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Not to sound too aggressive, I'm not sure why ada programmers keep being surprised at the hype.

Safety (of all kinds) is not the only selling point of Rust and Zig,
and the fact that Ada also have safety measures doesn't mean that it's instantly an option for me.

For example, I keep seeing people hype about Zig/Rust, for all kinds of reasons;
and the way that they present their arguments is very compelling.
While I've heard of Ada before, AFAICT the only context in which it is brought up is to downplay hype over Rust/Zig;
never as a standalone.

Sounds like a PR problem, mostly.

EDIT: Not to say that there aren't other problems, just saying that this point alone isn't some magic bullet.

I don't like Rust because it gives me memory safety, tons of languages do that.
I love Rust because the tradeoffs it gives me worth the switch, and the overall tooling and ecosystem are very well made.
I still would rather not spend or cut down $20k expenses to $19k or less. Somehow not spending money feels like a better option.
Measuring productivity is unintuitive because it's not linear.

Sure, if there were no farmers, there'd be no food.

But if there were no mechanization, the current number of farmers would be wildly insufficient.

We're adding 1 + 1 and getting 102, and the tricky part is dividing the extra 100 points amongst everyone.
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> the dream combination is probably publishing in-progress with subscriptions

If you are into Chinese webnovels you'll be familiar with the subscription predatory practices that big companies like Qidian have, where the real cost of a whole 1500-chapter novel (inflated because of the perverse incentives of subscription-based revenue) ends up being close to 500USD

It is sad watching the transition from fan translations' funding trough donation pooling into predatory big-novel subscriptons/per chapter "tokens"
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This is a priceless feedback @twobitshifter, thank you!
I will defeintly have to address it with messages aimed to the developer community and explain in detail how it works and produce as much transparency as possible.

If you have any short-term small messagning copy that you think will help, please help!

thank you!
Making pervasive tracking illegal would do so much more for purchase privacy than cryptocurrencies. On average it's still 99% impossible to conduct online transactions with privacy.

> By your logic

Nah, your extrapolations aren't really based in what they said.
Lawyers also don't bill real hours...
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I'd guess that it's related to the sun's rotation - the sun's equator roughly lies on the ecliptic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_rotation
None of that actually refutes the parent commentators concerns though. That's what its designed for sure, but his concern is what if it is taken further down the road? It's a speculative question sure, but there is nothing wrong with asking it.
I dont know how i feel about this comment. It's almost as if there's the perception that the general public are a bunch of robots/sheep incapable of making their own decisions. I can sympathize with that perspective but need to draw the line and believe that people have a choice. Perhaps I'm being too naive.

If we look beyond Amazon, Apple has basically built their entire business model under the guise of "convenience." It's so convenient that you never will leave their ecosystem. If/when you attempt to leave, they'll make it so painful that you'll give up in frustration.
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> I don't see how cities deal when they can't refrigerate food and the supply chain is interrupted.

A large majority of people, including all but the youngest children in the developed world are healthy enough to survive just fine on zero calories for a week as long as they have clean water. You wouldn’t have zero calories and that’s probably enough time to start milling animal feed corn and processing other animal feed into something edible by humans. The developed world is well capable of feeding itself even in very bad situations. This is a coordination problem and in catastrophes people do not turn into locusts. They pull together. See WW2 in all combatant nations. I’d expect high mortality among the very young, very old and very sick and well over 90% survival rates four most of the developed world besides those groups.
> Also they don't "suggest" a remedy, they demand it

Would this post have been better if they said “it might be a good idea if you considered going back to the previous way?” I’m not sure how soft pedaling the ask makes it more reasonable.

The post is pretty clear in what is wrong and how to fix it. If anything Discord is the aggressor here with a forced change without an “use the old UI” button.

If the posts included screenshots to show how bad the UI change is that would have made it better. Maybe the support forum doesn’t allow it.
The issue with these workplace wellness themes to me is that they violate normal personal and adult boundaries as if to try to access the psyche of employees, and this dismantling of personal boundaries is precisely what creates the psychotic and abusive relationships that appear in business environments. It is the lack of personal boundaries, and not the presence of them that creates harmful interactions and relationships.

The worst possible way to create a 'safe' environment is to infantalize people and direct them like emotionally dependent children because by treating people as non-adults, it removes their basic dignity. Without this, people act out without normal boundaries, and think personal observations and other bizarrely inapproapriate behavior is acceptable or warranted. Corporate yoga and pseudo religious mindfullness probably often has the opposite effect. "Asking" people to submit to religious activities like meditation, smudging ceremonies, ancenstral acknowledgements, mindfulness, hypnosis, yoga, and others is not relating as normal adults.
Sometimes I wonder what the conversations on an HN for HR people would look like.

The most successful wellness programs I have seen came in the form of a self-improvement/hobbies bonus, and the 10%-20% open research/dev projects in some tech companies.
Guess what? My setup is mostly the same with exceptions for specific sites and I don't even own a TV(since 1996).

edit: Though not so much tabs, just the NO-JS default...
I think it's easier to ignore when it comes across as typical internet flame war hysteria rather than someone trying to have a conversation about a issue
from TFA:

> Biden also said that although U.S. intelligence had found no evidence to link the attack with the Russian government, he believed the country had "some responsibility to deal with" the issue since some evidence did indicate that the ransomware may have originated in Russia. Ransomware is software that hackers use to take control of data before demanding money in exchange for its return.
It's still crap though. If they spin up an instance billing $1k a day you'll find out after they've already billed several hundred, if not at least $1k. There needs to be a way to set actually limits, not alerts. You should be able to say "I'm not using this service, the limit should be $0."

Of course, if OP didn't have MFA / let their keys leak this may not have helped anyway if the hacker was able to just remove the limits.
> You are legally obliged to install a smart meter, smart smoke detector and smart heating control in your home

If that's all they do, what's the problem here? All three have big and direct positives for everyone ( you, your home, your community) - a smart heating control saves energy ( climate catastrophe incoming, so could be useful), a smart smoke detector can alert the fire department if smoke is ongoing for more than X time, and a smart meter can be used to accurately predict, distribute, reduce and bill energy consumption. And if they all stay in their lane, there aren't many privacy downsides.

Edit: I'd appreciate a response to go with the downvotes and tell me what i'm missing
And didn't the Apollo Guidance Computer do some of it in analog?
Relevant:

>Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to". In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. In the same work, Rosten also defines the term as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, which renders others speechless and incredulous ... one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight. The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the subject, as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at the display

Honestly, it feels like there may be an international game of terrible idea chicken going on.
> The whole thing reads like a bad tumblr post.

It's exactly the kind of demonizing language that has unfortunately become common in recent years. By using dishonest wording to make your target look like an inhuman villain, it's easier to make the readers accept whatever the writer says. The writer then tries to sneakily shirk the responsibility to justify their claims. Just like at your quote:

> This is not good UX design. It is the opposite. It harms end-users. Revert the changes.

This wouldn't have passed my high school writing class. It's 3 arguments, 1 conclusion, and 0 evidence to support the conclusion. Instead of justifying their claims, people nowadays like to just throw out extreme words like "harm" and make it sound like Discord is installing keyloggers or something
How many do you donate to?

I give what I can, because contributing any amount to any libs is better than just talking and contributing zero.
I think this is a really bad look for Sebastian. He started babel and made the most contributions overall, but he hasn't been involved in the project for 5 years at this point. He left to join Facebook and babel would have died if it weren't for the efforts of Logan, Henry, Nicolo and the other contributors.

The original post on the babel website was written in response to him investigating the babel funding situation earlier this year, and so the babel team have made changes to make the situation fairer in their eyes. This apparently doesn't go far enough for Sebastian's tastes, so he has publicly called out by name one of the contributors who he feels doesn't do enough to justify their salary. The metric he uses for determining this is the number of github commits and comments that are shown on that person's profile. This is not a fair measure of someone's contribution to a project, and it's exactly the kind of behaviour that Sebastian would criticise if any other company was evaluating people in this way.

In the meantime, Sebastian has started another competing project, Rome Tools, which was recently VC funded.

The whole thing stinks. Will Rome Tools employees get called out and shamed in public if they don't have enough visibility on their github profile?
I work in avionics and the principles are exactly the same. And I think it applies to all somewhat critical embedded systems.

There are some details that may change, for example, we use mostly C, specialized software and a bit of ADA, no C++ in embedded systems. But the input-output periodic loops, isolation and making sure things continue working in degraded condition principles are the same.

Nothing special about SpaceX here, for good reasons. In fact, some of it might be mandatory if you want to fly something that can cause serious damage if you it fails, be it a rocket or a plane.
"anything provided by an employer could be used against you". 100% this. I worked as a manager at a large company and the managers and directors were clashing. HR organized a sit down with the managers so we could express our frustrations. They listened to us, walked away for a bit leaving us some busy work, and then came back and told us that essentially the directors are our bosses and we have no right to complain and doing so is very unprofessional, essentially yelling at us for 15 minutes. I left as soon as I found another job a month later.
It will piggyback on any Echo (or compatible product) owner's ISP.
A gallon of gas is 31,000 calories according to a quick Google search. I could ride a lot farther with those calories on a bicycle, albeit over more time.
So given this example where actor methods are magically syncronous within the actor and async outside of the actor, did Swift solve the whole red/blue functions pain? Or at least seriously alleviate it.
OP wouldn't be wrong to do so. Detroit (the city) suffered through the changes of suburbanization and racial tensions during the 50s/60s...but Detroit (the industry) also suffered a steady decline in automotive market share starting around then as well. This had equally devastating effects to the region. Just look at Flint.

I believe Detroit automakers used to account for 90% (I may be off by +/- 10%) of global car sales coming out of WW2.

By the 2000s Japan, Germany, and others had eaten away half of that share in the US market, and an even higher percentage in global markets.

Silicon Valley has had a many decades head start in Tech just as Detroit did in Automotive (let's say 1900s-1960s for autos and 1970s-2020s for Tech). To think global competition won't eventually start eating away at this dominance is foolish, especially given the profits at stake.
His adoration for Trump makes that book worth a read now.
This is hilarious. "We're just straightforward parasites on society! We only meant to cause moderate amounts of harm! We will improve our practices going forward!" It honestly reminds me of the social media CEO song and dance every time they're in hot water with Congress.

It won't work as well for the hackers, of course, as they aren't paying for lobbyists, crisis PR, and political donations, however much they're trying to be more "professional". [1] I expect this ransomware crew just got a 10x bump in the number of federal agents going after them.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/ransomware-gone-corporate-darksi...
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It certainly used to be!
writing books isn't for everyone, but we need books from some people
A state-sponsored operative would say the same thing though.
The definition of terrorism:

>1. The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create public fear through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.

>2. The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.

>3. A form of psychological manipulation through warfare to the purpose of political or religious gains, by means of deliberately creating a climate of fear amongst the inhabitants of a specific geographical region

If you don't have an agenda behind it, it's not terrorism.
> But you can't treat a studio apartment as a real estate investment

Why? In cities with universities a studio will rent out immediately and has the best cost to rent ratio (at least where I live)
https://twitter.com/mccrmx/status/1373766678987698177
You ignored my statement. I asked you to think of your favorite site...not mine. I'm in no way saying that what I prefer is somehow supposed to be preferred by you.

"Think of your favorite site with the best experience possible."

Regardless of the site experience that you prefer, I can assure you that thought, testing, and iterations have occurred to deliver the experience that you personally prefer.
I don't think that's fair: Software Engineer salaries in London are also relatively low compared to non-SV-major-city-US. And it's not across the board since Finance jobs in the same area pay better, so it seems that there's something specifically about how that one role is valued.
The incentives comparison of actually quite interesting. They're more of a sales team being called by customers who need their product, then a support team. Each caller is an almost guaranteed sale, but they close it by providing tech support.

As opposed to companies where the support is normally a pure cost center, talking to you after you already spent the money.
The real question is did the hospital promise to be more careful next time
I agree that there are a ton of non-code related things that a project leader should be doing, but the vast majority should be visible in some way. Mailing list discussions, roadmaps, code reviews, creating/triaging issues, etc. It should be pretty easy to get a representative picture of what a project leader did over a whole year.
the difference is that pirates clearly knew they were gambling with their lives

hackers dont traditionally think that way..
Military grade.
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What are MAG rolls cited in video?
"Borrowed money" is wrong term here. Yes, officially US government is borrowing it, but it is borrowing from FED which does not really have the money.

Imagine this: you need $100k so you come to me, and I write you a check. BUT: you're not allowed to cash that check. Instead you use it as collateral for a $100k bank loan. But the bank is not allowed to cash my check either, it can only put it into safety deposit box. And if you default on your loan bank will put that check on auction. So, time flies an no one ever tries to cash my check. And if they ever tried they would find that I never had that $100k in my account in the first place. I "printed" that money when I wrote the check. That's how "borrowing" between FED and Government works, and that's why it is money printing. FED is bluffing about having all that money, but no one is legally allowed to call their bluff.

Also: no, those loans will never be repaid. With Modern Monetary Theory debt can only increase in nominal value, until US follows the trajectory of Venezuela, becoming a failed state with hyperinflation.
Prices haven't gone down? So before smart TV's were a thing 70" 4K TVs could be had for $650?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I am far from blaming employer on that. Or anyone for that matter (not Canadian, Europe, our govt does what they can ... you cannot break bones to national business culture in one-election-term timeframe).

It is just that it feels hopeless either way: companies who strip it down bare to what the employed work really is -- a wolf-pack hunting together -- don't feel that great, and the opposite, pretending that we all are in the middle of a nice cozy great-place-to-work -- gets down on nerves after some point too.

The only solution, switch jobs regularly by all means. Play the national lottery.
A nice illustration of TCP/IP vs. the OSI model
“Catastrophic harm” is a phrase you came up with. It’s fair to phrase accessibility concerns in terms of harm, because being denied access to something other people can use is a type of harm. “Catastrophic” is very common hyperbole for something you think is highly unfortunate.
Will Tom Brady's diet make me a superhuman?
Can you imagine accidentally compromising critical government infrastructure? I could almost see this being the premise for a stage play or a Terry Pratchett novel...
Did anyone ask the lawyers about this one before they committed to this idea? I do not want a situation where individuals can have search warrants issued to Amazon who as a network provider can scan/canvas an entire neighborhood for a suspected crime. Encryption doesn't really cover the fact that it creates a universal backdoor to private networks that work with Amazon products. Just because they claim customer privacy does not insulate them from being served a legal order to produce records/provide access. This feels like a compute crime law nightmare.
I think they just mean turn down the language.

> White mentions lack visual clarity and are incredibly harmful to individuals with visual impairment

"Incredibly Harmful" is hyperbole, and for instance could be rewritten as:

> White mentions lack visual clarity and are hard for individuals with visual impairment to read.

Otherwise what does harmful mean? Here are some examples of things that I perceive as incredibly harmful:

* Huffing glue

* Stabbing yourself

* Lead poisoning

Not being able to read a mention without highlighting it, or selecting a different theme, probably doesn't quite class on the same level as these things, even if it should be fixed.

Similarly, Catastrophic means "involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering" - which isn't meant literally, it's hyperbole, but the problem with hyperbole is that writing containing can come across overly exaggerated and emotional.
Does there need to be? Or do we just need more alternatives?
Your phone will be wiped out. For A LOT of people that is the END.

It'd probably be something like loosing 10 years of world GDP all at once. Probably pretty good for the environment if we used the opportunity to build back greener.
And that’s the main issue with comments on the Internet :)

Being cynical is much easier than being insightful.
What about people that personally know those military personnel? By that extension, what about those who know of those military personnel? Can we extend the range of people that are allowed to be skeptical to those that know of the many failed medical experiments done on people?

Are we allowed to be skeptical because pfizer and co are making record breaking profits on an emergency authorized vaccine. That, in the USA, can only be authorized if there are no other approved treatments for covid-19.. meanwhile, the rest of the world is using ivermectin, hcq, etc to successfully treat symptoms? Can we be skeptical of the fact that the pharmaceutical companies clearly have some political influence over the medical field, and have been using that to push this vaccine? Am I allowed to be skeptical of something that is being pushed by companies that have all paid millions in fines over other previous actions? Or am I allowed to have issue with the fact that these same pharmaceutical companies have been caught paying social media influencers to promote the vaccine, while social media companies actively ban people for expressing doubt?

How about expectant mothers and women planning on having kids? There have been reports that menstruation cycles of women and women that have been in close proximity to people recently vaccinated have been adversely affected.
They'd just deny it. There's really no point in saying "yeah it's us but it's accidental!"
There's physical limitations on what it can do, basically.

Every mutation runs the risk of reducing its binding affinity to ACE receptors to get inside cells - or might impede cell entry functions.

Given the amount of infection out there, whatever "easy" mutations might've been available to it clearly haven't been very useful in increasing its rate of spread - and haven't touched anything the vaccines target.

So it's quite likely that whatever needs to happen to evade the vaccines is otherwise deleterious to its virulence.
> Parents making children pay rent after they turn 18

i have two boys, if they're >= 18 and doing nothing but laying on the couch i don't see asking for rent being unreasonable at all! Coddling young adults as if they're still children does so harm to everyone.