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I have done many regimens.

My current pre-quarantine schedule was:

Morning
1x long black at a cafe near the office with a colleague

Rest of work day (plus minus 1 on each item)
2x long black from machine in the office,
1-2x long black with another colleague(s) at a cafe

Home (around 5-6pm)
1x long black

Current WFH schedule is:
2-5x long black roughly every 90 mins.

I enjoy the ritual of making it (plunger) and the warmth.
I don't think I get a buzz anymore, but the odd time I do, I love it.

I don't get any noticable side effects, and have gone periods 1-4months without drinking it with no adverse effects.
Honestly, I find this very difficult to believe-it almost sounds like you've left something out. As with a lot of these types of stories on the internet, it feels like something else is amiss.

The SAT score alone puts you in a pretty small group of people (< 600 people scored 2400 out of 1-2 MILLION SAT takers in 2014, according to some light googling). This combined with uncommon extracurriculars and a "good essay" would easily land you in any cal state.

If you're saying that these are your qualifications, with no caveats, then literally 95%+ of the Asian males in California would get rejected from all but the "lowliest" schools.
TSMC Starts 2nm Process Development for Fast, Efficient Chips
Neat. Are there screenshots?
Meanwhile Intel...
I've been trying to stop drinking coffee for a while. I would have two strong coffees a day and a first thing in the morning.

First, I was surprised to find it doesn't make me productive at all. I've been tracking my distractibility levels as a measure of my focus (I have a manual counter by my desk) and record my daily times in spreadsheet with notes for those time blocks when I drank caffeine. My distractibility goes up by 100% on average ...

Yes, you get an energy and alertness boost but in my case it's funnelled into lack of focus. It's tricky because it works but you lose.

Secondly, having black coffee every morning on empty stomach led to some stomach issues that are now gone. I also had regular migraines (turns out migraines are dopamine related - i.e. caffeine)

I went cold turkey - headache for days. Then I put up a spreadsheet on the cupboard in my kitchen and made a commitment with my gf to only drink 3 coffees a week, each logged.

Now I keep it at 3 a week and I drink them strategically.

Instead of going for the coffee first thing in the morning I leave it for the moment, mid day on days when I actually need the boost, instead of ruining my natural energy right in the morning. This makes me super productive.

I have no migraines, good solid energy and better focus throughout the day and when I actually drink a cup I really feel the caffeine in my brain (it feels just like a drug) and benefit from it.
In modern browsers, whether or not lang is provided, the browser is smart enough to set the correct encoding / glyphs.

In the olden times, browser was not smart (ie: still set the wrong charset). You may have come across for example, an asian site (japanese, korean, chinese), and see a lot of text with "?"'s and "□"'s like so ??? □□□ in 90's and common still through beginning 2000's. Glad these days you don't have to spend time trying to match it up, but it was available readily in browser's menu for you to match.

I think here, the lang tag is useful so you can explicitly tell the browser. And if you are designing the page, you have more control for localization to target by the international code.
Every single country that has had any success containing the virus, including the origin country of China, has had rigorous continuous testing to contain the spread. It's hard to find a country with success containing the outbreak that doesn't do constant ubiquitous testing.
As far as I’m aware book publishers ask authors who are using word processors to use a single space.
The concept for restarting the German football league involves daily testing of all players. So the idea is indeed widespread, but often enough just impractical for the numbers of tests required.

Testing a few hundred people daily would be doable, as Germany has relatively good testing capacity - probably one main reason for the overall better handling of the pandemic so far. But the concept still gets critisized, as this would mean a fast track to testing for the players while parts of the population don't have equal access to testing.

For the whole population, it would be a good first step to be test really everyone who has any assumptions of symptoms and some time later, everyone in contact. And perhaps a biweekly test for the general population.
The poster gives the perfect reason to downvote right at the end of the post. Open and shut case.
That is great to read this news online. We can not go anywhere now as COVID-19. So many people are surging dating game, especially apps, such as Tinder, Bumble, Yumi and Meetme.
Why compare visiting stores to being victims of crimes?
Compare walking down the streets to visiting stores.
Compare being victims of crimes to being perpetrator of crimes.
So it's basically the great tabs vs spaces debate again
Depends on the organization.

Thankfully in most places I have worked so far you wouldn't go very far being an 'X Developer'.

Everyone has always been required to be an expert in at least two domains, those T and Pi shaped concepts.

So I have very seldom met those kind of devs that only want to spin up an ORM.
AWS already offers a free key value store - SSM Parameter Store. It’s severely rate limited if you don’t pay for it - but it’s still cheap.
To the entire ClojureScript team: thank you so much for all the great work that you are putting into ClojureScript!

Without ClojureScript and Clojure, I would not have been able to build and maintain my SaaS app as a solo founder. The incidental complexity would have crushed me. Using a single language to write code, with model (domain) code effortlessly and fluidly shared or moved between "server-side" and "client-side" is a game-changer.

While I don't care that much about NPM, I am extremely happy with the progress that ClojureScript is making. Thank you!
> Disclaimer: I know nothing about self driving car industry.

I just wonder, why do you comment then? If you by your self-assessment know nothing, you would just be adding to confusion around the topic, or in the best case scenario would randomly get some correct fact or intuition and thus increase confusion even more because some people would assume the rest is correct. Why not just comment on the things you know something about?
> I would of thought the Purples would have been one of the least bad places for SMR in consumer drives, since it's pretty much just all sequential load.

I've tried out a couple Seagate SMR drives for NVR use. They weren't advertised as SMR but I figured it out from the observed performance and the "rated workload" on the spec sheet.

It's okay if you stay within the rated workload, but that's pretty limiting. This is given in the spec sheet in terabytes per year; if you divide by 4 you have approximately Mbps. One of my drives (ST8000DM004-2CX188) is rated for 55 TB/year, or 14 Mbps. It seems fine with 2 cameras that each have a <= 6 Mbps main stream and <= 1 Mbsp sub stream.

But if you want to record a bunch of streams to one drive (perfectly reasonable with CMR), these can't do it. When device-manager SMR is used with a standard filesystem (I'm using ext4) and non-SMR-aware software/write patterns (my software just writes new files with ~1-minute segments of H.264 and deletes old ones), the write amplification gets bad and the drive can't keep up. The software just gets stuck waiting for writes/syncs to go through. And it's really confusing to observe on the host because all the mapping and stuff is hidden from you. You just see on "iostat" that the "%util" is much higher what you'd calculate based on seek + throughput for the data you're transferring.

I imagine with host-managed SMR and SMR-aware software, this could be much better. Most NVRs mostly just record in a ring buffer—for a given stream, they almost always overwrite the oldest data. You could bypass the whole CMR cache area and not read/rewrite any adjacent areas if you do it well, and then the write amplification would go away.
A JavaFX hello world app starts in around 1 second on a modern computer. Here's a small demo of a self-updating JavaFX app where you can see it being started, then built again, then re-launched with the new version: https://github.com/renatoathaydes/keepup/blob/master/docs/im...

If the author's app takes 10 seconds to boot, I am afraid they need to blame either Clojure or their own code for that.
I can imagine being Black with an Asian name.
No, but SmileBASIC itself supports a USB keyboard and mouse.
Slavery does nothing for equality not does it hurt on the short term.
How to reduce the influence of cognitive biases within interviews
SpaceX's "move fast and break things" is entirely unlike the software industry's approach. It's grounded in owning the whole vertical, understanding what's going on at each place in rocket's construction, and relaxing some safety margins relative to aerospace standards. They can do that, because their rockets are unmanned, so they can make them work both as launch vehicles and experimental vehicles at the same time. You'll note, however, that they are not careless about range safety, i.e. ensuring the rocket failure at any stage in its mission doesn't hurt people.
Did you apply to UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Merced, UC Davis?
> Do any of these people railing against affirmative action really think that Native/African/Hispanic Americans should be locked in a self-reinforcing cycle of declining educational and economic outcomes?

Of course not, and it's a terrible strawman argument to frame this as a simple dichotomy of "agree with positive discrimination" or "condemn black people to poverty for ever"

There are many roads to try and resolve this, personally I think it should be bottom up. Instead of the easy political points of enforcing a few quotas on universities and companies.
Are these sorts of policies really going to get any better when the rhetoric they're based on is ramping up and demographics continue to shift in favor of groups that benefit from the policies? It's already practically socially forbidden to debate this sort of thing in public using your own name. I'm not going to have children, but I'm worried for the children of my siblings and cousins. Their parents don't have money or college educations and they're going to have a lot of roadblocks in their way and people telling them they don't deserve what little they do have.

Overall, I don't really know what any of us can do about it other than complain on the internet though. Unfortunately I don't really see a viable path forward to changing any of these policies.
In most places I have worked, knowing the database well enough to manage it and at very least write stored procedures has always been expected from developers writing database related code.

I have been doing this for a little more than 30 years now, so it isn't "nowadays" thing.
I have found strong, loose-leaf tea to give me a much better energy profile than coffee, and it seems to be healthier. There is also quite a variety in different types.
Yup:

Prof.\@ Crumb

...is the behavior suppressor.
Racket is so nice, but try to create a GUI with it and see how heavy the resulting app is... I wrote a simple one just to play around with it, but was really disappointed by how slow and heavy it was.. it took over 250MB of RAM to show a shape on the screen.
I’m an Asian immigrant and my mother always told me that I have to work 10 times as hard because of your black hair and yellow skin.
Not the person you asked, but I think so. Some fonts also convert “fi” into a character where the letter-spacing is very small and the i loses its point, so there’s definitely a mechanism for letter combination / adaptive spacing.
What are you leaving out if you don’t mind sharing?
The Delight of Development
About half a liter... more when I work. I love it :)
The local beer store here is doing daily deliveries now, including kegs. They don't say whether they pick up the empty kegs, but if they're bringing a new one they might.

Of course it's geared toward craft brew snobs, so not really a general thing. But it's one step closer than we had before.
I'm in Europe and didn't want to go with a US company so I bought a laptop from https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ which is a German company which in theory does the same as System76 by shipping OEM laptops with Linux but the one I got was such low quality it basically broke down after only one year even if it cost around $1000. I even sent it in 2 times for repairs. I lost a couple of the screws at the bottom and the glue for the plastic around the border of the screen went bad and the plastic was only half glued and was hanging down. After a year it started to hang in both Windows and Linux so you would need to do a hard reboot every hour so I gave up on it.

At work I got a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu (switched it to Arch) and have no problems at all, everything works even now after two years of heavy usage.
You could say that. I'm from Poland, so compared to Soviet Union it was communist-lite. I had a brilliant math teacher in high school. He had the reputation that if he was your math teacher you were automatically accepted at the local university. He was a legend in my town, and managed to stay under the radar of the communist regime.
Inlining Optimisations in Go
I just don't get the downvotes. Black Patients go to doctors and say doctor I think I need help doctor goes "You're just whining" then the patient dies. https://newsone.com/3903170/black-women-call-out-hospital-mi... that's just the story from this year. They've had at least 2 in the last 3 years.
If it had to be done, GNU programs could all be replaced. Port BSD tools or improve busybox tools, use KDE instead of Gnome, and there is a variety of great packaging solutions that aren’t .deb. AFAIK GCC is already being replaced by clang due to the GCC codebase, amongst other reasons. Distros mostly use GNU programs for historical convenience. Given incentive, GNU could be dropped by Ubuntu for the desktop. The most popular Linux distro Android has moved away from GNU already.

FSF does fabulous work, which we are all appreciative of, but some decisions are peeing in the open source pool.

I think RMS creates unnecessary division against Linux and Linus for what I feel are poor reasons. I went to a lecture by him where he spent half his time being negative towards Linux and Linus (that felt like he was just pissed off because Linux was popular) and a bit because Linus had used the GPL2 (not trivial to change, and you don’t get change by attack). Being negative towards the people who are on your own side is wrong IMHO. It could equally be argued that Debian should be called Debian/Linux. Edit: I just found a quote from Linus about RMS that summarises what I wished to say here: “It's not passion for something, it becomes passion against something else.“ - http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white....

PS: I totally admire RMS and his relentless idealism. He has given so much to the world, and the faults I see in him are interwoven with the strengths I see: I’m not sure the faults could be mitigated without badly weakening the virtues.
N95s, properly fitted, can actually significantly reduce your exposure risk to outside pathogens, so don't futz with those. Cloth/homemade masks do not meaningfully stop incoming viral particles, but will prevent your saliva from going ballistic whenever you speak; those are meant to protect others from you, in particular if you're asymptomatic and thus don't even know it.
Apologies for not being clear. I wasn’t thinking about any specific French car, just that it had a bulgy, mid-2000s Peugeot/Citroen feel about it. Beyond that I’d describe its body shape as almost painfully generic.

I was not accusing the design of being a clone of a specific existing design. I was accusing it of being hideous.
The economic divide has existed way longer than racism over color ever has in most of the world. You are being played by the elite by a divide and conquer approach.

How would you even measure how black someone is? The whole thing is just absurd.

I'll teach my kids that skincolor doesn't matter and to NOT judge based on that ever.
Good points, thanks for clarifying this.

We had a really long period of time where printed material was produced by professional typesetters, followed by a much shorter period where people started producing documents using typewriters and computers with software that worked with fixed-width characters. Then with with TeX, proportionally spaced fonts, and the desktop publishing revolution we got that ability back.

For some reason there are a lot of people thinking in terms of typewriters and 1980s-era word processors when talking about sentence spacing, which seems quite odd.
No coffee for me, I prefer tea (without milk :D)

I used to drank coffee when I didn't have enough sleep or had to go to the office before 10 AM. My body never reacted well to the coffee and it got worse when there were morning meetings.

Since I gave up on the office completely I don't need more coffee and drink it maybe twice per year just to enjoy its taste if I am in the right mood. Sometimes I envy people who can have 2-4 cups in a day and be fine as coffee nowadays is too good to ignore it. Anyway, as for me I get too much dizzy from it and feel like a hungry squirrel from the "Over the Hedge" squad.
Barangay Krus na Ligas, Quezon City, isasailalim sa lockdown simula bukas
None at all.

If you're not used to coffee, you need it less.
Probably 2-3 per day for me.

Side note: One of my favorite authors Michael Pollan recently published a short audiobook on the effects of caffeine, some of the history behind it, and his experience going cold turkey for a few months. Really quick and interesting 2 hour listen. It's called Caffeine.

Thought I'd share since I found out about his last book "How to Change your Mind" on HN and found it fascinating.
Are there any public examples of a google design doc? Would like to study it
It depends pretty much on the quality of one's degree.

Thankfully we had one semester course on databases, all the respective layers, got to implement B+Tree indexes in C, and a GUI application using Oracle's Forms their 90's Visual Basic variant, but using PL/SQL instead.
People manage things using their judgement and qualitative observations, all the time. We can accuse them of bias, but that has to be weighed against the fidelity of the metrics.
I'm with ya, it's horrible but gets the job done. Can't stand coffee and tea just takes too long (I do enjoy it though)
People who are focused on task are easy to distinguish visually, when you are in person.
Perhaps in theory, but not in practice. I went to a UC for graduate school a decade after Prop 209 passed, and there was blatant affirmative action in the admissions/recruiting process. They literally treated candidates different based on their family's country of origin. The deans were open about the fact that they "pushed the envelope" on affirmative action, despite it being illegal.
Get fucked dude
I think you are confusing language (English, French, Arabic, etc) with encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, Latin1, etc).

You do sometimes see mojibake in web pages, (question marks and □□ in place of the real text). These are caused by incorrect encodings. The web server tells the browser which encoding to use using the HTTP header Content-Type or using the <meta charset="UTF-8"> HTML element. You should always set the encoding rather relying on the browser guessing.
Given how strong typed PL/SQL is, based on Ada, graphical tooling like SQL Developer exists, I wonder why it is much worse than either Java or PHP.

High performance SQL code should stay on the database, instead of doing wire round trips.
PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures
I had two bottles of a beer like that (Hunahpu), I drank one right away and aged the second for two years. The first one was an excellent beer, the second one was the best beer I've ever had in my entire life.
Server costs? Is someone uploading gigabytes of code?
We debated this in 1993 on the www-talk mailing list [1]. Terry Allen (an editor at O'Reilly) wanted rendered HTML documents to follow Tex conventions with extra space after a period. Marc Andreessen (still at NCSA in 1993) pointed out browser developers couldn’t do the syntactic analysis required to distinguish the end of sentences from inter-sentence periods. Guido van Rossum (working on Python version 1.0 at the time) weighed in on the whitespace issue and complained “it’s mostly propaganda by Knuth and Kernighan (TeX and troff) that makes people want this.” We ended up with browsers collapsing spaces between sentences for the web. Most style guides [2] seem to have settled the issue in favor of a single space but debate rages, eh?

[1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/index.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing_in_language_a...
It's essentially in closed beta right now. The tech exists, but testing and tuning is still happening.
Between 0 and 8 cup per day, depend of the day.

- When I'm traveling or on holidays 0. I travel regularly in countries without coffee culture and jet lag with coffee is a terrific mix.

- In normal day of work around 5 including 2 in the morning.

- In heavy day of work with many meetings around 8. I tend to prefer good technical/design discussions around a coffee instead of endless (useless) PowerPoint session. It's in my experience both more efficient, human and brief.
Any tips for people who are quick to be dismissive? Asking for a friend, he often is not generous with his interpretation of peoples’ questions.
Lads, I'm in the club too. Don't like the taste either.
Why can’t we have nasal filter plugs instead of face masks?
> When you work remote, everything is scheduled, almost by definition. No conversations happen that are not task-directed. You lose something there.

This is not how it was for us. And other teams that were distributed even before covid also were not like this - portion of their calls were always idle chat.
Both Oracle and SQL Server do support versioning tools and unit tests for their stored procedures.

You also have graphical debuggers for them.
Technically speaking, calculating how much taxpayers owe to the US Federal government involves "completely voluntary" actions [0]. A very humorous legal turn of phrase, someone was having a lot of fun when that slipped into the language of the law.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-income-tax-voluntary/
well then you could just do affirmative action based in family income? even if most of the beneficiary of this could be African Americans, everyone would be fine with it. Why make it a race issue?
I agree.

It can be solved easily with motion triggered door locks. And bidets/Japanese style toilets. There are many models available these days.
Voyager – Kubernetes Ingress Controller Releases v12.0.0-RC.2
The Asian American historical experience was very different from the Black American historical experience

Then why are Asians treated worse than Whites? Because of their hard-working culture and family emphasis on academics?
I don't know if it is the case nowadays, but I seem to recall that in the old days they would check and if their model was highly predicting a language different than the one you were claiming they would serve the language they predicted.

Which, even if they don't still do this, I think makes total sense and is what I would do because obviously programmers make mistakes and if your page claims to be English but your language has a high chance of being Armenian and a low chance of being English I would consider it was Armenian.
I quit a few weeks ago, after switching to decaf a few months ago.

I am happy to be able to sleep.