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I think when this conversation comes up, a lot of different things get overloaded. There are classes of "work" where output linearly scales (more or less) with input: For example, if you;re a truck driver, time spent with your butt in the driver's seat probably corresponds very tightly to your mileage per day and even deliveries per day (and therefore profit)

But given this is mostly a software-centric message board, software engineering and tech in general I have not observed much correlation at all between amount of input (work) and output (profit, success, happiness, etc). The expanse is wide open, the decision-tree of ways to approach a problem is nearly infinite, and choosing an approach to go down almost always incurs an opportunity cost of solving the same problem in a much better way. I've seen this a lot with lots of founders: They are so motivated and have enormous reserves of energy to "work", and while they are legitimately "working" in a certain sense (writing code, hustling for investment, planning business strategy, etc), it's often work that functions like a greedy algorithm: Stuck in local maxima, stuck in ruts, inflexible, etc and having a very hard time pausing, reflecting, and being judicious with their time, energy and focus. I call this the "Bias of Doing Work"
So where is a real life example?
It would be interesting to find someone that grew up knowing a third type of language (no idea what that is, though!) and that then learned latin alphabet and chinese (say) as an adult and hear what they say :)
That's a great question. Most of the companies using us today are small. They range from a single dev team to a small handful of dev teams. We're now starting to work with companies "one step up" from there that are coming with requirements about how to connect things across teams. Early days for this work, but we're trying to be really careful to keep this a tool that teams want to collaborate in and not a tool only a product manager would use.

We definitely have come close to the scale you're discussing but I look forward to finding out! That said, we have had a number of smaller companies drop Jira for Kitemaker.
The Sherman was a good tank for its role it wasn't as "Gucci" as a Panther or a Tiger.

And fixing a Sherman is far more complex than a tractor but a hell of a lot less of a PITA than a German tank.

Of course if you had a major malfunction you said "oh dear my tank/jeep/rifel is buggered" get me a new one.

There is the secondary q of should they have up gunned the US Sherman's quicker and had more hot ammo.
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This matter is of public interest, it just isn't reported often or at all, yet all eyes are on these vaccines, specially on a controversial one such as AZ vaccine.

I can only see the recurring mistake mentioning generic "blood clots", and that "the vaccine doesn't cause blood clots", when the only ones talking about blood clots were media outlets, while the anomaly was always reported as low pallets causing bleeding and a specific type of clots.

This is what happens when you try to control the narrative of events, you end up creating noise - because regulators from Norway, Dernmark, and many other countries will continue to report this because it's still happening, while media outlets, and the WHO have the narrative that everything is fine and this wasn't even a subject.

Literally two narratives came from this event:

- "the vaccine is safe and effective and doesn't cause blood clots", which is true and always was true and no one ever questioned it.

- "there's an ongoing investigation because the vaccine is causing a specific adverse reaction in very few people, most prevalent in women under 50 years old", which is also true and doesn't contradict the first narrative.

Now how the hell are common people supposed to know what to believe, when both narratives are true but seem to contradict each other? Why did they spin off the first narrative, when it only adds noise and confusion.

It's just extremely bad journalism and PR.
I’m very skeptical. This kind of argument only makes sense if your programming is bottlenecked by your typing speed. It’s trivial to write these functions as for loops, the only difference being the number of key presses.
I don't know about "particularly" famous but I know that I've talked to people whose family members were programmers who reacted with "wait you know SEEBS!?!" when they mentioned me, so apparently some people have heard of me. I used to be fairly active in Usenet discussions of C, and I've published some stuff, most of it now lost to the mists of time.
"US Sherman tanks were not very good tanks."

The main person's opinion[1] has been debunked by multiple authors. It was a very good tank and fulfilled the American objectives. Particularly when you take into account the US Army's belief "tanks shouldn’t take on other tanks". The later gun upgrade even took care the of late war tank-on-tank battles.

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By the way, Apple decided to just use "Safe C" for their iBoot firmware, but other than documentation references on Apple Developer, they are probably not going to share it with the world.
I was first introduced to this concept through emulation, specifically Super Nintendo & Arcade work and would eagerly watch change logs. It is amazing to see it really step by step, and even now it still feels like magic.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675123
https://web.archive.org/web/20160624093121/http://flatpak.or...

> Sandboxes

> Flatpak isolates apps from the host OS as well as from other applications. This provides security for users and a predictable environment for developers.
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omg, I can't believe I forgot to add it!

Just added :)
Why not? I have such server in plans, but that won't be soon (due to lack of time). If you have only as many threads as cores, that's not very MULTI threading, that's avoiding threads because of performance reasons.
Meritocracies always produce the biggest difference in outcomes of results.
Again, though, what do you want to do with lasers? What do you want a lens for a laser to do?

Holography makes a great hobby project, by the way, and you can get started with a laser pointer (or equivalent) as your laser.
I have a 2015 pickup, in the US, and its the speed up changes with the electronics that worries me. My touch-screen controls most features of the vehicle. (after some nice jeep hacks, I learned it controls much more than I thought) but they only used that model for a year or two.

The Axle, drive line, brakes, etc, have been used for at least a decade on my model of pickup, and Cummins engine parts are the same across trucks, generators, marine engines, and easy to find my size.

I just worry about the 'cost' of finding a working computer module in 2030, for my 2015 pickup, if it fails. At $2500 now, I'm not going to buy a spare.
> I do not get to have opinion about cancel culture and ideology because of my identity

That works both ways, you can ignore them back because they are of a different identity (as they insist) and they are biased against your own identity.

I have already begun to doubt the papers of woke scientists in the last year. If they are not inclusive they are not worth my time. For example a researcher raising scandal on racial bias had a paper where she excluded the Asians, not even a mention. She was only watching for her own and the token whites for baseline. Why should I take her seriously? She's not fighting for my good. It would have been a different story if she was including everyone's good in her agenda.
Low levels of Vitamin D are correlated with a lot of bad things, but only for a few of them vitamin D supplementation seems to lead to betterment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Use_of_supplements
> The bottom line is these vehicles are environmentally irresponsible.

If you’re right - which I don’t think you are - we’re going from a world in which maybe 2% of vehicles are collectible to one in which none are. Not really much of a difference from an environmental perspective, especially when you consider the large efficiency and emissions benefits of computer controlled engines.
> "capitalists" welcome authoritarian rulers

North Korea, Venezuela, China, Russia, Cuba, to a certain extent Mexico...

I'm not sure you could find examples of more authoritarian societies that have a proliferation of mandates "for the greater good." Conformism is king!
> The question is why COVID vaccine is so harsh, and why is it different than a typical flu vaccine?

I had a pretty bad day after the second dose of Moderna - high fever, etc. Symptoms mostly dissipated after 24 hours of the shot.

I have my suspicions about why the COVID vaccines have tended to have more severe reactivity as compared to the flu vaccine - they were designed to trigger a very strong immune response & subsequent antibody titer, probably a lot more than might be required for protection in hindsight. The current crop of emergency use authorized vaccines have virtually 100% protection against severe COVID - which is great. My guess is that halving the antibody titer would have yielded something like 95% protection, and probably given you less reactivity as well. The manufacturers have erred on the side of caution, probably rightly so. By comparison the flu shot for last year's flu season had an effectiveness in the range of 50%. Of course, the thing that dings flu shot effectiveness is variant strains, while all the current COVID vaccines were designed from the original Wuhan strain (?), and likely have varying effectiveness against variant strains.
Yep - perfect is the enemy of good.

For me the advantage of flatpak is that it makes things a lot easier to install, abstracting away all the detail between different Linux distros.

The layering is good + because of immutability, you have a system that is a lot closer to the one the devs actually used.

There is a little more security, which is a bonus too, but that's not the main draw.
Going on a tangent but upon reading about vestibular reflexes I recalled something I used to do as a kid:

When in bed, ready to sleep, I could condition myself to believe the bed was tipping over to the side, up to the point where I would have the reflex of grabbing the sheets to keep myself from falling, similar to jolting awake up after falling in a dream.

I wonder if something could be done to manipulate these perceptions without actually zapping the brain.
> integration of OO and FP

OO and FP are paradigms. You can use any of them, or both of them, in any language.
Specifically in the case of employment I'm all for erring on the side of asking employers to be as accommodating as possible. But there are cases where someone's disabilities/attributes reasonably restrict what roles they can perform.

For example, airlines don't employ pilots with extremely poor vision or flight attendants who are too large to fit through the cabin. Someone who relies on a wheelchair may have difficulty becoming a firefighter or a first responder and someone with Tourette's syndrome might have difficulty getting a job as a spokesperson or announcer.

My understanding is that the above constraints are not illegal discrimination (in the US) because the disability/attribute impacts that person's ability to successfully perform key job functions. Maybe extreme PC-warriors take issue with that, but I think most people would agree that these are reasonable constraints.

With respect to neurodivergence it seems dependent on whether it impacts someone's ability to perform their core job functions. As per above we should ask employers should be as accommodating as possible, so I believe an errant joke or comment shouldn't result in anyone being "canceled". But if someone is chronically incapable of processing social cues and/or has trouble interacting with coworkers or customers without triggering HR complaints then they may need to find a different role that doesn't require as much interpersonal interaction. That's unfortunate for the person in question but it doesn't seem any more discriminatory than an airline reassigning a pilot whose vision is failing.
I also heard Kamala Harris say that she'd never get vaccinated if Trump says to get vaccinated, cause he'd been rushing it to approval.

And now you hear in the news rumblings about all the "vaccine hesitant" Trump supporters...as though the head honcho Democrats weren't fomenting distrust during the campaign and maligning the people they're now beseeching cooperation.
Really, what I'm looking for is if you've thought about the failure modes of centralized management of resources and tastemaking. It seems you believe there are no different ones. Is that accurate?
not worth getting into the nitty gritty but I'll just say that I mean sexual harassment is dramatically more serious than not paying rent
I think the US Army looked at diesel / multifuel bikes for special forces.
I imagine if it came down to it they could try to pin it on him and say he didn't provide documentation he said he did, and that's why this entire 10M project now can't be delivered.

Luckily for him they decided it's easier to just pay the fee.
The runtime controller is uwsgi, which acts as supervisor for all processes of an app _or_ embeds the right interpreter-it's pretty much perfect for that, as it also has a cron scheduler and an on-demand, fire-up-an-interpreter-upon-request mode.

In a nutshell, piku handles SSH git pushes, looks at the contents, figures out what language runtime to use, creates its equivalent of an isolated venv, and writes config files for every uwsgi process (which then start automatically and, if necessary, talk to nginx - which in turn understands what is going on and sets up cloudflare, SSL, etc.)

As to the k3s stuff, it's all here: https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster. I update this from time to time as I occasionally nuke the entire cluster and rebuild it (I use AKS for non-hobby workloads, but a single master is just fine for most of my stuff).
Arabic, Hebrew, or one of the Indian subcontinent languages.
Every time I see articles like this I think the same, sarcastically.

I also wonder, who is going to be the first major public figure to claim some evidence of his/her wrong doing is a deep fake and part of a foreign influence op?
Without a time horizon you can say anything about anything in the future. In the next two thousand years maybe we face several famines; but we’ll do what we have always done when food runs scarce; adapt, explore and kill. Cosmopolitan virtues will likely wither in that time.

Even with climate change as a factor, we can lose a lot of our current yearly harvest and still have enough to eat. We can change our diets to match what is available to us to eat, and for all we know, even with the loss of some arable land, we gain access to land that was previously unusable due to the local climate being inhospitable to our crops.

So, are we, or are we not, facing in the near term the pressures that these mice are facing that drive them to desperate action? Are we all members of the Donner Party in the future? Or is it just an interesting thought exercise to ask what we would do if we were faced with the same pressure?
The deep fake technology will kill the video star.

Movies will be made more and more with this tech to save $$ on casts.

There is already so much noise pretending to be news that few people pay attention anymore to the media.

Just another version of click bait.
That's not extortion, simply hard-nosed commercial negotiation.
I feel like Go is more similar to another Java or C# in the role that it fills in enterprises.
Agree, especially as there's so little upside to writing it this way. It isn't going to run any faster. The style emphasises code-density over readability, but density is only a virtue when it aids readability.

I'd far prefer:

++index;
ch = index < strlen ? str.charAt(index) : 0;

I don't see a good reason to make it a macro, though.
The article shows a convo with the child predator via SMS, which of course reveals its number, which in turn makes it possible to track its location

I'm confused to why couldn't FBI busted the bastard by this?
Yeah, the big sites will still get to see the data though, so if you just become an employee, you can probably still get it.
The fact that you'd refer to this as extortion makes me sick. The management/capital class loves the free market except for when it applies to labor, then suddenly it's extortion when supply and demand don't work in your favor.
It happens oftentimes that you want a newer version and your distro doesn't have it yet.

Also, you have to think from the distributor as well, if you want to make an app for linux, how do you go about having it packaged and distributed for all distros? You need to manage so many different package manager, its a lot of overhead.
And Apple may well move to USB-C, in fact they already are for some devices at the pro end.

As for 'standard' and easy availability, I'm pretty sure Lightning cables are more ubiquitous, and probably cheaper than USB-C still. There's certainly no shortage of them, I've got about half a dozen chargers and cables in the house right now. Nobody is pushing for Apple to adopt USB-C for my convenience, that's for sure.
Object Pascal and Modula-2 would be already much safer than plain C, although you still suffer from use-after-free errors.

Then there is Ada, but it is in the same complexity level as C++, although much easier than Rust.
But looks like this one is closed down after it partially collapsed.
I feel like the title is a bit misleading given that the author 'only' has a PhD in computer science (telecommunications). This is probably one of the most data science-oriented qualifications I could think of...
What's included in a transaction? Your name and address listed alongside all the medical treatments you pay for?
What makes you think no precautions were taken?
I think if Zig wanted to, it could introduce lightweight linear types using the concept of proof variables and interleaving from ATS. Since resource management is explicit in Zig anyways, there's not much additional overhead in "consuming" proof values to signal that you've dealt with a resource.
> They didn't invent flatpak for the sake of security

[citation needed]

Alex Larsson speaks to the "security model" in his blog posts. [0],[1],[2]

Without a strong security/sandboxing story, there is no flathub or general confidence in running binaries received directly from developers vs. the traditional distro model.

Distros have historically served as trusted arbiters. One of Flatpak's stated goals is to bypass distros in the interests of enabling end-users to more closely track developer releases of software.

This exposes end-users to substantial risks, and Flatpak relies on sandboxing to mitigate those risks.

I find it obviously inconsistent with Alex's posts for Flatpak's GUI to claim apps are sandboxed, when they're directly accessing the host filesystem and/or user's home directory, and don't utilize portals.

[0] https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/01/18/the-flatpak-securit...

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/01/20/the-flatpak-securit...

[2] https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/01/24/the-flatpak-securit...
A system that automatically generates comic books from movies and other videos
Honestly, something that stops me from making a knee jerk reaction, emotion based trade...

Everything else has been done
You may not be aware of what's happened:

IBM buys RHEL and immediately messes with its products and culture.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/ibm-closes-its-34-billion-ac...

https://itsfoss.com/centos-stream-fiasco/

CentOS is no longer basically functionally-equivalent to RHEL.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/centos_red_hat/

IBM (through Red Hat) runs the Fedora project's board of directors, so there is no real independence from IBM.
That won't work because the detection logic is in the female side, not the male side. You could make a hard disk with detachable cable, though.
And do where? The money I knew how to earn was in San Francisco. I didn't know how to earn a living in a much cheaper spot. Everything I knew was there. If I scraped together enough money for a plane ticket, what would I do when I got there?
Well, to be honest, this https://a-ride.com/ has caught my nephew and nieces attention as of late. Way to expensive for them but I guess bicycles get boring too.
Your answer takes Google's POV into account (the "why"), but the GP was mentioning the end result of firms' intentions (the "what"). In other words, it doesn't matter why google needs to or wants to implement some features. What matters is that those features are implemented in Chrome and yet they don't get praised on HN. But if Mozilla adds the same features, HN folks go crazy about it.

I'm a happy Firefox user too, but I don't want to believe that Firefox is the only browser that cares about user privacy.
> to not want to appear dumb

Few production incidents are enough to change this mentality. I'd rather write more verbose but "obvious" code than "clever one liners". I feel sorry for anyone who has to understand someone's DSL on the fly when there's an outage and your business is burning through X$ per minute of downtime.

(On the other hand, you probably want to structure your production changes in the way that they are easy to roll back without understanding everything, but that's other conversation. Either way, the thought that someone may want to chase me after work because my code broke and they can't understand it is enough for me to stop being clever).
You can get Node-RED to run on PaaS services (I have other repos that deploy it to Azure App Service, for instance, which is "equivalent" to Beanstalk).

The thing about that (for me) is that Node-RED itself (and most of its modules) assume their execution context is a regular machine, so what it really likes is a normal filesystem.

But it does have a number of ways to schedule flows internally, so it's a pretty much all-in-one solution from the moment you get it going.
One problem is you have to learn emacs. Then for employees they have to learn the command line etc... so reduce friction I guess is why we have webapps.
> Yes the big creators make a lot of money, but that's because a lot of users are watching them

That's true for anything, even for non-creative work. If you create an app, and nobody buys it (or uses it with ads), you also don't get money.
It is a counter-point to "I always cringe when I have to interview someone with a masters degree in computer science", because there seems to be a generalization encoded there that people with master's degrees tend to be weak at interviewing and weak on practical skills (based on the rest of your comment).
We try to make a little bit of progress on many features each month. So most of the time we won't have any giant new features, progress happens iteratively. You might also notice lots of deprecations as we get closer to 14.0 (immediately after 13.11) Happy to answer any questions.
Absolutely not. Automotive factories are only profitable when run at high utilization. If ICs are short, then factories cannot run at high utilization.
That was supposed to be Inferno/Limbo but sadly it didn't happen.
I'd go further: smart devices are largely a status symbol. You're advertising to your guests that your concerns are those of convenience and luxury, to the point where you won't even use a light switch. That alone is pretty gross before you add in the implicit support for the megacorps.
Even if he was a shitty employee that doesn't obligate him to work for a price favorable to the company. Hell, they could have fired him for not documenting shit.

Because here's the thing, even with how weak US labor laws are, one thing they don't allow is for a company to come back and sue your for incompetence. So long as they didn't go out of their way to sabotage things, they are free and clear.