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Are the 100k before or after taxes and social security? That's quite impressive for an employee position in Italy, good for you!

If you can say, how would you judge the competency of the developers working for your company? From time to time I interact as an external contractor with developers from banks/insurances et similar and the average level of their IT has seemed quite lackluster to me.

In general I think sofware development in Italy suffers from a low-balling syndrome. Developers are not held in high esteem and are not paid much, so developer positions do not attract many capable and ambitious people - most either move to management positions as soon as possible, start contracting or move abroad.
Tony Blackburn has an massive knowledge of soul and years ago used to do a great show on London Radio.
As a dutch person it feels terrible to see the name of the art work translated to English. The dutch know this art work as the "nacht wacht".

The tech behind this all is very impressive non the less.
A parody that’s more like a mirror..
EDIT> Also, why do you assume I'm left-leaning? I think you're pattern matching on some cluster of ideas you hate, and then running from there.
Sidecar was horrible for me, but then I had some issues reinstalling my virus/firewall software (required for $WORK). For the brief window when the third party firewall wasn’t active, everything actually worked great. I don’t know about you, but all the issues I had were completely unrelated to Sidecar and instead related to an overly zealous firewall config. Now that the firewall has been “fixed”, it’s back to not working for me, but for that hour or so, it was actually quite nice.

(That’s ignoring the new weekly crashes that the virus/firewall scanner now causes... which is another story).
Sometimes I play a game with myself where I read the HN comments first, then read the piece. It's like watching a game of telephone.

To my reading

a) lidl is NOT launching an AWS competitor, per se

b) this is all about the data and the power of the logistics platform

Amazon is heavy in the food business.

Amazon observes the use of any of its primitive services by any competitors to determine where growth is occurring, then goes and eats competitor business.

Lidl will not use AWS, wants its supply chain to not use AWS, and would prefer to have adjacent businesses use primitives (like distribution logistics) it makes available so it can observe and eat them when time is right.

Walmart already two years ahead in this game.
I always struggled with this in Germany as a foreigner.

Coming from a country in which the so called formal form changed significantly in the last decades and is now reserved to people you don't want to get along with (that's how politicians refer to members of other parties, or how customer support starts to address you after you tell them that you want to quit the contract), I always ended up using the informal form, which translated into many funny stares.
Those modifications seem unlikely, You can't easily reinforce pillars in a car and they are designed to support the full weight of the car in a roll-over situation so a few 10s of kgs of equipment on the roof make little difference. Similarly, a typical alternator is rated to 2kW so far above the required power of a few LIDAR, camera and computing devices. Having said that, early vehicles did have heavy duty alternators installed (although they may have confused these with heavy duty inverters which are needed) and modified suspension components [1]

[1] https://pub-tools-public-publication-data.storage.googleapis...
IMO Axler's book should be read either during or after you take an introductory course on Linear Algebra.

> You are probably about to begin your second exposure to linear algebra. Unlike your first brush with the subject, which probably emphasized Euclidean spaces and matrices, this encounter will focus on abstract vector spaces and linear maps.
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Is it the same issue as the infamous "monads tutorials" problem, where the understanding takes a lot of time to infuse but looks obvious in retrospect when it finally clicks?
Then you are one of the better/nicer people you encounter in supermarkets but in general, fast bagging performance is an a social requirement when shopping at the grocery stores (far more relaxed at other stores).

Also, some juicy reading on Walmart in Germany: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/business/worldbusiness/02...

I noticed one more stark difference: many Germans don't own a car and apparently the large Walmarts often needed to be located at the edge of towns. Germans do more local, atomic grocery shopping around the corner and carry their stuff home by foot, bike, or public transport.
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"skill level did not take off so much"

Big problem in German enterprise.

They don't have any IT skills, but much money and are constantly crying for "digital transformation" what usually only leads them to being conned by big consulting agencies.
I had the experience you describe playing around with a z80 and asm.

You can freeze the CPU with one pin, single step the whole CPU, etc.

Or things like swapping memory banks, doing something, then swapping it back and returning to the original codepath.

It's neat that it all fits in your head. You can, for any slice in time, walk through all the pin states, registers, memory locations, etc...and fully understand why they are all in the state they are.
Don't forget PowerPoint. As Michael Cote likes to say "I used to be good at my job, now I'm good at PowerPoint".

But in all honesty, being able to convey your ideas and vision to a variety of people and levels is key to being an architect, whether that is PPT, documents, charts, whiteboards, or just plain old conversations.

The best architects I have worked with were able to reach and convince senior business and IT leadership as well as the IT staff. Understand the why things are done the way they are done before proposing some new change, take time to listen. Status quo isn't always ideal, but it's important to understand the motivations and reasons before proposing your company or organization embarks on a new path. I've found frequently understanding the details end up being the key to a successful shift in strategy since that's the stuff that tends to bite you at the last minute and scuttle projects.
> You might not have seen it happen, but if my experience was any indication, they spent a lot of time crafting that config file.

Yes. I've spent 10 years crafting this file I'm using now. One bit at a time, every time I found something which could improve my productivity and editing experience.

And I can now bring that with me anywhere at literally zero cost.

I'm not sure why anyone would frame that as a bad thing?
I recall Hearing Dire Straits on Peel back when they where this London independent pub rock band - I though oh id love to book them for 18 Plus ( a youth organisation like Rotaract).
Looks like a great resource and it comes at a good time for me, I was just starting in on installing and learning ROS yesterday. Thanks for posting!
I've been using SingleFile for a couple of months now, to auto-save every page I visit, and it works well. It's exactly as simple as it needs to be. My only real complaints are that it can be slow on large pages and that it pollutes your download history (every auto-save shows up as a download), both of which I suspect are due to limitations in the extension API.
Can you give some examples of being arbitrary? Seems to me like they have a well-documented and communicated list.
To be fair, I have found quite a few people who studied STEM and managed to misunderstand statistic, are easily distracted by scientism while not knowing how science actually works, appear to not understand exponential growth last months and so on.
They have been previously used to collect SSID names and other WiFi network metadata. See https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
> Why?

I used to like this job. I was looking for a new one but COVID-19 happened.

As for the remote job, I currently work 6:30-17:00 with 45 minutes of commute, and the work environment is exausting. I don't think I could handle another job.
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I quite like open plan offices.

But it really depends on what your job/task is.

And how well designed the open plan area is: Break-out spaces, individual rooms for when someone needs to focus, have extensive telephone calls especially of a confidential nature, plenty of meeting rooms, cubicles (I hate cubicles, but that's me, some people like them). And plenty of natural light.

And if someone wants to work remotely, that's good. You're not me, and then I appreciate doing this sometimes. A lot of people prefer to not work remotely because of the work-life divide an office space benefits. And some enjoy the social environment.

I absolutely cannot work listening to music but am fine with osmosis of office chatter; make sure the printer's in a printer room, putting it on the floor is a special form of hell. And have a pantry for eating, I quite like the taste of aged fish but don't want to smell it.

In my experience hot-desking does not work. The benefit of people sitting together is there's a work-flow happening. People that need to talk to each other can. In hot-desking that all breaks down so what's the point at all other than when the whole office are individual contributors and office layout is irrelevant - many people have a relationship even with the plant that sits next to them.

Not everyone's the same. Provide options. It's a team effort. What works for the team as a whole? Measure what the team does, analyse it, reflect.
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> For one case, the PQCrypto 2006 conference, we were unable to find sufficient information after 45 minutes of investigation to provide an evaluation.

45 minutes!? Stopped reading there.
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A "lead architect" whose default is excel? Very convincing.

(edit: but I do get the joke now..)
> It’s not like every country is getting a ration of the same number of units - so it shouldn’t be harder for large countries.

It is though. Again, if a country with 300M people wants to test as many people per capita as a country of 30M, it needs _ten times as many tests_.
I don't believe that for a second. Free market will always do what it does best, which means that whoever can get away with running their robo taxis cheapest will win. So the most common ones will rarely if ever be cleaned inside(cleaning costs money after all, even if it's automatic). Once the technology is common, they will run the cheapest version of it, just like regular taxis today don't all drive Mercedes S class cars, they drive 15 year old priuses because those are the cheapest cars that do the job. Yes, there will be market for higher end, clean and high tech cars. But the most common service will be nothing like this. A good example is something like Ryanair - yes, the planes are shit, they are dirty, the service is poor, but they are immune to ratings because.....what else are you going to pick? On several European routes that I travel on, they are the only choice.
> Is it something we have started or not even that?

I would assume so. Are you under the impression that the US simply doesn’t want to test as many people as possible?
they can of course (and are), but there are still a lot of underpaid jobs (compared to cost of lving) out there (and these companies are not going out business strangely, so they seem to find labor). Basically for a german it doesn't make a lot of sense to take a job, where you will be having the life of a barkeeper in Berlin (e.g. hustling through at <50k€) - and frankly, these jobs exist and they find employees, so imho this is mainly people "wanting to live in Germany" (at whatever the social cost)
Yes, it would. I'm not sure what you think you're arguing against - all I said was that Gizmodo stripped out the citations from Damore's memo.

As for Yonatan, if you don't believe he's a deranged lunatic go read the insane diatribes he was posting in 2017 about how Trump is literally Hitler and that Muslims and Latinos needed to flee the country as soon as possible for their own safety. The man is detached from reality. It disturbs me that someone so psychotic was able to occupy a senior position at Google.
I assume they're using them to make global HD maps for Waymo too
Lidl's MO is focusing more on being cost-effective for both the consumer and themselves rather than the brands
The author has taken an Ember app they wrote themselves, and compared it to a React example that includes code from the 19th chapter of a guide to learning React, "React Custom Hooks (Advanced)", without working through the first 18 chapters. It's no wonder they found it complicated.

Comparing things is good and useful, but if you're not qualified to understand both sides of the argument well it's really hard to do a good job. This article fails hard on that count.

Also...

The first thing that is a clear difference with the Ember Octane version is that it's split across multiple files.

The React example is one file because it's an example. The idea is to demonstrate all the moving parts in one place. It's not presented as a representation of what you would build as a production app. If you look at Road To React there's a chapter called "Folder/File Organization" in the appendices that explains how you might progress after working through the tutorial app.
GA Cohen wrote "Deeper into Bullshit" as a sort-of reply to Frankfurt, which drew attention to what I find the more interesting kind of bullshit, namely pseudo-academic and/or pseudo-technical bullshit. This, Cohen sensitively observes, is always found to have the property of "unclarifiability" - which is just exactly on the money. Very much worth the read. Frankfurt published a reply to it, as well, as I recall.

http://www.professorsapp.com/cohen--further-into-bullshi.pdf
Wouldn't OpenStack be an alternative ?
Can anyone grow why in the first 5 minutes of part 1 he shows a 3 by 3 matrix multiples by a 1 by 3 vector yet verbally he pulls out of no where this idea that if you have _two_ 1 by 3 vectors that pass through the origin then their linear combinations can be represented by a plane? The jump from the 3D to the 2D has me lost and I gave up
> Clear goals that we widely communicated allow normal people to make design decisions autonomously. It can really remove the need for constant daily updates and information overload (for you)

If you don't mind, could you provide some examples of this ?
Dolphin is actually pretty much aligned with Konqueror.

Konqueror can open up anything using KDE's KParts.
Applications and libraries provide different KParts and Konqueror is just a shell that can open them all.

Dolphin is Konqueror's KPart provider for file browsing.

So basically Konqueror's file browsing capability is provided by Dolphin.
> But none of that matters.

Yes it does, it’s proportionally more difficult. If you want a country of 300M to have as many tests per capita as a country of 30M, you need _ten times as many tests_.
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Among modern successful RDBMSes employing MVCC only PosgreSQL (correct me if I'm wrong) stores stale row versions on the page. Other vendors store them in some physically separate place (tempdb in MSSQL, UNDO tablespace in Oracle, etc.) This reduces both regular read (scans) and write (page splits) I/O and eliminates the need to vacuum (more I/O).

Of course this approach requires some maintenance of that separate place. But such maintenance doesn't compete for I/O with regular workload and doesn't hurt performance.

So after decades of progress and improvement it looks like this latter approach turned out to be more efficient and is winning historically.
Look into VBA too. Might be useful if you get in software one day
"It's like watching a game of telephone"

It's not really a mismatch of the comments and article though. The title of the article is "Lidl owner launching its own rival to Amazon Web Services". And the body says things like "While Schwarz IT intends to use Europe’s enhanced data protection laws as a key differentiator to Amazon’s dominant service".

So perhaps you're right about the true purpose, but the article is claiming otherwise.
Even with a full table rewrite, why do you need to rewrite to RAM?
Violence is an act of communication and as such always bound to the context it happens in. If someone accidentally punches you during a sports match it may look violent, but you very likely won't feel violated, because you could assume the intent to hurt is not given. If someone delivers the same punch on purpose in front of your peers, you will feel extremely violated.

Two punches, equal in their physical qualities and physical pain, one much more violent than the other. What hurts more or does more lasting damage depends on the context. There are people who have been hit as a child and have no problem with it. There are people who have never been hit physically but verbally abused who will have to deal with this their whole life.

To think violence is only violence when it is physical certainly has not much to do with how people exert force onto each other in daily life. Of course this doesn't mean that every communicative act that challenges your world view, critisises your actions, highlights you mistakes etc. automatically constitutes a violent act, although you certainly might feel bad afterwards. This is why the dictionary definition of violence has "intent" in it. If someone tells you your whole life was a lie they might not intend to hurt you with their words, even if you are devastated. If someone tells you, your hair looks shitty, they do.

Note: whether you feel hurt or not plays no role in the definition of the word violence.
I think if you want to do it right you could even use incident light from different angles, camera from different angles, do a spectral analysis per pixel, measure thickness of paint, measure/extract specularity/diffusion and stuff like that.
It's the official English name of the painting, thouhg. I don't see the problem the words are literally translated.
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They could set up a torrent that people could download parts of, I think it's an ideal system for a distributed backup.

But it probably needs tweaking for that purpose; for one you need to ensure that the data is evenly distributed, and second you're dealing with data that is appended to regularly.

But I think it can be done.
Maybe it seems like a "complete fucking mess of code" because it's not code at all!

See https://phys.org/news/2020-04-dna-life-bookjust-jumbled-ingr...

Also relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1605/
I don’t know which video you’re talking about but two non parallel vectors are enough to represent a plane, the normal will be their cross product.

Also, if you have 3 dimensional vectors you were always in 3D.
You can't easily download or mirror this dataset because of its copyright status, so they don't solve the problem.
Isn't that inbound only? Getting the data out again is also required.
Night Watch is a pretty spot on translation of "Nachtwacht". Why does it feel terrible?
> I don't think there is another notable, proven, open source clustered manager of both actual VMs and containers.

Googles Ganeti is strikingly similar to Proxmox, to the point where I suspect Proxmox started as a reimplementation:

http://www.ganeti.org/ (developed at https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti)

It does not come with a GUI, though there are a few third party ones. It has API endpoints for everything, a fully featured CLI client, and is extremely stable.

Googles marketing department does not want you to know this, but Ganeti runs most of its internal infrastructure (not public facing stuff).

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I think a government should be able to provide strict guidelines on how a business can comply and get approved for staying open. Some States have that in place for companies that are on the list of exempt businesses, and those lists can be ridiculously long, with plenty of not-essential-at-all businesses.

The current problem is a lack of clear guidelines. To me it seems that the plan is to not have one.

Now, I do condone Musk's. I think his 9yo tantrum throwing behavior is on par with the child king staying at the WH.
> Many of the AWS guys are life timers, do not care about money

I've heard, anecdotally, that Amazon/AWS engineers tend to be more money-driven than others in the same tier, or at least they're willing to put up with a lot more headaches because of the money.

Is that a misconception?

If not money, then what keeps them there?
Yes, I'm in Italy. Maybe it's because I live alone in a small and really cheap apartment, I keep the heat off even in winter (I dig cold) and I try to not eat at home (only lunch at work in the cafeteria), but I never had money problems. Things will surely change when I decide to buy a house.
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> not meetings are for shutting up and doing your assigned work

Like a mindless drone? Or are you advocating for more meetings?
Keep coding, prototyping, benchmarking. Do not just draw stuff. Eat your own dog food.

In the other direction, coordinate the work on architecture and leave some of it to the developers.