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The answer to that question is the answer to the critical question “Can we use solar to help replace oil, natural gas, and coal.” That’s really a different thing that what this article talks about. This article is about how solar can help people and the economy today.

The main purpose is the article is the show the afghan farmers thriving with solar but doing so by exporting a product that is considered very harmful to the rest of the world. It’s thrilling, captures attention, is topical, and has more substance than your average clickbait.
> which is antithetical to software engineering where a new framework is out every day.

... In some fields of software engineering!

There is a whole world of Software Engineering outside Web/Infrastructure. There are plenty of Software Engineering fields out there where slow changing standards and toolchain reliability are considered a valued feature.

That said I don't disagree with the need for self-study in Software Engineering, I just disagree that this need originates from some issue with the high churning of languages/tools/frameworks(which is local to Web/Infrastructure)
I was working on a compiler for money during my first weeks of university (last year) and if I'm being honest it nearly ruined my entire year because I was completely on the back foot socially.

Combine that with a catastrophic sleep problem and you're in a rough time, in my case.
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The language is ... inflammatory?

All pension benefits in well-operated schemes are, by definition, pre-funded. You can't have a pay-as-you-go type of system because, if your company went bankrupt tomorrow, you might have retirees that still have a life expectancy in the decades.

You get an actuary to look at your current and future obligations based on your workforce, schedule of entitlements etc. and they work out how much you need to contribute to the scheme today to make sure that it is funded. The idea is that some disaster could befall your company at any time and retirees would not be out of pocket.

This is what pre-funded means. It doesn't mean "when I join the USPS at age 21 they have to assume I'm going to retire with 40 years of service and immediately put aside cash for that".

Now, typically, retiree health benefits are not included in this setup because they're not guaranteed. i.e. there is nothing in the law that requires them to be maintained.

On the other hand, the USPS is required to provide those retiree health benefits. It can't stop paying them unless Congress passes a law. It does at least seem consistent with the treatment of pension benefits on this basis.
English is exceptionally beautiful. And I hate it.
Tbh I've been wondering about what removing downvotes altogether would do. I imagine without a low effort way to attack the post, many people would simply ignore and move on. Some would probably engage in discussion, which could lead to either good (or neutral) discussion or bad discussion full of irrelevant attacks and trolling, but that's easy to take care of.
Remember in the 90's when everyone thought Bill Gates was terrible and now everyone views have tempered to view Bill as a really smart savvy businessman.

I don't think the same fate is in store for Zuck. I believe history will judge him harshly. Mostly because he's damaging children more than anyone else.
What happens when these self-hosted crawlers access illegal content in one's country?
It's optional for the caller, but not for the callee. I think the controversy centers around two things:

a) Specific to this feature: For library maintainers, this means that argument names are now part of the public API, whether I like it or not, and renaming a parameter from $orderBy to $sortBy is now technically a breaking change. Yeah, you can put something in the readme saying "Heads up: I don't support named arguments and intend to rename arguments in semver-minor releases", but should you need to do that?

b) General to all new PHP features: PHP is a great language, with lots of crap code written in it. Will this feature result in people writing better or worse code? Just because something is optional doesn't mean it's a good idea, if it will result in the overall code quality of the ecosystem to get worse. Some people think that named arguments will make it too easy to create monster functions with too many parameters.

I personally support (aka am DELIGHTED by) named arguments, but I'm sympathetic to the concerns of library maintainers and I don't see a better way around it than a remark in the readme (at least until/unless they introduce e.g. a @@NoNamedArguments annotation in PHP 8.1). And I think that the benefits of named arguments far surpass the risk that they encourage people to create methods with too many arguments. But I can see both arguments.
You're sidestepping the broken ketone metabolism that we know about in tumors.

But anyway, your point about causation, that's why I said originally that it depends on your definition of causal here.

We absolutely know that low carb and fasting leads to better outcomes. I'm not saying glucose magically turns cells cancerous, but it is the fuel - the only fuel - they can use. So in a sense our massive use of sugar is causal.

There's even historical accounts of introducing sugar to cancer-free populations and they all get diabetes, cancer and bad teeth. See

https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-disease-civilization-anthropol...

For a great example.
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Anecdotally I don’t believe dual licensing is viable for smaller projects. There simply aren’t enough companies that care about your license to make it a reliable business model.

This is something I explored initially for Oban[0] and I interviewed a few successful OSS product owners. They attributed zero sales to licensing. All sales were driven by features that a business needed once they had already invested in the core project.

[0] https://getoban.pro
Can you explain this a bit more? What do you mean they don't contribute on time?
>>"The companies also hope that new technology could dispel negative stereotypes of the industry among younger generations, encouraging more people to work in construction."

Excellent - integrate high technology and make it cool - all kinds of nice second-order effects
I do this all the time, but it feels wrong... and you don't get type checking, this feels like it makes more sense and logical.
I’d like to engage with the content of this peice, rather than share my ignorance of history and empire. So some observations / questions:

1. Its clear to me that the decades long trend of militarizing police exemplifies the author’s idea of the frontier returning to the imperial core.

2. What is the EU in this context?

3. American civilization has transformed in admirable ways away from reprehensible practices in the past, I don’t think trend extrapolation will accurately forecast the future.

4. The War on Terror has been a fiasco.
Source Available[0] is a model, and it's fine, but it's proprietary software, not Open Source. I really wish people would stop inventing new terms for this or pretending that it's still "open source"; there's nothing wrong with writing proprietary software, just don't pretend that you're doing something else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
> If immigrant populations in large cities forming racial enclaves and ghettos

This is a very... loaded way of talking about cultural precincts.

I've lived in the most multi-cultural city in Australia, and in one of the least, and I much prefer the diversity of the former. I love having a Chinatown that has legitimately maintained aspects of Chinese culture, and other Asian cultures, for example. The Chinatown in my previous city was essentially a cardboard prop in comparison.

In general, I think you may be confused. It seems that what you really care about is collective ethics and social contracts, and yet what you seem to be talking about is this vague idea of "assimilation". I find it hard to believe that you really want a perfectly homogeneous culture, but if you do, fair enough. I think most disagree with you - cities that have a bunch of legit cultural precincts are generally more interesting to me. I don't know how to say it exactly, but to me a monoculture city feels a little "boring" in comparison. This is, of course, just opinion.

If you happen to think that immigrants are statistically more associated with crime, then, in general, you're mistaken[0]. Foreign-born residents are generally underrepresented in prison populations, and studies I've read suggest that it takes around 3 generations for crime rates of immigrants to reach that of the native population.

[0] "Most studies in the U.S. have found lower crime rates among immigrants than among non-immigrants, and that higher concentrations of immigrants are associated with lower crime rates. For men between the ages of 18 and 39, the demographic with the highest propensity for crime, the incarceration rate for immigrants is one-fourth that of native-born Americans." Data with citations on more countries here --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime
I think some older devs would rather leave the corporate world because they can do better work and be happier on their own projects or freelancing.
You probably won't, but lets compare with current big car bills.

Current Tesla battery cost 75 kwh * 130 $/kwh = $9,750 to Tesla or $16k for end user. It's likely to reach $5k eventually. Wrecked ones cost close to that.

Used 12 year old car cost like 5k for budget, 10k for SUV? What's a thing that I'd bother to replacing on my 10 year old car that cost half the car? IDK probably gearbox or whole engine would cost that. I'd probably go for it if I knew it would last another 10 years.
What will you do for income when you’re too old to get a job in IT?
Thing is: it's not fiction.
Type annotations aren't entirely optional, though. For example, they're required if you want to use data classes.

Even if they were optional, that would still be a problem. As above, too many optional features are turning Python into a "choose your own subset" language like C++.
I don’t follow the argument. Are you claiming that you can’t benefit from the postal service unless you personally pay for it?

- I get important documents (mail) all the time that I didn’t pay for.

- The postal service can also be used by millions of people at the same time. It happens every day.

Sounds like we agree that postal service is a public good.
My perspective, as an older developer (I'm 54):

- I love coding, and I still code every day. I have no desire to move into other roles (such as management).

- As for job security, I think it is harder to find a job as a manager than as a developer, simply because there are many more positions for developers than for managers

- Family-wise, it is much easier at my age, because my children are getting into their twenties now. Much more free time for me (including for work if I want), compared to when they were younger and need lots more attention (and being picked up from daycare)

- As for learning - that's one of the attractions of being a developer. There are always new things to take in, it never gets boring

- On the other hand, even if some things in programming are fleeting (the currently popular frameworks etc), there is a core of fundamental knowledge that you gain over the course of your career that will always apply.
But how many applications of soldiers overseas are there other than in the advancement of imperial aims? Dubious peace keeping claims? I understand this is a very subjective topic, but its at least understandable that someone should make this connection.

I read the article as arguing that the USA is an empire, and as such its soldiers are overseas furthering those imperial aims. So in that sense it is the imperial ventures that are creating the vets who need to be managed at home.
How can something that you claim is unmeasurable possibly be clear enough to pass such judgment on? You're not making sense.

>First of all I'm not an American.

I'd like to know what then qualifies you to make these statements. With this:

>That a black family(which you indirectly compare to a low cast family in India, which I don't agree with. But that's beside the point.) can be in the top quintile already means that the situation in America is vastly better then in India.

you're revealing a poor understanding of racial and social dynamics in America. Perhaps of India, too; there are Dalit millionaires, after all.
Then why are you building it on the public internet?
Your argument persuaded me, but the content of the article can be seen in a different thought still relevant lens - a misplaced analogy drawing attention to the fact that the United States has rapidly decaying political institutions (the Congress has lost all respect if I recall the polling data, the office of president isn't doing great and the mob justice style of the internet will eventually start clashing with the judiciary).

This is an excellent time to start looking at the circumstances of combat veterans and making sure they don't have an incentive to get involved in trouble. The US political infrastructure is vulnerable and nobody is proposing anything better. That suggests things will get worse if it gives way.
This is actually something that I'm still trying to figure out, and hopefully can be improved in the future. Maybe you can help me out:

So, the problem we'd like to solve is what set of 250 or so cards has the highest predictive value in that similar answers lead to the best interpersonal matches?

The problem with hobbies is that there are so many of them and not many people feel very strongly one way or the other about many of them. You probably wouldn't not give someone a chance just because they prefer ping pong to pool, for example. Rather, I was looking for what might be deal-breakers.

The Interests page and tagging in general is what I am hoping will fill that need of specifying your individual interests and matching based on them. Here is where you can tag yourself with whatever you'd like and then search for users and posts based on these tags. The card swiping's function is mostly just a first-pass elimination filter.

I had the thought of perhaps doing categories instead with regard to cards. For example, sense of humor is often very important in people. Perhaps 50 of the cards should be memes? And then perhaps 50 of the cards be political, 50 of the cards be hobbies, etc.? Or perhaps there could be multiple similarity percentages, each of a different category? It's still very experimental and I'm not sure what the correct path is.
What you're describing is what I sold the company on last year (save Letsencrypt, that's weird but whatever).

We only use terraform for the initial burn in (VPC, 2x public/2x private subnets, empty lb, bastion, and some subnet groups) but the rest is one to one.

Fargate isn't the cheapest platform out there but it's great for "I don't have any ops people" or "I have a fraction of several ops people not dedicated to my product." It takes a lot of patching and maintenance out of the equation.

If you want to give yourself a huge resume item, hook AWS WAF into the load balancer and play with it (you can alternatively hook it into Cloudfront if you elect to implement that in front of your LB, though then you have to make sure you protect what Cloudfront is talking to).

Easy task would be to geoip limit your application to the US, Canada, and Mexico. You can verify this by running your site through uptrends and looking at what cities get 403ed https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime
Let's hope Tesla builds a cyberbug. Stainless to last forever, tiny and cheap as chips.
Can you speak a little to why it doesn't make sense? There are multiple responses on this thread where people are asserting that it's obviously wrong. It's not obvious to me - could you provide some more details?
I disagree. What sports are we talking about here? The sledding in the OP? Who goes into sledding thinking "whelp I can choose between flipping burgers and sledding, guess I'll go sledding"? I expect exactly 0. This sort of niche sports is all people who are into it a bit or a lot, find out they have a talent for it, and then work their asses off (usually against the odds) to become a professional. These are people who will feel mistreated if their chance of doing what they love and get paid for it is taken away from them, exactly 0 of them will say "thanks for saving my brain there". Someone like that wouldn't get into these sports in the first place.

I know nothing about sledding, but I do know about fighting. I can tell you that the people who fight for a living would do it for free or cost reimbursement too, because that's what they've been doing for years before you got paid real money to fight. When I started training there were a few world class fighters who could live off their fighting career, and there were 10x as many who tried and didn't make it and fought anyway; and then there were 100x as many still who knew from the start they didn't make any chance of being a pro fighter and still trained multiple times a week and fought competition a few times a year, for 'prize money' that didn't even cover the cost of the gloves they were wearing.

Any 'needs' of the audience you're talking about is completely orthogonal to the motivation of people doing risky things.
In the US most electric cars are charged on the driveway or in the garage. Most Europeans don't have these.

I'm generalizing of course, but it's a significant difference. Most folks I know would have to run a cable across the sidewalk. Electric is only going to work if all the supermarkets and pubs etc etc have fast chargers. Or maybe they put them into lamp posts.
I understand that. But, we are talking about defaults. The reason the exploits that this submission is talking about took place is because too many people didn’t change the defaults.

Assuming people took the sensible leap that private resources equal private IP address, they are not going to then go out of their way to configure their router to route their private resources.

As far as “route everything” how is it going to know how to route from a public IP address to your ES server unless you specifically tell it?

I’m sure no one who got hacked went out of their way to configure their router to make their ES cluster publicly accessible.
Great list. It's too bad there wasn't room to squeeze an early John Varley story on there. Maybe Press Enter _.
Being made by the French, Qwant.com seems to give better non-English results than DuckDuckGo and gives similar priority to privacy.
We have a solar array on the house. A lot of the Dc to AC solar inverters used in residential installs use the grid to match the frequency of the AC.

The downside is with no grid power the solar system doesn’t work to power the house. There are systems that can but they’re more money.
Yeah, a lot of people have been requesting this. In the interim you can go to the Cards page and click on cards and change your votes there to baseline. This has been a heavily requested feature though and I'll be adding the ability to reset your votes and delete your account this week.
Hmm, I'm in my mid 30s (I'm still pretending to be 34 on the basis that my birthday was in May, which I contend hasn't _really_ happened yet due to the pandemic lockdown; it's still March), and fewer of my peers than I'd have necessarily expected a decade ago have gone into management; the "senior/lead/principal engineer" route seems more common.
The two that come to mind offhand:

Privacy. DDG at least claims to make it a first-class feature, and one would imagine that means that they're not selling you out when they pass the search along to Bing. Going directly to Microsoft may be OK. I haven't really bothered to look into it; I just went with my warm fuzzies. This is a spot where Microsoft has a checkered past, and it's going to take a bit more than the ill-fated "Scroogled" ad campaign to change minds there.

Cleaner UI. Bing's interface is relatively cluttered compared to DDG's. It loads all sorts of images, sticks a chumbox on the bottom of the home page, nags you to download Edge, etc. If I run a search, I have to often scroll through two entire screen heights of I-don't-know-what before I get to actual webpages. Lately, DDG has been adding clutter to their site as well, but there's still quite a lot less of it, and what there is tends to be less visually noisy.
IMO, management was worse. Talk about things I didn't like. Moved back to engineering and never regretted it.
Its episode 3 around 14 minutes, and it seems to be about Nascar not F1
People who are struggling to make payments or rely on Medicare for their health? Is it really so hard to imagine how other people live their lives differently?
Half the muscle requirement is used up just to set up the "environment" for new fangled technology/framework even before Hello World can be compiled.
One of the reasons for that is that cars are cheap in the USA, in the absolute and even more relative to incomes. The cheapest RWD model 3 starts at 50k euros - that's unaffordable for 99% of french families.

To give a very simplified but realistic stereotype: An upper-middle class family od two software engineers + 2 children will probably have one "premium" family car for sir (e.g. VW Golf or 3008) and one city car for madam (e.g. Aygo or Twingo)
Wow. I wonder if we look back at this in 50 years the same way that we look at the impact of leaded gasoline on behavior.
For cultural context, in some societies plastic surgery is seen very differently than it is in the United States, as I understand it. So, there's precedent for this internationally.

In South Korea, for example [0], there is a long and interesting tradition of cosmetic plastic surgery, such that "standard" procedures (such as the one you suggest) are kind of expected at a certain level, in the same way that relatively standard, elective dental procedures (straightening, whitening, veneering) are expected in the US.

To make a crude and probably-flawed analogy, it's seen as an investment in your image; kind of like painting your house, cutting your hair, or purchasing designer clothes.

This all being said, I personally don't think this will penetrate the software engineering market too much. IME, if a company is practicing the type of superficially-applied, ageism-based hiring discrimination (the kind that could be gamed with cosmetic surgery), it's a red flag that they're not a serious software shop.

I don't know if you want to invest resources in improving your odds at a game that you don't want to be playing. There are much better games at the casino.

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/about-face
It's dubious that they don't want you using S3 for one of the advertised use-cases but even if we accept that, the logic wouldn't apply to EC2 since there's even less of a chance of that impacting other users. Building your own CDN on EC2 isn't going to produce a different workload than many other activities which are actively encouraged.
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OP here. I really appreciate everyone's helpful feedback and recommendations. It definitely encourages me to do some reading and come up with an addendum for some additional stories.