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That's a good point, I was debating on whether or not to put that there, but I believe it's under fair use policy for journalism. It's a quote and not a statement of endorsement, but I get why it could seem confusing. The purpose of it was to convey the goal of my service, which is to have companies use students as a core part of their mission, which in turn benefits them in the long run as they convert students to real customers when they get into industry. Thanks for the feedback though, I'll have to think it through more.

For fraud, of course if someone is willing to spend the time to crack the system, they probably will. The point is not to stop the one off attacker, because the implications are just you give a discount to an incorrect person (which you can limit by limiting the deal - for ex. 1 year discount).

AI because it's using OCR and some proprietary checks on the second step. It is more intelligent than it looks.
> How to Be Fast, Like Google

>> Make Less Requests

From 130 requests, that's an odd takeaway.
It would be a federal misdemeanor, not just "dishonest" which is why the analogy sucks. Going to compare yourself to a veteran to make a point about developers is pretty low.
usb-c is too fragile. blew out my macbook pro last week when i plugged in the charger. High power through such fine connectors is just asking for a spark / short. So sad. Poor design.
> Free software allows you to hire anyone to work on your software, just like with car repairs.

But almost nobody does. People have voted with their wallets. Why do you think that is? To me the answer is simple: most users don't care about "freedom" as defined by Stallman. People just want to use software, they only care about price, features and ease of use. Availability of source code is not a concern for 99%+ of users. And if people don't care about "freedom", but only care about price, features and ease of use, proprietary software wins hands down over free software.
A big part of private equity getting to insane valuations like WeWork is that nobody can short it.
> He's a billionaire with pet projects and an ego.

Isn;t that the 'American Dream' role model?
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Bill Phillips (a NIST type who's also a Nobel laureate) gave a lecture called "Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe" at several locations a few years ago, and there are various videos of it online. It explains things rather thoroughly, and is a great example of an enthusiastic scientist going full nerd, including several classes of really bad jokes, etc. Worth a Google and a watch. If you can find the one he did in Toronto, that's probably the best one, but TVO (our provincial public broadcaster in Ontario) doesn't seem to have it up on their YouTube channel anymore.
stop telling me to stop calling myself a Senior Comment Developer, besides I am a well known upvote hacker.
What they care about is not the contribution they made to Zen, it's the contribution they would make to Zig and can not due to the NCC.
I call myself "president", but that damned secret service keeps gatekeeping me out of my white house.
Non-free software wins in the one arena where open source will never be able to compete: marketing dollars and advocacy. Nobody is going to visit a school, woo the principal, train the techs and hold their hands at the moment when it matters most: when the decision is made.

Once the school is in the boat the cost to switch is dramatic so from there on in the closed software vendor can let them suffer and move on to the next juicy target.
Great article! You compared XC2064 to the CPUs of its time. How many transistors were in XC2064?
I always thought it was that, kinda from the start ;)

You can only know so much in depth.
I think to some degree there's usefulness in gatekeeping titles - as titles could be a great way to know areas or level of expertise. Key word "could" be.

Unfortunately the nature of language combined with personally assigned titles means that there's no point in even trying because, i think, it's impossible. Call yourself whatever you want. I'm still going to need to vet it for myself if i need to hire you.
Define complex.
Asking money for a compiler, the audacity!
I honestly think this is a bit of a naive proposition, and an "obsolete" point of view, specially when you factor in the most obvious thing:

Advertisement, per definition, is self evident. You have way more "less obvious" marketing tools, like product placement, but even those that are subtle, are in set in a context - like a movie or a tv show.

I think it's way more troublesome the obscure parts of what the paper claims to be "product information" - that is where true deception and manipulation occurs. This is where your defenses and your guard are down. You don't know you're being manipulated, even if it's a simple paid 5 star review with no review text, it's a deceptive bias. Another example, is undisclosed paid promotions/reviews from influencers.

People would be better off acknowledging that advertising works, and that it is present in media, and we should be critical of it, which I believe in 2020, we're aware of it. Else if you're going that path, then you can start make monopolies on media and information distribution that arguably serve any agenda - even if that agenda is to gather more share/views/audiences, and you end up banning media.

Because that's the truth - the majority of endeavors that are distributed in media have an agenda, and try to manipulated the audiences in some way.

With this said, I'm not saying that all advertising is fine, in fact, this is probably the hardest times for authorities and regulators to control, and fine, abuses. You just need to log on Facebook and see illegal claims being made in advertising, things that would never be allowed on TV/Radio/Outdoors. Yet they generate massive amounts of reach.
I read it a bit different, I read it as they're proud of their freedom stance, and they are just informing users about a hostile fork without even hinting at reducing their principals henceforth.
Please don't make the error of mistaking optimism, kindness, or politeness for weakness or stupidity.

My post had nothing to do with any of this.

All I was pointing out was that being excessively boastful and claiming that everyone, without exception, finds working with you "enormously fulfilling" is just unbecoming. I feel like many will find that distasteful and you should leave other people to rate their interactions with you. I doubt there's a single person in the world who has a 100% success rate with regards to positive social/professional experiences with others...

I could have definitely worded it more politely and honestly if this account was tied to my personal name I probably would have worded it more politely, so you've got me there :)
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Call yourself whatever you want. There's no need to be accurate.
I'd like to see you stare that Billion Dollars in the eye and say 'no thank you, these are my principles'.

Bonus points if you can do it with your spouse and children by your side.
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The title looks like gatekeeping and they probably did that intentionally, to get anger-readers, but they're actually describing a specific issue: WordPress users/admins that are calling themselves developers. The problem is that they keep interviewing these folks for developer positions. That seems like a reasonable complaint, at least from an outsider point of view. Although arguably either some better filtering should happen at an earlier stage in the process... or the author is that filtering.
From context, likely a professional engineer.
Because you didn't capitalize it.
> - Publishing evidence of (war) crimes (this is what Assange did, right?) somehow appears to be a crime. What happened to failure to report a crime? Shouldn't instead people not publishing this be punished?

His "crime" was that he conspired to use a computer without permission. The fact he used it for a noble purpose doesn't get him out of extradition apparently. The fact that no one has been prosecuted for the much bigger crime that he exposed just adds perversity.
Like any interview, all it takes is a little dip into technical details to separate a Nikola from a Tesla. One focused on the physics and another on the facade. The leadship also sets the template for who works there. An LDS member with no serious technical background will attract a house of hacks, not hackers.
Note that Hershey's moving only works out for them if the resulting change in labor situation means that their customers can still afford their candy. If the excess labor instead means wages at home go down and now people cannot afford candybars it doesn't work out for them.

In short, we are better off for not having Hershey's in the US. Mexico gets better wages (more competition) and out people are freed from making candybars and can move to more productive uses of our people.
I don't think you read the article. Devtools shows 130 requests because it considers inline data URIs to be a request--instead, there are lots of inlined images. so the page looks mostly complete with only the original document request.
I agree with you in principal, but offer a small counterexample:

I was a student worker at a university with a documentation / training dept. We maintained a wiki used by faculty and staff. We encouraged adoption with other groups, and built out a library of articles on tech resources, like how to use screen recording software to make and edit videos for the classroom.

We also had dedicated hours in one of the computer labs, where one of us would be present to help anyone with questions on using Blackboard, wiki, etc.

So in some cases they are trying, but to your original point, we only had 3-4 people, mostly part time trying to provide training and documentation. I think we made a difference, but there was a lot more that could be done we didn't have resources for.
The Catholic Church has a pedophilia/child abuse problem. The conservative/Qanon obsession with pedophilia doesn't extend to churches, much less the Catholic Church. Why not?
then I submit that your rhetorical question at the end of your statement is flawed. Maybe consider the question: Does zig have a problem with closed-source rebrandings by companies that cause serious damage to the ecosystem outside of merely forking the code?
That's a whole other can of worms, too. How about reproducibility and transparency? How do I know the math is correct when I don't know what MATLAB/whatever is actually doing under the hood?
Wow, corona viruses are ~0.1um in size, maybe a bit bigger. HEPA filters of appropriate quality then should trap many of the viruses. Thanks for the heads up!
Different (and niche) industries use words to describe what they do. Sometimes those words collide in meaning when applied to different specialties. I've worked in an industry where people use the word "programming" to describe using a GUI to configure software. No code is written. It's just data entry.

The word has changed meaning in that industry and it's not really my place to tell everyone they're wrong. I just need to be more descriptive when I talk about what I do.

Don't call yourself a developer unless you renovate or build properties.
Please consult the community of virologists.

See This Week in Virology (TWiV)
( https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ )

They covered this several times.
The consensus is that "made in a lab" is nonsense.

Listen and learn. This is Hacker News, not Facebook.
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The University of Michigan made an instructional video showing how you can easily make an air purifier out of a box fan and a HEPA-rated furnace filter for $25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU

It won't be as good as a purpose-built machine, but it will be far better than nothing at all.

TheWirecutter found it reduced particulate matter in a room by 87%, if you do it right. They also make clear important caveats about this method -- in short, this works in a pinch, but probably should not be used in place of a purpose-built filter if you want one for year-round use. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...
My point is that I think the mountain of changes / features required is pretty high if you're cobbling free software together to create something someone at a school will buy, before you can even make a sale.

I'm also not sure schools or non tech focused businesses really think THAT much about just calling some rando to fix their software. That's a whole other process that isn't easy / sure to do the thing you want.
Professional Engineer, e.g. Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Traffic, etc.

They are licensed by the state they do business in, and are required to pass exams and take continuing education credits.
I'm really looking forward to Zig becoming more refined. I started writing an x86 kernel, but put that on pause because of known compiler bugs.
In case anyone else, like me, saw "pCR" and didn't know what it meant, I believe that it means "pathologic complete response". Not "polymerase chain reaction" which is all you get by googling.

It's really unfortunate people use overloaded acronyms like this without a definition.
That's actually a pretty solid idea. A meta tag for topics.

Only issue would be handling inevitable "SEO-ified" abusers of it.
Wood smoke kills around 2 million people a year, though that generally takes long term exposure.

So, while you’re not incorrect that individual wildfires are not a major concern, living in places where such exposure is common is a significant issue.
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In my experience, solid works is the clear winner. I haven't had to use an autodesk product professionally until recently, and even then I'm working on transitioning to FreeCAD because it is more powerful than autocad (I can design something and write g-code in the same program to make it)

Autocad is such a shit product, I have to think the only reason it still exists is because engineers are stubborn and just stick with what they know. Autodesk knows this, which is why they are more than willing to give it away to schools.
Wood is made of complex carbohydrates (lignins). The worst thing you’ll get in the smoke is carbon particles and maybe a small amount of aromatic hydrocarbons like benzene.

Coal is made of up of a mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons like a anthracene, naphthalene. These are already toxic to humans. Add metals like mercury, antimony, etc.

Coal smoke is much worse than wood smoke.
Because they could make meaningful contributions to Zig, just as they had in the past.
I did read the article that's I picked to sentences from there. I did not pick up from the article that chrome counts inline data as requests and I did not know that earlier.

I find that even more odd that inline data is counted as requests.

edit: stand corrected, thanks for pointing out
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Oh absolutely - I wasn’t disparaging your efforts in the least. There are reasons to need something more complex, but sometimes you just need to make sure you don’t take too much of something.
This is the purpose of the FSF as far as I understand. One of their goals is enforcement of the GPL
There was an effort called GlowCaps that attempted to productize this years ago. Have no context in this space but not sure if this is a better mechanism or pillpack style drug delivery (self contained packets of medicine)
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I used to work at this place where I had to apply thermal transfer to a solution of sodium chloride in dihydrogen oxide, wherein I submerged a quantity of helicoids made out of polymeric carbohydrate, increasing their ductility by several magnitudes.

It was a highly proprietary process, but I later found out that everybody was doing it this way.
Medical licensing came about precisely because there were too many quacks and incompetents claiming to be qualified doctors who were harming or killing patients.
> which nobody would advocate doing without

I will advocate right now doing without any copyrighted or patented objects in government if at all practical. Am I anyone?
> Maybe some day people will be able to design their own medication and targeted supplements.

> What worries me is this may be decades away.

First the good news: That day is here!!

Now the bad news: that medication isn't working out great for them. Apparently some wingnut told people that drinking bleach was a potential cure for some ills. Didn't go great.

And thats the problem with what you wish for - a popular facebooker, youtuber, instagrammer, president tells people that they can design their own medication, people are going to do it.
The journalist seems to be real [1], and that website has been around since 1999 [2], and they've published a magazine "Heavy Duty Trucking" [2] since that time too. I think it's a legitimate niche magazine/site, yeah. It's possible the journo misquoted him I guess? But that's so outlandishly incoherent they've have demanded a correction, no?

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/truckinjim/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20000612021454/http://www.trucki...
>Call yourself whatever you want.

I agree, call yourself whatever you want.

At the same time, expect to get a few quizzical looks from potential employers or clients looking for a developer when you tell them you can't actually code.
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I've put it this way for a long time: "The US system combines everything that is bad about socialized medicine with everything that is bad about privatized medicine."
"Importantly, DNA damage in T-lymphocytes was less in patients who received the FMD in combination with chemotherapy compared to those receiving chemotherapy while on a regular diet"

Does this not qualify as a protective effect?
Fair enough.

What I do for the product categories you mention - cheap commodity items - is I first decide how important are they for me. If I don't really care about quality (or it's a product that's almost impossible to make in bad quality), I'll order from the cheapest seller that doesn't seem fly-by-night (which I determine by metrics like "how old is the account/offer", "how many positive reviews the offer page has" and "what special site-specific markings the seller has". It's not bullet-proof, but the goal here is just to avoid dealing with fraudsters.

If I do care about quality, it depends on whether or not I can afford losing money and time on a bad item. If yes, GOTO previous paragraph. If not, I'll find a brand - any brand - that sells the item and order from them.

Also not mentioned: for a good chunk of such purchases I rely on word-of-mouth. If someone I know has a product in the category I'm interested in and they're happy with their purchase, I'll just buy the same thing they did, preferably from the same place they did.

The main heuristic I use: sellers are incentivized to lie, cheat and steal from you. Degree to which it happens depends, in general, on how much they can get away with. So I expect the official Nikon store to lie to me (deceptive marketing, bullshit specs, purposefully making it hard to compare across product category). I expect an e-commerce platform seller to lie and possibly cheat (that's entirely based on personal experience). Reviews are too easy to fake and bribe (I've personally know people who did it and I've been asked to participate many times, so I know how this works and how widespread it is).
I have used MATLAB extensively. I exclusively use python these days. I would say in terms of quality MATLAB is 8.5/10 and python is like a 6.5.

I am always searching google to fix something not working on python. In matlab, just refer to the docs.
Many things about Urbit look great, but reading that site it talks about how the Urbit ID would be at the centre of your online life, payments, etc. Then later it explains how a company has been granted permission to sell the address space of these Urbit IDs.

Potentially it is better to purchase an Urbit ID directly, rather than indirectly purchasing Apple ID through buying their hardware, or a Google/Facebook ID by donating your data.

Nevertheless, despite being presented as a free and open system, it seems like Urbit would centralise power with those selling Urbit IDs to an extent that Google, Apple, Facebook, etc have not yet achieved.
that's laughable. How much do you suppose it would cost to hire an international lawyer to pursue a case in a foreign country. Even if there were enough resources, do you think that the stakeholders in the Zig Foundation would consider that to be a reasonable use of the funds that they've donated?

I certainly wouldn't. As a donor, as far as I can tell, this is as good as they could do. I'm much happier that they spend their money on code, and leave it at a statement that can grab attention, like what they have done.
It feels fast because most other sites are insanely slow.

Just build a normal HTML+CSS+JS site with serverside rendering, route the assets through a CDN and voila! your site will be just as "fast" as Google.
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I've been a happy date-fns user for a long time. Recently I started a project that heavily uses time zone conversions and date-fns-tz falls short. It does work 99% of the time. It's not maintained by the core devs. The APIs aren't very intuitive. If I'm starting a new project I'd like to give Luxon a try.
I thought the rule of thumb was that only live objects matter for GC performance (mark-and-sweep only counts what's alive and just purges everything else). Is that not true in modern era?
> Important: It’s worth noting that each one of these Base64 encoded images is counted as a “request” in the Network tab of Chrome developer tools. This explains why there are so many images “requested” but the page is so fast. The browser never goes over the network to get them!
It's blurry and not so clear cut but certain ranks need to be earned otherwise it's fraud.

Like all the "engineers" on HN who are really just programmers. There's a word that's been bastardized over the last three decades.

It used to be a common joke: A garbage man is a "sanitation engineer." A housewife is a "domestic engineer." A farmer is an "agricultural engineer." Then for some reason, the SV bubble latched on to "software engineer," without understanding that it was supposed to be a joke. Maybe they felt bad because they had to work with electrical engineers.

I ran into a guy in a bar once who introduced himself as a "software engineer." I asked what engineering board licensed him to use that title. He said none, but that he's an "engineer" because he designs complex systems.

Structural engineer = engineer. Electrical engineer = engineer. Architectural engineer = engineer. Guy who pushes buttons = programmer.

California state law defines engineer: "consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning or design of public or private utilities, structures, machines, processes, circuits, buildings, equipment or projects, and supervision of construction"
On whose authority was https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/2701 made, and what are the implications for the Zig project now that the referenced commit (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/aa60d2a688c965dcccf8e2...) is part of the codebase?
Honestly, Google is one of the modern marvels, even when I read the article and understand _why_ Google is so fast, I still cannot comprehend it.

To people over 30 years ago, this is a literal example of magic.
Clearly the article means "make fewer render blocking requests."
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Just in case you've disappointed with the messenger.
That would be absolutely true for those with unlimited mental bandwidth and time, large nations' intelligence services for example.

If one wants my attention for something that looks like scientific writing, except for rare exceptions at my personal discretion, one will have to go through peer review - the main filter of the scientific method.

Otherwise, the bin.