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I've been working in this field for nearly 15 years, and what you said is the exact opposite of reality, in my experience.

Number one rule of change management is: keep the number and amount of changes to a minimum. Successful projects involve changing only one thing at a time: medium (where), process (how) or goal/mission (why). If you find that the process is not optimal, or maybe even total nonsense, optimizing/fixing that needs to be a separate, pre-requisite project that is started and finished before you even start to think about the software project.

If that's not an option, then we can talk about the number two rule: it is much, much harder to get people — especially large groups of people — to change the way they do things, than to implement software to make it fit the way those people are used to operating, no matter how dumb and convoluted their process is. The reason is simple: software is predictable and does not have an agenda. In contrast, people are unpredictable, and each has their own agenda.
That's unfortunate. The LCD displays on these units are stunning. I still use mine for small Photoshop work and drawing in Flash. It's just beautiful and inviting for work.

If you were anywhere near Toronto I'd take it off your hands. I specifically want broken units for my hardware mods as I feel bad intentionally destroying a functioning unit. It's just kinda shitty to collectors.
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The Americans who shot down the Iran's plane in 1988 didn't see a trial.
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In principle this problem should be solvable with a zero-knowledge proof system.

The law should allow for schemes that prove a performer is legal, identified, etc., but that don't keep individual private details. Even if the site was completely compromised, all the attackers would gain is a single bit of data on each performer. The data would be worthless for personal identification
>Would you rather ...

How are they going to raise the money, does the one raising $5M blindly do so by enlisting a third party to pay poverty wages to young people to con pensioners out of their money (usual way is to trick them in to signing a monthly payment when they think they're paying a one-off [to get rid of the annoying person invading their home]) on the doorstep?

Do CEOs only act competently for immoral sums of money?

How about the CEO does an honest days work, raises what they can without defrauding people and gets paid at most, say, 3 times the median salary of everyone employed by the organisation?

There's a good chance that even if the CEO is honest and completely above board all they're doing is stopping other charities getting money. That is, splitting the pot differently. So, perhaps the $100k is far better - was overall the charity sector gets more to spend on charitable aims.
And it will (hopefully) be able to fly to the moon "for cheap" and put large, land-based telescopes in the best location there is for telescopes.
That depends on how you define "good"
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A career ago I spent a good chunk of my time going over the financials of non-profits large and small. It's an entire industry passing grants back and forth, skimming a percentage each time. United Ways are typically run by a board of trustees consisting of the local elite; lawyers, accountants, small business owners. The UW sends money to other local non-profits who spend it on services and rent from those same lawyers, accountants, and small business owners while employing their failsons. Thousands of donations go in, and at the end someone gets a bag of dented cans of cream of mushroom soup.
Satellites and space-based telescopes are still monumentally expensive even if you ignore launch cost. The James Web Space Telescope has cost almost 10 billion dollars in development and won't even launch until (unless the schedule slips again) next year.
Many studies suggest it's easier to prevent ageing from the beginning rather than de-ageing old people :(
I am not saying there isn't a use case for HGH, but you can increase your own natural HGH production through intermittent fasting, l-glutamine, and cycling up/down a few other molecules. I learned this by mistake, from trying to repair damage to my gut. The weird side effect was quite a bit of muscle development and I don't even work out. On top of that, I dampen mtorc1 with Berberine, Sulforaphane, Myrosinase, TransResveratrol, DIM+Quercertin and that should slow HGH production, but has the opposite effect and increases it.

And I second the NMN being expensive. I use about 800mg a day and it is by far the most expensive thing I take.
Is Elm the future of front end development?
If you want the compiler to be useful while you are typing, then the designers of your tooling have to do something. You can argue that they are doing the wrong thing, you can argue that having the compiler running while you are typing isn't worth it because you don't need the feedback, but don't misidentify why they are doing it; they aren't doing it to help you save a millisecond on typing, that isn't the concern at all.
> spellcheck is always on, why learn real spelling when the computer fixes it for you?

The computer immediately shows spelling errors and corrections, TEACHING correct spelling.

> The videos are more about funny jokes than the different phases of matter.

( youtube is a funny one. Non-there are many great youtube channels packed with scientific content, like Smarter Every Day, Veritasium, Mark Rober, CGP Grey, VSauce, engineerguy, Physics Girl, Captain Disillusion, Mathologer, Numberphile, ...

> I don't want to have to sit next to them all night making sure that they are only doing 'productive' work.

That's a parenting issue not a computer issue. Teach your kids what's allowed and what's not, and check their browser history until they learn how to manipulate it, then check your router logs

The main problem with ed tech is the extremely low quality of the apps the schools buy and make the kids use, not the computers and youtube themselves.
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I am a scientist myself but unfortunately I have neither the time nor interest to test every little hypothesis of mine, especially outside my field of expertise.
Is there an app like this (local only) for macOS?
As far as "Lisp lacks visual clues", after many heated debates on this, I've concluded that the ugliness and rigidness of "production" languages enforces certain visual and syntactic standards that makes reading others' code easier. Indentation of Lisp won't "solve" this because production languages also can be indented. It's not a difference maker.

Parameter lists are wrapped in parenthesis and separated with commas, while code blocks are wrapped in curly braces and separated with semi-colons.

Lisp won't do this because it's then harder to blur/merge/change the distinction between code and data, which is the very power of Lisp.

Building architectural eyesores is probably not a rational plan for a city, but dammit, those eyesores help you know and remember where you are.

Some people have a certain kind of eye and/or brain that allows them to read Lisp quickly, but this may not be universal. Some say "with enough time you'll get used to it", but the fact Lisp has been around for 60 odd years without catching on in the mainstream is evidence of this. Somebody would be rich by now off its alleged advantages if they were real (beyond a "write-only" startup language).

Functional languages are better at expressing ideas but slower at communicating them to other readers, on average. I also personally find them difficult to debug because they don't have enough "intermediate state" to x-ray for debugging purposes. Here's a conceptual illustration:

// imperative:
a = af(param);
b = bf(a);
c = cf(b);

// functional
c = cf(bf(af(param)));

In a debugger and/or Write statements I can readily examine intermediate values "a" and "b". Not so with functional. SQL presents a similar issue. Its new WITH statements help out, but only partly. Divide-and-conquer works better if you can examine the divisions.
What's stopping other entities from doing it...especially being able to say "Well SpaceX did it...".
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For those reading this right now, another albeit better article covering this study is currently being discussed on in another HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22061718
I have no beef with cross-country skiing but to be frank, it's as much of an alternative to alpine skiing as a carousel is to a roller coaster.
That's not how climate change works. Imagine if this was a technical thread and someone argued that changing a byte in a file or library is fine because "that's not enough of a change to have an effect".
> In my 15 years of engineering, exceedingly rare is the case where the underlying cause is due to using wrong types.

That just means you've never used a powerful enough type system. With a powerful type system, it's incredibly easy to make type errors. You'll find that you spend a ton of time fixing all of these type errors that suddenly appeared in your code.
I think I know what inspired the shape model: https://youtu.be/FC0_WI9--wA

I think I found the inspiration for the DISC/color model too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Simon_El...
What's the difference between the SpaceX supplied TLEs and ones derived from other sources? More accurate? Updated more often?
> Google routinely floats out APIs, services, and platforms and encourages their use despite fatal flaws that mean they are doomed from day one.

For most use cases, there are better options now than Chrome apps. ServiceWorkers didn't exist when Chrome apps were introduced. Neither did wasm, and its precursors NaCl and PNaCl were scoped to just Chrome apps, not to the public web.

Chrome did a very good job at a) building a platform that developers could use right then and b) working with other browsers and standards committees to get enough features implemented to replace what they built. They said, no, we shouldn't have a proprietary thing called "Chrome apps," we should just build it into the web platform so that people who don't use Chrome can use them too.

And they set a very long (many years) timeframe for shutting down their initial version of the thing.

This is exactly what I want a platform provider to do. I don't want "Chrome apps" any more than I want Flash or ActiveX or "Best viewed in Internet Explorer." But also, I do want platform providers to build platforms - I don't want them to refuse to build platforms on the grounds that they don't know the right answer yet and they can't immediately standardize something right now. I'm glad Flash and ActiveX are dead, but I'm glad they existed because they proved that the platform is valuable, if only you could implement it in a reasonable way. I'm glad ActiveX's original version of XMLHttpRequest existed because it proved that there was demand to standardize the version we now have.
Totally agree!

My clients are all ripping that crap out because nobody uses them correctly anyway. Most of the data in those systems is so error-ridden they're almost dangerous to use. Newer cloud-based systems offer a much more intuitive UI, which ultimately reduces bad data.

Oracle and SAP are basically bad words at this point: you don't say them if you want to get hired.
On the other hand SAP is still by far my favourite ERP as a finance user. Interfaces that look like the green-screen dumb-terminals of the past are fantastically productive for data entry. Tab tab F9

I loved the rigour of the thing, I trusted it.
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Spoken communication skills and teamwork are important skills do, despite the protestations of people who live on their computers.
What about sales and operation of PCs running Windows?
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Another approach could be to create the materialized view and then use some sort of event system say the pg_notify subsystem to capture an event and then increment some aggregation -- this would eliminate the need for scheduled view refreshes and keep the view almost real-time and quick.
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Why does a vulnerability need a brand?
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-37

Several ordinance's in this chapter could certainly be used to arrest the individual. Whether the case would see a conviction is not certain, hopefully not, but more than enough to file charges.
I've done a sponsored charity parachute jump (static line). I paid for the jump and 100% of the funds raised went to the charity.

I wonder if they actually have enough data for the claims in the abstract. 30 pounds seems abysmally low even by '99 standards.
Why don't you head to Brazil and explain it to the locals?
Probably closer to "mutation analysis". (or "creative tampering"?) Someone smarter than I am could probably reverse engineer while doing less of that, but I've found that it can be effective when knowledge of a system is poor. (and there's urgency that warrants it over traditional learning)
>The cat’s highlights are the daily private hunt, followed by a nap.

At least here cats have that nice daily private hunt alright, but it is usually also preceded by a nap, and of course each nap is preceded by some sleeping and followed by some more sleeping.

Except of course about 5:30-6:00 in the morning, which is usually either play time or feed time.
Alongside the risk of exposing people's private peccadilloes and the danger that presents, there's a huge risk of identity fraud, bank fraud, sim-swapping etc. with all this data.

Particularly when it comes to all the copies of Government Photo IDs (Passports, Drivers licence, etc.)
Further than that, SAP Business One is pretty good to use too
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> But I've got to say that everyone in our group - mostly rational devs - was positively surprised how accurate these analyses were.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
that's a completely different situation than we're talking about here.
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This seems way too high and is probably the result of not enough data.
No, it's not.

If it were, the school day would be more closely in line with work schedules, rather than being about 6 hours long and starting/ending at wildly different times depending on the child's age or just what school they attend.

Parents generally have to supplement supervision at school with beforecare and/or aftercare programs of some sort.
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Yes, but the current budgets clearly are not.
>eventually you should be able to build much bigger telescopes than what can be reasonably built on Earth thanks to the lack of gravity

>Many kilometers in diameter in circumference should be possible and likely much more.

This is a misconception. There is plenty of "gravity". The mirror has to keep a very precise shape and attitude, which severely limits the possible size, considering it has to be light and is a subject to gravitational perturbations. Large and thin constructions in space (solar panels, antennas etc) are mechanically non-trivial on their own, and for telescope-quality mirrors it seems downright impossible.
If it's a critical system and you don't have the ability to fix it but you know it's only a matter of time before it fails, the sensible thing to do is change jobs.
It's good to be called a lousy programmer when deserved. Incentive to keep improving. If you get hurt by that, imagine what Torvalds would have told you.
I really enjoyed it and it motivated me to explore some of these techniques in my own projects!
Depends on the kind of control it's doing. Industrial control requiring milliseconds level availability is extremely hard to fail over.

This is how e.g. chip fabs and chemical plants get such loses on power outages. A power plant might be on order of single second of sustain.

The solution there is to actually make the full scale redundancy and compartmentalization or accept the losses.

Most of the time we're not dealing with that.
First of all, could someone enlighten the non-US readers about what common core is? I hear the term a lot, not clear what the main ideas actually are or how people view it.

My own kids go to private schools in the UK. None of the parents would have any problems buying a load of tablets or VR goggles or whatever if the schools said so, and the schools would not have any problems buying whatever manner of gadgets they thought were needed. These are schools that have historically fed kids to top secondary schools in the area, which in turn feed into the top universities in the country, and the world.

And yet, the classroom is more or less just like the ones I attended as a kid in the 1980s. Bunch of chairs for little people and letters and numbers made from paper cutouts. The blackboard is one of those big touchscreens but it's used mostly like a blackboard. It's a screen for showing videos only when the kids are in after-school care waiting for parents to come get them.

The kids start to read the year they turn 5, and the big kid who is three years in can mostly read an Economist article. Math-wise it's going fine as well.

As a programmer I'd love it if the kids could learn some of what I do, and there's plenty of interest, but essentially the article is right. The point isn't to make little workers who can write an insertion sort. If you are educated, and you wind up in a place where that's needed, it won't take you all that long to figure out.

We've somehow missed the point of education. It isn't to create specific skills that are useful for businesses. The point is to have an understanding of our place in the world, a vast context that encompasses a huge range of topics. If you do that, you will come across those specific skills, and much more.
Does Microsoft take ownership of all the wasted electricity / carbon due to their mandatory updates?
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> I find it impossible to believe that an ERP implementation can ever "go smoothly".

ERP implementations are like kitchen remodels. Even when they go mostly right, you hate the people doing the work because they've messed up the thing that's at the center of your home, made you eat take-out for weeks, and dust has gone everywhere.
Of course. My point was to answer to the parent comment that said planting trees cannot be a long term solution.
> someone somewhere told them to do it

And/or it ticks a checkbox in some compliance checklist.
> I'm not an astronomer but I'm not convinced that that's the case.

I'm not entirely certain what the balance is here. I don't think my post made it clear that I'm not certain how big the effect would be, only that there is a tradeoff here which is hard to quantify.

I do know there is a lot of significant astronomy done by space telescope and that the importance of space astronomy is only growing.

Seems to me the answer is that those who benefit from the new satellite constellations (SpaceX, etc) should finance additional investment in astronomy to mitigate the effects.
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Do you remember the CVE number of this bug? How about the Citrix bug from last week? It's a poor way to communicate, and there's very strong anecdotal evidence that using a real name promotes patching rates faster than otherwise.

Plus, the whosecurve.com website includes the information you want if you only have 10 seconds and it's by the same authors as the blog linked in the OP.
This is really cool. Do you have some code that you are willing to showcase?
Thank you so much! Don't apologize for the long post, quite the opposite, it is very much appreciated!! After discussing things with my co-founder, we have defined a more specific target market we are going after (at first) and are coming up with a proper marketing strategy to set in motion.
Brooklyn near 3k is really going towards new apartments. I pay about that total for a few year old apartment and have a ~25 minute commute via L train. During my search I found townhouses <30 minute commute with 3br with a yard even in not so bad areas under 3k. I just wasn't as familiar with the area so I didn't feel comfortable. The housing cost is not so bad here.
So IT can tell the Cxx that yes, this problem is so important to patch that it has a name. Saying we should apply KB123ABC isnt as productive.
This is great! As a parent I try to screen for good apps but I definitely prefer a database.

I’d love to share this with my kids but would prefer a profanity-free site to share...
Not a fan of the year based navigation.
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See also
https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?226796-Puss... for the reaction of camgirls.
> If SpaceX is successful in developing the Starship, couldn't they launch huge space telescopes for a very low cost?

If the BFR (the rocket behind the starship) is successful then yes it could mean the ability to launch very large telescopes in to space. The scientific community would be very exited about this possibility. However, this doesn't necessarily make it very low cost. One launch of the BFR would still likely be much more than an a Falcon Heavy launch.

> if you are building a radio telescope in space, could you just use a thin foil that folds out like origami for the reflector?

Yes! This technology already exists and it is really pretty amazing to see in action. Right now most of them are used on communications satellites or for synthetic aperture radar satellites. See the videos below:

Animation of the radar antenna on SMAP:

https://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/83/smap-antenna-deployme...

Actual video of a large communcations antenna (12m diameter) being deployed. Skip ahead to ~2:15 for the actual unfurling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mFnNDzxKFk&feature=emb_titl...
That was only a problem for scheme interop, since guile's elisp uses emacs extended UTF8 strings.
Something not experienced since the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal./Sid./Year 03758!
Accessing those satellites from China or Iran or North Korea and many other countries (though, why did you mention India?) will probably still be illegal.

But there are many poor countries with rural areas that have almost no Internet access and would greatly profit from it. Starlink seems to be especially useful for people in those areas.
I stayed in one AirBnB where there was a book on a shelf in the living room. I opened it, and it was the name, passport number, date, and some other information I can't recall for every past guest.
I can't say that my experience tallies at all with yours.

You need to work the way your ERP works.
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I think the most correct way would be to explicitly set the rounding mode to down or towards-zero, then calculate largest_double_that_fits = (double) LONG_MAX, then check value <= largest_double_that_fits.
Since largest_double_that_fits is guarenteed to be <= LONG_MAX, and value <= largest_double_that_fits, it follows that value <= LONG_MAX.
You're in luck, they happen all the time: https://sne.space/
Code is a social activity. "lousy programmers" are the ones that are rude jerks to others.
For some, “missing out” on that kinda exploitation is the reason for not doing it.

I’m not interested in the nicotine business for the same reasons, regardless of how much each smoking whale is worth.