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To be more precise, she was a sister. A nun would be a woman consecrated to religious life who lives cloistered. While "nun" is used colloquially to refer to all women religious, the technical meaning is narrower.

As many other commenters have noted, there is a culture of many women religious receiving advanced degrees. One of my college friends who got his PhD in political science at MIT was surprised to discover that there were two women religious in his grad school cohort.

In parallel terms, "monk" and "brother" are often used interchangeably, but like with nun, a monk lives cloistered. A brother is a non-ordained man consecrated to religious life. While many brothers are monks, many monks are priests, and some brothers live non-cloistered lives, in the sciences, perhaps the best known would be Brother Guy Consolmagno who is a Jesuit brother and the Vatican astronomer.
I don't know much, but isn't Audacity a thing?
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Such a sad writeup.

Having a journalist glorify some 10x gurus in a specific team and diss every other software developer in the world is not going to solve the problem at all.

It's a shame though - because the topic is a really important and interesting one, which deserves discussion. But not this type of dramatisation.

The most important sentence only comes at the end (and is the reason you can't trust the solutions proposed):

> And money is not the critical constraint: the groups $35 million per year budget is a trivial slice of the NASA pie, but on a dollars-per-line basis, it makes the group among the nation’s most expensive software organizations.

You work with the constraints you have. Eliminating the constraint doesn't solve the problem - it redefines it.
On arxiv, in a technical paper, one doesn't often find a personal apology to a long-dead boss for how long it took to complete one's assigned duties. I found that very touching.
Well we’re constructed the same way that is: by an intern that is just copy pasting from examples he’s seen work plus occasionally typing it out himself and making an error.
Apple sells about 20-25 million Macs a year. That’s negligible to Apple to lose some small percentage of a segment that’s only 10% of it revenue.

Think about how many games died when they dropped 32 bit support.
Which is interesting, because those aren't common in Germany. For the Bundespräsident, they have another interesting thing: there are no limits on how many terms you serve, you just can't serve more than two in a row.
I mean there's plenty of open source stuff for audio. Visualization/oscilloscope tools included.

But that kind of visualization isn't what I'd call "basic" functionality, since it's functionally useless for the vast majority of audio applications.
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The one for Thomas Jefferson could be "if someone did more for the freedom and prosperity of the world than anyone else ever, where would you like the statue?"
> I disagree with this [at least for me personally]. Being a good programmer is just straight up not something that's part of my identity. There's millions of people who are much, much better at it then me, and that's totally fine.

Then why did you call yourself "good", why not just a programmer? ;-)
OK, here's what I think happened here. The email above was to a user who applied directly to a company, and that company give them a Triplebyte test (a feature we call screen). This was represented in our system as a separate account. This separate account should absolutely have been deleted when you deleted your account. But it looks like our deletion code was not doing that. Fix is going out now. We're also pulling server logs to see if we can find any other accounts in this state.
A decision to topple a statue should be made by the consensus of the people, not by the voluntaristic actions of the few. To sidestep the people's consensus is to undermine the democratic principles of governance, and with it the foundation of our society.

There is a lot more at stake here than the statues. Today you support a lawless action of the few because they satiate your vengeance, tomorrow someone else will undermine the law to your detriment because it benefits them. Where does that leave us?
ffmpeg is amazing, but it’s like tar on steroids: I can never remember the right incantation. Google is required for even the simplest of things.

I don’t know if it’s their goal, but I’d love a more user friendly set of command line arguments.
That's deliveries of a vaccine which may never be usable. Is there any indication that it'll actually be _approved_ by then?

Manufacture of this promising candidate in advance of full trials and approval probably isn't the craziest thing to do, but my understanding was that there was a significant risk that it would never be approved, never mind by October.
In order to learn JS you should grasp the event loop. Once you learned to think async, being able to write queues, limit concurrency, etc its just different flavours of syntax and ES6 is mostly syntatic sugar.
If you are a web dev you should learn the basic web APIs and avoid libraries and frameworks at all cost. Dont use React until you have written a web component without it.
Also if you are a web dev, learn CSS its very simple and powerful once you understand that a rule below overides a rule above, and a more specific rule overides a less specific rule.
Yeah, great analogy. It's just that i'm not sure the best analogy to trump is "white hacker"
Put all those email newsletters in an RSS feed
The comment I originally replied to linked to a blog post arguing that in Haskell, the practice of wrapping type classes (which Rust calls traits) in an existential is an antipattern, because rather than using fancy type system features, you could just use a record with some functions in it, which is simpler and more direct.

But dyn impl is a trait wrapped in an existential. There's no concrete type a -> b, only a trait for types that can be 'called.' So to pass an arbitrary function around in a record/struct you need to do the very thing the post is saying is an antipattern (in Haskell). So the argument doesn't really apply to Rust because there isn't a simpler more direct way to achieve the same thing.
The logic is they want to be less transparent because they have to find room for ever more legacy and donor-based admissions.

This will presumably be a lot easier to do without having to maintain a false sense of propriety in admissions.
Stay curious, try new things! Party of being a developer is exploration and discovery. Do not discourage!
Well, it's more than that: even by the standards of the general under-representation in college at the time, women in STEM were (and still are) pretty uncommon.

My mom got an engineering degree, '64-'68, and was also pretty much the only woman there. Women were going to college then, it's just that any woman (like my mom) showing engineering aptitude was encouraged to be a teacher since, as she was counseled, "women don't become engineers".
Have followed the trends and I now know Ember, Angular(both legacy and new), Vue(with and without typescript), and React(both classes and hooks). I've also used Svelte, and Stencil JS in my personal projects. In addition, I've also dived headfirst into GraphQL and Typescript pretty heavily lately.

Do I regret investing time in learning any of those frameworks or technologies?

Not at all. It was fun and interesting at the time I learned something different from each of them. Perhaps the most valuable thing I learned was that it is worthwhile to evaluate new technologies and to continue learning new things.

Does it devalue me as an Engineer to learn many things as opposed to becoming an expert in a single tech stack?

Much the opposite. A lot of the underlying principles and architecture remain the same and yet, I find each framework offers something new. Whether it's questioning some convention, or approaching a problem with a different paradigm, or just being heavily opinionated, I feel like I gained some value from each of these and had fun while doing so.
Show HN: Mail-a-Day (a weekend project)
My dog Mel will send you an email for the next 7 days!

This is a fun weekend project that took two extra days! I just wanted to make something that I could call "finished", although I still would like to include timezones (and maybe payments, analytics, marketing campaigns, load balancers, etc., all those things that would look good on my CV).

So, you write the subject line, the message, set the time, and you'll get that email at that time for the next 7 days. I'm using it to remind me every morning to take life easy.

There's no registration, your email address will be deleted when you stop receiving the emails. Everything worth mentioning is in the FAQs.

Tech-wise, it's a plain-simple "boring" server-side rendered django app with a sqlite3 database, and a bootstrap frontend. There's no backups, so if the database gets deleted, you'll stop receiving the emails (just create them again).

Have fun!

http://mailaday.com/
Just to have a clickable link: http://mailaday.com/
I understand all of this. However, again look at the numbers and planned genocide: the Nazis aimed at killing -- murdering, not expelling, mind you -- most of the Slavic population of Eastern Europe. About 30 million people would have been killed, both through starvation and shooting/gassing if they didn't die fast enough, because they were deemed vermin and "surplus" population. And this wasn't even retaliation for anything, it was planned in cold blood.

Did the Soviets exterminate all Germans in their sphere of influence once they won the war? What were the Nazi plans had they won (and which they partially implemented during the war)?

This doesn't excuse even a single German civilian killed by the Soviets. But the scale and planning are tremendously different, which is why the comparison makes little sense. I think the latter day equivocation that both sides were more or less the same is a regrettable artifact of Cold War thinking.
Yes, but people judge actions, not intentions.
There's Tesla as an American car company, which is arguably the most fearsome in the world right now. Kind of interesting how US manufacturing lead in several industries is tent-poled by one immigrant, Elon Musk. SpaceX doesn't just manufacture rockets, they are also now the largest satellite manufacturer in the world.

We're also really good at manufacturing houses and food. Besides cars, houses, and food actually representing a good chunk of physical things we buy, more of our spending is moving towards software/information in which we have a crazy lead.

I see it as manufacturing was displaced by an even more value adding industry. Though certainly it isn't good for our national security to be relying so much on imports for physical goods.
- You don't trust so much complex logic, taking untrusted input, written in C and want to rewrite it in Rust.

- You want to code it all again using an API that doesn't expect to get its input from a blocking read() function.

- ...

I think the main reason there isn't any alternative is that it supports soooo many formats that the task seems impossible to anybody thinking about it.
I think you, unlike the writer, would seem to wish to put the time into evaluating.

The article though takes two pretty low cost / easy to use bits of tech (fetch, hooks) ... and relegates them to being "trends" without really evaluating them.
Here's a counter point to this argument: take Fortnite for example. Its arguably the most popular game on the world. The current Mac version runs fine but not great. They could modify the iPad version (probably pretty easily) and get better performance on these new ARM Macs than the x86 version was ever going to be due to Apple refusing to put in great gaming GPUs.
That suggestion has already come up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497714
O damn, that probably also means no more building docker images on the mac.
> It's same with mastering any skill. Learning to play guitar, becoming an Olympic athlete, whatever. You can't Zen Buddhism your way out of the fact that you're going to spending years and years practicing until your fingers bleed, or until you're completely exhausted, etc.

The point of the article isn't that there is a shortcut around having to put in the time, it is that ego sabotages your efforts to put in the time, and if you're somehow coerced into spending the time anyway can prevent you from receiving the expected benefit (eg. just staring at the code on the screen probably won't help, unless the problem is literally a typo).
Apple doesn't tend to do things by half measures. If they see Apple on ARM significantly out-performing Intel across their product line, then they will move. There will be frustrations and pain, but it will happen. As Ben hints, this may cause a bigger industry shift as well. With Apple on ARM, it makes Windows and Linux ARM more palatable, in particular this could give ARM servers a significant boost.
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All of this is untrue, and frankly it sounds like you are talking out of your ass.

1. Harvard (iirc, all Ivies) has need blind admissions. This is plastered all over their admissions materials. They want the best students period (edit: there are exceptions for international students at some schools).

2. None of the Ivies need the students to pay full price for tuition due to their endowments and other revenue streams. In fact, you would laugh if you saw how little undergrad tuition contributes to the school’s operating budget.

3. Scholarships are not the main source of free money. Most of the free money is in the form of need-based grants. Most (all?) of this grant money goes towards reducing all or part of the tuition cost.

4. For folks who come from modest means, loans and family contributions will be used almost exclusively for room, board, and miscellaneous expenses. The typical loan amount might surprise you by how low it is, and a 6-figure loan balance for an undergrad would be very unlikely (I’ve never heard of one, although they may exist).

Note that I am referring undergrad and not to graduate schools, especially professional schools... those are completely different.
Intel has been stagnating and dropping the ball for years. AMD is catching up but still just caught up to Intel, more or less.

I welcome competition. I want CPUs to get faster again.
Audacity is a great GUI for working with audio files. I would think it has a way to export a graph of the wave that it shows you when you open up an audio file.

You can install an FFMPEG plugin for Audacity if you need broader support of audio formats (either import or export).
Do Tesla users / enthusiasts / supporters have versions number for these changes?

I mean other Car manufactures would have the same Model, but they do new tweaks every year so it is easier to know, like BMW M3 2018. But Tesla seems to be constantly innovating at a rapid pace, how do people tell which "Model S" they have?

And if anyone know what happened to Battery Day?
No. That rumor was dispelled by Chris Lattner during an interview on the Accidental Tech Podcast.
Out of curiosity what does “acknowledge” mean to you?

I want to do my part to acknowledge, just want to make sure we are aligned on definitions.
Yes you are absolutely right about Worms inspiration :)

There is minimally one another thing I would like to borrow from Worms and it's the water. I like the idea of tanks to be sunk when they are "out of terrain".

Good idea with this multiplayer. I didn't think about this way. Fell free to reach me on e-mail (see github profile).
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Yes but once you're in the trap, you have to play the game.
In addition to what others have said, there's also gstreamer and its suite of plugins. I find gstreamer a bit easier to work with, although both are very complex pieces of software and each have their own quirks.

If you're looking for audio production work, there's Ardour, although I haven't used it myself. http://ardour.org/
Reminds me of the perl module `hsxkpasswd`[0] which has more configure options, and also powers the online generator at https://xkpasswd.net/s/

[0]: https://github.com/bbusschots/hsxkpasswd
> Ok, fair enough I never knew this was a common practice.

What makes you think it was common practice? Exceptions are a thing…
They don't fall a gravity well, they follow straight lines in a curved spacetime. Not subject to the other forces everything follows the straightest line (geodesics) it possibly can in a curved spacetime.

The field equations define the spacetime geometry but they are very hard to solve, you will gain little insight from them. Instead you should try to understand the concept of a geodesic, how they are extremes of a variational problem, how they are calculated and the physical/geometrical intuition behind them.
I worked in software in Germany, almost all of the technical people are on Blue Card, which gives a spouse a work permit from day one.
The US is politically constipated. The people at the top do not want to help the people at the bottom at their expense, even though they have ALL of the power at this point.

They are not malicious, per se, but they don't explicitly care that a large portion of the population is becoming so abject that working in the amazon fulfillment gulags is their only option, and that public infrastructure is crumbling.

So when you ask: "Why doesn't the US do something GOOD for once?" The answer is: Oh, we want to. But our lords purse strings are too tight.
>Essentially nobody graduates from Harvard with a significant amount of debt.

That's great! No argument from me. If Harvard structures their tuition in such a way that students aren't graduating with a massive student loan debt, awesome!
> Falling into an intense gravity well is actually one of the more efficient ways to convert mass into energy, which is why the area around black holes is often particularly energetic, with the matter falling in emitting energetic X-rays.

The heat comes from gravitational compression and friction with other material in the accretion disk, not because objects at the bottom of a gravity well have less mass.
This lustrates a problem I've encountered on a few recent projects - we are suffering an embarrassment of riches when it comes to front end technology.

I found myself slipping in the architect role on a few recent projects with various employers and being forced to make the call on which front end framework to use. The problem is that there are so many to choose from and it very hard to predict what you will need in terms of features from your chosen framework six months or longer after making your decision.

Plus, your fellow devs will probably be arguing with you over which one is better based on their experience. All the emails and messages pointing me to various websites claiming React/Vue/Angular etc is best with stats and graphs I really don't have to the time to get my head around.

It's that fear of making the wrong choice that bothers me. The idea a year down the line the front end seems a bit sluggish and someone then points out that {other_framework} would be flying with the same workload.

Don't get me wrong choice is good, but with so much going on in the world of front-end right now coupled with all the hype and shouts about which is best it is hard to just pick one and run with it. Especially in the metric driven world we live in where a manager who doesn't get tech will berate you for choosing the wrong framework or wonder why you aren't buying in the latest hyped up framework.

That being said my preference is to use a framework to prototype and then convert to plain old JS where possible.
Predictably, the web servers are an afterthought for branding so that users don't have to edit configuration files and operate at a command line.

(a) 99%+ of people buying these things do not know or care about security, aside from someone stealing their WiFi bandwidth (b) the manufacturer does not care because of (a).

As follows, all they care about (WRT to the web server) is that they are easy enough for non-technical people to setup such that they don't end up on a tech support call or returning the device for a refund. That is it.

If you are the 1% that cares about security on your home network, it is far less stressful to simply conclude these products are not for you and move on with your life. You should be looking at enterprise hardware, open source router firmware, or rolling your own.

In any case, what surprises me is that over time the router manufacturers haven't simply built up a single, relatively patched-up, web server implementation that they re-use. Even without aligned incentives, you would think over years and years of development they'd have something at least as good as what you can clone out from from github for free.
> Because cars in dense cities have far more disadvantages than benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfree_city#Effects

In the imagination of some people perhaps. Since I have the choice to use or not use a car every single day, I know the advantages and disadvantages very well.

> I don't know one resident of a car-free city who regret the transition. Would you?

I don't know any car-free cities except tiny ones on tourist-heavy islands. And yes, I would move to some other city.
If you have twice the labor, you can pay each person half as much (and double your profit) since consumption stays the same (to a rough approximation).

Financial capitalism at its best.
That's not how any of this works. It's about the ecosystem of developers and users. How much VR work is happening on macs? How much AI?

This is a long term race that Apple will fail because it failed to nurture its roots.
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Implementing Proxy Pattern in Python
Post updated. I appreciate the fix.
I think gstreamer's gst-launch syntax is a bit easier to read and write, although it has a different set of capabilities than ffmpeg, so may not be a whole replacement for what you want to do.
Apple’s pricing in the services world: extraordinarily competitive low end to lure you in. Excessively-margined high end halo products. High margin, but attractive in comparison middle tier.