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Two words that, when leading off any statement about anything, will immediately disqualify the following statement from being taken seriously.
I tried searching for "refactoring legacy code" but I couldn't find it. Who's the author?
It's like Reddit raided HN today.
That is not universally true. We just started a new ISP and built fiber to 1300 customers. It took government grants to make it possible but it is happening throughout the country. Local electric co-ops are building fiber at breakneck pace.
I’m not sure what the go/C equivalent of “Ugh, you’re using jQuery? Time for a rewrite” is. It happens a lot more in frontend land than in the rest of the developer ecosystem.
Is this appointment for a Residency Permit? I think it varies greatly by the location of the immigration office. In Fethiye, it was easy.
The US military maintains plans for invading Canada, defending Puerto Rico against alien attack, and flooding the Netherlands to deny them to the militant Tibetan Buddhist cult which has discovered an effective indoctrination-hypnosis video and is conquering Europe. Plans are just plans. Lots of them are stupid. Planning officers often make strategic plans as simple exercises in considering all factors. You can be assured that Soviet invasion of the US mainland was hardly one of the more farfetched ones, as such things go, though the conditions never came close to presenting themselves.

Nuclear weapons make most military plans "fanciful to the point of being stupid". We've been in a state of unavoidable mutually assured destruction since the late 1960's. This hasn't stopped weapons development. Being able to move large amounts of soldiers and weaponry around at high speed is a generally useful thing.
Of course everybody knows the right way to convince conspiracy theorists that they're wrong is to go after them.

I don't see what's wrong with having internet trash bins. At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere.

I'm not from the US, the only mentions of those sites I have ever encountered was journalists making a few articles about them.
> I don't really understand why in 2020 there's still this kind of blind hatred against this language.

I don't either, but what I also don't understand is why in 2020 anyone would use PHP over many available vastly superior alternatives.

Other than keeping old stuff running, why do people keep beating this dead horse? I just don't get it.
She had a talk[1] at the Perimeter Institute a few years ago, which I recall thinking was rather good.

[1]: http://pirsa.org/17110133
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Well, for starters, I guess picking a project topic that is fun helps. You could do a lot worse than a bongo cat meme in that regard
Our story is one of multiple instances of amazing timing and very good choices.

We very luckily got our Malaysia long term visa approved in December after 2 years of gathering the necessary documents and 6 months of processing time. We were in Vietnam until November 25th and due to my wife having disturbingly good intuition, we had pre-planned to be in KL for the last week of November "just in case" we happened to get approved sometime before then. Didn't hear anything from our visa agent until the 2nd day we were in KL. We woke up to a text that we were approved and we spent the next 2 days running around the city signing papers, opening bank accounts/health insurance plans, and getting our visa in our passports.

We then went from KL to Kota Kinabalu as we are always there around the end of the year and were there to slowly watch the chaos unfold that we had been pretty aware of since the very beginning since it was the major discussion in nomad circles. As things slowly escalated, CNY came and went right as travel restrictions started to be implemented - slowly a major city for tourism became a ghost town.

We were planning on going to Bali next around March but we were slowly coming to the realization that that was not a good choice. If we were going to be stuck somewhere, Bali was not where we wanted to be. As we were cancelling those plans, Malaysia was about to crack down on foreigners entering the country, providing only a few days notice about incoming restrictions (Sabah and the mainland are considered separate countries essentially in terms of Visas so we very likely would be stuck in KK). Knowing we only had a couple days to act, we cancelled everything (flights, airbnbs etc.) and booked a flight to Penang that we consider "home" in Malaysia and would be the place we could handle being stuck in.

First flight - got an email in the middle of the night that it had been cancelled. Booked another - also got cancelled. Booked a third on the last day before the restrictions went into place - didn’t get cancelled. Furiously packed and noped out of there.

Been in Penang since then (March 18th). We are usually here for about May-August. The local government has handled the pandemic response better than most of the world (including other parts of Malaysia - Penang started taking action before the federal gov). We could not have picked a more safe and comfortable place for us to ride this out and we are very grateful everything worked out amidst the chaos.
I read 8chan and 4chan sometimes, not /b/ and not /pol/, I am more interested in the other boards that often care for or start open source projects.

I am very disappointed with people that want to shut down these places, often because of false allegations (for example the attempt to shut down 8chan for child porn, that later were found out to be a false flag, the person accusing them were also the one that posted the porn in first place)
Yes! I cannot understand how this shit has been selling for so long and nobody did anything. It's really low-hanging fruit. Nobody needs glitter for anything.
You don't have to provide an API to transfer between accounts on the same platform, but you do need to provide a way to get all your data off the service, which another service can use to import.
My point was that it was ironic for people to say that PHP becoming more Java-like was a bad thing, but then they said that they prefer Java to PHP.

You are right, I did sneak in there that I find PHP less verbose than Java as an advantage, since most people complain about how much typing you need to do in Java I thought this was worth highlighting.

However personally I think PHP evolving to be more similar to Java was a good thing, even better because imo they copied the good parts, ie: OOP instead of the verbosity but that's up for debate.

In short, becoming more like Java was good, but PHP isn't Java and has its own advantages for web development, imo this is that it is less verbose and easier to write.
It’s a little off topic, but today you can get a self driving ride in Las Vegas through the Lyft app. Two safety drivers sit up front though so it’s not driverless.
I only started reading and watching Cyberpunk related things about a month ago, so it's interesting to see how far we already are.
Physicist here, although it is nice to know what happens when we use very high energies, this is not something relevant for humanity, I'd invest that money on things that we really need, for example clean energies.
The necessary condition seems to be invalidated by the “family-tradition” narrative where someone goes directly from son of a 4* general to becoming a 2* general as long as they don’t mess up too badly. For them, their default amount of status can lead to success as long as they don’t put too many chips on the wrong games.

I’m not actually sure how true that is in practice, but the stickiness of income bracket and legacy enrollment in universities seems to give some credence to this type of construction.
>No one I know who could qualify for a UBI

You know the U is for universal right?
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For investors any startup close to 50:50 is a great investment. At the seed stage anything above ~5% is actually very good odds. That increases in latter funding rounds, but that’s the benchmark I am describing as a bad bet.
I know people blocked by this. Usually they're people who had an easy time at expensive schools, they now can't accept that they're anything other than brilliant and deserve the top jobs based on their raw 'talent' alone. Those who can work their way up from the unglamorous positions at the bottom are the ones doing well, and often leapfrog those with an easier starting position due to it.
IME they are not happy to pay for work spaces.

A nice chair, a desk, a monitor. (Not that I have space for a nice chair at home!)

But an office? No way.

Perhaps it's because renting an office costs similar to renting a flat where I live (even though you get less space when renting an office).

I have had positive signals towards paying for a desk in a shared workspace... But wait, aren't we working at home to avoid sharing workspaces at the moment?
It's called a Residency Permit - just google it. The length of time depends on your nationality, but it's 1 year for citizens of an OECD country.
Anyone else here in Fethiye? :) It would be great to meet.
There are multiple longer-term visa options in Vietnam open to you too. Talk to an agent or lawyer about investor or education visas.
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Solar can be a lot trickier at small scales at in harsher climates, than wind. Obscured by trees, snow build up, overcast skies, etc.
Not for tourists, but if you were able to get a visa issued for Thailand (education, expert, investor, etc) travel should be no problem.
> Science shouldn’t be a zero sum game.

Poor people "shouldn’t" die from simple diseases. Is this the game, we are wishing away things we don't like?

Science 100% is zero sum. Especially talking the figures we are here.

How about we start with creating free science text books (that are not garbage) for the world then we'll let you blow multi-billions on your religion?
Really? For simple conversions?

I've been running basically this, which is a simple conversion to ogv, mp4, and VP9 webm, with a tiny bit of audio cleaning:

ffmpeg -y -nostdin -i $f -threads 8 -codec:v libtheora -qscale:v 4 -codec:a libvorbis -af afftdn -qscale:a 0 $f.ogv -codec:v libvpx-vp9 -qscale:v 4 -codec:a libvorbis -af afftdn -qscale:a 0 $f.webm -codec:v mpeg4 -codec:a aac -af afftdn -qscale:a 0 -qscale:v 4 $f.mp4

Across a huge dataset from a huge number of backgrounds, usually incredibly crap, for about 18 months, now. Without downtime. And with decent quality output, or at least pretty close to equal the input (did I mention it is often incredibly bad? Including near-broken files, and even some files with less than 20,000 pixels, total).

I'm not sure exactly what "never worked" means without more detail, but I'd say it's a workhorse.
>developed by universities and government institutions

The NSA called to say that they like your thinking there!
True. I was thinking more about how it drops some location level information.

I can't presume what Plausible does (have not read their docs in awhile) but they have commented here to provide more specific clarification that address IP usage (TLDR: what they do is fine and compliant)
Well, there goes my productivity for today
The WiFi thing is definitely an issue. I've found good results on AirBnB by filtering for business reviews. I figure that business travellers are going to hold a quality WiFi connection in higher regard than someone who's just travlling for fun.
Yes, there are places here and there, but it's not common, or a cultural understanding - people don't know to go out and do it).

It needs to be something promoted widely in order for it to 'catch on' as a cultural touchstone.
Indeed, I imagine a service that accepts bitcoin and provides you monero would instantly anonymize you. To outside observers it would look like you sent the BTC to an exchange and they'd continue following them to innocent wallets while you've hopped off the network entirely.
>> IP alone is not PII

It is in Europe, despite some regional rulings (Germany?). It is not considered PII in the USA.
The point is that those countries are not “high-risk”, and also have easy/cheap/fast access to Schengen, so they make a good “entry point”. Fly from your “high-risk” country to Croatia/UK/Ireland, then enter Schengen from there.
Fair, but that's also not any more paternalistic than all the existing laws which define which kind of work can be classified as a contractor and which must be classified as an employee.
GDPR simply classifies "personal data" as any piece of information that can be used to identify an individual. A static IP used by one person could therefore be considered personal data while a public IP shared between thousands of people behind carrier-grade NAT would not.

The problem is that you can't tell the two apart and decide when it's safe handle the IP.
I don't see that it really applies in this way. No-one is suggesting that scientists change the amount of time and effort they spend immersed in their research.

If the system of incentives is preventing researchers from promising-but-still-risky lines of research, that's still a problem.

If it's steering researchers away from meaningful research that won't produce anything publishable for a while, in favour of uninteresting variations on a common theme that reliably result in publications, that's still a problem too.

It also incentivises salami slicing, [0] which may result in scientific busywork.

(Disclaimer: I'm not an academic.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit
What field of this? I've literally never heard of a field where unpaid postdocs are common.
That is a nice article! Thanks for pointing it out. Most of the time I try to bite my tongue aswell. It is just sometimes really upsetting.
As someone who is trying to use pixelmator after 25 years of photoshop there is a lot of muscle memory to overcome.
If Central Banks were to get into Bitcoin, they would make early investors in Bitcoin very rich. Like 1 person would own 25% of all the world's wealth.

That wouldn't be proper Central Banking :)
I also spend a lot of time on 4chan, and visit 8chan occasionally. There is a universe of difference between them, and calls to shut down 4chan are much rarer and more ignorant of the content than calls to shut down 8chan. It's important not to conflate them.
Being forced to work from home is better than being forced to work from an office. In the former case, you can (and I did) rent an office, join a coworking space, work from coffee shops, etc. In the latter case, you have one choice and one choice only, and that choice sucks for a whole lot of folks.
The process is wrong in that HRMC should be doing its job without having people pushing it to.

I however refuse to give credit to Uber for finding loopholes and trying to get some pseudo approval to use them. They know very well that they operating on the edge on the law and it might come back to bite them.
Ekranoplanes function better the larger they get. The Caspian Sea Monster was not the endpoint of ekranoplane engineering. It deals well with ~1m wave height. For the Black Sea / Mediterranean sea or the Baltic, a larger version would be required, and for the Atlantic or Pacific, larger still. You could plausibly even fly it over Arctic sea ice fields without bergs.

Boeing was throwing around proposals for a ground effect aircraft several times this large in the early 2000's, with the largest bumping up against the weight range of naval destroyers at ~5000 tonnes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican
I run three "optionally" passive projects that have combined to about $26k so far in 2020 ("optionally" passive meaning I can put them on autopilot anytime, though continue to work on them to grow them).

They are:

1. SaaS Pegasus: a SaaS boilerplate template for Django projects (https://www.saaspegasus.com/)

2. Place Card Me, a printable place card maker for weddings nad other events (https://www.placecard.me/)

3. Chat Stats: Analytics for GroupMe groups (https://chatstats.co/)

My goal - started three years ago - is to replace my day-job income with passive side-project revenue. Hopefully will do so by 2022 or so!

I publish all my data on profit (as well as time spent and hourly rates) here: https://www.coryzue.com/open/
The point to note here is "if". Happily, they (Plausible) don't.
IP addresses IP addresses are never PII. PII means information about a person who can be identified. In that context, IP adresses are an identifier, not the information itself.

If you store IP adresses in your customer database, the information is that a person with that IP is one of your customers. This information is considered PII if it's possible to use the IP to identify the person the information is about, e.g. using a government database of everyone's IP address. If the data never reaches someone with access to such a database, it's not PII.

(This is a somewhat pendantic distinction, but it matters legally. Data protection law doesn't care about which identifiers are being used, but about the data associated with it and whether it tells you something about a specific identifiable person.)
Happy birthday! I hope you will find a job soon.
How old are they ? You may need to ask people who have retired.
I have, a lot. Your comparison is nowhere near realistic.
I'm guessing you're not in a support position.

2.a) no one ever reads the documentation.
yeah or maybe ESA could start trying to capture some asteroids.

I remember times when LHC was powered on. It was exiting and many things were speculated that this door would open.

And well... it all fizzled out quite quickly.

Building bigger collider feels like doubling down on a huge sunken cost fallacy.
Definitely near the top of my list. The sequel wasn't in the same class but his "True Names" novella is seminal cyberpunk although it doesn't have all of Gibson's trappings. (Varley's "Press Enter" is in a similar vein and has been more anthologized; they're both really good.)
> which explains in Vietnamese that all tourist visa are automatically extended for free

Just to avoid the proliferation of misinformation about this: the government is not punishing overstayers upon exit if they entered the country after a certain date (March iirc). Visas are not being automatically extended.
If it's unknown in advance surely it's more rational to spread the research out instead of putting most of the available eggs in a single basket.

CERN found Higgs - which was proposed decades before CERN was built. There is nothing like the Higgs proposal around today.

That's the real problem. Spend $20bn on some new models, and then you can spend $20bn chasing the most interesting prospects.

That's far more likely to get you somewhere exciting than the experimental equivalent of throwing more spaghetti at the wall and hoping some of it does something unexpected.
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How can an IP address without the last 3 digits possibly ever identify someone? That surface area is just way too large.
The main benefit you get from managed Kubernetes solutions is network/security, update- and scaling-related. These things are important, but they don't reduce the daily operating complexity around deployments (applications) on the cluster. In other words, they take the pain out of running and setting up Kubernetes itself, but they don't simplify using Kubernetes. I highly recommend using a managed solution unless you absolutely know what you are doing in terms of networking, security, and disaster recovery. They are not too expensive either, you're still mostly paying for the VM nodes.

The only reason we're not using a managed solution is because we have some specific edge networking and multi-cluster requirements that are hard to do with a managed solution.
Would you trade a European collider for a failed commercial alternative like FirefoxOS or PalmOS? Because keep in mind that commercial failure is the overwhelmingly likely outcome of the project you’re proposing. I’d rather fail at finding dark matter and learn things along the way than having a state-backed organization make lousy software that nobody uses.

Of course, the more fundamental point is that industry seems perfectly happy to try (and fail) at making Google competitors, while nobody in industry is going to do fundamental physics research.
It's not reversible, it's hashed with a daily salt.
Man, I haven't thought about Grooveshark in years. It was so good, but doomed from the beginning. They didn't have any sort of copyright agreements in place and they let users browse any songs uploaded by other users.
The goal is not to convince conspiracy theorists that they are wrong, the goal is to prevent them from hurting people or society and, to that end, keep the dangerous ones from organizing anonymously online in large numbers (I honestly don't know if that's possible).
That's very much a matter of taste though - I loved the pacing of the Mars trilogy and the related "Antarctica" which is pretty much White Mars.
I think there's a special talent into feeling insignificant activities and to quickly enough turn them into 'added value'.

Otherwise yeah you can pack burgers every day and stay at that level if you want. But some will make more, find more customers, more venues, new ideas. The growth spirit maybe ? I don't know.
The Wolverine Watchmen are a far right militia group; they are anti-govt anarchists. Their dog whistles are the Confederacy, Original-13, etc.; members are known to parrot QAnon.
No....they just want invited back to the next big release party.
Because you haven't talked to your doctor about your possible mental health difficulties or a therapist about personal patterns you find it hard to break from?
No longer afraid of retaliation, app developers join forces to criticize Apple
I worked for an ISP at the time a city tried that.

Rather than fix our infrastructure they spent millions holding up/preventing the city from laying fiber.
Yet many drivers do this full time. Why should ride share companies be excluded from worker protections that apply to other companies?
Could Amazon convert to a gig-economy for warehouse workers where you sign up via an app?

There are certainly some folks who drive just a few hours a week and the companies like to highlight that by releasing stats like “% of drivers drive less then 5 hours”. I think “% of driver time by drivers over 35h/week” would paint a different picture and show just how much they rely on full time drivers.
You can access Apple Music through iTunes on Windows.
Should streamers pay game developers to stream their games?
Donated 50 Trees from Earnings
I've reached the milestone of donating 50 trees from my Gumroad earnings of my E-book Start With A Side-Project. Each tree was gifted to a buyer, so they received a nice E-card with a thank you note :)

For visualisation, here are 50 trees:

I'm not an environmental activist but you just can't stay indifferent and ignore the state of our planet, here is a video about the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZAKPUQMw0

There is obviously more to it than just "fixing up" the Amazon Rainforest, but this is a start.

We need to be more vigilant and take care of our planet better.
Sorry, I misremembered:

"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is the name. The author is Michael C. Feathers I think.
The productivity gains are self-reported. No one can measure this objectively so the CIO can say whatever they want. It is not surprising that they want to say something to make themselves look good, instead of bad.