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We are excited to launch SmartNomad!

A few months ago, we started on a journey to build a new kind of travel product. SmartNomad makes it easy and entertaining to plan personalized itineraries, quickly book the great vacation with one-click and get digital assistance during the trip.

We were gearing up for the big launch announcement in late Spring. But, like for so many lives and businesses, Covid-19 came as a rude shock for us. Travel industry in particular was greatly affected, and we had to pivot on our initial plans. And while we are not out of the woods yet, there have been some signs of recovery. Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky mentioned last week that their bookings for the second half of May have actually increased compared to the same period last year.

As we start dreaming of our next adventure, we are now launching SmartNomad to help travelers start planning and feel inspired again. To allow the most flexibility, we have removed all time limits on booking a trip plan through the end of 2020 so people can rest easy, discover and plan with peace of mind.
Website: www.smartnomad.com
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1510967577
Experience video: about.smartnomad.com

We have 26 worldwide destinations currently. Very soon, we will be very adding a lot more of domestic destinations (for US-based travelers) to help boost local and domestic tourism, while many international borders remain unfortunately closed.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
To put some context on "his cell, which was often freezing, was too cold", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Joux shows that the fort is on the other side of the border from "the Siberia of Switzerland", where they say temperatures can descend to -40.

(-40 C or -40 F, it doesn't matter. 233 K)

also occurred in the area: the Bourbaki Army asylum at the end of the Franco-Prussian war. https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/article/othe...
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> because it is a terrible job

Well, you're right, but 18-year-old high school graduates don't know that, at least not yet. That's not what's driving them in selecting a major (or skipping college entirely).
You seem to be assuming that your experience is universal.
What the hell? How did you respond to that?
I suspect it's not going to be much longer
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What's debatable, that the Java version of Minecraft had terrible performance or that the console ports are not written in Java?

About your other question: I only mentioned Minecraft.
I have never had a problem getting partial to full refunds on Ali Express. Even if I never got a refund though, I think I would still come out ahead due to how much lower the prices are.

Break even, assuming you could never get a refund, would be if the failure rate and average discount were the same. My experience is that the discount is >60% and failure rate is <15%.
I just remembered something. There is a drug called ivermectin. In my opinion it is a wonder drug. Recently heard it stops corona in its tracks.

There is a back story. Back in the day, I was living next to a guy who had horses and got bitten by a horsefly. Nasty as nasty sounds. I was also afraid if it had laid eggs under my skin. Then one night I had cold sweat!

Thought, this is it. I mean, this can only be that! Did some research furiously about the whole horsefly thing. Then I found, the horses are given something called ivermectin orally to protect from these guys.

So got hold of horse ivermectin (apple flavour) on Amazon and ate the tube for a week. Yeah..

It took out various other stuff of minor glitches and itches from my body.

I follow this ever since.

They are trialling this for eczema, atopic dermatitis, scabies, you name it.. they got you covered.

Just wanted to share the story, that's all.
for memory remapping hacks to be worthwhile, the vector needs to be huge, so I doubt it is often enough a win to be suitable for a general purpose library.

The reason for realloc is that often an allocator can extend an existing allocation in place if the next block is free (and this can be done without syscalls). As you described, except for trivially copyable objects though, realloc doesn't really work in C++, so a better allocator interface for C++ would be a try_realloc that would attempt to reallocate in place but do nothing on failure. Unfortunately most system allocators do not provide it [1] so it is kind of a catch-22 and most proposals never made it into the standard.

[1] jmalloc does provide xallocx that only reallocates in place though.
that was the exact thing that caused me to start using netflix - i used to spend so much time on cable browsing channels, only to realize i spent 30+min doing that

now the same thing is happening with netflix. i'm not sure if it's that the selection has greatly diminished, or if it's the algos (hbo max suggestions are pretty good imo)

i think the smartest thing these services do is allow you to share accounts. i would have canceled a while back but my family is using it too
Oh, in fact it's much simpler than MicroUSB. There is special type of USB Type C used for charging - https://en.ovcharov.me/uploads/2020/04/06/20200404_092055.jp...

It has only six huge pads and can be soldered either with hot air or normal soldering iron as a charm.
That's a big leap - is it supported by anything?

Primary school teaching and nursing are low status professions, and they're both dominated by women. If you're going to try and explain gender imbalances exclusively via reference to status you need to explain why it's not universally predictive.

Lots of people have spent lots of time looking at this. What's predictive is working with systems vs people. Jobs that involve tinkering with machines all day = men. Jobs that involve people and especially with a caring aspect to it = women. Finance is largely about abstract "machines" like markets, where you never see the faces of the people you're trading with = men.

Not many jobs are totally balanced 50/50 men/women, but those that are tend to be perceived as having a blend of systems/people work e.g. sales (where sales includes jobs like tele-sales or travelling sales).
Hey I'm working on this too! Nothing to show off yet except for this fun animation I made when playing with the core engine: https://imgur.com/a/ELhwWo5.

Some existing projects you may want to check out:

* http://data-illustrator.com/ (dead?)

* https://charticulator.com/ (was dead, looks slightly alive now)

* http://ddg.namwkim.org/ (dead?)

My inspiration came from Bret Victor's Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (1). Though I'm taking a slightly different approach. Brett’s data is declarative, but drawing is procedural (in steps) where mine is all declarative. I think Brett's approach is more powerful but doesn't lend itself as nicely to normal vector drawing UX.

1: http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
I loved the knots book. It turned me on to Clifford Ashley, and also got me questioning the gospel according to Boy Scouts. BSA taught me that the square knot was some kind of lifesaver, and here Klutz was telling me it was the worst knot ever.

It's a small thing, but that was kind of a big moment for me in terms of developing my critical thinking.

Also taught me the constrictor knot, which I have used instead of the clove hitch ever since.
> Products from Aliexpress only obey Chinese standards,

Not necessarily... In cases something s not marketed for the domestic market, Chinese electrical (and many others) standards do not apply.

And it is not something given even if they were...
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Do we know it’s not there already? Can’t quickly find any installs count.
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If you are interested in learning animation as a hobby, and would like a community to contribute to and learn from - consider joining Anim8 (https://anim8.io).

We are the largest group of hobby animators on the web, and host collaborations, competitions, etc. on an ongoing basis.

We use some of our funding to build free educational content as well which can be found at (https://blog.anim8.io).

We also have a great Discord full of beginner animators as well as pros
>Haitian Revolution, which was a genocide against all whites on the island, including white abolitionists who were fighting alongside the enslaved.

Not correct, the Polish that allied with the enslaved Haitains and fought off the French were given an honorary black card and Haitian citizenship but were still very much white.

Poland is also home to one of the oldest Black Madonna paintings which signals the strong ties between the Virgin Mary/Jesus and Egypt's Isis/Horus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians
Pretty dumb move in some ways tbh. WeChat is used by a lot of folks in the business community to sell goods to Chinese customers.

As for TikTok - I read an article that claimed they have some suspicious spyware-like features but I suspect it's no worse than Google or Facebook. Also from what I understand these may be for crash dumps / optimization reasons. I guess you'd have to trust the folks collecting it to not do nefarious things with it, so there's that.
Sounds about right, also is to notice earlier the better
also the quality of blurays is still way better - during this shelter in place i've started buying some and really like it
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Hello @zookatron,

I'm with the product team at Prisma, currently focusing on migrations.

Your point is valid, hence delivering a production-ready solution for migrations is one of our top priorities.

However, as my colleague @nikolasburk shared above, you can use a third-party migration system (knex, node-pg-migrate, e al) with Prisma and still get all the benefits of Prisma Client.

Prisma is designed to be more powerful if you are using the entire toolkit, but we also want to make it easy to use just specific tools within the kit, if that is what works well for your project.

Feel free to follow along or check us out again in a few months and hopefully by then our migration system will no longer be any kind of friction point. :)
> On the other hand, everyone respects the like of Margaret Atwood, JK Rowling, or Barack Obama.

Caring about what everyone else thinks is a sure way to be miserable in life... The masses in general are poorly informed and understand nearly nothing out of the world that surrounds them, it's no wonder they give more respect to the author of the book that they liked or to an insanely hyped president than to someone who made a big contribution to technological progress. In other words - do good work, but don't expect people to praise you for it. It's perhaps good enough if they don't burn you at the stake...
Only tangentially related, but my favorite place to browse during undergrad was the sorting shelves at the university library (which were publicly accessible, though not advertised). When books were returned they were sorted there before being sent out to be reshelved across the library[1], so it was a daily snapshot of what books the university community thought were worth reading. I picked up a number of books there that I never would have seen otherwise.

Unfortunately when I went to graduate school the sorting shelves were hidden behind the circulation desk.

[1] Unless there was a hold on the book, in which case it would be kept at the circulation desk--so the most popular books never made it to the sorting shelves.
EnvOne: Relief from messing with your Node.js environments
EnvOne is a zero-dependency module that loads dynamic environment configurations from a .env.config file, and process it as environment variables into process.env.
I understand what you're saying, what I intended was that our population size is not as impressive as some other countries which do not boast our influence, and therefore is not a useful predictor of influence as the parent implies.

I would not say that we have influence that is in proportion to our size. Would you?

I would argue we're probably in the top 10 influential countries list, if not top 5, we overwhelmingly got our way when we were in the EU so we had quite significant amounts of influence there too which gave us even more power on the world stage, certainly not '21st'.
I'd say one every couple of years.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/ has great documentation on that topic, including more examples.
It's not true, you are just overgeneralizing your personal opinion on what is interesting as if everyone should feel the same way. Other people might disagree and find it interesting to discuss for whatever reason, even without original poster defending his ideas, maybe it can serve as a gateway to go deeper into the topic and make it interesting even for you, while you think calling it shitposting is ok.
I've had this conversation before and no one has been able to defend their position outside of "there's a book with this title" or "but weed though".

Even looking at the reviews of that book, it seems like the author doesn't even argue the title. It's just specific cases of people getting screwed over in court. (Which of course happens, I'm not arguing against that.)
Even in more mundane settings, the status of computer scientists is usually negative. For example, if a random acquaintance asks what you do, you'd be better off telling them you're homeless or unemployed than to admit you're a software engineer.
There's a Barnes & Noble in my town that's still open and does pretty good business considering it's the only one for hundreds of miles, and yeah, it's fun to browse through.

I buy almost nothing from there, though, except for the occasional gift. It's hard to come up with a good excuse to buy physical books for everyday reading when e-ink exists for reasonable prices with none of the storage concerns.
Yeah, I read it when I was going through my barefoot phase. It's a good story overall but I am far less convinced of the barefoot movement these days than I was ten or so years a when I read it.
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> they didnt care about your background

Actually my anecdotal observation is that it's a little bit worse than that: they rank CS graduates from the top-10 schools at the very top, the next tier are the "gritty, self-taught boot-camp graduates" and after that are the graduates from any of the other thousands of universities. So if you don't get into MIT or CMU, you're actually better off skipping college entirely, at least if you're considering programming.
How big was tiktok in India anyway?
Go to a shop that sells antiques.
I was hoping to see this here...there is a modern remake of the poolside photo at the end of the video, too :-)
> However, Mr. Sullivan is clearly taking the law into his own hands (even if that law is in another country)

FTA: "Romanian authorities refused to address the problem."

Law is a social construct. If the law does not or will not address material interpersonal harm, taking matters into your own hands is less being a vigilante than it is creative problem-solving.
I think bookstores suffer from the current literary zeitgeist. Consider of the best 10,000 books ever printed, what percentage where printed in the last 3 years? Stores need novelty to sell books which seriously compromises quality.
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> working in a cubical

Oh, if only...
I have one of these... it needs to be re-greased, since it's currently making lots of noise when raising and lowering. It would also be vastly improved by implementing acceleration instead of just starting and stopping its motion at full speed. That's a design decision I completely fail to understand, since it's trivial to do in software on the board.
I do a similar process, but yours sounds better. I literally just Slack myself a list of TODOs at the end of the day, but I sort of want to try your process. Especially with being WFH, it's easier to keep my place in specific apps.

Are there any other things you do to get yourself started in flow?
I have, along with What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. It can be an inspiration to start running or start running longer distances. But beware of the pseudo scientific narrative, don’t take it too seriously :)
Or VSCode or Atom... built on top of Chromium...
Yes, that’s the one.
The same people that don't consider the tech industry professional are the same people that wouldn't hire Tavis Ormandy because he has a tattoo on his lower arm or doesn't wanna wear a suit every day. Yea so I'd rather wait out the boomers and be comfortable.
> Russia has leaked and not come clean before

Russia or the USSR?
Personally, I love reading books, but I find browsing in a bookstore to be a bad way of finding books to read. Most of the information you get about books is their promotional marketing copy, and looking at the cover. Maybe you get a small amount of information that was written by a bookstore employee, for a small subset of the books at the store. That just isn't very high-quality information about the books. It isn't a great way to absorb information about books.

Far better is reading things online that are written about books. Find someone you respect who recommended a list of books, or find a list of award-winning books. Go through that list, and read some other reviews of them. This is more intellectually engaging and interesting than walking through a physical bookstore.

Plus, when you find a book you're excited by, you can get it for your Kindle and start reading it immediately, rather than waiting until later. This means you can get a book that's a perfect fit for your mood when you're reading it.
This is cool, and a little bit bizarre. I feel like it would be a fun experience to be able to view these photos in Three.js
In my school, CSI 2xx was the entry point for majors. There were two courses (Intro and a logic class) with just under 1000 enrolled.

The 3xx entry point class was 400 people, the next 3xx mandatory class was 250 and the 400s were typically 20-50 students.

I think one issue was they didn’t gate by GPA or other metrics. So you had many students who just couldn’t hack the math or didn’t have the drive early in the cycle. That decision tainted the professors... you were an idiot until proven otherwise.

I dual majored in history and it was night and day. Similar workload, but a totally different outlook. I still exchange Christmas cards with a couple of my history professors.
I visited some very similar places in Japan that had the same kind of set up (nice hi-fi, small and tidy bar meant for listening, extensive carefully curated music collections) that were different only in that they played different types of music, and they were full of young people.
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Bluetooth security has always been a mess and even the specification itself has had egregious bugs that almost all devices were and often are still vulnerable to: you can force 8bit symmetric keys if you like: https://knobattack.com

I would never trust any wireless keyboard or mouse on any even marginally important computer. Bluetooth security is a broken mess, and taken together with the mess most bluetooth functionality is (e.g. perpetually broken, laggy, stuttering, forgetful, lofi audio profiles) bluetooth needs to die asap.
If you're in the US and you're looking for movies, Netflix's selection has greatly diminished. Their movie selection peaked about a decade ago and they've lost thousands of titles since then.
I have unusual reading interests and don't normally read best sellers, so I use inter-library loan a lot. I can normally get what I want through that, although sometimes I have to wait a couple of weeks for them to find/ship the book to my library.
General Nakasone is a lifelong intelligence officer with degrees in the field of intelligence, and he’s been in the intelligence and cyber warfare fields for decades.

He’s not a computer scientist, but he’s also not an English teacher they just stuck in charge because he has a star. He’s highly qualified for that job, as are most people who have been assigned there. NSA does a lot of things that are not computer science, and many senior people there do come out of the engineering and CS fields.
> for instance, wealth disparity creates economic vortexes that suck people (women particularly) into unproductive economic outputs, like finance rather than childcare, not to mention a comfortable home life is increasingly out of reach for relatively more and more people. increasing corruption and general unfairness lead people to lose faith and opt out of productive life altogether.

In some places, sure, but certainly not in all, and the correlation holds everywhere. For instance, New Zealand's birth rate is 1.8, and is the worlds's least corrupt country on the perception of corruption index, a much lower GINI coefficient than the US, and much better childcare, mat/pat leave policies and so on. Finland is another example, with a birth rate of 1.49
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This way of thinking presupposes that not being (highly) competent at whatever it is you're doing is losing (or will lead to losing) in some form. Maybe this is true in some environments, but I don't think it's generally true, or particularly valuable life advice.
Yeah personally I wouldn't buy anything that'd be in constant contact with my body or would have non-battery-powered electricity flowing through it.
Hey everyone!

In short, I got frustrated having unproductive meetings for 3 Hours each day

So the team and I created systems to improve our meeting efficiency over the year

We went from 2-3 hours of meetings daily to 10 Mins a day

Here's what we did:

- Daily stand-ups, What was done | What will be done | Blockers
- Aggressive use of loom to record videos and throw questions vs setting up calls
- Build up tasks to achieve OKRS, not just set OKRS with no plan on hitting them
- Call Summary before creating a call, the person wanting a meeting is responsible for setting up the exact agenda
- People can opt-out of meetings after viewing agenda
- 3-4 Minutes before the meeting ends, we summarise what are the outcome is and what needs to be done
- Tasks are allocated and we move on
- Last pain point was dealing with Slack, Google Meets, Trello, Notion

This lead us to build https://remoteworkly.co , a way to get rid of useless meetings and make work fun!

I've productised our approach and I'd love your feedback on what's being built!
You might be remembering this: https://xkcd.com/576/
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Show HN: Cadmus – a real-time microphone noise suppressor for Linux
Many "serious" numerical computations using rationals will quickly have the numerator and/or denominator explode to the point where BigInts are needed, at which point you could just be using a BigFloat.
That's screams incel thinking buddy.
EDIT: flagged? Did I hurt some ones feelings?
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This is a weekend project for me - when I found that Krisp (and hence Discord) wouldn't support Linux, I set out attempting to create a user-friendly GUI which allows you to easily suppress background microphone noise. Do note that this is essentially just a GUI wrapper & nicer usage/installation experience for Werman's noise suppressor plugin for PulseAudio (https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice).