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This comment probably will be downvoted since it doesn't represent popular opinion.

I think everyone who has chosen a career of a software developer sooner or later needs to seriously evaluate Lisp and Lisp dialects - Racket, Clojure, CL, Emacs Lisp, Fennel, etc.

Lisp has certain qualities that most other languages don't (perhaps except for Smalltalk).

I have personally learned, tried, and implemented working software in numerous different programming languages. I'm not trying to brag about it, that's not the point. The point I'm trying to make is the following:

I've seen many programs - systems, small, medium, and of significant size, and honestly, only systems written in Lisp can give you this genuine feeling like you are dealing with a garden. Even in systems where things get incredibly messy, you still can organically keep growing them and keep adding more and extend existing stuff. They usually do not crumble under their weight.

Take, for example, Emacs. Arguably it is probably the most extensible piece of software that humanity has ever created. It is wildly malleable. Things you can do with Eisp are borderline insanity; you can change things on the fly without even having to restart Emacs - sometimes, it feels like some sorcery. Last time I checked - I pull something over 400 hundred different packages in my configuration. And somehow things just work. Yes, from time to time, "abstractions start leaking," and things would break, but never to the point that it becomes completely unusable. Check out GitHub stats. Github alone contains an incredible amount of Emacs lisp. A language with one sole purpose - configuration. Basically, it is a glorified YAML for Emacs. And the people who wrote that code - most of them never had met each other. They have never worked in the same org. They didn't have to follow strict guidelines or standards. It is a messy, wild, and lawless world. Emacs ecosystem defies any logic. If you think about it - it should not work at all, yet it does. And it's been working for over 40 years.

Many people. Some brilliant individuals every once in a while would claim: "Well, Lisp is just old. Give language X a few more years, and it gets the same and even better features..." And that's been going on for over six decades now. Ironically, almost every single language that is on top of TIOBE and RedMonk today, has borrowed many ideas from Lisp, except the most fundamental one. The concept of homoiconicity. The benefits of homoiconicity are incredibly underrated.

You may dislike or even hate Lisp, but trust me, years later, when Python is no longer sufficient for our needs; when Java becomes too expensive to maintain; and Javascript transforms into a drastically different language - Lisp still would be used, and systems written in it would be thriving.

Learn Lisp. It will make you a better programmer. That is guaranteed. Don't take my word for it. See what the world known CS experts have to say about it. Not a single one has ever said: "Lisp is a waste of time."
He refused to do "My Corona" and I think, was probably right.

I would totally buy an album of Weird Al playing Jimmy Shand scots accordion tunes.
When the browser tries to load an ad, let's say from "ads.com", the DNS service responds to that domain with 0.0.0.0, which prevents the ad from loading. You enable lists to customize which domains should be considered ad domains and can optionally blacklist other domains.
The only place where software that the OP wants to create can reside is in the hobbyist community or free, open source community.

That was my instinctive reaction as well. Existing commercial models would not support this model of building software. I'm not sure most existing FOSS models would either.

Whether this is a problem is a different question. Maybe the kind of software that is interesting to a large enough group of people for this idea to be relevant should be created and developed by the community of its users, collaboratively, over a long period of time, without financial gain being their main incentive to contribute.

I think what the community behind this site is looking for is probably a form of social change more than technological change. There are lots of people out there who have the skills to contribute to software, and there are lots more people who might learn those skills given sufficient accessibility of the knowledge and awareness of the possibilities. Right now, it's just too difficult for the potential contributors to make actual contributions. I can think of many factors that play a part on that, but none that seems to be inherently impossible to overcome.
IP lookups for known ad-serving domains are instead given a bad response or an IP of a (local) address showing a block page / no response.
Weird Al is also a vegetarian, for something like the last 30 years. I'm not sure if he was at that time.

(Maybe he'll show up here and tell us! :) )

Weird Al is great.
The justification for the remuneration agreement would seem to me to be that each individual news outlet is worth nothing, or very close to nothing, to Google. What provides value to Google is having quality search results about a particular topic in the native language. This is satisfied by some portion of news outlets allowing themselves to be indexed, foreign news sources, and independent sources (i.e. blogs and Twitter).

And my suspicion is that the value to Google is likely inversely proportional to the size of the news source, and I think the smaller publishers are hurting the most. I care to some degree that the NYT shows up in Google (but not much, really) whereas I couldn't care in the least about whether a local news paper in West Virginia is indexed.
"One of the first things we noticed was that our COVID-19 patients had a higher tolerance for hypoxia, a kind of oxygen deprivation, than typical viral pneumonia cases."

Definitely heard that from doctors in NYC as well. [1]

[1]: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156
I'm in BC, Canada. People are talking about our lockdown going too well. The hospitals are not overwealmed like those in New York. Infections are under control, mainly contained to care homes. But you don't get to herd immunity if the virus does not spread. Vaccines are a year or more away. Holding the lockdown that long would devastate a generation. The government isn't saying it but people are deciding to head out on their own. Outside of urban centers, this Easter weekend looked almost normal.

I was at the grocery store today. Maybe 1 in 10 people had some form of mask. Tomorrow I go to work, where we aren't using masks either. We never did. I have some homemade masks but have never felt the need. There is virus in our area but it just isn't spreading at nearly the predicted rate given our relaxed "lockdown".
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Edit: Just checked out the code. This really looks like an event emitter with Immer. Is that fair to say? I totally dig the simplicity of it.
I wouldn’t buy it because I get this support elsewhere. I can see this being useful to new grads. There might also be an opportunity to partner with universities or alumni programs rather than relying solely on B2C.
I have gotten a pretty good workflow down on Excel sheets and version control thanks to gnumeric's ssconvert. Worth looking into IMHO.
This is so cool! There’s loads of visual and technical novelty in this concept reboot for this time. It’s fun to zoom around and see what sort of people are advertising here. Worked well on my phone too. Hope you enjoy some success from it, well done!
> it's cheaper to raze down old olive orchards and just plant new ones

Sure there are a lot of mass production olive oil across southern europe consisting of 'young' olive trees.

However, I don't think you realize how much history there is associated with some olive orchards and how old some of these trees are (multiple centuries old). To have a disease wipe these trees or voluntarily chop them down would be a huge heritage loss.
Guess that means I’ll never get to hear him do “I am the egg pan”
If it is a consistent feeling then may be you are ripe for change. However, if it comes in phases, then following works for me in exact order. Frankly, following is more for "developer's block" but may be that's what you are going through.

1. Try something different, new. However, it should not be complex, at least not to start with.

1. If that doesn't hooks you, pick a small trivial, meaningless utility to write in whatever framework you are comfortable with. It is important not to overshoot - really just pick a "meaningless" and simple task.

1. If that doesn't work, pick some small utility from a blog/video where full code is available (many examples here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591918). Write whole code again, copying line by line. As you start getting involved, stop copying and start thinking how you would write the next function, or what optimization you'd do for current function, etc.

1. If that also doesn't work, take a break. Don't think about programming at all in that break, that's important.

1. If that doesn't work either, start looking into other roles/domains and what might suit your background and strengths. As I mentioned earlier, may be you are ready for the change :)
In the former case you could have two closely related programs, say a DB server and its CLI stored efficiently.
Then , if you arent a medicine, but german as I see,,, LINKERPRPAGANDIST ??!!, nur ein Verdacht,, so if , then read about retoviral medicaments,, NO science ,all they say is we assume that it avoided xz amount of people dying. Ther are no empiric studies.. its charlataneria concerning those meds and they are very toxic... understand now tiny bit the only one? Verdammt schnell bei der Stange, Hallo mit wem habe ich das Vergnuegen?
I think deaths might be unreliable too, because 1) we don't know the mortality rate, we're extrapolating it from bad data and then using an extrapolated number to calculate a trend and 2) mortality rate would change between different groups, e.g. sick and old people vs healthy people, depending how infections spread.
More productive than what or whom? What is your baseline?
Unless there are factors making this population much more susceptible (more hospital visits?) and much more likely to be asymptomatic, this is quite a bombshell:

> Between March 22 and April 4, 2020, a total of 215 pregnant women delivered infants at the New York–Presbyterian Allen Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center . All the women were screened on admission for symptoms of Covid-19. Four women (1.9%) had fever or other symptoms of Covid-19 on admission, and all 4 women tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (Figure 1). Of the 211 women without symptoms, all were afebrile on admission. Nasopharyngeal swabs were obtained from 210 of the 211 women (99.5%) who did not have symptoms of Covid-19; of these women, 29 (13.7%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2. Thus, 29 of the 33 patients who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 at admission (87.9%) had no symptoms of Covid-19 at presentation.

> Of the 29 women who had been asymptomatic but who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 on admission, fever developed in 3 (10%) before postpartum discharge (median length of stay, 2 days). Two of these patients received antibiotics for presumed endomyometritis (although 1 patient did not have localizing symptoms), and 1 patient was presumed to be febrile due to Covid-19 and received supportive care. One patient with a swab that was negative for SARS-CoV-2 on admission became symptomatic postpartum; repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing 3 days after the initial test was positive.
If I understand correctly, yes, that's how I'd describe it.
I just read this! Gave me chills..
Started using NextDNS a week ago and it's quite good so far. One of my concerns was how hard it would be to debug websites/services that stop working but it their logging being instant made it superbly easy. I can turn on logging, go to the website/app that doesn't work correctly, go right back to the NextDNS logs to see the requests instantly. You can then filter for the blocked ones too.
Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the Covid-19 Crisis with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
FYI, this publication, and its parent is pretty much People's Daily in disguise.

It is made along the lines of Shanghai Oriental Morning Post 2.0. Without a doubt, it is an even more of a state organ media than it's spiritual predecessor, despite the mandate to push "dissenting" view.

Unlike something like Southern Weekly, which had not a single party cadre in its editors, despite being overtly party ran, but closed for merely contemplating of having its own line.

I read Southern Weekly during short stints in China a decade ago. Even it was an extremely stiff writing. I couldn't comprehend how people managed to spot "dissent" in it, except for the sole fact it had original writing not coming from the propaganda ministry, and it doing "a fact of life" reports.

Give this some thought. Were they not doing this with 100% official blessing, they would've been "rectified" faster than you can blink.
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Yes, nbdev can help with merge conflicts for notebooks [1]. Also checkout,

- GitPlus[2] - JupyterLab extension for git version control

- ReviewNB[3] - For notebooks diffs & commenting

Disclaimer: I built GitPlus & ReviewNB

[1] https://nbdev.fast.ai/#Avoiding-and-handling-git-conflicts

[2] https://github.com/ReviewNB/jupyterlab-gitplus/

[3] https://www.reviewnb.com/
Couple fined $3304 for posting year-old travel photos online
Thanks for the feedback. The alumni partnership piece is a great idea as they may be willing to front the cost.
Before corona, it was around 12-13% in Australia compared to 8-9% in the US, 3-4% is a non-trivial difference. In rural areas it's worse (https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/youth-unemploym...), which is expected as even if minimum wage is set "properly" for the cities, where most people live, it may be relatively too high for rural areas where cost of living and wages are lower.

>Are people pursuing minimum wage jobs after graduating high school or university? Even high school graduates with no intention of pursuing higher schooling seem to pursue a vocation at something higher than minimum wage.

Not everybody is able to find a higher-paying job, that's why we still see people at age thirty working in checkouts or McDonalds. Try not to think of the average person; instead imagine the worst behaved, most disruptive, academically failing students at your high school, and consider what kind of jobs are available to them. It's the least hireable people that are affected by minimum wage laws, not anybody who's capable of getting a better job.
Don't forget that automobile fatalities are far lower now with significantly reduced traffic due to lockdowns. This analogy works without coronavirus existing and only then.
I know I would be interested in it. I love things like this. A program borne of curiosity and exploration speaks to the inherent beauty of programming, being able to have an idea and bring it to life in code.

Given that you've created this, hosting it on github would be trivial for you.
The most successful malleable system in history
I hate to be that guy on the internet, especially since this is so unlikely, and since your description is also very consistent with anxiety/psych which is much more common...

...but particularly because you mention that this is a recent issue and not a lifelong deal, have you had a doctor rule out a pheochromocytoma? It's really unlikely since they're rare, (~1000 cases per year in the US) but they can cause the symptoms you are describing and it would tend to manifest in the age range of young adult to middle aged adult. And the labs needed to diagnose it aren't super routine.

But they way you described being totally fine until one day you weren't makes me have a stronger index of suspicion for a non-psychological cause.

This is super speculative, but there's a tiny chance it could help you since the treatment (surgery) is usually pretty definitive.

[Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheochromocytoma)
Interesting read. But always remember, China is a country that does not let their people know the truth what happens in the world (the great firewall). So I'm not all convinced that they let the world know the truth what happens in China. The article could be an honest personal report or it could be government-backed propaganda. How do we know?
Err I would think the likes of C/Python/Java still being out there with jobs available in some decades are much higher than any Lisp language.

In fact there are probably more Cobol jobs than Lisp jobs today. After having played with Clojure (as in, read the book, and did some systems) I still don't know what the kool aid is about.

Maybe is because I have been doing python for a long time...
seems easy to get counted as a COVID death, ya?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
>and as the great w would say, mission accomplished

Sorry, but the use of this quote out of context is one of my pet peeves, and the similarity is striking.

In the case of G.W, he was receiving sailors returning to port after completing their deployment in harm's way. Their mission was accomplished. The message was not that war is over, as the media insinuated. In fact, the counterpoint was made in the speech[1], although few have read it.

>Our mission continues. Al Qaeda is wounded, not destroyed. The scattered cells of the terrorist network still operate in many nations, and we know from daily intelligence that they continue to plot against free people. The proliferation of deadly weapons remains a serious danger. The enemies of freedom are not idle, and neither are we. Our government has taken unprecedented measures to defend the homeland. And we will continue to hunt down the enemy before he can strike. The war on terror is not over; yet it is not endless. We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide. No act of the terrorists will change our purpose, or weaken our resolve, or alter their fate. Their cause is lost. Free nations will press on to victory.

Similarly, in this article, if taken at face value, a volunteer went to Wuhan, risking their life, and returned. This does not mean that Covid is eradicated, but perhaps, their mission is accomplished too.

[1] https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wariniraq/gwbushir...
Support is also great. It accidentally a Dutch government website (probably had reasons) it was fixed < 24 h after my email.

I think its brilliant. Using client side ad-blockers on shitty hardware [to make things less slow] adds a good bit of overhead.
He did "My Bologna" in the early 80's.
A smartphone is more important than paying your electricity bill.

I really think you're living in denial of modern reality. A smartphone gives you access to jobs among other things.
> But I suspect there are no more developers that cannot code than there are lawyers that don't know the law...

I suspect that's wrong. To get a job practicing law, someone generally needs to have passed their state's bar exam. Similarly for other licensed professions like doctors, CPAs, civil engineers, etc. But anyone can legally call themselves a software developer.
The irony is that I think some of these "knowledge economy" jobs i.e. doctors and lawyers(and even software engineers) are easier to replace than say nurses(although there is a big conflict going on where lots of nurses actually have more experience and knowledge than doctors) and cleaners.

The idea that creating robots that mimic certain mechanic function is easier than creating something that replaces a person that is essentially an overpaid human dictionary is ludicrous.

But I guess lawyers have better lobbies than cleaners.
What's up with the weird texture applied to all the photos?
It is though. Most economists will advocate a mix of minimum wage and EITC (Earned income tax credit). Few will say that minimum wage by itself is a good thing and those that do will typically qualify it by saying that it's a good thing if you're only concerned with optimizing particular metrics, the persuit of which will likely have unintended consequences if chased with tunnel vision.
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Yeah, in CL the 0.1 is read syntax for a float (IEEE-754ish on most modern implementations.) If you want exactly 0.1, you’d have to say 1/10. The printer is probably cheating and rounding to the output you expect (I think Python 3 may do this now?)

Aside from financial applications, there’s very little reason to care about the trailing remainder.
Al didn't make it in music because he's funny. He made it because he's an amazing human being and incredibly musically talented. He could have made it in any genre in music but he chose comedy because that's what he loves.

He and his band are as legitimate as any other band they can play any genre or they want to.

I was privileged to see him live a couple of years ago in his ill-advised vanity tour. It was incredible show, and it made me really appreciate him as an artist and musician. Plus he's had the same band since the 80s and he's stuck with him and he's stuck with them.
> it was mandated for everyone, for the purpose of rendering those with lower-paying jobs (people of color, immigrants) unemployed

So it was mandated for "everyone", but by your own description, not really, because it adjusted another variable - who had a job - by race, which is practically the same thing as being racially exclusionary.

This is not so different to how black people in theory got the right to vote after the Civil War, but practically were excluded from voting in many areas until just 50 years ago.
Didn't cars also follow that pattern?
'Rice ATM' feeds Vietnam's poor amid virus lockdown
User generated content has vastly decreased the value proposition of newspapers. Looking at sites like Reddit, a lot of users read the headline, maybe skim the first paragraph or two of the article, and then go straight to the comments. Where people would once have read articles from multiple view points about a particular issue, they now read the headline and get opposing views in the comments.

This is exacerbated by the fact that there are hundreds or thousands of news sources all paying someone to write an article about the same bit of information.

The industry is going to end up collapsing to a much smaller number of organizations and they'll likely become profitable as the user views aren't split among so many sources.
watch out people, these are Trolls , the one that commented you suggestions and the one that commentedmy suggestions or my doubts... The internet is Trolls playground.. and they seem to be very german... as I am , and watch out there are plentyspnish speaking Trolls in the WEB.
Thanks for your interest.
I'll stick a link to the source code files within a day or so... It's not pretty; especially the parser.
To quote Bugs Bunny: “What a maroon.”

It’s 1984, not 1948.
Aren't you just splitting up the consumers into smaller batches? Sure, you now have 100x as many avenues, but each one has 100x fewer customers at the end of it. How does reaching consumers get cheaper because of this?
To parody without a license you can only take the minimum amount of the source to bring to mind the original. See, e.g., Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994). So, Yankovic probably does need a license from the owner of the composition, because his versions usually borrow the entire source song and don’t change the tune or arrangement. Also, many of Yankovic's songs aren't parodies but take a well-known song and take the lyrics in a completely different direction.

As I understand it, he does also seek permission of the original artist, who isn’t always the owner of the copyright, as a professional courtesy.
Everything is propaganda, so put on your critical thinking cap and judge for yourself.
Agreed! I just thought this was such a powerful line.