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SOWISO | E-learning platform for Math & Science | Amsterdam | ONSITE only| FULL-TIME

SOWISO is looking for a full stack developer.
We are a young and international team of people from different backgrounds and we’re looking for an experienced full stack developer to join our team in Amsterdam! In this versatile role you help to expand and renew our learning platform for universities, colleges and publishers. The role is flexible and offers a lot of autonomy, where you will work in both ongoing and new projects with PHP (MVC) and MySQL, but also expect to see Linux/bash, AWS, CI, Puppet, Webpack, React, etc.

Would you like to join us in creating our interactive learning software? Are you excited about math and do you want to help us innovate education? Mail to info@sowiso.com

More info here: https://sowiso.nl/en/jobs/developer/
I can only second this. My open source side project [1] UI is written in QML. The best feature of QML is that it forces you to separate your UI and your c++ core logic.

[1]https://screen-play.app/ (Live wallpaper)
It doesn't take much courage to field 7. CentOS 8 was released several months ago.

Persuading customers to run your special kernel is harder than getting them to run your program, so stuff that works with a stock kernel is an easier sell. Getting them to insmod your custom module is often possible when deploying a custom kernel isn't.
Unleashing the Decentralised Workforce
Can you elaborate on identifying the various parts that push against each other? What are these parts? Voices or something more subtle like desires or aversions?

As an aside, based on various therapies I’ve worked out my method of emotional acceptance of past events and traumas which has and is helping me to accept and integrate them, but it still feels crude. I catch any strong emotion and then observe it and allow it and accept it. Sometimes it’s tied to a seemingly trivial memory(my mind trick is that the memory is not actually trivial) which I can look at and integrate and accept as well.
It's almost the exact same book. I felt ripped off having bought both.
I heard the rules are written in blood. My gut feeling tells you’re right, My rational thoughts as well, but it’s not written in blood I guess.
Maybe I need to brush up on my probabilities, but why would you have twice the failure rate?

If each sensor failed 5% of the time and the sensor was chosen at random, wouldn’t the failure rate be the same?
Yeah, this is what happened to me. FP was really easy purchase for me with JS because of its numerous flaws. But in the end, it got tiresome to have to write libs and import them around to keep the ick away, and because the lang ecosystem was doubling down on enterprise OOP conventions with TS, I decided to move away to Haskell.
Great work!

I'm the founder of Deepnote (https://deepnote.com/). We're working on a data science notebook (primarily focused on Python), happy to share what we've learned. I couldn't find any contact info on the website, feel free to message me at jakub@deepnote.com.
Hydroxychloroquine Works
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"tech" is short for technology.[1] So yes, any technology is tech. Of course you might want to define tech differently in which case it might be helpful if you're explicit in what you understand "tech" to be.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tech
Jail is much more short term than prison. It can easily be a smaller punishment than having to buy a replacement car. Especially if it's something like this, where you might only spend a day or two there and have community service on top.
True, the D numeric ecosystem cannot be compared to Julia's and I would pick Julia if I was a scientist of course. Notice, I was talking about performance though.
Just like many other products, developers have bills to pay.
This is my experience as well. I had a co-worker that really pushed for FP in JavScript using Ramda.js. the principles were appealing, but because JavaScript doesn't have native syntax for many of the principles like pattern matching, you end up with hard to read code that's a bunch of nested arrays or chains wrapped in helper functions like "compose([fn1, fn2])(data)".

I later tried to learn F# and while the syntax was foreign, it turned out that it was MUCH easier to write FP code because the language had native operators for composition, etc. The code was also much easier to read.

I think it would be great if JavaScript got some FP syntax natively (see the pattern matching proposal). But hacking functional principals using arrays and helper functions just leads to hard to read code, especially for people not familiar with the specific FP library you chose to use.
Sunfire, DEC AlphaStation, SGI Fuel, iMac G3... the list is probably not endless because USB only appeared at the tail end of non-x86 desktop availability, still it's not a small list. Various routers as well...
Should I quit video games?
Performance is meaningless if there isn't a library ecosystem to use it.
> In Europe you not only have cockpit adjustable lights but auto leveling very common

Cockpit adjustable lights have been required by law in Europe for about 20 years. When Xenon lamps arrived, auto-leveling was added as a requirement for them.
This comment probably doesn't add to the conversation, so I apologise in advance.

We make extensive use of Sonos and Amazon Echo products in our household and have two young children (3 and 5) the older one doesn't like issuing instructions for the Echo devices because he pauses occasionally and it somewhat aggressively "SORRY, I CAN'T HELP RIGHT NOW".

A bigger problem we've noticed is that things "drift". We've got muscle memory of asking "Alexa, play classical lullabies" or "Echo, play the skeleton dance song". Occasionally though these commands will be "hijacked" by some new content in Spotify or somewhere else.

"Alexa, play music for children" used to play nice kids songs, now it plays some murder-metal album called (one assumes ironically) "music for children", prior to that match, it seems like it was a search, or a playlist?

And there seems to be no way to deny-list music like this. It's driving us off of Spotify in our household, "skeleton dance" plays either screaming metal artists or the cutesey kids song with about 50% accuracy, it seems.

FWIW I had the same problem with Amazon FreeTime where for 5 bucks a month you get access to 10,000 kids shows and games, which is about 9950 more than I had time to vet to check if they were appropriate for my kids.

Please, hold your criticism if you want to berate me for raising kids in a household with voice assistants and tablets, I am trying to balance exposing them to useful technology without exposing them to the underworld of utter shite that is to be found beneath those interfaces.
Masks are just one part of a multi-pronged approach to reducing transmission which includes testing, contact tracing, maintaining physical distance, practicing good hygiene, as well as quarantining after travel, maintaining consistent limited social groups, staying outdoors, avoiding large group functions even with distancing, and going even further than all of that for high risk individuals or during surges if ICU capacity is stretched, to implement shutdowns and lockdowns, until ultimately, herd immunity is reached naturally or through vaccination.

All together it still hasn’t stopped COVID in its tracks, and with tens of millions of active cases, there’s no scientific basis for expecting that it would.

Short answer; it’s possible some percentage of them would be delayed.

I think it makes people feel better to have something to blame, particular when it sounds just so simple.
Godot has only OpenGL renderers. Do they plan to add DirectX and Metal?
When you do get back your time, you also don’t feel the need to spend so much. What happens is that after being stuck 8h at a job, you tend to overcompensate and spend money to gain some of that time back.
Nicely put. Retainers are indeed a great revenue stream. Yet, I was thinking more in terms of daily cash stream generated by regular quick cash transactions. That's why I mentioned by buddy running a bar as his side hustle.
Very difficult,
Sadly nutrition research is not yet very conclusive on what is good and what is bad for our health.
(It's very difficult to have correct experiments as the volunteers never have the same physiology)
And our nutriments needs may be very specific to one's genetics and activity level.
Sugar is fuel for the brain and the body, it is not necessary bad, but abusing it is bad. Maybe sugar (eg pasta) is bad when mixed with other ingredients and healthy with others. It is extremely difficult to reach a good consensus even if you read the litterature.

And usually (micro)nutriments have trade-offs : good for somethings bad for others.

Look at the different kind of diet, they are all based on different researches and can be extremely different while all are using 'valid' research data.
The main idea behind them is usually to have 'good' proportions between macronutrients (each diet define a different proportion) while keeping the number of kcal in the range you want to reach your objectives.

For a first rule of thumb that I would use: abusing in any direction is bad. Sugar is ok in 'small' quantities, fat, etc also.
However reality is way more messy :)
There are quite a number of studies on this in sociology, psychology and psychiatry literature. I don't have any at hand, and as usual it would take a bit of trial and error to stumble upon the right jargon in each subfield to unlock most of it, but it's definitely out there.
I would also add that heat insulation is grossly underrated. With modern heat insulation solutions like wood or hemp concrete, mineral wool one can decrease the heating / cooling need by 60-80%. This can be combined with solar panels. In practice, this means we have ~10 USD heating / cooling cost per month for a medium size house in Central Europe. Initial cost is not trivial though. Same goes for other usage of electricity, for example lighting. Using LED lights reduce the energy need by a large percentage. The best energy optimisation is to reduce the amount of energy needed to be produced. Once you have that it becomes easier even with current technology to have a battery that can buffer your electricity,
There are positives to the default being opt in, e.g. organ donor.

There could be negatives of course, there is no substitute for an informed citizenry and indepedent media to challenge such instances.
I prefer a dedicated half-day to something. Do it until lunch, then decide what to do next.

The best part about being a generalist is that you can do what the most important thing is, instead of being frustrated that the person responsible isn't doing it. What I used to do was map out bottlenecks for my business. For example, I'd be able to see that if we had $X more cash, we could push profit margins up, and by doing Y, we could get that much cash. Or that the back end supports up to 100k users, so I can ignore that for a while and maybe even hire someone to do it later.

Customer support often takes highest priority, because it's an effective form of marketing too. But the rest is either getting more customers or building a better solution. Just do whatever gets you 5% more sales next week. Sometimes that might even mean laying off the code for months and just doing sales. Sometimes that means no marketing until you have something worth selling.
I think our system has to stop this. Instead of appraisals that indicate fake proficiency, if they truly wanted to encourage, they could show the next higher level and gently ask us to pursue the path until we are bored. Instead they slam the top students with not just the title 'genius', but also the burden and self-doubt that comes along with it -- which only amplifies later as we move up the ladder.
Oh, OK.

I know macOS Store subscription management is, hilariously enough, still just in Music app. (I wanted to cancel MS Office subscription - for Mac! not for iPhone! - and I needed to do that in Music app.)
It's pretty clear that globally China has taken a "divide and conquer" approach to countries generally. After China reneged on it's Hong Kong agreement it became starkly clear that China is not interested in the "rule of law" either within China or without.

At this point it's clear that the world will divide into two camps, those aligned with China and those aligned with the rule of law. Now it's just the Cold War all over again. Companies of each sphere operating on the other sphere can expect to withdraw over the next several years.
Yes and no. The complaint is that some widely used extensions are proprietary. If these extensions require MS servers, then they have every reason to be. Even if they don't, there's nothing wrong with a company holding back some stuff they consider strategic, they're not obligated to release them.

If we're debating the OSS credentials of VSCode, it'll need to be based on the code already released (which makes it a pretty great OSS editor) and the current team of people the company has devoted to maintaining that OSS section of the product (also pretty great).

Arguing that there are some extensions that are closed source and that's bad is a bit weird, especially when we can just make an open sourced extension that does the same thing.
0.6kWh sorry for the typo.
Huh? The developers at microsoft get paid no matter how the company licenses things.
There's a node system in Blender?
Can You Test Positive for Coronavirus and Be at Work? Sports Leagues Say Yes
Can you expand on the context? Career wise? Financially? Spiritually? What advice are you looking for?
https://archive.vn/F4g1W
> Quite the contrary: it’s illegal to not share data with government if requested:

I see. That's a fair point.
Hi, thank you for applying! I'll get a few hiring managers to have a look at your open application, and we'll get back to you for a call if they see a potential fit.
Just use vim.
Diabetic here. These days, the meter and even insulin pump comes with touch and color screens.

My vision is good, but I imagine diabetics with poor eyesight (which is a common effect of diabetes) basically get unusable devices.

My previous pump and my first meters all had dedicated buttons. A button "on", a button for "give insulin" then two buttons to "crank up or down the amount to give" and so on. All these buttons had braille on them and were tactile and often form-coded. Up, was an triangular up-arrow, etc. I could blindly operate it in my pocket with one hand.

Now my pump requires me to go through dialogs, menu's and workflows for which the state and the options are only on the screen. And my meter looks like a cheap chinese android phone (and has about the same battery time) with only touchscreen interfacing. I often miss my doses because some warning dialog breaks muscle-memory or because -somehow- the pump decides that today we need an extra step in the wizard.

It's good when medical equipment "goes with the time", but touch-screens and color-lcd screens are really not suited for medical devices in their "mass consumer" form.
Of course it is. Assuming that the only other option to Capitalism is slavery is dogma.
It truly boggles me how much does one person have to produce in order to gain the same magnitude of fame, back in the days of middle 19th century.
I’m surprised at the amount of Uranium the US needed (for just the Manhattan project?)

the US secured 1,200 tonnes of Congolese uranium, which was stockpiled on Staten Island, US, and an additional 3,000 tonnes that was stored above ground at the mine in Shinkolobwe. But it was not enough. US Army engineers were dispatched to drain the mine, which had fallen into disuse, and bring it back into production.

Under Belgian rule, Congolese workers toiled day and night in the open pit, sending hundreds of tonnes of uranium ore to the US every month.
Please remind me when ugly people were forbidden to vote, for example.

One thing is an (un)conscious bias favorable towards handsome/attractive people, another is a system that historically thought that one group of people was inferior and had less rights.
Obviously I'm not justifying this bias, and I think that society has an important role in reinforcing it, so we should try to stop it, especially in the justice system.
I really like VS Code, but am definitely wary of the way that it intermingles open source, proprietary code and remote services. For that reason, I use the VSCodium build most of the time.

You definitely need to take responsibility and read the documentation for each extension that you decide to install. You may be surprised.

I would also disagree with the article and recommend that you disable telemetry, unless you specifically decide that you want that copy of VS Code and those extensions to send data. I understand the value of telemetry data, but I think that turning it on by default is unethical: software should not be written to automatically transmit data to remote systems without explicit user consent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqDVObM1kxc

True story. My ex-wifes grandmother was the daughter of a sharecropper who grew tobacco. Start of WWI a friend wrote her dad that if he came to California his friend could get him a job. Well her old man sold everything, bought a broken down car, and drove the family to Santa Clara. When they got to California she remembers her absolute joy when she asked her mother where the tobacco fields were and her mother told her they don't grow tobacco in California.
Unfortunately masks can end someone's life:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-crash-passed-wearing-n95-ma...
Never use big arrays in benchmarks otherwise depending on your CPU cache you will be testing allocation as well. If you need the code I tested Julia on here you go: https://github.com/tastyminerals/mir_benchmarks/blob/master/...
I really don't get this vibe. It's not like this is some potentially-harmful fake medicine, or an expensive scam.

From the very top of the page:

> If you like the way you are able to read this page, and others, then this typeface is for you!

Even if that's a "yes" for only 2% of dyslexics, then isn't that good enough? Why can't a reader decide for themselves whether they find that page easier to read than most?
It's been found that Neanderthals didn't even carry the gene linked to "modern" red hair[1]. Also, I believe them having red hair was actually about as rare as it is nowadays.

[1] - https://theconversation.com/neanderthals-didnt-give-us-red-h...
I can be counted as one of the skeptics of MS's open-source efforts. It just seems to me that MS's history and recent investment in open-source puts us in a quantum state between two possibilities:

1. MS has changed their ways, and has become an altruist organization which just wants to give developers things of value for free so they might hopefully choose Azure when they decide what cloud provider to run on.

2. MS is embedding themselves in the open-source community in such a way that it's almost unavoidable to make use of their proprietary tools without even realizing it, and they will use that to their advantage against competitors and developers.

It's just hard for me to think that the second possibility won't become increasingly true to the extent that MS gains the leverage to get away with it.

As a side-note, I think MS's marketing for VSCode has been very effective. As an editor, I don't see an advantage over 𝚖̶𝚘̶𝚛̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚙̶𝚎̶𝚗̶ less corporate alternatives like SublimeText, and I actually don't like the "install this plugin" spam in the bottom right corner.
This gets thrown a lot but I think the reason the U.S. didn't move from the swipe system to the PIN is the speed of processing your card. With the swipe, the cashier just swipe your card and you're done. With the chip, I have to wait and then enter my PIN and then wait. It's just a hustle.
You seem like a nice person. Bye!
The best parts of Code are the editor functions. If I had to name the good parts of Code I wouldn't even think about LiveShare, it's mostly a gimmick I've looked at once or twice.

As for the marketplace, most extensions link to their github repositories, from where you can download and install the extensions. The marketplace itself is mostly a convenience thing.
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The thing is that sugar is harmful is kinda counter-intuitive: it's tastes good and we all want it. We get overweight because of fat but sugar is not fat. And most importantly, the scientists were covering it up: blaming fat and protein rather than sugar.

I did not believe sugar was the problem until randomly decided to have a try while I was trying to lose some weight. Tried to eat less walk/run around 8km per day for around a year, it helped a little. I did manage to lose more or less 10kg. Unfortunately, problems with the project and had to work over time and thus stopped running, eat lots of junk food for roughly a month, during which time drunk lots of Coke and when it was over, I found my self picked up 15kg. Then I decided to try something new, stopped drinking Coke and eat less carbs in diets by eating more meat and vegs. And the result was much better than I thought: I lost almost 20kg in less than 3 months and the exercise I took actually dropped a little bit.
If the papers are crap and nobody reads them it's not the public good, it's just waste. As for journals, those are paid for mostly by universities, which are themselves funded by governments.

Really, academia is just an entirely parallel economy to the real one, but it's a closed loop planned economy in which the ultimate end goal of making technology people like is subverted to artificial targets like quantity of papers published.
Because you're a minority and most people haven't been on a bike since they were a child. For most people, their first experience on the road is in a car. They are completely out of touch with what it means to use the road outside of a car. The roads are owned by cars, even though everyone pays for them. This is the way it's been for years and it won't be changing unless we have a serious reform.
I think at some point we need to stop infantilising our peers. It isn't toxic when one child says to another that speaking in Pig Latin isn't hard. The difference between `function add(a, b) { return a + b; }` and `add a b = a + b` is about as superficial as the difference between Hello World and Ellohay Orldway. In fact, as I've already alluded to, syntax swaps don't even need to span different programming languages — "modern" JavaScript uses different function expression syntax.

Describing syntax swaps as a "move from one mental model to another" is intellectually dishonest.
Too much Java hate over here.
Huh, where is the companies money coming from ?
True that the marketplace has some weird rules (I think there is an online instance of VSCode, that scrapes Github for plugins that have permissive licenses to show them in the Marketplace tab - essentially a forked marketplace) - but the best bits of VSCode are open.

Remote plugin, terminal, marketplace are less valuable in an engineering sense than the actual editor itself.

Monaco, Monarch & LSP are projects that are directly or tangentially related to the VSCode project are they are MIT licensed and have astounding capability. Have a look at the editor API for Monaco - its extremely well engineered.

I for one am extremely thankful that these projects are open source because those are they genuinely impressive bits of engineering from VSCode.
You heat up a big block of concrete during the day. Insulated of course.
Then at night you run water through it, and pipe that (now hot) water to radiator around your house.
Already being deployed in Germany.