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Some industries are very very slow when it comes to upgrades. E.g. the VFX reference platform[0] only adopted python 3 for the 2020 baseline, which means many recently released products are still embedding python 2.x [1].

[0] https://vfxplatform.com/
[1] https://vfxpy.com/
> I don't think I was the only one to miss how that conflict related to the F35. Do tell?

Turkey had a lot of success in its Syria incursion using lots of relatively inexpensive drones. Syria's Russian-equipped air defence systems struggled to stop them. And then Turkey-equipped Azerbaijan used the same drones to great success in the recent war against Armenia.

The message is that the future of warfare is drones that cost $5 million each not fighter jets that cost $100 million each (which is the ballpark the F-35 is in). You can buy 20 of the former for the cost of one of the later. And the question is, what military benefit does that one fighter jet give you compared to the twenty drones you could spend the same money on?
Take a look at this guide

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-fixing-external-m...
Depends what you’d call successful. My marketing consulting service earned me a tolerable living and then helped me land a really good full time job.
In case someone reads this comment and wonders what the actual names of this aircraft are:

The official name is the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. It comes in three variants:

* F-35A (Conventional TakeOff/Landing - CTOL)

* F-35B (Short TakeOff/Vertical Landing - STOVL)

* F-35C (Carrier Variant - CV)

While an unofficial nickname hasn't solidly grabbed on, I think, given that USAF Fighter Weapons School calls it the "Panther", that will probably be what holds at least in the US.
1) Fully remote

2) A domestic flight away

3) I was fully remote before the pandemic, so things aren't different.

4) Pros are work isn't a dominant experience in my life. Cons are that in normal times I have to travel by plane a few times a year.

5) Nothing special. I love a short flight to the Bay which really allows me to treat it like an extension of my local job market.

6) I have no plans to not be remote for the rest of my career unless I don't have a choice. So I recommend it. Not doing so means you're wasting hours of your life you could reclaim if you do the hard work of making remote work work for you.
I wonder how much imaging technology has been held back by ITAR.
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> I don't think you (or anyone else on this website) understand the scale at which twitter operates.

This website is full of employees (and ex employees) of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, and any other company that has done stuff at global scale.

Scaling provides constraints, we all understand that. The interface being completely miserable to use is not because of that constraint.
>Writing endless books and articles about how you’re engaging in wrongthink by questioning official narratives isn’t the solution, never has been, and never will be. For as many words that are written about the rise of conspiracy theories, I haven’t read a single one that tries to explain their appeal and origin in a neutral way, without having a condescending tone throughout. At some point you have to ask yourself: is your goal to actually persuade people, or is it to make them feel stupid?

I'm unsure if you meant this to be read as a criticism of the book, or a general statement. The book seems to embrace the ideas that you're suggesting are missing. E.g.:

>Show empathy. Approaches should be empathic and seek to build understanding with the other party. Because the goal is to develop the conspiracy theorist’s open-mindedness, communicators must lead by example.

> Avoid ridicule. Aggressively deconstructing or ridiculing a conspiracy theory, or focusing on “winning” an argument, runs the risk of being automatically rejected. Note, however, that ridicule has been shown to work with general audiences.
> You can just write information out to files in Terraform with no stress.

This wasn't the point -- it was that I wanted to do something that I know how to do in a fully featured programming language, and I can "just do it". Writing local files is a very simple example -- unless you're arguing that terraform's capabilities amount to an entire language's ecosystem, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

> So what's the plumbing that you would have to do? Under the hood, Pulumi is using the Terraform providers...

I think I didn't explain it well enough. Pulumi and Terraform are almost the same tool, but the difference is how the pieces are plumbed together. I prefer plumbing with a programming language more than shell scripts, utilities and/or some other programming languages.

Also, Pulumi's system of custom resources which are just pieces of code sitting in your codebase is fantastic and novel (terraform has custom providers but this feels significantly more heavy weight).

> In my pipelines I don't bother writing out to files things that are in terraform state. I just create an output for that state (potentially set to sensitive) and then use that output in my CI/CD. Remote state stays encrypted and without wide access and I don't have to worry about secrets being in files anywhere.

If you're really adjusted to Terraform, and it works great for you, then awesome -- I'm not out to change how you do things. It sounds like you've fully bought in to the terraform way of doing things, and it's working for you, and that's great.

> That's where the bash scripts do things with outputs. It could by python or whatever, it doesn't matter really. But with bash I can easily just set variables to `terraform output -json | jq <select output &/|| do stuff>`.

Here it is again... My point is that the plumbing matters, and a fully baked programming language offers the possibility of better plumbing. I didn't touch on it much, but just having access to custom resources with Pulumi might be able to cut down the external plumbing to zero, and enable creating more reusable pieces.
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Alcohol delivery services are already a thing everywhere, Berlin has "cocaine taxis", now all that's missing is pot delivery once it finally becomes legal...
A very valid observation, undeservedly downvoted.

But, a counter argument to that is that your adversary can simply launch a wall of 20 drones with one A2A missile for every of your F-35, and 20 more to bomb its airfield, and still win attrition-wise.

If prices for drones will continue to drop at the current pace, soon they will become near disposable by standards of military hardware.
clearly that depends on what you define as better?

Ethically there is a reason that war should cost lives on both sides, if we get to the point where War is one sided or worse the only lives lost are civilian non-combatants "collateral" damage that does not seem like it would be "inherently better" for the world.

Past US presidents have already played Judge, Jury and Executioner with the US Drone program, nothing stopping future US Presidents from using fully automated US War machine to commit massive acts of war in the world as there would be no risk to "US Lives"

I do not see such a condition as inherently better
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I understood their dismissal of covid-19 just fine. I don’t understand why people are still stringing that harp a year into this. I would like to believe we have the ability and will to tackle big problems. The existence of another problem isn’t a compelling reason to not act to me.
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Marines certainly are closer to harms way generally was the impression I got.

As the child of an enlisted Air Force solidier who served for 20 years, I always thought the Air Force got the worst rap of the branches. The "chair force" moniker didn't help.
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I learned how to memorize a deck of cards using Derren Brown's method in the early 2000's.

With his method (it's actually 2 methods combined in a logical way) it is a no-brainer to apply the principles to just about anything to do with strings of numbers as well.

So I use it to remember combination locks and phone numbers and that sort of thing. And it works really well for me. Even after years of not touching a lock, I can instantly remember its combination.

On the more useless side of things, I still remember the first deck I memorized back in 2002, even though I don't use that order anymore.
This and a little looking on Shodan makes for a scary tale of negligence at scale.
Come on, this has nothing to do with it being open source, rather the contrary.

The same thing could happen (and has) with proprietary software, and you are then out of luck.

With open source? Use the last known good version, fix wat you need to, even if you are the only one person on earth interested in that piece of software. Maintain it. Or just find someone else who is doing it (that's a "fork").

I've stopped using a lot of proprietary software and apps due to this, though examples are fading from my memory. On Android, I think I can name at least ES file explorer and Touchpal that went down the Adware hole.

Nowadays I only use FLOSS. Not even GAPPS. OSMAnd (which I donate to) is pretty nice and featurefull, it suits me as a maps power user, but it can be a bit daunting. There used to be a maps.me fork on F-Droid, but it was recently removed: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/7951/d...

Looks like the maps.me community is reorganizing, and hopefully it will re-emerge stronger and more resilient that it was before. Also, lessons learned with this might be useful to other projects.

> And who knows when the currently best fork will get taken over by the next wallet software huckster?

This is the reason why you should pick a project with strong guarantees: https://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian leads to https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
Only running open source software is my way of making sure I can escape lock-in and always have a way out.
A distraction implies some other thing or state beyond it that ought to be reached or contemplated. But in this case, even if you believe that life is completely unnecessary and meaningless, there is no desire to end the state or seek to poke holes into it.

You could argue for solipsism, that everything is a distraction from death, and all sorts of masturbatory ideas whose only logical conclusion is immediate and collective suicide, but this all tends to be short-circuited once your state is subjectively good enough to be self-justified.
I also work mainly from a gaming desktop PC.

WSL2 linux distros are not equal to bare metal linux distros. WSL2 Debian doesn't have systemd installed and what a fvckery it is trying to get it to work. That means sshd, docker, k3s don't work as expected on reboot. Some apps do not install properly becasue scripts expect systemd. Windows networking is PITA too just to do something simple like SSH into a WSL2 instance.

I don't get why deep Windows integration is so important. It's not something I would use on a production box. I just want Hyper-V to work like VMware and VirtualBox. As you say, VSCode remote makes it all seamless anyway.

I had to go back to VMware 15.5.2 (version before hyper-v layer) and disable hyper-v completely.
> Jets today fly much faster than drones

Then make drones which are jets, like Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force are doing:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33271/everything-we-le...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35806/australias-loyal...
I used to use a cheap mixer[1] but recently I found some speakers with multiple inputs. It would be great if everything could just route through the monitor instead.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002BG2S6/
It's a strange genre, I like it a lot but I can see why there isn't much new content.

One existential problem for the genre is that you really need a physical keyboard -- while the awesome "80 Days" can get by with limited choices, anything parser-based really feels crummy on a smartphone or tablet.

In principle because content generation has slowed down so much it should finally be possible to play everything good. But I don't have a good way to curate a backlog of the IF games I've been meaning to try.

The way I tend to play IF is somewhere between reading a short story and toying with a puzzle, or maybe a bit of something else. I'm happy to lean on hints or walkthroughs to get through content faster. The experience is unique though I wonder if I'll ever bother to introduce it to my kids?

There are absolutely standout entries in the genre, both big and small, that struck some kind of narrative chord and for which the memory of playing is very clear to me ("Vespers', "Anchorhead", "The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet", "Photopia", "Shade", "9:05", "In The End", "Christminster", "Theatre", "Curses", "Jigsaw"). It'll be a bummer if these things ever totally vanish.
> I don't think you (or anyone else on this website) understand the scale at which twitter operates. Including all replies to a thread by default on a site with that amount of traffic will increase the load of ... everything. Dramatically.

I understand fetching all the replies all the time is next to impossible, that's not what I was criticizing, I get the impression that Twitter is doing a good job performance wise anyway.

> And, honestly I would not be surprised if it were incompetence, either. The skill of the silicon valley developer (as demonstrated by the commenters here) does not impress me even a little.

I think incompetence is part of it, but not the only reason. Twitter probably wants its mobile users to interact through the native iOS/Android apps. It's not as obvious as with what Reddit is doing but making the website act flaky and a bit unpleasant to use is certainly a way to get more people to use the app.

I imagine the app looks and feels better. I never used it and I don't intend to, for unrelated reasons. But then I guess I don't really have a right to complain.
Women are not "mythical creatures" they are humans with their own aspirations, personalities and dreams.

You can't lump them in a single category..so perhaps it's my misunderstanding but I'm not sure what you are trying to convey here?

Also, can you elaborate on "overestimate yourself" ?

I would really appreciate it if you could expand on these points.

As for the commitment, I think the point isn't the control the outcome but more keep an eye on your progress, I see it more of a checks and balances.
1) hybrid/ flexible, for me more and more Remote but Office is always an option

2) about half an hour door to door

3) good. Rough patches in between with boundaries (already not great before) and being productive (historically a problem for me at home)

4) I can work my hours and sleep longer, I’m more flexible, and in sum it’s great. I do look after my well-being and try to be sensible with regard to my health and whether I should go to the office.

5) hide your phone, choose a different room when possible. Invest in good equipment (e.g. a chair)

6) as an option yes, you and your Team have to be clear and actively learn when to meet in person etc.
The rates are just around the EU average. But it also means it's not far away from countries having a massive amount of coal plants, so not too bad.
for_each[0] was a good example, though it's been in there for a long time.

Pulumi was around at the same time and wouldn't have suffered from this same problem, though this was 2 years ago.

[0]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-0-12-prev...
Apple doesn't gain anything from those negotiations, and they have nothing to lose by just kicking apps off. The app developer's choice is to do as apple says, or be limited to less profitable android sales

People on HN are happy to say they agree with Apple banning names like this because it protects their experience and brand.

It's hard to use the iPhone as a status symbol when it's associated with meth
it's a GPL violation as far as i'm concerned, so anyone who uses it deserves what they get
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$1.6 B Series E

Online courses, live lessons, and homework help for elementary, middle, and high school students; AI-powered image search available.

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Highlights: The pandemic has drawn attention to Edtech market. Recently, Sequoia has invested in Cuemath, Kyt, and Unacademy in India, and LingoAce (for overseas Chinese) in Singapore.

(2) 23andMe / Provides DNA testing B2C Biotechnology

$82.5M Series F

Provides DNA testing to consumers at an affordable price. The company cut 14% of its jobs last year.

https://www.23andme.com/

Highlights: Top-tier VCs pay attentions on Biotech, but most of the investment are made in B2B company. 23andMe has also started to develop treatments based on research of genetic information provided by customers as well as B2C business.

(3) Graphcore / Invention of a microprocessor (IPU) for machine learning applications in the UK B2C Bio

$222M Series E

The unique architecture allows developers to run machine learning models faster.

https://www.graphcore.ai/

Highlights: This is the first UK investment from the top tier since Odyssey Interactive in August.
Ben Rich , Kelly’s successor, also though the military gave out contracts to less good aircraft/companies due to how much other work they had. For example Lockheed got the F-117 but didn’t get the order for the follow up large bomber. That went to their competitor because they hadn’t had a contract in years and might be going out of business.

See Lockheed’s SENIOR PEG here
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/lockheeds-senior-peg-the-f...

Interesting idea to have a larger force of cheaper planes rather than the small group of super expensive B-2s that the US got.
You can point businesses at https://www.onosm.org/

(It creates a note rather than directly adding the business to OSM)
> I don't doubt it has its uses, but is it really OS functionality?

Example: Closed-lid Macbooks with external display will go to sleep without this tool.
Bit unfortunate to me, I dislike the name given its drug connotation and don’t use it simply for that reason. I believe Apple should remove it without a name and icon change.
I appreciate you sharing your experiences. (Though your comment on #2 is very helpful as well, I was specifically interested in quantified estimates of differences in resulting system quality and developer productivity, if at all possible.) BTW, do you use any external frameworks? Would you prefer to use something like Fable over Blazor for Web development or vice versa? Why?
Ah okay, I just downloaded the one on the play store and it did seem pretty bad? I mean initially it felt alright glancing around, but as soon as I searched for "chinese restaurant" it just immediately fell over and did nothing useful.
While the future doesn't come...

Perixx keyboard. Backlit, with 2 USB ports and a trackball. You can also buy one of those new small usb fingerprint readers, and use a usb headset, or buy a usb to jack adapter.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/PERIBOARD-320-Backlit-Keyboard-Trac...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ARCANITE-Fingerprint-360-Degree-Sec...
Wow, this is fascinating, thanks for the link.
Eh. Anything Apple does is giant megacorp against poor indie devs. The scenario you proposed would just turn into the headline “Apple begged us to kill our brand and we told them to fuck themselves” and pretty soon everyone wants a sit down with Tim Cook because they disagree philosophically with the rules.

It’s not clear, despite what it appears here, that the Twitter storm actually changed the outcome. This looks more like T1 support made a call that T2 reversed. Not unusual.
They would need advanced radar and other integrated systems, which they don't have today.

Today, an F35 would clear out a squadron of drones way beyond the horizon, before the drones were aware of the F35.

So yes 'a lot of drones' would be a problem initially, but they would still be cleared out within hours of being airborne.

Basically organized actors have the ability to down drones with impunity, they stand out on radar, and they require extensive networking.

Momar Gaddaffi was not very prepared, but Iran for example, is.
How else would you have preferred this to play out, afaik Apple doesn't exactly have a responsive or sympathetic support hotline for stuff like this, perhaps the problem was that this was their only real option?
This example is really simple -- it gets more complicated when you want to check things that don't serialize perfectly to strings you can easily grep for.

Once you start writing complex scripts you have a choice -- you either do it imperatively, or declaratively. Eventually you'd come to the fact that it doesn't make sense to just... run imperative commands when you can't guarantee that the other end is idempotent, so you'd arrive at:

- (optionally) take a lock on performing changes

- Check existing state

- Perform your changes based on existing state

- (optionally) release your change lock

And voila, we're at complexity. I'd argue that this complexity is essential, not accidental given the goal of making an easy to use system that ensures state.
Apart from being stuck to a single level in depth (which IMHO kind of makes sense in the context of an IM platform), what's that bad about Slack's threads?
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Not being at fault doesn't change the resulting user experience. Though it does suck that those localities charge money for data access.
A good reason to learn to enjoy lots of things. Or to bring your enjoyable things into lots of places with you.
In regards to (1), sometimes using the phone is both a symptom and the cause (in a reinforcing cycle). In my case, I would use my phone in bed before falling asleep to avoid having to confront thoughts I would have while drifting off since I could stay distracted until I was seconds away from passing out. Unsurprisingly, I would have terrible quality sleep (and I suspect many of the psychological problems mentioned in the article stem from problems phone addiction causes with sleep).

Once I moved the phone to another room at night, I was forced to fall asleep without being distracted. Being alone with my thoughts was extremely uncomfortable the first few nights, but it got better. Now I'm used to falling asleep without distraction and am more in touch with how I feel. So my phone was causing me to become out of touch with my thoughts/feelings which would in turn make it even more uncomfortable to confront them, so I would turn to my phone for distraction and this reinforcing cycle continued until broken. The phone was both a symptom and cause of my sleeping problem, so removing the phone removed the cause and fixed my sleep.
Don't stay in stealth mode because you're afraid of launching
The main benefit as I see it, is that pyjamas/nightshirts/nighties/socks/etc get restricted by friction against the sheets and other bed coverings. Every time you move, you probably need to wake enough to overcome that friction.

I gradually progressed through my 20s and thirties trying to get more comfortable at night, mainly by removing tops or bottoms of pyjamas. Then I had a brief phase of using a night-shirt, but that was just as unsuccessful.

Finally, around the age of 40, I took the bold (at the time) step of sleeping naked. Much better, much more comfortable. I have slept like that for decades since.
"Never break two laws at once"
I'll tell my friend that couldn't have his wife's funeral and friend that lost his house and restaurant they should sacrifice harder.

Meanwhile almost everyone I know in tech has had the best financial year ever. It's good we have to sacrifice nothing and even gain, but I totally get the loss from the rest of the world.

With the death count, we will see when all cause mortality is published. If there are huge drops in heart disease and cancer deaths that would imply some things. The median age of death is over 80.