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13. Whenever you feel like you can't possibly work, remind yourself that this might not be a true feeling. Concentration can take time to build up, for me its often something like 20 minutes (which is, incidentally why my meditation book says you should meditate for at least 45 minutes - the first 15-20 are just warm up - the productive work gets done in the last half hour). Pick the smallest possible thing related to your work, no matter how small or stupid it feels, and do it. E.g. for me, as a programmer:

- I suppose in order to work I have to open my IDE. I guess I can do that. Here it is on my task bar. Click. OK first step complete.

- I suppose in order to continue to work I should open the project I need to work on. I guess that's doable without thinking. File > Open > Foo.project. Exhale.

- OK. OK. OK. I suppose, if I were working the next thing I would need to do is find the file I need to edit and open it. (Or remember what the last thing I was working on). OK. Remembered. File navigated to. File open.

- Exhale. OK. I suppose, if I were working the next thing I would need to do is find the function I was last editing. what was it called again? I don't remember, just diff with source control. Ah, OK foobardef. Close diff. Go back to file. Control-F foobardef.

- What was I trying to do again, OK, I guess let's figure out where I left off by skimming or reading the code that's there...

etc, etc, etc...
Much needed. Fonts are such a pain on embedded systems. Congrats on shipping.
Had a big order at a pizza place for 9 pizzas. 3 of them came out wrong. All parties involved speak my native language.

The receipt had the wrong items listed on them, because the person taking the order checked the wrong things while taking the order.

I guess it could have been verified better after they took the order, but I can't help but to feel that the order would have been more likely to be correct if I had checked boxes in an online form and verified there before sending it off.

I personally prefer using websites/app for this reason, I can just in my own time make the order, get confirmation from others with me that I'm ordering with and when everyone is happy, just submit. If I ever have the choice between calling vs ordering online, I will never call.
Slavery didn't end in the US, it changed forms. See the:

- text of the 13a

- the highest incarceration rate per capita on Earth except Seychelles (5% of pop, 25% of prisoners)

- demographics of prisoners: mostly minorities and the poor

- for-profit prisons run by such illustrious corporations as GEO Group

- politicians receiving kickbacks from for-profit prison companies

- numerous corporations who exploit prison slave labor, the average citizen just doesn't know about it or see it

Prisons are plantations 2.0
Most phones have option to click RAW photos
> You will find plenty of marketing experts all around you, but none of them will work for a commission

You won't find many developers who work on a commission either.
Why extreme actions shouldn’t delegitimize a protest
> To do it, you need already working Pharo

Just because of the compiler, or are there other preconditions only available in an existing image?
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It's the same thing. If it can be turned off, it will be accidentally turned off, accidentally not turned on, or a myriad other things in this general direction.

I witnessed a cellular carrier discovering that they had all encryption disabled for several months. A honest mistake, but one that should have been impossible by design.
I had a small laugh when I saw that guy in the example image doing the most minimal of work on what is otherwise quite a capable machine [1]. But still, it's cool to see Linux being taken more seriously by vendors.

[1] https://news.lenovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ThinkPad-...
Most of the performance overhead is probably the print messages as those are likely sync.
For me, photography is something I do for fun, not really for the results. Not much is more fun than using a precision-made manual focus lens, and no cell phone will ever offer me that experience.
Show HN: Verifact - A decentralised platform for verifying facts
You shouldn't build your own authentication. Let Firebase do it for you
Let's hope you are right.

Edit: I clicked on your previous comments and saw one from some months ago where you wrote this:
"Swedes tend not to think about "bad case", so if something does not go according to an optimistic plan - it sometimes comes as a great surprise for them"

This exactly in line with the current situation and my own assessment.
So do you see a chance that this will be enough of a learning experience so in the future, Swedes (on a group level) will become better in factoring in the "bad case" in their decisions/thinking?
I see a lot of people wearing face masks on their mouth only, not covering the nose as they should. Should we conclude that the current mask design is broken?
The Formulas Behind Great Marketing
Instead of this marketing theater, they could help to improve battery life under Linux which still sucks.
With my Angel Investor hat on (doing it 6 years, multiple deals, few exits):

- Very difficult to be successful if this is your side project, if you cant take the leap because of funding then try to raise money, your in a better position than most because you have a product and traction (although without knowing the domain hard to say if someone will be interested).

- If your thinking about giving up, perhaps your not convinced enough to go full time on it (fair enough) then look to potential sell it - OR - merge it with a complimentary offering. There are SO many SaaS products now (just look at ProductHunt) but very few of them I would say are viable businesses on their own right but put together that could be a different story.
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How to Overcome the Complexity of the World?
Unfortunately bad actors are ill defined and even that changes from time to time.
In the X1 Extreme, the hdmi port is wired directly to the Nvidia card, so if you want to use an external monitor, you need to enable the card. This causes all manner of nightmares.

Gnome also used to forget monitor layouts and resolutions habitually, so plugging in a monitor didn't guarantee you'd get the same thing you got the last time, and when you plugged it out, your laptop screen could go funny.

I really don't have time or inclination to mess with this to make it work properly.
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Modern processors still know how to run 16 bit code.
When it takes more effort to run it than what you get out of it.

I never give up on my side projects, I have too many to count now.
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And were re-implemented in Mesa when the Star came around.
Hashrate determines the difficulty to attack, aka security. Security influences the price.
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I should have qualified my statement better. There aren’t many people in the world who can accurately audit a complex application. Evidence of the above fact is that there are approximately zero complex applications without a history of security issues, and there have even been successful attempts to maliciously add exploitable bugs in open source projects.

Among these people only a small minority is able to perform a similar audit on compiled code, and only at a much lower pace.

So I agree that it is possible to check a binary, but it is not feasible in a reasonable way.

PS. You are a well known (maybe even famous in the community) software security expert. Your perception of the availability and competence of good experts may be skewed by the fact that you probably know most of the good ones
> The main reason for this is innovation in dedicated cameras has slowed to a crawl.

That's not entirely true, althoughI'm not sure I like the direction. A good example if Fuji's X-T* line, where, as one reviewer noted, "I had thought I'm buing a camera, but it turned out I bought a computer with lens attached". It does all creative tricks to compensate for inaccuracies coming from the hardware, especially the lens - but at the price of draining the batteries exctremely fast, and each lens need a firmware update. Is the final result good? Yes. Do I like it more than more standard solution from Canon and Nikon? Not necessarily. It seems cheaper though.
I hate what phones do to photos of persons. Blurring out details that accentuate the character of a person only to make it social media style (beautify). Life is not what you see in social media, life is what people actually are.
Observing complex reactions with chemicals requires much longer study than simply beaming things with microwaves. Results are nearly immediate, and any long term effect would have to be shared with everything else that warms things.
Sure, and it be confused if your favorite Go iptables frontend would work on Windows.

But there's plenty use cases for which the go standard library offers a sufficiently good abstraction that cross compiling just works. The same holds for JVM apps for ages (and for nodejs etc etc) but not eg for C(++).

As a windows dev I very much noticed an increase in good CLI tools that just work on my box since Go got to the scene. I think that's cool.
At least at my company, managers aren't really looking at coursera, so I can't give you a specific one. They care about experience, college degrees, and industry certs (AWS, CISSP, GSEC, etc), in that order.
Test Double Heuristics
Worst thing for me in TNR: rn looks like m. Learned that the funny way in a lecture I gave about Apache Maven (with its pom.xml).
Not to go off on a tangent, but that article looks at deaths per capita and then ignores the R0. The reason the COVID deaths per capita are as low as they are (and still bad) is because of lockdowns. Pointing to what happened with lockdown mitigations in place to claim that a lockdown isn't needed is misleading at best.

The article also uses 60k flu deaths as the average baseline which is incorrect. The 60k number was a particularly bad flu season. Last season flu deaths were ~34k [1]. This season could be much lower because of the lockdowns.

Comparing COVID to the flu is hard, and really should have never been done. Without taking into account the respective IFRs, CFRs, R0, etc... any comparison is going to be severely lacking. It's also hard to get accurate numbers while in the middle of the pandemic. I hope as things open up that COVID just becomes a memory. Unfortunately, that doesn't look like the case so far.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html I'm not really sure how the author got to a 60k average unless 2007-2009 was really bad. The years on the CDC site only have 1 season greater than 60k. Errors like this do bring all of the statistics into question.
Running Ubuntu 16.10 it looks like (which was released almost 4 years ago).
That is a really cool picture. However, it does stray so far from reality that I wonder if you couldn't just as well get someone skilled to spend a couple of hours in photoshop achieving the same effect even without the added range. Probably tweaking sliders in lightroom is more time-efficient, and there's an argument to be made for using the camera as an artistic tool and not just a lens to capture a still picture of your surroundings, but I don't think this is a great example of what isn't possible without a "real" camera.
I so want to be on the same side of this discussion but the argument is nuanced.

The reason "think of the kids" works so well to justify blocking E2E all the time is because child abuse happens literally all the time.

When someone solves this problem, and I don't think any of us really believe it to be solvable, we can move on. I don't want the government in my private conversations, but I don't want my kids in someone elses either.

To extend this - we recognise a duty of care to our users and their privacy when we build these systems, but if those users plan and carry out an act of terrorism did we not also have a duty of care to their victims to not aid their killers in planning their murder?

We can't shunt this responsibility forever, the public will not take our side down the road - because we are ignoring the counter-argument even if we wedge our fingers in our ears.
Piping data from one command to the next is one of those things that I love showing to new users and it gets them all excited, only to then have to disappoint them when they think of a cool idea because they'd need to learn regex, sed and awk first to do anything non-trivial.

It's a shame Powershell is a disaster, because having a structured-by-default pipeline would've really bridged the gap between power users and programmers.
I would say your phone can do that, it's just that you did not enable HDR.

The thing is, because of how our eyes and brain work (huge dynamic range plus postprocessing), the actual viewed scene was probably closer to the second photo than the first, but with a higher contrast (the camera HDR emulates the eye but you also need a huge dynamic range display to show it right, otherwise it's "compressed" to low contrast). So you can choose the contrast (first photo) or dynamic range (second photo) but not both.
The way I end up thinking of it now is: I use my DSLR when I want to do photography, I use my phone when I want to take a photo. The end of goal of both is the same, to create an image, but it's how each one gets there that makes it interesting to me personally.
Computational photography has democratised taking really good photos, but having creative freedom of a DSLR (or mirrorless, or film etc) allows for a richer experience in my eyes. Maybe phone cameras will get to that level at some stage.
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Bits of history, words of advice
From personal experience: before you start.
Thanks for sharing that quote. It helps me understand your view a little bit more. Of course it’s well known that blacks experience a disproportionally higher degree of discrimination, but can we stop shifting blame for looting and vandalism over to another entity? Even if you want to blame the government, you would be hard pressed to find a law that oppresses anyone by race. Racist laws? No. Classicist laws? Yes.
So, basically these cops don't actually know how to use the weapons they are wielding? If they used those rubber bullets against realistic targets they would learn how to use them properly.
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Show HN: Virtual Mojito – Nocode project that curates virtual event resources
Hey community! I’m launching a No-code project on Notion: Virtual Mojito - A curated directory of 70+ tools for virtual events, webinars, mentorships, social gatherings, and Hackathons.

I’ve been collecting video conferencing tools and verticalized options since the beginning of the pandemic. You’re going to see 3 things immediately:

Searchable list of tools for any virtual events
Virtual event calendar (Update every week)
Bi-weekly newsletter about events, and resources

Plus coming soon
People-matching feature allows you to meet new people virtually

Excited to hear your feedback. I’m going to update the page anytime soon!
From a quick pass I don't see any mention about the docking stations. I would rather have them start working on the docking station capabilities. Right now my dock doesn't understand how to provide display port capabilities to linux. It is a very expensive USB-hub at this moment when I boot linux.
Obviously not ones that are advertised? Isn’t that what organic search is for?
Delighted to see Lenovo get behind Linux. I have been a fan of the Dell XPS 13 for the last few years and certainly next time we are upgrading I will have a good look at the Lenovo range.
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Bet they work with law enforcement on “encrypted” calls as well.
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Java/.NET, which I think are the only mainstream ones close enough to the Smalltalk experience.
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What specifically do you think makes PHP especially great for that?
Reselling is generally legal. There are no particular trademark concerns when it's ultimately the genuine goods getting to the consumer at a different price.

It's very easy to understand why consumers and businesses would be annoyed by this behavior, though, and it may be deceptive or immoral in other ways.
Interesting. I, too, use 120. It makes diffing code easier.
Black nitrogen matter
I guess maybe something like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NDb8js5fCl8/maxresdefault.jpg
So how'd amazon get control of those .gov domains?
I dont find this convincing, taxis are mad because it's competition, the restaurants are mad because its impersonation. The restaurants should be entitled to civil suits to reclaim damages while in the Uber/AirBnB situation its more about regulations that the government failed to enforce.
That's not very accurate because the colors in the clouds were inverted in this photo, but you're right that reality is a bit more contrasty, though not as contrasty as we think (nowhere close to the "after").
A bit off topic but as a follow up response, personally I don't think most people go in expecting to be the next Zuckerberg, although it might defintely be something they hope for. If anything most people go in knowing that the expected outcome is failure but they do it anyways for whatever reason. It takes a certain type to really go for it I think, nothing wrong with sticking with a good career but some people aren't happy being a career man for the rest of their life and would rather face expected failure and take that shot
This is journalism at its best. I just wrote a letter to my state representative in Rhode Island urging that these records be made available to the public.
The biggest myth of SaaS (and startups in general) is "if you build it, they will come".

You win your first one hundred customers one at a time, through massively high touch sales.

Once you've hit a hundred, you might start seeing some organic growth via word-of-mouth - maybe. But you gotta put in the sales effort to get there.

If you're an engineer with no sales experience this can be a painful lesson to learn!
> Now, I’m excited to share Lenovo is moving to certify the full workstation portfolio for top Linux distributions from Ubuntu® and Red Hat® – every model, every configuration.

> Our entire portfolio of ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series workstations will now be certified via both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu LTS

Are they certifying all models or just ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series?
> . But surely you agree that CPython is needed to run Python, yes?

No, it just happens to be the reference implementation, there are others to chose from.

One can even go crazy and bootstrap a Python environment, basic compiler development stuff.
The saying long predates Rumsfeld's 2002 usage:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

I'd first encountered the idea of "unknown unknowns", or unk-unk, in a 1982 book, Forced Options, p. 10:

https://archive.org/details/forcedoptionssoc0000shin_c8x7/pa...

The notion dates at least as far back as 1955.
Still far better, and quite simple at that!, than we have in the US.
Last I read the UK intends to centrally retain proximity-contact data for 20 years. Rather than deleting when it is decided it's no longer needed to deal with the pandemic.

The UK has also refused to legally commit to not sharing the data with other government departments such as the Home Office (immigration and policing) and DWP (benefits).

So much for data protection and obtaining data for a designated purpose. Whatever happened to the GDPR.

I know enough people that will be inappropriately harmed by this sort of data, whether it is used against them directly or not (it's still a miserable life living in constant fear of "doing something wrong", which now includes "being somewhere you shouldn't be" or "being near someone you shouldn't be"), that I'm firmly against this sort of surveillance state expansion, and firmly in favour of data protection.

As it stands currently I will not install the UK app, and I advise all my friends to steer well clear of it as well.

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(If they meaningfully improve data protection then I'll change my mind and be all in. E.g. the Google-Apple approach and zero-knowledge methods are enough for me. If epidemiologists and public health would find data useful, let's use some differential privacy. I'm not against data collection done properly in such a way that actually protects people.)
This is definitely an interesting case where your product suffers through external factors. Things like languages being EOL'd (python), technology becomes obsolete (like you mention here), vendor forcing change through API and security change through OS upgrade (iOS), and security CVE issues. These all cause sustaining to be done to older code in unexpected ways.
Ask HN: How do you organize CloudFormation mess?
I’m working on complex infrastructure setup and I need your opinion on how you organize the CloudFormation templates and integration with CI/CD.

The project is for an insurance company. We’ve set up the infrastructure on AWS. Architecture is rather complex, using VPC, EC2, LBs, EKS, RDS, Lambdas etc. services all inter-connected.

Current setup:

- The entire infrastructure is described with CloudFormation templates

- Templates are stored and versioned on GitHub, each piece of infrastructure (usually one CloudFormation template) has its own git repository

- We have a set of bash scripts that we use to apply templates using CloudFormation CLI

- Bash scripts also use configuration files (configs for each environment), also stored in git in a separate repository, which are used as input parameters for different CFN templates

- Scripts are currently executed with Jenkins, with a separate job for each piece of infrastructure

The problem:

- Whenever I need to add a new piece of infrastructure I have to create a new git repo, update the config file, configure a new job in Jenkins

- Maintaining Jenkins is yet another problem

- Sharing and distributing among multiple teams and projects is hard, ending up with me being the one who initially sets up and maintains the infrastructure in all projects

- The CI/CD process is not easy to distribute within and out of my team, because of too many implementation details

- With the number of CFN templates, it’s becoming a mess

Recreating the infrastructure in one transaction would save a lot of time. For this, I was looking at using CloudFormation nested stacks. Each nested stack would be one piece of my infrastructure.

If you’ve had the same or similar problem, how did you managed to resolve it? What tools and structure are you currently using?
Didn't know about Morph. Thanks!
I used the Squeak browser plugin with a class of university students in the late 90s - it worked really well. Native speed, much more interactive GUI than the browsers at that time, and I could update their essentially desktop app between classes and not have to get it reinstalled by IT.

I did have to do some persuading to get IT to install the plugin in the first place though.

It was doomed tech in hindsight though, together with all the other plugins.