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> My ego creates a tight bond between my work and my identity. Linking my self worth to how well I do my job.

Same experience here, and probably for a lot of devs. It took a good 10 years or so to break out of this. If I couldn't get something working that I expected to work, I silently took it out on myself. Must not be good/smart enough. And so I'd beat my head against the wall. Once I started letting broken code or an unfixed bug wait until the next day and saw that the sky didn't fall, and that I could eventually fix the issue, I started to trust myself more, and just let things be. Some days, everything works. Some days, nothing works. Your build fails and you spend hours updating some obscure library, and you don't get feature X done that day. It's really your decision whether or not you let this effect how you feel.
> not understanding how web 1.0 worked and really groking REST/HATEOAS (which has since been hijacked for JSON APIs, which is complete nonsense.)

Anyone who really grokked REST would never say it's nonsense to use with a JSON API.
> I think it is different because gaming consoles are single purpose devices.

Gaming consoles aren't single purpose devices. They're still general purpose computers. The only thing that makes them "single purpose" is the manufacturer restrictions on what you can install on them, which shouldn't be allowed any more than it is for Apple.
Excepting the confusion between the relationship of mass and energy which you cleared up, that was a totally legit question: Energy gravitates, so we do in fact need to know where all (non-gravitational) energy - including contributions we label 'potential' - is located if we want to determine the metric.

The answer to the question of 'where' is the underlying (non-gravitational) physical field (and in particular the electromagnetic field, which is long-range, whereas the nuclear fields normally get folded into mass terms). The case of gravitational potential energy is a bit more subtle: It's excluded from the stress-energy-momentum source term of the Einstein equations, and there's no expression for a gravitational stress tensor (though there are pseudo-tensorial approaches).
Hey, this is bad. Do you mind sharing some of your information with me by email at guillaume@triplebyte.com so I can investigate what's happening? Is it possible you have multiple accounts with us? Thank you!
Since reading Brian Greene’s books I have a question that I can’t seem to get an answer to. If there really are extra curled up dimensions and the graviton is not connected to the brain of the 3 extended dimensions in our Universe and is therefore free to travel into and out of the curled up dimensions then why does gravity obey the inverse square law? Shouldn’t we be able to detect the extra dimensions by the effect of gravity diminishing faster than inverse square as the gravitons go into and out of the extra dimensions? The inverse square law of gravitational propagation indicates that there either are no extra dimensions or that the graviton is also connected to a brain that prevents it from entering and exiting these extra dimensions. Since the other 3 forces also obey the inverse square law the extra dimensions might as well not exist making the conclusions of string theory invalid. What am I missing?
Why a dns request?
As I said, this is not much of a technical issue, but lack of processes and best practices. The codebase does not look very bad.

> building resilience and self-healing into services

How would you do that?
I run an OpenBSD router at home. I'm not sure if that would satisfy your security requirements.
After looking at lots of font options for our project, we chose Inter and are very happy with it. My favorite feature is infinitely-variable widths from a single font, along with a huge variety of glyphs. And it looks great, too.
> Like all potential energies, its definition is relative and its zero point convention.

Turns out that this one does have a unique definition because the limit exists, and because the sum of kinetic energy and rest mass determines the gravitational influence of a body.

> > As the body falls down the gravity well, it gains kinetic energy and loses mass.

> So you’re a saying that hydrogen lower in a gravity well will fuse worse?

No. The processes are orthogonal to each other. Forget for the moment that its the release of kinetic energy by dropping down the gravity well that makes the subsequent fusion possible at all. Whether you fused first and then dropped down the well, or dropped down the well first and then fused, the final state is the same.
Eero
The first [X] who did [Y] was a [Z].

Fill in the blanks.

Then follow the logic:

"Yes, I know we are "equal" but oh my goodness, look, this equal person did this equal thing!" ... yet this excitement implies lack of equality-- if equality was inherent, there would be no need to exclaim equality excitedly.
Which question?
I'm making a cms that is kind of mobile first, which makes for a very habdy ability to make edits on your mobile when needed.

https://github.com/cloudy-cms/Cloudy.CMS/blob/master/screens...
Thanks for trying to help out.

Definitely not multiple accounts. It is clear what has happened here.

This is beyond bad. It’s criminal.
A president who promised to put ‘America First’ instead turned us into this
They can be gamed too easily. My high school gave a 1 point bonus for AP courses. It it fair to compare someone with a 4.2 against students without that opportunity?
Do engineering things that don't scale
If this cuts deaths by 1/3rd, isn't that totally sufficient to end all lockdowns and border restrictions immediately? The death rate looks basically like the annual flu with this drug, particularly when we consider that it will just be one bad season then fairly minor from then on, when much of the population gets natural immunity.
I think either vanilla js, or the other route, a full blown batteries included, like Visual Basic 6 was for windows development. Either abstract away nothing, or everything.

In the middle, is developing with a framework. The problem is you have to know the language + the peculiarities of the framework. New frameworks and "features" happen on too short a timeframe. And, frankly, it costs too little to just invent a new framework. So, 10000 frameworks.

There is a mental cost that increases exponentially with every layer of abstraction. When people have to post questions about why they can't understand such "features" of panacea x , that's the problem.
Yeah, Donald Trump is probably already spiking himself with it...
Talking about "USA" as "America" is something that they should look at some point in the future :)

I'm from America too, but South America and it's kinda offensive that everyone refers to "USA" as "America".
Ok, fair enough I never knew this was a common practice. I was thinking more about today when I made my comment
FFmpeg 4.3 Released
I agree with all of this - except for the part about the iCloud Drive path containing a space being a problem.

That should not be a problem, and if it is, it's a huge flaw in the software you are using, and you should file a bug. (Or if it's your software, fix it.)

Seriously, UNIX has supported spaces in filenames since the 70s.
Structured Procrastination Reconciled Me with My Procrastination
Term limits, though. :)
You can also easily run a VM with any version of Windows going back decades, something Apple has also arbitrarily stifled.
Counter point:

I read that book this year.

It definitely contributed towards resolving some unresolved childhood trauma, and I'm grateful for it, but it was no walk in the park.
Same problem in a lot of countries. I looked into this for Germany as a backup option; my technical expertise and low level of German proficiency would get me and my wife easy residency, but she wouldn’t be allowed to work.

Then again, given the right mix of COL and wages, that might be tolerable, especially in a situation where something makes me willing to follow through on that plan.
The article mentions that Tesla stripped out some mass from the car which resulted in longer range, but would doing so change its stability to the point where its safety rating needs to be reassessed, or is there a margin of tolerance?
Isn't that just Chrome? I took the OP to mean a dev desktop environment, like Windows, for example. Those are still expensive on a hosted basis.
> Which rules out OpenWrt on some of the lower-spec pieces

it's ruled out in any case as of now, because the current releases require (or at least strongly recommend) 64 MB of RAM, which surprisingly in 2020 is a problem in the networking world (for the cheapest -under 70$- devices)
If you want another rabbit hole with respect to supporting attributes, consider that the Windows Terminal people are considering adding ECMA-48 standards conformance that no other terminal emulator has, the various graphic renditions from ECMA-48:1991 that no-one else has implemented in 30 years. (I saw the issue and added overline, framed, and encircled to my terminal emulator's framebuffer front-end. It will be in version 1.41 of the toolset, but that is not out yet.)

* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6000

* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6205

It brought me up short to be described as caring about KVTs. (-: I've mooted doing VTs in application mode code for a couple of decades, now. Here's a white paper from 2006, which was several years in.

* http://jdebp.uk./Proposals/linux-console-daemon.html

I must update that test script for Windows Terminal.
Open source multi-task learning NLP toolkit. One model, multiple tasks
> Same thing goes for chips, where only Taiwan and the US can manufacture current gen nodes.

This view is rampant throughout this thread and I keep wondering why South Korea is omitted. I thought SK semiconductor tech was comparable the US and Taiwan?
Firebase ML
"The most common adverse effects in studies of remdesivir for COVID‑19 include respiratory failure and organ impairment..." —wikipedia entry
On Traits of a “Generalist”
The Smallest Motor in the World
"borg" is the tool for one-way encrypted backup, not syncthing.
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.
Quantifying patio11's law: How deep is the software industry iceberg?
That's true, but nothing will.
I did have some keys backed-up in the Cloud. One issue is that because I was overseas a lot of security protocols locked me out of my accounts -despite- my keys and required an SMS message first...which of course I didn't have a phone with my SIM, so it was impossible to do.
Palantir could be in line for multi-million pound NHS deal, says analyst
“Not requiring” is about ratings. It allows schools to increase the amount of applicants making the school seem more selective. Meanwhile, they only report the test scores of good test takers, so the average increases too.

For a school like Harvard, once you’re in it’s hard to fail out. If you have a 4.0 GPA, the SATs won’t help you keep from failing. So better for them to only report the 1500s and not the 1300s.
My friend Gunar and I are building this app we call SolveFaction.

As devs, we know that coding interview problems are not easy. Especially when it's been a while. There's really only one way to get better. First, learn and understand. Then, practice, practice, practice. That's why we created SolveFaction – for the practice part.

We first figured there's currently no way to practice coding challenges when we're away from our computers. Also, HackerRank/Leetcode questions take 30mins minimum, and we don't always have that much time available.

So we broke down these problems into small chunks of critical thinking. If you can't answer these "building blocks", chances are you won't solve the bigger problem.

We added user rankings and a leaderboard. This competitive aspect makes it more fun and has proven to be a strong (very strong!) motivator for some of our users.

Our ultimate plan is to have SolveFaction automatically adapt the difficulty to your level. We want the app to choose just the right next question for you. But for that, we first need to have enough beta users, so that we can calibrate our difficulty system (glicko-based for those familiar). That's the dream here.

All exercise are original. We've built them ourselves. And there's enough of them for you to play for a week or 2. You might really enjoy this.

We'd love to get some feedback. If you try it out, it'd be incredibly helpful if you can share your thoughts.

Thanks and have fun!
Ed
Top Covid 19 Recovering Countries
Not necessarily. I have a niece who is a textbook A-plus Asian student, she didn't get into any top school nor did any UC-school accept her. She is in a CA community college now hoping to transfer later. (She did get into an expensive 2nd tier private college, but since Covid shut everything down she withdrew and transferred to a CC near home.)

Years ago I tried to counsel her parents into letting her do extra-curricular activities that did not fit the stereotypical Asian student profile, but they would not hear it. Piano it was, rather than sports or other non-academic work/volunteering. They did not understand that an Asian girl with a 4+ GPA and years of piano training was not going to get a fair shake when it came to college admissions.
This is so critical and so easy to forget. Every day is an effort to remind oneself of these basic truths.

“Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, “This is only my interpretation, not reality itself.” Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go.”
― Epictetus
> I am sick of having to assume my network hardware is trivially compromised.

I don't have the gateway my ISP gave me on my LAN for this reason. I do have to laugh a little bit about people who use a VPN to hide requests (DNS? Because most of the web is HTTPS, now) from their ISP when their ISP has a device on their network.
The thing about working on yourself is that it’s actually work. Reading an article, or a book on behaviour, self-improvement and what else doesn’t actually change you any more than reading Harry Potter does.

It’s the years of applying Zen Buddhism, scheduling your chores or staring at the mirror telling yourself you’re a great person that changes you.

I know because I recently recorded from a major depression and anxiety, and everything that I’ve done that has actually helped, like lying to myself in the mirror, or convincing myself no-one on the train was actually judging me, took 6+ months to have a real lasting effect.

It’s the same with distractions. Just look at your screen time spent on your smartphone today. It’s probably a couple of hours by the time you go to bed. Like it is for the rest of us. Most of that time is frankly wasted, you know it. I know it. But reading a self-improvement article about how cutting down screen time is healthy for us isn’t actually going to change our behaviour one bit. Maybe for a day or two, but not next week and certainly not next month.
The best description of the AR-based future that I've seen is in The Golden Age by John C. Wright.
Cue v0.2.1 is out, mainly prep for the new evaluator
Nowadays it's demanded that both husband and wife work, and it gave us the two-income trap. It's not even progress.
One may practice consensual statue toppling if one prefers.
> about to accomplish with the C919.

not certified, a decade late

> about to successfully unleash the Mitsubishi SpaceJet.

wasn't that cancelled last week?

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mitsubishi-pulls-back-sp...
I should note that it’s really not possible to know that aether doesn’t exist or whatever, all of these are just models that experimentally match our observations. And your answer describes why we don’t use it: it’s not that aether is wrong, it’s just that if you try to extend the model to account for observations, you get the same model as what we currently have but corrected slightly because you’re assuming that aether exists. It turns out that it’s just simpler to not assume that, which is why we have our current model.
Universities Step Up the Fight for Open-Access Research
No, getting a visa is just something that allows you to stay and work (in this case). You’d only need to worry about citizenship if you were planning on becoming a citizen of Taiwan, which is a much longer and harder process.

You will however need to continue file US taxes at a lower rate. America is one of the few countries that expects its expats to do that. Retain an accountant who specializes in this.
The same experience, had to write manual filter.
I used to use Unison. It has a huge flaw. Like rsync, the Unison binary must be installed at both ends of the sync. Unlike rsync, they must be exactly the same version, compiled with exactly the same version of various libraries.

I was bitten by this so many times, because the path of least resistance is just to install unison from the repo of whatever OS you are using, but if you want to sync between different OSs, may God have mercy on your soul. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it explodes.

I switched to Syncthing. Your points here are valid, but so far, have not been a problem in the real world.
It's just marketing. It's getting better, but still far from an actual "self-drive".

Autopilot is Level-2[1] and FSD is somewhere between Level-2 and Level-3.

[1]: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15079828/autonomous-s...
I didn't hear this story. I found this report that looks quite neutral. "NYPD Finds No Criminality After Officers Sickened At Shake Shack, Appears To Be Accidental"
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/nypd-investigating-p...
Wow i didnt know this! Thanks for the heads up.
I personally won't use iOS ever again if Apple is forced to allow GOG, Steam, Xbox and F-Droid to coexist alongside the official app store because it would really suck as a consumer to have existing games I've purchased show up on new devices and it would really suck as a developer to have more ways to distribute software and it just wouldn't be fair to Apple if they were blind to some of my transactions and interactions with other companies. Being fair to Apple at everyone else's expense is the best possible way to distribute software.

Apple have been impeccable stewards too. Except for the thousands of times they manually-approved predatory offer walls, predatory IAPs, predatory data collection, predatory subscriptions, malware etc.
Incredible, but wasn't this kind of available though psycopg2 (postgres connector), SQLAlchemy or any other kind of database connection library ?

I realise the difference between the kernels altogether, but how is one better than the other?
Yes, REVEREND Bayes was clergy, too, and what would we do in machine learning without Bayes' theorem? (His grave is in London.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
That's not really a good thing. What they are doing is changing a known transparent standard for entry to something completely arbitrary, ad hoc, and opaque from the point of view of the applicant. Also, the applicant pool will rise because there is no SAT filter.

Having said that, I don't think it's a big deal because nobody needs to go to Harvard. In fact, if you aren't affluent enough to afford Harvard tuition, or if you don't have a full scholarship, Harvard tuition is not worth the degree and student loans you end up with.
So, from my memory (I started with Linux in 2000 or so, haven't really stopped.)

There was a flash player for linux, I want to say it corresponded with about version 5 but don't trust me on that. It never really got any updates except perhaps the occasional critical security patch. Meanwhile, the Linux desktop moved on and the plugin got harder and harder to keep going. Things like sound required jumping through a few (extra) hoops to make work, I think it expected OSS but that faded out to be replaced with ALSA, so you had to add some thing to get backward compatibility for that, and it would tend to monopolise the whole sound device.

Meanwhile, Linux became more and more 64 bit, but the flash plugin didn't. So you either had to run a 32-bit browser (because plugins were a library the browser loaded), or use some crazy proxy plugin thing (nspluginwrapper[1]) that someone made that was 64 bit at one end and 32 bit at the other.

Also meanwhile, other platforms got Flash player 6, and 7, and beyond, and still Linux was stuck on 5 or whatever. Then Mike Melanson[0] came along and spent some serious time and energy re-porting Flash player to Linux and made a lot of people very happy because now we had AV sync and no 32-64 bit bodges and fewer and fewer crashes and so on.

After a few years(?) he stopped, not sure why, and things slowed down. But by then it felt like flash was starting its decline, and what we had worked well enough, and Adobe seemed to be keeping basic updates happening anyway.

Now more and more I forget about installing `flashplugin-installer` or whatever Ubuntu calls it these days and don't notice that it's not there.

Note, aside from Mike's name, this is totally from memory so significant details may be wrong. Go read Mike's archived blog, it'll probably give you a much more detailed insight. Might do that myself.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120903074409/http://blogs.adob... - note that this is an arbitrary time snapshot that I picked at random.
[1] https://www.linux.com/news/nspluginwrapper-cross-architectur... - total madness. But it (mostly sorta) worked.
I would assume part of that is the improvement in virtualization. Those with adequate RAM can run Windows apps in a VM performantly.

You really only need Bootcamp for gaming, and with Nvidia support waning on the Mac, you're going to have a second rate gaming experience even in Bootcamp.
The total undergrad population of Harvard isn't even 7,000, so I'm not sure where you pulled the 6,000 number from. A quick look at their website will show you they admit around 2,000 per year.
It's baffling that you are comparing the death rate that happened DURING A LONG LOCKDOWN with a non-lockdown annual flu death rate.. and acting like if we can drop the numbers a bit it's the same thing.

Your logic is essentially saying the lockdown did nothing to reduce deaths/infection.
I’m not sure if the low-dose dexamethasone treatment really is that “dangerous”, frankly. Steroids do have side-effects, but this drug is quite well-known and used frequently. Under medical supervision, and especially if the dosage is low, it seems likely it will be safe.
I agree for frameworks, but building tools and package management are still nightmares for me
Apple App Store ecosystem facilitated over 0.5 TN dollars in commerce in 2019
A really good book on getting to the emotional root of procrastination is "Procrastination Why you do it, what to do about it now" by Burka & Yuen. It takes a psychoanalytic approach, with a chapter on neuroscience and some practical steps to manage and improve.

One fact I found really interesting is that fear is embedded in your brain & body. A fear response is triggered immediately (30ms) even decades after the original incident. Learning to identify and resolve causes of fear can help you lower the barrier to doing your tasks. If we consider procrastination as a barrier preventing you from doing something, you can either up your will power, lower the barrier, or a combination of both. Good luck on your journey!
Where Would you suggest I can read about it more?