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> Even side hustles have been adversely affected by the pandemic.

Were you working on your side hustle during normal work hours before the pandemic? No? So is the pandemic stopping you from working on your side hustle after work hours now? No? I didn't think so.

> Parents deserve all the concessions that can be afforded, but people without kids should also be afforded the same.

I think you're looking at this in the wrong way, as if employers are giving parents some sort of special gift by being flexible around child care responsibilities. Child care has to get done, period. It's not opt-out. Your side hustle can wait until after work hours... as it always has.

> Having children is a personal choice in the end, but nothing special in anyway. People should not be penalized for not making that choice, just like they should not be rewarded either.

Ah, here's that tired argument again. Yes, it is a personal choice. But are we really going to penalize children because their parents, when deciding to have kids, failed to take into account the possibility of global pandemic making child care interfere with their work responsibilities? Parents aren't getting "rewarded" for having kids here; they're simply getting time to do that which they must do. Child care is unique among non-work obligations in that it's not something you can reschedule, put off, or decide not to do. There's no "reward" here.

I still don't understand how you think non-parents like us are being "penalized", though. My work day during COVID is, scope-wise, exactly the same as it was pre-COVID. I get out of bed, work for 8-10 hours, and then stop and do whatever I want. I was already working from home most of the time pre-COVID, but as a bonus, people who went to an office every day now get their commute time back! If anything, non-parents are getting a reward during COVID that parents don't get, because their former commute time is now filled with... you guessed it... more child care.
And get their power cheaper by forcing poor people to subsidise their solar panels, subsidise the running of extra power lines to these installations, pay twice as much for their power and pay more for products because power prices have doubled.
So, all you need to do to get a film qualified is offer internships to underrepresented group and do market research/test audiences on underrepresented groups.
Free developer accounts have more restriction than paid accounts do, which is already nowhere close to “I want to run anything on my device”.
How soon can we expect them to just use soldered BGA chips on desktops and servers?

Works really well for laptops - motherboard fried? Just throw that CPU, GPU, RAM and VRAM away, and buy a new one! You're not rich enough to pay for its repair, are you?

Justified by thinness for consumers and security for corporate. What a terrible practice.
> I kind of respect that dedication, even with the mind-boggling frustration it comes with.

I dunno. I get the "respect the dedication" thing, but at some point this person is so afraid of change that they'd rather become a burden to others who have to deal with them rather than adapt to a changing world. At least for developers, part of the job description is to actually make an effort to learn and use new things.

I've worked with a number of these people, where whenever you introduce a concept that they haven't worked with for 25 years (e.g. a new VCS, a new/upgraded programming language, a new way of building, a new framework, even minor changes to code they wrote 15 years ago, really anything), they become incredibly resistant and intransigent, and they make change significantly harder than it needs to be.

People who are adaptable are forced to work with their ancient (and not always better) systems, because it's the path of least resistance. These kinds of people can be a real problem.
Oh wow, I did this for the better part of my grownup life without having a name for it. I called it "Self-Solving Problems" after reading "SEP field" in a Douglas Adams book:

"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem
Sport is not so much a modern relaxation as a new religion; and is more serious and unsmiling even than most new religions. - G. K. Chesterton
That’s interesting, I’ll check it out. I often tell folks that without concerts I am going on without my religion. And the best concerts are those where the most attendees most actively participate. This human need for group belonging will be fulfilled one way or another. Concerts, sports, protests, war - go on down the line (granted I think churches fit in further towards the end ...). There is a psychological cost to shutting these events down that must also be considered.
Anyone with a TheC64 Maxi and looking for an ascetic, hair-shirt level of simplicity and focus should check out "Kwik Write!" Basically notepad.exe. You can get about 5 or 6 thousand words of prose in memory. Has search and replace, soft line wrap, etc. It's my NaNoWriMo environment for 2020 (assuming I can keep away from Wizball.)

I have to so I can eject the USB and plug it in to my RPi and it will extract the files using the c1541 tool and git commit them somewhere. Delightfully pointless.
What it means to not test implementation details in React
Surely there are not 27 million console developers?
I think the snippet is part of the example code for Mutex. Here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Mutex.html

After "It is sometimes necessary to manually drop the mutex..."
I don't think there's a person on earth that could serve as the judge that would satisfy the people commentating on Assange's hearings short of sticking a wig on Assange himself. There is no conflict of interest and frankly, the standard set by this claim of a conflict absolutely would disqualify every single qualified judge in the UK.

As for the extradition requests, of course that's how it works. The UK finds whether the case is more or less fine and then it's off to the US to actually try the case. Why? Because it's not a good idea for the UK to be ruling on US law and they're a close ally with similar laws.
I completely agree that he shouldn't be detained inhumanely, but if he's a flight risk it's right that he should be detained until the court rules on extradition. What should change is the inhumaine bit.

(And I also agree that the US shouldn't have a case against him, and I strongly hope our legal system in the UK will reject the extradition, though I'm not very optimistic).

edit: And even if the Swedish accusations are 100% false and political; the UK legal system shouldn't be expected to jump to that conclusion without investigation if presented with an international warrant for his arrest.
> ISIS was founded in Syria not Iraq, if anything

It was founded in Iraq. It was an Iraq Islamist group, that became al-Qaeda in Iraq around the time of the US invasion (shortly before, IIRC) when associating with al-Qaeda was an opportunistic way to capitalize on al-Qaeda’s Islamist brand strength in the wake of 9/11; when it was strong enough locally that it no longer needed the al-Qaeda brand it dropped it and became the Islamic State in Iraq. As ISI it sent a splinter group to fight in Syria, which it reintegrated later and adopted the name translates variously as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, the dominant translation used publicly by Western governments) or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, the name that became most popular on the public media); it later dropped geographic monikers at the height of its power and branded simply as the Islamic State (though lots of people kept calling it ISIS.)
>any intervention by the government to make housing more accessible, just gets priced in pretty quickly, removing the benefit.

If a large number of mortgages forclosed without the fed this would put a hell of a lot of downward pressure on prices. Economic carnage style. That hot market. It's getting pretty cold. Does that make houses more affordable for those frozen out? Or are they now unemployed with the zero intevention and/or unable to get a loan in that cold market making the benefit from the carnage nothing?

Whether it's the right thing to do for the overall economy and all in it, keeping house prices up is clearly something the boomers want so they can keep their very large gains from having got in early. Younger generations may look at this and see more than simple coincidence.
If the Fed create $1T new money the worst thing you can do is sit on cash. That’s a guaranteed negative return.
The reason why auto-diff is exact and amazing is because (1) the derivative operation is "decomposable" through the chain rule and (2) we've found the symbolic derivative of the basic functions. There's not a mathematical trick in auto-diff which we recently discovered. It's mainly a reformulation of the properties of the derivative which turns out to be useful for computers.

Finding an "auto-integrate method" would probably involve finding a way of calculating the integral in a decomposable way, and that indeed would be amazing, but I don't really see that happening any time soon.
It sounds like what is needed is an `optimising compiler' for the entire front end that would spot patterns like those you mention and rewrite them into something better, and that would tree-shake out unused stuff.

Does anything like that exist?
The Oxford Comma isn’t a “mistake.” It’s the preferred style for many people, and it’s both correct (assuming it’s used consistently in a doc) and common. It’s difficult for me to understand Google or any other entity to enforce an arbitrary set of grammar style policies on third parties except when the product is a journal, magazine, or something to that effect.
> What if I have an ailing parent or a sibling?

If the obligation to care for them (during work hours) has increased due to COVID, then you absolutely should get more work flexibility to take care of that. Because that's something you must do for their health and well-being, not something that you just feel like doing because you want to.

> What if I run an orphanage on the side?

Presumably you ran that orphanage outside of work hours pre-COVID, and can continue to do the same now. This is kinda a silly hypothetical though... I wasn't aware that orphanage-as-side-hustle was such a popular thing for non-parent tech employees.
Civ 2 ranks among my most played games ever, but I skipped Civ 3 and 4 entirely, only to pick up Civ 5 and 6 again. I like 5. 6 not so much.
What's the actual theory of the case of how Apple are owed damages here?

Obviously they're losing revenue from Fortnite but that would have happened if Epic just decided they don't like the rules and took the app down themselves instead of breaking them. I can't imagine Apple would be entitled to damages then and I can't see how they've lost more money than that.

The other obvious thing is legal expenses, but you don't throw them in as damages during the case right? That'd be settled based on the result and depending on the jurisdiction.

I guess I can see them getting a few hours of someone's wage for re-reviewing Fortnite after the changes and taking it down?

I feel like I'm probably missing something, does anybody know the actual position Apple would argue for damages from here?
Related projects I know of (might be useful if someone can point out salient differences):

- Rufus: https://rufus.ie/

- UNetbootin: https://unetbootin.github.io/

- Win32 Disk Imager: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Video game developers confess their hidden tricks at last
It's a compiled language with a close-to-baremetal type system and implemented as an LLVM frontend. I don't see what would make it slower than e.g. Fortran except for a couple more years of LLVM backend optimizations required (which I still think will happen given LLVM's adoption), but probably I'm missing something here.
I do something every day that no one else is doing for the clients.
A high end MBP, iPhone, and two plants should be under 10'000 EUR, so if that's elitist I'm not sure what people who buy https://www.immobilienscout24.de/Suche/de/schleswig-holstein... should be called.
Here in Norway we have another system where the payments for child care is graded so those with low income pay zero and those with highish (> €60000/year) pay full (€200-300/month) and in between you pay around €100/month.

500 bucks/month seem quite expensive.
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France and Spain seem to be experiencing big spikes precisely because they largely returned to normal. Now, reopening schools and childcare probably isn't the big problem there because they don't seem to be major contributors to spreading the disease - but this also means countries could just not have shut them in the first place.
Sid Meier Confirms Nuclear Gandhi Is Sadly Just a Myth
In the UK complainants in sexual offences trials have strong legal protections around anonymity. Murray is alleged to have breached the anonymity of some of the complainants in the Alex Salmond trial. He denies this.

Here's his post asking for some evidential support:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/05/a-very-polit...

Here's a reasonably neutral article about his prosecution date:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18566311.court-sets-date-c...
"Sports is to war as pornography is to sex." — Jonathan Haidt
Here is the problem of U.S. news. Journalism has turned I to a contest for attention. How is it relevant to report on one (or even few) employees posting something?
My father has an idea to use sodium (Na) as fuel for fuel cells. This could easily replace batteries by having more or less instant reactions to demand, being much more energy dense and being simple to handle. Also, there is no CO_2 that would need to be captured compared to "bio" fuels. The resulting sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and hydrogen (H_2) can easily be used further e.g. in the chemical industry or recycled, electrolysis of NaOH is well known and also produces hydrogen as a byproduct. The resulting sodium metal can again be used as fuel. It creates a circular economy. Handling sodium securely at scale is also probably even easier than handling gasoline or diesel. Most of these reactions at industrial scale are more than 50 years old but nobody bothered to actually implement it (even though a hint about sodium cells for electricity generation is present in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater" by Jules Verne already) instead of the more complex approaches like e.g. synthetic gasoline.

You can look at the orgpage about these ideas https://orgpad.com/s/energiewende my father also gave a talk last week about it, there is a recording, which will be posted during the next days.

Disclaimer: I work for the small startup OrgPad, which tries to create a tool for easier decomposition of linear ideas/ content into a network of ideas/ content. An ex-Googler, Pavel Klavík PhD. describes the technology (hint Clojure and ClojureScript) and approaches behind OrgPad in a recent talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoIfeb31UU
No clue why you're downvoted because you are spot on.

The constant hustle culture is extremely toxic. We don't live to work. And indeed making something of value requires a significant investment of energy. That shouldn't come for free and shouldn't be expected of the "community" to always play catch up with big and dedicated -- and very handsomely paid -- development teams in a corporation.
His prosecution date was going to be October. I'm not sure if Covid-19 has affected it or not.
That’s the CCPs get out of jail card if trade gets cut. The US has let greed weaken their position.
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Once used a cheap hosting company that didn't allow to post tickets in the weekend. I asked why, they said 'because by Monday most people have solved the problems themselves. I replied; by that logic, you should only allow tickets one day in the week, perhaps for a single hour on that day..

I guess my point is; it makes for bad customer service to not communicate.
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It's hard to imagine the slowness isn't outweighed by the speed gains from Intellisense and automatic refactoring tools.

with Webstorm / IntelliJ you can write first using placeholder variable names in a single file. One click to rename the variable and all references throughout the app. Drag the file to a different folder and imports are fixed everywhere. Want to move a single function to a different file? One click or keyboard shortcut and you're there.
I like the screenshot (the Twitter link). Looks like he is:

- Running WP 6.2
- Inside a dosemu2
- Inside a Linux VM (WSL, likely)
- In a Windows 10 terminal window

I'm not sure if dosemu2 includes actual DOS code, but if so it's an MS OS running a Linux running another MS OS running Word Perfect. Either way, amazing inception.

I'm assuming he's using that odd WSL+dosemu2 detour and not a native Windows DOSBox build because afaik DOSBox makes its own fake terminal (it simulates the pixels, not the text). So with it he can't just WP6.2 straight from the active terminal window.

It's also kind of a testament to how well WSL works in practice that one can go "I want $OBSCURE_THING. Damn, doesn't work on Windows, hmm I'll try the Linux version ok that works done". This is the same thing that finally got me, a lifetime Windows user, access to important productivity software such as gti, sl, cowsay and lolcat.
I was replying the point about Civ selling 1.5m and Mario selling 20m. There were a lot more people playing Civ than the sales might indicate.
> If their home situation requires it, then they should switch to part-time or even quit temporarily.

How exactly to people buy food and pay their bills in this scenario?

You're not coming off as anti-children, but you're definitely coming off as someone who lacks a basic understanding for how life in society works.
> And why was US in Iraq in the first place?

Because George W. Bush had daddy issues (both of the “you tried to kill my” and “by outdoing I can escape the shadow of my” forms) and Dick Cheney (and the whole PNAC crew in the Bush Administration) had oil issues (of the “we must control it” form), all of which distracted from the war on terror.
> Simple math tells us that the typical American circa 2100 is a lot more likely to be descended from Utah Mormons than Bay Area rationalists.

Descended from today's Utah Mormons than today's Bay Area rationalists. That doesn't mean they won't move to the Bay Area and become rationalists themselves.
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Yeah I think it is pretty nuts that people are willing to use CPUs that have those modems on the same die.
I believe these forms were used on startup (i.e. they were in the roms in text form this way).
That seems like it's going to work in very specific situations only and/or be extremely hard to implement.
By the time I was 14, my brother would have been 10, my mom just bought us the right ingredients and frozen foods and we managed to make ourselves 80% of our meals.

This is over 15 years ago, and there was no pandemic going on. It was worthwhile even then and helped me be better prepared for moving out of my parents house.

FWIW, my brother and sister who were both younger than me when we started preparing food are significantly better and healthier cooks than me today. So starting to cook earlier, as long as it is safe, has only helped.
I think the comparison most are making is to Shingrix. Have a look at Table 2[1].

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1603800
If everyone knows, or can easily know, then you can't keep secrets.

You might argue that we shouldn't have secrets at all and everything should be public.

I think that's a worthy goal, but doesn't work in practice.

If another state is competitive with you (and all states are competitive with each other to some extent), then I think you need the ability to keep some information confidential somehow.
Yeah I noticed this. There are lots of kids or people who feel redundant and empty because whatever they want to do they can just buy it or hire someone else to do it for them. No need to do anything yourself but it also means nobody needs you which means people don't see anything in you other than your money.

The only way you can liberate yourself from this is by getting your hands dirty yourself.
I'm not sure the article's title quite reflects its point, which is that the amount one reads is not by itself a very useful measure of anything; better to focus on what you're reading, why you're reading, and how you're reading. A better title might be: "The amount you read doesn't matter... as much as other factors" ... or something.

Some random thoughts:

1) Indeed many nonfiction books are full of fluff and filler. While there's a completionist in me that wants to read every word and finish all books started, I'm now in the more useful habit of skimming and reading the few chapters that interest me. I've been intrigued to see services like Blinklist that summarize the main points, and sometimes I think even those have too much fluff. Sometimes I grab my notebook to take notes only to find there's not much to take note of. But I confess, perhaps up to 95% of the nonfiction I read is ends up being forgotten because it's just not all that useful to me (more useful is just knowing where I can find the info later if needed).

(Although there are quite a few books, like Taleb's books, that have changed the way I think about and see the world, but I don't remember the details and wouldn't be great at giving a worthy summary of them; I'd just recommend the book.)

2) This topic reminds me of Mortimer Adler's book "How to Read a Book"; although I don't remember all his specific syntax, it really encouraged me to be more self-conscious about my reasons for reading.
I am not arguing at all. I am just pointing out that your statement makes zero sense. The only way it makes sense is if you are suggesting that we adopt nazi ideology of eugenics.

The accusation reg lack of ‘good faith’ also makes no sense. Good faith is only relevant if both of us are in agreement according to contract law.

I am pretty sure that I disagree with you. No need to beckon ‘good faith’.
Yes. To give people from other disciplines a flavour:

- Why Engineering needs PDE solvers.

- Why Computer Science needs compilers.

- Why Geography needs digital maps.
> A book is a somewhat large time investment. Often it is worth it but often it isn't.

But everyone has time for reddit/hn/facebook. Sometimes for hours at a day. :}

I posit that the real problem is that books (especially fiction novels) are engaging but not hypnotic. It's easy to scroll HN because it's literally hypnotic and thus no thinking required. That's why they're called newsFEEDs. You're being spoon-fed news. But books demand that you think, and you can't ignore previous plot developments without becoming disoriented.

If you want to read more books, the first three steps are to:

1. Admit you have a problem. The problem is NOT that you have a hard time reading but that you're hypnotized for hours a day.

2. Realize that total abstinence is the solution. If you had the willpower to restrict yourself to 30min a day, you wouldn't be here. You are one of those people too susceptible to hypnosis.

3. Don't punish yourself. Five minutes a day is far better than nothing. 10 minutes is better than five minutes, etc....
I think it goes so far as to be unethical, because it takes advantage of a gap in understanding[1] where most users aren't even aware of the possibility of this being possible.

[1] https://quinnkeast.com/writing/the-possibility-gap-its-time-...