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When I am having a problem getting up the gumption to tackle something, programming-wise, I tell myself that I'm not going to do the actual code yet, just comments (TODOs and such) about what I will do eventually.

Some of those comments, are just sentences, but then sometimes it's easier to just put the code in the comment, than to describe it in any other way. Still commented out, though. I'm not coding this now, just saying what i will do, eventually.

After a while, sometimes I uncomment a few sections, and test just those little functions to see that they work, anyway. But basically, I'm not coding now, don't have the energy or will to do it right now.

Sometimes, it is enough to get me going, and I turn the comments into code. Other times, I stop for the day once everything is planned out, as much as I can at this point. Either way, it is better than not approaching it at all, because it seems to require (psychologically) a smaller step to code it once I do come back to it the next day, because everything is planned out.

If you don't have a job in programming just now, do puzzles, do a small app for organizing your recipes or books, do something. It doesn't have to be something which anyone else will ever want or need to see, just something to exercise that part of your brain.
At least one presidential candidate does support some form of nuclear,

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/nuclear-energy/

but yes, it's a rare position.
How would that look for assignment submissions? Something like WebDAV?
An extendable Go cache library
Oh, when I open Twitter in Firefox on Android tweets fail to load in 95% of the cases, however the Twitter site itself loads fine enough to show me a Retry button I can press to fail at loading the tweet again. All the while accessing via 'app' and even embedded tweets on 3rd-party sites load fine. Can't recall when this started; must have been some time in 2018.

On the desktop (in Firefox also, same addons and addon config too) things always work (as far as that can be said for a site as horribly slow as theirs).

They have been completely below the bar in terms of UX for a long time now, at least for me. They used to have a lean, good/available and fast site, and now they don't.
I like professional advertising. Some of the producers of very specialized equipment are very hard to find online and have horrible webpages.

If they didn't show up at conferences and posted ads in the relevant journals and websites nobody would find them even when they're desperately looking for exactly their product.

I asked some people at ESA how they find suppliers and they basically said their predecessors left them them a bunch of catalogues and lists.

What I really hate is advertisement unrelated to what I'm trying to do. When I'm looking at cake recepies I don't want my focus highjacked by camera ads even though I wouldn't mind them when looking for photography tips.
Get a math degree and take a few grad courses and then use it as a reference. Alternative route: get an advanced degree in a relatively mathematical non-math STEM field and use it as a reference. I doubt there’s 1-2 people on the planet who are going to use that kind of book otherwise.
URLs are also getting to be a problem. Browsers started to trim URLs, and it's resulting in web developers who are very savvy with computers who don't really understand how URLs work or that there is always a trailing slash on the root of a website and what it means.

Google is in the process of making it worse by hiding URLs in the search results. (It's also a security risk. Google's site-name detection often makes terrible mistakes and points users to malware.)
How Did Amazon Become More Valuable Than eBay?
In the absence of official advertising I have a feeling companies would just move to "native advertising", or sponsorships, or paying people to make comments on HN. Being influenced without knowing who the influencer is.
Just a page with a form you can upload files through. You can setup something like that e.g. with Owncloud/Nextcloud. And dedicated education tools also often have it.

For normal document-sized files, email is fine though too IMHO, for university stuff I never really cared which way was used.
I have been a frequent Amazon customer since 2000 and no longer order anything expensive or safety related (including things like USB chargers or any baby related furniture) from Amazon. I just no longer trust them at all to not be shipping counterfeit or unsafe goods. I've even started going to Best Buy to purchase certain peripherals that I needed on short notice because of this. Besides, at the rate my wife has bought stuff and then sent it back - paying the return shipping fee - we would come out ahead shopping local anyway for her cloths and things.
So tell me what's constructive in your comment? Oh, and downvoting is about the least constructive you can go, I won't downvote you :)

Tell me honestly, what point I made you don't agree on? Try to make your point please.
That means giving you all the hashes, which is a lot of data, and you'd need to constantly update it because the whole point of Safe Browsing is the dynamism.

Whereas today your browser only needs the prefix list, which is much shorter and so can feasibly be updated more often without awful bandwidth costs. The full hashes in a prefix are only fetched (which is where we get "Apple is sending URLs" by squinting really hard at the facts) if you visit a URL with a hash with a known-bad prefix.
I was reliably able to get them at Paulina Meat Market without advanced notice a couple years ago when I lived nearby. The only caveat is they don't like to saw them when it's busy or close to closing time. So if you don't have a bandsaw, go off hours
Increased consumption, for the most part.
> The fact that a database query requires a database connection never was an implementation detail. If something can’t be hidden, it’s saner to make it explicit.

This is why I love Lisp’s dynamic variables. It’s the best of both worlds.
America blacklists China’s best artificial-intelligence firms
Adobe Animate is a successor to Flash and is exactly this.
Could you clarify what it means for a union to be recognised in your workplace?
>socially healthier

That's a bold statement, can you elaborate?

People want to go for walks, meet up with friends, share memories, they don't care how it's done. Having the tools get out of the way and just do those things is a net benefit to society.
I feel that Nokia has really filled the hole that the Nexus phones used to provide at the mid-range price point. When the only better alternative is from Google themselves (Pixel 3a) that is pretty impressive.
That's weird, it's $11.49 in NH for the same thing at Costco. :(

And 2.50/bar at Walmart here

(What I actually buy now is the French cultured butter from trader Joe's though, which is v good)
Interviewing just sucks sometimes. You got this, keep practicing and interviewing, you'll land something eventually.
This is true. Way back when, I was teaching a commercial course on C to a class which included a COBOL programmer. At the end of one session, he came up to me and asked, "But what is this 'memory' stuff, and why would I ever want to use it?"
There is a whole revolution happening in grid transmission right now. High voltage DC lines that were considered impossible not all that long ago now span 1000's of KM between unsynchronized grids and with reduced transmission losses to boot.
This reminds me of my discovery and learning Hypercard probably 15 years before you learned Flash. To me it was the same kind of creative spark. I was encouraged by Cosmic Osmo, and later Myst and the like. I never did learn to program with it.

I don't know where the modern equivalent is. Maybe they only pop up every couple of decades...
It hasn't disappeared in British (and related) English.

What is called an 'airplane' in US English is an 'aeroplane' in British English. Ditto 'aerofoil', etc.

'Aero' is a Greek prefix pertaining to 'flight'. (And also to 'air')

The two dots above a letter indicate that the two vowels are pronounced separately, rather than as one sound. As also seen in "The first Noël the ......", etc.
And air display was around shortly after the iPad was launched, yes including touch-mouse features.

For me, the novelty quickly wore off. Amazing how long Apple took to replicate THIS VERY OBVIOUS FEATURE.
However there would be far fewer storage sites where that risk would be occurring. Compared to the number of incidents caused by the chemical and fossil fuel industries on any time scale, and the hypothetical risk of small areas of contamination far outweighs the level of global contamination that is going on today (most of which isn't being acknowledged, let alone cleaned up).
Fake moos: Plant-based meat could create a radically different food chain
How is this anything but the sunk-cost fallacy, throwing bad money after bad?

Seriously looking for someone to explain why the WeWork glass is half-full.
Snapchat? Instagram? Say what you will about these closed networks but they're a non-starter if you don't have them. It's why Huawei is doomed to utter failure in US/EU.
I've gone (back) to Target and Barnes and Noble for items that smaller shops don't sell. It has a lot to do with both of them being less than half a mile from where I live so I can walk there with ease, but both also still have very wide product availability and offer pickup from store for free or inexpensive rates.
Well, it hasn't caused the immediate armageddon some were predicting.

It may be early yet, but realistically, what catastrophes do you foresee that wouldn't have come by now?
What about dev jobs? Are they
going to be extinct in the next decade?
Even fairly computer-savvy younger kids don't really use e-mail. I had 3 HS students in a D&D group a few years back (now they are finishing college), and they were fairly tech savvy (2 of them went on to major in CS). I setup a listserv for our group to coordinate schedule &c. The response was "I don't really check my e-mail, can we use FB messanger?"
Gartner Labels Software-Defined Networks (SDN) as an Obsolete Technology
Completely agree. It's nagged in the back of the brain as something scummy. As if the collective comes before the individual viewer. We don't have generic communities. I am not unified with some average Joe watching a twitch stream. I may be looking to gain information whilst the Joe is looking to socialize.

We have player bases, viewers, commenters, categorized in action, but not purpose.
I doubt there is. Just like any protection mechanism it doesn't have to be impossible to sidestep to provide value to someone.
What hiccups do you run into in terms of permissions with sending an "anyone with link can view" link over email? Asking because I'm working on a competing technology and want to get the UX right.
It's interesting at least to consider just how much performance is degraded by these hardware bugs for certain workloads. While Octane is 1.40x, the average is 1.12x. And this is the i9 9900k, which has partial hardware mitigations, so speedup is better for older chips.

But mitigations=on doesn't even give full protection from ZombieLoad attacks.. if you want full coverage you need to disable hyper-threading, which kills performance. This caused a big debate among linux devs, but keep-HT won out.

So, disabling mitigations is not a good idea for work or critical workloads. But the chance someone compromises the average computer with one of these hardware bugs is probably the same probability that two equal UUIDs are ever generated.

PC overclockers move mountains trying to eek out half-percentage perf gains. Why not flip a flag for 12%?
This is sadly so true.

I have stopped using Amazon after 15 years due to the unacceptably high rate of counterfeit, grey market or used items I got on a daily basis.

It's totally insane. I have even emailed Jeff Bezos and got into the trouble of talking to all middle managers. They don't care.
Wouldn't the locale be set to CN for phones which are in non-china countries too?
> There's a catch-22 in here. We know how to deal with nuclear waste, but can't implement it because the industry is underfunded, because people are afraid of nuclear waste.

There's a whole lot of failed attempts [0] that people conveniently just glance over like they never happened to then proclaim "Nuclear is so underfunded and never saw research".

While for many decades all things nuclear, not just weapons but also energy production, saw massive funding and hype all over the world.

People thought nuclear would be used for anything from moving earth to powering the jetpacks they'd use to fly to work, they thought we'd be running out of uranium because every country would have hundreds and thousands of nuclear reactors.

Why ain't we living in this amazing future now? Because it turned out nuclear isn't all that economical and practical as we originally believed it to be.

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2014/05/thorium-the-wonder-fuel-that...
"plant-based" implies there is NO meat. The title makes no sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Except, except ... having watched my teenage daughter play some games recently, there seems to be a trend for pixel art going on, half the things she is playing have the graphical sophistication of the stuff I was playing on my ZX Spectrum (only a modicum of exaggeration).
With each new cryptocurrency drama due to flouting AML/KYC regulations, flouting securities regulations, collapsing/exit-scamming exchanges, murders, drugs, sex trafficking, let's not forget:

PoW is an ecologically irresponsible algorithm.[1]

Altogether cryptocurrency is such a terrifyingly irresponsible ecosystem, I'm surprised anyone wants to be involved in it.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462961...
In praise of dissenters: It pays to encourage a variety of opinions
You are back to insulting me again.

Sure I COULD have done lots of other things, but it is insulting and patronizing for you to suggest I SHOULD have done what you suggest.

I did NOTHING wrong.

My point about undefined jargon is rock solid. My point was clear enough in my original post. My responses are only to explain with grossly excessive clarity to defend myself against people who want to attack for whatever reason.

There are some very thin skinned, hostile people on Hacker News.

And my early statement is literally true: I'd be more interested in homemade ice cream than homemade integrated circuits and justifiably so.
I've been to Japan two times in the last year and I was shocked at this too.

It's interesting that years back there was a man with mental health issues who carried out attacks by putting chemicals in garbage cans in public places. After this Japan got rid of garbage cans in public. Most of them, at least.

You walk downtown Tokyo and there are no garbage cans and no garbage anywhere. Every once in a while you come across a small convenience store with a very small can inside or every 10 or so vending machines will have a small bin for bottles or cans. But for the most part Japan is EXTREMELY clean. The city can be old, but it's all still clean.

Go to Shibuya, the famous crossing with thousands of people. Show up there in the morning before rush hour and you'll see very few people, and the streets are all clean. No garbage anywhere.
One can have evidentiary standards which don't in every circumstance require a long time period. For example, there are (rarely) medical clinical trials which are ended early because the experimental group's protocol (say, a drug or a procedure) works so well that it would be inappropriate to wait longer to give all the study participants the experimental intervention.

People who know more statistics better than I do could provide a more analytical description, but basically given the results so far, the likelihood of a "failure" (for whatever definition the city has chosen) is extremely low.
Had the same experience in Chicago and San Diego. The Chicago one was bad enough that I didn't come back to a Costco for about two years.
Here's the short list:

Round 1: Dot.com era - 4 years out of college, out of work for 6 months along with a lot of the industry on the West coast of the US. Depressed as hell, never thought I'd work as a programmer again. In desperation, I take a sub-contracting 1099 job and get my 1st taste of consulting rates. I bank over 1/2 of my income planning for the job to end.

Round 2: Consulting job ends, but I've learned to PLAN for layoffs to happen in this line of work. Only searching for about 3-4 weeks as job marked has significantly picked up. Landed 1st start-up job at what became "psychotic start-up from hell".

Round 3: Fast forward a few years - best job I ever had, but the small company decided to use US employment law to shaft me & 4 others who had made millions in profit for them to lay of off with hardly any severance & zero warning after tricking us into TRAINING our replacements from an outsourcing firm in Ukraine (spoiler alert - everything is great at company financially: they just wanted to look BETTER on the books to get acquired). Bastards then had the nerve to call us back 6 months and ask if we'd come back (gee.. I wonder why...). The good news? I'm only unemployed for 72 hours - yes. 72 clock hours on the wall. Former colleague recommends me to a bigger, more professional consulting org that has a job my personal and professional experience is tailored for. Lunch WAS the interview w/ the director of development & development consulting. I sign the offer letter on the new job 45 min after signing the severance paperwork on the old job.

Round 4: I was asked to join a fantastic later stage startup with a bunch of very energetic & inspiring people. Then, there was a political coup where the CEO was thrown out of power and so, who got to go with him? Why the 3 newest technical staff hires + one bystander all in the name of cutting start-up burn rate. This one has ended up happy though, since the new CEO in power felt a little guilt for axing us he put 3 of us in touch with another start-up. 6 business days later for me, I've got a job again (same pay, better benefits, more "stability") and 1 of my other 2 friends also pursued & accepted an offer.

All of this was over the course of 20+ years as a developer. Not as a "team lead", not with any "management" or "architect" experience. Just a work-a-day mid to senior developer who likes to build & ship software. What I've learned from this:

Lesson 1: Never EVER let your skills slack. Keep learning new things, or hang up your keyboard and go sit in meetings (e.g. management, product, whatever). Note: If you're going to do this, it's fucking hard as hell to try and go back. It's also a completely different skill set to do it well as say, a development manager or a technical product owner.

Lesson 2: Keep networking & going to meet-ups and conferences. This helps keep your skills sharp and you inspired to keep learning.

Lesson 3: Lesson 1 + 2 does equal 3 - That is: "You will reach a point where not so much 'what' you know as 'who' you know will lead to your next big jobs and/or big opportunities". Don't burn bridges, as tempting as it may be.
Well, we know that:

Expected payoff = Probability * Impact.

Extreme activities have a low probability of resulting in anything bad (especially with the gear and protocol we have today), but the impact can be high when it happens -- though if we take the summation across the population the overall impact is low because only a small sliver of society will participate.

Sugar consumption has medium probability of leading to poorer health outcomes, and impact is also medium, but I suspect the overall payoff (or harm in this case) is much higher when summed across the population.

So yes, from a purely rational perspective, we should try to stop people from doing things that harm the system as a whole.

If they want to do things that harm themselves at a localized level (with no 2nd or 3rd order effects -- though this is rare), then on balance policies should allow them to.
Just this year, one of my team members ordered a Blue Yeti microphone off Amazon. We were in a WebRTC meeting when it arrived and I watched him excitedly open it and his facial expression turn sour because it was a glass jar in a Blue Yeti box!!! The sadder part is he left it in the kitchen at his home with the intention of dealing with it later and his dad, not knowing what it was threw it out with the garbage. There was nothing my team member could do or return to Amazon to prove of the fraud. He ended up buying again from another retailer, completely out of the money spent on the first order.
Banning products that a sub-population of people are effectively addicted to has a long, multi-instance history of not working and instead contributing to crime (see various drug prohibitions). A product being banned can actually be a form of advertising (or at least production of demand) by suggesting it is risky, cool, or potent in some way.

On the other hand, banning advertising for a category of products, or restricting the advertising to fact-based, or forcing risk factor inclusion, can help produce or accelerate cultural shifts that reduce the demand for the product.
I have been at factories that closed (when I worked as a manufacturing engineer), and worked at an IT department that was eliminated (its functions spread among several other departments), and have been told that I, in particular, was done because the company's contract wasn't working out to be as profitable as expected (unspoken, but understood, was that as the senior programmer I was the most expensive one).

I think the first time is the hardest, because of the feeling of panic and also rejection. Later in life, I actually had much more to worry about (wife and kid to support), but experienced much less stress because I knew that I had gotten jobs before, and could do so again.

I think some of this may be that the first time, you have less of an idea of what you need to be doing next. The more of a plan/procedure you have in mind for what to do, the more you can focus on that, and not any emotional impact of what you think about the fairness or correctness of the decision to lay you off.

In truth, for me, being still at work after a layoff or firing of co-workers is much more depressing, but I'm sure that's not true for everyone.
Let me counter that story with observation that there's something on the order of 500 000 tons of high-level nuclear waste currently stored by countries worldwide, and so far they manage. Point being that it can be handled responsibly. It probably wouldn't be the best idea in a perfect world, but we are kind of in a hurry right now, with every year of still being on fossil fuels adding to severity of future consequences.

My push to "minimize" this problem is a push towards recognizing that the problem is manageable in practice. The image of "single city made of high-level waste" was meant to picture just how little there is to manage, by volume, and once again - most of that we already know how to use as fuel; we just can't, because appropriate reactors aren't being built, primarily because people are afraid of the waste.

We may be technically drowning in energy from the Sun, but we're still not fast enough with making use of it. In the meantime, we have the closest thing after fusion to an energetic magic bullet - very high density, clean energy source with manageable waste - and we've been mostly sitting on it for decades now.

But maybe at this point it's really too late, maybe by the time enough reactors could come on-line, there really would be enough renewables to take over. It's unclear to me at this point whether the recent growth of solar and wind capacity is sustainable.
It's a federal law, so its all places (in America.)
I always thought this was some sort of rate limiting that twitter applies to visits from aggregators like reddit or hn. I'm not sure how I originally made that assumption, though.
I bought a hard drive from Amazon about four years ago. It came in a large cardboard box half full of packing paper. The unprotected drive was rattling round in the empty half of the box. Never again. That's the last thing I bought there.