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My holiday project was to re-tool my development environment. I am going to try using both VS Code and Emacs on my current .Net 5 project. I installed the Emacs keybindings extension for VS Code. I upgraded from an ancient version of Emacs to version 27. I do really want to do development in both so as to decide what works best for me.

Emacs configuration is a labor of love as any Emacs user can attest to. I'm already at 50 hours and guestimate that I've got another 20 hours to go before it's where I'd like it to be. This has required multiple tech support discussions on Stack Overflow and Github and Reddit. I constantly ask myself if it's worth it, and only time will tell. But I've been using Emacs for 30 years and it's a tough habit to break. Still, I can easily justify the effort as I'll be using Emacs until my last keystroke. The open question is will I be using it for C#/.Net development.

I do wish to give VS Code a fair go. And certainly it makes sense to be proficient in that editor.
My bad. Thanks for pointing it out.
http://www.endthebacklog.org

Founded by Mariska Hargitay of “Law and Order: SVU” fame.
will there be any prize?
The Trend in Darkmode Adoption Is Showing a Demand for eInk Tech
"The thing is, that our body/eye has been trained for thousands of years to work with reflective light (to see things/objects through the light reflection of the sun). The screen trend to look directly into backlight over the past decades is very unnatural to our body/vision and caused many problems. We need a screen technology that is very aligned with on how our body is designed and works.

Big players in the display market are realizing this and building alternatives. Big players include Sharp, Lenovo, BOE Technologies, JDI, Flex Lightning, Hisense, ONYX, Dasung etc."
> I don't really know how the "enterprise" solutions work, but I imagine they get the disk decryption key from AD or something, and thus the IT support team can "reset" disk encryption.

They don't get it from AD so much as Group Policy can be configured to have the device store the key in AD, but otherwise yes that's how it works.
I am 20 years in development business now.
This simple rule of thumb works for me and the team:
(Your honest and concise estimation) * 3

There are just to many unknowns you cannot foresee. Software development is complex.
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Because the startup is basically just a few people who believe in the idea, whereas the backlog of rape kids is a problem distributed over the entire country through the institutional neglect of thousands of people?

If the two people who founded this startup were going to take your advice - how would they do it? Just send a check to crime labs all over the country and hope they process the kit? Start a letter writing campaign?
Yeah, a site needs to issue an MFA challenge to any MFA change attempt.
Any chance this could work with a chromecast device (I imagine it should be fairly easy since they can be directed to display a webpage).
US Presidential Inauguration Countdown Clock
I actually studied software engineering during my Technical Computer Science study at the University of Twente ( NL ).

Does that bother you?
Serious question, how is this different from the riots and protests that took place earlier this year? Why is it assumed they wanted to assassinate politicians, when this summer, provocatuers that threw molotovs, rocks, and fireworks at police weren't treated as if they were trying to assassinate police?

This isn't an attempt at flaming, but an honest question I'm open to understanding perspective on.
The same appiles to "the Chinese". Heck, just look what happened to Asian Americans here at the beginning of the pandemic, when all we knew was that the virus started in China. "Kung Flu" and stuff, some people are just plain retarded.
Haha nope, ya’ll be crazy
Immoral to give survivors options other than the largely unused hospital and law enforcement processes? Any sexual assault counselor should know that survivors most often do not want to be re-traumatized through being physically manipulated by another individual. If COVID-19 has shown us anything, it is that remote options ARE feasible. Self-use kits were used in Monterey and Marin counties in California out of necessity (https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-county-das-office-allo...), and necessity breeds widely used innovation. It would make sense to die on this hill if the current system was survivor-centric. But it is not. You’re putting far too much faith in a system built to reflect and serve the interests of law enforcement and hospitals, not the needs of survivors. Moreover, further research will show you that the startup explicitly encourages survivors to visit a hospital or contact law enforcement if at all possible. Not only is your information outdated, but it is also misleading. Try keeping your personal value statements (and your baseless interpretation of criminal law?) out of the conversation. Ask sexual assault survivors what they would like to see instead.
$300 seems low to me as well, but the order of magnitude spread isn't suprising at all. About 5 years ago I went into the ER in NYC due to extreme dehydration. They gave me some saline and sent me home a few hours later. Later I got a bill for $250 which was above my ER $150 copay so I called them up and it turned out they didn't realize I had insurance. A month later I got a "fixed" bill for $3000 to my insurance of which $150 was my responsibility.

My example of a magical 12x increase given single exact same procedure coded identically, means I find a price increase of ~43x from $300 to $13,000 between different hospitals quite believable.
i have the impression that most people that rioted just got carried away. it’s easy to do crazy things if you join a mob. however the 3 letter agencies will make sure they all get heavy jail time. it’s one thing to hate on the president but now it’s serious.
Almost every country in the world is seeing similar per-capita death rates, about 1 in 1000 people so far, skewing much towards the old and/or already unhealthy.

Some perceive this as a high risk and would be happy to impose a police state on everyone to stop the pandemic.

Others perceive this as a low risk to themselves and don't want to give up a year or two of their lives to lockdowns.

Who gets to decide?

I'm a big believer on not unnecessarily imposing on other people. I think it's fine that you want to self-isolate. That is not my choice. I hope you can respect that.
But if I already have a backend, why would I use Paysly (instead of the default for a Stripe integration)?
I'm pretty sure we all know that the ultimate consumer of something like this is not a Russian neighborhood bread store owner, but the Russian government. I don't think it needs to be said to be understood.
But it's not repeatable.
My understanding is that for a team and project that's been going for a while, scrum points can be roughly turned into time estimates by looking at the history of stories that were rated for that many points and averaging.

But that obviously won't work from the start, and it won't be accurate... Just better than nothing and (hopefully) better than what a programmer will estimate in their head.

And IME, it's a lot less stressful on the programmer to estimate points rather than time.
So, this is going to sound really weird, but:

Open the web inspector, switch to the Application tab, click "Service Workers" in the left sidebar, and unregister everything that shows up.

My understanding is that this behavior is caused by an old version of their service worker which they've had a hard time getting rid of.
You seem determined to focus only on the worst possible hypothetical downsides and not consider anything else. Of course in this case free speech will prove to be an evil that must be eliminated. You win.
I have a custom domain with Gandi.net, which also provides a number of free email addresses per domain registered. If the free Gandi email doesn't meet your needs, you can upgrade to their other packages, switch to Fastmail or other.

The advantage of owning your own domain is covered in another thread. Since I can switch to another domain registrar, I'm not even tied to Gandi. But Gandi seems like one of the better registrars. They are French.
The disk encryption password is separate from the user login. It has to be, if you consider that the device may have more than one user [0].

[0] which is rare bordering on "never happens", but since contemporary desktop OSs are all derived from multi-user server OSs that's what we got.
While I agree with your general sentiment, in this specific case the person appeared motivated to literally just sell the laptop to some Russian people, with the expectation that they had the ability to resell the laptop to the Russian government.

The people who broke into the Capitol and stole things are not the smartest or most well-connected people.

More details are available in some of the court docs that are floating around the internet. The entire situation is stunningly disconnected from reality.
Well, can you prove that it was a Russian goverment/secret service and not some random guy from Russia?
I want one of those. Come on, Elon, let's have a Model 3 convertible. Make it long range and you've got my money!

Add on 350kw recharging and I'm your bitch for life.
OP was making a reference to a recurring line in Arrested Development.
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines
With Monica’s famous dress CoC isn’t an issue because the CoC of the dress once submitted can be preserved anything before that isn’t important because if it is semen and it’s Bills then Bill needs to have a plausible explanation on how it got onto the dress in a manner that didn’t involve the stroking of his cigar.

With these kits there is no way to validate that the evidence was actually collected from the victim and not from say a toothbrush.

Monica’s dress in this case is well the victims vagina or any other body part that was assaulted and may contain DNA evidence of the assailant not the kit.
I'm not "looking down my nose" at anyone. I realize that capability does not come from degrees alone, but it's a legitimate question that should be asked. There are plenty of people who can code but don't know anything about data science, but like to pretend they do. She was involved in setting up the dashboard, but that's an entirely different skill set than epidemiology. Aren't you suspect that the article didn't seek the opinion of any of those epidemilogists?

A little more of her background is here.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/rebekah-jones/
Usetiful – Fight user churn with great user onboarding
Wow, that looks interesting! I guess the accountability is something that I could use.
Question: does the community mostly exist of full-time entrepreneurs, part-time entrepreneurs or is there a good mix?
Was thinking more the various Vivante things like you get with the imx6 variants - but they also do support the needed OpenGL ES versions. Pis are weird outliers in various ways (and Pi 3 is >1Ghz).
I have the same concerns that I think you're alluding to but the way you phrased that question has me more worried.

> ~ Y is not likely because of X

You're saying you were basing your argument on the fact that X ("judicial system is mostly fair and apolitical") and now that you're learning that X may not have been true you're wondering what that means about Y.

I think it's appropriate to question Y now that you're questioning X but I hope that Y has nothing to do with the decision to question X. It would be an ugly truth that you might have to live with but I hope you don't close your eyes to the reality of X because of what that could mean.

Sorry for the overuse of X/Y abstractions but unfortunately I think if we replaced the specifics in this case it would deter from the point I'm trying to point out which is if we think about the what outcomes follow a truth and we disagree with the outcomes (personally invested in arguing against that) then we might choose not to look at the truth.

That being said, idk if it's accurate to say the judicial system is not fair and very political
While I generally agree with your argument, it's worth noting that the median Julia programmer is probably more invested in the language/ecosystem than the median R/Python programmer.

Back in the mid-90's Java was the new hotness, and it probably made problems that required 100+ lines of C easier, but it's not still full of above-average programmers, as any language/ecosystem that achieves success will inevitably regress to the mean.
The commenter said "your" parents and grandparents, who are by definition one and two generations older than "you", in age. I can't think of any other reason to invoke "your" parents and grandparents.

If the point is that it's unhelpful to make irrelevant assumptions about parents and grandparents, then this is in complete agreement with the parent's point and is not a critique of it.

This is not a clever gotcha.
We did a Type 1 audit with Tugboat last year. I came away quite impressed - the default templates are a great starting point, and the evidence tasks are basically a giant todo list to assign and grind through. It turned a complex project with lots of unknowns into a much more straightforward project.
At least in a business setting I think the whole concept of a project needs serious reconsideration. We end up more often than not trying to fit developing a digital product into an enormously stupid gantt chart to execute some poorly thought “business requirements”. I prefer to talk products and not projects, I deliver the full thing including “growth” as adoption doesn’t come “if you build it” even within a Company setting. If you are building a product you can also get closer to those with the real problem willing to fund you with real budgets. On top of everything else if you are making users happy they will not chase you on fake estimates but rather work with you to get stuff done.
This is the result of a search for New York: https://imgur.com/YqHAgoB

Really, it just stays blobby regardless of what I do.
No. You seem unaware of how bad the old orphanage system was.
Russian intelligence, first paragraph of the article.

But I agree with you. I make an effort to criticize the “PRC” and the “CCP” and not “China” for the same reason.
Using a pejorative (retarded) to describe another is not very helpful.
I love the name's play on Greek Eleutheria ("ἐλευθερία") - freedom, liberty!
> Scrum dogma is that estimates are for complexity, not effort or timing

The theory of story points (which originate outside of Scrum and are not part of Scrum proper) is that task-specific time estimates in creative intellectual work are extraordinarily unreliable and expending more effort on them doesn't improve them, but broad-banded complexity class evaluation mixed with empirical observation of the teams velocity produces time estimates that are (while still extremely fuzzy) both better and much lower effort, once you have the basic tracking in place, than task-specific direct estimates.

The “dogma” you report seems like something that might be a derivative of that that has lost track of rationale and purpose, reducing it to a cargo cult practice.
It was update in May to fix that the CDN changed.
The actual content hasn't been updated in 7 years.

It really should be updated to have basically the content of this thread
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-automatic-differe...
Is there no way to do this without a physical plug? I think there's a way to make dummy X.org display devices without any extra physical hardware -- I've definitely done similar stuff when setting up headless automated E2E testing, before tools for this were widely available. Is the hard part connecting it to an existing session as a display? Or is it that cross-platform compatibility is what's holding it back, since perhaps there is no equivalent for people running a macOS or Windows based OS?

All that said, this looks super cool! Congrats and thanks for sharing! I'm tempted to give it a shot. My current set-up is similar except I use Barrier to share my mouse and keyboard across 4 cheap (<$200) laptops I've accumulated over the last few years.
The article doesn't say anything about the sample being admitted in a CA court, it only quotes a DA being supportive of the home test kit.
Why does it feel like whenever these nimrods do something really really stupid or really really atrocious, there is always people coming out of the woodwork and trying to show that if you squint really hard while looking at the situation through a TV playing Fox or OAN you will find some part of it that's maybe possibly could be explained as something being off (but still requires a massive conspiracy)?

Like, what's more likely that this woman became radicalized by watching propaganda all day every day and in a misguided attempt to be a patriot committed a crime? Or that there is some massive web that at every turn explains why it's never the alt right's fault? Remember the 75 year old that was pushed down by the police in Buffalo, NY and cracked his skull on the pavement? Well if you believe some, he was wearing a blood sac in his mouth and there was a little tube you can kinda see in the video that allowed him to squirt the blood out and make it look like he was hurt. Someone legitimately tried to argue this with me, in an in-person discussion. And let's break it down:

1. Police officers that pushed him were either in on it, I guess with some ulterior motive to make themselves look bad, or were comically bad at showing any evidence or giving testimony that there was a blood sac.

2. The first responders that came didn't notice the lack of wound or the fake blood, or were also all in on it.

3. The bystanders did the same as above.

4. The probably at least a dozen hospital staff that interacted with the man in the multiple days that followed when he stayed in the hospital all ignored the fact that we wasn't actually hurt.

5. The hospital had him stay there for multiple days for no reason because, you know, our hospitals here are really awesome about letting people just stay if they aren't sick/hurt.

6. The multiple reporting crews that came to see him all failed to notice that he wasn't hurt.

7. The entire video is a deep fake or filmed in a controlled environment and none of it was real.

How hard do you have to squint to believe that any of the above is possible? And that's one story of thousands, each of which has an explanation as simple as "crisis actors" or "antifa staged it" or "false flag".

And back to the original assertion, what about the woman whose daughter tipped off the FBI? What about the siblings? Does everyone have a conflict of interest and we should dismiss all these cases because of them despite the photo and video evidence we have?

Sort yourself out.

Edit: video of the 75 year old man in Buffalo. Warning, this is graphic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFeewU0HhNE
How do other disciplines estimate NRE? Do they have the same problems with missed predictions?
Make a complete list of things to develop in a spreadsheet, "complete" means every single item the customer wants to see in the product, not only every single button but also every single label, that should be definable by reading the project specs or mockups. I think "forgetting things" is the first big mistake leading to under estimations.

Add an estimate that you multiply by three in front of each, ie. if the dev thinks 1 hour then they should put 3. From my experiments: no multiplying factor turned to nightly and weekend work, multiplying by 2 turned to long (10 hours) work days, multiplying by 3 turned into comfortable work hours and quality work.

I've had success delivering quality code and respecting deadlines since 2012 or so with this system, but YMMV

Only problem: the customer might not like what he gets, even if it works exactly as planned.
It's been a while since i've been around that community, and recently i wondered what developed between 2013-ish and now.

More specifically, has the recent rise and push for recognition of plurality originated from tulpa communities? [1], for example. A lot of the terminology is different from what i remember, so i wondered if it's an evolution or a parallel development.

[1] https://morethanone.info/
Indeed, the first thing I thought of when I saw this headline was the pair of clueless hustlers in the movie awkwardly trying to pitch what they believe to be a CD-R of classified information in the visitors area of the Russian embassy.
Most kids are not taken away from their homes. The exceptions horrible cases.
Well, this language isn't useful, a Russian friend of mine, who is quite modern, not a fan of Putin or anything, said she'd prefer Trump to win, because Biden said "Russians are our enemy" (not sure if Biden actually said that, and even if he said "Russian government", the media could've edited "government" out of that quote).
Doing it as a startup means you’re out of touch, don’t appreciate the scale of the problem and the work involved, and the risk you put survivors in of not being able to get justice.

This is a policy and legal challenge, not a business.
Yes, this is why I'm describing a design that focuses on just what needs feedback.
Because it's a Reuters headline and they don't use "the" if they don't need to.
well do you consider Snowden a patriot? he also committed some light treason
"Estimates" are for things you've done before - like you can estimate building a house, because people have built houses before. The more like an existing house, the better you can estimate it.

Software is invention and construction. The construction part is pretty easy to estimate. The invention part is ... very very hard. I'd like to say it's impossible. I'd like to see the software industry use a different word than estimate.
We need that but foe hn comments
I’m Syrian-American and I hate it when people say “the Syrians” when they really mean the barbaric Assad regime. I do, however, think it’s more out of stupidity than malice; it stems from a statist worldview rather than an intentional desire to demonize the people subject to a given state’s rule.
Author here (Florian): I just fixed this.
Very good catch. Off-by-one errors are hard indeed. :)
As long as humans are involved in defining requirements, inaccuracy of estimate will be proportional to the cusomters' incompetence and level of bad politics of the organisation as a whole ;-)
I noticed that my estimates usually end up 3x as high as the next one and i feel pretty confident about them
Makes you wonder what smarter people were able to accomplish that we haven't or will never hear about.
The problem is knowing how fast they learn. For a n00b this is basically impossible, and takes cost monitoring to notice their rate of learning. For a person with the basics of the language that they'll be using, and a tiny bit of experience in the libraries they'll be using, things get easier.

For everyone (n00b to senior) I would always recommend designing & breaking things down into no smaller 1/2 day blocks, where nothing went longer than 3 days (for inexperienced), but longer for more experienced. Senior devs should be able to be able to be trusted (to be accurate) for week-long blocks.

Use a Gannt chart (ms project or similar) and monitor the inexperienced, gauging their real-life times with their estimates, adjusting accordingly. Give semi regular feedback at the accuracy so that they (& you, the manager) are working with.

In one of my companies, the most inaccurate we were for any project was that we were late 2 days over 2 years. Build on trust, build on meetings and other time sinks. Include testing, sign offs, etc.

So, absolute n00bs need close mentoring so that the (senior) mentor can begin to gauge the growth rate... Which will be steep... But different for everyone.