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I can speak for Qt, Ionic and Cordova.

Beyond "Hello World" all of them required me to get my hands dirty, at which point I was better off just doing C++ with native views, standard out of the box tooling available across all SDKs.

Nowadays I rather go for PWAs, or plain mobile Web, unless it is something very special that requires OS APIs or hardware access.
As someone who also needs to explain the importance and nuance of QA engineering to my startup partners, do you have any go-to resources you use to describe/sell the position? Genuinely want to expand my ability to speak to the role.
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Exactly.

Moreover, the second sentence gets it entirely backwards

>The previously little-known company, reporters claimed, had used behavioral influencing techniques to turn out social media users to vote in both elections.

The major Cambridge Analytica push was not to increase turnout of supporters, it was to suppress and divert turnout of the opponent's supporters. E.g., finding black voters and highlighting Hillary's 25-year-ago comment on "superpredators", or pushing Jill Stein & Bernie Sanders as better options, promoting fallacies about the math of 1st-Past-The-Post voting -- all focused on the fence-sitters in key states, just make it feel to them like the real option is the one that helps Trump in 1PPP voting. Note that the success is shown in the margin by which HRC lost in the three states is about 20% of the people voting for Jill Stein, with zero chance to win in 1PPP voting.

Between this massive misdirection in the opening paragraph, and the long but mildly interesting distraction on the 1700s "air loom" hoax, it safe to recognize this article as an attempt to emotionally undermine the CA story and ignore it.
For the later years, it would be interesting to see the comparison for GNU fileutils vs what's in the base of FreeBSD or OpenBSD vs what's offered by busybox. The author mentions this briefly with Darwin's ls command (which looks like it might just come directly from another BSD).

Also tar's increases might include new compressions methods like bzip2, XZ, etc.
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For context this is an evolution of the Applied Micro X-gene (I believe this is the 3rd generation). The 1st gen was the famous Mustang, one of the first Aarch64 chips generally available that ran Linux. I still have one in my loft somewhere.

Edit: I should note that if you used the X-gene 1 it was very slow, albeit a reliable workhorse for early 64-bit ARM Linux development. These newer chips have far better performance.
No - they are responsible. It is irresponsible to show up to these events when the mortality rate for 70+ year olds is so high for the virus.

These events just exponentially multiply community transmission so while everyone there might be 30ish and just gets a bad flu, the bigger point is that they are spreading it to their communities at home and disproportionately at-risk populations.
"Spurious"

* No documentation ties it to its putative originator.

* Its earliest known reference did not appear until long after the death of its supposed originator.

* Multiple sources are claimed for its origins.

* Contextual information indicates the words are of more recent origin than claimed. (deflation/inflation)

1. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/pri...

2. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bank-shot-2/

One of the “Rules of Misquotation” outlined by Ralph Keyes in his 1992 book on that subject is that axiom that “Famous dead people make excellent commentators on current events.” Given the fear and uncertainty engendered by the current economic situation, and the disgruntlement expressed by many Americans at the thought of providing taxpayer-funded government bailouts to financial institutions and other large corporate entities (such as the auto industry), it was only a matter of time until someone trotted out a quotation (apocryphal or otherwise) from a respected, long-dead figure demonstrating that this whole economic mess was both predictable and inevitable. And one could hardly find a more hallowed figure in U.S. history than Thomas Jefferson to deliver this message, warning us from across the centuries that predatory banks and corporations would eventually impoverish us all. [snopes]
>When is the last time you used a GOTO in code?

Just yesterday in fact, while implementing a state machine. Except the developers of that particular language explicitly did away with GOTO, so I ended up approximating it with a SWITCH/CASE. At least the language supports fall-through...

Which is to say, people differ in judgements of various features (footguns vs swiss army knifes). Moreover, the judgements seem to oscillate as fashions, in ~10 year long cycles. Please recall how exceptions and templates used to be a hot thing back in the day. Ditto garbage collectors. Presently we're all in love with Rust, and the "JITs considered harmful" paper will drop any day now.
Looks like the population of Japan is falling faster than the GDP of Japan. So "per capita" is kinda misleading here.
No, intentional coordination is unnecessary for ill effects. Stratechery had a relevant article about the razor blade market recently. Oligopolies are quite common.
You probably don't know much about IB then. There's no vetting at all, by IB or any other brokerage, except making sure that the money is in their account. They have margin calls for a reason.
I will counter: How can you not feel bit of panic when you see coronavirus cases being reported daily from all parts of the World where travel is common or where there is large population?

Then you have excellent leadership in Iran which knowingly hides their coronavirus situation and thus have exported the virus to poor and incapable places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq?

Heck, compared to Iran, even Pakistan is being much more stringent and transparent.
I think it's both.

I was at PAX East over the weekend with a 100,000 strong cohort of people who aren't exactly well known for personal hygiene and I wasn't scared, but it probably wasn't the ideal place to go. As long as you take strong precautions (cleaning shared surfaces aggressively, using hand sanitizer or washing hands after touching shared surfaces or people, avoiding sick people, avoiding confined spaces, etc) then I don't think there is really that much risk short of being coughed on by someone, but not much risk != basically no risk if you don't go. I actually went with a friend who was sick with the common cold and I was more concerned about him getting me sick than me getting COVID-19, and it seems I managed to avoid both.
Mass hysteria ? I don't think that's the case, people are carefull, but don't seem to be scared.

( Belgium)
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I agree this should be easier, and far more accessible.

I'm not sure how this works in the US, but in the UK you can transfer whatever you have accrued in the default (defined contribution) workplace pension into a private pension plan, at any point.

They are called SIPPs, and you have many suppliers for them, and many of them offer a large universe of funds (or even shares directly). They are accessible to all taxpayers in the UK.

Getting broad market exposure, minus fossil fuels - there are a growing number of ETFs and funds that don't have exposure to fossil fuels - I think there should be more, and lower cost ones.
Not in an election year.
That is an amazing quote. It seems that the attribution to Thomas Jefferson is a little off though.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bank-shot-2/
Sounds like Bandler channeling Heller.
China started with single digit cases, which then spread countrywide with tens of thousands of cases and many deaths. They quarantined cities, built 1000 bed hospitals in 10 days. And now after about 2 months they are seeing a slowdown.

Why would this exact scenario regarding growth in the number of cases not play out in the US? The only difference is smaller population, but cities are dense here too.

However, unlike China, I don't think US and other countries will be able to quarantine entire cities.

They only hope IMHO is that the virus becomes less virulent with as summer approaches.
The thinking is backwards, if you are only 10 people, there I no need to shape the system in a microservicr fashion. You just extract the pieces that need scaling.
If you are 60 devs, you need to split the system so that everyone can work on it without walking on each other.
Clearly the author would never be caught doing any of that homosexual stuff!
No it's essentially saying if projects like GCC published permissively we could all get along peacefully and wouldn't need to batter each other using the courts.
> Its arguable if a code generation step is better or worse than macros.

I'd rather just have generics.

Code generation for protos is nice for several reasons, but using it as an alternative to generics is not nice at all. I work on a number of projects with generics in internal classes that are not exposed as an API, and using code generation just to get those to work seems like a very big hammer for a small nail.
Search for 'duplo marble run'. I've found knockoff versions on ebay for ~$5. My 8 & 10 year old still love to play with the set. It's fun to build and fun to send the marbles down the path.
I actually switched most of my "real" investing to https://www.m1finance.com/ a few months ago. It is also commission-free, but unlike Robinhood you can do IRAs as well as taxable accounts, and it automatically reinvests dividends. One interesting difference is that they limit buys/sells once daily (twice if you pay a small monthly fee). Day traders won't like this, but for buy-and-hold investor not trying to time the market to the minute it makes sense to me. As a developer I'd think it has to be easier to code than real-time. I feel like it's essentially a cheaper Betterment/Wealthfront. I keep a taxable "short term savings" account in 90%bonds/10% stocks, and then my IRAs in 10%bonds/90%stocks.

I was a little concerned they were front-loading orders. Still a valid question, but they say no: https://www.m1finance.com/blog/how-m1-makes-money/

Not to be too spammy, but here's a referal link if you want the 10$: https://mbsy.co/swlqd
Yes but no capital controls on who can own what and where
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Capita is decreasing thanks to demographic trends, and gdp had flat lined
Because the curve is almost not rising, even in linear form ( I thought it was logarithmic even before yesterday).

The amount of casualties seem to be in control.

Okay, Iran is acting stupid. But we don't even do business with them. Tourism is minimal.

Hell, I'd even prefer to get it, so I'm over it ( 32 years old)
Minerva Forum is a winner in EdTech. Is there an open source alternative?
The alternative to the happy paths would be all unexptecd things that might happen. They would be easy to implement only if we can forsee them. I think the diffuculty comes from our limited abiliyt to to predict all situations where things may go wrong.
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And, if they try to ramp up the production too quickly, will we see a return of Covid-19 due to people in close proximity again?
Couldn't we have a postmortem about the previous elections first? People are still happily claiming that the advertising and use of Facebook had no effect.
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It's just irresponsible that SXSW and KubeCon (Amsterdam) have not canceled. There should be public shaming of the leaders of these large events.
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I agree with the political optics part, and that the POTUS current claim to success is finances, but I 100% disagree that if the market stagnates or tanks completely that he no longer has that talking point.

If the market tanks, all the talking heads will just blame the upcoming election, and claim that markets and market makers are scared of a Democrat being elected. It doesn't change the talking points for the President at all, I imagine. He still claims the moral victory, if only he hadn't been undercut by those thieves on the other side.

That sort of thing is standard now. Claim success until you can't, then deny any involvement and blame someone else. That's politics, baby.
Yeah, it's true, rsync is a real nightmare when it comes to arguments.

I remember reading that xkcd comic though and I went "yup, that's me!", and I've spent a bunch of time thinking about why that was. You list those flags there and say there intuitive, but they're unique to tar, you have to memorize them, and there's no reason that they need to be in tar when they're available right there in the shell.

Why do I need to memorize that the "f" flag is "file output/input", when I can just write "> dest-file" or "cat src-file |" (or "< src-file") in my shell? That works for every command, not just tar. Why do I need to remember that the z file is for gzip (what's the equivalent flag for bzip2?) when gzip/gunzip exists and works for anything?

So many people simply don't understand what tar does or how to use it without googling the magic formula they need, and it's because of all these damn flags that everyone insists on using instead of doing it the "unix way".
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>I mean, I know because I've used it enough

Perhaps you mean that you've looked it up. Others could do so, too; it's not that hard (even if a web comic makes light-hearted fun of the subject)!

Anyway, here's a fun fact: tar is smarter than you give it credit. The commands below do just work:

tar xf uncompressed.tar
tar xf gzipped.tar.gz
tar xf xzipped.tar.xz
lets see major virus that affects the load of relying upon hospital services infrastructure..seems that coronavirus concerns are justified not overblown
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This is mostly off-topic but:

An author made a book series with a metal based magic system in which aluminum was inert/block magic effects. And there was emotional magic there, so wearing an aluminum foil hat could block covert attempts at influencing you. He was really proud of that :)
mass hysteria due to lack of leadership qualities in the Political powers that be in both the US and the UK.
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The author is not an epidemiologist, and does not appear to have any other relevant expertise to assess the situation. The people who do have that expertise consistently say that it is very serious.

Cases have declined in China only because of the extreme measures they undertook to stop it. (In other words, "hysteria.")
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You don't think fiscal policy can affect the economy? Direct spending will result in increased production up to the productive capacity of the economy, won't it?
You should try to optimize for the best quality of life for the longest amount of time possible (you could consider the expected value quality * time). I'd rather live a mostly pretty good life for many years than a good life for half of those years.

If the people working on aging treatments are right (and I imagine they probably are if you set a long time horizon), we'll eventually be able to live for hundreds of years without any of the effects of aging. Eliminating aging and most disease would improve the average quality of life far more than probably anything else we could possibly do within the same time span.

Of course dramatically extending lifespans will have a huge impact on the world, but we'll almost certainly have other shock absorbers by then to minimize the externalities. (The same things we'd be doing to deal with overpopulation from birth rates, etc.)

And once/if the technology is universally available, free, and safe, the majority of people will almost certainly opt in to it within a generation or sooner. You can be a conscientious objector if you like, but that doesn't mean you have a right to try to prevent a near-uncountable number of total hours of human flourishing. Comparing eliminating aging to retaining pollution is a much more naive take than what the parent posted, I think. I would consider it the opposite: hindering funding and progress towards treatment of aging is like blocking initiatives to fight climate change and fossil fuel proliferation, except possibly with even more dire consequences for humans in the long term than what climate change might pose.
I flagged this article and I think others should too. Here's why: We don't HAVE enough data points yet. Can't trust anything coming out of China and the incubation time is a couple weeks. If you look to Iran -- it's a mess. Downplaying this entire thing is the reason why we've seen this virus pop up all over the US. No one is taking quarantining seriously.
Further, persuasion isn't the only campaign strategy.

Much (more?) effort is put into disinformation, discouragement, confusion.

Brad Parscale, Steve Bannon, and many others have said (bragged) as much.

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The weaponization of social media has brought two novel strategies.

1- Instigating conflicts. Like organizing both a protest and its counter protest.

2- Virality. Where people themselves help perpetuate the messages.

(Perhaps only novel because of the new found scale.)
LE just posted their own (excellent!) incident report of this on the mozilla bugtracker, including the discovery timeline, analysis of the bug, and follow-up steps: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619047#c1

The original bug report, which was initially diagnosed as only affecting the error messages, not the actual CAA re-checking: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rechecking-caa-fails-wit...

Brief discussion on revocation exemption requests: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619179

Tomorrow will tell if granting a revocation exemption might have been a good idea in hindsight.
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The outbreak in China is indeed somewhat (maybe even largely) under control. But if you look at the trend in cases outside China, the growth is still clearly exponential [0].

[0]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...
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If they can identify people involved, they can issue arrest warrants and a red corner notice via Interpol. That can make travel very difficult for the people involved and they'll essentially be unable to leave their own countries without risk of arrest. They won't realistically ever be able to prosecute, but they can make life a bit uncomfortable as a gesture. And if relatives or friends of those people vacation in Switzerland, they can always pull them in for "questioning about a suspect" as another form of harassment.

Small countries can never threaten a big state realistically, however they have the ability to harrass people who work for these big states in the hope of discouraging future action
did they not have the same problem in doing the aids vaccine?
Every country designing and making their own 5G equipment seems impractical (not to mention expensive, likely full of bugs=backdoors, etc), I think the correct conclusion to draw from that is that you need to use end-to-end (really point-you-trust-to-other-point-you-choose-to-trust) encryption.

It's like checksums, really ;) Point-to-point is helpful, but not sufficient.
The idea of “real money” is highly suspect in the stock market. It’s better to give up the ghost and see the whole thing as a speculation game. When you buy stock you’re betting it goes higher. That’s it. Everything else, like whether the company has the assets, the vision, the revenue curve, blah blah, are mere inputs into your decision to bet on this and how much.
"Investing" and "Stock Trading" are incompatible in the same sentence, unless combined with a phrase like "does not involve".

You can buy and hold, or "Invest", on any platform which, in my opinion, has to meet three minimum requirements: It should offer commission-free trading on a variety of low-cost index funds, it should offer a variety of investment account types (at minimum, taxed accounts, Traditional IRAs, and Roth IRAs), and it should be stable.

Robinhood only meets one of these three criteria. There are dozens of other brokerages out there which do meet all of these criteria: TDAmeritrade, Schwab, Vanguard, and Chase are four great ones.

Robinhood is on the same level as a betting app for sports; so, fine; use it if that's what you want. But do not even mention the word "Invest" in the same sentence as Robinhood; its grossly irresponsible.
But it could also be the case that a service they use times out if you ask for invalid data e.g. from the future. In which case that could cause a cascade of backlogged tasks that would eventually lead to 503 errors under load.
I think this shows how much people trust their government and system overall, and how much they just consume junk media like twitter, FB etc. of these days.

Here in Switzerland, I see practically no change apart from few people on streets wearing masks (by few I mean like 2 today, for the first time since months). No panic shopping, our company is not going crazy just doing what seems adequate (extra hand disinfection available, there was a question of checking if remote works OK if needed). Shops have +-same amount of people, nobody binge shopping, all is available (apart from useless face masks in pharmacies, of course). Bear in mind that in my town we have at least 5 cases, could be more (not following this closely, what would be the point apart from getting into negative mental spiral).

Same look in France just across the border - big shopping centres seems exactly same as before. Went last weekend to Grenoble and ended up shopping at Carrefour there - again, business as usual. Nobody checking anything at EU borders, in nor out.

Back home in Eastern europe, some folks are going a bit mental and things for sure look a bit differently there.
This is a strange opinion to express in general, but really strange on this news. Linux hasn't had hardware video acceleration in a browser for over a decade when Windows and macOS did have it, precisely because it was too hard to support this use case within the restrictions of X11. The buffer sharing trickery, combined with having to render web pages and a browser around it, was just too hard to solve for years (within the limited attention X11 based desktops get in general).

Linux finally has a graphics stack on which this isn't as much of a problem, and it's received enough adoption that Firefox is now making changes for it. And on that news you decide to comment that Wayland is a tech demo? This news should tell you it's completely the opposite! Wayland seems to be finally delivering.
I don't know - a 15% mortality rate for 80+ year olds is pretty bad. Or do their lives not count? Or are we not responsible for trying to slow the spread?
> Everybody knows that conferences are giant petri dishes. I know some people who just book time to get sick after a major conference.

Common enough occurrence that it's been named "con-plague".

Even in a good year it's almost expected to catch something at an event that brings so many people into close quarters.