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> If we remove Millikan, do we also remove Napoleon? Do we also remove George Washington? Do we also remove Edison?

The answer used to be "no", but now I suppose it's becoming "yes". No historical figure is safe from being cancelled. Pick some random but important historical figure. Now google the name along with the word "racist" and you'll find some opinion piece about how that person was racist and needs to be cancelled. Henry Ford, Mark Twain, heck, you can even find articles about Abraham Lincoln holding "problematic" views.
Only integers? Wow. Were int pairs used to represent numbers with decimals or what?
I'm confused by the angle this "institute" seems to have about manipulating social / political discourse. (In that its weird to be providing these communication frameworks at the same time as actively using them for a agenda, but maybe I'm interpreting this incorrectly)

But that aside, the techniques that they discuss look like they could be useful for persuasive communication, including technical and product focused communication, so it is interesting from that perspective.
> there is loads about how you /should/ adapt it to work for you

Is this really happeninig in your org when adopting SAFe? At least for us - we went to all the trainings but it was essentially a two-day heavy course of a SAFe consultant telling us how to run dailies, groomings, plannings, PI plannings, retros, demos etc. etc. ALL of these were mandatory and our team was assigned a Scrum master to make sure we were actually doing them (granted, he took responsibility of organizing also the retros, which was previously a full workday for me every two months.)

I even remember reading from the SAFe book that teams are only afforded a limited autonomy of deciding on the implementation technologies of the features that are assigned. No word of having any autonomy over the process, since I understod the uniform process being a requirement for the inter-team coordination to work.
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I guess you're right. But conversely if something you're invested in "for the long haul" has a demonstrated long term negative trend, I'd probably want that to be on my radar.

On some level my concern is that this platform will get people interested in making highly undiversified portfolios, allow them to lose their shirt, and not give an indication that their current strategy is failing and that they should STOP putting more money in.
Conversely, if proton is creating a much larger linux gamer market (its on of the big reasons I switched to linux as my daily driver), might this new market not soon be able to exert pressure on developers for first-class linux ports?

Bit of a potential chicken and egg problem with developers supporting linux natively that proton might help solve.
Because asking new questions and getting them closed as duplicate because they sound vaguely similar to an existing question is sooo helpful an experience...
I really haven't experienced this sentiment. It sounds like you had a bad experience. Scrum can be amazing depending on who is implementing it. Even 7 years ago at AWS, micromanagement wasn't and couldn't afford to be a thing, yet we were most definitely a Scrum team. It was what held us together despite the lack of management. Yeah there would be arguments between PMs and devs, but that is healthy, and most often the PMs lost said arguments. Everyone was placed adjacent to one another, and I adjacent to the project manager, which gave ample time for arguments, but in a way that was better for the team as a whole. It introduced a sort of democracy with continual meetings to ensure that we were working efficiently at any given time.
Yeah it’s ok if you’re confused and don’t have the ability to keep track. I have a firm grasp on the main point in all sub threads. I’ll center the topic for you. Ignore the other threads if it’s confusing you.

The main point for this specific thread is that the economy is zero sum because everything relies on energy and energy is limited. Nuclear energy as it currently exists and what it potentially could or could not be does not change the equation.

The root post is another topic, I was simply responding to someone who said the economy was not zero sum and telling him that, that statement is categorically wrong. Then it spawned an avalanche of replies from people who disagree. What was just a small tangential reply is now a giant sub thread.
The ship is over the horizon but a fiber optic effect caused by inverted thermals projects the ship into the sky for the distant observer.
An aside, but I constantly hear that The U.S.'s industrial/manufacturing sector has been gutted, but I also constantly hear that we're manufacturing more than ever before. What's going on? Is it an absolute number vs. a proportion of GDP issue? Or is it employment vs. production output (output being higher per employee now because of automation)?
> so from this point of view it's similar
If/when Reddit IPOs I look forward to the shenanigans /r/wsb and friends will play. Given that reddit primary relies on the free labour of moderators, I can see co-ordinated mod strikes occurring with the purpose of hurting the share price as a way of making reddit hq pay attention.
Because of special relativity, it wouldn't even be 5 years on the ship.

A massless drive would open up exploration of the galaxy within the life time of a human being. Even though on Earth, thousands of years would pass, so it's kind of a one-way exploration nevertheless.
So many potential pitfalls to string functions. But memcpy and friends can have pitfalls too.

I was working on a RISC processor and somebody started using various std lib functions like memcpy from a linux tool chain. I got a bug report - it crashed on certain alignments. Made sense - this processor could only copy words on word alignment etc.

So I wrote a test program for memcpy. Copy 0-128 bytes from a source buffer from offsets 0-128 to a destination buffer at offset 0-128, all combinations of that. Faulted on an alignment issue in code that tried to save cycles by doing register-sized load and store without checking alignment. That was easy! Fixed it. Ran again. Faulted again - different issue, different place.

Before I was done, I had to fix 11 alignment issues. A total fail for whomever wrote that memcpy implementation.

What was the lesson? Well, writing exhaustive tests is a good one. Not blindly trusting std intrinsic libraries is another.

But the one I took with me was, why the hell isn't there an instruction in every processor to efficiently copy from arbitrary source to arbitrary destination with maximum bus efficiency? Why was this a software issue at all! I've been facing code issues like this for decades, and it seems like it will never end.

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> Strong ownership and trust between engineer and product owners, both way.

Trust has to be the most important ingredient for a successful project regardless of the project management process, if you have trust any process can work well.

Agree about Team Size, less people less communication is needed which results in less misunderstandings == more productivity.
Basic question, if someone buys a game to run it through Proton do they look like a Windows or Linux user on your end?

How would you feel about games being made available for free to Linux users if it uses Proton. If the game contributes basically nothing to your bottom line and you don't plan to support them anyways, why not? It will only grow the audience more quickly.
Cash is most certainly not decentralised, unless you are using some uncommon definition of 'cash'
I would love a similar effort to be able to run the Adobe suite on Linux. It is the last anchor I have keeping me in Win/Mac world.
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> "some users are manipulated, some receive value."

Sure. That brings us back to my original question. Why invest in "providing value to users" when psychological manipulation is so much cheaper? So long as psychological manipulation has a greater ROI, there's no incentive to invest in providing value. Why pay $200 for a fishing net when a $20 one is easier to use and catches just as many fish?
> I'm really sad that they didn't go with a XML base for HTML5.

I'm really sad that they didn't evangelise an XML base for HTML5, and that many HTML5-ish tools don't explicitly support XML, but it's not strictly true that they didn't go for an XML base for HTML5[0][1]

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/
Just for fun, you can track title edits happening on HN as well! https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/
This probably reflects the character of Linux users more than Linux. To really unpack that you need to properly categorize the complaints: (Linux platform bug, Cross-platform bug, User error.) If 50% of the bugs are real cross-platform issues, then ditching Linux saves a lot less than you think (and you're potentially losing some high-quality free QA.)
Leave twitter to cook in its own juice.

As a more moderate, I would suggest perhaps writing a blog, or commenting on something well moderated like HN or EconLog, or even certain subreddits?

No need to log off completely. Just avoid twitter, tumblr, most of reddit and other outrage platforms.
Interest on loans varies wildly by industry though. EBITDA is certainly something on can reach a useful level of understanding on with a bit of effort, but it's hardly intuitive to someone who's never looked at financial statements before.
Every girlfriend I've had would happily be a stay at home wife. My current parter has a masters degree from Harvard and works very hard and even she would rather be a stay at home wife. But as you said I think it's both genders. I'd love it too
What would you think of a smart contract that acts trustlessly 99% of the time, but has an escape hatch governed by a set of more or less decentralized/authoritative entities in a multisig?

We already have an escape hatch for generalized catastrophic events in the form of hard forks, but I expect in the future more fine-grained schemes to manually resolve local issues will become the norm.
As a clojure fan, I think this is a really well balanced and fair assessment of clojure. It's a bit surprising they didn't get into the whole "hygenic macro" business, which seems like the most obvious differentiator between the two languages to me. I would argue the macro system in scheme is very complicated (even more so in the extensions found in many scheme implementations) and this somewhat undercuts the minimalism appeal of the scheme language. (Though the scheme macro system is still extremely cool from a computer science standpoint.)

Also, the post states that you can't have nested "tail-call optimized" loops in clojure, which is only partially correct: Using nested loops is commonly done in Clojure, the only thing you can't do is have the loops call each other mutually-recursively, which is a far less common use case (but still a feature I hope to see in Clojure some day).
WHATWG is not a "bunch of Chrome developers", and if you want to understand what a browser does with HTML, it's the place to look. "HTML, but not the HTML web browsers mean" is a fairly niche concern.
In all fairness, he does provide hints as to why regex will not work (namely: HTML is not a regular grammar).

Sure, it's somewhat obscured by the humorous rant, but it's not that bad an answer, either.

More to the point: I'm not sure I want to suck the humor out of everything. I agree that SO has problems, but humor and poetry are worthwhile things in otherewise serious places. It's all about quantity.
Yes, but it doesn't mean that you have to speak up about twitter on twitter.
I'll make some statements here, and lets see if we agree:

1) We live in a social world.

2) Your effectiveness is measured by other people.

3) Your ability to communicate can affect your perceived effectiveness.

4) Highly effective people are rewarded.

5) To be rewarded is 'good'.

Let me know where we disagree, and then we'll have a better understanding of each other.
I think a streaming service with a Linux backend is more likely than another Steam machine push.

One of the biggest problems with Stadia and the like is that you have to buy another copy of the game whereas Steam already knows what you own and will let you play it locally.
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I suspect r/wsb will run afoul of some not-quite-applicable rule before the S-1 is filed.
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Surely not. Motorway driving is very simple compared to urban driving. This consequences of a collision are probably less serious in slow moving traffic but the risk of them happening is much higher. And the density of traffic and of pedestrians makes the job much more complicated.
I have an idea for company and job candidate "virtual online dating" service. The interview process is broken. It is a hit and miss system. Many things can go against both the candidate and the company during an interview process; a good candidate may have a bad day on the day of the interview or the interviewer may have a bad day. A company's interview format may not be suitable for an excellent candidate, the interview process many have nothing to do with the actual work environment and projects the candidate will work on if hired etc. There are lot of issues with the present interview processes.

So the idea is to develop a platform where both candidates and companies can evaluate each other over a longer duration in the "online virtual work environment" setting rather than an artificially designed/borrowed few hours interview process. The project is basically a "show, don't just tell" approach to understanding both the candidate and the company over a period before either the candidate or the company approaches with a proposal to move to the next step.

Anyone interested in this idea? You will find my email on my HN profile page if you want to brainstorm this idea and work together.
I am sensitive to performance, but part of that is being able to alt-tab over to my Linux desktop rather than having to switch machines to do things other than play this one Windows exclusive. Actually the main part is that. "Gaming device" is a secondary function of my computer.
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this is awesome! thanks a lot
Let's say I have some new piece of hardware that is exotic enough that no high-level language is available for it yet. I think it's obvious that writing a C compiler is generally an easier task than writing a Rust compiler. As long as that's true, and I can leverage C code on my new hardware much more easily than Rust code, Rust can't replace C.

An "average developer using a memory-safe language" can't go anywhere if that language doesn't run on the machine.
Closest we have so far:

http://hl7.org/fhir/

I really like their documentation. My team has moved a lot of our stuff to produce FHIR (or something close to it), for interoperating with other teams and clients.
I suggest reading the article I linked. It talks about Dr. Ken Liegner. He just happened to be my wife's Lyme doctor, and I'm pretty sure my wife was one of the 30 patients mentioned in the article. My son was another of them. (I didn't mention him in my original post because I wanted to keep it simple and short. But now that you've expressed this interest...) My son was basically unable to function for his last year of high school and had to take a year off before going to college because of it. He, too, got on disulfiram and it cured him. He had been on heavy duty antibiotics. At one point. We hypothesized that maybe the Lyme was cured, and it was the treatment that was making him feel so terrible. So we took him off the antibiotics. (This is with Dr. Liegner's consent; he thought it was worth trying.) A week later, my son felt better than he had in a couple years. Another week later, and he was starting to feel sick again. Another week later, he had all his lyme symptoms back and went back on the antibiotics, which helped but didn't cure.

Disulfiram cured both of them.

BUT!!!!! The disulfiram was a very tough treatment. Near the end of the planned multi-month course of disulfiram, I had to take my son to the ER because he was borderline hallucinating. As I said, it was near the end of the planned treatment anyway, so we took him off it. He immediately started feeling better.

This is consistent with what you'll read in the article about psychological effects from the disulfiram.

And he was cured of his chronic Lyme. Period. The Lyme symptoms were gone and they stayed gone.

I think Dr. Liegner may now being doing smaller daily disulfiram doses for a longer time, in order to avoid these affects. My wife and son were (probably) among the first 30 people to ever have this treatment, and so it is a lot better understood now.

It might be a good idea for your friend to give Dr. Liegner's office a call. He's in Pawling, NY. He's expensive and not in a convenient location for most people. We lived in Bangor ME, and drove 7 hours each way for every appointment with him. Well worth it. And he's probably Zooming now for at least a portion of the necessary appointments.

Please let me know if anything positive comes from our exchange of messages here, I'd love to know that it had been of use! Or write if you or your friend would like any other info. garyrob at me.com.
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UCSD and Turbo-Pascal had it easy with the 255 byte strings. They had real strings but these were compiler extensions. Real Pascal didn't have string support and you could only work with packed array of chars of fixed size and as the language was extremely strong types, to packed chars types of different lengths were considered different types, so you had to write procedures and functions for all used packed array sizes.
Epic would be a bigger threat to Valve's market dominance these days. If only they (Epic) decided to support Linux in a similar fashion...
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Or in other words: how to manipulate people into believing irrational bullshit. I can't see how this has any benefits for society.
limiting free speech, censoring people and media, is regressive and authoritarian to the core. don't kid yourself.

> when your speech offends someone

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

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> That book from 1983 is part of a storied genre with a long history of selling manuals to hopeful people, and they're really variations on etiquette manuals and Cinderella, Pygmalion.

This is really insightful. I first read it maybe 15 years ago, and it makes sense of my reaction to it.
Historically, culture wasn't so quick to change. Typically, parents would be able to pass down their culture and traditions to children, instead of having society foist an entirely new culture onto their kids that's incompatible with what the parent grew up with.
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I work for a very reputable company who produces high-quality content serving vital public interest. We still use "user engagement" as a metric in a mostly positive way. But we also aim to have content "go viral" and breed daily habits and we promote our content heavily on social media. We still have to pay the bills.
What kind of progress are you talking about?

As far as I can tell, historically leaving oppressive places has a better track record of success for individuals than fighting or trying to talk and understand.

(Eg think of the people fleeing North Korea, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Nazi Germany, etc.

Similar, you are better of quitting a bad company, than trying to reform.

Or just quitting twitter instead of 'talking' to people there.)
While the article's HTML title does claim some were "offended", neither the headline nor the body of the article included the word "offended", or "offense".

There's not a single quote or statement in that article from a person saying that they found it offensive.

I need a source slightly stronger than the title element of an article that is entirely unsupported to be convinced that there were people offended.

All that being said, I would take more seriously the concerns of someone who was deeply religious that said they found it offensive to make a flippant joke during a prayer than I would the concerns of people who called him a moron for not getting the joke. I still haven't seen anyone say they were offended by the joke, though.
Is there a tutorial somewhere for absolute beginners with some examples of use? I used octave in the past and I used pandas/numpy before, but reading documentation linked to from the github site I have no idea how this can be used.
Sabine Hossenfelder video specifically about this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VWLjhJBCp0
Basically the layers of air above the water have slight variations (temperature, humidity, pressure) between them in such a way that they each have a small change in refractive index that over a distance bends light upwards.

Then you have another group of layers of air further up in the 'marine boundary layer' that bends the light back towards the waters surface.

This is called an 'atmospheric duct' and is somewhat similar in the effect to a fibre optic cable.

Poor mans source: I wrote my thesis 5+ years ago on refractive effects in the maritime boundary layer [1]

[1] https://ceed.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DSTO-Refra...
this only applies in workplaces, to landlords, or providers of public accommodations, and this only applies to harassment, its like saying hate crime legislation makes it illegal to be bigoted

whenever something sounds this absurd, read past the headline and you usually find whats actually going on is a lot more reasonable
As far as the relation to COVID is concerned, I would look into the symptom severity of untreated chronic Lyme as opposed to treated.

Psychosomatism may be an issue — but consider also that the neurological mechanisms governing it may themselves be degraded through the course of such infections.
Li-ion batteries have been the same for like 40 years, they've just gotten smaller.
My memory is a little fuzzy. Matter-antimatter may in fact be involved in the warp drive, but it's definitely not direct propulsion.
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I grumble at the time limit on edits for HN comments sometimes, even if I do understand why it's there.
> I haven't seen the other tropes you've mentioned though.

It doesn't strike you as odd that in this whole enormous controversy which has consumed right wing media all week and driven this thousand+ comment thread to the top of HN...

... that no one thought to show you the actual artwork in question, and that you never looked it up for yourself?

Seriously, it's pretty bad. Go look.
In my experience, a regex can be a much more robust solution than an XML parser depending on the use case. Back in the days when I did some webscraping I often had parsers throwing exceptions becacuse of ivalid HTML. More often than not I switched to regular expressions, which always worked out flawlessly.
>>India is going through a huge cultural shift, and the erstwhile liberal establishment is slowly being pushed out of their power seats by the rising Hindutva group.

The process has been in progress for decades since Independence. The process was accelerated since the 1980s. It's more like the cultural shift is now complete.

A roll back is now impossible.
Anyone have a good run-down of how Reddit makes money? (Or does it?)