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>What if I don't want to improve my productivity ?

I think you're reacting to the word "productivity" because it has negative connotations to some readers.

To others, "productivity" has neutral to positive connotations.

I think we all universally desire "less effort for more output" across work and leisure activities. We just don't like to label it "productivity". (I made previous comment.[0])

E.g. if a gardener wants to plant a row of flowers for pleasure, she might put all 10 flower pots into a wagon and then drag the wagon to the final location. This is more productive than hand carrying only 1 flower pot at a time and walking back & forth 10 times. People inherently like to be "productive" even for play and leisure!

>Why should we force ourselves to organize our days to improve our coding time ? We should organize our life to improve our reading, playing, resting time.

I think you're being uncharitable in interpreting the blog essay. The scope of his tips is about being productive while in the office. (Ctrl+F search article for "office".) Therefore, finding bugs faster between 9-to-5 isn't going to detract from "playing" time on the weekend. In fact, it may even let the programmer leave earlier on Friday.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592404
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If you like books I recommend Humble and Farley's "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation". It was written before cloud native practices like containers were mainstream so not all the advice will be relevant but it has good chapters on source code management practices and CI.
While we are on the subject of Russian words with "bash" in them, I offer "barabashka" to whomever's interested. (It is one of the names for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domovoy)
Yeah, from personal experience (and from watching others), a lot of the habits like the ones the author cites last a few months and then you end up dropping them for whatever reason.

That said, I did manage to stick to an explicit system for a bit over a year now which produced some imperfect but adequate results: https://blog.maesure.com/2020/02/01/anti-procrastination-sys... (disclaimer: my product blog)
Little Snitch seems to have prepared for this.

https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-and-possible-deprecation...
What about unhooking a toilet? Or installing a new kitchen faucet?
Filling gasoline into your car is extremely dangerous too, which is why in Oregon and New Jersey trained professionals are the only ones allowed to perform the task.
> The sad reality is that most orgs which run on a ticket/sprint process will make room for nothing outside of tickets.

I actively try to stay away from this for this reason. I understand that these ticketing systems are used for coordination and communication, but there's a downside to going all in on them.
Second this, you get two free Technical Support Incident requests per year as a registered developer, and you can purchase additional ones.
We regularly file such requests and have always got timely and helpful responses.
Yes. It goes all the way down. That is what makes it very, very hard to fix.
Abstract Interpretation for Provably Robust Neural Networks [pdf]
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AWS VPC for Software Engineers
Per this quarter's results, AWS grew at 37% while GCP notched up 54%. Microsoft claims 62%, but as discussed elsewhere in the comments that seems dubious (unless you also believe that Azure is already larger than AWS). MS "Intelligent Cloud" grew at 27%.

https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-clou...
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Not really. Visitors from outside the EU's "trusted sphere" will have their fingerprints taken at the border. Even though the EU is a membership of collective countries, this all-powerful entity is controlling its members and telling them to do this.

Likewise, using facial recognition technology on airports is exactly within scope of the EU to mandate (or outlaw).
I tried firestorm (1000KM radius) and I'm alone, seems I'm the only Italian user
Our conversions from Facebook were also garbage. People would click through our ad and fill out a form even though the ad had nothing to do with them.
Provide your Suggestions and recommendations regarding corona virus?
Yes, you can do that with uBlock, the <\> icon blocks javascript, very handy.
You can use steam from cooling to produce electricity just like nuclear plants do, right? :)
Is it really easy to find high quality pirated content?

I've got the impression that highly-compressed content is often so popular that bigger/higher quality files are hard to find.
The concept of a Zoo should be retired. It's old fashioned, outdated and inhumane. It's not fair for animals to be thrown in to a area of space and you pay to see them look miserable. Just imagine yourself in that square of space for near 24/7, thrown a piece of meat twice a day. Its cruel and about time we should rethink of the whole process.

Zoo's need to be converted in to wildlife/nature reserves/sanctuaries with intent of looking after while involving education programs. Animal education lacks in today's society and it should be a big thing.
You really want to see animals? Then buy a course package where you get exclusive view and proper education as well.

While you could argue that zoo's do go and put in high level standards; there are still zoo's out there which are cruel. and in replacement the animals get abused. Some zoo's don't have the space and that goes for countries too, like here in the United Kingdom.

That's just my 2cents on the matter. They should be converted.
I suspect this an attempt by Apple to make it more like iPadOS and deny us advanced users even more control over our OS.

Perhaps specifically to CRIPPLE outbound firewall in such a way that Apple can still do their data-collection on us.

The developers of outbound firewall like Little Snitch, TripMode and RadioSilence have already voiced concerns how the alternative offered doesn't have the requisite feature capability required for their software and would actually cripple it. Apple has asked them to file "enhancement requests" with no guarantee that it will be implemented - https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79590 .

An outbound firewall is a desperately needed feature of ios / iPadOS too that users have demanded for a long time, but Apple deliberately doesn't implement because it wants access to your user-data and to spy on you.

The sad part is, ios already has a built-in basic outbound firewall that doesn't allow apps to connect to the internet unless explicitly allowed - but it exists only for internet over mobile data and not Wifi.

For all its propaganda about being "conscious" about user-privacy, it does nothing to stop your data from "leaking" to the internet in the first place even though it can.
WSJ makes it easy to subscribe (online), but hard to unsubscribe (2018)
> The puzzle in the article works in a completely different way and looks like it is more secure to random fiddling.

The defect is maybe that it has the shape of a top, so making it turn is a natural thing to do with that object. On the other hand, spinning a wooden cross is much less natural and unlikely to happen by random twiddling.
For now, company Y is probably doing better (purely from a CO2 emissions standpoint). But it's not sustainable, because some of those credits are from companies that just reduced their usage below some threshold. Most of the credits are not from "negative emissions" like planting trees. So as the thresholds decrease over time, there will be fewer credits available to buy and they will be stuck with either really expensive credits or a surplus of CO12 generation.
Yes, I remember it was a problem with Django. It wasn't just the application server, you might need to run some scripts, after the database is up, before kicking off the webserver. Any workflow like this is explicitly unaccommodated.

100% of the solutions ive seen to address this problem have been hacky - either polling bash scripts or explicit waits.

docker compose is a piece of shit.
VMware Fusion has a Tech Preview out since last week where the USB passthrough support is no longer done via a kernel extension.

See here:
https://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/...
Also speaking about Germany and its do good attitude, I heard citizens of certain EU member states are to be reported to the police when staying at hotels in certain regions. Is that acceptable that all citizens of EU nations can be treated as criminals? Man the hypocrisy level is just unbelievable.
> controlling its memebers and telling them what to do

This is exactly what EU directives and EU regulations are for. Every time the EU accepts either one of those, all members must follow them.

EDIT: I'm confused that this gets downvoted. The EU has the power to force laws upon its members (not in every policy area, but in plenty) and it does so frequently. If that's not "telling member states what to do" then what is?
Insanely useful?
Ahh, I remember some bluetooth wmbus reader, which could be powered on or off by shaking it. Presented as puzzle to all new coworkers: "Try to turn it on", so each one proceeded to try rotating antenna or case halves (it was cylindrical in shape), pressing in several places, then shaking near ear to see if something was maybe loose inside, which typically turned it on.
Please speak for yourself. I do my own electric work and I can use an app to create an eye glasses prescription, though electricians have to be licensed and optometrist are only ones that can write a glasses script. How about filling up your car with gasoline? Do you do it yourself or have a professional do it safely instead for you?
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Not only Dynamo; the total bill. And Dynamo completely abused while Postgres used as it should be and tuned for what they are doing.

I am not saying Dynamo could not be used or tuned for this work, but Postgres was a better fix and more far more portable ofcourse.
There's the Canadian Digital Service, modelled after the UK's Government Digital Service (GDS). Provinces like Ontario are also creating their own Digital Services groups, and Ontario's online services have improved tremendously because of it.

https://digital.canada.ca

https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-digital-service
The Village on the Moon Starts Here
Isn't a murderer who served his time still a murderer after release? Wouldn't you be careful around him?
Running macOS in a VM is highly problematic.
Modern history also tells me that they never locked down a city. Certainly because the consequences are predictable.

And especially not in cases like this where the hysteria is beginning to be as much of a concern than the virus itself.

As I said, I don't think you could lock down a city. Military support or not. Even with a real threat, you can be sure people responsible would step down afterwards and quarantine be breached widely.
congrats, you just had discovered the dark web, where things are done in non-GAAP way. surprisingly enough, there are lot of "business transactions" going on out there than all these innocent corporations combined.
They wouldn't if they wrote the story before Bosch noticed it and decided to sponsor it as an article. Seems like good PR practice to me.
Does 4K Netflix target 50 Mbps? Blu-ray does. While lossy compression performance is a deep and incomplete field, more bits always helps. That requires more storage on servers and more throughput. There needs to be a “good enough” point and the hosts will glue themselves to it. If it moves up over time then they will have to update their library where high quality sources are available.
x265 is still faster for same quality in for example slow mode

Do you have a recent benchmark showing this? Things are changing fast enough that it's hard for me to Google the current state of things.
shhh ;).
Mental health websites don't have to sell user data but most still do
Then why is it that time doesn't run backwards in some volume, where the entropy decreases, e.g. a fridge?

See https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/289628/why-does-...
DHS Bans New Yorkers from Global Entry
The amount of code, libraries, and resources needed to make this glorified calculator on a "smartphone" is truly overwhelming.

Could literally do the same thing extremely well with an ncurses program and a damn ssh link back to home.

Could literally have done the same thing with Google docs.

But no it's gotta be an app so Susan can use her smartphone. This is an official event, not an ad hoc conversation during soccer practice. Yet, apparently no one could setup a small desktop or a laptop to handle a singularly simple task and do it well.

Instead, social onus and seemingly common wisdom says everything must be a fancy looking app, and proceeds to throw 60k down the drain to accomplish nothing.

I'm impressed.
Plants die in greenhouses?
Companies seem to have a really difficult time taking a moment to acknowledge or thank the workers being laid off. Would be nice to see that change in these corporate layoff announcements. This came close, but it's almost like pr and executives are allergic to expressing actual gratitude.
And sadly for him, it doesn't matter anyway, presumably most if not all his friends already uploaded their address books, so WhatsApp already knows his real name and phone number and network of friends...
Reversion to the mean. If it's not someone you know well, you are hiring them based on a limited dataset. You are likely to get the outliers, eg people who happened to remember how to implement Dijkstra's algorithm. Or people who were above average, plus they guessed right on some of the multiple choice questions. Whatever selection you choose, there's gonna be noise, and some people will benefit from it.

Once you hire them, you end up with more information and there's gonna be a tendency for it to be clear that they don't know everything.
A usable 64 bit carbon actually exists in the Leopard developer preview.
Is there a convenient way to check which instruction set your phone supports? Something akin to hwinfo for Windows.

https://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=files&action=file&id=263
From what I've heard their customer service for paid customers seems to be fine. No first hand experience though because I've also heard that if anything goes wrong they tend to shut down and ban all your Google accounts - that seems to be the main thing people here seem to warn about anyway. And when that happens there's no way you're going to get to talk to anyone who can help you.
It’s super questionable what they did to Moog since creating an authentic enough version of the MiniMoog with modern parts takes quite a bit of research. This was not a 40 years old abandoned design like many of their other recreations.
No sensible health authority would change dietary advice based on a single study.
Consider research like this as discrete steps in one direction or another, with a much longer continuous waveform representing national and population-led understanding.
This is blatantly not true.

> ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

If the tracking id cannot be correlated to a name, identification number, precise location data (not country level), then it's not PII as far as the law is concerned. The criteria is clear: "relating to an identified or identifiable natural person". There is no way that simply a session ID stored in a cookie can be traced to an identity IRL.

I fell that I know what I'm talking about as I designed and implemented an customer authentication system for a medium-sized company that is based in EU, needs to respect GDPR, and I worked closely with their lawyers and operations to make sure we are fully GDPR compliant, and we passed the relevant audits.
The climate is changing so give up your gun and free speech rights. Seem logical?
Even IE6 supported this, apparently

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
I don't think so - if you were addicted, you wouldn't have any issues with distractions
Just a guess - Maybe to tell macOS how to SSD TRIM or do other tasks on Samsung specific SSD's?
That's true now but in the future when people start realizing that "Pay this premium for amazing 16K content!" doesn't do shit when they sit in their couches with their normal size tv:s we are gonna start hearing "Pay this premium for our 4k option with our Premium Non-Blocky Patented Compression Algorithm SilkComper™"
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I think there's some really, really good advice there.

Probably the one that would pay off most (for me, at least) would be to 'watch myself'. I bet I could find some areas for improvement. Then again, having the discipline to change based on that knowledge is another thing.

I'm glad I read it. Kudos to the author.
I haven’t had experience with kexts lately, but they were a source of instability for me in the past. Not sad to see them go.
After Robin Whittle wrote this piece, Behringer's president Uli Behringer decided to publicly air his entire private email exchange with Robin in order to tell "their" side of the story.

I believe this was done to show they offered Robin some (abet paltry) compensation of $15k, but publishing their entire private correspondence seems like more of a bullying tactic than anything else. Behringer has very little to lose here and they know it, but the conduct is unbecoming.

Should we allow large hardware manufacturers to bully and push around small businesses and DIY hardware hackers like this?
> Now that I’m aware that I spent so much time isolating which function a bugs are in, I now test each function as I write it to make sure they work.

He empirically discovered test-driven development!
The article sustains that for consciousness to exist, it should have an evolutionary advantage. It could be something emergent from the complexity of the brain, having a language or different capabilities (pattern matching, cognitive biases, story telling, etc) that enable us to make sorts of long term future predictions, to name a few. And all of them do have evolutionary advantages.
Having worked on physics projects for decades, the laws of physics at the lowest level are most certainly not this simple or causal.

>For any well understood physical situation describing X and Y, the laws of physics tell you what happens to Y when you do X.

Not true. If I create two electrons from photon collision, and measure one, will it be spin up? No way to tell. Only aggregates about large enough systems give any reliable answer to such questions.

If look for radioactive decay from 10 U235 atoms for the next 5 minutes, will I see one? Again, there is no yes/no answer, only probabilistic ones. There is no underlying causality - only purely random events with no detectable cause. These are the dice that Einstein didn't like.

There's plenty of similar questions that don't have a simple answer - only answers about large aggregates.

Here's [1] a recent result showing causality is no where the neat and tidy thing you think it is. These results are all over modern physics.

For example, the most accurate physical theories, such as QED, get the right answer by summing forwards and backwards in time. In QED the "future" affects results today as strongly as the "past". Causality is a psychological interpretation, but is not in the math
or the underlying theories.

As far as I know, all quantum field theories (which underlie all physics at the moment) all have such ambiguity or uncertainty about causality.

The laws are math models that give answers. But the lowest laws are time reversible or time agnostic for the most part, and the foundational theories require travelling forwards and backwards to get the correct experimental values.

Similarly, the laws of physics at the lowest level are not causal, but probabilistic. Only when aggregated do some experiments seem causal.

From another direction, there's a massive body of literature on what is causal, and can you detect it. Read, for example, Judea Pearl's monograph "Causality" or some of his other stuff, or simply browse wikipedia starting with him.

For example, when you drop a ball, it falls to earth. Quantum mechanically, there is a probability it simply quantum tunnels to another galaxy. That it most often falls to earth becomes a law, but it is imprecise and not completely correct. It's an approximation.

So every law of physics is merely a strong correlation.

And there's currently plenty of experiments trying to disentangle these issues with causality and locality.

So sure, at the freshman physics level causality is a simple thing. But Nature does not follow almost any of those rules with certainty or unerring rigor. Those are approximations and simplifications.

[1] https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-mechanics-defies-causal-o...
Ah I'm just curious about the $$ cost, I 2 RDS PG instances running on t3.medium, one is 30gb never goes over 10% cpu, the other is ~150gb and never goes over 50% cpu. I also have some dynamo stuff for some session management and wonder if it would be better to just shove it in postgres.

So I read your comment as $28k dynamo to $100 postgresql.
Ravenbrook: Memory Pool System
Is this supposed to pass as documentation? Looking at that document the first reaction is that I would rather spend a decade implementing my own ERP than go anywhere near that mess.
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Sounds like they just need some Lebensraum.
I agree. The best frame interpolation implementations of today, that I’ve seen, suck. In principle I think the algorithms and implementations will improve when low persistence, high refresh rate displays are commonplace (ie the 1000 Hz OLED ideal). With proper frame interpolation, you could, in theory, mimic any persistence profile you like. Like the look of CRTs? There is a filter for that. Like the look of cinema shutters? There’s a filter for that. We’re a long ways away from that though. The added latency would only be as long as one frame time of the targeted interpolation source frame rate. So 16.6 ms at 60 Hz. If that is unacceptable you can always do sample and hold or BFI (the true holy grail for gaming).
The winner will be the vertical integrator, not the best quality. People will pick the quantitative measure (speed) over anything qualitative.
I hate almost all ads, but if it's not intrusive, it's just not worth the effort to add a blocking rule for it. In 2019, I think the only "ad" I blocked was "Hot network questions" on SO, because it had very negative impact on my productivity.
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I agree, Google is not enterprise focused as far as I can tell. Microsoft is and that why Azure has been able to do so well so quickly.

It's impressive to me that Amazon was able to shift focus to AWS without much existing presence in enterprise tech stacks.
Big companies maybe.
Historical context: https://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/doc/2002-01-30/ismm20...
How would one know ahead of time what requires licensing and what doesn't? Does applying wallpaper? What about cleaning the clothes dryer's exhaust pipe?
Electric is obvious, but did the accused here actually know that tiling and painting requires a license?
Yes I also wonder that, do you want to talk about this? tweet me @LeibGruber
I got approached from Packt publishing based on a github repo. Thought it was cool at the time, but later I felt maybe it was a bit like recruiterspam on linkedin, I just got hit by some keyword filter, as my repo wasn't particularly exciting.