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In some architectures it can be, which is a risk. A while ago I was in a day long kick off for a project to replatform a division of a large company, with Salesforce at the core. As it happens, one of the other division's Saleforce instance was down the whole day, bringing down everything. Internal systems, web, sales... everything broken.

We listened to the lesson and the architecture we designed ended up not having Salesforce as a dependency for any critical or money producing customer facing functionality.

We used Alteryx as a ETL tool to keep Salesforce in sync in almost real time. The customer facing sites and services ran off their independent databases. This also meant that the developers working on that didn't need to know the details about how Salesforce worked, we just mapped Salesforce data to their database.
I'm normally skeptical of tech demos, but normally they don't actually talk about the tech. Assuming the actual promises aren't misleading, this is extremely impressive.

> Not sure how Unity can keep up with this.

Unity still has a big edge on usability. Unreal is very much a AAA tool: you have to use C++, all the built-in systems have a much steeper learning curve, etc. Even as a professional dev who's tried a few times to get into it for fun, it's just too much headache for my level of project. Whereas I can whip something together in Unity really easily. All that said, this definitely widens the gap for actual studios. If you have the time and know-how to use Unreal, you have even less reason to consider Unity now.
>Once you start eviction you are stuck paying someone else's mortgage.

This is actually the your (the landlord's) mortgage, not someone else's. That is one part of the risk of an investment vehicle that allows more tax write downs than most other investments.

Just like other investments, the pain is much less dramatic if you aren't over levered. If you are, profits are good until they aren't. Higher risk comes with that higher reward.
That's a great point, although from my experience working with teams on the other side of the world, the language barriers (and even time zones) are enough to make it so the work is not equivalent. Theoretically though it could be. It's more difficult in practice however and may end up costing the company more, so could be cheaper to pay someone more who is local to headquarters and the target market, than less on the other side of the world.
Definitely agree.
I’m glad we’re having these discussions and that these points are being brought up.
Just buy a digispark for $4 and reflash it to be a rubber ducky.
What about taxes and the EU grants? The latter tend to be significant.
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> I know Hacker News leans very heavy toward the Silicon Valley side, but I swear stuff happens in the flyover states that involves computers.

Yep, I live and work in one too! That's why I asked what it was. This is an edge case where I agree, it would add little utility. However, like you said, there are a lot of cases where there should be this sort of compliance but is not.

I actually thought you were referring to PLCs for public infrastructure or something similar to that. Sadly, I have gotten in arguments for people who do not want to even add encryption to talking to a PLC on the public internet.
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This has been done for ages in the audio production space, it's called "convolution reverb". It's quite nice, but it doesn't allow you to tune it very much, besides basic filtering and stretching/cutting.
> You might want to tell yourself that your immediate boss who calls you every 30 minutes you are away from work is just ineffective, but if he was not delivering on what his boss wanted from him, he would be gone.

Except in cases where:

- That boss's boss is related to the CEO and is coasting / not at the wheel

- That boss's boss is already looking for ways to let go of them

- That boss's boss needs that boss in place for a while longer, due to other factors, but is still annoyed by the micromanagement

- That boss's boss is intimidated by their underling and feels something bad might happen if they take action against the unwanted behavior

I've seen all of the above and consulted management on a few of those as well. There are a million little ways in which the "system" (dynamic between a group of people at work) has achieved a form of control which is out of the grasp of the individual and in contravention of the ultimate boss's way of doing business.

Specific interventions can completely change the dynamic, but the tendency is to blame the problem on individuals rather than emergent effects, which IMO makes individuals feel even more helpless. Usually something can be done.
Edit -> My grammar was terrible in the above sentence. Yikes.
There's too many techbros and 'rockstars' that think they're 10x better than anyone else. Surprise - they're more average than others tell them.

But I've seen it again and again, IT people don't seem to gravitate towards unions.
I too think this depends on how dysfunctional the company is and in what way it is dysfunctional.

Overall, with reasonable management, people have better idea about your skills and abilities after working with you then shortly after interview. Interview is artificial short situation. If that applies, staying makes a lot of sense because you get more challenging tasks, more autonomy, your word is trusted, you have more say in negotiations. Leaving to another company means that you have to start again less trusted, won't get those challenging tasks and generally need to prove yourself before gaining the same back. Plus yoi risk that environment in new company will be more toxic. Changing team is in the middle - you have reputation and sometimes simply need change so that you don't stagnate.

In such organization, pure talkers loose credit over time, get moved from team to team and no one wants to keep them and end up on project they themselves don't want and nobody wants and leave.

Obviously, if the company starts to be dysfunctional over some treshold or stagnates, the high quality people will leave as the above benefits get lost. If it is toxic or unchallenging right now, you are good chance another company will be better.
For future reference, don't host images from your blog on Google images. None of them are loading.

PNG/8 or any decently compressed JPEG format will work if you have bandwidth limitations.
I think I'm going to launch a new business format where we lease out air for people to breathe, and then convince them that I'm doing them a service by allowing them to breathe it.

In any case, I'm not asking for a moratorium on eviction per se. I'm a proponent of giving landlords 100% of the revenues created by their property, but 0% of the revenues created by the things around their property. The Land Value Tax (LVT) mentioned elsewhere on this thread is exactly that.
It's a total game changer.

Time for everyone to learn Unreal, Houdini, and Mari.
Why Belgium? Why not a city in Belgium?

Europe is gelling into a political unit, with the EU and all.
I have ~ 5 lets encrypt certs, with different web servers. (Some appliances, some docker, and some openbsd).

One breaks for some different random reason every six months or so. Each time it happens, I spend hours reading let’s encrypt blog posts, source code in random languages I don’t care to learn, etc.

I just got a certificate expiry warning in my inbox for a fully patched machine with perfect uptime. It’s an unnecessary waste of time. For one thing, I don’t back up the certificates, so it the certificate is compromised, then the box that serves the content is also compromised.
All I could find with a quick search is this Unreal 4 tech demo from 2012: [1]

A lot of it actually looks subpar 2020 standards.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZmRt8gCsC0
The problem with general advice. I would say most engineers take 1-2 years to truly grok the business, internal relationships and the whole of the technology stack you have deployed. So if you’re jumping ship every year or so like I sometimes see recommended you’re not really ever firing on all cylinders.
Once you have the big picture and have deployed multiple projects - is when you can start proactively fixing systematic issues that you’ve identified
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And developers who launch on the Epic Store get much better placement than the average Steam listing, and free promotion by Epic's social accounts. At least right now, even before the financial incentives, there's a lot of perks for a new developer to become "heard of" from Epic.
Fair enough, I read fear into the parent comment, my apologies.

As for projection, not so much - I've not really had any significant fear of death, aside from instinct to avoid certain demise. :-)

Instead it's more that I've only ever seen "I'm at peace with the idea of dying" and "desperately clinging to anything that can prolong my life, even if only by a little." Admittedly, that's my anecdotal experience of the people with whom I interact, and I did indeed present a false dichotomy. :-\ Again, my apologies there.

In the proper logical sense, "not wanting to die" is only technically negated as "wanting to die". Quite literally the definition of negation - introducing a "not" in front of whatever the thing is. So that's my oops.

It's a weird place though, because the negation of "at peace with the idea of dying one day" is "NOT at peace" with the same. Which implies fear. Which... I dunno, I've reached my limit now. :-)

Death is a weird concept to consider in a neutral / rational manner, eh?
> I'm not aware of any Clojure tools that are best-of-breed for project management. Java has a better model for locking everything down (or maybe how the Linux Distros manage their repositories)

Uh? Clojure locks everything down as a well. In fact, deps.edn solves many issues experienced with Maven.

Personally, I've found Clojure dependency management to be the best I've ever used in any language. It's simple, explicit, gets out of your way, and lets you just do your work.

> and Python has a better model for just keeping up with the current state of things.

I'd like to hear about this? Pip doesn't even have a command to update all dependencies in one go. And figuring what even are the dependencies of any given project is a mess.
Reminds me of similar work done with genetic algorithms: https://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html
I do think it's totally plausible that tenants in the NYC Chinatown apartments would have some assets. It's NYC, downtown, and really kind of depends on how old the lease is, right?
I agree. I treat cyber security a lot like physical security.

"Always lock your front door" is good advice, just like "always use https" is good advice. But I'm not going to lock and deadbolt my door if I'm only walking out to grab something from my car and returning immediately.
Some people are better off renting but right now we have a lot of people in middle age with families who are stuck with insecure housing. It's bad enough now but it's going to become a nightmare when they get to retirement age.

The UK had a pretty good housing situation that was developed after the end of the second world war. It was disassembled by Thatcher.
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As someone with an infant and a toddler, working from home, this hits the nail on the head. I have been working remotely my whole career, and I love it, but working at home _with_ children there is about 5x harder.
This assumes that skill and efficacy don't come from domain specific/company specific experience.

You can be a lousy engineer, but if it is all your lousy code and you know it line by line, you will be a heck of a lot more effective than the star engineer who has been there for just a few months and hasn't learned the codebase yet.
You're right, I was referring to git-notes and they aren't suitable as plumbing for code review :)

I was meaning to point out that we've developed plumbing for objects with "weaker" guarantees than source code, which can still be attached to refs. To me, this is indicative that the maintainers are willing to accept patches on things that are outside the "core mission" of versioning source code, and might mean that they're open to the idea of accepting a well-architected code review feature.

Although, you're also right, in that there's still a lot of plumbing to make sure that authors can only edit their own comments, and that sort of thing. The more I think about it, there's a lot of work to be done and it isn't easy.

But, if you made a proposal, I think git-notes is precedent for them accepting your contributions. :)
I've also seen nothing about DLR being removed
Or the hosting provider could offer a turnkey solution.

They could use something like VLAN to isolate that physical server on its own network, put the VLAN behind a firewall, and have an HTTPS reverse proxy that goes through that firewall.

Depending on how their network is built, it might even be possible to make this self-service where you enable a setting in your account and your physical server gets wrapped in this additional layer.
I’ve been noticing lately that people in video meetings basically use the mute button as a convoluted ptt button. I’m glad someone else saw this
You are depreciating the built structure, not the land. It’s land values which increase.
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Holy forking shirtballs, that looks amazing.

There's still some weirdness - I found the water movement (around 4:10) a bit odd, and the lightball in the cave seemed to be directional even though it was a ball. But my god, that's beautiful.

The end scene with the flying reminded me of the (fully rendered) Avatar ride at Disney World. I stood in line for two hours for that.
This is exactly it. The notion that they easily shift that ownership of the mortgage onto their renters saying "stuck paying someone else's mortgage" feels like mental gymnastics as it 100% is your name on that debt and not your renters.
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On the server-side, Deno is soon 1.0 and has native TypeScript support - no more transpiling

https://blog.logrocket.com/what-is-deno/
It was important because there were specific job requirements that had to be met in order to qualify for a TN visa. The expertise you were expected to be bringing in as a Software Engineer was architectural level knowledge of coding.

The TN visa could be revoked at any time which is why you want to be really clear when crossing the border. I worked for Microsoft and they recommended that I bring my full job description package and lawyer's letter every time I crossed the border

The best part was when I had to go to the border to apply for the TN visa. The poor guy had a list of questions to ask and clearly had no idea what any of it meant. "And will you be doing any <...long, dramatic pause> programming?"
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Aperture did not have a monthly subscription that's why it was dropped.

Photos has a monthly subscription and Music has one, that's why those were kept.

News has a subscription.

They are working on Chess and Dictionary to get subscriptions too. But if you open the about menu, you'll see these have been updated in 15+ years, so it has not been much of a cost to maintain those.
Yes. All those things come with being a landlord. Not to mention the opportunity cost of invested capital and time.
Why not stop allowing registration except by manual whitelist? At least until the spammer lost interest.
Give some of his newer stuff in "Exhalation" a try. He's improved with time. I seem to recall 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling' having some distinct characters, and also a really neat setting.
I'm sorry, could you please elaborate? I was always under the assumption that hash functions have to be deterministic, and thus, that "every input has a unique output" was a correct statement.

AFAIK the contrary is invalid, so that "not every output is the result of one and only one input".
I appreciate this response! I know I'm super late, but I learned a lot here, and it helped me out. :-)

Thanks!
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Its a hoop to jump through to get things to work- and an external dependency. I mean I remember the days when I first got a cable modem, I could just start up IIS or Apache and immediately have a web page on the internet. With a little hackery with dynamic DNS, it could be a "proper" webpage with a domain name.

There are a lot of websites out there that just want to serve some static data or host a blog, and https IMHO adds nothing but a layer of complexity for no benefit.
Yah, they said "convolution reverb," so I think they expected audience to know what it was. Often it's not about creating new technology, but making existing technology accessible to new audiences and new creators.
VSCode is by far the best Electron app... I mean by miles. It occupies a niche though where people tolerate and even want peculiar user interfaces that are highly optimized for their specific job-- in this case being a code editor and IDE. Electron and other HTML based UIs suck for more normal sorts of apps. They're bloated and look alien and clunky.
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I can mute my headset using a switch on the headset itself. So this project turns a key on your keyboard into such a switch?
Downgrading TLS only works so far, a lot of older clients won't understand SHA-256 signatures on modern certs. I don't think anybody will do SHA-1 certs anymore, so you would need to give those users a self-signed certificate or something.
I see we just downvotes comments that challenge rather than addressing the valid criticism.
Earlier in my career looking for my first remote job, I got an offer for 20$-30$ per hour. This is 2.5x the average salary where I live, and almost 2x of what I was making at the time.

"Are you okay with installing surveillance software installed on your computer to track everything you do?"

Laughed at their faces. I will take ANY job (roof repairing, garbage man, security guard) before doing that.
I think i wrongly described what i meant with while my whole state of mind revolves around thinking without vocalizing. and you thereby understood it as i'd try to achieve that.
That isn't the case. I simply don't have it! While i have that whole "Palace of the Mind/Method of Loci" thing, that's not the whole thing either. I'd say it is on a lower level, and even below that is the language, and whenever i need to write or speak, there happens to be some sort of hyperdimensonal self-solving Tetris in fast-forward mode which gives me the words in the languages i happen to know in an instant, readily formed to write or speak. But without an inner voice speaking them first. I can't do it any different. That would be exhausting.
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From what I can tell, it's still not clear that vitamin D isn't a just biomarker.
I know of at least one study in COVID-19 cases that suggested a correlation between mortality and Vitamin D levels [0], tested in patients rather than comparing national averages. That said, I'd like to see more tests in confirmed cases and even more than just mortality correlation, I'd like to see if it helps with long term lung damage.

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3585561
Curious what products to use to send the stablecoins with?
Working on an app that lets you send USDC to any email or phone number globally. Let me know if you want to hear more.
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This kinda feels like the conspiracy theory perspective to organizational management.

If you see a purported optimization problem and a solution that doesn't fit it, there are two possible explanations. Either whatever does the optimization is bad at optimizing, or the objective function isn't what you think it is.

For almost every feasible solution, you can contrive an objective function so that that solution is the optimum. So perhaps the managers are deliberately engineering the business to take some money out of their bottom line to send a message. But in the spirit of Hanlon's razor, it's more likely that the managers are simply bad at their job.
There's a reputation that functional programming is harder than object-oriented. I think this comes from the very difficult functional programming languages that exist out there. I think that can be an obstacle. People hear "fp" and think "hard".

I personally find Elixir's functional programming is easier, because there are fewer things you have to deal with than object oriented. There are basically no constructs in Elixir that you don't have out of the box in an OO language like Javascript or Python. You just have to deal with that you can't do things like assign variables in if statements (you just have to explicitly export them) and you don't have for loops.

Having said that, Enum.map and Enum.reduce are really hard to get used to and can be an obstacle in terms of "why can't I do this thing that is so easy in X".

In the long run, once you get used to reading them (which honestly took me about 4-5 months, I have like 20+ years of programming experience) I think they are easier because they are declarative -- you can see exactly what is happening to each piece of your list and in the case of reduce, what state is being passed through each iteration.

For loops are far more unstructured, literally anything in any of your parent scopes could be what you're keeping track of through iterations, which means, your mistake surface area is much much higher. The same goes for getting used to "if statements that export values" but, maybe, less dramatically.

I know this is difficult to hear since you gave up, but I promise you if you push through it, eventually it will feel like writing elixir is "programming with training wheels on" you can do crazy hard things without worrying about large classes of logical and structural programming errors. Hope you come back to it!
I'm always going to cringe at Twitter's "star" engineers who spend an average of 7 months in each company. HTH do you even understand the product and contribute in that time frame? One of two things needs to be at play:

1. You were brought in to do very specific work (i.e.: migrate something to k8s).

2. You were brought in as a token due to your social media following.

Seriously, how else?
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I think the only way to reform Congress is through voting and (indirectly) through changing minds. Even though Biden, Bernie and Trump are atrocious candidates - from a certain perspective (I expect most people disagree) they're very similar. I think they're evidence that the establishment parties are on the decline and people recognize that. Congress is a different matter, but in terms of broad indicators of electoral politics - the presidential elections are reflecting a change. Oddly this trends globally, so I think it's related to the leveling of power in communication and news that came with the internet.
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This phone number traces to Mike Bethers, Special Agent at Oregon Department of Justice. I might give them a call today and ask about these cameras.
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Congrats on the launch! Which graph algorithms do you support?