over 2million disabled and injured every single year.
The US/Canada prices are usually justified by low population density and high cost of living.

But, uh, Sweden has a higher cost of living, and a lower population density.
Some of my colleagues had a hard time with this. They would actually ask me to come to their desk whenever I had a question, and come to mine when I didn't answer fast enough (only after I had gotten them to understand I really preferred slack. Seems they never got the why though, despite making it very clear...)
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You are 1900 years late with your complaint :)

In the first decades after the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the cross was not widely used as a symbol among Christians. Who wanted to be reminded of the humiliation of God's own son on the cross? It was the Christians (and their persecutors) that came after the first generations of followers who slowly turned it into a pop-art symbol (first in its abstract form, later with the shape of a human body on it)
Do OSs have "revolutionary" features? Take MacOS from 5 years ago and compare it to today's, what revolutionary features did it get?

Under "nice to have" and took forever for other OSs to get them:

- TrueOS (I think that is the name of PCBSD now?) has lifepresever: snapshots, rollback etc. nicely integrated.
Similarly for linux (snapper) or nixOS.

- virtual desktops took forever to finally be included in windows.

- MacOS continuity is a nice copy of kde connect.

- Sidecar is a nice copy of astropad etc.

- Things like Linux on DeX, whatever windows calls its implementation, MaruOS, Motorola Atrix... have been tried again and again, but are still not there yet.

- Windows had pen support since XP, but the app ecosystem is basically only OneNote and a few art apps. In contrast apple has been dragging their feet forever before finally offering their pencil, but quickly got a much bigger ecosystem of apps tailored to it. Maybe 10X will finally change that, but I am not optimistic anymore.
I am a consultant working in a distributed team, often remote from our client. I find the standup format to be very useful, often delivered via a daily email.

While we use a formal issue tracker like Jira which handles approvals and estimates, from a project management perspective it's useful to have a summary email that is short enough for people to read and focused on business level issues.

"Today I worked on this" / "Next I plan to work on that."
This helps clients to see exactly what we are working on. It avoids miscommunication where we think they told us to prioritize something different, or they thought they told us to stop work on something, or they think we are finished with something and we are not. Having an email every day lets them tell us to stop work immediately if we are doing the wrong thing, avoiding surprise invoices the next month. It avoids them claiming that they didn't know that we were working on something.

"Here are the problems I am having / things I need from you".
This is very useful to keep track of delays caused by the client. This might be them needing to review and accept work, review specs, or pay their invoices. Issues stay on the report until they are resolved. It documents that we didn't get what we needed, so we can't be blamed for things being late.
Roads are just one part of costs of cars.
Cook's Illustrated is great, their equipment reviews are top notch, and their sweet potato pie recipe is my goto every year. Although like NYT they made unsubscribing obnoxious.

Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is Serious Eats. J Kenji Lopez-Alt does some absolutely excellent recipes (hello Halal Cart Chicken & Rice).
The ultimate problem I see with breaking words into separate boxes is that they can't be rendered "in flow" anymore. So I guess the actual Text has to be set outside the layout API.

However, consider the case of the CSS Flexbox. It can also wrap boxes, and there some smarter way of looking ahead could be helpful and would be within the scope of the layout API. Not sure.

And indeed, for rendering PDFs it may not be necessary or beneficial to rely on the Houdini APIs at all.
I second that. I've founf that when the work of other people is relevant, you might have some inputs having worked on a related thing earlier that might help them.
> In an ideal world the thought of getting a paycheck would be enough motivation.

We'll just have to disagree on that. In my ideal world, getting a paycheck would be a natural byproduct of doing something interesting, that matters, and about which one would care.
> No censorship shall be maintained

How does that square with Japanese censorship of pornography?
I'm holding out for VR too. The headsets are just not good enough yet. The view outside the cockpit is easy, but showing the in-cockpit instruments without pixellation or picket fence effects was not quite there yet last time I checked.
As with everything internet: good doesn't last. Now that Reddit has started its demise, where do we flok to next?
No, bitwarden_rs has nothing to do with the official servers; it’s a full backend, using a database of its own, SQLite by default. As regards normally paid features, it essentially just tells any frontend “yes, the user has paid” and proceeds to implement the feature itself.
As a not-new developer (I don't think senior applies quite yet) I'm most productive when helping other people. And not by a small margin either.

Some people just thrive off teamwork (Like me.) I doubt that's true for everyone though.

I just wish it was easier to get a "team" for unimportant hobby projects, going it all solo is tiring.
It's probably more that there isn't enough of an install base to make it worthwhile, sadly. Of course as a Rift owner myself, I think it'd be a damn shame if VR never arrived for MSFS2020.
The computer screens graphics in 2001 have a look that is very common for hand drawn film elements of that era. The kind of blurry edges of the lines are pretty typical for this process.

Compare that to the mission briefing in Star Wars Episode 4 where the scientist shows a wireframe animation of the attack flight path. It occupies just a tiny area in the background of the final frame, but it was created by a computer. It took several seconds to draw each wireframe onto a screen, which was then recorded by a film camera triggered to advance frame by frame by the computer. There is a making of film for this sequence somehwere. This is the process you suggest, but about ten years after 2001 it was barely possible.
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So your argument is that being offensive to someone isn't the same as being disrespectful? Like, I am genuinely curious about how you're justifying this to yourself.
> > and unites the team as a tribe

> Ugh, gross. We're not a "tribe", "family", whatever.

To each his or her own
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I think once you reach the point of docker-or-not you're probably beyond simple one-directional mentoring. At that point you've earned your opinion.

Mentoring is however wildly effective at helping people get to grips with tools. As an example learning django isn't particularly hard, it has a great tutorial, but I wouldn't be surprised if a junior programmer with no web framework experience would learn it twice as fast if given someone that'll answer their questions promptly.
Read this related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176712

...and in particular the link in the top comment, copied here for convenience: https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html
If you feel guilty, that's probably a good thing. It means you have compassion and empathy. Use that to your advantage.

Instead of lamenting your good fortune, spread it around. Tip well. Patronize local businesses even if it costs a bit more. Use your privilege to take time off and fight for better resources for those less fortunate. Donate your time. Hire people to do stuff for you.

Help however you can by slowly redistributing your own wealth.
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Netcup, very cheap and reliable https://www.netcup.de
Thats not what commodity means. What you describe is privacy being a luxury.
> Tesla also has a final assembly plant in the Netherlands[1]

It's five years old; hardly warrants "finally". It is also not used for this purpose (assembly to avoid tariffs) with the more mass-market Model 3.

> I recently saw a post on social media where someone couldn't go to the dentist because the car was updating software.

A moron or liar. The software doesn't update on its own, requires explicit action by the user - and warns you how long it's going to take to do the update.

> It was also mentioned that basic braking and steering functionality were also dependent on updatable software

As in pretty much any modern car…

> making it unsafe to use it as a regular car when a software update is occurring.

It is impossible to install updates while driving. A bit of common sense, please - _no_ car manufacturer is incompetent enough to update the software while the vehicle is in use.
More people need to know the meaning of the term panopticon. Bentham and Foucault need to be mandatory high school reading.
> I'm curious whether you actually think that's more useful than building understanding at the REPL.

Again, I think this depends on you way of learning. For some people it might be possible to "build understanding" gradually over weeks until you are finally ready to write "hello world" having learnt all the fundamentals of the language. That just doesn't work for me. I need to learn through writing programs which actually does something.
Could you imagine the NBA making players apologize for posting Tweets criticizing Trump? Remember when LeBron and others wore "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts and Adam Silver supported them?

Teams & players should be taking a strong stand here to support one of their own, but this really shows that there is a $$$ value for everything, including freedom of speech and expression.

Economic threats from a foreign government should be treated the same as military ones. I'm sure Rockets games will be back on air in an instant if US sanctions expand to completely block NBA broadcasting in China, player visas and sports apparel manufacturing.
Maybe the stars are aligned for early adopters to try out a decentralized messaging style medium ?
There is an awefull lot of gender neutral references in the CTO’s apology, even though it obviously knows that the fired moderators preferred pronouns are the female gendered ones. Someone should edit to remove all the gender neutral references to make a point how silly such a policy is.
> for a biologically female person who identifies as male

"biologically female" is a much more loose concept than one might think. Hermaphroditism, sex chromosome aneuploidy, androgen insensitivity etc etc etc... when it matters, doctors ask and run tests. Don't just assume you can guess what someone "biologically" is any more than you can guess what they identify as.
> waiting a full day to raise blockers is foolish

that does not make sense. Just because you have a short sync meeting once a day, it does mean should should delay all work until then.
Don't just do something, stand there!
Nice, What did you use to make it? backend/frontend?
Not yet. Currently it can read delimited text (e.g. CSV) and XLS(X)* and write delimited text. But I do plan to add other input/output formats, depending on feedback.

I need to think a bit about how to flatten an XML/JSON doc into a table and then turn it back into an XML/JSON doc.

(*XLS(X) output currently only works on Windows, because it uses ActiveX. But I plan to have XLS(X) input/output on Windows and Mac at some point.)
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I'm not sure if its really a demise. For 99% of users it doesn't matter or it's even positive to not be associated with groups about hate speech or similar stuff.
You should try looking on the bright side.

Seriously though, its possible to see that song as inspirational. "Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it" is basically one of the four noble truths that the Buddha taught.
One way of doing stand-ups that I found least annoying was we went through the Kanban board and basically asked if you had any problems with your assigned item. If there was no problem then you were done. If no one had any issues it was done in a few minutes and there was no chance for it to descend into pointlessness or irrelevant tangets.
If anyone is interested in gui, XnViewMP does that too. https://www.journeybytes.com/2018/03/how-to-find-duplicate-p...
I've had no issues with standups. Even in a small team I find them useful as a way to step back and see the bigger picture, plus they rarely take more than 5-10 minutes of my morning.

On the other hand, I've had friends who have endured 30 minute standups every day for the past few months. I think they started sitting after the first few sessions.
> > In an ideal world the thought of getting a paycheck would be enough motivation.

> We'll just have to disagree on that. In my ideal world, getting a paycheck would be a natural byproduct of doing something interesting, that matters, and about which one would care.

I agree with you. It was mostly to curtail the capitalist view of "a paycheck should be motivation enough."
To be fair, I don't think most contract phones sold in the UK even have the carrier lock enabled in the first place.
So, the contract should be viewed as a suicide pact? The results of the decisions by the politicos speak for themselves: money poured into duplicative infrastructure, starvation of existing infrastructure, stagnation.

Passenger rail service in the US suffered a similar fate when the federal government called in its chips to move personnel and supplies all over the place during the command economy years of WWII. Yes, the rails received substantial subsidies in land grants, etc, to get started. Yes, there was agreement to serve the public interest in this way because of that. Yes, this was a big blow to passenger rail.
An LGBTQ+ individual resigned over the fact that people where discussing the coc change.
That’s not virtue-signaling staff, that’s someone throwing a hissy-fit that they can’t get things their way by with no questions asked.
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Actually the name alone might not help as names can be gender neutral or families not having gender specific endings (like Slavic languages).

Indeed, there are languages (Baltic ones) here even 'Hello' has multiple versions depending on the target person.
>This may even be the reason why legal tech in the US is way ahead of europe.

My guess is that Civil law simply doesn't need that much specialized tech since the law is clearly defined by the law books. The need to search tons of case law is mostly a result of the antiquated Common law system.
"They" might be a definite pronoun, but it is almost exclusively used as a plural. It's also a pretty bad drop in replacement; "They is currently running" sounds weird as all hell for instance. That there has been an explicit and forced attempt to shift it towards that doesn't make it sound any better.

Furthermore, "He" has been used as a generic pronoun long predating the singular they. While it comes with some ambiguity as well, it flows a lot better and does not screw around with singular/plural ambiguity.