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> Communist built residential areas had all amenities within walking distance. I was in not a particularly well regarded area yet I was within 500m of the grocery store, my school, soccer field, cinema, library, church, computer club, three bus stops and one tram stop.

That's fairly standard in much of Europe, former communist or not.

EDIT: Though the tram thing is interesting. The general pattern in the west was to replace them with buses and rip up the tracks, then start laying new tracks in the 90s. Whereas Eastern Europe largely kept them. I'm not sure how much of this was the communist system being better at long-term planning, and how much was the communist system being stubborn and happening to choose the right path as a result of this.

At least in Dublin, where I live, the replacement of tram lines with buses in the 20s actually made sense from a short-term perspective. Buses had lower fixed costs, and there weren't many private cars, so traffic wasn't the issue for them that it is now. Trams had higher capacity per line, but that was less of an issue with lower populations and a lower requirement for mobility. We had about 20 tram lines at peak; for most of the 20th century we had zero. We now have two, with more planned. If we'd kept the old lines, we'd be saving a lot of money around now...
Change in a software project definitely isn’t free but I do think it’s fair to say it’s easier than changing a bridge design halfway through.

Maybe there’s not as big a difference as people think, though?

It occurs to me that is actually possible to change the design of a bridge late in the day. The extra dampers to fix resonance problems on London’s Millennium Bridge are a nice example.
The Docs versión history tooling is pretty weak, though — you have to repeatedly select a timestamp. You can’t scrub, and you can’t even click on text and get “who put this here, when?”
Imagine I'm a manager with a light-touch approach to performance management, a team that spends 99% of their time in the office, and a team member who is perfectly productive while in the office but unproductive when working from home.

Should I switch to high-touch performance management all the time for all employees, just because of the 1% of one person's time spent working from home?
Bafta Awards 2020: Joaquin Phoenix praised for calling out 'systemic racism'
Dashlane's Super Bowl ad proves password managers have arrived
Uber looks to radical financing to fund driverless cars
Electric power is well suited to driving the huge wheels of a 4x4 monster truck, great low end torque and wide power band. The problem might be battery weight - monster trucks are basically lightweight space frames with low unsprung weight pushed by a big block V8 engine with a flimsy fiberglass body over the top of it all.
I am still waiting for a Ubuntu Spin that attempts to do this. It would make for a nice change.
Vox is not just a single "left-wing explainer" site, it's a publishing house with several very prominent brands - the Verge, SB Nation, New York magazine, etc.
Word of mouth and media coverage like this (which other papers will report in Hindi/Marathi as well) is probably enough to propagate the message to almost everyone within a few weeks. Hoping it works!
I got the highest job-hopping % increase in salary by following the advice of this book. Using tactics such as "Saying no without saying no" and "Start with your number $X+80%, then say no without saying no each time going down by 15-20% in 3 steps. At the last step, give a non-round number that seems to be your lowest threshold".

The book has further gems like

- Deadlines cut both ways. Never hide your deadline, as it will increase the chance of an impasse: the opponent will hold out for more while you will be pressured by the unspoken deadline.

- Never bluff. Be prepared to actually walk away from the table at any given time.

- If the other party thinks lowly of you, bring forth their worst fears. This allows them to see them through the glasses of logic instead of emotions. Once you diffuse their feelings in the open, they'll be more receptive to what you have to say.

The book is worth a read.
> building crap over and over again and feeling pretty good about themselves

I'm triggered
I believe the grandparent is referring to Time Machine. Some of its versioning features may have been integrated into iCloud storage as well (not sure).
On one side, yes.

On the other side, the biggest problem with this type of vehicle is 12 inches behind the wheel. They should create a special category of license with extra hours of certified training.
Ouch.

What experiences have given you that opinion?
Life-and-death software is already regulated fairly strictly and generally has decent quality. But of course the companies developing it also try to cut costs and in the end it's more about checking off boxes to avoid liability than producing correct software.
valgrind --tool=deadstores /bin/ls
==8441== DeadStores, find redundant loads/stores
==8441== Copyright (C) 2020, and GNU GPL'd, by Krister Walfridsson
==8441== Using Valgrind-3.15.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==8441== Command: /bin/ls
==8441==

DeadStores: ds_main.c:429 (mark_written): Assertion 'h != 0' failed.
This is the app antirez was complaining about: https://github.com/antirez/try.redis

It's not even a Rails app. No idea what he was complaining about exactly, but certainly not Rails.
It takes 10 sec to google "str_replace" and have the params presented to you. Using a manual is an integral part of development. I don't think there's many people who can memorize all the methods and their params, including optional ones, nor should they.
Of course, those are good examples. And I do write tests for stuff like that. But it's a tiny, tiny part of what the average front-end web app dev is doing on a day to day basis. My claim isn't that testing is useless. It's that you can get 90% of the benefit from doing probably 10% of what the average dev (in my field, YMMV if you're not a FE web dev) is doing at the moment, and the business value of testing falls off a cliff once you hit the low hanging fruit.

Lemme go back to the same PG article, again, cause it's that good.

"A couple years ago a venture capitalist friend told me about a new startup he was involved with. It sounded promising. But the next time I talked to him, he said they'd decided to build their software on Windows NT, and had just hired a very experienced NT developer to be their chief technical officer. When I heard this, I thought, these guys are doomed."

If I walk into an interview at a startup, and they have 100% unit test code coverage with a nice suite of integration and end-to-end tests, snapshot testing, nice contract tests, the absolute works, all for their 50 customers generating $5k monthly revenue, my first thought is they're probably fucked. It might be a really nice place to work, but if I want job security I'd be going somewhere bigger, and if I want shares I'd much rather be in the share house down the road with the guys that polished off 3x as many features in a couple of weekends of hacking.
I used to play Wolf ET with my dad back in the day. Loved the akimbo pistols. I've come to accept that I'm never going to re-live those moments.

Back then I used to wish I could keep my progression. Now everything is global progression and I really don't have time to burn leveling up.

Side note: Loved the mods on RTCW as well. Being the cow on gold rush[1] and being fed gold and super slow.

[1] http://bani.anime.net/banimod/gametypes/goldrush.html
From what I've understood there are multiple Linux ports and some differ and don't have the persist feature: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/en1lu1/yesterday_i_l...
In an emergency, nothing. They define emergency as "eminent danger to life or property".
Knowing genetics makes you understand why and how you are similar to your parents.

Knowing that physical and psychological state are linked, and
that they affect each other.

We have ways of introspecting one's mind and body and understand the the "whys" of being an individual and also Human.
I trust the sourcing of my food as far as I can trust the vendor. We have a CSA (community supported agriculture) share with a local farm; despite them not having organic certification (pretty typical for CSAs in my experience—they'd rather build trust directly than via a third party), I know their produce to be much more sustainable than anything I could buy at a grocery store.
I’m afk so will keep it brief :)

The signing keys are stored in your config file and then uploaded with the lambdas. I think it’s reasonably secure if you trust AWS and the key is never transmitted.

Not too sure I understand the question about the lambdas. There are two at the moment (post and get) and they can be used by any cron job. You can also use your own lambdas and you don’t need to deploy the built in ones if you don’t want.
It's a great read. I have also found a great reading list of from the University of Cambridge[0] that has a whole different range of books and websites for those who have a cursory interest in Mathematics.

[0] https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.maths.cam.ac.uk/files/...
This does not line up with my experience.

Where I live the government and the rules it hands down occupies basically the same spot in people's minds that god would occupy in a devout catholic of the middle ages. You would expect based on how everyone lives their lives that we would follow traffic rules to the letter.

We don't. In traffic people (discounting the outliers, after all we're using broad brushes here) think for themselves, are generally assertive and more or less ignore rules and do what they see fit. Stops that would be yields if they had different lanes for left/right are treated like yields when going right. The 50-65 limits on divided highways are more or less ignored and people drive at whatever speeds they deem reasonable. Sometimes that's 65, sometimes that's 85. I'm sure this description is making some people clutch their pearls but for the most part things work great.

So based on my anecdotal experience I'm firmly in the "no correlation" camp.
Serious Sam shifted into a whole new dimension with co-op multiplayer, huge outdoor spaces and huge end of level bosses.

Playing with a few friends, the atmosphere of watching your team mates far away in the distance, launching salvos of rockets up at some giant monster, which is even further away in the distance, while running non-stop from hordes of screaming enemies, to the tune of mad techno beats and endless explosions has yet to be beaten in my mind.
As an outsider/beginner to negotiation... The book was amazing.

I recommend the audio as Voss narrates... And voice is important.
Do you have any concrete plans to expand the SIM mobile number service beyond the UK?
Why does everybody need to work? Less workers ALSO drives up pay because supply/demand. It also could propel the U.S. to a 30 hour work week or even 25 which would be more in tune with our ancestors (Middle Ages averaged 18 hour weeks).
The picture I saw must have been a joke, it showed Infinite Jest divided in half, but that's ridiculous, as you don't read it front to back, you read it jumping from text to notes to text to notes (and, when you're lucky, from notes to notes to the notes).
It's just a bummer that Tribes: Ascend (the last installment of Tribes) went downhill quickly and became dead. No other FPS game can match the sheer joy of shooting other players with projectile weapons while skiing midair at 200km/h...
I'd like to see a citation for that. That may be true if we don't use any GMO crops, but GMO doesn't necessarily have to be incompatible with organic practices for fertilizer, pesticides, etc. IANAF, but my understanding is that organic practices are often more labor intensive rather than more land intensive.
We're in a position with a lot of power, but this is obscured from us. When we trace the strings which run from ecocide to ourselves, it is easy to see what changes we need to make.
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So if you distribute 1000 USD/month to 300 Mio Americans, do you mind to explain where you want to take the money from?

According to [1] the top 3% (>250k USD household income per year) earn in total per month

127,300,000,000 = 3,800,000 * 402,000 / 12 USD
vs
300,000,000,000 = 300,000,000 * 1,000 USD

needed to fund your ubi. Maybe it's not enough to take from people with more than one megayacht?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
Bridging Supply-Demand Gaps in Real-Time Using Geospatial Data
Doesn't javascript have even more subtle flaws? Perhaps other languages as well, not familiar with many.
Housing crisis? How politicians talk about housing and why it matters
> The alternative would be to say that systems in raw C, or assembly language, are more maintainable, which is obvious nonsense.

The existence and success of Linux alone seems to contradict your opinion, and that's hardly the only pure C code base of that size that's been successfully developed and maintained over decades by many contributors. If anything, that makes C look like a pretty good choice for creating a big maintainable code base.
I'd love this scenario. I'd love to maybe spend some years working on bio/disease research even though I know nothing about diseases. (I'm a developer), or work on Climate Change... Imagine if we put a ton of pressure for people ot just go into science regardless of career 'outlook' just to help save the world before it's too late ? Imagine handing out free college esp. to STEM students going into climate change tech?
Entertaining to watch but I can imagine kids with air horns would find it hilarious to mess with drivers if this was rolled out widely.
I did not reboot. (I think it did not have the capability to reboot itself.) The program alarms indicated "executive overflows", meaning the guidance computer could not complete all its tasks in real time and had to postpone some of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#Lunar_descent See also http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/eyles_2004/eyles_2... for a detailed explanation.
To me, this is not so much about Google Maps or even "hacking" a computer system, but rather about how and how much computer information systems shape our view of reality, and how fake news may be created simply by naive and/or buggy software. It's just that in this case the big gap between view and reality can easily be shown by some photos or a simple video, while in case of search engines or recommendation systems, or advertising, it is much harder to show. To me this is kind of a "the emperor is naked" moment for surveillance capitalism, and even more so, as it is that simple.
Zebras are quite dangerous. It's interesting they let you get that close.
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crocodiles tend not to eat hippos.
> the dumb defaults that cause incessant security issues

The first Java web shop I worked for had a homegrown version of magic_quotes_gpc. That’s when I realized that those who had gone through making PHP installs and apps secure had very valuable experience.
What makes you think that this Spiegel link isn't talking about the exact same thing as the original article on rechargenews.com ? The latter just happens to be slightly more specific, singling out one project (likely the most concrete plan within a bigger initiative) wheras the Spiegel from two days earlier remains high level.
Right, but as the article points out - github already has the feature for some file formats, but it's not good enough for him because he wants it specifically for powerpoint and word.

In other words, someone wants a diff tool for Microsoft products but specifically wants Dropbox to implement it.
There is https://scroll.com/ but it's brand new.
I really like this quote, and humility in this case helps to more clearly view the problem (and hopefully solve it adequately)
> Most measures of success are almost entirely uncorrelated with merit.

This is life in general, no? Aside from maybe professional sports, where it's forced to be that way by design.
> Like, it came down to people complaining about some function names / param orders as if it were the end of the world.

Arrays go (needle, haystack). Strings go (haystack, needle). There might be a couple of exceptions but that's basically it.
Renting is cheaper in many places if you factor everything, unless you (a) know you are not going to move for >n years, with n often in the range 5..10, and (b) are betting on real estate appreciation.

Granted, (a) and (b) are true for many people, especially as they get older - but all factored, renting is often superior.
It's obvious that Tailscale founders are well connected and have very powerful friends, nobody can even tell what the product is yet they already popular on HN and Twitter. This Heptio-tier strategy already proved to be very profitable and successful. Probably the company will be sold to Google within 3 years at a huge number then merged and burned within a year later without nobody noticing what the hell what that was all about.
You’re right. The article specifies “Vox Media” not Vox.com.
And just one more thing, we didnt have 50 types of soap, creams, ... in each store. Rather 5. Too much choice is worse than little choice.
It solves the biggest problem everyone had with the Hummer: gallons-per-mile.

And it competes with the Cybertruck, and they don’t have to worry about a limited amount of space for the batteries. Seems like a good strategy to me, for a first attempt.
the biggest point is that people are focussing too much on PHP own quirky edges but then are fine with other languages insanity (I'm looking at you javascript and python). PHP is not perfect and I'm pretty sure it's bad name comes from code written for wordpress or joomla or the guy that came before you than PHP itself. Otherwise I can't understand how Python or Javascript can get away with way worse issues.
There is no preparation for 5MeO per se, as no amount of meditation, yoga, mantra practice, etc. can save you during the experience, but certainly abstaining from alcohol, eating a vegetarian diet, avoiding conflict in the days leading up to the ceremony, and so on, are recommended by the facilitator.

As far as integration goes, I mean, who really knows the territory of the infinite such that they can help another through some difficulty in their own unique path? Most facilitators that I've seen just collect the rather large cash based consulting fee and move on to the next group, with a hug or pat on the back if a participant had a difficult journey.

I'm certainly skeptical when there's an undeniable profit motive involved, so the whole facilitator role is a bit overblown; there's no shamanic tradition behind Bufo (discovered in the 80s), it's just people that have had experience with the substance serving it to others, hopefully with good intentions.
I was secretly hoping for jours-au-au.
There were many sites written in Word. Also intelligent people don't tend to create SPA blogs with angular and webpak.
Turns out I was right though.
Nice idea, but honestly, horns do not even come into the top 10 problems for most people. You have terrible roads and public transportation, corrupt government-commercial nexuses and whatnot; is this seriously the most important thing for you to focus on?
No, there are a series of folding Bluetooth mice that fit entirely inside Express card and PC card slots.
This is all out of context.
>Stores that did not produce unnecessary waste were standard practice.

It's such a strange thing to say when this wasn't really done by conscious choice. There were shortages of everything, and though it wasn't 'abject poverty', the society as a whole was poor. You couldn't afford to be wasteful.

>Another thing they got right was urban planning.

The gray concrete jungle and complete disregard for maintaining existing infrastructure is a great example of urban planning?

Anyway, you're giving them too much credit. Like you said further down, people didn't have cars and gas was expensive - that by itself will make cities that are walkable and traversable by public transit. Western Europe also had walkable cities and great public transit and didn't need the Soviet-system to create it.
And it's obviously not the developers' fault, but the clients/customers'.

You want a 100% bug-free web browser? OK, so let's define precisely and formally what the browser is supposed to do. Then, you'll sign a very expensive contract, and in 6 months to 1 year, I'll deliver the software, with a formal proof it works as expected. Of course, the requirements won't change during the development process, and any update after delivery will be costly and will take time.

Now, who would want to pay thousands of dollars for a web browser that will be delivered in a year and that will be obsolete as soon as a new fancy web tech will be used everywhere else? I can't really blame the customer/client either.

But the thing is, "agile" requirements rely on craftmanship, not on engineering. You can only engineer durable things. Buildings would crash constantly, too, if they had to be updated each other week, ASAP, and while keeping the costs as low as possible.
It doesn’t bother me when they change their mind. What bothers me is when they refuse to document it. Every change should be documented. Print it out and get them to sign it. Then when they complain whip out your pile of documents and say, “Here’s where you asked for X, changed your mind to Y, then back to X, then something new to Z. Is that your signature?”

Devs are expected to have a ticket to track everything they do, so should the product managers. There should also be tickets for meetings so I can track how much time was subtracted from development by useless meetings.
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This seems like a great way to train people to ignore red lights. When the lights just stay red people are going to just inch out until they block the other traffic and then start going. Formerly traffic light controlled intersections are going to turn into effectivly uncontrolled intersections with the resulting decrease in throughput.
I would guess a lot are also not set up at home to work efficiently. I.e. proper desk in a quiet room etc. And if the kids are home from school as well, I assume it is very hard to concentrate on working from home.

Also if there is the threat of an incoming pandemic, then my priorities would be elsewhere than work. I.e. securing family, provisions, medicines, etc. And checking news sources about the epidemic every 5 minutes is not good for efficiency...
What software are you using that once or twice a year doesn't count as "rarely"?

My Viaplay app stops streaming and tells me I'm not connected to the internet several times a day (when I'm obviously still connected to the internet.)

Several times a week my phone's Netflix state doesn't match my TV's state, so I'm either not presented with the controls or when I press them they do nothing.

Cosmic bit-flips are rare enough to be newsworthy.
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/05/20/cosmic-rays-flippi...

If the faults were with the hardware, I'd expect the errors to be spread around the software that I use. But Firefox and Gmail always work for me (even if the JavaScript I'm served makes the machine unresponsive), whereas Netflix, Viaplay and HBO constantly misbehave.
That never frustrated me as much. Somehow I find the actions of animals more excusable than the rationalizations provided for man made noise pollution.