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> Whenever I see a productivity blog by someone who is enthusiastic about recent changes they've made to their life, I immediately assume the writer is quite young.
> As people get older, they realize that you only have the "right" to write a blog on productivity if you've actually found a system that keeps you productive for years on end.

i broadly agree with you -- i'm not sure it has to do with the author's age, per se, but productivity advice based on recent changes to the author's systems ought to be taken with a huge grain of salt.

that said, i do think it is good to share what one is trying and whatnot -- blogging is cheap. for example, while the reader-beware above applies to this post and most of the ideas were familiar to me, i had never thought to record my screen while i code to get feedback, despite the fact that i record myself regularly to asses performance in music! that bit alone made it worth the 5 min it took to read.
Do you have any experience with GCP as an enterprise customer compared to AWS or Azure? Is GSuite or GCP support any worse or are you just assuming those experiences are the same as what you get with a free GMail account?

I mean, what kind of support does a small business with two EC2 Instances or three Office 365 licenses really get? I can’t imagine you get to call someone and get in-depth technical help for free.

In other words, I think you’re repeating really common criticisms of Google in general, but I can’t tell if you’re speaking objectively or from a matter of pure opinion.
I've maintained both kickstart and ignition professionally. The documentation and readability of Ignition is absolutely way better than kickstart.

A simple example would be downloading a binary file and checking it's hash during boot, with retries if the connection is flaky. Three lines of declarative state in Ignition vs complex scripting in kickstart.
Interesting. I've been living in France for about 8 years now (I'm a US expat) and I really need to understand more about the EU's functions and abilities. I understand that there are different legislative bodies of Europe, but not sure how each applies. Do you have any material to help educate me on the subject?

Thanks for the insight!
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Literally every 303 clone ever made (and there are hundreds of these) looks like a 303 in some regard. And the 303 is an ugly synthesizer. Black, white, rainbow, transparent, the thing is ugly.
Access to driving records is not required for things such as DUI's and hit-and-runs. These are criminal offenses and as such are available through the same record searches used to determine if you have been convicted of grand larceny, murder, etc.
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Can’t even be not-racist correctly these days. Is there any hope of this “find a reason to be offended” culture dying out or are we stuck with it forever?
there are, eh devilfish mods are complicated but i've seen some simpler ones in facebook groups using 1EUR parts
I’m impressed with core HANA performance for reporting, but it comes with a very dear price tag. Multi-tier architecture concept, I’m not sure..?

Kafka can be useful for more than staging reporting data. This pattern is more about separation from core ERP (and core ERP bureaucracy) vs. ERP reporting.
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This was awesome! I didn't know the <a href="https://reverseimagesearch.app">reverse image search</a> was working so well (I never quite thought about this until I did this). I used it on a video game and the algorithm looks amazing!
I guess concentrating solar collectors might be a useful application?
> Question for HN: What will happen to the web when uBlock Origin becomes prevelent enough? Currently the vast majority of the internet is completely (or mostly) ad funded

Maybe clickbait will die out. Which is what the ads are paying for, supporting the shittiest side of the internet. I say, good riddance.

If they can stop tracking me that would be great, I am already not blocking image links, which is what an advertisement should be, so the door is in fact wide open and the ball is in their court. Newspapers could have just continued their old ad model, but nooooo they had to buy into the spammy tracking 5MB javascript bullshit, what a shame because that shit gets blocked.

I feel absolutely zero responsibility to the parties that shit all over the web, and those who went into business with them. They just took whatever they wanted and shoved tracking and ads in my face, as if it somehow paid for what was clearly already there, there was no agreement, no consent for exchanging X for my privacy and attention, nothing. Just pure greed and pollution.

So yeah, I really do hope that it's going to be incredibly difficult for anybody who thinks it's okay to make money off of people this way. Which also includes all those people who complain it's too much work to use something slightly more ethical than Google Analytics, they can drown in their own mess.

Nobody asked "what will happen to the web when we shit ads and trackers all over it".
That might not be entrapment but sounds like a fantastical waste of police man-hours. Isn't there more pressing issues in Florida to take care of first?
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if you are sound-oriented, when you hear the sounds coming out of it your view of the thing changes to seeing it as one of the most beautiful things that humans are able to see
One thing the article doesn't talk about is when this tracking happens.

Does it only happen if the pen is touching the tablet, or does it happen all the time even if the pen isn't touching the tablet?

Because there's a huge difference between the 2. Normally you would keep your tablet plugged into a USB port but the pen isn't actively being used.
I think slapping the word murder on a product is a bad thing.

I'm sure there are plenty of electronic musicians who don't care. Behringer seems to know their audience, but I happen to think it's unnecessary and the wanton normalization of the idea of murder - particularly associated with music that generally appeals to younger people - is a bad choice.
It would be great if there were some user-space support for this in next year's macOS release. I think it would be useful for a lot of cloud storage providers.
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You think 20 years is a sign that a codebase needs to be replaced?

20 years is nothing (/grabs your lips and makes them say "NSObject"). Don't talk to me about code quality either, just because something is old doesn't mean it's bad (or good) it just means it's old.

This is especially true for "the last 20 years" in particular (that featured elimination of most American tech workers with more than 20 years experience during the dot-com crash followed by a six year timeout where upon most American universities did not graduate many CS majors and those that did had no real "industry mentoring", just Google searches and blog sites.) IN MOST CASES, THE QUALITY OF THE OLD CODE FROM BEFORE THAT ERA IS GOING TO BE FAR SUPERIOR TO THE CODE PRODUCED DURING THAT PERIOD.

Things are just now (14 years after the new CS majors began to arrive at their desks) starting..and I do mean starting..to get back to normal (the people who infested the industry in the absence of such formally trained talent are still around, many have whipped investors into FOMO, allowing them to live very well and thus be influential and even exploitative of the younger formally trained CS majors, instead of the other way around).
$50 gets you a support contract, and you can cancel it when you’re done.

That small business can also look at https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ and know that a 15 year old boring and low utilization service still bums along.
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And at least on my machine, hybrid sleep doesn't seem to be compatible with Hyper-V, either...
How English non-native speakers produce good copies for websites
Hey there!

I was curious about one difficulty that I am facing when I design a new website either for a client or for my startup.

I find it hard to write good copy that will sound professional and catchy. As an English non-native speaker, I struggle to find the proper words and phrases to write a useful text for even my bullet points and the value proposition my startup is providing.

Have you ever faced something similar? If yes, how are you solving this? I would love to solve it myself.
Most musicians should be "sound-oriented" ;)

My point was the complaint tacked on here about aesthetics seems not only unnecessary but in the context of 303 clones kind of, uh, tone-deaf.
I don't think your information is up to date. I'm in Quebec, and my hospital and its clinics have all their information available in a portal. Test results are communicated electronically between sources. I don't speak French well so don't use it, but apparently there is also a provincial level portal. [1] gives an overview of how it all fits together.

Granted, it is all happening slowly. I worked in ehealth in Ontario around 2000 and they were providing huge incentives for organizations to go digital, but most didn't want to due to habit, and because each institution is run as an empire.

And ultimately, the results from each system, even if it's the same test, are often not really comparable, so the dreams of results that can be compared by the consumer, and precise reasoning systems for actual AI are another generation after consolidation.

1. https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/your-health-information/queb...
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> Every time the EU accepts either one of those, all members must follow them.

Who do you think accepts them in the EU ? ... Hint : (All Members)

> EU directives and EU regulations are for.

Actually what they're for is to ensure everyone who is a members gets the fair shake, thats why those that we have have all been agreed by all members. And our Single market is pretty great. Not perfect, it will continue to improve by the work and effort of us members together, but it's unimaginably better than none.

It's also extremely irresponsible to simply want to throw the toys out of the cot and not offer any real solutions; i.e : Brexit.

There was no exit plan, just a lot of chest pounding and falsehoods about the EU. Thats why it took so long for the UK.

Lets see how it plays out, I know all of Europe will be paying attention.
> Totally agreed. We ended up funding the web with an attention/gullibility tax not because of an careful planning, but because the technology wasn't there for anything else.

That implies it was even needed. It wasn't the same people either, the online ad industry is a bunch of greedy fucks with dollars in their eyes, they came to the web like a swarm of locusts.
Sadly being a jerk can be a vicious cycle. With rising anger and bitterness about how poorly your contributions are received, it may be virtually impossible to present a smiling and upbeat facade to the world—when you're tired, when you're stressed, in a job interview for example or after making a presentation. So for all those here who think "don't be a jerk" is a valid defence for their own unwillingness to brook criticism, just think how many promising careers, then lives, are destroyed by this mechanism.
No, because computer chips don't operate at 100°C (let alone 300°C like a nuclear reactor). Low-temperature heat flows contain little usable work. Typically the best option is to dump the spare heat into the nearest body of water, or into the air.
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I'm using Parallels. Support is terrible. Software is ok-ish.
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"Be offended on behalf of someone" can die alongside as well. Point well made.
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Just have to publish reviews anonymously, and if there is outcry about it journals can have internal investigations on the matter.
> What should the people who have nothing of value to exchange but their attention use for currency?

Doesn't matter. What matters is everybody else is not given any choice about it.
Publish the paper and put the protocols on something like https://www.protocols.io so the results can be reproduced.
They might as well just supply the list of allowed passwords /s
> Or if some problem of the future, not VMs, some day requires kernel hacking, but this is artificially locked out.

Depending on the use case, you could still compile a custom version of Darwin, if you absolutely need to.
Read at least the first few chapters of Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path.
The issue is novelty effect. People inexperienced in improving their own productivity will try an intervention, see great improvements in the following days, and decide to blog about it. But the improvements usually come not from the intervention itself, but from the novelty aspect - so they tend to disappear within a week. After suffering from that many, many times you finally learn the pattern and stop blogging about random things you're trying.

That said, trial and error is definitely the way to go, and I like to read about systems people develop from themselves - sometimes I discover a weird trick that sticks with me for longer.
Man, I'm pretty up to date on things but I admit this is the first time I've heard of Gauche. Seems like a pretty mature project too what with the 907 page PDF manual.
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Google's reputation for killing services is wholly earned, but there's a difference between a service and an offering within the service. Most of the GCP services that were there before and gone today have just been renamed or consolidated.

One could argue also that AWS has too many often esoteric services, and if they focused on making some of them more feature-full the service would improve (disclosure we use both and I think both are perfectly good cloud services).
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Lots & LOTS of reading. LOTS of writing (look up journaling CBT). Distancing myself form people who actively engage in those behaviors & enable me to do so. Distance myself from social media (I haven't posted a selfie or personal life update in six months).

Focus on people close to you that engage you on an intellectually or emotionally inspiring way. Find projects that bring you joy (or at least pass the time fairly well).

Make jokes about yourself, to yourself. Take moments to pause & internally acknowledge when you feel you've done something you regret. Force yourself to apologize if it is necessary (but be wary that you may be trying to apologize to facilitate someone else coddling you: ask yourself if your apologizing improves THEIR life, not if it will assuage your guilt).

Good luck!
just waiting to get my yellow limited edition td-3 and then i will look at modding the blue one i have now. the df mods are quite extensive, i would look to keep the machine simple. i've seen some diy td-3 mods floating around
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That’s a facile and shallow response, and buys into a popular Marxist trope. You could fairly say that if we were talking about whether healthcare in the US is a “free market.” It’s not a gray area like that. You have one example that flows directly from the central principles of Marxism (the failure of centrally planned agriculture) and one example that contradicts the basic principles of free market capitalism (slavery and colonialism). You can’t have a “free” market with forced labor, or where a colony is forced to sell raw materials to the colonizer and forced to buy finished goods from the colonizer. Pinning colonialism and slavery to capitalism is like criticizing filesystem performance in microkernels based on the Linux kernel as an example. Whatever shades of gray may exist in the definition of microkernel, Linux’s filesystem access does not fall into that debatable area.
Not sure what I can do for your confidence. But negotiate as if you believe you’re worth the full amount.
https://europa.eu/european-union/law_en

The europa.eu site has ever piece of information available, it can be a bit wordy and legal but there is usually references to bodies and the precedents they have taken etc.
Concerns of getting laid off in a volatile market perhaps.
It certainly makes more sense to employ surveillance on officials instead of the whole public, but I would be cautious as well.

Achieving transparency requires meticulous checks whereas video cameras only serve as a cheap distraction. Neither public servants nor lobbyists would be stupid enough to be affected, same goes for criminals for that matter, and while I do think that public figures need to make concessions to their privacy in some cases, it doesn't have to be unnecessarily excessive.
When your company is big enough to do both private and government contract work, it will be inevitable to choose a compromise at some point. These things are like PoC software. You find the optimal solution by trial and error.
> It is good to see that large scale surveillance is rejected.

Where in this article do you see a rejection of large scale surveillance?
let them use clojure if they want to who cares
I'm not an expert in California, but if I understand prop 13 correctly it is possible some of those are people who have lived in SF for many years at the same address - their house is paid off and taxes are minimal so they can afford to live on much less. If your house only costs $400/month to live in ($100 insurance, $100 taxes, $200 other utilities) minimum wage still leaves plenty left over, and presumably if you bought a house 30 years ago you were worth more than minimum wage...
Sometimes you want the higher temperature, like in a kiln?
You failed to read his point. He is talking about their reputation, not whatever-happens-in-practice.
It is true some members dont always play by the rules, even something as significant as GDPR has questionable implementation coverage even in Belgium. I know myself Ireland has some questionable Tax issues which dont really help the other countries get a fair playing field.

Enforcement is an issue, it wasnt really imagined that you would agree to something as a group and then walk away and say : "Well forget that".
Whereas Australia has blown right through the discussion and enabled facial recognition without public discourse.

I just found out a close suburb (East Perth) has 30-60 government run facial recognition cameras being installed with this being pushed this year to the entire Perth city area.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/face-tracking-tech...

There is a reason Australia is the guinea pig of the western nations for erosion of rights and privacy tests to see how far we can be contained and pushed.

Because Australians are the most passive of all peoples across the world and are historically the easiest population to control.

But once the five eyes work out their tech and policy here they will push it out to the rest of the world.

We are the control group.

https://www.afr.com/technology/five-eyes-fears-rise-over-aus...

Australia’s population is so passive that we have passed extremely terrifying laws that now the five eyes use to bypass their own countries laws.

Australia today. UK and USA tomorrow.
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I know someone who has passed that MS check and is not a US citizen.
> In addition to direct encouragement for consumers to buy something (what is called "conversion"), advertising is also used to shape public perception and garner general interest. Coke doesn't consider an ad vended to a broke person to have zero value, because their (..)

Except that it's completely utterly wrong to milk broke people like that.

Oh it happens, but advertising trying to influence you to have thoughts that you would otherwise not have, is actually something that most people disapprove of.

It's not really a good argument to say "just because you don't have money to buy our stuff, doesn't mean we can't control your brain in other ways".

THINK for one moment: If you have nothing to give, or nothing you WANT to give, what on EARTH gives them the right to take something else from you anyway?!!?!
Sometimes. But not every time. Critiquing someone's science is not one of those times.
Fantastic, thanks for clarifying. Resource looks super helpful!
I've upvoted your replies, because I stand corrected as I've said.

My comments though have tanked Karma.
What's wrong with being exotic? If you spent your entire like on some small atoll in the Marshall Islands, somewhere like Shanghai or New York might very well be exotic.

I must have missed the Twitter outrage memo on exoticism. Besides, "esoteric" and "exotic" are different words.
Landfills are great for inert materials. Or ones that decompose nicely. The problem is that we throw a lot of stuff that is toxic and can leak into the environment/water supply.

A modern electronic equipment has pretty good part of the periodic table inside.
REAL ID is the exact kind of thing Americans used to mock in the Soviet Union.

“Papers, please”
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Related: is there software that, given low-resolution video of people, can produce high-resolution images of their faces by analyzing multiple frames?
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Oh, I accept all that.

When I first started writing, I discovered what was popular versus not. Authentic content that nobody read didn’t seem like a good use of time.

Writing about how shitty my current credit card was and which I found to be better was very profitable. Reviewing a keyboard was not.

But having said that, some of the most valuable content was useful, but flew under the radar of other writers. E.g. how to navigate a particular government office’s procedures.

Google did a lot to help your case when they targeted ads based on the user and not the content. IE: showing you finance ads on non-finance websites. That really helped out publishers in otherwise not-too-profitable topics.
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"Do I choose Kotlin over Java" is not the choice you face though - you can choose from a bunch of JVM languages. Clojure is pretty nice, for example.
There's a screenshot of that "Unknown Protocol" error message in this Vice article:

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/y3m33x/heres-the-shadow-i...

It (seems to) occur while trying to access a "2nd Factor Authentication" page at auth0.com, and there's a cross through the padlock icon at the bottom of the window.
Huh. I'd go the other way around: if you've found a game-breaking ultimate superpower, of course you're going to use it.

Ability to reason about and optimize systems isn't "the only tool" a conscious programmer has, it's an additional tool they have that most of the population don't. So perhaps "software engineers tend to see themselves as machines" that can be optimized, because they can see it where others can't.
Its not like they can avoid being sued by not doing this. It just changes the cost point to be sued successfully, and actually denying impact and consequence probably increases their burden. Owning up, being sued but showing contrition has an upside.
You mildly contradict yourself in saying your innate productivity is impossible to write about and then mention it requires identity trade offs. The mastery curve has always been described as going from conscious to unconscious grokking and these blogs are the fodder for thinking about what works and what doesn't.
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If I had that feeling, I'd probably look for a professional to help me figure out whether narcissism is a correct diagnosis, and if so, what would be the right way for me to deal with it.
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