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The criticism -- almost all the other comments at this point -- focuses on one aspect of the low-code app:

It has to be re-written once it grows. *

While this is true, I don't think Bethan or any other low code advocate would dispute that. The question is: can you get test an idea with low code.

The answer to that might be a trivial yes, but if you had asked me what that means, I would guess a team of 3 people could prototype an idea in about a week.

I did not expect a single person to be able to test an idea in 4 hours. That is the real insight here.

* Not all the criticism. One person points out that calling it a business is overblown till someone pays for it.
Nats is not a replacement for pulsar or rabbitmq. It is a message passing system designed to pass lots of messages live, however if nobody is their to receive them they are lost and gone forever. There is a streaming layer but that is closer to Kafka and still does not provide the typical message model with an ack/nack API.

I have used nats in several different ways but since it can be lossy its never been considered as a replacement for a pub sub message queue on my end. We used it for a chat message layer and that worked pretty well.

As for its message passing layer that can be interesting but you end up writing all the retry and failure logic anyway so its usually just better to use an existing message layer that handles all of that for you anyway without all the funky abstractions.

Again, its interesting but nowhere near close to being a rabbit or pulsar replacement if reliability is a goal.
One way would be to buy protein producers (e.g. Tyson) . The hard part is figuring out how much of the expected benefit is already factored into current stock prices though. As another user mentioned, this is not exactly breaking news to the investment community. Tyson for example was up 72% in 2019 (vs 32% for the SP500 and 27% for an index of consumer staples companies, of which Tyson is one)
Check out Liftbridge (https://liftbridge.io) as a way to add these capabilities to NATS.
The best understanding of those painted markings is that they mean nothing until you find strong social conventions indicating otherwise. City norms will be passed as state laws, creating discrepancies in rural regions between the law and the expectations. Bad drivers flow from everywhere to everywhere else with no regard for discrepancies in laws. The only markings I would trust are the scramble intersections, which I've only seen in Guam. And walk signals can often be trusted.

For evidence that people don't know state/local laws, ask a group of people in the US when they are permitted to u turn. It varies widely, mostly in insignificant ways.
I'm curious to hear what exactly you think "twins not raised together" means.
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Because you not knowing about a message is not a problem the government should solve.
I think it's also worth pointing out that, while gains in productivity from increased automation that Keynes predicted would contribute to a 15 hour work week may have been realized, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has risen quickly. Because of this, the gains would not have been distributed evenly.

"From 1978 to 2013, CEO compensation, inflation-adjusted, increased 937 percent, a rise more than double stock market growth and substantially greater than the painfully slow 10.2 percent growth in a typical worker’s compensation over the same period." [0]

"The CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 20-to-1 in 1965 and 29.9-to-1 in 1978, grew to 122.6-to-1 in 1995, peaked at 383.4-to-1 in 2000, and was 295.9-to-1 in 2013, far higher than it was in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s." [0]

[0] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/
Yea, that's the logic. Not place for all the world's soybean based protein to go (most of it goes to pigs and chickens). Which is surprising because soybeans are way up in the past month (people hoping for tariff relief). Other shoe waiting to drop, lol.
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Hannah Arendt’s book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, is mentioned and summarized in the 4th paragraph of the article.
Violent is the point-- shutdown might be prohibitively slow. Or it'll get stuck waiting to umount a network share. Or maybe, you want the DRAMs to go dark and start losing ASAP, I don't know. If you must, simply precede 'o' with some sequence of 's', 'e', 'u' so it'll go down hard and fast, but still a bit controlled. I find that 'u' succeeds more often if done after 'e'.

FWIW, this is just what I do with the keyboard (but more slowly) when something went wrong enough that I can't even switch to a text VT and recover. Sometimes even 'b' won't hard reset it-- which indicates everything was already hosed, or maybe just the keyboard. Presumably the umount didn't work either, but I gave it a chance.
Are humans susceptible to this particular illness? Or are you merely fearing the worst?
funny because there are very few blog specimens[1] actually explaining why a recipe is the way it is, the fluff is almost invariably how the recipe reminds author of grandma or how it's a staple of whatever social gathering they held.

1) like http://bressanini-lescienze.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.i...
As a programmer, I kinda don't want it to be, but I acknowledge that as short-sighted.

In general, "low code" should be the future: because efficiency, and maturity of available libs/components. What i'm saying is that this should be seen as a win.
You're free to have queue and workers run on the same machine, just bind to loopback. As soon as you deal with more than one machine, which is required in HA scenarios, you deal with a networked (distributed) system. I might not have understood your question correctly though ...

Edit: Maybe you're looking for acks/confirms? https://www.rabbitmq.com/confirms.html
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While we're at it, let's close most offices for the entire month of December. Nobody's really working anyway.
> Nowadays people want to have a TV, a phone, a computer, lots of software and entrainment on these devices etc

That's not where the money goes. That stuff's nothing. You can get working TVs all day long for peanuts on Craigslist. I just last week grabbed a hell of a used business workstation PC on Ebay and threw in an SSD for funsies, under $200 total including the brand-new SSD. Thing screams for all normal tasks. Will probably last years. Basically nothing in the scheme of things. Can someone on a low income reasonably buy one on a whim? No. But having a TV, phone, and computer is not why people are poor.

Housing, medical care, child care. School (see also: housing costs). Those are expensive. Our modern conveniences are nothing in comparison.
Oh, really? That can't be good for development. Other companies at least have different projects for different teams but since Unity is really one big umbrella project that is bound to get messy with that set-up
everyone says this but so long as you aren't day trading this is mostly untrue

buying individual stocks is not akin to gambling.
Yeah, I'm aware of what skyways are. And there's no city in which they remotely come close to covering as much walking territory as sidewalks do.
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I wonder if there is any application for VR as an IDE tool. From what I understand, today it is very hard to see text clearly and type, but I spend a lot of time sitting on my couch or laying on my back trying to code pretend I'm not creeping up on 30 and that I can sustain that kind of computer use. I think if I could wear a headset and sit on my couch or even lay on my back and code it would be heavenly.
Protein prices would likely benefit still under that scenario, at least in the short run, as you are talking about drastically limiting supply. Presumably the demand would still be there.
> "While his father has climbed Everest twice, Khobe had never climbed a mountain so he had to practise that, too."

This dude has climbed Everest, twice?! I'm starting to think this family would have gone on a vacation to Mongolia regardless of whether there was cell service.
CS Lewis' Devil Screwtape describes the evil of today:

"Oh, to get one's teeth again into a Farinata, a Henry VIII, or even a Hitler! There was real crackling there; something to crunch; a rage, an egotism, a cruelty only just less robust than our own. It put up a delicious resistance to being devoured. It warmed your inwards when you'd got it down. Instead of this, what have we had tonight? There was a municipal authority with Graft sauce. But personally I could not detect in him the flavour of a really passionate and brutal avarice such as delighted one in the great tycoons of the last century. Was he not unmistakably a Little Man — a creature of the petty rake-off pocketed with a petty joke in private and denied with the stalest platitudes in his public utterances — a grubby little nonentity who had drifted into corruption, only just realizing that he was corrupt, and chiefly be-cause everyone else did it? ..."

... "The difficulty lay in their very smallness and flabbiness. Here were vermin so muddled in mind, so passively responsive to environment, that it was very hard to raise them to that level of clarity and deliberateness at which mortal sin becomes possible. To raise them just enough; but not that fatal millimetre of “too much.”" [1]

Which is to say the quality of a "banal evil" is kind of a product of our modern bureaucratic capitalist society.

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Counterpoint would be that production of other proteins (beef and chicken) would increase to make up for the lost production of pork, but the arguments against that are

1. Have to look at how much feed those require vs pigs (clearly chickens require way less) and

2. Pork is a cultural thing in China. There's some substitution, but to an extent they will simply eat less protein in absolute terms.

These were the kinds of things we thought a lot about. Had to think through this very carefully.
He's not suggesting anything like breaking up big tech. He's suggesting government oversight:

"Although the causes and the implications are worth debating, I am certain of the appropriate response. No longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight. As soon as Google executives were asked by Congress about Project Dragonfly and Google’s commitment to free expression and human rights, they assured Congress that the project was exploratory and it was subsequently shut down.

The role of these companies in our daily lives, from how we run our elections to how we entertain and educate our children, is just too great to leave in the hands of executives who are accountable only to their controlling shareholders who — in the case of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Snap — happen to be fellow company insiders and founders."

Personally, having worked at a big tech company, I couldn't agree with him more.
Interesting! What makes it hard for you to develop trust? For me, I think that if I can't trust someone than I don't want them working for me in any capacity (office or remote!)
If it does, what's the problem? Maybe three days is actually the correct work week...
Is it really untrue? Seems there is something to it, although maybe not unilateral right, but certainly there some language around flexibility up to 3 hours in the Act.

Maybe some Finnish lawyers chip in here on the actual interpretation of this?

Section 13. "Flexible working hours":

"When working hours are flexible, the regular daily working hours shall be extended or reduced by a flexible period of no more than three hours."

https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/46245/60791/F...
Clickbaitish title, most pigs are slaughtered before reaching one year of age.
Give me one example, one, where somebody in the US was persecuted for listening to a podcast, and didn't subsequently win a court case for wrongful dismissal. You'll struggle to find even one example of that happening at all, let alone one where that did happen and the courts didn't find it illegal.
Comparing bankers to the people who carried out the Holocaust is a bit of a reach.
> We survived for millennia without the "trappings of modern life", and we survived without commonly available cellphones even up to 1995 or so, and smartphones up to 1998 or so, so it's not like we absolutely must have them or are savages.

You didn't describe a 1998 style of living, you described roughing it.

> Go somewhere distant from technology, forage/hunt food, make a meal over an open fire, and sleep under the stars - so vital for a child's psychological well-being.

Now you say:

> The "slippery slope" argument than if you forego cell phone addiction you must also "hunt and foraging with your own hand made weapons" is also BS -- as if every new invention is an absolute must have, and people shouldn't live without it, or set their own criteria, lest they forego civilization entirely.

That seems to be two entirely opposite things. If you want to say "cell phones bad", just say that - don't pretend it is because of a desire to be better and healthier for children.
Yeah, so that system is only 9.5 miles, and claims to be the largest such system of connected aerial sidewalks in the world. Meanwhile, NYC has 12,750 miles of sidewalks.

That's a several orders of magnitude difference between the capacity of the two systems.
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I have heard also that this is done as an anti-scraping tactic. If your recipes are all nicely and consistently formatted, someone can steal all your content. If on the other hand you write it all in prose or at least intermixed with prose, any competitor will have to do each recipe by hand.
So you've got to go up and down to cross every single intersection? That sounds like a nightmare that makes walking take significantly longer.
Having to justify using a default is a little too zesty for my taste.
Has the performance gain that bring http3 on mainstream workloads been quantified/benchmarcked?
Nah, just stick em in the broom closet with an iPad open to youtube on autoplay. They'll be composing symphonies in no time. Lmao
I believe what the world needs now is philosophy. What we're experiencing is a crisis of meaning. Philosophy is a shield against meaninglessness and conceptual confusion. In an information environment full of overabundant conflicting and clashing signals, we need philosophy to straighten it out and confer order to the perceptual field. The fact that many people don't understand or hold philosophy in contempt is a major disservice to their own capacity for mastering their intellectual horizons.

As Chesterton said, philosophy is simply thought that has been thought out. We're going to work with thoughts either way, but if we haven't thought it out, we are sleepwalking, under the influence of a foreign presence we have not taken the time to identify and dissect.
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Ask HN: Some less known books that are absolute favorites of yours
What are some less known books that are absolute favorites of yours?

Bonus points if:

1. You've read them as an adult

2. You've re-read them

3. You've enjoyed _the process_ of reading them — perhaps they are beautifully written or perhaps they made you laugh

4. They've impacted your life in a positive way

Both non-fiction and fiction books are welcome!

If you feel like it, please consider including a 1-2 sentence description or quote.

Thank you!
I don't see any added value here.
Only a weak attempt at self-promotion in a kind of bait-click way.
For many people it in fact is not a choice — other employers reject them based on how they look, or very often what gender they were assigned at birth. Even for those that it is, sex work tends to pay much better than most other choices — that allows people to support large networks on their income.

This and many other arguments have been thoroughly dissected by sex workers and I have no interest in relitigating things here. You are welcome to do your own reading, starting from Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/05/amnesty-inter...

There are no utopias. Your country's laws are harmful and oppressive. You can certainly advocate for either incremental solutions (change the law) or more radical ones (smash the state), but there is no perfection, anywhere.
Aaron suggests that is childish to think evil people do evil things intentionality. But isn't actually the notion of good and evil completely childish? Arnt bankers just predators and their victims just prey? The banker isn't even thinking "I'm good" they are just thinking "I'm hungry"

Realistically adults don't think about the morality of their actions much at all.
I think what is dead is confluent cloud b/c Amazon MSK and Azure HDInsight will be close to feature parity at much less cost.
It's simple. Dentist A works M-T-W, Dentist B works Thu-Fri-Sat. This is actually already common with many GP doctors, they prefer to work part-time in a similar pattern.

Besides, they can, and do block time off for personal things in their calendar.
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Sorry, the comment wasn't worded in a way to make it obvious that it was intended to be an answer to the question. My fault for missing it.
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A substantial amount of evidence disagrees with you. Active traders (day traders or not) almost always underperform the market in the long run.
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