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One of my all time favorites. Can’t remember where I first read it (Quora?), but it’s currently my top Google hit for “balloon programmer project manager joke”. [0]

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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:

"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man below says, "Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude."

"You must be a programmer," says the balloonist.

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost."

The man below says, "You must be a project manager"

"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2rn8qx/i_h...
What if your format string started with "r" or "=", or was simply just one of those characters?
Site doesn't look quite right on a 4k monitor.
Select forearms.
!r is one of a class of conversion flags, others are !a which uses ascii(), !s which uses str().

“=” in the format-spec (the thing that comes after the “:”) is the numeric padding alignment specifier (other alignment specifiers are left “<”, right “>”, and center “^”.)
Abu Dhabi issues its first AI healthcare policy (Middle East AI News)
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.
Sure, but he's commanding the individual to share voluntarily. The early church didn't force its members to give up their property: they did it willingly.

Charity is not collectivist or non-capitalist.
That's how I understand it: light speed is so slow and technological progress is so fast that any intelligent species could develop the ability to wipe you out faster than you could realize the threat is coming. Ergo, the only possible way to be safe is to destroy other civilizations as soon as they pop up their heads.

I feel like a lot of so-called solutions to the Fermi paradox fail when they speculate on what "aliens" would do. Would they seal us off and make a zoo, or find it morally wrong to contact us, etc, etc. It's bold to assume a single policy, since there would likely be multiple alien civilizations, or multiple factions even if there is only one.

So I give this one more credit in that once you have reached 100% understanding of physics, you will know whether this premise true or not true and it more or less dictates that you answer it if it is true. However, I'm not convinced that with 100% knowledge of physics you would find yourself so vulnerable. And even if you were, it still seems various forms of containment would be just as effective as a genocidal attack.
From a business perspective, the biggest problem I've experienced with community-based distributions is the limited support cycle. Debian averages about 3 years with LTS, which is really good for for a community distro but really short for a commercial distro.

Updating a personal server every 6 months may be easy, but in a mature business it often makes sense to wait 5 years or more before upgrading certain infrastructure so that time and effort can be invested in other areas instead.
Can someone help me understand why the author is making it sound like

def foo(bar, baz):
if bar == “thing1”
baz.methodFromTypeX()
elif bar == “thing2”:
baz.methodFromTypeY()

is something super complicated? Like I get that in some respects the type signature for this method is funky and seems nigh impossible to encode in a type system (which I guess is the point) but this kind of thing is not at all hard to grok as a human.
My favourite: "guys isn't it crazy how now we use on ehow we use 'google ' as a word now? all the time back in my day we didn't do that that's new"
You can find repression is immoral without wholesale endorsing fake narratives from questionable sources. I have very nice friends who are antivax, does not mean I endorse their views from infowars. FLG is no different. They're the one dissident group where human right lawyers in China, who risk their necks for a variety of causes, still could not corroborate their fantastic claims. Sometimes friends/acquaintances/family believe fake things, which is even less wild if said belief stems from being in a cult.

Black market organ trading is real problem but also stop gap solution in China, a country with abysmally low organ donation rates that's improving since reforms. Reference per capita transplant rate, China is 1/4 of west, however large the market, it isn't enough to provide even parity availability, not to mention large numbers goes towards transplant tourism for western customers who never seem to get appropriate denouncement from FLG despite their massive discourse power. It takes two to tango.

At the end of the day, there are irreconcilable priorities and moral calculus due to differences in culture and development. CN transplant system is moving in the right direction - FLG didn't convince west to stop getting transplants in China, CCP had to legislate against when the time was right. Things improve incrementally, otherwise FLG would need to resurrect long debunked accusations to suit their agenda.
Do you lack so much empathy that you can't even put into words your perception of another person's malicious or pathological reasoning? Or do you just assume to get into their mind is to share it?
Ha so if someone disagree then they belong to that army. Very convenient indeed. What abt persons who keep saying there exist a army. Who are they? Well-wishers or the opposite army?
Abraham would be relevant to Judaism and Islam as well, so attributing individualism to this is somewhat doubtful. In the New Testament, as you mention, society and gathering is actually encouraged. The simplest is:

“When two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20

Moreover, "Render unto Caesar things that are Caesar's" avoids any kind of confrontation between personal worship and fulfilling duties to the secular government.
It's often said that software engineers have no code of ethics. This is untrue. For example, no respectable software engineer would ever consent to writing a function called DestroyBaghdad().

Professional ethics would compel them to instead write a function DestroyCity, to which "Baghdad" could be passed as a parameter.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Borenstein
~72% of murders are shootings [0], which makes the math on that pretty much impossible. Maybe the increase is all in wild shooting / firefights, while targeted and determined gun murders have stayed around the same level?

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
> Turning still images into GIFs

Using a file converter will probably do the trick. There are also GIF-making websites that allow for more customization.

> Adding effects to a GIF

The simple method would be to find an image editing website and simply apply an animated effect to the image - e.g overlaying a gif of sparkles.

The other option is to convert the GIF into a video file and use video editing software - this is probably overkill, but does give you more options.
No one provided sources here. A partial source was provided by the other commenter. But if you ask, the source for inflation control is OECD inflation data, the source for Tokyo GTA GDP per capita is Wikipedia/SCMP, and the source for Beijing administrative region GDP is official national numbers.
Medical doctors and surgeons are not scientists. They don't do research, they don't publish papers. Medical research is an entirely different field which overlaps in skills sometimes.

But MDs are more like mechanics for the human body.
Well you removed the context...

> Over the course of the eighteenth century, the Lakota become a horse people. It takes generations, a huge expenditure of wealth, and day-long rides clinging onto wild and bucking horses until they break, but they do it, earlier than other tribes.

> [...]

> Hämäläinen brilliantly documents the transition from a largely hunter-gatherer-farmer society, settled in Mississippi River valleys, into a fully nomadic one. It’s a staggering success while it lasts; by the late 1860s, the average family owns upwards of twenty horses.

The transition to horse people and to a nomadic life is considered successful.
If Dan Luu's article on static vs dynamic types [0] is to be believed, there's no significant difference between either paradigms.

This largely jives with my personal experiences using Python, Typescript, Clojure and Scala. This also jives with casual observations of the product landscape, where for every good product built in something like Python, you can find a good product built in Java.

[0] https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
A guide to sensible composition in SwiftUI
Programming is like sex: make a mistake, and you just may end up supporting it for the next 18 years.
Battlefield success was a huge sign of leadership fitness for Plains Indians. Comanche called it "puha" - it was sort of a marker of divine blessing or luck (good medicine) and it meant you could more easily gather more tribesmen for your war party to go on raids against other tribes.

Shooting them twice with the same arrow would be like the modern equivalent of a 360 no scope in Call of Duty, demonstrating your "puha." See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_coup
This kind of analysis is pretty slippery. I live next to Lake Michigan. Power generation here doesn't consume any water, it adds a bit of heat to it and returns it to the environment in otherwise the same condition. There's likely some evaporative losses, but we have precipitation throughout the year (it gets moderately dry for a few weeks in May and sometimes in October).

The land footprints should be expressed in servings of rice or something (so that people can compare their internet usage to something they aren't going to stop doing).
Most innovation doesn’t need massive amounts of electricity. EV’s being the only notable exception, but they are also offsetting significant CO2 emissions.

Further, the amount of electricity generated by fossil fuels is going to be heavily dependent on overall electricity demand. Keeping older less efficient and more expensive power plants operating is very much a response to electricity demand not an inherent lifespan independent of the electrical market.
"Hämäläinen brilliantly documents the transition from a largely hunter-gatherer-farmer society, settled in Mississippi River valleys, into a fully nomadic one. It’s a staggering success while it lasts; by the late 1860s, the average family owns upwards of twenty horses."

By omitting the preceding sentence you have allowed yourself to be misled about what the context is. The "staggering success" being referred to here is the transition of their society to a nomadic way of life, as facilitated by the introduction of horses.
Need to Hire React Dev
need to hire us-based react dev for real estate saas

cool project
That doesn't explain why people are surviving and/or missing _more_ (as a percent) in 2020 than in 2019.
Plaid is on a hiring spree, plans to double its tech staff in 2021
Some experiences of counterparts from languages I've used, although it's like bike shedding but it's still user experience. It would be user-hostile if not carefully designed:

Ruby: Good but there are too many kinds of syntax. Use double quote to interpolate which need to escape a lot. And single quote doesn't interpolate, which makes many code bases very mixed and merging code is annoying. I wonder if they swapped them in the first place would it make the mixed thing better because it's easier to settle on single quote?

C#: Support multiline, still awkward because it uses double quote.

JavaScript: Simple, intuitive yet extensible. It's pretty useful because in JavaScript world embedded languages are very common (CSS, HTML etc). And I find ${} is slightly better than {} in C# and Scala because of the escaping. The community is pretty much settled with single quote, and only use back tick when interpolating so it suck less than Ruby.

Scala: Extensible. Very thoughtful and cool, you can indent and strip margin. It's a little bit cumbersome to write multiline when it's space sensitive in JavaScript

Elixir: Extremely extensible, the Sigil is not only for strings but also for other syntax.

Clojure: It's weird that I put Clojure here, yet I find (str "Hello" name "!") is not far from dedicated interpolation syntax. S-expr, simplicity and all that.

I would say Clojure's is good enough for me, but JavaScript is pretty awesome already - maybe it would be perfect if it can strip margin as well.
Nature Aging, Volume 1 Issue 1, January 2021
Also, Debt: The First 5,000 Years covers the religious origins of debt, money, markets, capital, value, values, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290

My TLDR for this thread: Capitalism is very old. Calvinists and Smith's views towards money, debt, etc. had many precedents. George Gilder's tortured rationalization that God endorses usury is probably unprecedented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilder#Wealth_and_Pover...
What’s a python programmers favorite type of poetry? Def poetry

What’s the diff between a junior programmer and a senior programmer? s/junior/senior. Also only the junior will laugh at that joke.
> reading up on the history of Fresno water development. Fresno actually has had years when they have increased their level of ground water.

I'm very interested in fresh water topics broadly but in particular those of California (because I live here and am concerned about the drought and our future). Thanks for the book recommendation and for the writing you've done on the situation in the Fresno area!
f* hilarious...
Procedural Maze Creation in C# and Unity – Part 3
Then he thought he'd use Java. Now he has a ProblemFactory.
> The early church didn't force its members to give up their property: they did it willingly.

Acts 5 paints a rather different picture, with the threat of being struck down where you stand for holding out being the ultimate cudgel.
Those who don't understand binary,
those that do,
and those who count in Gray codes.
You're absolutely right and I applaud you pointing out his brutality. But I wanted to add (since I can't respond to the parent comment):

> historical appreciation of European settlement of the Americas

What is there to appreciate? Like, say you're completely willing to ignore or just completely ignorant of the brutality of all of this. What is to appreciate or celebrate about European settlement of the Americas? Like, it's astonishing to me that this is just such a rote value and I sincerely cannot imagine anyone has an explanation for why it's so important or valuable or worth celebrating. Like pretend the Euro story of an "empty continent" had any validity... okay what then? You made... lebensraum? Cool beans, you put more people on more land. Big fuckin deal, welcome to being literally every human group on literally every piece of earth.
Has anyone here used Tabs Outliner?

I used to use TGS excessively and TabsOutliner has completely changed my workflow. Now I just sort tabs into categories and then kill the entire window until I am in that context.

It sorta looks dated, but I find it amazing:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
China’s economy is definitely doing well, about the only major economy that actually grew in 2020 while everyone else shrank. So economically they definitely came out on top from this pandemic.

China is now forecasted to outpace US economy by 2028, 5 years earlier than previous forecasts, due to changes this past year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55454146
How about following ?

#define true 0

#define false 1
If the roles reveres when power changes then the IT army is useless or non existenting. I can in my group the people supporting the govt have not changed when they were in opposition. You don't need an army when many are religious aligned.
A programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. The bartender says I'll give you a drink if you tell me a programmer joke. And he says: a programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. The bartender says I'll give you a drink if you tell me a programmer joke. And he says: a programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. So he gives the guy a drink, so he gives the guy a drink, so he gives the guy a drink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_Lifemaker

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200203/0743435265___0.htm

:-)
I sent this to a project manager once, and they didnt understand nor appreciate it.
Why do all Republicans have straight hair?

Because the curl of a conservative field is always zero.
I only saw part of the Lex interview, and in the part I watched Loeb was saying if we had seen it on the way TOO Earth, we could have sent a rocket to investigate.

If we aren't looking, and a chance arises, we'll miss it, and if we do spot something like it early, what are the chances we are ready with a rocket to go look?

Would be nice if humanity could pre-plan. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/be... is a less controversial example.
'15-minute cities' will change the way we socialise
I really am out of my depth to speak to specifics of 3nm or how the hell physics even works at that scale. I can just assert that mass adoption of ubiquitous and tactile computing has dependency on speed, locality, and energy consumption.

That said, I found this really interesting: https://www.pcgamesn.com/samsung-3nm-production-performance

They seem to have shipped a novel gate design rather than just shipping a smaller-yet FitFET.

You're spot on that CPU power consumption is a just a part of the equation!
We don't have to restrict job/education growth, but we do need to upgrade services/infra/etc in proportion to the number of additional people.

I think most cities see the revenue and think they'll sort everything out later, which may not be successful.
The touchscreen in my car is wonky (known issue, just haven't bothered to fix it), so when something goes sideways with the Bluetooth audio, turning the car off and back on is easily the fastest way to get my music back.
Classics of the “Science of Science” or “Meta Science”
I'd be interested in hearing why you think we'd be better off with middle school students having jobs. I'm a firm believer that absolutely having to have a job to survive completely wrecks the learning process. Not just for children but even adult students at universities. I had to work to scrape by and my schoolwork, my job, and my mental/physical health suffered because of it. Sure, my situation required it and so I'd be much worse off without doing so but I'd have been even better off if it wasn't a requirement in the first place. That is the future I wish to work towards
A similar joke I heard recently:

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to fly to the airport.

The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it in the helicopter's window. The pilot's sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters.

People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign and held it in a building window.

Their sign read: "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at her map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.

After they were on the ground, one of the passengers asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position.

The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the Microsoft building because, the response they gave me was technically correct, but completely useless."
In my opinion you've hit on Ubuntu's biggest contribution to Free and Open Source software.

When I started using Linux a couple decades ago, "we ship when it's ready" was the dominant FOSS approach, and I thought it was the most sensible approach.

Then I got my first job and experienced the realities of enterprise support and planning. Today I wish more projects were as predictable as Ubuntu, and I'm gratefully for every one that is.

Ubuntu is far from my favorite distro technically, but the predictability of its LTS releases makes it my recommendation for most uses.
Horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks “Why the long face?” Horse replied: I tried a short but didn’t fit.

(Integer joke)

—

Can you milk a bool?

False.
We are enslaved one could say.
Not exactly a joke, but it could be a marketing slogan for many companies today:
"AI or Die"
Dakota, not Lakota.

https://www.tolatsga.org/ojib.html

The (few) other histories there are also good:

https://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
Trump hates Bezos because he owns the Washington Post so if Bezos tried to help him, Trump probably would have done the opposite just out of spite.
Startups Can take advantage of Voice Search
This here is the quality “well actually” comments I come to HN to read. /s

You are right of course in that exercising just a single muscle and neglecting the rest isn’t ideal. But as one of the trainers I’ve worked with told me, first you work on large muscle groups with free weights which has the benefit of exercising small stabilizer muscles as well, but then you if you want to take it further you will need to exercise more specific muscle groups or even individual muscles.

Also as others pointed out, this website seems full of exercises that target large muscle groups. I actually struggled to find a more targeted exercise for a couple of specific muscles I am interested in exercising, which isn’t to say the site isn’t useful to me, just that I need to do more research.
Who is the ruler of devops?

Jenkins Khan.
Given when this happened, I’d bet Red Hat knows, but IBM doesn’t care and just wants the extra revenue even if it costs them in the long run.
The issue with f-strings is that they can't be used for i18n. AFAIK, it is impossible to make `_(f"Hello, {name}")` work - at least without a preprocessor or very arcane bytecode manipulation magic. This is unlike much uglier but common and well-supported `_("Hello, %(name)s") % {"name": name}`.

In the examples I've used `_` as an alias for a `gettext` call - I believe this is a common practice to do something like `from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _`.
By the way the study of names is called "onomastics"
The book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America has it the other way around.

https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate/dp/046...
Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato in Nigeria: The New Gold
Great idea. How do you plan to monetize?
> Professional ethics would compel them to instead write a function DestroyCity, to which "Baghdad" could be passed as a parameter.

A common rule in the profession would be that that would only be true after they’d coded city-specific destruction functions for two previous cities, otherwise it would be premature abstraction.
Back when WHATWG was organized, I thought similarly. But in retrospect, it was a mistake. W3C moved slowly, yes - but the result was an actual standard. Now, it's a target moving so fast, and with so many evolutionary dead ends, that we're back to the days of "this site is best viewed in ...".

Google profits from this in two ways. Because they own the largest browser by market share, the ... is usually that, making other browsers less viable. But in addition to that, this significantly raised the barrier to entry for any competing browsers - remember what happened to Edge?