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A lot of technical architecture comes down to minimizing complexity. When considering an approach, ask "how can we make this simpler?"

As a matter of process it is important to consider many different approaches together with the team, and weigh benefits and drawbacks of each approach in order to make the best decision.

Another big part of the job is to build and promote a shared technical vision among the team. This can involve establishing a technical roadmap, and principles/ethos which will be most effective if arrived at in a collaborative manner.
> and mostly used to older people, to the point where they're now mostly used sarcastically to imply someone is a pompous ass or to very old people or in very formal situations.

I'd say that sounds pretty similar to how it's used among German speakers, at least those who are 30 or younger.
Agree. I am Swedish and have shopped at Lidl (not exclusively) for perhaps 10 years. In the beginning it was mostly poor people I could see and the parking lots half-empty. Now I see much more varied clientele and more cars outside. I have a distinct feeling that many that avoided Lidl before do not now.
Road trips, camper rentals.

Cruise ships as permanently docked floating hotels.

Rigorous hotel cleaning protocols.
I agree that it's management. I have two primary projects right now, and the difference couldn't be more stark.

One has most of the issues you describe, the workflow has gotten cold, meetings are mechanical, communication is poor, the team slack is dry. Problem solving is hard over email, only one person on the team proactively makes phone calls. And of the two offices, this one had the most people that would chime in on conversations from over the cube walls.

On the other project, management has taken the "overcommunicate" route to WFH. Everything feels collaborative, I talk to everyone often enough that nothing that would naturally come up in the office but might not be big enough for an email gets dropped. I have better insight into the electrical and mechanical engineer's tasks than I did while in the office, we identify points of future collaboration calls in meetings, and I've gotten to know people joining the project during WFH well enough over video calls that we now chit-chat over slack.

Perhaps the most striking sign of a culture difference is around 2/3 of people on both projects only turn their webcams on for calls regarding the 2nd project.
You can pay on digitec.ch with Bitcoin as well. Also, if I remember correctly, one can pay with Bitcoin on Steam as well.
I see Mark Riley's show on 6 music as at least a partial fulfilment, not least the amount of live sessions he does.
I have worked with only 2 architects who have made me understand what it means to be a good architect. 1 they make sure the code is organized in a meaningful way - consistently, and using places and patterns which make it feel easy and obvious.
2, they determine the code conventions used in a project and help to enforce them with tooling (git hooks, generators, PR reviews etc).

This helps scale a team, and build a cohesive lightning fast unit.

I’ve worked with fantastic devs in the past who had no real understanding of this kind of “architecture”, and as a team the difference was clear.
I would guess restore wouldn't be a problem. AWS or whoever would do it for free given it is a non-profit (in case of a disaster only, of course).
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I'd love to choose a side. Sadly, I'm living in Copenhagen after living in the U.S. for many years and there's no fried chicken war and barely any fried chicken. I recently found one joint where you can get a decent fried chicken sandwich, though that's about as far as it goes.

It's such a shame because the chicken you can buy here is, to my taste, of much higher quality compared to that in the U.S. The tenderness is incredible, and it's so moist it's almost impossible to overcook. I'm not really sure why it hasn't caught on here. Perhaps it's simply a matter of preference/taste.
Unclear about this, I have commbank and Citibank accounts and both require 2FA to login to web banking.

What exactly are you referring to when you say “website”?

CommBanks 2FA can be disabled tho.
No it is not. Problems with drawing the line between what is acceptable and what is "violent" speech are caused precisely by the fact that this axiom is completely false. You cannot have free speech, and by extension speech at all, without causing what you percieve as "violence".
First of all, do not put equality sign between physical and being verbally abusive. The first one is something external that you have no control over, no matter how much you fight, the second you can just shrug off and continue with your life.

Problem with your example lies in the lack of context. On the more humorous side - maybe your wife is a cunt and your children are little bastards. If you percieve any kind of abusive expression, no matter of the context, as violence, then you're just done. There is no useful way that you can contribute to culture and society, because you cannot participate in discourse anymore.

On the more serious side - what about "psychological violence"? What about when your wife treats you like a slave and verbally abuses you on a daily basis? If your wife mistreats you, then just leave. Her words cannot stop you. What stops you is more likely the threat of being beaten, that she will make it impossible for you to see your kids and she will take your house. The violence is physical, economical and sociological, not verbal.

Going further - your comment disgusted me and I've felt that it violates some of the most important values I have in my life. Is this violence? Not at all, I will just shrug it off and continue to enjoy my day. I will get some downvotes and maybe be less frequent in visiting left-leaning websites. We lose the ability to talk to each other, but it's far from being violence. It's just stupidity on both sides.
When the Democrats had complete control of the Federal government (2009-13), they did absolutely nothing toward immigration "reform". Perhaps your partisanship theory needs re-evaluation.
I doubt that the travel industry, or most industries will change.

This pandemic will end. Things will go back to 'normal'.

We've been through pandemics again and again through our species' history, most of them much more serious than this one. Things go back to normal.

What may happen is that existing trends may be given a boost (e.g. remote working, online retail/business), but that's not a 'change'.
Or putting in other words - keeping technical debt in check (as it comes mostly to non functional requirements)
> To be fair, Musk's tweet especially says if anyone is to be arrested for this, it should be him

To be fair, you can't both commit a crime and pay other people to commit crimes and get them out of the legal consequences by tweeting that you are the only one who should be arrested.
You'd be forgiven for thinking so! It comes from Japanese, yoke (除け) meaning protection and poka (ポカ) meaning blunder, careless mistake, or error. Although it looks as if it would rhyme with joke, it's more likely to be said yoh-kay. If you're curious, paste ポカヨケ into Google translate, select Japanese, and hit listen :)
> "On Writing Well"

Although note that some professional linguists consider the book to be "prescriptivist poppycock".

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18345
It's not that simple.

You can easily design type system + compiler, which will have destructive "attitude".

It's no different from human interactions and how being "right" is not always "being constructive".

Best type systems have low mental overhead, can be selectively applied (to benefit when it's profitable, and to avoid costs where it's too costly), are humble, and are good companions by helping developer learn the domain space.

E.g. 1 there are good blog posts describing how you can write Haskell code by just asking Haskell compiler what type is needed to fit with the rest of your code. Step by step you fill in the blanks.

E.g. 2 there are good videos from Clojure about how you can follow types to implement a new idea.

Counter example:
Neither 1) nor 2) is possible in C, and yet you pay hefty price mandated by C type system.

All 3 type systems have their own trade offs. Picking one that is most aligned with goals of your project does have impact :)
This video explains how they used 1-bit sound to generate Pikachu's sounds in Pokemon Yellow on the Game Boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fooSxCuWvZ4
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* Persuasion

* Negotiation

* Planning

Besides hard skills these seems the most important ones. I have seen good technical architects being bad architects because:

* They can't convince anyone that the ToBe architecture is worth it so any change has to be forced. This leads to a bad environment and overall lesser results.

* They can't negotiate other teams'/business' goals with the ToBe architecture goal so, again, the ToBe architecture can be only forced to the teams.

* They can't plan what is required to go from AsIs to the ToBe architecture. They can't tell you what's the most important change to be made, what should be done first and should be done in what order. This usually leads to an NobodyWanted architecture because random changes are being done.
I am not disagreeing with you there when it comes to pure mathematicians :-D

Edit: But there are of course big exceptions there as well, for example Thomas Hales.
> I don't see how he could be arrested given that none of this lockdown was implemented in criminal statute law.

Yes, all of it was. Or, more precisely, it was implemented under statutory authority of county and state public health officials whose orders are enforceable under preexisting criminal statutes and do not require additional criminal legislation for each new order.
This is a weak argument, because that prudence should be extended to Lindl as well. Do you think Lindl would resist if Germany intelligence service (BND) asks, no matter how crazy that may sound now? What is implication for a client, says, in France or Poland?
Congrats! What a great follow-up to your previous Ask HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808874
I've recently started going through Axler carefully and doing the problems, a quarantine activity I guess, and have been enjoying it. I actually learned about this book on an older HN post.

It does have plenty of matrices. The main thing it really does is avoid determinants until the very end. The determinant is certainly something I remember learning as a kind of rote operation, without really understanding any intuition behind why you'd multiply and add these numbers in this particular way. I still feel lacking in "feel" here, which is why I suppose I'm going through Axler now.
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I suggest an improvement, to be able to vacuum without having to have the free space of the table.
Example to vacuum a 1Gb table you must have a 1Gb free
In which city/division can one find this salary? Siemens is huge and has multiple business units in multiple cities each with their own salary grid.
Another data point from Lidls homeland regarding the wage of the "shop people" from about 10 years ago. While we had endless political discussions about minimum wage there were numbers of 7,50EUR to 8,50EUR per hour in the air at that time. Don't remember exactly anymore. What i DO remember though is that they had signs in the shops which you couldn't miss when standing at the cashier. They read 10EUR per hour, and later 11 to 12. They don't do that in shop signaling anymore, but nowadays it is around 15EUR i believe, while other retailers/discounters pay significantly less, except ALDI. And we still have that discussion over a mandatory minimum wage in all sectors, and it is ridiculously low.
I guess this is the result of their epic failed migration to SAP. They blowed 500 Million and 7+ years in an attempt to unify their IT on SAP, until they realized it's just not working. I guess they then started building their own solution, and bring now others into the round, which is kinda similar to how AWS started. Amazon too started offering their extra resources to others, until it grow into a business of their own.

I have my doubt, but I really hope this becomes something good. Good european competition in that sector is quite neccessary. We have seen how european laws influenced the world, and especially USA in the last years, hopefully business can reach similar effects.
Yeah, I play most games in Windows via Boot Camp. MS Flight Simulator which the op asked about is not available for macOS anyway.
It's solving a problem I currently have but am using VNC to solve. Are there differentiations vs screen sharing in that way. Appreciate that it could be usability and market positioning to mean that I'm not the target audience, but is there some other functionality I've not seen in the demo video? And yes my Mac Mini is currently headless with no display (using the paperclip hack to improve performance) or keyboard.
in Munich: starting salaries with a masters are 55-60k€ (before tax!) at average car related companies (even for non-CS-grads doing SWE with a physics/math background), 60-70k€ at the actual car companies. Social sciences/other jobs with masters: 42-50k€, below that with a bachelors/apprenticeship. Independent of the education in IT you should be able to reach 50k after 5 years (excluding grunt work) and 80k with a masters. Some engineers I know have been taken by electronics industry as PMs for 120k€ straight out of grad school. Rents are high (20€/m²), so other parts of Germany might be better overall (subtract 20-30% of salaries).

All this doesn't hold true for a lot of immigrant labor and people working at startups, where you are offered 30-40k€ with a masters (these kindd employ most of the immigrant labor I think - of course there's the odd 100k YC). Imho this (at current rent levels) is exploitation and something which makes working in Munich not particularly attractive for anyone not from Germany or getting a job at a car company.
Indeed, but that isn't how they do it. They just scan the sticker.
Americans and their obsession for the constitution... seen from the outside it's almost like a cult. If you twist the constitution words hard enough you can make them say whatever you want.

> flagrant civil rights violations.

Maybe, maybe not, either way Musk's isn't qualified to determine that and there is a very obvious conflict of interest for him to say that it is unconstitutional.

If we listen to Musk and his opinion why don't we listen to Americans ? [0] You know, the little annoying document starting with "We the People of the United States"

[0] https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
Thank you Nick Pickles and Yoel Roth for helping Twitter join the scientific research process. Where will your findings on what is/isn't true be published?
I wish that Archive.org would start collecting funds to finance an external backup site. I strongly feel that archive.org is an irreplaceable treasure and that making sure that it would resist natural disasters should be a priority...
So basically an SACD.
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I have just checked the barcodes, and all stickers are identical. Same barcode. Same text. Same everything. They are preprinted, not printed by a machine in the shop too.
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I also think that this point should be emphasized more. It helped me a lot when I realized it. I also liked the abstract approach to vector spaces.
Of course, a matrix is just one way to represent linear transformations and it can also represent other things like a system of linear equations.
Similar in the UK. It really came home to me when I was visiting universities with one of my children. We happened to walk past a marketing department during one of our tours. I was surprised by the number of people working in that office.
I'm still a beginner and I think Strang's Linear algebra books are more like a supplement material to his lectures. If you need to build a solid theoretical foundation of linear algebra you'd need to consider other resources too.

Having said that, he is explaining many things really well and is helping a lot to build intuition. He is always cautious presenting things that are computationally inefficient and suggests the alternatives.

Exercises are too hard for me personally. I'd prefer a more laborious set of exercises helping to cement the material, (as in calculus or usual algebra) and then have one or two problem solving puzzles at the end.
In South Africa, it works like this:

- Farmer

- Fresh Produce Market (for most around 8% agent fee + 8% market fee = 16%; for potatoes it is 5% + 8% for historical reasons)

- Supermarket (40%–60% fee)

So in our case the middle men are not that significant compared to the supermarkets. I know the situation is different for cooperatives, but they are either export orientated or in separate markets like wine or grain, both not considered fresh produce.

Cutting out the FPM actually tends to increase the end cost to the consumer as they tend to be higher value products to start out with. Typically it's berries, naartjies or apples and not staples like potatoes. But like I mentioned above, this is something that changes a bit every year.

Another interesting thing is that in rural areas you can cut out the supermarket instead, as many people like buying directly from the market or buying from people who resell it with small bakkies (pick-ups) to street sellers:

Farmer -> Market -> Pick-up truck reseller -> Street reseller

In the case of resellers on the street, I think they charge anywhere from 10%–70% commission, but it's difficult to say as these are all informal cash transactions.
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In opposition to the rules from the American authorities, which begets things like PRISM.

Also, it's a matter of culture, the native law context of a company drives a lot of the things they do internally.
Latin American Spainsh seems to be a bit more formal and "old fashioned", but varies a lot from country to country.
An ARM SoC chip has a lot of stuff inside: it has USART(s), SPI controller(s), I2C controller(s), SDRAM controller, sometimes LCD controller, USB controller, ethernet controller, a crypto coprocessor, graphic acceleration... Of which you only use a fraction.

It has logic to multiplex all those I/O to GPIO pins, and sometimes you have to choose between a second USB controller and a third UART.

Because all this gates eat a lot of current, it has a lot of logic to power off parts of the core.

In a way, popular ARM SoCs are a lot like bloated software.

I think the GA144 can replace a lot of this, without all the hardwired logic, with less gates, less power, less heat dissipation, and probably less pins.

Regarding his way of presenting it: I did cringe at times a little too. But at least he doesn't present it as silver bullet than can do anything easily with a C compiler and a Web programmer. Clearly his chip is as an oddball as his creator, so it requires some commitment.
We know that COVID-19 is less dangerous, statistically, for children than it is for other populations. By a large degree.
> What does an employer get in your scenario? Four years of 'projects' to sift through? How do they know what a good deliverable looks like for a CS 61A class at Southeastern Louisiana State University?

As someone who participates in interviewing undergraduate candidates, I prefer those that have projects to talk about over those who tout their GPA. Project work correlates very well with aptitude and initiative.

Projects require deep understanding, research, trial and error, and fully integrative thinking. There's no better way to learn and grow.
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That song is like having youth poured into your ears.
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I thought all of that is pretty accurate summary without much bias. Which statement is misleading?
He had his scandals but this guy was a legend. A real defining influence on my teenage years.
* PDM, not PWM
Not everyone needs to compete in the same market. There are some EU providers moving in that direction (e.g. OVH now offers managed Kubernetes, block storage, load balancers, etc), but Hetzner is very useful if you don't need that stuff.
And then, while correcting it, make another vi typo, etc... a sort of event horizon, esp when tired.

Physical keyboard! With a full size one, it really feels like a unix terminal. Which it is. And very fast by 70's unix standards.
I like the way how it buffers messages. You basically stop a process and it will continue when it left off. It is easy to create a distributed cluster. It has hundreds of different connectors for external sources. On the other hand is very bulky. Making it to work with https was horrible. You cannot just put it behind a reverse proxy.
Education for its own sake needn’t be expensive but trying to force it on the unwilling doesn’t work and makes things worse for those who actually want it by mixing in people who don’t actually care into their classes. If twelve years of primary and secondary school can’t awaken intellectual interests for more years in college won’t either. We know it doesn’t work for literature because most people don’t read for pleasure and those who do mostly don’t read literature. That is the easiest one besides possibly music, where again the academically favoured version is wildly less popular than what is generally consumed.

Forcing education on people does amazingly little to change their tastes.

If democracy doesn’t work if citizens aren't educated how did it work before universal primary or secondary education? The US, UK and France among others had a wide franchise long before a high school education was normative.

And education doesn’t even make informed citizens. Only 40% of the US population can name all three branches of government. Most people are ignorant of civics in all countries. You can’t make people retain information they neither use not care about but you can make their childhoods worse by wasting their time.

Forcing a simulacrum of education on the unwilling or unenthusiastic has low, low returns in knowledge.
If you find that bookmark could you share it with me? One project I've looked at is sign puppet [1]. It has all of the animation basics needed; the tough thing is inputting the parameters to animate the puppet. Traditionally capturing sign language data for the computer requires really sophisticated tracking equipment (gloves, etc.). Being able to do it with a web cam could be a game changer!

I studied linguistics and CS in school, and I learned a little JSL to speak with deaf friends in Japan. I think sign language processing is a really neat combination of computer vision/graphics and linguistics. Lately there have been so many great advances in speech processing, but there hasn't been a huge leap forward for sign language processing, though I feel there should be.

Deaf people are already really disadvantaged in many places, and getting left behind technologically doesn't help. I really resented looking for JSL books in the "disabled" section of the book stores in Japan, and when I spoke with some people about JSL, they didn't believe it was its own language. Even just linguistic work for sign languages is limited; I haven't seen a single reference grammar (re: comprehensive documentation) on any sign language. I think the difficulty of working with sign language data makes it more daunting to work with. (Paucity of speakers is certainly not a deterrent for linguists.)

[1] https://github.com/aslfont/sign-puppet