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This is so awesome! I wonder if it would be useful to have this knowledge “overlayed” on top of the Svelte compiler source itself. That way, contributors could clone the repo and get an annotated tour of the compiler process, directly from their editor.

I’ve been working on a side-project, that allows recording and playing back interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase. This seems like an excellent “test case“ for that experience, which I might have to experiment with :)

https://aka.ms/codetour.
Generally, I think it's very much both. People's expectations for what's possible is based on experience. And that experience is driven by by previous expectations.

I've helped some places shift to a much faster delivery cadence. That's really easy to do if you have a clean slate. E.g., when I co-founded something in 2010, we started with a weekly delivery cadence and the turned up up, so that a team of 6 was shipping 2-3 times per day. Our infrastructure and our code was very much tuned for that. It took some work to get to that level, especially in terms of automating absolutely everything, but once we'd done the work it was fine. In fact, it was great!

In contrast, I've tried to get existing companies just up to a weekly cadence. That's an incredible slog because expectations, tools, and processes are all built around much slower cadences. It's not like anybody was bad. It was just that if you were only doing something quarterly or annually, it made no sense to automate it. Or even understand it, really. There was a lot of the business version of, "Honey, where did we put the Christmas lights? Did we replace the wonky tree stand, or did we just talk about it?" It's a nightmare. And the whole time most people are like, "Why are we bothering to go faster? The old approach worked!" And for them, it did work.

For a lot of government stuff, I think the change cadence co-evolves. Law is pretty stable, so people just build with low change frequency in mind. A decade later a change comes along and it's really hard, so the higher-ups learn to minimize change. That makes things even worse; requests are now met with high budgets and long lead times, meaning legislators learn not to propose small improvements. That legal stability biases the tech staff and processes even more to not touching anything.

And of course, so much of this stuff was built long before we figured out how to maintain quality in the face of frequent change. Two decades in, there are a ton of new companies that still can't do CI/CD and automated testing well. It's no shock code from the 1970s hasn't caught up.
Can you elaborate on how that would work and the pros and cons? I'm curious
For medical professionals, do they suffer worse because they come in contact with many variations / mutations of the same virus?
The dough bubbles and more than doubles in volume in the bowl when the yeast is slowly working. If you wait too little, it hasn't risen yet. If you wait too long, it will rise and then start to flatten back. You can see this from the sides of the bowl, that the dough has reached a higher level earlier, and started to contract, but left some marks up to the maximum where it was. I guess the timing depends on how much yeast you added exactly, and the temperature in your kitchen. You don't need to get it perfectly right, but it you wait way too little or way too long I guess the bread comes out dense.

You just scrape the risen dough from the bowl into the dutch oven with minimal disturbance, so you don't disturb the air bubbles too much. And your oven and the dutch oven need to be hot at this point, so the dough goes right into a hot oven, the heat expands the air bubbles and gives you some oven spring.

Other recipes make you sprinkle flour on a working surface, fold and shape the dough into a loaf, and then leave it, giving the shaped loaf a second rise.
This is incredible, thank you!

Also thanks for flagging the issue on the submission form, I've just fixed it :)
Struggling to get past the Minimal Logic section as I don’t recognise the notation. Any pointers?
Using the demographics of just the passengers is misleading because there's basically 1 staff per 2 passengers. Most of the staff are 20-40s.
not when obesity varies so much geographically
Have you seen people doing basic internet searches? Open "the internet" by clicking the 'e' button, search Bing for Google, go to Google, type in the web address of an email someone sent you that you printed out ... I'm not even kidding.

But yes, most people can send an image on Facebook (with some coaching), so they can learn to send an image to a fax service.

What often confused these things is that people will type "send a fax" on Google, and then install the first thing recommended - those recommendations are based on 'making most profit for $company & Google' and so are often not the best system and often charge a lot c for basic services (with all the usual dark patterns).
> 1.54%/0.3 = ~0.51%.

Shouldn't this be 11 / (712 / 0.3) which is 1.54 * 0.3 = 0.462
How many times now has "Atari" come back as an investor stripping scam, based on nothing but memories of the one time there was a real company using that name?
This is more an outgrowth of the British fixation on immutable class distinctions locked at birth.
I am not saying I agree with this system, but am assuming one of the reasons is that the hiring company see the credentials as a way to not gamble on whether you "are familiar" with a subject or actually has deep knowledge of core concepts taught along a planned syllabus.
I went through 5 pairs in 18 months but it was because I slept with them in, and realized that was the source. Have had one pair die in 3 years when I don't sleep with them in, and I'm pretty careless (they fall on cement sometimes, get banged against the car door, etc).
Pipelining support in http 1.1 is basically useless even outside of the compatibility issues.
Same thing happened to a relative on mine two weeks ago when she tried to apply for unemployment.

The state web site wanted additional documentation, and because the walk-in offices are closed, the only allowed method of delivering the documents was by fax.

I signed up for an e-fax service and sent the paperwork for her. She also mailed a copy just in case, though that wasn't listed as an approved method of sending in paperwork.

While I think the state should be able to accept paperwork uploaded to its web site, I understand them not wanting to do that. With the way we've seen unemployment insurance web sites overloaded to the point of crashing across the country, uploading is no longer as reliable as fax. Some would say it never was.

E-mail is a worse solution, IMO. I say this based on the number of misdirected e-mails I receive in my commercial mailboxes from people who mistake one of the web sites I run for all kind of businesses from Boeing to hospitals. Millions of people think nothing of putting all of their personal, exploitable information in an e-mail to a stranger.

I work in the healthcare space, and the social media guy says that people are forever sending him very personal health information through Facebook, Twitter, and other insecure methods. Or worse — when he posts something about a particular condition, hundreds of people will post photos of themselves asking if he thinks they have it, too.

Fax isn't perfect. But it is far better than what Silicon Valley has given us to date.
There are at least two hells of a lot of un-diagnosed cases.
Did Hoover Know of Pearl Harbor? (1982)
I have seen many articles with similar thoughts - that the death rate of Covid is < 1%, similar or less than the flu and other well known viruses.

But, anecdotally, two close associates have died of Covid, and a neighbor is now on life support. May he get better soon!

I (fortunately) have not heard of anyone even being put into a life-threatening position by Flu. Asking a few friends, their experiences match mine, though the victims differ.

Can someone with more understanding explain - are we just the exceptions, or is there some reason that the anecdotal evidence is so far different from the numbers?
Chrome extension which allows you to visualize and export your LinkedIn relationships. Your data stays only locally in your browser!
I would still say it's pretty shitty to assume that "SV culture" is the only thing that innovates, or innovates quickly, which is what you're implying.

There are major impediments that are non-technical for those of us in government positions, just take a look at the bidding process for projects that are pretty much required for something the scale of "overhauling" the system backing state or federal programs. Is it necessary? Probably not. Does it happen anyway because it's required? Yes. This isn't the fault of some tenured programmer, hell, they're probably not even consulted as a knowledge worker as part of the bid process. This isn't a failure of culture, this is the failure of a byzantine beauracracy built around protecting itself instead of the people it's meant to serve. You can have all the innovation that comes out of the NIH, the NSF, DARPA and the NSA; but the amount of time even practical papers and systems that are produced by these institutions are put into practice by the government thay funded them is exceedingly slim due to the institutional rust that's in place. Many of these "SV culture" companies are actively building things that were first concepts in a government lab, but by all means, blame the underpaid, overworked technical staff that actually designed them.
How does the Bose app talk to the device? Wireshark can probably be used to analyze it. Writing a simple free software replacement for the bad app could be a fun project and the result will no doubt be much better than their proprietary software.
Thank you. It was updated.
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At the cellular level it’s a numbers game. The more enemy combatants, the sicker you will be. The more exposure to the virus, the more viruses you’ll have in your body, the more intense the symptoms.

Hospitals don’t have great access to fresh flowing outside air. So as they fill up with infected people the air just becomes a cesspool of virus.
> Many obese people take cruises--it fits their lifestyles (unlimited food availability, and they don't have to move much).

Do you have actual data on that or is this just your prejudice speaking?
I agree there's no universal definition of purpose in this context.

I was using purpose in my sense. Daseiner1 may use the same definition, or they may be using another. As with you.

It's useless to debate anything else until we figure that out.

---

My definition is contained in my original statement "reproduction without purpose is not life." I do not consider reproduction a purposeful action, as I define it.

It's hard to be intentional about something that forms the minimum bar of existence (immortal organisms aside).
I know they were, it just occurred to me to check and whaddaya know.
You pretty much nailed my reasons as well. Trying to explain that updating model results for this month's data will take 12 hours usually does not go over well. The learning curve to move stuff to Rust would be considered well worth it.
my seventy old father

So your anecdada cancels out his anecdata?

I work in healthcare, occasionally customer-facing. Your dad is the exception.
Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell someone's side project Lisp!
If one has business sense.
Understands that projects can't run forever and they have to be either completed or killed by a certain date.Has a concept of cashflow. Isn't arrogant with ' the customer should know better' or 'Why would anyone do that?'. Knows the balance between 'this needs to be improved long term' and 'we need sales today' and how to keep both running. Doesn't get involved in idiotic keyboard wars about spaces vs tabs,etc.
i really think herd immunity is their only hope but govts are too scared to not do a lockdown which is insane give none of them any social safety nets from the poor and a large part of population earn their food on a daily basis.
Baking Bread: The Chemistry of Bread-Making
Is it so baffling that people are getting tired of reading about COVID-19 though? I mean, I've been in quarantine for at least 1 month now, and gonna be at least 2 more weeks. I'd like to read about other things than COVID-19, especially since I can't really take any other action than to stay at home, especially because it would be illegal for me to not be at home.

So yeah, I'm one of the people who have started removing and blocking things that are mentioning COVID-19, since I can't really do anything about it. Once something actionable comes up, I'll hear it in the official press conferences from my country's government.

I guess luckily, my HN blocker only blocks mentions of COVID-19 and "corona virus", so the keyword "Coronapocalypse" managed to get through, and here I am...
Did you question those people what their lifestyle is like. Does it correlate to why their headphones broke so easily?

I use them in the office and on flights only.
The only thing I did was replace the foam cups in 2019 due to [expected] wear.
No problems with them at all ever.
I've had mine since 2016.

Same story for a colleague I've known for 8 years.
Toys R Us was killed by the internet.

When you own a dying business, spinning off its properties makes perfect sense. Real estate has long term value the business no longer has. And of course rents rise over time, why would your real estate business subsidize the dying business with below market rates?
>For instance, a while ago I learned that charging using the raised numbers in credit cards can be done still in some places in the US. In my country credit cards arrived much later, skipping that phase, and so we didn't have technical/procedural debt when transitioning to NFC credit card reading/mobile apps.

What technical debt? Having to put raised lettering on credit cards?
where do we draw the line about basic computer competency?

I think the question is why should there be a line about basic computer competency?

Why can't many methods be available to people, instead of restricting ourselves to certain methods?

Not everyone went to college. Heck, not everyone goes to high school. Those are very often the people who need government and medical services the most.
I love this concept. Is there a maximum distance that you stop broadcasting to preserve privacy?
It’s a trap!
Yes but:
1) relatively few government workers have marketable IT skills
2) they get paid the same whether they do any work or not, and they are required to spend the budget. Therefore, farming out the problem to contractors and writing checks is the incentivized path.
>reads the CSVs from the .zip file

Neat! I can't find anything in Clojure that does that, so I guess I'd have to use java.util.zip via Clojure ineterop. But making records and doing queries is easy:

> generate classes at runtime using the headers in each CSV

In Clojure:

(ns gtfs.core
(:require [clojure.data.csv :as csv]))

(defn load-records [f]
(let [csv-data (csv/read-csv (slurp f))]
(map zipmap
(->> (first csv-data) ;; First row is the header
(map keyword)
repeat)
(rest csv-data))))

(def agency-maps (load-records "data/agency.txt"))
(def routes-maps (load-records "data/routes.txt"))
;; etc.

(count routes-maps) ;; 30
(first routes-maps)
;; {: route_id "1-100",
;; :route_short_name "1",
;; :route_long_name "Ligne 1",
;; :route_desc "",
;; :route_type "3",
;; :route_url "",
;; :route_color "#B22E75"}

> defines a 'select' function to make queries easy to write

;; Query for long_name and route_color
(def route_ln_color (map #(select-keys % [:route_long_name :route_color]) routes-maps))

(take 2 route_ln_color)
;; ({:route_long_name "Ligne 1", :route_color "#B22E75"}
;; {:route_long_name "Ligne 2", :route_color "#B22E75"})
Even as an old, I'm not seeing that as ageist. The problem is not somebody with 25 years of experience. It's that they have settled into something comfortable and haven't kept up with 20 years worth of change.
You have been given the citations you asked for, but now you want something specific but you haven’t said what.

What are your criteria for something you wouldn’t just dismiss?
> If your possessions all have practical utility,

This seems tautological or uselessly subjective. What is a possession without practical value? You seem to have talked yourself out of seeing the value in possessions you own. Perhaps you are simply anxious.

How this attitude began to be associated with the minimalist design movement I have no clue.
Does Wi-Fi use the same frequency for a transmitter and receiver? In general, this statement is not true:

"Relatedly, even if there is no explicit beamforming feedback, in theory you can calculate the phase differences by listening to the signals from the remote end on each of your router's antennas. Because the signals should be following exactly the same path in both directions, you can guess what phase difference your signal arrived with by seeing which difference his signal came back with, and compensate accordingly."

But maybe the frequencies are close enough such that the channel matches.
Sal Khan's excellent video on extrapolating the probable existing cases from deaths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk
19 sounds like consulting BS

20 is just awesome!
If the hospital can’t afford market rent, it was never successful to begin with.
A pasta pot with a metal oven safe lid is 90% as good.

Shaping isn't quite as good, and the side crust is less browned, but overall it's night and day better than on a tray/stone.

(Doing it now, cause my dutch oven isn't here, and the pasta pot is.)
They quoted communist as if it were a quote from other comments in the thread... And plenty of "Democratic" countries such as North Korea have authoritarian regimes. It seems that without significant effort or intervention that governments can become authoritarian regardless of their purported underlying system of governance.
You Probably Need a Haircut
the language itself is not usually the main obstacle when it comes to dealing with legacy code.

interfaces between logically distinct parts of the code will be fuzzy or nonexistent. you can't trust comments or sometimes even the names of functions (if the code is this structured at all!). you have to look at what every function you're calling actually does, what global variables it depends on, search for weird cases elsewhere that can change those globals, this type of stuff.

you have to build intuition implicitly from the code about design paradigms the organization used when the code was written. sometimes if the code was actually maintained, you end up learning several sets of paradigms from different eras. at the end of all this, much of your accumulated knowledge might not apply outside of that organization. you could be starting almost from scratch at your next job working on legacy code.

I don't mean to discourage you; it can be quite satisfying. it has almost an archeological feel sometimes. if you're a college student, I might recommend getting into c or c++ instead of cobol though. you'll have a much easier time finding an entry-level job when you graduate, and you'll at least have the option of working on newer projects too.
Question Every Default
Your rant would be better if you didn't misunderstand the need for sugar.
Also, if the theory about BCG vaccination having a beneficial effect turns out to be true, USA never used BCG whereas China and India did (and UK between 1953 and 2008).
You can take a picture, convert it to PDF, and fax it... all on your phone.

For work a couple of weeks ago I looked up the Census figures for connectivity in the areas that my company serves.

15% of the population don't have ANY internet devices. Not at home, at work, on a computer, a tablet, or even on a phone of any type.

It was something like 25% of the people in our service area don't have an internet connection at home. Not cable, DSL, fixed microwave, or even cellular.

Based on that, I suspect a lot of poor people only get to use the internet at work. The web logs for the sites I maintain seem to confirm this. When the libraries and businesses closed, thousands of users simply disappeared.
You're assuming they have an accurate cause of death for everyone. In the absence of a Covid-19 diagnosis it will simply look like pneumonia.
The downside to QUIC is that all the other nodes in the chain lose the ability to do useful things. Of course in the long run it's turned out that Google et al do not want anyone else doing useful stuff, but for quite a while it was very useful to be able to have stuff in the middle like a caching proxy. Alas, that era is over.

As an admin it's appealing to be able to have stuff like deep packet inspection to give me info on network traffic, but the price we pay collectively for that being possible is way too high so it was inevitable we'd lose it.
If you google mainstream organizations about "chicken pox parties" you will see that they uniformly say they are a bad idea- Not because they care if their advice is accurate or not, but simply because "that's what you're supposed to say" if you want to be part of mainstream discourse in the US.

Insofar as anyone of authority says anything positive about them, it is only because pox parties are still a relatively obscure phenomenon and therefore mainstream institutions haven't put in the effort yet to fully tamp down on dissenting opinions.
Wow I've had this issue for a year now, and just yesterday was thinking about taking it apart to fix it. This just made the task much easiser!
Again maybe just an anecdotal outlier but I know quite a few people that have died of the flu, from a couple kids when I was young to some of my elderly relatives.
> rewriting code that “already works” seems “unproductive.”

It is, but you need to make sure there's people qualified to maintain it when you need.
The only mistake that kills startup is running out of money. Every other piece of advice is hand-wavy at best and lacks context. For example - How much is too much to raise? How much is too little? What constitutes a bad programmer?
"Don’t constantly listen to news or TV programs that repeatedly harp on the economic challenges - just take action and stay focused on your goals"

Perhaps the hardest of the suggested things to do, but the most productive.
> And remember -- The Lancet is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. They're not going to publish something "junk".

Let's not resort to arguments of authority. They have, quite recently, published junk.

https://retractionwatch.com/2020/02/27/lancet-journal-retrac...
China isn't communist anymore.
Neural Network Parallelism at Wafer Scale
> Does Wi-Fi use the same frequency for a transmitter and receiver?

Yes
I was responding to a ‘bald claim’ made by someone with no reputation at stake.

Apple’s statement is stronger.