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Well, I believe much of the satisfaction in programming (at least for me) lies within building something with your own hands and creativity. When you are simply writing glue code between libraries and services, that satisfaction is stripped away and leaves you without much fulfillment. Of course, there's a point of diminishing returns when it comes to writing your own libraries - the pendulum can easily swing to frustration - but I think finding a balance in having contributed your own creative energy and third party libraries is the sweet spot.
I think the value needs to be traced to an essential need, only those functions resulting in food, water, shelter count as intrinsic value - by this definition tech CEO's contribute less than an average farmer
I bet Astrazeneca/Oxford is regretting offering to produce at cost due to the level of grief and politicking coming from EU capitals and the EU commission.
This "positive economic output" must account for the environmental impact that humans have: We are currently depleting this planet quickly in ressources and biodiversity, and the "carbon tax" is just the tiniest attempt of putting this on the balance sheets. If you chop down a rainforest and sell the wood, is your economic value positive or negative?

This inconveniently conflicts with the old focus on economic output, the 1950s baritone-narrated black and white documentary of assembly lines and all the production numbers going up - progress!

Instead, the dude in the wilderness might hint at a happy and fulfilled life based on limited ressources.
My local USPS are driving the Mercedes-Benz Metris van, which replaced the Grumman LLV. What I miss most is the low gear acceleration noise. It was distinct and more times than not, upon hearing this the vehicle outside was the mail truck. The Mercedes is stealth in comparison. The story is just funny right there, but for recent packages having been stolen while I was home. I miss the ‘windup’ LLV.
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> What happened before this week was and remains forever shameful.

lol without context you'd think something tragic actually happened here.
They will never accept any culpability. I have elderly family living in France and they have said that medical professionals they have interacted with are livid with how their Govenment and the EU have handled this. The blame lies squarely at the EU's feet.
> But isn't antibiotics something that gets given out in many countries for more or less anything? The US comes to mind.

Yes. Antibiotics have a rich history that dates all the way back to the second world war. Before the risk of bacterial resistance became well-known, use of antibiotics was much more widespread. Understanding of bacterial resistance came after they developed mechanisms to resist the drugs used to treat infections such as betalactamase.

It could be the case that cipro- and levofloxacin are widely prescribed in the USA because bacteria have already become resistant to weaker drugs. Treatment guidelines in my country have more effective options compared to CDC sources. I have no first-hand experience though.

Stronger antibiotics also happen to be very easy to use. It's generally much easier to successfully treat someone with a strong antibiotic than a weaker one. One pill once a day for three days is much easier than 3 or 4 pills at regular intervals every day for 10 days. Getting people to take pills correctly is an every day challenge in medicine, complicated treatments means people will often forget to take their pills and reduce their effectiveness.
There was a good discussion here a couple weeks back if you’d like to check it. The author jumped in too, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26182744
Don't get me wrong but I don't really understand why for server stuff do you could prefer Ubuntu in favor of a rock-solid operating system like Debian?

One number, Debian Buster for example is LTS until June 2024 + 2 yrs.
Just to mention one strength, I don't tell you about the well-known ones such as large community, fully openness, among others.
There is another reasons comets might be more dangerous than we think. There are rare meteor outbursts that are associated with long period comets whose earlier appearance has never been recorded in human history. Any of these might reappear at any moment.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00191...
They didnt show any regret when taking hundreds of millions and making promises that they seem to knew they could not keep.
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Even more than WOW?

I don't have the numbers but would have imagined that still takes the cake.
Oof yeah, if you're running an Android version that old I would not expect much to work that relies on Google services.

That said if you're out of the country a lot and going the SMS auth route, I'd personally be more comfortable with a postpaid plan in AUS for the SIM as the telcos tend to take ID requirements more seriously for those then pre-paids and you're less likely to be socially engineered out of your number.
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> They say the boiler is 84% efficient in converting electricity into hot water, and another 12% of waste heat is recycled, giving a total efficiency of 96%.

An electric water heater is 100% efficient.
The danger (both to the consumer and to others) of magic mushrooms is extremely low, much much lower than alcohol.
There is always the age old pension scheme of having a child to make up the difference
> Having to hire someone to customize ansible is the exact opposite of what op asked for and just reaffirms my point: ansible does nothing without significant customization.

When you decide that your cattle is going to be pets and pets get individual care and feeding, you have to hire a lot of people to do the individual care and feeding.

I've done done management of ~2k Linux systems across 17 generations with Ansible. It is not a big deal. You enforce conventions so you no longer have 2k different servers but rather a feet of Betsys, a fleet of Franks, a dozen of Marshas and a couple of Jacks. And you do not touch the boot configuration because even in 2020 you do not need to touch the boot/network configuration.
You're mixing up relevance and efficacy. Just because an ad is relevant doesn’t mean you’re more likely to buy. And it’s that second part, efficacy, that the ad industry can’t prove.

To you, it’s obviously superior. But if it were obviously generating more revenue, the ad industry would easily be able to prove it. They can’t.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-1/
This is true. Plus add debug bitbake, and debugging (or ignoring) broken caching, missing make semantic (delete a result artifact and see bitbake claim there's nothing to do) and generally causing a massive head-ache.

But ... it has all the hooks you need, and even if it's a particularly ugly and broken behemoth, you can slowly steer it roundabout in the direction you want it to go. yocto also has more apes hitting the typewriter, so in some distant future it might even be sensible.

My colleagues have evaluated buildroot vs. yocto several times, only to end up in yocto each time. I stopped challenging them: Once you have to hook into the build process in various places and implement your "around" hooks, yocto, while still sucking, and still standing in your way, and still pointing every gun there is at your feet ... doesn't make it impossible to achieve your goal without rewriting the whole thing.

Also you can make more money with using a complicated, shiny tool, of course.

NB: I'm using yocto professionally for three years now after a decade of experience in cross-building embedded targets using NetBSD. It is no joy (in contrast to NetBSD). If you don't have a problem that involves rewriting half of buildroot, choose buildroot :D
Maybe Linux won’t switch over, but it’s not unlikely that Apple would consider Rust for portions of their kernel, given that they only have to support a limited number of devices, and have a strong LLVM culture already. Googles Fuschia OS also uses Rust heavily.
Indeed

It's not only racist, but also does not promote outperforming.

You can either sit and complain or try hard to skew the odds that are against you.
Funny April Fool's from Keith Peters with a nod to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFBTzGuaONU
I wonder if maybe you're not being taken the right way in this thread.

I've personally had a few experiences with professors, both in undergrad and grad school, in which I found them hard to understand because of their accents. Rather than dropping the class and complaining about that "foreign professor," I stuck it out and spent significant effort into trying to parse their language, because I knew there were a significant number of things I could learn from these people. What's more, they were actually people to me; I physically interacted with them multiple times a week, every week for a semester or more.

If I were cold called by some random recruiter with a thick accent with whom I had no previous relationship, I can't say as I'd put the same amount of effort into trying to understand them. They aren't people I interact with on a near daily basis, and they probably don't have anything interesting to offer me, so I tend toward feeling it's not worth the effort to try and force my brain to hear the message through the accent.

Although the Indian call center recruiter is a common stereotype, the thing is, I'd apply the same sort of logic with any accent, in just about any situation I can think of. That is, if the interaction is potentially significant, I'm inclined to expend effort. If they're people I'll be interacting with frequently, I'm also inclined to spend the effort.

I've encountered Indian people I couldn't easily understand. I've also encountered Chinese, American, European, and South American people I had difficulty understanding. In each case, I applied the same logic to determine whether I would expend brainpower on understanding their literal words to get at what they were saying.

Is this closer to what you meant to say?
Eh, the comment thread we're talking under starts with a comment [0] by me, supporting public transport rather than thse cars with an implicit sentence stating that my city's public transport sucks.

That's a nice full circle. :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26474545
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It was indeed a comet, not an asteroid, that Bruce Willis had to blow up in Armageddon (1998).
Debt is an absolute level. GDP is a rate of production.

Debt / GDP ~= 4 years. That doesn't sound insane, particularly if much of that debt is secured, but I'm not any sort of financial analyst.
EU bureaucrats in disbelief that words on paper mean little in exigent times.

This is one of the big problems with the EU when it comes to geopolitical issues and security. Way too dependent on diplomacy and then always get surprised when other entities simply break the rules. I guess maybe the lack of foresight is because they are used to lording it over the EU member states (with a couple of exceptions) and then expect non-EU states to be equally complacent.

Instead of wasting time negotiating on price, they should have built manufacturing capacity within EU borders.
To be fair, the EU ordered around four doses per resident (incl. minors) already in January. With deliveries through, if I remember well, June to July to vaccinate everyone. And the EU explicitly called out the distribution and vaccination efforts in the member states to be the biggest challenge. And due to the nature of the EU, these were the sole responsibility of the member states.

The EU did screw up in terms of communication and coordination. The former let to public and media pressure to order more, which negatively impacted short term availability, and the latter let to delays of the vaccination campaigns. The only way the EU could have improved that, so, would have been to serve as a clearing house coordinating exact delivery dates for members based on actual vaccination plans. without those plans, there is nothing the EU could have done. And at least Germany, the biggest member state, doesn't have a true plan. As shown when our government implemented a vaccination summit in Feb of 2021.
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That's not how it works, it's based on the date of the solar installation, not when the house was built.
Kotlin has this amazing concept called compiler plugins where you can extend, intercept and alter the compiler at any stage of the compilation pipeline (ast, psi, ir) through an API.

There even are frameworks that make writing such plugins easier such as
https://github.com/arrow-kt/arrow-meta
(which enable to bring union type, higher kinded types, pattern matching, etc)
Or https://github.com/google/ksp
Being proud and focusing on your culture, yes. Being proud of not speaking the lingua franca of the world, no.

(And for the record, my native language is Spanish)
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Ok, so why not pay devs for their time? Because you prefer to use that time as profit, no?

The system encourages the default distrust of developers resumes. That most of them out there are lying, and we need a test to be sure that they can actually code. How many people have actually hired the mythical devloper that can talk well in an interview and not code?
My main idea behind creating the Genesys project was to create a network of worlds - I have full intentions to make the worlds connected in the future via internet and have functionalities to share worlds, creatures etc..

I just have too much more work to do and other more pleasant blockers like children :-)
Does Apple need permission from Intel for their CPU to make an API "claim" to being a GenuineIntel brand processor?

This seems like it could be a tricky legal corner, if it's not already established by these business partners.
My only relationship to any of this is as a gumroad customer but this seems like a cheap shot? Nathan alleges mismanagement but doesn’t go into details as far as I can tell.

To me the story seems to be that investors were ready to leave gumroad for dead, Sahil made some hard decisions and managed a very unlikely comeback.
This makes no difference with any other piracy website
preferably future work and dreams and ramblings too..

preferably over a twitch stream..
Not a single mention about "positive" impacts that less road salting will have on aquatic ecosystems..
Interesting article though
a plug: we did a research report on gumroad's financials to give potential investors a deeper look at the company: https://sacra.com/research/gumroad-android-creator-economy/

here are 3 key points:

1. gumroad experienced major covid tailwinds. whereas the company's five-year compound annual growth rate is 37%, it grow 94% from 2019 to 2020. they've been profitable since 2017.

2. gumroad's core customer base is creators making less than $10k/yr. gumroad is best positioned as an entry point for novice creators to start selling quickly and easily online. as creators cross the $10k/yr threshold, they become a churn risk because all-in-one products like kajabi and podia offer a more fully-featured product at the same price.

3. at the campaign's $100m pre-money valuation, gumroad will need to grow 40% yoy for 10 years to return double digit IRR.

check out our report for a full breakdown of financials, competition and more: https://sacra.com/research/gumroad-android-creator-economy/
> and it's not strictly an issue with leadership in any particular country.

The title says "France says" and it reports about a comment from France’s Industry Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher.

The original article seems to be this one:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/...
There's also the huge downside of adding another complex system to your car. It's going to cost a small fortune to replace this when it breaks. People act as though solar panels grow on trees. There's an environmental cost to manufacturing and disposing of these things.
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A family friend worked as an outside something at Nokia HQ around 2007(?) when the iPhone was announced.

Apparently there was an ongoing joke inside of the company that every button on these phones was one of the executives. And so you had multiple buttons/ways of doing one thing because consensus. Sounds like they were just bogged down and crippled in a corporate way that so many European companies were between 1990-2020.

Apparently when the iPhone was announced the whole company was in deep shock and disarray. They were planning on the first touchscreen phones hitting the market around 2010-2015, and here was a company promising to deliver one by 2008.
I actually prefer leftover pizza. Guess it depends on where its from.
> But there are other effective ways of learning that are not frustrating and that allow people to explore and be creative.

Like... asking for help and having a chat with a mentor who has relevant experience.

(Most) people don't do that easily and are likely to have already spent time and effort formulating the question.

Asking them to go away and spend more time on their own is interrupting an effective way of learning.
Since to not alter your orbit you'd need one prograde moment and one retrograde, one of the two launches you describe would raise the apogee instead of lowering the perigee, defeating the purpose
Maybe you know any good reason to use JS? It will not make the text you read any better and other multimedia like youtube is being consumed way better if downloaded via youtube-dl.
The EU followed a multi source strategy, the additional production capacity was only needed when the EU was kind of forced to order more. Even if that wasn't really needed, because more =|= faster, and faster was the real issue.

The initial EU plan was to order more than needed, and share these doses with poorer countries outside the EU. Solid plan, badly communicated with badly negotiated contracts and a total lack of coordination and planning on behalf of the member states. As a result, we got the mess we have now.
I think a similarly important distinction is that in the U.S.A., the prestige accent, General American, is truly neutral territory that is is not a specific regional accent of any place, — it would be quite normal for even a homeless man to speak it, at any place throughout the U.S.A.,, which would not sound usual.

The U.K.'s relationship with Received Pronunciation is very different: it is the native regional accent of the rich elite of London, and consequently it would be quite unusual for a homeless man on the streets of Liverpool to speak it.

At the very least, General American is an accent that can be spoken without revealing anything of one's birthplace and social situation. A man speaking R.P. reveals his wealth and upbringing around London to a greater degree.

The Finnish situation, for comparison, is that the standard language is spoken by about no one informally, and is a practically constructed languages that was created by the government by combining the most conservative elements of all dialects. — it is the native language of no one, so it is even more neutral territory than G.A., yielding kno one an unfair advantage.
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This is straight out of those GI Joe voiceover videos.

Give us the vaccine! We’re suspending use of the vaccine!

https://youtu.be/DXFdPTaCtkc
That just bolsters the point you're replying to. If Shakespeare was doing it strictly for artistic merit, and money didn't enter into it, that's an argument for copyright - since presumably there's far fewer people who are willing / able to pursue creative projects strictly for the artistic merit without any regard for income.

The fact that he was a businessman demonstrates that copyright isn't completely necessary to make creative works a viable business.
$1/mo? Which provider is that? Twilio?
Well, I'm not an art collector or have any deep interest in art. Partly because I'm ignorant, with a dash of stupid and very broke.

That being said I can appreciate workmanship, artisanal detail and peserverance of craftsmanship - whether a person builds a table, lays bricks, sculpts statues, or paints like Rembrandt. Where lifelong sweat and blood drips on a piece of work, it leaves an indellible mark of both talent and absurb obsession.

It's hard to get that feeling in abstract art. It feels like a my toddler niece lashed out on a canvas and some pompus grey beard is telling me about emotional turmoil being expressed on a canvas. That turns my stomach. It's elitist and my eyes are too poor or it's just crap.

The argument ofcourse becomes photorealism isn't art. My very ignorant view says art should capture the moment. While imagery/photography should capture a moment.
I was told Brexit would crash the British economy. And yet now it's the EU begging the UK for a vaccine, the rate of GBP/USD is nearly at a 5 year high, and the UK has made serious progress vaccinating its population. Maybe the leavers were onto something?
Isn't AZ forced into a non-profit scheme by the IP agreement with the University of Oxford?
This is a fantastic offer, but until there is an affordable and fast big screen (10'') book reader available, I'll stay with dead tree versions which of course have different costs. I really want to love ebooks, but I find them good only for short peeks, say when looking for a function definition or a part data sheet; I can't really "read" them.
I'm in favour of removing restrictions. Cigarettes are not illegal but their usage has been declining very sharply, especially after a country banned smoking in bars. Many people certainly quit but I think its that a lot less people get into them in the first place, despite the fact they never lost their cool factor. The people made a conscious choice, and no banning of anything was necessary.
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Was the outages in the bank related to this javascript file? I just trying to understand what is the relation.