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Probably also broke eslint too since `is-promise` is also a sub-dependency of that as well.

This is much less of an issue when using a lockfile, at least for existing packages/projects.
There would also still be legal slavery and segregation if some people had their way. What's your point?
Google News link to the non-paywalled NYT story

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECNO4ER356cFN2qTNmfKQcU...
You have to wonder if Rock, Paper, Scissors is a front for some other wager/deal they had to settle. E.g., a large bitcoin transaction, a drug deal, idk. Since they wanted it notarized, they had to change the face of it.
https://hbr.org/2018/08/research-having-a-black-doctor-led-b...

It's a well-documented phenomenon that the background of providers has an effect on the care given. If "best potential doctors" means has the best effects on the health of Americans, then it is clearly important that this be taken into account. For an organization like the AMA in particular, if they want to retain their (unjustified) monopoly on providing healthcare they should want to make sure that no politically active group can point to admissions policies that create worse health outcomes for that group.
It's quite the opposite for me: I imagine that in a bad airbnb experience I'd feel personally cheated, get hung up in a pointless conflict or maybe suspect that I could somehow be part of the problem myself. When staying in a failing hotel on the other hand I tend to get a weird feeling of camaraderie with the staff who keep that ship going despite obvious mismanagement, underinvestment or just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. My subjectively worst hotel experiences where not that but places with owner-managers who were too full of their own perfection. Nominal staff failures on the other hand, like that one time when I ended up setting breakfast tables, they are often just fond memories, similar to those you attribute to airbnb.
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I don't know how "clickbait" that title can be when it is, in fact, longer than the line of code in question:

declare function isPromise<T, S>(obj: Promise<T> | S): obj is Promise<T>;

This is, indeed, the only line of exported code in the entire package.

I genuinely don't understand the NPM world.
And the source code of the library is:

function isPromise(obj) {
return !!obj && (typeof obj === 'object' || typeof obj === 'function') && typeof obj.then === 'function';
}
There’s a very high likelihood you’re browsing this site using a product made by a former startup. So, no.
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Why? The products aren't similar.
The package does have CI setup, however the test matrix does not cover the latest node versions (which are the ones that are affected).

See https://github.com/then/is-promise/blob/master/.travis.yml (missing v11, v12, v13, v14)
Looks like it broke @angular/cli too.
I suppose the most important question regarding the potential success this time is: Can they emulate with as little performance loss as last time?
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I can buy a Dell a lot cheaper - of course from the MS store to avoid all of the crapware - and have more options.

A while ago I installed a pristine Windows 10 (retail) copy on my NUC, just to see where Windows is at. I'll skip the Candy Crash Saga criticism. But I was really surprised that besides the drivers, it also auto-installed some crappy RealTek application and some crappy Intel application (for tweaking GPU settings or whatever). No vendor driver CDs or whatnot. Just letting Windows idle for some time and these applications were installed.

Is it really possible to get a pristine Windows install these days?
In my area of the US most stores don’t have baggers. But in those that do I’ve found they are often either very young (likely a first paid job) or have some form of mild mental disability. It kinda seems like stores having baggers is kind of a jobs program/public benefit, making the inefficiency less of a problem.
This looks very cool, could be used for doing practical joke, optical illusion type stuff too I'm thinking, thanks for the tip.
My rule of thumb: shell-independent commands go to .profile, those ran at boot time go to .bash_profile (or shell-appropriate) which then sources .profile, those ran each time you open a new shell go to .bashrc (or shell-appropriate).
And CI is failing[0].

[0]: https://travis-ci.org/github/then/is-promise/builds
Is it able to determine the end of sentences correctly all the time? If not, there needs to be some means for humans to indicate the same, and typing two spaces is a reasonable one.

I disable even autocapitalization wherever allowed as the systems just don't get it right. Instead of me trying to learn to correct when the system would get it wrong, I rather find it easier to just habitually do it correct by myself.
I think so that people don't rush to App Store to download "Clubhouse" app and then wonder what the hell the fuss is all about.
I really like to hear more from people who don't care about coding or software development in general.

I'd assume the majority of developers is not doing coding at home, as long as they don't have to learn a new skill for their next job. They neither hate nor love coding, they tolerate it as a means to an end.

I also assume that those developers rise as much through the ranks as the love coding kind. At least that's my observation so far. Or to be more precise, I belive they more of the not loving kind rise through the ranks.

But it's rare hearing from them. They don't care too much about what they do at work, at least not as a trade, hence no blogging. And we all feel that it's unwise to be open about not being pashioned about your work.
If that study takes a few months to finish, be reviewed and published, it's very clearly not "better".

Science is important, but there are times like this where brute intuitive engineering is the only tool available.
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Very good idea. And change in real-time if the background is dynamic. And allow the user to set styles such as warming the FG subject, shimmering as if there is a fire or candlelight in the room, etc.
Wow, that sounds so diabolically creepy I have no idea who would ever sign up to be called on the phone, by strangers, while sleeping.
Hmm, I had some problems with a nested `is-object` dependency when updating some deps last week, I wonder if it’s related.
I think developers wouldn't mind practicing things just "because FAANG does it" as long as the employer also pays salaries equal to FAANG salaries.
As far as the software is able to do this correctly ... it doesn't.

(Other comments already cover the rest that I would have said.) :-)
Hotels do not have a shared blacklist. And generally they don't care how much you complain as long as you aren't damaging their facilities since they don't have to try to make you happy unless they want to retain your business.
Install any moderately complex nodejs lib or app and it will throw tons of warnings, ignored errors, and security issue alerts. As you should with any app running in production, lock down everything and watch network traffic because there are innumerable backdoors in the JavaScript ecosystem.
I suspect loneliness/isolation is the biggest issue for most.

At the moment it's great because I'm at home with three housemates/friends. But I think I'd get lonely pretty quickly if it was just me. Co-working spaces might solve this a bit (never worked in one so don't know how much people socialise).
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Right there among...

Alas, the Madonna does not function.

and

My hovercraft is full of eels.

and

P.W. Botha to the white courtesy telephone, please.
The failing CI here is unrelated to the issue but it's still pretty bad a release was made with failing CI.
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Sorry, just saw your request. I'm taking that number from the Robert Koch Intitute daily status reports, which is basically the central official report regarding COVID-19 in Germany.

Here's the one from today (in English): https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

The interesting table is on page 6, where there's the percentage of ventilated patients on ICU, which is 73%, so we know most ICU patients are ventilated, which means we can treat someone being on ICU as roughly equal to someone being ventilated. Right below is the number of discharges from ICU, and the percentage of deaths, which is 30% of all discharges. Since almost all ICU patients end up being ventilated, we can conclude that these about 30% of deaths mostly happened on ventilation, and most of the 70% recoveries also happened on ventilation.

I know that my calculation doesn't exactly result in the real percentage of deaths on ventilation, but the error range of my estimation does not allow the actual percentage of deaths on ventilation to even come close to 90%.
Facebook is the China of tech companies.
I was gonna say, if they're going to paywall publishing your programs, we might just see the rise of "type-in" listings once again.
That's just the type definition. Think of it like the .h if you're into that sort of thing.
Does the package name need to be in the title if it's already the URL? :)
The javascript ecosystem is a total house of cards, "webshit" as they call it in some other sites, rings true more and more.
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion: 42 companies have received injunctions.
The same NYT article copied verbatim on other news sites. If content was "stolen", which is impossible given the definition of the word steal, then it was done the second the article was published.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Jailed+Huawei+Workers+Raised+a+For...
There's no evidence, but should we expect evidence? Has anyone looked?

The Bayesian prior that they should have some level of immunity is pretty high, seems to me. Exactly how long and how strong such immunity is a good question, but it would be really unlikely if there was no immunity.
As Jebus intended. Now if we can just enact the death penalty for people who don't use the Oxford comma!
Me neither. I can't wait for Deno 1.0 next month.

https://deno.land/
I too used to be a anti-snob snob, sneering at Apple-buyers buying into a clique.

Then work gave me a Mac. Suddenly I had a Linux machine without the headaches. It took me about 6 months to get used to the OS, but by then I loved it and bought one for the house.

I now have a Linux machine at work and am spending my weekend upgrading the operating system because my video card goes insane and it takes me 3 days of fiddling to finally get it working again.

YES, SPEND MY WEEKEND WORKING SO MY VIDEO CARD WILL WORK.

But my Mac has VIM, grep, awk, cron, sed, and find. A real Linux shell, in other words. It also runs most of the Linux apps I want to run.

Also, I know they didn't stealthily give me a cheap-ass battery that's going to need replacing right outside of warranty. I know it'll be fine.

My laptop isn't a status symbol for you to see and adore.

Honestly?

I wish I could hide the fact that I had a Mac so that I wouldn't worry that it'd be stolen at conferences!

...

Anyway. I humbly suggest that you may be the thing you despise: An Apple snob. Just not the kind most people know. Maybe you're the "Granny Smith" type of Apple snobs. ;-)
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What an inspiring story. I would love the opportunity to work with someone who Has such a wonderful story
The latter are acquaintances.
The canonical location of the jargon file is at jargon-file.org, which contains not just ESR's jargon-file, but also pre-ESR versions. Apparently he ripped a lot out that represented LISP and ITS culture, and spun some of the political aspects of it to conform more to his taste.

"rc-file" does not seem to be present pre-ESR, however: https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.0.3.dos.txt
I don't know for sure, but I imagine the similar courses referenced in the acknowledgements use C: https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/info.html#acknowledgm...
Yeah, after the dust settles on the legal battle, I would love to hear the Canadian version of "This American Life" get the full backstory on this. Were these guys pals playing in the living room or at the bar, or was it between strangers at some kind of underground RPS parlor? The latter seems ridiculous, but so does the former, since I imagine it would involve the loser saying "C'mon man you can't be serious?" for weeks, at least.

I couldn't find more indepth coverage in the recent news, but here's a relatively lengthy article from 2017 (before the recently ruled-on appeal):

https://www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2017/12/can-you-legally-...

It doesn't go into the personal details (or link to the source court documents), but it does say that the men (both "experienced businessmen", which I assume means: "guys with expendable wealth") signed the notarized contract after the game:

> After the match, the winner had the loser sign a notarized recognition of debt contract that was secured by a hypothec (mortgage) over the loser’s house. The winner subsequently attempted to enforce the gambling debt and hypothec, leading to litigation.

I'm intrigued why the loser signed the notarized contract at all if he was planning to fight it in court.
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You might want to add “balena.io” to your hosts file. I do like the simplicity of BalenaEtcher but it seems to still try to call home over tcp port 443 even when I disable usage statistics and auto-updates in settings. This may have been fixed in newer versions. (I’m using 1.5.45)
Battery life will definitely suffer.
I think there isn't enough emphasis on culture as a factor of deaths of despair. The fact it is restricted to being higher among whites as opposed to those even worse off. Not to victim blame but that the difference might be useful for uncovering the root cause. There likely dysfunctional elements enshrined that are individually found within - take anti-intellectualism which is not exclusive to them may arise more in fatal combinations. There are likely many in reality but a simple "fatal combination" may also suffice.

Anti-intelletualism has always lead to bad outcomes really as a whole. There may even be toxic movements /within/ a given college culture but crucially there is always an element of self improvement there as a motivation. Even in the most degenerate stereotypical case of "learn nothing in four years to get the diploma for connections" they still have a goal even if they have latter regrets from doing things wrong.

The crab-bucket mentality often found within looks down upon those who do anything to try to make more of themselves as it makes them feel bad to see others try when they do not.

A third obvious ingredient is "lack of opportunity" which has synnergy with the first two - if they see opportunity but wind up in learned helplessness leaving it out of reach or fundamentally betraying who they are or degrading themselves. Combine the three and well it starts to become understandable how it becomes a fatal trap.

But minority groups show it isn't so simple. Given the evidence has throughly shown people are people the difference is likely that they tend to more often have or develop some sort of support network because they feel the world or authorities are aligned against them. Even the long cast out from born family LGBT members who were (and sadly often still are) societally strongly encouraged to keep it secret.

Sadly one outlier I am aware of are Native Americans who tend to have less than ideal situations with reservations to put it mildly. It might be a matter of magnitudes as well.

Of course even if the hypothesis is correct there is still a matter of how to address each variable of the systems.
> I genuinely don't understand the NPM world.

You're right, you don't. What you posted is just the function declaration, not the implementation.
> Wow, what industry do you work in and for how long?

I don't know about the OP, but in the mathematics community you need to have a lot of confidence on yourself to write a paper in Word. It would be a much worse offense than using comic-sans, and it would likely be interpreted as a flamboyant deviation and unnecessary attention whoring.
I'm trying to figure out if a Pi 4 or 3A will work as well.
Original minds do not find satisfaction in being derivative. Searching for truth leads to originality for this very reason. So it is safe to say that Socrates was a novelty in the human race because of his philosophical turn towards examining moral knowledge, which there was no previous recording of. I guess I don’t see the point in questioning it, chiefly because such genius is normally a culmination of rare and successful inter-generational cultural growth, so it really is “one-of-a-kind.”
I think it reflects how the evolution of the JS ecosystem strongly resembles natural evolution. This package is now a vestigial organ, but there was a time when it served a useful purpose. Other packages formed connective tissue to this package, and since those package may still be useful, this one has stuck around.
Vegas has built them to waste time rather then be efficient. The overpassed there make you loop around casinos and stores, purposely causing you to walk further and take longer
I also don't know enough about c#, to comment on this being a risk for blazor but having the BEAM's process isolation is absolutely critical to minimizing programmer error from turning into a let's say a DOS attack risk, or possibly worse.

I worry that all these other platforms rushing to emulate liveview are missing that extremely critical component of this model. If you aren't certain about what I mean, I suggest watching Sasa juric's "the soul of erlang and Elixir" video where forward progress of the system is unimpeded by a panic or a process that attempts to hog processing via an infinite loop, both are detectable in the running system, and able to be easily identified (down to the malfunctioning function name) in the in-prod system.
The PS2 is a dream because it apparently has a memory-card softmod.
PyCharm community ed is free. Sublime Text is very good (it's nagware).
Could create-react-app have avoided this through regression suites?
Works great on Firefox for me
Move fast and break things like Boeing tried and failed with the 737 Max ?

That's the danger with software companies being the wealthiest ones in the world, people think that others companies should apply the same recipes and earn more money.

You can move fast with web and mobile apps, if you break something a page didn't load and someone is unable to see number of likes on his last Instagram pic of his dinner, fine, let's redeploy and it should work again.

Even Azure or AWS provide something like 99.99% SLA on their services, imagine if Boeing/Airbus/BMW/Mercedes/etc. had the same level on their products, we would have dozens of airplane crashes per day... (Okay maybe not now during the lockdown).

This culture can't and shouldn't be applied in other domains.
No it absolutely doesn't.

Steve Wolfram is awfully full of himself.
An historic day. Here’s Bill Hill advocating a single space after the period back in the early 2000’s: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SA3NsdPNbZY
Those with a sense of adventure, I presume
Oh, I get it now.
The typing advice seems out of place in the post, but I would encourage everyone to learn touch typing purely for the enjoyment of it. I find it really satisfying. I also think there are ergonomic benefits that outweigh any increased efficiency. Like the author concludes, though, nothing is "absolutely wrong" and to each their own :)
Who does this affect? I just did

npx @angular/cli new hello-world-project

and that worked. I have remote Angular training on Monday and didn't want to do a global install.
You can make custom chords for special chars and type them just as quickly as any other "word".

Here's an example of someone writing some javascript code with a steno keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w

I don't use it myself but I assume that it would be faster than regular QWERTY typing, but only once you've used it for several years.
My company's current production electron app has 360 npm dependencies. We have CI for the UI but not for the USB/FFI stack, so any time we have to touch that code everyone blanches.

> innumerable backdoors in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Same goes for Python and CPAN. Any "click here for fancy module" installer has this problem.
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From the HN FAQ (link at bottom of the page):

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

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The NY Times paywall is easily circumvented by blocking JavaScript and cookies, which can be done on a per-site basis using a browser add-on like uMatrix.
Could get close to a full day of work on the X1 Carbon Yoga Gen2. T480s not so much, but also packs a lot more punch. x1s seem to have best portability
This thread is on Hacker News. Programmers have very legitimate reasons to buy MBPs, just read this thread.
Some people feel the need to hide their shitty apartment.

I've seen someone advised that the background on their webcam makes them "look poor", where the concern was that looking poor is a (perverse) impediment to getting paid work, but they can't exactly move, especially under lockdown. It may be better to use a calm artificial background in that case.

See also people doing online-conference presentations and Youtube videos. I've seen quite a few of those are using virtual backgrounds.

Perhaps for the same reason - thousands of people may see the video, and some people, having made the effort to put on a nice suit/makeup/etc, get a haircut, and look their best, don't want thousands of people to see what their not so nice home looks like behind it.
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The Fighter & the Kid -Comedy,
Enjoy the Vue - Anything Vue.js related,
Baz & Andrew House of Rugby - Irish Rugby / Comedy,
No Such thing as a fish - Comedy.
My prior decision to never work with JavaScript again has just grown firmer.
> "Indeed, I was actually replying to GP which seemed to be making the insinuation that only one side was about the money, so perhaps your comment would function better as a reply to that one?"

Oh, if that's the case, my apologies for the misunderstanding
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easy enough for an invite-only app to fill itself with people that mostly think the other insiders are "great" too
Is it better than content-aware fill in Photoshop?