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> Who do you think is better at running a mail server, you or Google?

Neither. My hosting provider is better than either me or Google at that, and there are other companies providing email services who are better still.

What Google is "better" at with GMail is providing email whose suckage is just short of the level of suckage that would make it worth its users' while to give up having to just go to one place, their Google account, for everything in order to have email services that were bearable.
You realize he doesn't have people on to grill them right? He has done well over a thousand shows with hundreds of different people. When you say 'most of his guests' are you talking about John Carmack, Tony Hawk and Rhonda Patrick or are you talking about the one time he had the guy who started the 'proud boys' on? I think a lot of people take this all or nothing stance on one bad guest out of recreational outrage without actually watching him.
> If memory serves me right, it even worked for playing Starcraft over 56K baud modems!

You would likely have connected closer to 33.6k. 56k modems can only receive at that speed, to send at that speed, you generally need a digital line like a T1 or maybe ISDN.
Java SE 8 (LTS) March 2014 December 2030
Java may have a new LTS every few years, but they support their LTS releases for much longer.
And with a better default DE
Okay, at the risk of putting way too much effort into this, I'm going to assume you have 5 people on your team, therefore you're on call 10 times a year roughly. 5 weeks out of the year then you'd be oncall during a sev2. Assuming sev2's are uniformly distributed you are probably interrupted outside normal working hours ~80% of the time, so call it 4 times a year you have your work-life balance negatively affected by on-call.
Honestly, whenever a site doesn't allow me to access it with an adblocker active, all I do is look up the right adblocker rules to remove that restriction and continue on my merry way. Usually not that tricky to do so, most rely on JavaScript and HTML elements for this stuff.

Alternatively, if it's a single page, then either reader view, an archiving service, or flat out editing the offending elements with the inspector works fine.
How do u read this?
Python was also what prompted me to start docker.

Different packages being installed on Windows vs Linux.

Different packages being installed pip vs (some other package manager)

Simple user mistakes in the requirements file (not strict version).

Going to docker fixed #1 and #2, and the constant rebuilding of the environment meant we quickly identified issues in requirement files. Working in docker is the equivalent of fail-fast programming imo, its just applied to the environment.
Heh, that depends on how many "minutes of real, actual work" done [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iiOEQOtBlQ
It's not really Youtube's fault though. The copyright system in the USA is absolute garbage and stifles creativity and innovation.
Have you tried an incentive spirometer? They're about fifteen dollars on Amazon. I got one recently to track (what I assume is) my lung volume to use as a possible indicator of covid, but after reading the directions it seems like the device is purpose made for your problem.

You practice breathing with this thing 4 times a day, ten breaths a session, and track the volume of your inhalations. In order to get the number to go up you need to take long, deep, and slow breaths.

It will give you a clear numerical result to track. 4 sessions a day, 10 breaths each, record your measurements, plug them into Excel, get an average going and work on driving it up.

I also feel like there's potentially a market for a digital incentive spirometer that could help people do these things. Especially if problems like this are somewhat common.
I don't think you have to fight for employers to give you less money. As remote employment becomes more of the norm, there will be reductions in overall salary.
Remote work: How parents are adapting and working during Covid-19
Suggest mine Tab Manager v2 too: it has VIM-like navigation (hjkl) and other features can be searched via Command+Shift+P. And Command+T (Alt+T for non-macOS) to toggle the popup window:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-manager-v...
Perhaps but then you also have to consider that Singapore is such an outlier that maybe comparing with them is overlooking what universal healthcare system is more likely to really be possible to politically implement.

Chasing that vision of efficency that Singapore shines a light on likely only serves to distract from other universal systems that are more commonly provided that are more realistically achievable.

Singapore is so far off the scale close to Hong Kong that it suggests they have political, social, geographical conditions that can not be replicated.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Preach. Thank you.
Tiny typo that confused me, I think you mean:

> a lot of things won't pick it up when you want them to.
Does Google Drive not charge users based on data transfer? With S3 this would not be an issue, but either the uploader or the downloader (with "requester pays" buckets) would end up covering the cost.
Interesting medical advice - for a longer life, simply get older ;-)
yeah. the fish tank would be overkill. but to have a private office is totally doable. factor in the productivity gains and it's not only doable but it's actually cheaper than the current clusterf open space situation.

also, up until 5-10ish years ago this was the standard at Microsoft for example where you would get your own office, or if you were a newb you had to share an office with someone else. let that sink in. the current state of affairs is something we have concocted in the last 10ish years - because savings.
Same brotha, same! Just wish we had a cure or something.
and how many games does a human need to transform into a pacman game playable by another human? ...lol
Let Huawei burn. Nobody needs a front organization for a wicked authoritarian regime stealing their technology and using it to track people. China is always going to be an upstart, because communist dictatorships will never be able to prevail over democracy and freedom.
I haven't looked into it recently but yeah, like I said I was trying to find the sweet spot with pen latency and price. The iPad was cheap (~$350) and had great pen latency, whereas the reMarkable was not cheap or as full featured, and the Surface was also not as cheap and had reports of bad pen latency (e.g., see https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/e8kho9/if_there_is... for an example)

Update: It appears the situation has improved across the board. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-remarkable-2-is-an-ipad-p... says 20-21ms is pretty standard now.
Indeed. I showed my 80 year old mother uBlock Origin and she actually said it made her remaining time more useful. That really put it into perspective.
I've noticed that my breathing pattern changes during work.

I'd be interested in a device that can detect breathing type (diaphragmatic/costal) and warns me in time if any changes occur.
In a slightly parallel universe, it’s going to be quite hilarious if all of the decentralised technologies are going to end up being developed by the types of anti-vaxxers, holocaust deniers, neo-nazis because they were the only ones needing them (and not the illusory political dissidents). So in the end it’s going to have a positive impact.

Here’s a supporting example: Snowden didn’t need any of this tech to share it with us. Paedophiles and drug dealers use Tor.

I am not being entirely serious.
A lot of "free speech advocates" like to engage in redefinition when it comes to free speech.

It becomes some ill-defined ideal that's basically "freedom from consequences of speech" instead of the strict legal definition.
100% of the jobs I turn down are ones wanting me to move to the Bay area. I get paid the same already as my peers in the Bay and don't have to live there.
>Which is why I have no confidence calling it AI...

That's because it really should be called Simulated Intelligence, and would be a much more accurate description. The marketing team wouldn't like this though.
Agreed.. there's ways to have a "pristine" environment on the host machine, anyway. Our team uses ansible.
Well, the video does explain that the pitch of the propeller blades increases to compensate the flywheel slowing down: https://youtu.be/xTRBbFX7AxA?t=343

This just made me realize that hydraulic couplings could be (and are) used for continuously variable transmission systems :)
There's how often LTS releases are released, and how long they are supported.

Ubuntu cuts an LTS release every 2 years, but they support them for 5 years.

It appears Oracle supports Java LTS releases for 8 years.
Have you tried an oxygen deprivation tent?
This happened to a friend of mine recently, who didn't care to fight it, so we all lost.

The part that I don't understand is: Shazam is really bad at classical music. Unless it's the exact recording of the piece as their database, it seems, Shazam won't recognize it at all. And a little noise or static is enough to throw it off.

How is it that FB/YT content detectors are so far ahead of the game that they can detect old music in completely new recordings? Or, alternatively, why can't FB/GOOG slap a simple UI on their services and make an app like Shazam for users but 50 times better?

We've got the worst of both worlds right now: bad detection of music when we want it, and overzealous matching of new recordings when we don't.
As the article points out, magic tricks per se are not copyrightable. What are copyrightable are performative works, that may include magic tricks.

The distinction is subtle - it means you're perfectly free to "steal" an (unpatented) method, provided you use it in a different act.
Given the number of conservatives in congress, it's surprising that they won't sponsor some legislation like this. But they seem to be more interested in protecting business interests.
Thanks! I fixed it to limit confusion.
To add to that HTTPSEverywhere and Privacy Badger are quite useful too
I didn't believe it was necessary to specify this, but I meant Lithium car batteries, not lead.
in my experience there are 2 types of people: ones that can focus with headphones on and ones that need silence. you are part of the lucky ones.

also, as far as interruptions go, acoustic interruptions are only one type of interruption. Your brain is physically wired to pay attention to things in your visual fields - it's physically wired to pay attention to people coming and going, continuously assessing the situation. just because you can function in an open space environment it does not mean that the environment is optimal.
Because for those of us that care about graphics and selling desktop applications, it is mostly Apple, Google or Microsoft platforms.
Here is a Pentium 200Mhz starting Win95, only about 20 seconds from "Starting Windows 95" to the login screen. 40 seconds including the full powerup/BIOS sequence. Not too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRR7-P-8fc
Colbert is bigger than Rogan, has way more money and negotiating leverage, has experience running his own ship, but still had to tone down his humor to grandpa levels of stale. Ba dump tss, play him off Johnny, kind of stuff. Colbert could also say "fuck you" to the world, but he would also be saying "fuck you" to himself.
IBM laying off thousands; HPE cuts pay to execs
Reasonable Education: In Praise of Homeschooling
I don't block ads, I block third-party scripts and trackers, the ads just happen to not be visible without those, which is not my problem.
Yup - seems like these support the assertions.
> Before he started, users visiting http://hyperdev.com (Glitch’s predecessor) went straight to the editor. An app was spun up automatically.

> All those users and apps were counted in usage figures for as long as I was there (and maybe still?) Of the millions of apps that Glitch tauts, I’d guess a significant percentage are either barely changed from the default or do nothing but return a 500.

I've always wondered could this sort of behavior be considered fraud? Kind of like how I think some platforms allow bots to boost usage statistics, etc.

And, if the company doesn't work out, can the investors sue for that reason?
> I furthered the point that it can still happen with trained and experienced baristas - people who make coffee for a living.

You've had a trained barista give you a cup full of unground coffee beans when you asked for a cup of coffee? I find that hard to believe.
Yep, this is very questionable (although is kind of typical of the 21st century business "knawledge").

First, if Rogan is doing this deal then he values himself at less than whatever they paid. I am assuming he has a fairly good understanding of that worth is (the guy has worked in media for a very long time) given that he knows what he earns, and the author doesn't/

Second, the value of these kind of audiences is pretty much always over-estimated. Spotify is way overvaluing Rogan's worth, and the author is way overvaluing Rogan's worth too. No, there isn't a huge subscription business here (Stern doesn't have one, people buy Sirius subs). Can you make money from podcast subscriptions? Yes. Should you? No.

Third, most of these media-ish companies don't think about this in a very sophisticated way (as Rogan's quote at the end demonstrates). They are desperate to create growth at any cost, they seldom focus on product or think about customer/supplier value, and usually have execs with bureaucratic/big media ways of thinking (which is useless for growth). I suspect this will be more Ninja and Mixer than Stern/Sirius...they have bought some listeners great...but unless they buy literally every podcast, their platform isn't growing (it is actually very like Twitch, what incentive does any podcaster have to move onto Spotify and make them rich...it is a ludicrous insight into the level of thought that goes into these huge, expensive deals...now Ninja is streaming to a few thousand rather than 30k...genius play Microsoft).

Fourth, the stuff about Spotify not having editorial control is not true. I don't know who is fooling who here but this is like Facebook acquiring WhatsApp and saying they are going to show ads...LOOOOOL. Spotify is a content company, if Facebook gets blamed for what other people right on their platform then Spotify is going to get hammered when Rogan (inevitably) does something unwise.
Neat; simple but I like it. One concrete thing that jumps out at me as I play around with it: I keep instinctively trying to hit Ctrl+Z to undo, which doesn't work (and then I remember there's a button). Might be nice to make that shortcut work.

Also: I enjoyed this:

> No BS

> Browserboard is written by two people in their spare time who aren’t thirsty for advertising dollars. We have no reason to spam you or violate your privacy.

A thought: any interest in porting to Sandstorm? It seems like the app would be a perfect fit, and giving people an easy way to run it themselves gives you an out if it gets too popular for you to keep running it for free. If you're not familiar:

https://sandstorm.io

Relevant blog post: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-re...

(Disclosure: I am one of the more active contributors to Sandstorm)
My company still does this when something really needs to be done. Several people who are working on the project in one room with full focus. But weirdly as soon as it's done the team gets dispersed into the cube farm and the headsets go back on.
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I use Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) to generate static pages and host them on Amazon S3, with CloudFront on top of it for fast delivery. AWS also provides a free SSL certificate, and DNS with Route53.

I couldn't be happier with the setup: it's cheap, fast, requires zero maintenance and pretty much never goes down. Cost is close to nil: the most expensive part is for Route53 at $0.50 per Hosted Zone, and then S3+CloudFront add a few cents more.

If folks want to see how fast static pages can be on a CDN, the site is at https://re.kv.io

P.S. I didn't have to install Docker or MySQL.
> Weekly all-hands

Is that normal at a 1000+ employee company?
That's quite a cheeky aphorism. I love it.

I think that OP meant to ask "is it possible your perception has changed with age/experience, rather than with your methods?"
As if there are no households with members above and below 50?

Keeping all the elderly together in shared living spaces didn't work to their advantage by the way.
From Zero to Blockchain in Python – Part 1
Honestly I'm trying to think of a reason you would WANT to disable OCSP, I'm having enough problems thinking of more than 2 developers I know who can actually articulate how it works enough to evaluate this. Not that it's complicated—it's just mostly invisible.

Even when OCSP is a problem, generally you're more worried about issuing a new certificate than an immediate workaround. What are you going to do, ask all your customers to go into keychain access to work around your problem?

This behavior of slowing down appears to be because apple is making HTTPS connections apparently synchronously (probably unnecessarily) and you'd only be potentially harming yourself by disable OCSP.

Though, I am often frustrated FLOSS desktops and Windows don't allow the behavior I want—maybe this is just cultural.
That is the old model, the new LTS model is three years.

Oracle just extended it due to Java 9 being our Python 3, which is kind of pointless because all the packages that matter have migrated already.

But enterprise being enterprise, there are plenty of projects only now migrating to 8, and then there is that little robot that isn't even fully compliant with 8.
> Mining is what Australia does.

There's another odd perspective on this in Jared Diamond's book Collapse, in the "Mining Australia" chapter:

> Most of Australia's remaining agriculture is in effect a mining operation that does not add to Australia's wealth but merely converts environmental capital of soil and native vegetation irreversibly into cash, with the help of indirect government subsidies [...]

That is, similarly to how mining activity depends upon consuming non-renewable stocks of ore or fossil-fuel* that can be extracted with sufficiently low energy cost, the argument is that agricultural activity depends upon consuming stocks of high-quality soil at a much faster rate than the stock of high-quality soil can be being refilled. If the rate of consumption is much higher than the rate of production then high-quality soil is effectively non-renewable.

* i guess fossil fuels are also "renewable" in a literal interpretation of the word that it is possible to refill stocks, given a long enough time horizon (billions of years?) & a willingness to take a bit of a gamble that the conditions for large-scale fossil fuel creation will recurr, provided the rate of consumption of fossil fuel slows.
Easy solution: /nix as its own partition with plenty of space.
There is a good RadioLab on this!

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/silky...
The amount of remote positions FAANG offer is tiny compared to other companies. If they open up to hiring the majority of positions as in office or remote the salaries will drop a lot for the Bay area. They will be more inline with the other companies in the Bay that hire in office or remote as options for almost any position.
Codegeist 2020: Atlassian hackathon with $315K in prizes
I have a much simpler trick for this. As the page loads, if you start hitting Esc repeatedly really fast just at the right moment, when the content is loaded, but the overlay is not, or a little bit earlier, it might work too. Not always though.

Edit: If you miss it, just hit F5, and try again. It’s a good game.
Yeah - the hw really has to be curated. I havent tried using a machine cobbled together from various parts (custom desktop), but off the shelf quality laptops work fine for me last 2 years or so and have none of the issues you mentioned. Emphasis on quality - not cheapo models. I think if you treat Linux same as OSX and run it on known good hardware supported well by Linux you are fine today IME

>HiDPI support is a giant mixed bag
I will say that this is still a thing, although with experimental gnome fractional support it works pretty well now.

Honestly I have a 2019 macbook pro 15 and have more problems with it than I do with my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with Fedora 32.
My first programming job back at Corp hq (not client site) was like this : three people in a room with an external window, a door and private cubes. It was great for morale and productivity. That was 20 years ago.
Java LTS model has changed for 3 years for releases past Java 9. We are on 14 already.
This x10000.
Some people treat engineers as automata even if they're in the same office. Even if they work at an adjacent desk. That does not have anything to do with offices, it has to do with personality traits like lack of empathy and excessive ego. If you are not a jerk and were not raised by jerks, you will have respect not only for the engineers, but for everyone, even people in modest occupations.

Then, working remote is not the same as working remote from a different timezone. The latter can make collaboration more difficult.

I have worked with remote engineers, and over time, I have learned to appreciate and respect their work. I know many of their names, especially the brilliant ones that I can trust 100%. I know from their deliverables that they're dedicated and reliable and I would write them a recommendation letter any day if they asked for it, have lunch with them if they're in town, and I am honestly interested in learning about their backgrounds and perspectives on life.

On the other hand, at the office, there are people working some few feet away that I have never talked to. I don't know anything about them, or their lives. Some of them even work on my team :)

So, no. Offices are not magical facilitators of friendship and cohesion. And when two people decide that they don't get along it can become quite miserable to be present in a tense environment.

I have no problems working with people living far away. If they're good, I want to work with them and assimilate what I can from their knowledge and problem solving skills. Also, secret santas with them are the best, try it.

If you are concerned with jobs going away, or wages being depressed, these are a list of things you have to worry about in addition to outsourcing: lower entry barriers to programming, coding camps, AI. In the end, the only effective way to protect your job is to acquire and polish your skills, and the best way to do it is by working with as many strong engineers as you can no matter where they are from.
I think you mean convicted, anyone can be accused of anything at any time.
Nope. Letters from almost any part of the keyboard could jam the machine if you typed fast enough. That was one of the reasons that the IBM Selectric typewriter were so popular with professional typists. The ball mechanism had nothing to jam against.
Because - in the UK at least - unions have successfully been demonized and defanged over the last 40 years.
It seems to me that if Google (and the other platforms) don't tackle this kind of thing, the state _somewhere_ will. It only takes one country to make distribution of this stuff illegal or close to it, and that will amount to an edge of self regulation for the tech giants. They don't want that, so they do something to prevent it.