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I would love to do this kind of work. Aside from a general passion for writing and editing, I enjoy describing problems, characterizing existing solutions' strengths and weaknesses, writing docs and user instructions, organizing information, etc. I'm a good enough developer to build useful tools and work with more senior engineers, and my favorite part of working in scientific research was being a force-multiplier and hindrance-destroyer so subject-matter experts could focus on using their skills.

If anyone reading this is in a position to hire for a "technical writer/librarian/secretary/developer assistant," click my username and send me an email. We can try a short-term contract and see how it goes.
I disagree. There might be reasons to want reforms but for the most part the rich just played the game better than everybody else and the anti-rich crowd would, to a man/woman, instantly swap places with the rich if they could. Envy is a hell of a thing.
Run out of 5G towers to burn?
Maybe, but beginners need a lot more explanation. I can't just comment "use a regular expression" or "remove invariant from the loop" with a beginner. I mentor a beginner programmer now, it's time-consuming, but I get paid full rate for my time.
I believe that if you invest in a feedback mechanism for improving the signal:noise ratio of writing, people are smart and will naturally gravitate to where signal:noise is the highest. If people in an org aren't reading, I generally take it as a signal that documentation is incomplete and misleading, or the signal:noise ratio is way too low.

In orgs where the muscle for long-form reading has atrophied (for the above reasons), you can try to write document to account for a weak long-form-reading muscle.

Begin your document with an abstract TLDR and ToC, open each top-level section with a TLDR paragraph, and provide pointers that imply the TLDR assertions are supported by evidence (i.e. internal links to the relevant section).

The key to good TLDR-writing is terse, in-order parsable sentences, and short paragraphs (one sentence, maybe two per paragraph), with tasteful font-weight choices. I'd discourage using font-weight outside of TLDR's, except maybe to highlight keywords.

I think wikipedia is a glowing example of what documentation should be. Some pages are huge (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), but each section is dense, and filled with links to more detailed pages. To find the specific answer to some question, you often only need to navigate the table of contents and two or three sections/links. And yet, the pages can also be read straight-through. Writing like this is a hard skill to earn, but it's reward is probably a culture of reading.
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>and if someone can turn a hotel into apartments successfully, which sounds like a challenge to me

It can be done, but I've more often seen apartments built over ground scraped clean than retrofitting an existing building. Honestly, hotels are probably the closest kind of building design that one could get that might be worth converting into apartments.

There are two buildings near downtown in my city. One was converted into studios, the other now bills itself as "student housing".
Agreed, I think his presence would’ve amplified the “Plandemic” people like Judy Mikovitz more than they’ve already been amplified.

It’s so frustrating to see and feeling like there isn’t much to be done about it.
I don't see how he could have done more than he did.

I think the problems are bigger, a mixture of incentive problems, and the political nonsense that comes from that as a result. Along with a newly digitally connected public that is largely uneducated, easily manipulated, and bad at critical thinking. Disinformation attacks are more effective than they used to be.
Real leaders also know how to conserve political capital. "Great programs" spend it often before accomplishing the goal.
And there's nothing wrong with that. I think programming is fun, and hardware design can be too. However, if you're a company trying to sell a product based on some specific claims, you probably should do more to convince potential users.
I think you should consider the boiling frog syndrome.

Not aging is as slow as aging, and by the time you realise and accept there is something special with you, everyone else around has already figured it out. Disappearing at that point might be a pretty conspicuous move "that guy [or woman, I wonder why all immortals must always be men... :)] who is 70 but actually looked thirty went missing".
Does this one have the JTAG/SWD pins available? I know that the teensy bootloader is one of its USPs, but not being able to connect a debugger is kind of a dealbreaker for any sort of complex project.
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I met a child-like animator, who worked for Disney in Anaheim California (tiny hands). He appeared somewhere around age 9 at his mid 20s, due to a pituitary dysfunction from a car accident.
This is what leadership looks like. Rather than just saying that I warned the world and no one listened - and thus it is not my problem, he is actually reflecting that I could have done a lot more so that the world listened.

I feel this is important to note in current day and age where the world is so polarized and blame-gaming is the name of the hour.
Huh, wow. I got a hairline crack on the screen of my Surface Laptop 2 and thought it was just me and my carelessness. I will have to see if there’s any recourse for me since it’s outside the warranty window.
Until recently, I assume even a human with an anti-aging mutation would've been killed by something else within a typical lifespan. War, disease, lung damage from wood burning stoves or coal, injuries while working, and so on.

Also, if it takes 4 different mutations (assuming each of 4 injections is a different substance), it might be very unlikely for all 4 to happen in one individual, and any 1 mutation may not give that individual any particular reproductive advantage.
> blatant culture of denial

I would say it is denial to not admit the fundamental problems with the media these days. So many organizations are desperate for clicks they are pushing whatever sensationalist items they can to the front page.

I mean early on the news was pushing reports that 2 million Americans would die. When it became clear that wasn’t the case how are people supposed to react? Trust them less or trust them more?

I would argue that the problem science faces is due to the poor state of journalism. If the media try and use ‘science says’ and do a poor or sensationalist job, it harms faith in science even it wasn’t any scientists fault.
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Amazing. She looks like she's in her 70's, or early 80's at the worst.
Its a bit scary. There doesn't seem to be any good strategy on how to connect with these people. I tried on Twitter where the Bill Gates bashing has suddenly exploded but its like everyone has turned into Alex Jones.
I bought the Braveheart edition of the PinePhone and have played with various builds on it. I didn't try mobile nix, but I may give it a shot (though I've not used a Nix before so it might be a learning curve).

The PinePhone has a lot of potential IMHO. It's nowhere near ready to be your primary phone, but it's neat and at $150 it's a fun little toy.

IME, Fedora worked the best out of the box. I had issues with the battery not being recognized by postmarketOS (along with a few other things) though from what I've heard from others in chat rooms that's atypical (usually pmOS works great).

I'm super impressed with the PinePhone hardware wise. It looks and feels like a decent phone, and it's easy to remove the back and tinker or flip the hardware switches. You can tell they put a lot of thought and attention to getting it right. My only hope is that once things are working, I can buy one with specs comparable to the OnePlus 8 Pro (with similar price tag of course).
Running large scale LED matrices with good animation frame rates was at least at one time WAY more performant on a teensy. Not sure if that's still true today.
The problem with the liberal reception of Gates is that it doesn’t generally allow for an accurate critique of his work, nor account for his ties to the unsavory parts of the global elite, like Jeffrey Epstein.

What this does is allow space for conspiracy theorists and the far right to swoop in with their towers of lies, built on top of an acknowledgement of these truths, while liberals retreat into a kind of tribalist, irrational defense of him. Each side then reinforces the other, while both distancing themselves from the reality.
My programming apprenticeship back in 2006 was working for an avionics subcontractor. For one project, we had hundreds of thousands of USD worth of real cockpit electronics hooked up to a copy of Microsoft flight sim. It was... awesome.
People are suspicious of centralization of power. You can call it whatever you want, a donation, a foundation, a cause, NGO, government, corporation; centralization of power & influence has proven to have side effects that many find undesirable...

A similar perspective happened with David Rockefeller & his Rockefeller Foundation.
I suppose they are in principle, but we don't have an explicit rule against them, and user passions around titles burn so hot that it wouldn't make a difference if we did. There are also so many of them that you're not likely to see consistency around what gets flagged vs. not. Are there specific links we could look at?
> Is it the same thing as nuxt js but different?

Yes.

> Yarn? I thought that npm was the thing to use again.

Yarn has many features that npm doesn't - plugins, constraints, PNP, zero installs, workspaces, etc.

> How does yarn know that “create next-app” command? Perhaps some yarn install globally thing?

You can do yarn dlx or npx create-next-app. It will temporarily install and run the package or command.

> Does it include typescript support or is it javascript only?

Typescript support is as easy as changing your file names, installing typescript, and adding a tsconfig. You don't need to set up anything. Next does it for you on the first run.

> Which node version is needed? And if I switch, is that create next app still available then?

You are cool with current LTS and previous LTS (from my testing).

> How long will this framework be hip? Am i talking about months, a few months, a year, two years? Hip is important, i (or new employees) dont want to work with software which is considered old fashioned.

Next has been supported for years. Vercel is the company backing next for their platform so I would say about the same time as vercel. Given they got funding this year, don't think they will die soon.

> What is the testing framework of choice these days?

jest

> How many things are transpiled? Are there any other concepts i need to understand?

SSR. There are few concepts you will have to learn to actually take benefit of it (getServerSide props, getStaticSideProps, etc) but out of the box, you don't need to do anything different. The routing is already included so that's one less thing to worry about. Next does automatic static optimization (unless you do something stupid with your root app). You are benefiting without doing any work.

> Full control over babel or webpack is exactly the thing which makes it complex. It is probably easy to get started and then you have to make that little tweak on a changed babel plugin to make “it” work.

Most things will work via the next plugins. It will be a rare case where you have to set up your own server. You can take full control when you want.

> Is frontend and backend react the same? As in: will it share the same babel config and will every node function be available on the client side and vice versa?

Next builds your app and responds with either fully static views or via pre-hydrated views hydrating on the client-side. Look up hydration in react.
We are loosing more due to Google every year than we ever did with Microsoft.
Sigh…how do people expect journalism to happen if nobody pays for it?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/14/fast-facts-...

Unless you want to create a BBC-esque public broadcasting and news-gathering operation. In which case, you'll still be paying, just via taxes.

(Also, right now the WSJ has a $1 for 2 months option. Which is probably a pain to cancel, but still.)
How far back can we go? insin/DOMBuilder was initially based on a 2006 library of the same - but differently-cased - name by Dan Webb (https://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/13/dom-builder) and the earliest variant I can recall was Mochikit.DOM (https://mochi.github.io/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/DOM.html)

By the end of DOMBuilder's life it could generate DOM or HTML from the same code and I'd tried unsuccessfully to implement a way to rehydrate HTML by hooking up events using the same code on the client.

Not long after, I happened to be in the audience for Pete Hunt's React: Rethinking best practices talk at JSConf EU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY) and I was totally floored; they'd solved everything I had been trying to do with UI as code and much more, and JSX was the icing on the cake, as using nested object/array syntax has always been rife with comma-management hell when you're maintaining UI code.
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Maybe the goal was to keep the design and implications of the "Nintendo Playstation" design?
There are many things to be ready for that we don't know of. It happened to be a virus, but there are many that never happen that you need to be ready for.

Solution: be resilient and ready for whatever. When a real problem happens adjust to it.
There were a few interactive scripts, usually interacting with a form as an UI. The first JS book, I knew, was the "Official Netscape JavaScript Book" (1996), which was based on Netscape 3 beta. This one featured a pretty complex area code application as a demonstration object and things like order forms. I started pretty much with the introduction of NS3, when NS2 and JavaScript1.0 were still the common platform.

Fun fact, for a year or so, you'd frequently include a script twice, once in a simpler form for NS2 and similar, and once targeting Netscape 3 (and, later, IE3) using a `<script language="javascript1.1">` tag, which was ignored by the earlier browsers, implementing a more complex version of the same functions. (This scheme was used again, when DHTML became a thing, this time using the `language="javascript1.2"` attribute. However, this switch came with a few caveats, since it also activated some rather odd behavior, like negative zero as a numeric value, which could break a few things.)
They're making their second-generation chip right now, and I think there are a bunch of problems that this chip is an obvious solution for.

Chuck Moore is bad at presentations to outside audiences. This should surprise no one familiar with the man. This doesn't make the tech less useful, though.
This book has easily been one of the most influential on my career. Having excellent SQL skills has been my secret weapon for a while now.
The US cannot go to war with China. So that's at least a little relief.
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Why do you find it odd?
Encouraging a culture of people who now have to work in a cover their ass territory...welcome
Very cool. This seems like such a "Duh. Users want this" feature. I wish it was integrated in Firefox years ago. I bookmark some sites and then come back years later, but perhaps they hijacked the URL or they later changed the URL's parameters.

And then when I return, I get a 404. Instead of bookmarking, I'd love to "capture" the current info, divs, and graphics.
Did they specifically choose a URL that looks, in passing, like The Guardian?
I have just recently been tasked on estimating how many people in our city would fit your standard job requirements if we applied them to Go... since the requirements are legally necessary, we had to ditch any plans of using the language.

I don't think "exploding" is the correct word, although it is growing.
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"he American side wanted to make all kinds of changes - they hated the name PlayStation, they hated the grey color (they wanted it to be black)"

I have to love that these aesthetics the Americans were upset about made no difference to the success of the PlayStation.
I went with this syntax as well for a project [1], being just a simple wrapper on top off createElement, with functions as children/attributes being used as one-way bindings.

1: https://github.com/bwindels/brawl-chat/blob/master/src/ui/we...

Works very well, and don't need to transpile.
Surprisingly little—not many comments but they're pretty good and https://malisper.me/building-fizzbuzz-fractran-bottom/ was a good article.

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202367

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894141

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119937
I have started making videos for people to watch (mostly me doing voiceover a screencast). It has had varying reactions, but I think it is becoming a valid medium.

I suspect however I would put it in the category of 'I saw a tweet about the film of the book' for descending levels of nuance (but increasing levels of getting the point across)
Yep. And if Google detects that your page contains a recipe and the microdata isn't perfect, or doesn't include all the things that Google wants so it can show your recipe to people without them clicking through to your site, Google sends you an e-mail through Webmaster Tools telling you to fix it, with the implied threat that your page won't be listed if you don't allow Google to use your work for free.
As a customer, I have no problem with them. Given that they only do short flights anyway, the lack of comfort is not an issue. It would be different if I had to spend 10 hours on their plane, but I don't. Pretty much the same experience as any other low-cost airline (easyJet, Wizz Air, eurowings, etc.)
> i don't generally buy the argument that coding is drastically different from writing, insofar as it's laying out symbols in a way that can be understood (and followed) by another actor. that's a technical skill that's fairly transferable between the two

That's a great observation. A bit of a tangent, but I enjoy writing code with a tight feedback loop. Either with a debugger, a set of unit tests.

With writing, the feedback loop is not there. It's not clear whether the message achieves the desired effect.

Framing writing this way, explains why it's such a challenging activity. At least in my mind.
You can use it for whatever you want. Instead of dumping text to a log file, you can dump out graph nodes and connection info to a dot file instead, to then be laid out and rendered into a graph by dotty or whatever else you want to use. It doesn’t require any extra libraries.
Was going to also post the same thing. It too is one of my favorite sci-fi movies.
There was also the the idea that JavaScript was just one way of scripting the page. VisualBasic Script (VBScript) had momentum in IE releases. The general idea was that the user-agent was going to be able to parse multiple scripting languages, the list of which would probably grow as time went on. Think native TypeScript parsing in a browser today!
And had other high-level staff overlapping with Epstein’s foundation and his own.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
>I disagree. PHP was always supposed to be beginner friendly, fast to prototype, dynamic etc.

>having it's major frameworks become so heavily inspired by Spring isn't what PHP used to be.

Inspired by doesn't mean the same as. It's no different than any other non-DI frameworks unless you want to write framework-specific packages. Laravel has DI under the hood but you don't have to write annotations nor structure your code in a certain way to be able to use it. It does all of that for you.

>And again, if I have a type annotated codebase which is more and more a Spring clone, why wouldn't I just use Spring? What's the upshot to go with PHP + Symfony then?

They're far easier to use with less overhead. You don't need to know tons of annotations and configurations to get requests to behave a certain way. You've already admitted earlier that you've never used Laravel nor Symfony, so I'm not sure why you're arguing about their ease of use when you don't have experience with either. They're significantly easier to use than Spring.
Pot was a typo for post, sorry about that. The rage would come from people who feel that any indulgence accessible only to those richer than themselves is an outrage. There are many such people in tech circles.
"Back to fast compilation."

If you want a meme: "Faster than before"

Or maybe "Getting LLVM to compile as fast as it used to."

And 10 years ago I would have maybe suggested "Make LLVM fast again" but now it has become so strongly associated with a political party that I avoid it, precisely to avoid turning technical writings into political flamewars.

Or "Reclaiming my compilation time" :-)
> Add far more butter than anyone would think is reasonable. (Like, 1/2lb of butter to 1lb of potatoes. Maybe more.)

No. The butter gets lost in the potatoes and mouthfeel of the fat is compromised. That is the reason that so much is needed if you do it this way. Much better to only add it right when serving, leaving the butter and potatoes largely unmixed. Preferably added in an amount “to-taste” by the individual. I believe this was covered by McGee’s “On Food and Cooking”, but I may be misremembering.
Rhesus factor incompatibility is the leading cause of miscarriage
Our peak season is mid December untill end of April. It doesn't fluctuate too much though, and summer is quite busy. September/October are the slowest months, but slowness is really just lower prices to some extent.
Updating our approach to misleading information
If i remember right the expansion module was included with DK64 which helped ease the pain a bit.
Didn't Einstien use Minkowski's geometry for his key theories? Seems like it's helpful to have a few mathematicians involved in the project.
Is there anywhere to try this online?
I haven't had a lot of time to invest in working with my PinePhone yet, though I've heard a ton of improvements have been made since the last build I tested.

It's still kinda crazy to me that you can just now finally buy a phone that you can just... install a bunch of different OSes on, and not encumbered out of the box by Android. It's an exciting future for phones again for the first time in nearly a decade.
> for the most part the rich just played the game better than everybody else

That's not something Bill Gates himself believes, mind you.
Nice!
for my username it shows a single green dot in the center of the chart, the infamous "introverted person" distribution (also known as "insecure commenter" distribution.

EDIT: obviously, this comment broke the "curve". This distribution is known for being unstable.
Getting 'technicals' to understand risk is also rather difficult. Perhaps one difference is that many 'technicals' (whatever group that is) might feel like they do understand risk, even when they don't.
Not just Sega, but Nintendo as well. The N64 was a moderate success, but if it was a CD-based system and came out a year earlier, Nintendo would have cut the PSOne at the knees and maintained console dominance.
I'm sure he will be sobbing when he sells 7 billion vaccines. I wonder what his pricing structure will be?
When I smell cigarette smoke I turn around and walk away. Smokers have more social distance from me.
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I guess one would when they start approaching 80 and looking as 35.
Archive.is is not privacy friendly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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