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>Has anybody legitimately had good experiences with microservices these days? Especially if you're not starting with a monolith that has done well? My experience at several companies, several projects, has been that what was actually just a poorly built, inflexible, monolithic application becomes a poorly built, distributed, networked, polyglot application that is now 100x less flexible. Sure you can reimplement any microservice interface any time you want and drop in the replacement, but good luck figuring out where that was being called and how many unique and interesting ways it might break if you don't implement the edge cases in the same way.

It depends on the team. If there is a large team, then yes micro-services could be a good choice. It is not silver bullet. In the end it comes down the the quality of developers. With a group of good quality developers then a good product can be build with micro-services or monolith. With functional programming or OO or declarative.

Stop using marketing people who uses buzz word without understanding underling tech.
But that is a self-selected population.

There a plenty of folks actually starting a business, and you either didn't click on their blog articles, or they didn't write a blog.
But in the UK everyone knows that it's only going to be 3 series at 6 episodes each, and so that's how the show is written. The viewer gets a satisfying arc.

Netflix just pulls the plug. This means you get a weird kludged together final episode to try to pull stuff together or they just leave it and there's no resolution for a lot of stuff.

I do agree that many of these shows would be better if they were written in the UK style. A lot of US shows now just feel woolly as they meander through the plot.
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S2 Scripting Engine
>You're dying regardless. An illness only affects how long it takes.

Well, "how long it takes" is kind of the whole point though...

Few are rushing to die...
The impact of co2 is a smokescreen.
Destroying grounds and mining for minerals for electric batteries can impact the world much more then a million kilometers driven with a gas gozzling super truck.

Co2 of electric energy and heat production overshadows cars by an insane amount.

Considering micro particles from the tires, a diverse range of oils, wiper fluids, particles from the brakes and recycling of all control boards, plastics and foams, they are more concerning than co2 output. At least to me.
Causing an accident and having your car burning out would ruin all previous considerations, no matter what type of car.

Having a car that breaks down often, that is technological to involved for proper repair, like hybrids and evs, will wreck all previous considerations. You will plug out components and put new in, effectively producing involved trash and buying your car again over time.
You can of course be lucky, or you can buy the ongoing repair problem.

So basically the cheapest car, considering all costs, including repairs and recycling and governmental taxes, would be the best in the long run. This is hart to predict and everyone has that problem, when deciding on a car to buy.

Taking any old giant diesel Mercedes limousine, that is already run for 30 years, for a 1000$ upgrading it to lpg or ethanol and using it for another 30 years, could be argued to be far more environmental friendly than any new electric car or hybrid.

If direct co2 output is your only metric, it will be the cheapest electric car you can find.
Just don't crash it or drive it in way that causes lots of repairs.
I had a strong suspicion it was going to be CSS, but I think you're right.
I wrote the summary after reading the books.

Cybernetics ... well, let's just say it was the "AI" of its time, which eventually evolved into something useful (I guess Germans call operations research this name). Beer had nothing to do with Weiner; he was a hanger on and a professional wanker. Reading Beer in current year would be like reading Eliezer Yudkowsky or Bostrum and hoping to learn something about deep learning.

Mind you I found Beer an extremely likeable mountebank. Compared to current year "AI" numskulls, 9/10 for personality alone.
I'm starting to get fed up with TV shows (netflix or otherwise) for that same reason. It seems you only have two choices:

- first season doesn't pull enough viewers, it's cancelled.

- first season pulls enough viewers, season 2 onwards take season 1 as a status quo they'll basically never advance from, advancing the story so slowly that it almost feels like a sitcom where most characters end up at the exact point they used to be at the beginning so they can keep getting viewership.

I'm starting to see it with The Boys for example (WARNING slight spoilers next) Season 1 introduced a super dangerous environment where any wrong step could end the characters lives, by the end of season 2 it almost feels like a high school show because the main characters mostly bump into each other without consequences. If they need to kill someone they just introduce a new person a few episodes earlier so they can get rid of that one while the main characters stay healthy.
*> "The sea-ice is dying," he said.

The sea ice was never alive, so saying it is dying is just loaded with pathos. He sounds more like an activist than a scientist.
“Use of this website constitutes acceptance of cortical electrode installation [ACCEPT]“
The Polarstern ("Pole Star") is a ship of the AWI (Alfred-Wegener-Institute [0]). Another project of theirs, which you might know from images because it has a characteristic look, is the current Neumayer-Station [1][2]. It sits on columns that can hydraulically raise and lower the station to adapt to different heights of snow. This is off-topic but you might like it as well.

The station is of course host to experiments of others as well. The DLR (Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtzentrum, "German Aerospace Center") has an indoor-container-greenhouse called EDEN ISS [3][4] there which grows vegetables, herbs and fruits under artificial conditions [5] (german). The fresh produce is a welcome variation of diet for the crew during the long months of winter which otherwise consists solely of dried or deep-frozen food.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener_Institute_for_P...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumayer-Station_III

[2] https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Neumayer-Station+III

[3] (english) https://eden-iss.net/

[4] While ISS refers to the international space station (see [3]), it is almost certainly a play on words because "Iss!" means "Eat!" in german)

[5] (german) https://www.mdr.de/wissen/dlr-antarktis-gewaechshaus-gaertne...
Many moons ago I was in a graduate program at a large multinational industry company. Closer to the end of the graduate program they had all the graduates do the Myers-Briggs Test at a multi-day company retreat event.

It was painted as a 'self-discovery' exercise but the exercise was organized by HR and it clearly felt like they were pre-screening for which graduates to put on a 'upper management' track.
Both is fine, but given the choice I'd prefer to watch a member of the surgical team write with a sharpie on my legs.
Imo highly individual. In my practice, I've observed inflammation in my heel decrease in scale of a few weeks (my heel used to be inflamed after every run for a few days, with me unable to recover from 2 weekly runs of ~ 6km; after 2-3 week started to improve, now - 2 mo later - it is completely healed, can run 4-5 times a week, and bottleneck is now something else). The second effect I observe is my decreased fear of cold shower & improved ability to handle it (both psychologically and physically).
Many families have hand-me-down phones/clothes/vehicles/computers/...
We recently moved _away_ from split tunneling. It's still giving me headaches. Not just performance, but things like docker containers don't always work right.
It’s also common to say stars are dying.
Usenet indeed predates the Web and HTTP, and while it mostly existed on the internet, it could also propagate to machines not connected to it, or connected through dialup lines, using uucp (unix-to-unix-copy).

What it was is basically a massive collection of discussion groups, organised hierarchically, hosted on local machines that exchanged these messages with other machines. There was a variety of newsreader programs available that you could use to read and post messages on these discussion groups.

Not every usenet host supports every group. There were a couple of top-level hierarchies, like rec.* for everything recreational, like hobbies and games (I was an avid reader of the rec.games.frp.* newsgroups, which were about roleplaying games); sci.* for everything science, comp.* for everything computer related (some of which was admittedly also recreational). There was also the alt.* hierarchy where literally anything goes. Many hosts only supported a limited selection of the alt.* newsgroups.

You'd post under your own email address, and most newsreaders also supported emailing people directly instead of responding in the group.

I believe there was a big revamp at the end of the 1980s where everything about usenet got changed. I only know the situation from after that reorganisation.
It’s interesting how quickly this submission disappeared from the front page, hm.

I think the only way to find an answer is to somewhat base it on faith not just pure science.

What if the future has already happened (at least some version of it) but the past has never existed like we know it? That’s why the simulation has been used.

If the “base” universe/Earth that we live in just appeared a few dozens years ago “as is” out of nowhere then the only way to make it “real” is to actually simulate the past.

Mandela effect and predictive programming are actually anomalies in favour of multiple iterations on the simulated past.

Now the question is who benefits from this and why?
The technologies from the future (which are not distinguished from magic) and antagonist - Devil/Lucifer that is not interested that we see God as the creator or maybe even furthermore to undermine God’s role or maybe even trap him in this reality.

This actually also answers the question why we don’t have a proof that God exists because someone put real huge effort to disprove it i.e. here’s a given reality, now how we came here but without God?

Apparently all efforts on this failed otherwise we would never even heard about concept of God or simulation. And it also proves that we’re indeed in “base” reality.

And because God does exist in this reality the future is not predetermined despite whatever means antagonist is using to prove otherwise.
Mocks have to be updated and fixed every time you do any meaningful changes in production code. Good fake can be reused in many tests and will keep behaving like a real thing with minimum maintenance. Much less complex than maintaining hundreds of mocks each implementing different parts of the interface.
>And how do other languages get away with it?

They don't get away with it. They suffer the consequences of bad performance. Of course depending on your metric they are "faster" in some situations that are common to that language but C++ often lets you avoid temporary heap allocations by using the stack which further increases performance.
>>"Why are we presenting bigger, badder VPNs as the solution?"... SAAS instead.

YOu can think of it as path dependency. Organisations are already structured around a "walled castle." It's possible to run everything differently, but the path from A to B is too rough.
Not sure if you're seeing something different on that page, but for my view, the "widget" page makes no mention of "wedjat" and vice versa. But it is spelled "wadjet" instead .. and that page makes no mention of widget either.
The article addresses this: you need to write tests for the fake as well.

I'm not sure I buy this as something that's desirable to have to do, but it should address your concern.
I disagree, I prefer Face ID. They just both have pros and cons.

If you're wearing gloves, Touch ID doesnt work. If you're wearing a mask, Face ID doesnt work. If your finger is a bit wet and/or wrinkly, Touch ID doesnt work. If your face is at a very off angle Face ID won't work.

Face ID worked pretty well for me (before mask time) and for me it had less tradeoffs. I prefer it.
Some people are willing to trade the risk of death (or even the certainty) for the chance of being first to achieve something notable. Plenty of people would rather live a short but exceptional life instead of an uninteresting long one.
But there is not that much sunlight at the poles, which is actually the reason why there is ice. Also, the antarctic ice coverage seems to be pretty stable.
>In the UK a series is usually only 6 episodes and few shows last more than two or three series

Inspector Morse (et al) come to mind as one that lasts longer. So many great British detective shows that go on for decades, with around 20 movie-length episodes per season (aka series).
DMN is integral part of Kogito and they work really well. That was actually the main reason for us looking into that direction.
If memory serves me right, Western Australia , South Australia and Tasmania haven't had local community transmission in months. Queensland had a couple of small outbreaks but seems to have been contained very quickly.
That's a very uncharitable view of his comment.
For comparison getting to LEO (low earth orbit) is ~10km/s, getting from LEO to moon is ~6km/s, from LEO to the sun is ~30km/s.
David Starkey investigated by police for interview 'stirring up racial hatred'
Bean counters shit up everything. This started in traditional publishing in the 1990s and it's responsible for the oppressive mediocrity of the "high literature" scene in the US. Money people never, ever know their place. They don't understand that culture is more important than they are, and it shows.

It started with the chain bookstores. Used to be, getting in was the hard part, but once a writer got published, he stayed published. His editor would keep supporting his books until he broke out. Chain bookstores wrecked this. They'd pull an author's numbers, see that the first book was a flop, and pass on the second. They also introduced the 8-week rotation, which meant that reader word of mouth (a slower process) got disenfranchised, forcing publishers to pick winners (lead titles) and losers before the books were even launched.

This changed the incentive structure. Instead of having to get one person, who knew literature, to believe in his work, an author has to convince a whole committee of people. If the editor can't sell the book to the money people, it gets no marketing or publicity and it dies.

Then there are the literary agents, who don't even read 99 percent of the work sent to them. That's done by unpaid college-age interns. So, instead of writing a book readers will love, your focus becomes writing a book that people will think their bosses like. It's a totally different game.

I'm not surprised this is happening to Netflix. We tend to have a pro-data bias in technology. We don't realize that when the money people get their hands on data, that unless we are extremely editorial in the context in which they interpret and use that data, it's going to be a disaster. They don't have altruistic motives and they don't work nearly as hard as we do to understand complexity-- it's best to think of them as a different species.
Yes, not huge. Just a point measurement, achieved through invasive surgery and electrical stimulation.

What we really need is a schematic diagram. It’s not obvious how we will get to there from here. Not knowing anything about the data format means these are still early days.

But every little bit tells us something more, and one day iall the bits will all add up.
Quoting the Big Lebowski: "you're right, but you're still a jerk" :-)

Almost every time a "free plan" or an "unlimited plan" is cut off (BTW, in life there is no "unlimited" anything, just use common sense), it's not because some random person uses 10-50-100% more than what the person offering it thought everyone would use.

It's more like 1000%-10000%. And that's definitely being a sociopath/jerk.

Data hoarders are jerks, for example, no way around that. There's almost no rational way to explain it, it's just an addiction.
I'm going to assume you're missing the 90's context where programmers began to be social as well as technical. This led to the accidental inclusion of people that were merely social without technical skills, thus: bros.
The parent used terminally ill to mean; knowing he was going to die; we all know we are going to die, it's just a matter of how soon. We are all terminally ill.
Do we know whose old satellites these are? Why aren't we able to predict this way ahead of time?
A star is active and full of energy, while ice is just passive and does nothing.
Yes, good point, that’s true. Personally, I know it’s not the ‘right’ ethos, but I see the mock test failure as a bit of a bonus. My change intended to stop calling ReadOne and start calling ReadMultiple. Having to change the test sure tells me I accomplished that! But you’re right that if I’m intending to only test behaviour, the fake lets me do that better. Interesting post, thank you :)
ATS2 and VeriFast avoid some of FreeBSD vulnerabilities
To be fair, in Earth's frame of reference they'd be hundreds, thousands, millions of years old by the time they entered the event horizon.
Space is extremely large and mostly empty.
People tend to misunderstand Kessler syndrome a lot because they build their idea on faulty representations. For example, if you go to the wikipedia article on Kessler syndrome, you will see an image where centimeters long debris are symbolised by kilometers wide dots.

> This might effectively lock use of Earth orbit away for centuries.

It would make exiting earth orbit and placing an object there significantly more complicated because you would need to take into account debris, probably detect them from the object and manoeuvre a lot more but it wouldn't entirely lock up use of Earth orbit. It would also be a solvable situation. Cleaning debris is doable.
A very nice writeup, but (no offense) "tens of seconds" per image? Maybe I haven't understood the technical challenges well enough, but processing an image of 60,000 pixels should surely be much faster than that. What would the cost center of such a process even be - building the superpixels?
> where are the parents?

Sometimes the kids hide the abuse from their parents.
issue/bug/ticket tracking that works with email is great.

The idea is that good tools let people stay in their workflow of choice, whether it's the browser, email client, app, etc.

I personally hate being forced from one to the other, like emails that take you to the brower, or worse - everything funnels you into an app.
when you're unrolling your linked lists you don't have to go that far. I'd say at least 128 elements and 1024 elements at most. To be fair, this is just based on intuition.
And Bolivia, too. In fact, NYTimes even had an article stating that what happened was a coup against Evo Morales and that its previous articles were misrepresenting the situation.
Show HN: I made a CLI tool that can convert typed text to realistic handwriting
I imagine that the hardware design was finalised a long time ago and even 9 months would be too short a time to figure out how to include it without reverting to the old design with smaller screens
I think it's a AOL subsidiary and they treat it like cheap content farm, like all of the AOL brands.

Or was it Verizon? Or does Verizon owns AOL? Something like that

edit: yeah Verizon, AOL, Yahoo are the same company now and basically mass-producing content
You need a "tanj it!" at the end of that sentence. (-:
Every day is a weekend day when you are stuck at home
Internet traffic has increased by 20% due to the lockdown
Hmm, if I’m having to write tests for my tests, I feel something has gone wrong in my life ;)
Disable Javascript to bypass the paywall.
Sounds plausible.
> there is no way to determine an actual wiring of a processor from the level of code, or even that there is a processor.

Unless someone explicitly leaves a loophole - for debugging or other purposes. There is a nice scene in the recent movie Vivarium about this.
So, is the problem because the adaptive feature of SBC is only one-way and once the bitpool is decreased (as you walk away from the transmitter and the signal degrades) it doesn't get increased again when the signal later improves? But turning it off and on again (while the signal condition is good) resets the high bitpool setting? And the workaround presented here is to basically disable the adaptive feature? If so, doesn't that then mean it'll start cutting out as you walk away, or is that that also switching to 'dual' mode prevents?
Effects of Wim Hof method are very much backed by rigorous scientific studies, see e.g. this is a good overview of the papers, or read them yourself.

https://scienceofparkinsons.com/2020/02/06/wim-hof/

My conclusion is that some effects are very real, according to best available science. But You have to filter that from Wim Hof's persona & explanation style, which to me often feels very hand-wavy & daresay sometimes even esoteric & his explanations/rationalisations are sometimes clearly off. (e.g. he often says that the breathwork/hyperventilation increases amount of oxygen delivered to cells, while in reality it is the opposite due to Bohr effect). But he imo definitely is onto something with the practice.
Was it wisely propogated? It may not have been accepted by many peered servers. If I recall not all groups propagated to all other servers (in theory of not in practice?) so if you were not on an isp's nntp server it may have gone nowhere.
You can connect to FidoNet thru synchro.net (telnet, web, and even gopher via cvs.synchro.net).
You should look into Logitech Media Server (open source with community forks/support).
You can install it on your NAS, I have it on a synology.

It also supports syncing music with multiple devices at a fraction, if any, of sonos or similar costs.

There is a plethora of plugins available including an AirPlay bridge to stream to your Apple tv.

You can use the excellent iPeng app (paid but recommended) as a phone remote (and even a source with an IAP).

I use the LMS ecosystem to stream from my NAS to my linux workstation (using squeezelite), to my tv/speakers on an nvidia shield, to my phone via iPeng and to another chromecast.
You don't need Apple for that. Actually it's incredibly easy. Just don't install the software you don't want to run.
Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document by copying the relevant information from the internet and let handwritten.js do the writing part!

Demo: https://alias-rahil.github.io/handwritten.js/
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I've seen unit tests that test around bugs. Once you fix the bug, a lot of tests fail. Then you discover there is no easy fix for the test. Either delete them all or replace them with new ones.
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