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Frees up cheap disk space by moving the library contents to expensive RAM? That doesn't seem like a good thing. And it also doesn't seem possible — you want system libraries to survive reboot. Presumably these files exist somewhere on disk, just hidden.
Along the same thread, genetic algorithms have been used to evaluate fair land allocation in Brazil [1], which have also historically been done by hand. I agree with another user that pointed out the very same tools can be used to gerrymander even more effectively than those districts are currently, perhaps in less obvious ways, without the oddly shaped borders that stretch wildy from place to place. It would be important not to have this occur behind closed doors but left open to scrutiny where the fitness function and biases are in full view.

[1] https://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/174950/0010...
I've worked remotely for the past several years, so that part has unfortunately not been a benefit for me.

Not being able to go to coffee shops/coworking spaces for socialization, as well as not seeing friends in person has really started taking a toll in terms of depression. I am an introvert, however people often confuse that for not wanting any social interaction. I do prefer to have social interaction, just with close friends and usually in smaller groups (followed by rest after).

I do realize that I am lucky to still have a job and be healthy. Still, it has been a tough time.
Gosh, it seems every day I see a new shiny thing made with Rust that was developed remarkably quickly, runs quite smoothly, and appears to be magically bug-free.

I'm sooo tempted to dive into Rust head-in. Have only dabbled a bit with it so far. The main thing holding me back at this point is that Rust seems to lack a decent ecosystem for data science and AI/DL/ML (in particular, a set of crates that has proven useful and stable in real-world AI/DL/ML applications).
Y'all are spoiled rotten. This entire thread is millenial'ist first world problems. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Come on people, have you really gotten this weak? Do you forget where you live and what opportunity has been put forth before you? Have you no shame? The majority of the rest of this world would die to provide a fraction of your miserable lives to their children.
Anonymity is not some sort of natural right. For most of our existence as a species, we lived in small groups where you quite naturally knew everyone you dealt with. True strangers were rare, and quite rightly regarded with a certain suspicion. Anonymity only became possible when we started living in groups large enough that you might have to deal with people you hadn't met before, because there were just too many people around for you to know all of them. And even in such circumstances, if you were going to enter into some sort of serious agreement, like buying on credit or renting property, you would absolutely have been required to identify yourself. Historically, anonymity of any sort has only sometimes been possible, and anonymity in serious matters has generally not been possible at all. It is therefore not reasonable to speak of a natural right to anonymity.

My position, strictly speaking, is that anonymity is generally permissible. If you want to try to remain anonymous, that is in many cases fine. But it is also quite difficult, particularly in the face of determined investigation, and is therefore rather unrealistic. Unless you really know what you are doing, your attempts will fail as soon as someone really cares about finding out. This makes combining anonymity with any sort of public prominence or celebrity status a particularly bad fit, because plenty of people care about knowing all sorts of details about celebrities, so there is plenty of reason for both amateur snoops and professional investigators to go looking.

I don't find your example of celebrity pseudonyms particularly convincing. These are simply terms of convenience, part of crafting a public image. They are not true attempts to hide anyone's identity. Pull up the wiki page of most any celebrity that goes by a stage name, and you'll find their real or original name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
It’s okay. I live in New York City and am a very social person. Our company is all WFH but I was going into a coworking space each day. I went to tech and social events every night. I did a lot of happy hours. I saw friends every day, pretty much.

March / April I saw no one other than my girlfriend a couple times a week. Time became slow. I became a lot less motivated. I was cooking more than ever and saving more money than ever. I felt depression coming on. I live in a giant building and even leaving the apartment felt like a big production - can I trust the elevator? My doorman? People on the elevators? Why are they out too?!

By late April I realized I was going crazy without human interaction and no changes in my routine. Started organizing sidewalk happy hours with friends, where we distanced and drank and walked around the empty city. I think I’ll really cherish those memories for many years.

I used to travel a lot and missed that stimulation. Me and my girlfriend decided to drive NY - Los Angeles and stay on the west coast for the month of June. Stopped in national parks, saw some beaches, a lot of hiking, got a haircut in Manhattan Beach. Restaurants are open out west. Then ten of us rented a house in Lake Tahoe and had the most amazing time. Currently heading to San Diego to see family.

It’s turning around. My work motivation is back and work is now going better than ever. Working from new locations most days is fun. I feel great again. Interested to see how much NYC has changed when I go back July 1.
These are all pretty killer. For non-generalist stuff this is great - I work for AWS myself and arch diagrams are generally draw.io for me, and considering this is a web service I'd be unlikely to use it but in another life, absolutely.

I feel like non-generalist tools like this are useful for exactly what they're good at, especially along with doc links etc.

Any plans to do this cool things like Cloudcraft with describes to pre-populate diagrams? I'd imagine this would be quite an undertaking for a cloud-agnostic service.

Kudos!
> It is surprisingly difficult to create a useful 15 minute video. Go ahead and be rich if you find it easy. It takes me about 8 hours to produce 15 minutes of truly information-packed video content. And it is not as re-usable as you think.

This is the problem. Why does it matter if it takes 8 hours?

What this comment replies to talks about 4 hour meeting but just with 3 people it nets 3 hours saved as a collective (assuming all 3 watch the 15 minute video).

This past week there was an article on HN that talked about the benefits of written communication. The argument of effort to produce such "memos" was throughout the discussion but it is the very same as the conversation about video here.

I've seen this at multiple places that contributors don't want to put the upfront additional work for the collective benefit. Human nature at it's best, selfishness.
What's the value of having the image be sent and seen instantly versus in a couple of hours later when the plane lands?
It was on HN couple of days ago. Quite interesting even though I expected more info about the fraud in the podcast.
On the flip side of that, Win32 also includes the local directory near the start of the LoadLibrary search path. The result being that a lot of applications bundle all of their own dependencies when there are already 15 copies installed on the system. In some cases I’m good with that, in others it’s a pretty big waste of space compared to having a system with an easily configurable versioned shared library repository.
It's not a default install, and it's free to individual users but not free for enterprises. I believe it's $5/user/mth for O365 subscribers.
"Techies" are not academics in general.
The “Ben Shapiro DESTROYS liberal” videos that pop up on YouTube sometimes come to mind. Ben Shapiro was obviously a (probably very successful) high school debater and the guy thinks and responds fast. Not that those traits are good for actual discussion or coming to agreement.

He also claims him voicing his opinions about politics got him blacklisted from his dream job of being a Hollywood writer.

When he’s talking on a platform like Joe Rogan or having a leisurely chat he’s much more willing to be moderated by others opinions, and demonstrates the sort of give and take of a normal human being in a conversation. He’s certainly not some bastion of liberal values, and has principles he believes in, after all he’s an Orthodox Jew, but people like him exist because there’s a market for it and he’s carved out this public persona.

The people performing to the audience will get views from people like my uncle who just wants to see “Stephen Crowder OWNS libs” and has no interest in being right, only in feeling right. Unfortunately they’re going to likely always have the larger audience.
I'd say even more simply, don't talk to the press without the intermediation of a competent PR professional.

It's the same reason you don't talk to the police without a lawyer. Even if you're the cleverest person in the world, you're playing a game against an opponent who does this for a living and holds all the cards.
I know about UTM ;) It's emulation, not virtualization.
I'm curious about 2. I just downloaded and the first thing I noticed was how hard it is to use the save one handed. When I create a new task, I have only a single button in the top LEFT, which is the save icon. I can't reach that even with my giant hands on a OnePlus 8 Pro. I have no idea what the "checked" button is people are referring to, I even turned on the "hide" option for it and saw no change. In editing an existing list I see Save on the left, and 3 dot menu with Discard and Delete.
>Peace, quiet, fully able to focus on my tasks.

So no kids, lol. The hardest part of this is how I think it works this way for everyone else on my team at work. They are (normal work + 100%). I'm (normal work - 80%). Got my first negative performance review ever a couple weeks ago. It's rough.
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2d positional audio works really well too. Check out https://rambly.app for a 16-bit rpg feel. Works great for virtual happy hours / groups of 5+.
While it certainly blocks it by default in the new Safari beta, can anyone confirm if the existing Safari which already blocked third party trackers explicitly blocked google analytics?
The whole thing got way out of hand and I'm sure it was very stressful. On the other hand, I understand he had a new job in short order. (On still the other hand, the person who kicked the whole thing off was also fired and AFAIK was basically locked out of the industry--at least in any public role.)
The issue is, all of your 4 points can be overcome with just one intervention - communication.

WFH relies on communication, in multiple modes, more times a day than working in an office. Failure to do that will lead to issues.
Can you elaborate on what fingerprinting attack is broken by this model?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Great, they help small businesses sometimes. But right here in a dire situation, they're hurting them. It’s fair to want to know why Square is holding thousands of your earnings. This is why businesses hate PayPal.
especially 8:00-9:20 and 12:00-13:15

also 31:40 "All the changes we made to the structure of Serbia were implemented using perfectly legal means. We followed the proper procedure."

(Milošević's projection game appears to have been strong. Everything was everyone else's fault.)

This was a BBC production, so we expect to see the NATO side, but given that Milošević's lawyer had a fool for a client, I am not feeling poorly at being inclined to their editorial.
It's weird is an understatement. On the one hand, the remote work is great. I don't commute, so I see my 5 year old all day even though I'm working. I don't have to go into the city. My lunch breaks are in the backyard with the dog and my kid and my mom who watches my son. I've switched to 4 tens, which I love.

On the other hand, the news cycle is an ever present anxiety machine. Even when I don't tune into it, it filters in through texts and my wife. I worry that the medical supply lines are going to become unstable and that will be that, and there's only so long a type I diabetic will last without medical supply. It's odd that everyone else seems to be excited for some Mad Max style revolution, and I just want some kind of normality. I feel like the kid at the house party worrying about people scratching the table and breaking dishes while everyone else is having fun.

It's a strange dichotomy, this time we live in.
> family members literally crying because someone posted mean Dominic Cummings memes

I’m really sorry to hear about your situation and I genuinely hope you and yours will cope, but this was hilarious.
You're right; it's bad practice. Sometimes I just want to talk tech and it's easier for me to talk about a tangent that I undersand than to stay on-topic when I don't have any knowledge, but that's a bad habit when it comes to a post on someone's article. I'll eliminate this behavior.
What? Less than half a million deaths so far. Pretty serious, but definitely not the worst human catastrophe since WW2.

There are a few dozen wars, civil wars, and genocides over the last 70 years that resulted in more than half a million deaths. Plus of course much non-death related suffering. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Congo.

Plus some real stand-outs, like the Korean War (2M - 3M?), the Vietnam War (1M - 4M?), the Khmer Rouge mass killings (1.5M - 2.5M?), Nigerian Civil War (1M - 3M?), the Bangladesh genocide of '71 (500k - 3M?),

In the natural world, cyclone Bhola (and subsequent flooding) is blamed for over half a million deaths.

As it stands, COVID-19 isn't even in the top 20 yet (er, bottom 20?), though unfortunately it is on track to perhaps hit top-10.

For reference, WW2 is still two orders of magnitude worse than any of the above. Yikes.
PeopleSoft was one of the larger players, at least in education, well before Oracle bought them. There's really (or at least there was when I was involved in higher education) only 3 main players at that level. And trust me, each option you had was bad in its own way.

The problem is that these products started out much smaller, and grew to fill the needs, although not necessarily as nicely as you might like. So now when it's time to put out a new bid, there's just the handful of vendors who can check off all the boxes for what the current system does. And integration with other systems is always a pain - even today it often includes csv or tab-delimited files that get sent to ftp sites for batch processing!
amazing! installing right now :) thanks for supporting standards!
You contradict yourself. Either the virus is mutating rapidly, meaning there can be no herd immunity, or it is not and a vaccine is likely. They are both based on the same underlying biological facts.
Yeah, I would agree with that. It definitely demonstrated that gaming is possible even under Rosetta, which is an accomplishment. Watching some other stuff from them this morning, it seems like they're passing the metal calls directly through to the GPU (which makes sense), even while translating CPU calls from x86 to ARM.
Nigeria can easily make the same argument for Denmark then nothing ever changes.
The fact that you are not hearing back may not be the negative indication. The companies you are applying for might just be in a "hold for now" mode, so even a positive initial interview may be stuck waiting for the next step. "Waiting for the manager to approve an on site; but wait, there is no one on site now; how do we proceed? well, let's think about this next week". One hand posting "help wanted", another starting "hard hiring freeze", etc. This can be infuriating, but is a much better state than a rejection.

Hang on, and do not dwell on the losses. Try to ignore news and perceived fortunes of others. Read books instead of CNN and/or twitter.

Most importantly, focus on staying healthy and sane. Healthy, energetic and $20k in debt is much a much better "COVID exit" state than spent, on antidepressants but with $20k in the bank. Contribute to an open source project, try something new. Are you handy? try building something or fixing something; not for money, just to keep your mind on building things. Good luck!!
What was wrong with draw.io?
We have a 2 year old daughter and working from home is a bit noiser but so much nicer. It's not perfect, but neither was going to the office.
We are doing shift work in my lab so I go in every now and then at night.
OK, but that happens only once in the first six years in the U.S. for an H-1B doesn't it?

Initial visa issuance (for three years) will be at a consulate abroad by definition, and then one more visit to get the extension stamped (for the next three years).

My experience of the whole process was much less dramatic than many here. I was advised to budget for a week out of the country (for consular processing of an L-1A extension), and it ended up taking rather less.

Is the real problem after the six year term when extensions are done on a year-by-year basis for those with pending labor certification or backlogged priority date for an immigrant visa?
I see folks use both, but definitely most lean heavier to group chat for some reason. It's an interesting sociological phenomenon. If I had to guess, the reasons are probably: there's no #random or #general channel, so they use group chat as a substitute; they prefer linear rather than threaded discussions; similar to Slack, there's no user security in channels, so group chat is a way to include/exclude certain people from conversations.
US life insurance industry lost $50B in the first quarter of 2020
It is not bizarre at all. I find bizarre, OTOH when people fail to understand the context of the phrase. It is not normal to overspecify a statement, when it is clear what is the obvious meaning: a normal modern consumer-grade CPU in a typical usage environment cannot work at frequencies above 5Ghz. And that is true.
Sure, but there is a huge difference in pay, career prospects and respect between being the IT guy at a non tech company and being the IT guy at a company who's main focus is tech.

That's the problem Germany has, it's full of successful companies that aren't IT related so people who want good jobs in IT are forced to either leave to SV/CH/London or stay and be "the IT guy" at a non tech company where you get treated as a cost center.
When you edit an existing task there is a big button on the app bar with a checkbox that completes the task. The button is not visible on a new task. Since you toggled on the "hide" option it will not be displayed at all.

If you toggle on 'Look and feel > Back button saves task' then you can use your back button instead of the save button up in the corner
There's also .NET, PowerShell, Teams, SQL Server, probably a few others I'm forgetting at the moment and, almost certainly, more to come in the future.
I'm doing wonderful. There's no way I'm ever going back to the office. My work feels more consistent and enjoyable. I'm exercising and being active more than I ever have in my life.

Life feels richer and less complicated.
Also: have a framework in place, which supports worry-free refactoring.

Comprehensive Unit/Integration tests, a robust type-system, pick whatever suits your style.

It's a lot easier to refactor stuff when you don't have to worry about breaking something hard to debug with a big code change.
Re the US: I only meant that comparatively. Most of the people in the world can only dream of living under a system as good as yours. And for us violent regulation of expression is the norm.

I hear you. The shame-based system is prone to be unjust. TBH, I also think the people pioneering it are wrong about most things. I guess what I'm trying to say is that any violent regulation of expression is unjust, so even if shame-justice is on point 10% of the time it's still an improvement. And in the cases when it's wrong the consequences are less severe.
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New Vector is British-French.
It's over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the Arctic Circle. Vast amounts of methane are wait in the permafrost.

Despots and tyrants are gaining power. The world's most powerful nation has a billion people and no concern for ethics. Everyday people - myself included! - live in a system where fighting to improve these things means risking your kids' home, healthcare, and well being.

I'm a nervous wreck and when I look at my beautiful daughters, who are the most loving creatures I've ever met, my joy at their existence is filled with horror at the idea they will witness the end of civilization, perhaps the species.

Worst, perhaps, is that normally this kind of fear subsides after study. Most of the things we worry about are not, really, that big a deal, in a species-wide sense.

Climate breakdown is the one topic I know where the experts are more scared than regular people, not less.

I have been trying to find liberal democracies with arable land in cool climates with a credible national defence, and have found none.

https://twitter.com/solar_chase/status/1021686779093680128 puts it well.

"Honestly, I fear my daughter will have to kill innocent people or be killed in the struggle over the earth's shrinking habitable places."
Yes, but the understanding is that the auditor gives approval of your "books" and companies should not be able to function for years while doing fraudulent things. This is why there is audit in the first place. It is mandatory and they should be held accountable for it.
I disagree with the statement "most toughest times". Be careful with superlatives. As a child, I underwent chemotherapy. These three months of lockdown were an anoyance, but far from "most toughest times". Really. Put things in perspective, before exaggregating like this.
CERN invented the WWW, WWW lifted people from poverty like me that I work from a village in a third world country as a developer.

Maybe the super magnets,detectors, software, mathematics and who knows anti-mater or black holdes could also have a similar effect as WWW. There is a lot of money in he world that is pent in entertainment industry so make a carbon tax or invent some economic mumbo-jumbo to grab a percent from there and force electric car investments or fusion reactors. Take Apple money and should be enough
That paper is based on gen1 constellation, and predates gen2 (350km) announcement.
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I have occasionally been curious about that, but never curious enough to try to make an effort to find out. Call it a mix of laziness and respect for the preferences of others.
I generally agree with the ideas he wrote, such as:

> a clean and mutually-beneficial separation between cataloguing and (digital) preservation activities can be established

> the file's path and/or name are not suitable for use as an identifier; in no small part due to both their transient nature, and inability to be combined with files from other systems which may cause rise to naming conflicts

> UUIDs as identifiers; hashes as identifiers

In my article https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio... , I start from the same basis and explore deeper structures and issues. I argue that file paths and URLs are indeed bad identifiers, and that the content of a file should determine its name.

I propose that a tag consists of some descriptive info like a string, plus a hash reference to the target file being described. The unique feature of my proposition is that the tag is itself a first-class file, which can in turn be tagged or referenced by more metadata.