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I'm an academic (post-doc) and while I am about to transition, I've never really worked hard to get an actual tenure track position because honestly I don't want to become a grant writer who does so little actual scientific work, in all honesty. I might have to for my future's stability sake but I've been loathe to. I want to do science, not academia.
There's a lot of variation in even well-intentioned "expert" information out there. And, in any case, people need to make their own risk assessments. I'm not going to tell you that you're not allowed to literally lock yourself in your house. But I'm not going to do so (under my and my location's current conditions).

And not everyone is in a position to independently evaluate from first principles what precautions are appropriate and which are insufficient, unhelpful, or excessive.
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How is that not what happened? Torvalds wrote code, and now he manages other people writing code. He's not a people-manager; he is at least still in a technical role, but he's not a dev anymore.
> I wonder if Twitter is absorbing the small percentage of fools that used to do these things into an endless cycle of nonsense.

Seriously though, Twitter and other social media does make the FBI's job of finding domestic extremists easier.
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Windows Phone had amazing human interface guidelines for hand-held touch devices. I still believe that Live Tiles are unmatched as a home screen pattern.

> The platform provides a rigid design-language, and the individual applications do not deviate from it

The problem here is twofold:

1. Apps actually deviate a lot from the guidelines for their platform. A lot of posts from grumpy.website et al. concern apps (even first-party ones!), not just websites. For instance, title bars that are undraggable/hidden/used as toolbars are a worrying trend.

2. The design language itself may be flawed, so following it blindly would result in a worse UX. (See: Material design and its weird, obnoxious floating button)
- but then you have lightning cables and usb c cables. Yet another connector that's incompatible with everything else!

- [citation needed]. High end android phones with headphone do exist, so you definitely have the choice to support those vendors.

- most

- bluetooth

- f-droid, saving the day yet again.

- the default. You can just enable that without having to do anything shady at all.
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Important to note that the US Agency for Global Media was funding and supporting the Hong Kong protests [1]. China could never get away with doing the same thing in the US.

The fact is that media bubbles are a powerful tool. There is a reason the US / CIA spend so much time/money on projects like Radio Free Asia. If you are on the same side as the CIA and US imperialism, you might want to think about why that is and what kind of harm you are causing with your jingoistic posts. The US media is carefully controlled and an opinion-making bubble of its own. Yes, many Chinese people support their government and it's not because they are duped, actually.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3091438/us-has-...
Well, if they're as good as they claim and you tasked them with solving your sales problems, then I would assume so. That's their job, they sell honest dispassionate advice...
Sure:

https://marginalie.hypotheses.org/181

It's been discussed on HN a couple of times as well (though not that particular link as far as I know).
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It seems like a specific comment is linked. May be change the url to the OP.
NET as well: https://labs.bible.org/api_web_service
Infamously, German minister of defense von der Leyen channelled large sums of money to facilitate nobody knows what. This borderline corruption has been subject to investigation, which unfortunately did not got the attention it should have - because she was promoted away to the EU where she is just doing more of the same.
Meh. "Society" is the mental crutch we all use. We are born and are judged as individuals, achieving greatness or ignobility as we do.

Don't buy into the corporate piffle.
Code comments should explain why a particular piece of code is doing what it's doing right now, and what the expected behavior should be right now. Code should be written so that comments are not necessary at all, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Now, why a particular piece of code came to be, why the code should have this expected behavior, why something is being added or removed or changed, may be unrelated (or unnecessary) to what this particular code is doing.

So there's two kinds of documentation here: 1) "this is what this code does", 2) "here are the series of events that led to this code". You need the former when you are editing code. You need the latter when you are reviewing code for merge, as well as in the future to figure out how the f*!$ this code came to be (which is useful to avoid re-running into a bug, troubleshooting/understanding a legacy system, or removing important code). The latter may also immediately become obsolete the second time the same block of code is edited, so we keep this historic information in e-mail or code commit messages.
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If one wants to build a better world, surely an accurate understanding of the world as it currently exists is a prerequisite.
> Granted the last time I was there was about eight years ago, but taking a bus from Taicang to Kunshan for instance, on the Eastern coast just out of Shanghai, I rode through villages that didn't even have electricity.

Speaking as someone who’s travelled extensively in the region, I’d say you might have been there 28 years ago, not eight. I heard there are still extremely poor villages without electricity scattered in godforsaken places (e.g. deep in mountains), but those tend to be hard to get to in the first place, there’s no way you can simply stroll through one on the way from one city to another.

> even in the cities, is it safe to drink the water yet or use ice cubes? Or are we still having a refreshing cup of boiling hot tea at lunchtime on muggy 35 degree summer days? Is there toilet paper in the public restrooms yet in the tourist districts in Nanjing? Please let me know if things have changed so I can update my image of China that's informed by direct first hand experiences.

People don’t drink tap water afaik. The population in general don’t like cold/icy water anyway, so I was told. I’ve met many people who drink hot/warm water/tea from an insulated water bottle all day, even in the summer. The majority of “water fountains” (for lack of a better word) seem to only serve hot or warm, although there’s no technical reason they can’t serve cold, so I attribute it more to cultural differences. Anyway, I never had problems getting cold drinks myself.

Toilet paper: a (small?) fraction do, you need to bring your own or purchase outside for most. I heard there are initiatives to roll out free toilet paper to more public restrooms.

Anyway, drinking directly from tap or having free toilet paper in public restrooms don’t seem to be necessities, so those don’t contradict gp ether way, while your 1200 BCE claims sound highly dubious to me (I bet I have both longer and more recent experiences than you do, and I’ve travelled to every place you mentioned minus the no-electrcity villages).
A commit message can give you a better understanding of why a line of code is the way it is. It's like a mini README for your commit.

Suppose you're making a change that has a few paragraphs of commit message explaining what you're doing and why. As well as a large well-commented change in a primary file, you've made some small incidental changes to other files. You're not going to include comments with all the context and explanation on each of these small changes.

If I'm looking at one of the files you incidentally touched later and don't understand why your change is there, I can check the git blame and have a good understanding of why the code looks like that now.
Actually plug-in hybrids seem to be the sweet spot, if only I could afford one. I'd probably use it as an EV 95% of the time, charging overnight and driving under 30 miles each day, but still not lose the ability to drive to my family (200+ miles) without long stops for charging.

> And they smell.

Erm?
> SIMON: People need to be careful using the word genocide. Why do you think it's justified and important to use it now?

> ZENZ: I have long argued that the atrocity in the region is a cultural genocide, not a literal genocide. I do continue to believe that, generally speaking, the Chinese government does not intend to physically eradicate the Uighurs and Kazakhs, just to integrate, subjugate, dominate and assimilate them. However, this is coupled with a policy of ethnoracial domination, as the government has brought millions of Han Chinese settler in the regions with promises of high salaries, jobs and free housing.

> The reason why now this has changed - we do need to probably call it a genocide - is quite simply because the evidence now, for the first time, very specifically meets one of the five criteria set forth by the United Nations Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide from 1948, which specifically says the suppression of birth.
Well, good for you. I always wonder what would happen if the Islamic world would go through the equivalent of the enlightenment, I think it would leapfrog the 'west' in a generation or two if it did.
HN has a circuit breaker too; as a thread gets deeper, the "reply" link takes longer to appear, to force a cooldown.
C versions after 89 doesn't bring much to be honest.
So either you want more than what C can offer you, and usually the option is C++, or you're fine with what you have.
It actually is a revelation because Mickinsey invented and perfected this game. They even went as far as offering themselves as scapegoats for the executives that couldn't stomach the guilt.
It is, as you say, not particularly suited for something like an API for verses.
Linus still authors code, just not on the kernel. He still seems pretty active on https://github.com/subsurface/subsurface and even some recent commits into git.
The book has a good intro to their capabilities: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch19-06-macros.html

There are blog posts exploring some of the use cases for them, but it depends a lot on what you want to do.
> Are either of these consultants going to turn down the work and point out the real problem of missing market research?

This comment is extremely real. I was hired as a software engineer for a Big 3 Management Consulting firm that was building out a development lab. Every single time I was brought in on a case, it was clear that the client and the consulting firm simply did not care about things like market research, product market fit, good engineering, or even solving things that were actual problems. The client had paid for us to solve a “problem” they had designed, and whether or not the “problem” was an actual problem worthy of spending millions on a solution, we were going to cut as many corners as possible to make it seem like we “solved” the “problem”

After 18 months, and an insane amount of harassment, degradation, and humiliation for insisting that our organization does the correct thing instead of continuing to swindle the clients, I left, having solved few client problems worth solving.

Consulting firms are full of con-men getting their friends at other companies in on a swindle together.
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Code changes can be spread over multiple files, with comments explaining local logic only, and commit message provides overall background about the goal of this change.
Commit messages can include context outside of the code that would normally be buried and verbose in a comment.
That is disingenuous framing. One does not need to “believe” that the Bible is false, only lack a belief that the Bible is anything other than another book written by humans.

Besides, there are hundreds of religions with their own holy books. Why should I take yours any more seriously than the Bibliotheca or Dianetics?
Have you considered that perhaps you're trying to have your fun at the expense of the maintainability of a shared code base?
Not to sound too snarky, but I would suggest reading some more respected sources before saying "Reza Aslan" and "historical basis" in the same breath.
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So an inversed Dyson bladeless fan.
The level of response is going to depend a lot on the type of call and time of year. Playing a song to a bird that's on territory during the breeding season will often elicit a very aggressive response. Of course, this assumes you're playing a call from the same species. A Song Sparrow likely isn't likely going to care about a White-Crowned Sparrow song, for instance.

One trick birders use to elicit a response from birds is "pishing," [0] which imitates a lot of species scolding calls and gets other birds to come check out the perceived threat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRvdhovTgRo
I think it takes a couple seconds on my Netra 1. Certainly not instantaneous.
Not only that, but the assumptions are poor to begin with. Most skincare products containing sodium hyaluronate are either micronized or in a crosspolymer so that it can penetrate the skin, not HA on its own (something I'd expect a chemist/dermatologist to know). Cursory googling it seems the writer/owner was attaching her name to reddit submissions of scientific articles unrelated to her to game SEO and give her credibility that it it's painfully obvious she doesn't have.
I've been surprised by the absence of discourse about HK on HN over the past week, given the magnitude of what's going on there and its relevance to this forum's interests. Meanwhile, relatively trivial articles are holding the front page for days.
The very first state to secede made it pretty clear what it was all about.

"The declaration stated the primary reasoning behind South Carolina's declaring of secession from the U.S., which was described as "increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Immediate_C...
> commit messages to me are almost as important as the code change itself

This is high on my list of code craftsmanship points. It's very difficult to explain to young programmers who have never worked on an old code base how valuable this is when done well. In fact, often you hear complaints about how a code base "is crap", but more often than not I'd wager this is just a result of the context at the time not being known or appreciated. Frankly, all code we write is heavily governed by context we take for granted at the time, but is in precious short supply 1, 5, 10 years later. If you come back with a different use case later, the original code may very well be unsuited for that purpose. We can argue all day about good judgement and YAGNI, but at the end of the day no one can see all ends, therefore the best we can do is document clearly why we did what we did.

Taking the time to rebase, cleanup, and explain your changes in detail will pay huge dividends for any long-lived project. I've literally had successors write me a thank you note for a commit message from over a decade ago because I take this so seriously.
For UK citizens, there is an open petition to Parliament asking the UK Government to impose sanctions on China as a response: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300146
Sorry, this is not realistic in C. The moment you get the json data, you have to also get the length, or you could not allocate enough memory for it.

Also, number of iterations is not the issue. Length of the input is. What happens if you r json is a few kb, is bigger than l1/l2 cache, ....
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Ah - apologies - I misread you. I'm not sure whether there are any mid-sentence verse breaks in the Old Testament. I'll look!
I assume he's in his current position by choice. He pretty much says so: "It is an interesting job".

He still deals with plenty of code; he just doesn't write original code. Calling it a "managerial or administrative type role" as the previous comment did is somewhat lacking in nuance, IMO.
While I would not go as far to say that having verses in scriptures is a tactic of the devil (note that in the wilderness, Jesus also quotes snippets of scripture back to Satan as a rebuttal), I can see your point that it probably does more harm than good.

I do wish that the standard was to not have verses, and have the verses version be the exception rather than the rule. I can see the benefit of having verses, but I think there is far more benefit from reading scripture as a whole instead.
So, it is cool; let me say that much before I criticize. That said: live resizing a table is a bit of a pain if you're trying to select something (to copy or to highlight it to show someone else). It's like a webpage that moves a link just as you click. Is there any way to fix the width and append only to the end? (Just optionally; I understand why it resizes dynamically by default)
No, really, this is very well-known
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Not sure if I'm more surprised about the support for Cherokee or JSONP.
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The pendulum swings are not the problem. They have been around forever. The problem, on Windows at least, is that they no longer take the time to finish their work, they don’t give developers standard frameworks to gracefully upgrade automatically to new schemes, and they change their minds so often with little warning to developers that devs don’t have time or patience to keep up.

The difference with Apple is that they finish their work, and the pace of change is much slower.
This is the key. I used to be really crabby with our codebase at work, and programming in general, because it was the only thing I developed on.

I have recently adopted a large, sprawling side-project of which I am the sole developer. Having a big space to play in on the side has really helped me keep my interest pure and exciting. Not answering to anyone but myself is easily the best aspect. The codebase is private and no one but me may ever see it.

I am also a lot more pragmatic about the codebase at work, as I am not trying to squeeze in fun/innovative ideas at the expense of productivity or the experience of other teammates. Now, most of my "blue sky" ideas wind up being things for my side project. Feels like I have a pressure relief valve that I can rely on now. There have already been a few cases where I implement a crazy idea on my side project and determine the abstraction is also an excellent fit for something at work. Being able to iterate on these ideas in a completely separate domain from work concerns allows for deep (and enjoyable) refinement without taking the rest of the enterprise for a trip every time.
Did you check out the great content?

...don't leave us hanging.
I would rather say "Listen to all narratives, and continually educate yourself as to who is feeding you reliable information." Otherwise you just end up with different demographics all with their heads in the sand. No progress is ever made without analyzing all the available info, and dropping/replacing sources of unreliable info.
This is what I don't like about open source, it seems to encourage these sort of behaviours.
You’re reading that particular book because you happen to be born into a particular culture in a particular moment in time. It’s not a truth of the universe, it’s an accident of your circumstances.

Just like every other sacred text.
Can’t wait for the flat design trend to return in 4-5 years after this light nudge towards flat + a little depth, leads us right back to yellow legal pads with faux leather binding, but all the elements look flatter.

There’s precious little “new frontier” to chase for 2D screens design. Small touches like expanded drag, swipe, etc would be nice. Designing towards doing not fostering emotional attachment to design. The epistemology has come unhinged from its ontology for wankery of theory sake and here we are looking to escape it. It’s no longer serving the true purpose of the gadget, to do utilitarian work. We’re bored with flat and they need to keep us attached emotionally, so here’s our new season of designs!

I’d prefer we return to utilitarian UI of Win2k, OS9, so I can get a job done and not want to be “in love” with a screen
We don't need to abandon our faith to achieve that. In fact, we already had a golden age[1] where we leapfrogged most civilizations.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
I'm actually genuinely curious if young people have an issue with the floppy disk icon. I feel like at this point it's meant "save" longer than it was actually physically in use.
Where can one learn the art of excellent commit messages and when to rebase, etc?
> how can a repair infringe on a trademark

I generally agree but I can also see apples pov. I’ve purchased quite a few used iPhones online (amazon, eBay stores etc) that are advertised as new or open box. So so frequently they come with terrible third party screens or super cheap replacement parts. If I didn’t have a point of reference I would think iPhones just have terrible screens/crappy switches/speakers etc. Apple is right to want to protect their brand from these hooligans but I think there are far better ways.

I personally think they should let the repair market be but throw an alert in settings and setup that let you know there are fake parts in a device. I’m not sure how feasible that would be butI think it would be more useful and effective than going at it from a legislative angle.
I was about to say, I have no idea what the difference between this idea and some ladder chassis platform was supposed to be. The Ford Panther platform was used on like 8 different models across 3 marques, including a police car.

The thing is companies don't really like using modular chassis like ladders anymore is because anything that can't use the roof for structural support is heavy and flexes like mad.