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> I feel like I am building everything on a foundation of sand at it will need to be rebuilt every 5 years, 10 if you're lucky.

This is exactly how I feel. I'm hoping at some point, the amount of churn will decrease, the community will figure out what problems it actually needs to solve, and come up with standardizedish practices for this. Obviously not all software can fit into this mold, but a lot of it probably can.

To do that I think an important part is it "move fast and break things" to figure out what works and doesn't work in practice (in practice including how to actually manage people to build your software). I do think for that to happen we need to retain more knowledge between generations, I see a lot of rediscovery and reinvention of the wheel.
I used to work with someone whose editor of choice was Epsilon[0]. I've never seen or heard it mentioned anywhere, it never figures in any discussions on technical forums/sites I frequent, but it appears to have a bit of a cult following.

Also, it definitely has the best mascot[1]

[0] https://lugaru.com/

[1] https://lugaru.com/pics/changing.gif
I mean that just doesn't like something that Marks and Spencers (of all places!) would do. They sell cheese from named small farms and things and have done for the last 20 years at least.
Make sure you are tired. No caffiene that day and get up early. I did the sleep test with all the wires and video on me and it did not bother me once I got used to it and realized it was good for me. Also, they have take home sleep tests now so really there's no excuse. It could save your life, please do it!
I perceive FOMO to be a chance to waste time. I miss-out on a billion things per day, I am not reading 10k new articles per day, not playing a million games per day, not eating hundreds of cuisines per day, etc. so I can focus on the 5 articles, and 5 songs, and 3 lunches that I choose to.

If you call that FOMO you are more desperate than you imagine (or probably cannot even imagine) and you will always be chasing something that cannot be caught.

Equality is not achieved by fighting FOMO, but by fighting inequality. Solution (imho) is not to battle 24/7/365, but by picking battles you can win. Yea a government can win far more battles should they want to, and your battle it to be poking them to do so.. but FOMO is irrelevant to the story, just a thing that adds to confusion and, eventually, inaction.
You mean bindings aren't stable and require reworking all the time?
Here's my point of view.

You talk about high calorie, but I never drink sugar stuff there. I only get Americano, so it's unfair to criticize them for things they make available when there's plenty of options if you want to stay healthy. It's your choice, it's not like they only sell unhealthy stuff. Just to be clear, a lot of popular hipster cafes sell sugary stuff too.

Also, their Americano tastes great. In fact I would rate it as one of the top grade even comparing to all the NY & SF hipster coffee stores I frequent.

Next, they are the only ones who provide large sized coffee (Venti) bar none. I drink a lot so I really hope other cafes provide large sized coffee but I have yet to find any non franchise coffee shop which does that. All the hipster coffee shops tend to only serve small sized coffee.

Also, Starbucks gives you infinite refill if you're their gold member, which is pretty easy status to achieve if you're a regular coffee drinker.

Also, Starbucks is the only coffee chain which reliably provides free wifi access. A lot of the local coffee places don't provide wifi at all, or don't like it when you try to use wifi for a long time.

I really want to support "local coffee shops" but all these things keep me from stop going to starbucks.

If I think about it, I go to starbucks about 50% of the time and the rest 50% I go to the other local cafes. But really, they don't give me high enough incentive to go.

This is what capitalism is, Starbucks provides a product which makes the quality of my life higher compared to other local cafes, so I have no way but to go there more often. It has nothing to do with an evil organization depriving the nice local cafes of their opportunity to compete.
> According to UK ONS stats, those adults released from prison, in Jan-Mar 2018, had a reoffending rate of 65%.

So, society has totally failed to rehabilitate people, and when their sentence is served, they have no future and re-offend.

I think that's the problem, not mass surveillance that starts with good intentions and then is turned on your doorstep.

> Most people consider that a huge benefit.

Until it's too late (like HK), then what?
> "To pure mathematics and may it never be of any use to anyone"

That reminds me very much of G. H. Hardy. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy#Pure_mathematics
I didn't really have an epiphany or buy in, I just figured out a way to think about it so I wasn't worrying about verbs all of the time. Purity in all things is a problem, REST included.

One thing that kind of gets you is that HTTP itself is not the best transport for all of these things. If we are talking about something that has to run over HTTP, we might do something like create a run of reports (maybe a POST to reports/run). That could return a list of report_ids that were created and their associated status, with an run_id associated with the collect run. There's no fighting!

However, if you want that data streaming back to you, this is where you might think you want something more like WebSockets. For some use cases, this can be more efficient than having the client polling to see if the result of a long running process is ready. It all depends.

Anyway, not advocating for anything here, just pointing out that I had the same worry about supporting a rich vocabulary of verbs, but then kind of realized it didn't matter because all verbs you want can be nouns. If you are using HTTP though, the REST verbs match up pretty nicely with how the protocol works, so it avoids inventing another abstraction to sit on top of it.
FYI the "California Olive Ranch" after building their reputation now sells blends of domestic and foreign oils the California content of which ranges all the way down to zero. Not much of a surprise really since they sell at a low price into mass markets.
And of course the moderators of such a forum would never lean to one side of neutral and define 'hate' in ways that would benefit them politically! Just like how twitter very fairly enforces the rules against liberals just like it does conservatives! /s
One can never be sure, but from all the evidence it looks like that if there was a designer, they weren't operating at this level, so the parents point is unaffected by this concern.
Gab is a racist cesspool. If I was Visa, I wouldn't want to be associated with them in any fashion either.
> shouldn't the governments provide an alternative for businesses

There is: cash.
If you know Golden Guy (Burning Man camp), this seems straight up the kind of thing that should be there. (I already posted it to the Golden Guy FB group).

And yea it's a takeoff on Golden Gai.
I would love to visit some of these if travel ever becomes possible again... Although, you know it always seems a little intimidating to wander as a stranger into a very specialized, private bar or restaurant in Japan, and if not speaking Japanese (but that's a different topic).

I came across an episode of "Japanology" on Youtube about cafes (which is a surprisingly interesting series produced by NHK -- each episode has a generally heart-warming or touching twist to the general theme it covers). And the ending is exactly about a jazz cafe that closed but was brought back for 2 weeks by its loyal fans some years later. I imagine some of the ones described here are in the same boat.

https://youtu.be/UF0dnPwqXqY?t=1326
Thanks for the suggestion—just added this, along with a few other tweaks.
True REST API is hypermedia API and it is actually great for SPAs. It is more convenient than hardwired RPC, simplifies frontend architecture and offers much better approach to security (client does not care about security model implemented on server).
Among the top 20 countries with the most new cases at the moment, other than South Africa, Russia, and the US, they seem to all be developing countries outside Africa.

So if African countries in general have had a good response, I wonder why it's spreading so rapidly in countries like India, Mexico, Chile, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Peru, Colombia, Iran, etc...do they not respect the power of a pathogen?
How to manage a bare metal server running CentOS automatically:

Add this cron job:

yum -y update
Also, since the various web archives are getting shut down soon, it'd be great if such extensions could locally and securely preserve pages much like an archival crawler does it, or better yet create a distributed archive that's impossible to shut down or censor. Better yet still if there's local, language-aware index over such pages so that I could search them easily, without Google deciding what I should and should not see.
Or, a little over 5 every 6 days.
> It's analogous to how soy milk isn't meant to be indistinguishable from dairy milk but instead to be usable in place of dairy milk in coffee, cereal, etc.

Unrelated, but why is it American's treat soy milk this way? American brands of soy milk are terrible, while Asian brands of soy milk can taste really good.
Just a note that TortoiseGit is Windows only.
Ok, so I'll take you up on the challenge with MINT:
Gem and Tos weren't really developed much by Atari, but they did buy in MINT which has preemptive multi tasking and memory protection. With the Aes being retargetable (graphic cards), gdos vector fonts and postscript printing, tcp and lan networking stacks, shell, global shortcut system, posix compatibility and multi-user capabilities, it managed to evolve Tos to something quite modern!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT
Serious question: what city and what year?
There's a difference between "bad scientific position" and "not a scientific position", and "sex change is impossible" is squarely in the latter, IMO.
Yeah I've had good luck with Best Buy.
I use Jed.
Everyone is fragile. There is no "master race" which is immune to negative emotions.
Obviously, this "pause" hasn't begun yet. I got a fresh sponsored post from Starbucks on my Facebook feed 2 minutes ago. The article didn't give a start date. Does anyone know more?
Proof that it actually happened? All I see is empty speculation. Given the usual disingenuous postings by Andrew Torba I am not inclined to believe him.
GCC has had at least some of this for a while -- see references to "-isystem" at
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Directory-Options.html
exactly, so why believe climate models? They are biased one way or the other?
It would be nice to see the top comments expressed, too.

Like this https://unim.press/#LOLHackerNews
From what I understand, it is because a couple years ago the crop of California olives was devastated, so they started selling blends.

It looks like they are back to selling 100% California sourced olive oil, but the "Destination" series remains. At least it is all clearly labeled, but that doesn't mean much without ongoing third party testing as to the contents.
So happy to see this on the front page while assange news gets flagged and vote brigaded.

So stunning, so brave.
Why is this so hard to understand?

“that although states have broad power to regulate economic activities...”

The first amendment is binding to the states and federal government not a private business.
> particle physicists should focus on developing new technologies that could bring colliders back in a reasonable price range and hold off digging more tunnels

People keeping saying this, but we haven't been permitted to dig a single new tunnel since 1983. Multiple proposed colliders have been shot down, with the US's attempt defunded in the middle of construction. The LHC doesn't even have its own tunnel; it was put in the 1983 tunnel to save money. To save more money, the LHC is going to run for another 20 years, so any future collider's tunnel won't be dug until 2040 at the earliest.

That is a nearly 60 year gap between new tunnels, which I find incredibly depressing. What I find almost incomprehensible, though, is that the people who successfully argued to defund earlier proposed colliders now argue to defund the next one on the basis that our field is progressing slowly! I wonder why that is?
IANA expert, but...

As far as conceiving the attack, you would just need to "think outside the box", as much as I hate that expression. These attacks are derived from someone thinking "Huh, I wonder if this would work" about some crazy idea, and then trying it out.

As far as execution, if I were running this attack I would probably set up a site like [1] (No endorsement, this is just the first thing that popped up in a search). I would take peoples pictures, spit out their favicon, along with the JS embedded in the exif data. They would then put it on their site, and wind up serving it to their customers.

[1] https://www.favicon-generator.org/

edit: forgot to actually link the site.
There are plenty of startups providing useful functions and technical progress. They are almost universally underfunded. The money goes mostly to what you describe, especially the unicorn chasing money. Unicorns, or at least the ones that post date the coining of that word, are mostly gambling vehicles.
The URL to the dissertation in that article says "2up" in it, so I took it off and yes indeed, there is a 1-up (not two pages side by side) version of the PDF

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding...
Just to brainstorm a bit, could one build a space-based collider at some point? Or lunar based?

Certainly there are power requirements, but that is solvable. Same for structural rigidity, etc.

Would there be any advantages of such a thing?
Quick S-1 Teardown: nCino
Yes. It worked fine for me and appeared to help a lot, though with a sample of 1 it’s hard to say. I can say that reducing (but nowhere near eliminating…) stress and using SleepGuard ended nighttime grinding many years ago and that SG reliably beeped anytime mouth tension occurred. Arguably the root cause was a bad bite, which I later fixed with Invisalign.

For OP, I’d definitely recommend at least trying it. I’d also suggest a taking a 1-2 month mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) class. Finally, if you get a night guard, try to get it from an orthodontist rather than a dentist. They take much more accurate impressions (often 3D scans now), know more about jaw mechanics, and may have access to more guard/retainer materials (like clear plastic liners).
The Restlessness of Gerhard Richter
That's an archive of the now-late Michael Kaplan's excellent blog by someone else.
Not a facetious question, but what is the purpose of the tunnel? To protect the infrastructure of the collider?
I'm interested in the managed DB part of this writeup, specifically that OP chose Lightsail. The last time I looked into it, Lightsail was MySQL only, so that was good to know.

I wrote a PostgreSQL DBaaS Calculator that got some traction here a while ago, and I just updated it this evening to add Lightsail to see how it stacks up: https://barnabas.me/articles/postgres-dbaas.html#calculator

No surprise, Lightsail is similar pricing to RDS with a 1-year commitment, but it's month-to-month. It's a pretty good deal until you need more than 8 GB memory, 240 GB storage, 2 cores ($115/month Standard plan). But Azure or AWS RDS are the ones to beat.
Just made some tweaks to the stylesheet, how does it look now?
Many of IBM's early mainframes could only read 72 columns from a punch card, which is why Fortran (and I assume COBOL) only used 72 columns. Specifically, the IBM 704 was a 36-bit machine and read punch cards one row at a time, filling two 36-bit words. There was a wiring panel that let you select any 72 columns to read, but obviously using the first 72 columns was most sensible.

If you punched sequence numbers in the ignored columns 73-80, you could use an electromechanical card sorter to put the cards back in order if you dropped them.
After some reflection, I was actually thinking we should maybe use base 100!π³ just in case people end up working with spherical volumes. Open to suggestions.
To go with that, you need ln(1+x). HP calculators had both.
Personally, I'm using mosh inside of WSL using wsltty for the terminal itself. It works well.
Yes, again I’m not sure. Could have been Sainsbury’s or Tesco - I’m more trying to remember the colors of the signs and the shops I used to visit than anything else.
Looked it up finally, I agree. It's why we have steering wheels instead of joysticks (except for the people who have a leg-related disability, they've been driving with joysticks for like 100 years).
Perhaps you could consider hosting redis on lightsail? It might be the cheapest memory option within AWS (so traffic is free and fast). But it sounds like you're trying to use it as a database? I'll still go with managed MySQL/postgres - you can use the database's backup and restore abilities top switch providers fairly seamlessly- I have done it from gcp to AWS. Which is why I suck it up to RDS.
if that were true, the switch to online advertisement should have led to increased consumption/sales per person compared to previous decades, but that's not happened
> Some linear accelerator concepts could be much less expensive than very large circular colliders, but I imagine research into those areas are not funded due to the particle physics budget being mostly consumed by CERN.

That's not true; CERN has no particular commitment to circular colliders. Scientists from CERN have proposed linear colliders, along with more exotic options like muon colliders.
I'm unsure, the only contradictory point to my proposition was that there was no designer.

"in biology nothing is private or even in a class because in biology there is no designer, so there is no need for encapsulation."

How can the point be unaffected if you are rightly saying the point is in question?

Are we on the same level as the implementation when we write our classes?
I would say the key difference between DARPA funding and other research functing is that DARPA PMs have a crystal clear map of the leading edge in a field that's ready for advancement and can target it perfectly with both money and real competition.
If somebody is a solo developer working on a huge project, it would be lovely if the software lasted... but the big fear is that it won't get users. Can't really spare the time to worry about 10 years from now when you are thinking about how you have to get a regular job if you can't get X users in the next 6 months
I think what would set this collection apart more is actual standout slides and designs that were used to explain something or get something remarkable accomplished. See the books of Edward Tufte, for example. What are some of the best slides ever? That's what will keep people coming back.

Of course, that is a much harder thing to assemble than a collection of blank slide templates. A collection of templates will just be another website that some people visit once and then probably not visit again...

Best of luck!
Actually the way it usually works is a voting system, where if one component disagrees, and two agree, the majority vote is upheld.
Proper REST is quite hard concept. I think that people just extract key useful features and use those. For me REST is HTTP + JSON + particular URL convention + using HTTP features as much as possible (e.g. use standard HTTP headers instead of custom response fields). But features like URL discovery: I never understood why someone would do that. API is consumed by code, not by people or AI. URL discovery would be useful for protocol without documentation, but that's hardly a useful replacement, just write a documentation.
creating fusion with sound waves (or shock waves, which is essentially what sound becomes at high enough energy) is one of the crazier ideas I've heard..
It's a good argument, however I think it's pretty clear to a lot of people that today's issues (e.g., climate change) are indeed real and indeed important.

But to your question of why to spend on them, it's because it's going to cost us a lot more (and not just money) down the line if we don't address it.
Not sure how useful that save thing is in practice. Great for dragging into other apps, but to save to disk you still had to navigate through the filesystem anyway, just outside of the application.
This was immediately flagged too, so if you were hoping for consistency: good news! If you were hoping for open discussion: not so much.
Your natural actions are based off your identity. Your identity is based off your actions and your environment.

The most effective way to change your motivation level is to change your identity. Forcing yourself to be motivated drains your willpower and is ineffective - it's sort of like a CEO yelling at sales to sell more. The most efficient motivation programs succeed by getting you to change who you are by the end of the session. Faking it before you make it is a good way to do so, because your identity is shaped by your actions.

For example, instead of motivating yourself to exercise, you adopt the identity of an attractive person. If your body goes out of shape, your mind takes action to fix it. Instead of scheduling time for gym, you just sneak time off to go there and schedule time for other things.
I, for one, welcome our payment processing overlords. I mean, they agree with me in this specific case, so what could go wrong!
I second micro. It has become my default console editor on both Windows and Linux for quick editing tasks.
That guest post was by the same author as the linked post. In fact, the linked post is also present in your link, linked in the first sentence.
White Fragility is a Kafkatrap. Further, Robin DiAngelo is actively encouraging whites to view themselves as a unified collective without a moment's thought as to how reviving this scientifically asinine and historically disastrous idea could backfire.
Airbnb layoffs expose inequities in a two-tiered workforce
Same here. You could open up application bundles and inspect and modify the contents. You could even turn a folder into an executable and run a script whenever anyone tried to open it.

I had hours of fun on the school computers making weird stuff happen whenever anyone tried to open an application or access their documents folder.

Being able to drop into a BASIC shell at any point by hitting F12 was cool too.
What exactly is a "typical Hossenfelder"? Can you explain beyond the offhand personal slight comment?
Yeah how's that work? I have an older 3B which I'm not using right now (4 4gb replaced it) and I might try it. Maybe I should blog it and put it up on HN.
After all these years of complete REST/HATEOAS bullshit, finally, someone has the courage to say things like they really are. SOAP did nothing wrong.

Fielding's paper was never meant for webapp developers.
NYT is much more readable with JS blocked :)
The strange part of this article is that it seems the author hasn't tasted any good English cheddar? Most of the cheese sold as cheddar bears absolutely no resemblance to cheddar, generally being flexible and springy with hardly more taste than the polyethylene wrapper.
what did the interconnection between the dedicated servers cost?
in the past, there was no vlan support, i.e. you need to buy the interconnection, which was not cheap.
Just jumping into to say I am loving the article, thanks! I'm dealing with a lot of exps in an optimization problem right now and frankly only have cursory understanding of what's going on under the hood so this was very enlightening for me. Thanks again.
Antifragile Software?