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Weak writing skills = lower information throughput = worse at remote work. Obvious or not?

Sorry nevermind, this was a misleading title. The article is actually about writing more documentation to decrease onboarding time. I think this is also true for non-remote onboarding. Better title would be "Writing great documentation decreases onboarding time for remote employees". Not really sure why this has > 300 votes. I guess people read the title and agreed.
Honestly? No. I find them light-hearted and fun, they sound a bit silly but they're just part of the marketing and never have to be used if you're being serious, since you can always just say "____ programmers" and no-one will call you out on it.
Apple should just support valve with proton(wine). This would enable 90% of all Windows games on the Mac.
I find it entirely reasonable that largest country by the population in the world is also largest miner of coal. That is exactly how it should be. Now the bigger issue is with countries that don't rank similarly to their population size...
I think you've missed the point here. At none of those could I have charged from the house with a cable, as they either had off-street parking, or I was in an upper storey flat, or there was no parking available at all, etc.

I think that kind of dismissive comment is entirely the problem here. You do realise that the entire electrical substation infrastructure needs substantial upgrading for it to even be possible? And that's not an easy problem? And that every single residential street in all of the UK needs to be dug up and have chargers installed? In 9 years' time (or maybe 19 if we say 10 years lifetime of 2nd hand cars)?

The whole issue is the govt acts as if all they need to do is ban petrol cars + our CO2 issues are solved, and do not address these serious practical issues.

Also on a personal note - this comment came across as somewhat snide and ridiculing, I respectfully refer you to the HN guidelines:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

By all means, disagree with me but you could have made this comment less unkindly.
Have you tried using links? Most sites are broken on links and the other classic text browsers. This renders modern Firefox (before textifying), so you don't have that problem.
At this point I'd only put things in a database if they're actually runtime dynamic - recipes would be, I guess. I'm just bitter / venting because the codebase I inherited has a ton of form definitions in a database.
Washington State and Maine also experience seasonal forcing. They started requiring masks in June & July.

From FT.com [1], here are the number of new confirmed Covid-19 cases, per million residents, averaged over the last 7 days:

- Maine: 130

- Washington State: 230

- Idaho: 740

- Montana: 1000

- South Dakota: 1600

From this data, I conclude that mask use is effective at reducing the spread of covid-19.

[1] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=eur&areas=usa&are...
Good programmers know how to "grow" software. Starting with the right level of simplicity, and adding complexity when needed.
The studies are certainly interesting but as Father myself, I would chime in my 2 cents worth:

- less sleep which causes elevated levels of stress which pushes you to eat unhealthy food more, combined with your Body's natural slowdown of digestive system as one ages (compounded by less sleep) will definitely hit Dad's biology quiet a lot for at least the first 3 years of a Child's life.

- Icing on the cake is the hit it takes on Dad's IT career (if Dad is in IT) as he is unable to dedicate meaningful number of after-hours for his skill upgrading.

- Modern Society (at least in Toronto Canada) places unreasonable expectations on Dads to partake in expensive/time-sink activities with their kids such as organized sports and other extracurricular activities as opposed to having kids in neighborhood naturally play at each other's house / local park. This to me is a problem because I am naturally inclined to work and focus on making money/getting promotion rather than extending my family time.

- Raising a Child, especially in a society that is comprised of nuclear family structure and where Grandparents (Wife's Parents) are not geographically near causes immense pressure on both Parents. No wonder, people, especially immigrants in Toronto Canada, rarely have more than 1-2 kids...
That's honestly how I also feel about C++ in when I look at how often they are adding new things.
It's not an issue for me, but how does this gel with discrimination laws? If the reason a candidate is a worse communicator is a protected characteristic, you can't (legally) reject them on that basis.

(Not that I necessarily think that's net good, but it is the case.)

I'm not so clear on where you stand if you just see poor communication and really honestly have no idea of the reason for it, they don't say and it doesn't give itself away.
You can't keep burning fossil fuels and expect to deal with climate change
A few counterpoints.

You don't need 350 miles of range, especially in England, which is 200 miles coast-to-coast. Average yearly mileage in UK is 9.2 k miles, which is 766 miles per month which is 2.1 full charges at 350 miles.

Current estimates are that electric cars will achieve cost parity with ICE cars by 2025. Possibly much sooner given than Tesla is planning $25k car in 2022. Model 3's Total Cost of Ownership is already at par with Honda Civic if you consider cost of gas vs. cost of electricity.

While charging is slower than pumping gas and deprives you the pleasure of inhaling oil fumes, most charging happens at home.

And finally the bogus "massive investment" argument.

Starbucks is truly heart broken every time they need to "massively invest" in opening new store.

Oil execs are driven to the brink of suicide every time oil demand spike and they have invest into drilling more holes in the ground.

Finally, solar energy producers and grid operators cry themselves to sleep in order to forget how much more money they'll make by selling more energy.
Just wait for the TAX that they put on the electric cars and driving them.
Almost every software offering under the sun runs natively on Windows, so it doesn't exactly make sense to give MacOS a pat on the back for that particular achievement with WoW.

I am all for innovation and I welcome any chip that runs cooler while offering better performance with the apps I use. But so far, 90% of the praise I've seen of M1 either comes from benchmarking software that doesn't reflect my real world usage, or directly from Apple's marketing.

It's a bit early to draw conclusions about how much of a smash hit M1 is going to be. We don't know much about its performance, aside from a few benchmarks here and there.
The problem is breadth not depth. In the case of a skyscraper that requires more power you then have only to upgrade a localised substation. In order for the entire country to consume considerably more _current_ that requires a global upgrade everywhere. There are 400,000 substations in the UK.

I'm also not saying it's impossible, it's just something that the govt has to do first for this to even be feasible. It also makes the timeframe very impractical. The govt doesn't appear to ever address this or even begin the work required.
I think there is an important difference between anticipating abstractions and actually abstracting.

In your example, you were actually implementing an abstraction and anticipating a future use. That is something completely different.

What I am trying to bring across is: there are multiple 'simplest' solutions. It helps to know how, in the future, you are expecting to abstract away from that solution to newer 'simplest' solutions.

For example, one might want to use a FP-ish approach, because simplest solutions within that space tend to abstract better than an OOP approach. Or in the recipe example, we could have modeled the steps as objects with dependencies. Given the right programming language, that solution might be as simple as the OP, but provide many more extension points.
> renamed it from "No Delay"

It's called that because to turn off Nagles for unix sockets you set sockopt TCP_NODELAY.

If you run curl in verbose mode you can see it does that at the beginning.
How usable is PS4 without internet connection? I'd buy one (maybe used) if it is.
I do a lot of searches in French, where a lot of the words are identical to English (English being heavily influenced by French), especially if one leaves out the accents.

I also search in Spanish (Castilian), but sometimes I want results from Latin America, sometimes from Spain.

Being able to set the language/region is of incredible help in both cases. There is no way to automatically detect this.
>For the same reason no one designated GRU or Mossad operatives.

Most countries don't support terrorist (sorry, 'resistance') organizations and don't officially announce it on every corner. It turns out Iran not even bothering with cover makes designation very easy.

>Read the sources, ok?

You're mixing JCPOA (not a UN text) and several different types of sanctions.

>Are you even aware that Iran is a Shia state and mostly supports Shia militia groups in other countries, while ISIS was predominantly Sunni?

ISIS started from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group that Iran and Syria were happy to support so long as they bothered Americans more.
Thanks, I actually missed that.

However:

>The sale of hybrid cars and vans would be banned from 2035 under the new plan.

This is still a ridiculously tight timeframe.
I've gone through more than one Covid test. I think it will be difficult to get a proper nasal swap by myself.
Thanks for those posting data from NASA and NOAA. I know you will think that I'm being outrageous not to trust the data from those organisations, but I don't. I see all - ALL - the organisations as acting in interests that are not mine. I do not want to get into an anarchy conversation, but I think it is self-evident that governmental structures are about control.

What is requested in posting this 'scientific' data, is that I deny the evidence of my own senses.

What I would really like anecdotal evidence, preferably supported by photos. Personally, all the beaches I went to in my youth have water at the same level. I appreciate there is erosion, as there is also the depositing of new material elsewhere.

What can you give personal testimony on?

PS Do you see and accept that when you take the science data on trust, your are actually taking a religious position? The position is that the science is right, even if it doesn't cohere with your own senses. That is faith!
Yes, but it's other specs [0] make a big difference [1,2,3]:

[0]
https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...

[1] https://social.librem.one/@dos/104767537943894609

[2] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

[3] https://social.librem.one/@dos/105227250087524796
I'm not aware of one, but here is one for startups that get bought out, promise nothing is going to change, then it does: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
> I can’t believe the left are advocating censorship and the right are advocating letting people decide for themselves.

Why? Show me a "leftist" regime that is pro free speech and exchange of information. The greatest examples of communist regimes all had secret police and strictly controlled borders.

Modern leftism is basically just corporatism and globalism. Sure the leftists say they want healthcare and all, but do they also want to work and pay for it? Its easy to say you just want something and not regard the hard work and sacrifice it will require.

Edit: Its so easy to down vote, but apparently not so easy to list just ONE "leftist" regime that didn't turn out to become a censored shithole :-) I love you HN!
Global warming bigger threat than coronavirus: Red Cross
It's both indeed; you pay interest over time, and when you do commit to paying it off, you don't just pay off the original debt but a lot of the accrued junk to work around it as well.

No wonder most replacement projects I've worked on (which, come to think of it, has been every project) have been just complete rebuilds; the original was considered bankrupt.

I mean I get it in some cases (like when we replaced a Flash front-end with a SPA; you can't fix a technology that is end of life), but in a lot of cases they should have invested in just slowly fixing and replacing the old application, instead of going for the big rewrite.

There was no reason to replace a working C# application with all kinds of 3rd party / customer integrations with a massive Java microservices architecture, not when after two years there was still nothing but fancy slides to show.
I'm not a network guy and even I know about nagle. Then again I read a lot.

So the author and a colleague didn't know - 2 people who worked on a networking utility and had to spend days digging into it. The cost of reading books is high but the ROI is higher. Maybe they got unlucky but being a dev needs considerable knowledge but companies want their full stack devs cheap.
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This might be USA vs Europe – where the extreme situation would be no mandatory coursework and publishing no papers at all - the final hundreds of pages work not being a typical 'paper'. Though the PhD itself might be 'only' 3 years long.
> Did I suggest not addressing it?

Yes, you said:

>> The correct approach is a practical middle ground where we try to do what we can

Then provided no examples of what we can do, in your opinion.

This isn’t a problem that can be solved by right leaning politics, this is the right’s blind spot. You’ll need some creative lefty types to sort this out and then you’ll need some efficient righty types to come in a clean up what they’ve designed.

The solution to this is not in the past, it is not doing something we already do in a better way (politics of the right), it is of a new paradigm (politics of the left).
For me I'd like the govt to address this and indicate how they intend to do so (most parking in the UK is on-street) - it's a huge infrastructure project.
> No startup was killed ever by a bad prose style.

With the uptick in startups trying to be passive-aggressive, witty, and provocative in their social media posts, I would disagree. Your product doesn't have to be edgy. If it is, it tells me that your product probably has no merit in and of itself.
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I had to buy brakleen, candle wax, candle dye, distilled water, ethylene glycol, dish soap, food coloring, and a capping machine to fix mine. What a PITA. Old lava lamps bought off eBay. I should've just hit the refresh button and waited.
I have so many issues with this, as it is just greenwashing at its worst.

For a start - the latest EURO emissions regulations already make it practically impossible to sell a new ICE-only car. At this rate, ICE-only new cars will already be a rarity by 2030.

The "net zero emissions" is only if the electricity used to power those EVs is generated from renewable sources (and I'm not sure how much further installation potential the UK has for those sources). Unless we return to nuclear power (which brings its own debate), the overall lifecycle CO2 benefit of EVs and hybrids as they stand is minimal.

I also really dislike the blinkered focus on CO2 as the only variable to optimise. Sourcing the lithium and other minerals necessary for EVs is extremely problematic, and lithium battery recycling has yet to be proven at all viable. Some initial research also suggests that heavy demands are going to be placed on lithium reserves.

The net result of this is that manufacturers will make hybrids that just about meet the legislated "green" requirements, meaning all new cars will bring the worst of both worlds to the road. In the "green" new future of Britain's transport, everyone will be driving bloated hybrid SUVs.

Finally - for the "EVs are great because they only have one moving part!" crowd - how many cars have you sold or scrapped due to electronics faults, compared to ICE faults?

The only remotely sustainable form of motorised transport is an ebike (or maybe a bike with a tiny petrol engine), if you really take this whole argument at face value.

Edit: Nearly forgot (which is odd, given the actual enormity of this point) - the UK grid in no way can handle any significant increase in pure EV usage. There would have to be significant investment, and new systems manufactured, for this to even be viable. As I said, I suspect that the solution that will actually be used is hybrid cars.
You know, the middle ground is to cease all industrial CO2 emissions without investing into carbon capture. The extremes are to do absolutely nothing or to invest into enough carbon capture to undo all emissions since 1950.

Reducing emissions by 80% does help some but the problem is that global CO2 levels go down extremely slowly so that any human activity will always dwarf it. Given enough time you will still hit 4°C.
I had the same situation, seems the Beta auto-update doesn't switch to the new architecture. Just download the beta again and install it over you old install.
The performance difference is _really_ noticeable :)
I can’t see any rationale for how it’s forced obsolescence. New consoles offer very obvious improvements over previous consoles, and they don’t prevent old consoles from working. Not offering infinite backwards compatibility with new hardware isn’t forced obsolescence.
There's a pretty good list of backwards compatible 360 games that can be played on the modern Xbox consoles. Microsoft did the work in this case.

Since it's different architectures there's a bit of work involved in making sure the compatibility layer works as expected. It's a technical achievement that they've been able to do it as good as this.

There's also OG Xbox games available with a compatibility layer as well.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-backwards-compatibil...
> Start by implementing a odd/even rule for license plates in big cities

Then rich people just buy two cars. This increases carbon emissions.

Also, people are pissed off, so the government loses the next election.

> Tax and/or de-subsidize the meat industry

The way to go would be to tax carbon emissions, and lay down a timetable where they taxes will get larger over time; then everyone has big incentives to change behaviour.
South Korea would be completely destroyed with the first attack by NK anyway (if talking about WMD)

NK has enough completely conventional artillery in range of Seoul to deliver a Hiroshima level attack. Their WMD programme is about deterring outsiders.
Because I stopped using GitHub to submit icons to let non techies submit them, GitHub is all good for static sites but I needed something that would let uses submit icons directly from the website without needing to know how to use GitHub, here is a thread I created that explains it all better: https://twitter.com/elrumo/status/1328860367850758146?s=21

I’ll be moving away from Firebase into something that more sense soon anyway, it was just an oversight from me as I not expected it to to get to 40k visits in just a few days, I was only expecting a few hundred a day.
It's not as easy it sounds. It took a whole generation to decouple printing subsystem from UI libraries.

Also power users tweak a lot of little advanced settings via these point'n'click panels anyway. Even tuning a desktop PC needs a lot of tinkering down the road.

Windows is a very powerful platform as is but, it's not well suited to everything due to its architecture and design choices. This situation is equally valid for all operating systems out there.
I'm sorry, but if you don't know everything about everything then you're lazy and useless and you need to get good.

When I was a lad, we used to walk 10 miles every day to school in the snow - AND ENJOY IT!

etc.
This is one of the domains where I really regret not caring about math and not furthering my education.

I've tried to get into communication theory to work on some moderately complex SDR projects, but it seems I cant escape math for this.
Then that would either create pressure to have more public transport, or affect the prices on the homes as people would prefer to live accessible. Changes don't happen in a vacuum, they bring other changes with them.
Chromium:

+ support Handoff macOS -> iOS
+ text fragment support! [1]
+ nice plugins and (Brave Browser) nice built-in Ad Blocker
+ good performance, but
- memory & cpu heavy (this counts as 2 minus)
- pinned tab can still be closed with `⌘+W`

Firefox:

+ feels smoother and more battery friendly than Chromium based browsers
+ built-in Picture in Picture
- no macOS menu bar function for "Pin Tab", thus making a lot of stuff hard for me
- doesn't support Handoff macOS -> iOS

Safari:

+ The most battery friendly and lightweight
+ iCloud tabs & Handoff
+ built-in Picture in Picture, but
- activating Picture in Picture is not as easy as Firefox
- No good Vim keybindings emulation
- cannot view rss raw text
- automatically opens related macOS app if any link contains redirect to app

[1]: https://web.dev/text-fragments/
I think you've misunderstood what is meant when people talk about rising sea levels or temperatures.

Yes, this is literally what is happenning. But the effects are not ones you would ever directly notice, i.e. people suffocate because there is no oxygen, or that the sea level rises by several meters and suddenly the beach you used to play on as a child is underwater. Small changes have a massive impact on weather patterns and ecosystems.

If things are good in the tiny corner of the planet that you live in, then great for you.

Have you not seen the videos of open sea which used to be permafrost?

Have you not seen all the news story about forest fires, more and more every year?

When I was a child there was snow every winter. Now, it's years since we had snow, but a couple of years back we had temperatures over 30 C every day for a month, when the average is 25.
In Norway more than 50% of all new cars are electric. They are heavily subsidised, but it proves that it is only an economic question. I was born in the seventies. My next car will be electric. The only reason I’m holding of is that there’s no model that fit our needs yet (except an very expensive Tesla), but I expect that to change within two years.

For industrial heat they will use hydrogen produced from renewable electricity. See for example [0] where it will be used for large scale steel production.

All the technical and economical components for the shift are already in place. The only thing lacking is political will (and apparently knowledge).

[0] https://www.ssab.com/products/brands/docol/automotive-insigh...
The Czech National Library does that: https://www.webarchiv.cz/en/
In a simple probabilistic sense, sure. Shove enough data at the problem and the easy cases work out. Those are only a small subset of the problem space.

Until we address meaning, my statement remains solid. And it can often be easier to treat the tool like what it is rather than figure out how to best pretend it is something it is clearly not.
Exactly, the prototypical example has implemented it is one without democratic elections and so has no risk of being voted out of office.
When did Trump and Johnson push for liberalism?
Are you on 84b1 or more? If so, try exiting and restarting it once manually. If you upgraded from a version running with Rosetta, the restart initiated by Firefox will keep it running with Rosetta. This is tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677036
RGB sliders would have been better here. I find it quite difficult to use HSV without a visual color wheel.
BTW, Whatever happened to DARPA's EXACTO?
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> They're irredeemable

Or a few months later they'll have better staff and practices and it'll never happen again.
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