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The German Armed Forces want to rely completely on the free software matrix as a communication system for chat messages in the future. This was announced by the Bundeswehr IT service provider BWI. The announcement also states that "in future the chat application will also be used for the transmission of information of the protection class 'classified information - for official use only' (VS-NfD)".

This is surprising in that the use of free software for classified information and its approval by the BSI can sometimes be difficult, as the case of OpenGPG from last year shows. The first tests for the use of Matrix in the German Armed Forces have been running since December last year.

Due to the restrictions and protective measures in the wake of the corona pandemic, the Bundeswehr had also expanded the operation of the system to 30,000 smartphones as early as April. This is intended to enable a "simple yet secure means of communication".

Starting this autumn, the Bundeswehr also wants to make it possible for private smartphones to be used for communication via matrix, but not for classified information. To enable private use and communication via chat even during the corona pandemic, the Bundeswehr is currently relying on the proprietary messenger Stashcat, which is available for up to 50,000 potential users.
Disagreement in Germany

Stashcat is also used by other authorities. However, the announcement clearly states: "In the course of further expansion, Matrix will replace Stashcat as the German Armed Forces' unified instant messaging platform". Stashcat will therefore only serve as an interim solution.

Unlike in centrally governed France, where the matrix system is to be used for all authorities, there is currently still a great deal of disagreement among German authorities about which messenger systems are to be used in the future. Besides the mentioned Stashcat and Matrix, there are currently also tests with the open XMPP standard or Wire. But at least the German Armed Forces seem to have already definitely decided in favor of Matrix.
This is true of most food retailers in the US, as well. Most forays into automated ordering have ended poorly due to cascading issues with the electronic inventory getting out of sync with reality. Whole contracting companies exist to reconcile physical and electronic inventories, and this is mostly done for accounting purposes rather than to aid automation.
BS 5 was supposed to come out in 2020 but looks like there is a little bit of wait. A jQuery dependency is okay till then
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Interesting article. This statement made me chuckle :-)

"I think Jeff Bezos is going to offer the COVID-19 test as part of Prime membership. I think that’s where we’re headed."

Slightly off-topic but hilarious nonetheless!
Another principle virtue of Dhall (stemming from the type system) is that it's total, so you know no funny business can go on when computing the configs. Even if you use typescript for (unsound) static type checking, you're definitely not going to get totality out of it.

If someone wanted dhall in JS, they could implement it, as has been done for Go, Ruby, Clojure, etc.[1]

iiuc, this library is much more akin to the approach described in https://beepb00p.xyz/configs-suck.html

[1]: https://docs.dhall-lang.org/howtos/How-to-integrate-Dhall.ht...
It's fascinating to see this happening. Both of my parents got Open University degrees here in the UK when I was a teenager. They were both teachers themselves, my father started on a Chemistry degree but switched to Computer Science, while my mother got a degree in Child Psychology.

This was in the 70s and early 80s, so remote learning is certainly viable even without the internet. They went to some seminars and tests in person, and there were summer camps and such held at university campuses during the holidays. The course is held on a schedule, you don't really work at your own pace and have to keep up, and you have an assigned tutor. Getting a degree this way could take a long time, twice as long as usual but there is also an option to do the degree full time in 3-4 years. It's not cheap though, a Computer Science course has 3 stages, corresponding to years at college, and cost about £6k per year.

The Open University still exists and seems to be going strong, and having just taken a look it seems they make extensive use of the internet. Is there anything like that in the US already? It seems to me this is a very well established and proven approach.
They could mount it to a small cart with Apple Pro wheels for Hospital administrators to roll around during patient check-ins.
Looks like a neat UI Kit. What are you using for tags and select?
Love that noughties guitar sound.
In High school?
I’m finding this entertaining and even a little amusing in a “strange performance art” kind of way.
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BaseEmoji is a binary-to-emoji encoding scheme that represents binary data in a subset of the Unicode Emoji symbols, designed for triggering senior programmers effortlessly. BaseEmoji is heavily influenced by my frustration towards my tech lead that always shares data (base64 encoded) with me.
Awesome XD
Second this, it's excellent
I guess every company defines the architecture role differently. When I worked as an IT architect we never talked with developers or even looked at their code. There were 2000+ developers and less than a hundred architects. What it sounds like you are describing is a senior or lead developer role.
You are describing a good engineer.
Wow, Prof Strang is 85 and still teaching! Thats very impressive and inspiring.
Du/Sie and first name/last name are almost without exception divided along the same lines in German. Sie plus first name is how a person with extreme status expectations would address their butler, and just as old-fashioned. "I'm sorry you can never be my peer but I respect you anyways". Last name and Du would be using the last name as a nickname in a decidedly first name situation. Think "bro" but timeless.
I completely agree with the need to be a practitioner. In my experience, a good architect can create a POC project to demonstrate that their approach will work. It's not necessary to create a POC for every little thing, but it sure helps when the team is dealing with a new stack or large/complex project.
"What are the advantages to other open source?"

I don't think there is another notable, proven, open source clustered manager of both actual VMs and containers. OpenNebula might be the closest: https://opennebula.io/get-your-hands-on-v-5-8-edge/

LXD is similar to proxmox if you only need containers, and pretty slick. They use their own distributed version of sqlite to propagate state, so it's much simpler than proxmox.
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Same. And well put.
But then where do we draw the limit on that? Should then a person who might start a lot of companies be capped at a certain point?
Seems like it's slipperly territory to tread onto.
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Thankfully there are no architects in Amazon: 99% of teams have SDEs and SEs.
Yes but that’s because the current education system is geared toward GPA. If all of the students you interview have years worth or projects, how would you differentiate? Better yet, if they go through a university or trade school and they all complete the same projects, how do you know who is actually good?

I’ve run into this when interviewing or going through resumes of entry-level engineers. A lot of them will have a similar senior capstone project, so now I’m back to looking at GPA or some other signal.

“Yes yes you worked on CMU’s autonomous vehicles program. So did the other 10 candidates, but tell me what makes you truly unique? “ etc.
The mysterious hacker called 4chan.
And Howard Hughes was also motivated by legacy and unquestionably brilliant. Intellectual brilliance and drive can coexist with psychological vulnerabilities and erratic decision making.
County indeed said "don't open". Musk said "will open anyway". But he didn't say "arrest me". He said if you want to arrest someone because of this. Arrest only me and not the workers. That is not a challenge to the government. That is an appeal to their humanity. That the government should only hold Musk accountable and not the workers.
Mostly from the left, but also from the top, right, and, least, from the bottom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch#Location_and_a...)

We know because there’s a 17th century copy in London: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/gerrit-lundens-...
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Thanks! For tags I'm using "Bootstrap 4 Tags Input", and for select I'm using "bootstrap-select". I've custom styled these plugins to fit them in perfectly with the design language of the system :)
Can't believe this is almost a decade old. I recently tried explaining this concept during an interview and got a lot of strange looks. Most devs (even senior) were taught von Neumann architecture and assume all memory is shared. This is an excellent explainer and one I'll refer to in the future.
How is that bypassed dead man's switch not an OSHA violation? https://youtu.be/HzcN3cbikzA?t=179
There are two different pursuits tangled up in this. One is seeking money and prestige and the other is seeking knowledge. They are confused because in order to earn money you often need at least a modicum of specialised knowledge and prestige requires at least some proximity to or appearance of it. Conversely, pursuing knowledge requires you to acquire money to fund your endeavors and needs enough prestige to attract others to your cause. They are bound closely together but they are not the same thing.
Never stop coding.
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Honest question, Kubernets does not helps in closing the gap between AWS and Hetzner Cloud?

I would think that an honest setup supported by k8s would, at least alleviate the need of managed solution?

Are there AWS services without a competitive open source solution deployable in k8s?
When I work in an open office I am always been up to date with what is going on. We have been able to squash problems when they were small because we could overhear people having problems with the systems. Problems that would be too small to bother us with if we are working from home. Communication in the office is quicker, we can get to the root of something fast. People who might known something will overhear and chip in

Lots of small things get fixed and fail to grow into big things

When I work from home I get uninterrupted focus on the task at hand which is something that is almost impossible in the office but only get to hear about problems when they get big and urgent

I also feel that I am dropping out of the loop. There are too many messaging systems that I need to keep an eye on, email, chat, texts, whatsapp, slack to keep in touch. In office communications is basically email for clients or in person

If I have a solid piece of work to do the office is not the best place but only if you can do it by yourself. In the office I can see when I can or cannot interrupt someone. When working from home I have no idea if it is a good time to interrupt someone

But for me the open office is only 12-15 people. Large than that and communications become impossible and the noise to signal get worse. Also managers seem to do more 'managing' in bigger offices :(
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As a developer, you really don't spend a lot of time in spontaneous conversations about work. The open office is a money saving scheme for management who views coders as typists.

That said I wish they were popular - for my competitors. :-)
This doesn't match my experience at all. I've seen many, many places where a bleeding-edge React stack was deployed to serve what was 100% static content.
When people are in the middle of a crisis they overestimate the impact.

For example, as it happened 9/11 was NOT the end of skyscrapers...

This pandemic is not a very virulent one, we've seen worse no later than the 20th century. We'll be fine.
>As an employer hiring a new grad, you know, at a minimum "This person showed up to class for four years. They are capable of following instructions, of learning new material, and doing so above a baseline level of competency."

I was thinking about this point the other day. What made me question it is that everyone that goes to college went through 12 years of education that wasn't too dissimilar to that. But for whatever reason that is not considered.
Confirmed and seconded.

Publix fried chicken has even made some top 10 lists for chicken/fried chicken reserved for restaurants.
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As I said you can find better but I'll bet the average wage for developers with 10 year of experience is actually below (or at least not above) 70k.

Also my experience reflects living in Berlin (& previously Vienna), in Munich or Frankfurt salaries may be higher.
That's amazing - thanks for the link
Good job!

I recommend that you learn how to speak slowly.

This not only makes you easier to understand, but also makes it easier for people to interrupt and ask questions.

And as others have said, listen carefully to questions and suggestions and try to answer them at length.

Bonus points if you can carry this over into writing, too.
> Look at the MOOC experiments where the percentage of people who pass is in the single digits. (There are all kinds of arguments that some people only sign up for part of the course anyway, that people can take it three times at much less cost than the traditional way once, etc., but single digits is a shock.)

Could you elaborate on this? I've done a couple of MOOCs recently (Coursera in conjuction with Columbia, Princeton, etc). I could see that tens of thousands of others had enrolled. I'm curious about what the completion rate is. I personally got some value out of them. I'm wondering why they might be considered failures. In fact I'm seeing lots more courses come up.
Reminds me of this anecdote an ex-colleague told me: he was working at GE on an x-ray machine they use during cardiac catheterization to monitor the catheter as it moves from your groin towards your heart. The machine recorded the whole procedure, and there was a "replay" option to evaluate the findings I guess. One day they got a bug report which asked for a more prominent warning on the UI if the device was currently in "replay" mode. It turned out that there was an incident where a doctor only realized midway through the procedure that they were looking at the replay footage from the previous patient...
http://web.archive.org/web/20160513142051/https://macminicol...

http://web.archive.org/web/20200512113040/http://www.mactalk...
I wonder if all the tech in those cars requires modifications to the vehicle itself, like a larger alternator to satisfy the power requirements or reinforced pillars to support the weight of the hardware. It'd be cool to hear from somebody who knows how they equip those cars.
WHOAH!!! I clicked (zoomed), and I clicked and I clicked and I clicked (8 times). At some point around the 6th-7th clicked I actualy said "WHOAH" out loud and people around me looked at me.
Now that is magnificent. I've seen the painting inthe Rijks museum some years back. It is simply amazing.

Edit: remember when you want to see a painting from really up close.. and they don't let you? It's like looking at the painting with a magnifying glass!
Not really, it can only make derivative art.
Yes, because I was missing a % sign. 38%

Now I look like a fake news idiot :D
Austrian living in Norway here. The Sie/du thing has gotten less strict, but there's still a lot of social situations where starting out with a du would be quite awkward. It's usually fine among colleagues (esp. in university and modern IT companies), but wherever there's a more stratified hierarchy(pretty much all service sector interactions for instance) it's always a good idea to stick with Sie.
Probably this
https://soledadpenades.com/posts/2009/mac-mini-as-a-headless...

But it is a resistor.
JavaScript dev reverse engineering a heat pump
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I work in Germany currently. Big German companies have a lot of bad reflexes in common when it comes to doing big IT projects and it's a reason for a lot of companies failing repeatedly in this space because they have the wrong focus and assumptions.

One of those reflexes basically boils down to combination of ineptness and not invented here (i.e. in Germany) syndrome. Another part of this is that the locals have an understandable historical aversion against anything invading privacy; as this has been abused by both nazi's and communists to hurt people in the past.

Unfortunately the net result is an industry that is still dependent on shoveling around a lot of paper via post and fax (!!), and a misguided trust in the security of what is basically a patch work of small companies, corporate departments, and government agencies working with very outdated, home grown stuff that can only be assumed at this point to be quite insecure and hopelessly compromised by foreign and domestic intelligence agencies at so many levels that you might as well print the stuff in a newspaper.

Most customers you talk to almost right away start assuming they can't use AWS, Google cloud, or Azure for legal reasons. Of course, all of these run data centers in Germany where they comply with applicable law to keep their quite many German customers across basically all industries happy. This is a complete non issue from a technical and legal point of view. Also, the likes of IBM, SAP, and Oracle are happy to take your money for running this for you (at great expense).

Yet, I've had this discussion with several naive startup founders where they are going to build X and of course from day 1 are going to do their own infrastructure as well because it's obviously the right thing to do (for them). Most of these startups die young. Most bigger German companies get burned repeatedly by this stuff as well.

I know at least one billion dollar construction materials company insisting on running their own cloud that are sinking obscene amounts of cash into running things in a convoluted way. There's no shortage of local suppliers preying on this type of behavior. I declined working on their pile of steaming manure.

LIDL just burned 0.5 billion with a local IT supplier (SAP) that milked them for the fools they are on a project that they should have pulled the plug on years ago. That's all you need to know about their level of competency in this area. Saying this is doomed to fail is just stating the obvious.
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A long time ago I worked on a series of CDROMs detailing Vermeer's Chick with the Pearl Earring (unofficial name) and Bellini's Feast of the Gods.

We included infra-red, x-ray and colour information and overlayed them. Users could scroll around the surface of the paintings in great details looking at how the artist constructed their work. The tech we used was previously used to render 3D globes with overlayed information. I think you could only buy the CDROMs at the Washington Museum of Art.

At the time it was pretty ground breaking and I certainly enjoyed working on it. It's amazing to think that this is all free on the web now at massively high resolutions.
Diesel gate has nothing to do with pure profit, it has to do with Germany keeping its market shares and the occupational figures (the stability I was talking about)

Only 2% of the cars were sold in US

Of course the fact that US was leading the production of luxury electric cars has to do with the revelation being made public in 2013 while politicians and regulators have known for years

They were (illegally) accumulating money to invest in electric car manufacturing without having to "disrupt" the industry which has political consequences in Europe, where job places are highly unionised

I'm not saying they were right I'm saying that they were keeping the stability at any cost, they just sacrificed some upper manager after the scandal, and in fact 6 years later the numbers say that in the electric car market
"Volkswagen leads all carmakers with over 1.4 million sales. Renault-Nissan and China's Geely have also overtaken Tesla."
Just want to agree fully! I've been known to say that an "Architect" who doesn't code is no better than a bullshit artist. Architects don't necessarily write production code (they won't have the time/bandwidth) but they should be (at least involved in) coding up PoCs and key abstractions that have impact across a range of systems (in existence or to-be-built).

Architecture is a process not a product.
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>It's very hard to build e.g. CPUs that will contain very advanced backdoors that are totally hidden but can easily be targeted remotely to gather information

Wasn't IME a thing for years but people still don't have a great understanding of how it works?
> Yes yes you worked on CMU’s autonomous vehicles program. So did the other 10 candidates, but tell me what makes you truly unique?

We might be looking for different things.

I'm just looking to hire self-driven folks that know how to program, problem solve, and communicate. I'm not looking for pedigree, elite status, or anything of that sort. In fact, I don't even care if candidates went to college. If they can demonstrate that they know what they're doing, then that's fine by me.

I predict cookie cutter projects won't be an issue. If a candidate can talk in depth about their project, the choices they made, the things they learned - that's good signal. It doesn't matter if everyone performs the same exercise, because not everyone will come away with the same experience.
Some US universities have "extension schools":

https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/bachelor-liberal...

I think they are usually focused on practical knowledge. I think a lot of land grant state college type places have an extension school focused on training up farmers:

https://extension.umn.edu/

https://extension.nmsu.edu/

It's not really the same as the OU.
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I'd agree SF could have better Southern-style fried chicken. But at the KFC level Krispy Krunchy Chicken is pretty damn great :)
*Sie haben
I've heard it pronounced "dub dub dub" for similar speed improvement
Here is a very good RSA animation[0] on Sir Ken Robinson's talk on the same subject.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
There's a kind of limbo zone where non-bullshitters internalize bullshitting as the normal pattern of communication and that's where the damage can really happen vis a vis genuine competence.

A manager might sit down with their team and say something like, "We are targeting 10% growth in our department revenue for next year." Someone raises the question on how that 10% growth will be achieved; what is going to be done differently next year than now.

There's a big difference between a person that can whip out their 10-page growth plan with concrete marketing and operational plans to explain how their proposed changes will lead to the desired growth versus one that simply states, "10% growth is a reasonable target for our division".

The latter is just parroting superficial, general information and (critically) thinks this is a sufficient or even desirable way to set goals (set a target and let the team hit it!). The former lets their quantitative conclusion "10% growth" follow from the actual work of building out a plan.
As an aside, when I'm working in a cubicle and people talk in the hallway right outside of my office I tell them:

"Hey guys, can move it down the hall, I'm trying to sleep here."
Ah good old openseadragon. Such a great js library