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> and will be the main GUI framework for Linux.

That's already GTK+ and Qt, and the big GTK+ and Qt projects aren't switching over to Flutter any time soon.
Yeah. I'm glad this person is not on my team. The whole attitude sounds toxic as fuck.
Wesley Kagan - 83.5k subs - Car channel, but leaning heavy to building / prototyping

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy-IytMjnUY6_bAxD7yuZ-w
Microsoft and Google provide the government access to most homes and businesses. They are effective tools the government will keep close to the chest. Each and every keyboard input gets collected as technical telemetry data. It's the global version of the more upfront Workplace Analytics your empowered employer is scanning constantly as dwellers in shadows. All parties play Good cop Bad cop but are eating the fruits of the globalist technological emporia.
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-redshift-utils/blob/master...

The compression actually works as advertised, but that document outlines why you don't want to have the sortkey skew from other columns. The disk I/O balloons as it goes and fetches a larger number of blocks from the other columns that match what you're filtering in the sortkey.
> Ensure even more that no one inside of China will have access to information about human rights.

That ship sailed long ago.
I feel so asleep, your pages are beautiful and I should have thought of using something like this and leaflet (though I have no idea what the fair use provisions are like for published maps).
Great job!
>On my iPhone I have an app called i41CX+

The dev sent me the upgraded one after I reviewed the free(?) one in CNET years ago. I used an HP-41CV with various expansion packs for years. It doesn't have the same feel as the sadly broken physical calculator of course but I still like it. I basically don't anything these days more than simple arithmetic these days though--and if I did I'd use a computer. (I have been tempted by the Swiss Micro models but that would be a pure nostalgia-fueled buy on my part.)
> slow startup

Curious how often you start your IDE? For me it's at most once every few days.

But then, I use Eclipse which has amazing multi-project support so there is nearly never a need to restart to switch contexts - its just choosing a different working set ...
This is only true because someone who did understand the more complicated principles designed the appliances in question. High voltage and high frequency are where the most common and intuitive understanding of electricity break down. Anything above about a megahertz or a few hundred volts and you will start to see relatively strange things happen.
There are some meetings scheduled at 18:00 UTC (10:00 PST) too.
Working in industry, I found this pretty surprising. I'd expect to have around that much facetime with my manager, but also colleagues who know other, completely different things very well. That, and in industry, depending on the company and manager, the manager's role might be enabling your success and not being an expert on what you're doing.
>I probably put rubbish data in the security questions as they weaken the security of the account.

I had a similar problem, where I had created an account so long ago there were no security questions. They later added the security question requirement, but since I had never filled them out and they refused to accept a blank answer and I was forever locked out.
It's not that complicated.

PhD students in the sciences rarely pay for the professors; instead, students are often funded by the professors' grants. Research scientists could be funded the same way with a few (easy) changes.

1. Research grants are too small. The modular budget for an R01, the workhorse grant of biomedicine, just about covers a PI + staff scientist salary, with very little money left over for the actual research. Make it a bit bigger--it hasn't been inflation-adjusted since 2004(?). This might cost a bit, but we spend something like a penny per tax dollar on all research, even though it has a HUGE multiplier effect.

2. Expand the funding mechanisms. Students and postdocs are attractive not just because they're cheap, but because you might not need to pay them at all: there are myriad funding opportunities in addition to a project grant, ranging from individual fellowships to department/program-wide training grants. In contrast, there's ONE mechanism for funding staff scientists, the R50, only one of the NIH's institutes participates, and it fund ~28 people/year. Divert some money from training grants to this, which could be cost-neutral (grad students are surprisingly expensive when the grant pays their tuition).

I think this would have several beneficial effects: better science, but also a saner job market, which in turn would have knock-on benefits on trainees' success and morale (there is pretty clear data on this) as well as DEI.
There are plenty of terms in languages that are common words in that language but may sound like different and possibly offensive words in other languages. But that doesn't mean we should avoid using those words.
Here's a decent thread that covers much of that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/61mxuj/block_size_limi...
Audio – Science in the Service of Art [pdf]
It's working for me though it somehow doesn't seem to have a https version (even though www.bbc.co.uk itself does have one) which is a bit odd.
Both phenomena are a consequence of the equivalence between mass and energy. So since a spinning top has a higher energy than one at rest, it will also have a higher mass. Another example is that an excited atom has a higher mass than the same atom in its ground state.
RPN is so nice and efficient, can't imagine using anything else. I like that the OSX calculator does RPN.

But mostly I use my old 28S which is next to my keyboard always. Also have a 50g on the desk, but I prefer the 28S.
> Lack of consumer goods would of course be upsetting, but people wouldn't die from lack of them.

Lack of consumer goods means lack of jobs for people who transport, warehouse, and sell consumer goods.

Lack of jobs means lack of money to pay for things like food, shelter, medical care, etc, only some of which the US has adequate safety nets for.

People will, indeed, die from lack of consumer goods.
Nowadays, transactions B2C usually involve an institution like Paypal or Stripe and the fees are about 3~5% of the value of the transaction (depending on which country you are from). I find this fee extraordinary high. If bitcoin can find a way to do the same thing in an order of magnitude cheaper (which I don't think is a far fetched scenario, considering Lightning Network and another L2 solutions being developed), then this is a trillion market opportunity.
WordStar was actually also a pretty good programming editor - I used it on Z80 CP/M and 8088 IBM systems for programming.

On the Z80, I actually had to write small assembly language routines to read the keyboard and write to the screen (by default it came with integration with CP/M only, which was pretty poor), for which WordStar provided quite a good patching tool to integrate the routines into the main executable. You could also do scary things with the printer interface.
I used IDEA once and it failed to parse or validate my Java code because it lacked the same understanding of generics as javac. So I would be developing my codebase with various red marks everywhere and no confidence in the code navigation tools such as "find all references". Seems IDEA is overrated to me. But I know webdevs have other use cases like automatic CI or whatever and not the slightest desire to be able to statically analyze code. To be fair I stopped using Java since then as I could not ever fully learn all the edge cases, and corners like generics edge cases and JMM have about 3 people in the world who actually talk about them.

FWIW Eclipse and NetBeans also broke in other places in my code base too (all related to generics), so maybe just Java developers have no idea how those weird parts of the spec surrounding generics, type inference, and capture conversion work.

I tried VS Code to analyze some Go code and it just downloaded a bunch of ghetto stuff from random people's githubs and ran their build scripts or whatever. It broke of course and I gave up as I was new to Go and didn't want to dig into "why thing here wants this version of this and that". Currently using 30 day trial of Goland, which at least works out of the box. This is after trying ctags and cscope after realizing they are basically glorified grep.
> This account "owns" digital goods, thousands of songs, and many domain names.

It seems it's not only about a free Gmail account.
> Maybe we should play

Who is 'we'? Chances are you live in a country founded in democratic principles. This means after each election, priorities change, based on the politicians that are voted into office.

Take the USA as a good example. The priorities of the 2008-2016 administration were undermined by the 2017-2020 administration, and the priorities of the 2017-2020 administration are being undermined by the 2021-now administration.

Both sides think they're right, and were doing what was right for the country. Both sides think the other was an existential threat to the nation, and use similar rhetoric to justify their actions.
> China owns more than 1 trillion of US debt. ... they may start massively selling US debt, which would impact USD and the US economy.

We just printed four trillion dollars out of thin air and the sky didn't fall.

What makes you think that printing one quarter of that amount in order to sterilize a dump of treasuries will cause the sky to fall?
Its the terms of service users agreed to. Prices not relevant
The fuel injectors operate at very high pressures (200+ megapascals). Interestingly, it makes working on these systems dangerous since the atomized fuel can inject and slice through human tissue.
It also has an odd mix of anti-aliased text and non-anti-aliased. Additionally, I don't like the aspect ratio of the floppy disk.
> which make it incompatible with the iOS AppStore thus forcing you to use the commercial version of Qt in those situations.

Not necessarily. If you're able to distribute versions of your app to iOS users so that they can link it against their own Qt libraries, you'd be in compliance with the LGPL.

I've seen companies that distribute via the App Store, but also provide object files with instructions to link them against user supplied Qt libraries and to get them on iPhones/iPads.
e.g. just now on /new: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-dhs-ce...
This story rings true in many ways. It reminds me of the song Matters of Blood and Connection - Dashboard Confessional [0].

It also reminds me of my own life. Instead of settling down straight after university, I visited many places, usually on Working Holiday visas, to choose where in the world to settle down. This meant having to apply for jobs quite frequently, and getting broad experience. Below is a confession. I feel guilt about the way that I've been helped, because the injustice of the application process seems wrong. That reinforces the Impostor Syndrome [1]. I won't name specific employers, only countries. When countries are listed twice, that's because of two different roles.

Family connections:

Switzerland, New Zealand, Austria

Own connections (web forums, Hackerspaces, church):

California, Taiwan (x2), South Korea, UK, China (x2), India, New Zealand

Job/university applications:

UK, Canada, South Korea

The root cause of this seems to be that HR compare people, whereas technically-minded individuals like me prefer to compare measurable skills. Name-dropping is more meaningful to HR that people like to think. Being able to compare yourself to a famous celebrity might help. Startups are often easier to get into, because they don't have professional HR. Yet startups often raise money through family and friends.

The most powerful way to get into a company, though, is having a manager on the inside invite you. Then everything will breeze through HR. This is part of the reason why Hacker News can be so important - for the social connections that are built. This community also encourages creativity (Show HN).

I wish I knew how to help the people who I've met along the way, some of whom are incredibly talented, but had to return to their country of citizenship just because employers didn't give them a second look, and gave positions to friends of the boss. I want to help, but feel so insecure of my own position (see [1]) that I wonder whether anyone would really believe me if I mention to managers that someone is talented.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtbMmcUEjdE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Ha it's not _entirely_ laziness, I was going for a look too. Glad you like the look! :D

I have a separate panel out here, branched off of the house. I think it has two 20amp breakers and space for another.

I have a portable dual-hose A/C unit that draws in outside air and also exhausts outside. I'm able to keep it around 70 without it running all the time. Texas summer will be the real test though.
> we assume some other form of energy that has yet to be commercialized

Both sodium-sulphur and lithium-ion are commercialized and widely used already (currently pumped storage is a lot more widely used, but it's not possible everywhere). [1]

Biofuels: as I wrote, it is only needed to fill the gaps [3], e.g. in winter, not to power 100%. It is already widely used, for example in Europe [2]. And it's not wood (CO2 is trapped in wood for some time, but not in vegetation). This doesn't displace forests.

> The plants in Switzerland have secondary containment.

So did Fukushima. There were many problems with nuclear plants in Switzerland, e.g. [4]. There is no 100% safety. In Switzerland, most people live in cities... sure, you could still live in the mountains, right.

> It really just demonstrates that aversion to nuclear is not based on rational thinking.

Actually, it is based on rational thinking. As the catastrophic events in Fukushima and Chernobyl, and the near catastrophes elsewhere have shown, nuclear power is dangerous. The population has to bear that risk. The companies would just get bankrupt. The insurance would only cover a small part of the costs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_storage_power_station
2. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/?country=UK&fuel=Ene...
3. https://www.iea.org/articles/how-biogas-can-support-intermit...
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BChleberg_Nuclear_Power_P...
For a long time, I used Joe's Own Editor [1], which featured a WordStar keybinding mode. I still use it from time to time.

[1] https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
The data (in solid for example) isn't local - it's just controlled by the user. The key point is that the user's data is decoupled from your service - it's not necessarily decentralised.

Backups are handled (by the user) - the user can purchase cloud storage through a provider (like https://inrupt.com/products/enterprise-solid-server/, though there are other free services - or you can host your own wherever you want). Users don't have to safely handle cryptographic keys or deal with device syncing.
Totally unsafe. It also allows %n.
If possible use a proper format library, or at the least the _s variant.
Stop buying Microsoft profucts
Simulating water distribution networks in JavaScript.

I maintain a JS conversion of the EPA's simulation engine EPANET.
https://epanetjs.com/
https://github.com/modelcreate/epanet-js

I've built a few open source apps and few other little projects to help automate my workflow.

There are only a handful of providers of modelling software, most are commercial and one recently sold to Autodesk for $1B.

Not sure I'll convince the industry to change but I'm enjoying tinkering around and making my own small difference.
Cool though their turbofan isn't going to work very well with the compressor being much larger than the turbine - the gas would find it easier to flow the wrong way. The Wikipedia animation has more promising dimensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan
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>You can’t have $5 T-shirts and also a $15 minimum wage.

with $15 minimum wage there is no need for $5 T-shirts.
You are correct, and this is America's, and West's predicament.

If you can't do this, you can't do this.

And you certainly wouldn't be able to do even more painful things which are truly needed for the West to have any chance to put the genie back into the bottle.

China, and Russia have effectively conditioned the NATO countries over the decades into "self-beneficial inaction." Now, seeing words like yours proves their strategy worked.
They are extracting every single dime of their billon dollars worth 14 nm process, like any business would.. time to move on to the next best thing though
Worse is Better is something else altogether.
Not true.

Say I offer my front yard for anyone to use for free.

You come and set up a bbq stand to have a picnic with your friends. You walk across the street to a lemonade stand, and when you return, you're confronted with a security guard who won't let you back into my yard.

You demand entry, saying your property is in my yard. You want to speak with me, but the security guard says you can't do that. What you can do is head over to the town square and ask if anyone there knows how you can regain access to your property.
Website blacklists exist because of malware and phishing. Malware exists because our browsers and OS's are insecure. Phishing exists because our auth systems are insecure. Solving software security and auth will have wide positive effects on society.
When you read about the Classics (stories that have stood the test of time because of how well they convey human truths), it's as if you are living a thousand different lives instead of living just one. As a humanities major working in tech, I observe daily how the miopia of living with the experience of the present only can have negative effects on the products it produces. For a distillation of this thought I recommend reading this short story (15min) by Anton Chekhov: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml
This is a great comment and thanks for the feedback.

I should have clarified the context and my experience. I was thinking this is a process for dealing with legacy bloat and mostly internal IT systems (IT Architecture) in mostly stable Fortune 500 size companies that are already operating at scale.

From what I’ve seen, big shifts are often a one time “transformation” with lock-in to a service. In cloud it’s azure or AWS or GCP. Or companies are stuck on legacy exchange and can’t move to O365 without a major initiative. Or there is no viable path to move from Microsoft to Google.

These things only occur with great pain, and resources aren’t often provided to reconsider alternatives and to stay current. I picked three years because things tend to operate at that pace at large organizations. It’s probably a faster upgrade cycle than where most of those companies are today.

It would be interesting to go back to the drawing board with the business lines to develop tech internally to better support them. Lots of stuff is just operating on terribly outdated systems. There is some lock-in (e.g. we’re going to use O365 for our office products for the next 3 years), but it would increase bargaining power because your org could actually migrate away.

For a lot of applications I agree with what you are saying - pick a good architecture and stick with it. And I don’t think there would be a need to change the way the company works for the sake of change, but I’ve seen enough big shifts that it makes me think a total redesign of an organization’s architecture every few years (or at least considering it) would be useful. Right now a big advantage to startups is that they can design much more efficient IT models than most legacy large corps.

I know if I could start from scratch I’d do a lot of things very differently and could show major cost, efficiency, and security improvements. So the idea would be to take a team who knows the company, break them off and say “build an architecture for the organization that will go live in 3 years” - take the best of the current environment and tool set, integrate new tech and security, and we will start moving users to the environment in 3 years. Then you get to run that for 3 years while the other team does the same thing.

You’re right on turnover point.

I think the whole goal of this would be to never go more than 3 years without seriously considering alternatives for major systems (ERP, HR, Security tools) while giving the chance to have it all be integrated and put into place as a cohesive design.
Lacking rigor, but some elements of this remind me of Moire Patterns:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
I actually didn't mean to be dismissive of religion. It's just that in general I don't think you need religious or any other indirect justifications for the pretty straight-forward idea that it's good to pass building techniques along.

> Christian morality seems to be to largely be about stabilising society. "Turn the other cheek" prevents cycles of revenge, for example.

Again, I think you might be mistaking the effect for the cause. While it may be true that applying the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount might lead to social stability, I don't think that's what Jesus intended exactly. I don't think he was doing social engineering, rather that he was really trying to convey his ideas of what a right and moral life would be. The fact that leading good lives as individuals leads to better societies is a fortunate corollary, not the main purpose.

Incidentally, if you think about it honestly, it's quite clear that Christianity didn't actually lead to particularly nice societies, once it became the politically dominant religion.

For the record I also need to mention I'm not American and was raised Christian (although I don't consider myself one anymore).
>Oh the horror of being allowed to modify your own fucking computer.

If your Grandpa even had a computer decades ago, at least there was one less reason to expletively delete.
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A broader perspective can never hurt. And you can't get more different than by going back.

I'm currently reading Sei Shounagon's The Pillow Book. The author was a woman in the Heian court in Kyoto about 1000 AD, attendant to the Empress. By tradition it is a collection of her dairy entries, letters, poetry drafts and other personal papers, not intended for distribution, at least in the form we received them. It's unclear if the whole work is even a single author's.

I went in expecting not to understand parts of it. And that has been true. But I also didn't expect to laugh quite so much! At one point, she has a list of grievances over the aggravations of daily living and bad etiquette. The more irrelevant and trifling, the more hyperbolic she is. At one point I fell right right into it and I was in the scene. I have lived those very moments. And I feel her same bizarre gulf between the urge to be polite outside, and the frustration with the people being impolite on the inside. I am pretty sure I have felt some shadow of what she felt in Kyoto some thousand years ago. It is both jarring and pleasing to have that momentary connection to someone who is about as alien to me, as anyone who has left a written work could possibly be.
Adding to the "if you like this" chain, the vbbsmyt YouTube channel has 3d animations of historic guns and other weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFOZwUakpRbIH2zisiRU0Dw
Stop buying goods.
You're not the only one who finds it unbearable. Google acts like they own the internet. They cause massive damage to people and businesses when they unilaterally block them. They compound that damage by refusing to resolve the issue unless people somehow manage to reach some insider.
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