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> So the IDE becomes a hinderance, using memory, CPU, and screen real estate intrusively.

The screen space used is highly configurable, but if it wasn't, I'd agree. I don't care about memory or CPU at all.

Maybe it's different for other languages, I mostly do PHP + JS/HTML/CSS, but PHPStorm vs vscode (+ plugins for both) is not even close, and PHPStorm makes me so much more productive and takes so much annoyance out of my day that investing in a beefier machine seems like a small price to pay. I've easily made that money back once a month just because I get more done.

I like vscode, but I pretty much exclusively use it as a text editor and notepad.
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But ideas of what is “just” change and the justice system is often slow to react. Sometimes things that are technically unjust (banning gay marriage) are allowed. Slavery was once legal. Justice system at the time said so. Also, as an anecdote, speaking as someone who has participated in the justice system quite a bit, for me it was very rarely the best determinant of what was “just” on the small scale of my life. I would hesitate to assume on the larger scale of society as a whole it is any more accurate.
That's a gross exaggeration; Amazon is not even close to being the only company you can work for.
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State lawmakers take aim at the emergency powers
They're tiptoeing the line. So, yes, you're right; They haven't broken the law, but when they have to stand right on that line to get what they want, it's clear they want to go past it.
Full article title: State lawmakers take aim at the emergency powers governors have relied on in the pandemic.
When I tested out my web MIDI piano software it worked on a Samsung tablet I tested. Just needed a USB OTG cable to connect it.

https://benkaiser.github.io/learn-piano/
It might be worth looking at West, used by Zephyr (embedded RTOS): https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/west

Not sure how mature it is or if any other projects use it. But seems to be working well for Zephyr.
Individuals in the Culture are free to state whatever they want, that doesn't mean the civilization executes it. Taking the thought (not action) of one individual in a civilization that has on the order of trillions of individuals is hardly being fair to your representation of the Culture. In addition, whereas in our world, such a person would likely be Twitter shamed into oblivion, even if they had such a thought as teenager, in the Culture they would have a reasonable argument with other humans and Minds that would attempt to convince them of the foolishness of pursuing a genocidal agenda. The Culture tries to preserve life as much as possible. For context, what actually ends up happening is that Earth is left to its own devices. The Culture is dedicated to doing the right thing, but that right thing isn't always easy to figure out. To quote the State of the Art:
[Diziet Sma asking the Ship Mind] "How certain do we have to be? How long must we make them wait? Who elected us God?"
[The ship] "Diziet... that question is being asked all the time, and put in as many different ways we have the wit to devise (...) and that moral equation is being re-assessed every nanosecond of every day of every year, and every time we find some place like Earth -- no matter what way the decision [to interfere or not] goes -- we come closer to knowing the truth. But we can never be absolutely certain... I'm the smartest thing for a hundred light years' radius, and by a factor of about a million (...) but even I can't predict where a snooker ball's going to end up after more than six collisions."
So we should change the rules? Accepting laws because that's the way it is to be blunt silly. Why do we have child labor laws? Those families and children should have just been greatful? Or maybe things can be better and the law isn't perfect
Institutions should have the right to challenge lawmakers without thread of retribution for doing so, even if you don't like what they have to say.
> The reason that Reflexion Models are obscure while Mylyn is among the most popular Eclipse plugins is quite literally because Gail C. Murphy, creator of Reflexion Models, decided to go into academia, while her student Mik Kersten, creator of Mylyn, went into industry.

> Other fields of computer science don’t seem to have such a giant rift between the accomplishments of researchers and practitioners.

I'm not sure that's actually true. I can't think of a field I've studied where research generated software from a decade ago still worked out of the box. If you write software for Java 7 that proves your concept is feasible, the existence of Java 14 doesn't disprove it, so nobody funds the research to port it. This is as true for bioinformatics as compilers.

There's also a pretty strong hurdle in simply educating the software development community. I suspected if you did a sufficiently large poll of developers, less than 5 percent have set a breakpoint and used a debugger in the past year. It seems even renowned experts believe debuggers are not valuable[1]. And I suspect at least half of people who claim proficiency in git can't correctly explain the difference between the rebase and merge commands.

And that, IMO, is the mystery we need to explain. If the hypothesis is that weak but free tools are undercutting the market for advanced tools, why don't developers learn and use the tools freely available to them? Are the tools too hard to learn, not powerful enough, or something else? I suspect there's a time tradeoff going on -- learning how to use a tool takes time, so if you believe you have a slow method that will solve the problem, you might prefer it to investing in learning something new. Especially outside the research lab, where there is uncertainty that any given tool will actually solve the problem at hand, and a researcher hasn't handcrafted a tutorial to make your assigned task feasible.

[1]: https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/21/i-do-not-use-a-debugger/
It’s just way too expensive. PLACE & PLAY 32″ – $2,576.00
eInk tech is great, it’s been around for a long time and the adoption is very slow. For this pri e you can get very thing lg oled hdr tv 60-70”.
The people aren't monsters; it's the dynamics of such discussions -- an emergent property -- that breeds such results. My problem isn't bad faith of the participants; I'm sure people are authentic. It is that HN finds it appropriate to host and publicise a discussion in an overwhelmingly male forum on how to best treat women in the workplace (and not from the professional HR perspective). The very thing I was deploring in the first place is the thought that such a discussion in such a forum is ethically legitimate.

BTW, I am not talking about the actual article. It's fine. I'm merely talking about the ensuing "debate."
I would argue that your argument from tautology is stunningly silly and you should get out more lol
Sure, but then why are you still working there if its so terrible?
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I always have this weird sensation when people talk about Jetbrains.... I feel like some in some circles, usage of Jetbrains tools is ubiquitous, while in others it is unheard of. I have been a professional software developer for 15 years, and have never seen the tools in use anywhere I work. But I read things on the internet where people will say things like “well, every ruby developer uses Jetbrain” and seem to not even question this.... weird how circles like this form.
Hierarchy of newspapers according to the headline and tone:

- "These are the facts"

- "This is what you need to know"

- "This is what it means"

- "Explainer: ..."

- Everything you never wanted to know about British Royal Family - Women in bikinis - Men engaged in violent sports
LibreOffice and Collabora Office both have an online version, which works in the browser.
I’m seeing my fiancée for the first time in well over a year today, the separation caused by systems failures, so yes, I do seriously believe this.
There are a lot of good comments here on what's wrong with the media and why. A couple posts talk about solutions like AllSides or Ground News. Pardon the self-promotion but I'd like to add my company's solution: TheFactual.com. Hopefully a solution to help people complain less and consume better news :-)

We use technology to rate how informative an article likely is: links & quotes analysis, lack of opinion in writing tone, author's topical expertise based on historical writing and site historical reputation. The result is you can find good articles in hundreds of sources without having to brand an entire source (Fox, NYT, CNN etc) as good or bad. And by curating a few highly rated stories across the political spectrum on each topic you see different framings of a story quickly so you get closer to the unbiased story.

More here if you're curious: https://thefactual.com/how-it-works
Obviously no? That would defeat the purpose.

I understand what you're getting at though. I just made a claim that people in policy circles are writing things under pseudonyms. You want evidence for this (justifiably), but this would require me to essentially out the pen names. Sorry, not going to happen.
"There was terror inside the executive ranks of Amazon..."

Raise your hand if you believe Amazon execs felt 'terror' in this circumstance.
Vox is showing their left/progressive bias by framing Amazon’s response as “snarky”, basically providing a journalistic shield for authoritarian legislators. Consider that Senator Elizabeth Warren threatened to break Amazon (a private corporation) up (https://mobile.twitter.com/amazonnews/status/137552910193152...) for having the temerity to speak against her (for speaking against the government, which is comprised of legislators like her). Personally I do think these giant tech monopolies/oligopolies should face antitrust scrutiny, but not for their exercise of their right to free speech.

I also wonder how else would corporations respond to misleading populist narratives? Amazon provided a minimum wage of $15/hour with benefits without legislative pressure (although some like to claim their pressure caused it). They did so for completely unskilled labor that is not compensated this way by other companies that operate warehouses. Even so, they receive critique from these legislators that seemingly don’t understand how businesses work, how they create value, and how that adds up to a functional economy. That deserves a response - and I don’t think corporations should have to remain silent or speak with undue deference while these legislators whip up populist outrage. Their direct and firmly toned response wastes no words and serves to bring these legislators back to Earth.
> The new result indicates hints of a deviation from one: the statistical significance of the result is 3.1 standard deviations

That's not enough, is it? I thought in particle physics, people wanted 5 standard deviations? Does someone know why this is being published then?
Warren isn't exactly mainstream government.

She can't even get her "progressive" credentials consistent as she rarely misses an opportunity to be the hawk. She sure loves those foreign wars.
Legislators shouldn't be afraid of challengers.

That said, it's reasonable to fear corporations with so many resources they capture regulators and can bankroll astroturfed challengers. I'd like both a balanced, accountable government and healthy, competitive markets please.
You are correct. I should have limited my statement to discussions between people using their real identities. I also think this is subjective depending on how much value you place on being able to identify the participants. For example, in language related discussions I think it's extremely valuable to have people like SPJ, Anders Hejlsberg, Andrei Alexandrescu etc. as active AND identifiable participants. When I was in high school, during the very early days of Slashdot, quite a few highly respected developers, professors and authors would comment regularly under their own names. Reading their comments and having discussions with them definitely changed my life and I think it would be sad to see all these discussions move into private spaces or under anonymity due to fear of the mob.
There's no need to talk about assumptions. The WHO suppressed evidence of the disease at the behest of PRC. The WHO fortunately finds itself in the convenient position where "Trump's wrong" makes a right. But an impartial WHO investigation and a forthright Chinese disclosure are two things I would never use as bases for understanding what happened.
Unfortunately "just switch to svn" is easier said than done and likely to cause more headaches than dealing with git submodules.
It is not necessarily your bias against women. It is equally possible that the woman is not self-confident enough to interrupt you more often.

Recently I had a zoom meeting with two women. One of them was a bit shy and quiet, and the other one constantly interrupted me and the other woman. There was nothing gender-specific in that encounter.

Similarly, in other meetings there are often some men who stay quiet (but obvs nobody cares about them).

Possibly we should let shy people talk more. Regardless of whether they are women, men, black, gay or whatever.

Or maybe not. Maybe you need to be self-confident and a bit bold to lead, because if you don't, you won't be a good leader anyways even if you were given time to speak regardless of your sex. I don't know.

Don't look for sexism in every encounter.
Programming language interpreters are tools. How do Python, Node and Ruby survive? How about the core tooling? Are the devs well paid to work on this? Do they do it just because they love it? How do the foundations around these tools get money to support their work?
Small sample, since I come from a country of only 2M people, but there's a growing number of people, including historians and history teachers, that are trying to rewrite WW2 history by framing the Nazi-collaborating groups as the good guys, fighting for our country to rid us of the communist evil that was the liberation front - and everyone is just eating it up. The ordinary people risking their lives to fight literal Nazis are now depicted as the "aggressors" and the people that marched on our own cities under Hitler's flag are the good guys?? Why, because the mere idea of communists doing something good is so dangerous to neoliberalist society that we'd rather call literal Nazis the good guys??? But if you say "communism bad, they fought communists => they were the good guys" and conveniently fail to mention the whole Nazi-collaborating thing, no student will question it because they really don't care anyways.

// Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant, but yes, there's definitely a lack of understanding of history in schools these days and certainly some pretty powerful propaganda
A difficulty of being a minority of any stripe must be the not knowing.

Was the architect dismissive of my ideas because I am a woman? Because he shoots down everyone’s ideas? Because he has a specific problem with me? Because my ideas are bad?

One of the greatest challenges I had to overcome in my career was not reading too much into the actions of others. When you do you can easily be offended by everything.
If a politician's solution to "making sure people aren't treated like animals" is going after a single company; rather than fixing the system, then they've failed as politicians.
You can make vanilla web components with Svelte, and Svelte has a much better DX than React, Vue, and Angular. It also performs better thanks to the compile step. I highly recommend checking it out!
Not an issue on Nightly for Android 11.
Why should big tech companies be able to challenge democratically elected representatives?

Shouldn't political participation be primarily in the hands of people, not special interests?

I get that the question of whether corporations should have a role in politics is up for debate, but I think most of the people who elected Warren believe that there's no place for big money in politics.
If the year 2020 taught me anything, it's that an alarmingly large number of people can all as a group reject something that's scientifically proven.
This was just a small section:

https://elmoudjaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-add...

All the hotels were booked for 45 min around and in DC. That is literally hundreds of thousands of people.
They’re not forcing anyone and most workers don’t do that. The ones that do are probably just not productive and are making up the loss of production by peeing in bottles. That’s not necessarily an indictment of the company. Their policy, from leaked documents, is that workers should not be doing this.
Female founder friend (non tech space) was in a female focused incubator / competition. She got only one set of somewhat critical feedback - ie, lacks experience in X and Y which are key in product space Z.

She posted a comment on her social media focusing on this feedback as "criticism" that came from a sexist guy "of course". It was pretty easy to draw the line to the three panelists, one of whom was a guy. Ouch.

In a previous life, I'd worked in a awesome (female led!) product company. While I had no experience prior to this, I quickly realized that the product itself and its quality etc was almost irrelevant to success, the X and Y mentioned by the male panelist was unfortunately everything, which you'd only know if you were in the space itself. The female led company I worked for was bought out by a (male led) competitor, who then using much strong x and y skills - cleaned up. Company I worked for got basically nothing.

Fast forward - my friends business not doing so great, she asks me for feedback. I said nothing other than enthusiasm. Partly because I was really enthusiastic - she'd put her heart into this project. But her comment on social was in my mind - I had no desire to be next sexist guy "shooting down" an idea

She's out of the business I think mostly. Anyways, this parallels the take of the article.
Even though everywhere you look you see penis shapes, that doesn't mean there are penis-shaped things everywhere. Or, pareidolia will destroy ya.
"Registered" with whom?
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For the latter two, peeing in a bottle/etc. is dictated by physical constraints. For the former two, they are dictated by late-stage capitalism. That's why Amazon drivers are protesting and astronauts are not.
I find your ad-hominem attack stunningly silly, and your use of stock logical cliches even more so.
> If Amazon is your best option, then you should be grateful for it.

As we drift back into company towns here in the Midwest US I do hope change will come before company scrip.
For me there is nothing indirect about it. The falling notes point directly at which key on the piano to press. I can hear it's a I, IV, V, VI progression, but I might not recognize it's in the key of A#. With the falling notes, I see the first chord is A#. I might get that from sheet music too, but it's a lot harder to decipher.
Some regions are implementing various taxes on foreign buyers or penalizing those who don't occupy whay they buy.

The thing about Canada is that we seem to take everything slower and more moderately. To put simply, we're like American policy put through a low pass filter, smoothing down the extremes.

Should we be more protectionist? Probably. Will we do so? Probably. Will we rush to implement significant and severe new policy? Probably not.
The Al-arabiya article even references Reuters. They've been my go-to news source for many years:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-suezcanal-ship/digg...
That’s basically what the subtree commands are, no?
> people think the way you learn to play an instrument is by learning to play a score. No! These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine.

In the time of home computers, before Internet emerged, just about everyone learned to program like that.

(Arguably, with StackExchange seen as a magazine, many still do.)
I thought it meant "Commonwealth of Independent States", the CIS region
git subtree

They came about because everyone hates submodules.
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The problem is that the "justice system" is the only universally agreed upon system. The alternative is everybody upholds their own justice and we have anarchy.

If you want to change the justice system, go ahead. But there's a difference between changing labour laws and going after one specific company.
They feel like an unfinished tool provided by a third-party, not a built-in component of git.

The simple fact that switching branches doesn't auto update the submodule is awful.
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> If the virus was from an animal source known to the lab, we would know already

Unless they started commanding to destroy samples, and sharing sequences of captured bats after the pandemic started.

> it would be quite unlikely for the virus to take so much time to adapt to humans

All experts agree that SARS-COV-2 is extremely adapted to human infection. Like it appeared out of nowhere, not the gradual result of a natural spill-over. To pose: "It could have been even more infectious" as an argument against gain-of-function is not very strong. And if we agree that China did not deliberately release a finished product, it would be weird to see optimal adaptivity.

> there is no obvious marker for genetic engineering

Gain-of-function does not create obvious marker. It is known possible to increase GoF of coronavirus using techniques that produce no markers at all. It is also tying it too closely to engineered bioweapons (vanilla SARS-COV is a bioweapon itself, even if collected from civet cats by terrorists), because the lab leak could also have been from a collected sample and accidental escape. There is no genetic engineering there at all.
And they what? Forgot their cameras that day?
> your words mean very little if it's based off dubious sources like Adrian Zenz

My words? I don’t think I’ve ever quoted anyone by that name, let alone stated an opinion based on such a source.

> To China you westerners look like the guy on the higher moral ground

“You Westerners?” I’m me. I have opinions of my own. I act as an individual. I neither support nor condone many of the actions taken by my government or other people in my country—I’m frequently disgusted by their actions. We are not a single entity; we are a loose collection of individuals who disagree more often than we agree. I do not represent “the West,” nor does “the West” represent me. I’m strongly opposed to arbitrary groupings of people based on factors they cannot reasonably control.

> yelling slogan after slogan together with other like minded people but when approached with facts continue to repeat the same slogans.

What slogans? I’m not part of some hivemind; I develop my own opinions based on a wide array of sources, and those opinions are in constant flux. I do not subscribe to a single philosophy or political ideal.

> Why trust an institution that lies?

Which institution? I don’t trust any media outlet or governmental institution to provide objective, unbiased information. I question everything. I question my government, I question China’s government. What have any of them done to deserve my trust? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Same as mine operators employing kids in 19th century England, or current Chinese companies with their fucked 9-9-6 system.

Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism should be mandatory reading for any person commenting online about the modern economic system.