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> Yes but have you built a tool for the job or a Rube Goldberg machine?
> Complexity comes at a huge cost. Only add it when the benefits out weigh the costs.

Im honestly unsure if you mean this as opposing "doing everything in Postgres" or as opposing "throw more services on the stack".

Because both are true for the statements. You have that complexity, regardless of where you implement it. Either you are building the rube-goldberg machine inside of postgres out of modules, config and SQL or outside of postgres with additional services.

The only way to really solve this is to avoid building that RG machine in the first place. In this case: don't have queues. In practice that probably means introducting complexity elsewhere, though.
The truth, so well described.
It’s very telling that Europe, having largely failed to play on the same level as the US and China in big tech, now seeks to compete through regulation not innovation.

I’m not a Brexit supporter, but the EU’s bungling of Covid and the subsequent vaccine rollout, and the ridiculous level of regulation it is trying to impose on firms it cannot produce itself, is making me more and more comfortable with Brexit.
I have noticed radical changes at my company in the past 5 years too.

They started outsourcing and layoffs - stuff they previously bragged about not doing in the job interview. They have restructured the roles so that some of them are combined but pay the lower salary (like team managers who are PMs and line managers but get paid like a PM). They also adjusted the grade structure so that it takes much longer to get to the same overall comp than it did under the old structure. The rate of technology changes went way up too. We are in a constant churn of upgrades, or switching from one vendor product to another, or having to deal with some new paperwork or test results requirement.

I hate my job and want to quit also. They might fire me someday anyways because I'm "slow". I need the insurance since kid and wife have major health issues.
Competitive is not the same thing as innovative.

Innovative is the real disruptor. We forget this at our peril.
> by 2020 half of them has found a job, which is way higher unemployment rate than is average in Germany though

Half of immigrants being unemployed after half a decade is bad, especially compared with America, where immigrants are more likely to find themselves employed than the native born [1].

> if they don't find jobs themselves, at the very least they have children

Sure. But I'd hate to do the math on how much each of those children cost the German taxpayer.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LZTRCwAAQBAJ&oi=...
One thing I learned about responsive images - <img> elements with a srcset attribute - while developing my JS canvas library is that if you're relying on those <img> elements to as the source for your ctx.drawImage() calls then the whole thing blows up in unexpected ways when the user changes their browser's size.
And I'm sure that you would also agree that women not being CEO is also a choice right?

After all, they could simply have created their own company.
sectorlisp right now is 800 bytes but it implements LISP well enough that you can use its built-in LISP IDE to implement your own LISP engine on top of sectorlisp using high-level functional programming techniques. https://youtu.be/hvTHZ6E0Abo If we can trim down the code size another 250 bytes then all this will fit in the master boot record.
What if there isn't anything better?
Maybe they posted it to come back a few hours later or even tomorrow. The good thing about forums is that they are asynchronous.
The "present" meaning survives in German in Mitgift (dowry, a gift given with the bride)
Agree with the point about the team. An uncooperative team can make a managers job very unpleasant.
General curiosity of mine for 4K users. Do you actually want all of the web delivered to you in 4K?

I get movies/games, but day to day browsing seems like just extra slowness?
In the US if you have money going private is the waiting list and you can’t jump the queue as everyone else has already paid.
Will we? Seems like it's an entirely different protocol from Google Cast?
Hey, steady on there. The UK may be a major arms sales to regimes with dubious human-rights records, but we don't actually use them ourselves, only 80k troops in the British Army.
Is not that the 60% are in favor of the monarchy; it’s that the 60% are in favor of no change... they are conservative, and any significant change scares them.
> It’s the Economist; if you need a source, they’re available on Google Scholar.

For the record, I don't know what Economist you've been reading, but the Economist I know is about as factually accurate as most media publications (that is, not particularly). Not to mention, even if this was an article written by an academic expert in the field, a source would be basic table stakes.
It’s not about moving country, it’s about loving jobs. Does your healthcare rely on your job in Croatia?
> By "fill their pockets" I mean actively engage in political corruption.

But they do. For example, the Queen used her power to get an exemption from transparency laws with regards to her own personal wealth: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-que..., and her son Charles did the same to ban his tenants from purchasing freeholds: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/09/prince-charl....
Exactly: They could equally well just skin Chromium and keep on setting Google as the default search engine. That's exactly my point-- Firefox isn't the revenue source, auxiliary services around it are.
I pretty much agree with this, but my take is a little more cynical.

Job burnout is when you're tired of dealing with the BS. Career burnout is when you realize that there isn't a similar job out there with less BS. This is the best you're going to do and there's no hope for anything better.
Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities
> the Economist I know is about as factually accurate as most media publications

We agree. I meant that an article appearing in the Economist doesn't need to source every detail, particularly when it's a widely-accessible and well-known statistic.
If you are using DuckDuckGo then it doesn't get much quicker than typing:

!http 422
Ah yes "Europe".

The US is a country. So is China. Europe is a continent. Please don't worry about the Netherlands it is still capable of making money in satanically evil ways. The reports of our demise are exaggerated.
Holland spends 20% more on health per capita than the Uk
That's the version told in the "Fall of Civilisations" podcast <https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/> (highly recommended).
Well, it's about 2 screefuls of very simple code. Eg for the PK part, if you ctrl-f for publicKey and remotePublicKey, you see there are no usages that could plausibly be doing public key crypto or PK key generation based on crypto 101 from school.

Not sure how to respond about gatekeeping. What do you think would be a good way to write a comment pointing out these kinds of security problems? Or do you think it's unfair to do it at all?
Maybe on HN? In the real world China has ties with a lot of western companies and probably countries.

Look for people not recognising Taiwan or the world not sanctioning China for COVID or for the aforementioned concentration camps where they detain 8M people.
if it had not existed a lot of technical, mechanical, dietary and cultural breakthroughs may not have happened

I am not sure about this. If Einstein didn't come up with theory of relativity or Newton hadn't come up with gravity, someone else would have, isn't it? Humans are curious creatures. Inventions/progress are bound to happen, the timeline might be different.
I assume with some OS plug-in you can have an AI model slightly change your face enough to not be traced back to you
> Look ma! I improved the autopilot in my Tesla!!

I see where you are coming from but right now, if autopilot kills someone, then Tesla are on the hook for it (ok, there may be grey areas but ultimately, they made it so that has to point back to them in a big way when it comes to court cases). However, if I jailbreak my autopilot and kill someone, it's me that has to face the music!

I don't see the harm in scaling the jailbreak hoops you need to jump through.

For example, if I wanted to safely jailbreak my iPhone, there is nothing stopping Apple having an official app that you need to get a special key from Apple for. Maybe a phone call or something, or an email to support. It would come with a caveat that says your jailbroken phone forfeits any warranty claims. Fair enough.

When you are talking about jailbreaking a Tesla, there could be other layers. Like, for example, you have to go to a Tesla dealer where they explain the legal and support ramifications and whatnot. Then you sign a bit of paper with witnesses. Then they send you out a usb dongle in the post after a few days etc. Maybe, though with the Tesla, there would be limits. Like, you can't get the source code, or you are only able to to X things with it.

You get the idea... there could potentially be a scale for stuff like this.

I'm just chucking stuff out there, this isn't a realistic example so please put your pitch forks away :)
Some things I'm missing are:

- Who is behind this? A company or is it completely free?

- Is there any cloud service used?

- What does the UI look like?

And please fix the "celluar" spelling mistakes (in different places), it just makes it look less professional :)
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> take a week or a month and figure out a reasonable schema, use an auto-generation tool, ORM, or hire a DB for a little bit to do something for you.

Sorry but am I the only one who is very worried about the state of software? There are people who drank so much of the schemaless (which was not an actual issue for any dev worth her salt to begin with) that you have to dispense this kind of advice? I find that bordering on criminal if someone did that to you and carries the title programmer.

Again, maybe that is just me.

Edit: not an attack on the parent: good advice. Just didn't know it was that bad. And sad.
You are of course entitled to your personal opinion, and sharing it is OK, but this:

> ... the low work ethic .. (I exaggerate, slightly).

is a very wide-sweeping generalization which insults many of us.

Why is it that, every time someone complains about "low work ethics", the underlying context is always "my employees don't want to spend mad hours working on my idea for the compensation I think should be fair for them"?

Work ethics goes both ways BTW, and your "glory to firing someone with less than six months notice" doesn't sit square with me. "firing" is terminating for serious misconduct, notice is not due. I assume you meant laying off for economical reasons. So you want exemplary work ethics from the employees, and then quickly get rid of them when you think you don't need them anymore, did I get that right?
>top paying tech jobs for the working class

If you believe that, I'm not sure where to start. My own family put several kids into tech jobs one way or another, but sure didn't start from being working class.

As to not taxing working class people so they can turn into middle class people, boy are we not speaking the same language. For starters, you are probably talking about not taxing middle class people, by leaning MORE heavily on regressive taxation that cuts middle and upper class people a break so 'they can grow'. But that's a whole other story…
People who know they have no merit don't support a meritocracy. They like a nice hard hierarchy and a birth lottery. This is one of the unspoken truths of the British system.
Sounds like a really unhealthy market so maybe we should regulate that so this massive upscaling is not required?

Like enforcing interoperability between platforms, privacy rules etc.?
The US's EPA discovered the cheating and leveled multi-billion dollar fines and indicted executives.
Contention, architectural separation, you have to build your own monitoring stack, not transactional with concerns outside the database without introducing distributed transactions and risk, no routing or distribution capability, you have to build it yourself, point in time message durability is somewhat dubious depending on your acknowledgement process which of course you had to invent yourself as well.

Not to mention numerous database administrators crying into their cups of coffee.

Enough?

Like I said 20 years of people fucking this up is my experience.
Have you tried using Moove? It's the same on-demand concept of Uber, but it's Dantaxi that are behind it with certified taxi drivers: https://moove.taxi
Capitalism 101: you won't get there with your own work. You get there by installing yourself in a position where you take a cut out of work of others, then scale it up.
Comletition leads to innovation for all while monopolies lead to stagnation or degeneration with a few benificiaries.
(replying to sibbling)

By political corruption I mean activities that are obviously detrimental at societal level. That sucks if you are Charles's Tennant and you want to by the freehold but I'm think more of funnelling contracts to your unqualified friends like the PPE scandals. Again I'm not suggesting the royals are perfect just that the alternative is worse.
> I wonder if I'm the only kid who expressly did not do what their parents did in this thread.

My father and my father's father were both anesthesiologists. I'm a software developer with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Growing up, I saw a lot of my dad's frustration butting his head against hospital and regulatory bureaucracy and decided to steer clear. (His biggest headaches came because it's not uncommon for one anesthesiologist to cover 3 simultaneous low-risk operations, circulating among the operating rooms while each surgery has a dedicated nurse anesthetist. There was one billing regulation that was ambiguous in a corner case for such simultaneous services, where one reading indicated that they weren't allowed to charge any fees at all in a corner case. His company inquired for clarification from the government regulator and got no response. Years after their inquiry, they got sued regarding corner-case billing of the government for services provided to low income patients. The legal discovery process found internal government memos where regulators joked with each other over my dad's company's inquiry about how it would be great to have zero-cost healthcare at the expense of physicians. The laws were later clarified to avoid the ambiguity to essentially match my dad's company's interpretation, but unfortunately, the lawsuit was over the laws at the time the billing was made. They were actually sued by a third party on behalf of the government, in exchange for a percentage of the money recovered for the government. Some of the key pieces of evidence were shown pre-trial to be "mistakes" where the other side had "accidentally" photocopied several bills twice and redacted the two copies of each bill slightly differently. There were some "anonymous whistleblower" faxes that were traced to an office service center across the street from the other party's offices (conveniently preventing the whistleblower from having to answer questions under oath), and all kinds of other obvious dishonest evidence submission. Most of the complaints were thrown out pre-trial, the rest they settled out of court rather than risk a jury trial pitting "rich doctors" against a government program for low income folks, over ambiguous wording. There were also anti-trust allegations made by defining a market as the area right around the hospital's where dad's company operated and conveniently ignoring some hospitals in-between those included hospitals. At least the anti-trust stuff was dropped pretty quickly, but the whole ordeal was a high-stress multi-year situation for my dad when I was in elementary school.)
You mean expired < current time, right?
Are you sure it works properly when something fails. That’s a wonderful situation I like to ask people because the answer is usually no. Then someone gets billed twice for something and then the guy who said this was a good idea gets shot.
Looking at Github, it says they are in CA, so thats 03:59 currently - maybe they posted it and then fell asleep.
Skype at its peak used a postgres queue extension, pgqueue, at its core. Seemed to go OK for them. The extension did work around some limitations when running a pure sql queue in postgres. These days I would run Pulsar but if you only have a million users and already have postgres you will be fine.
Just Google "health insurance recision congressional testimony". There were many, many hours of testimony about the dishonest practice.

It was systemic in the industry before it was banned by the ACA/Obamacare. This is one of the most important features of the ACA.

I've posted below only one of the first appearing links to articles on the testimony of industry insiders [1]. I don't have handy the link to the video I found most memorable. It was a woman who worked at a large insurer, who rescinded the insurance of a man with an expensive disease, who'd never missed a payment, and who died fighting to get the insurer to pay. so he could get treatment. She felt badly enough about it to testify, and was also promoted for saving the company money.

Just because it sounds outrageous and dishonest does not mean that people won't do it.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Health/story?id=7911195&page...
If the 'higher chance' we're talking about is the chance of becoming CEO of a tech unicorn, established by the fact that there are CEOs of tech unicorns, is this not entirely a moot and meaningless point?

Effectively the difference between a chance of 0.0000001% and 0.0% is not important…
I assume the point was that anything negative about you ends up on Google it can lead to mental issues and in a worst case scenario you might take your life so its better you hire a professional to scrub it for you.
Quite honestly I don't care enough to give it another try. Credit cards work just fine.
Yeah you are right - I don't know about unlimited but I had a look and it seems like 8-10GB a month is now possible for about 6-8GBP a month so it is getting cheaper. I've not updated my contract in a few years since it is pretty cheap already.
An ambitious project to regreen the Sinai desert, with John D. Liu, known for successfully greening the barren Loess Plateau: https://www.greenthesinai.com/home
I think unemployment will usually translate to unhappiness. If you are unemployed 30-40 year what do you do? Start a family? Can't. Travel the world? Can't. Find consolation in religion? Very few people in Europe do that. Jobs are very very important for self esteem and mental well being.
> previous range of state of the art smartphones did come from Europe

Right, but where are they now? The article says in just its third paragraph that "Europe used to pack a punch." Up to 2000, "nearly a third of the combined value of the world’s 1,000 biggest listed firms was in Europe, and a quarter of their profits." That aligns with the state of the art having a home in Europe around then.

But something changed over the past 20 years. It's apparent from the outside looking in. But it remains--as made apparent by this thread--shockingly controversial within the Continent.
I think it depends on the company - mine changed a lot.

We had on-prem java/JSF monolith with backend COBOL systems, different leadership/pay structures, fewer third party integrations, and even a slightly better culture.

Now we do microservices (distributed monolith), angular frontend, AWS hosting, outsourcing, layoffs, more hectic culture, worse pay and leadership structures, and constant churn through third party integrations or technical upgrades.
I think the idea of trying to follow the same sleeping schedule day in day out is severely misguided.

There are many variables which determine how much rest we need, such as physical state, fighting off an infection, time of year, mental state, fatigue, stress, and so on.

I've commented here before on this, but I think by far the healthiest practice (and one I've had great results with) is to sleep "to fullness" as much as possible, to allow yourself to go to sleep whenever tired, and also to not stress about not falling asleep when you're "supposed to", instead finding something else to do until tiredness overtakes.
Ok yeah the Nazis building your moon rockets were also immigrants, true ;-)
I was making these all the time on NetBSD for dd'ing to USB sticks long before "Docker". FFS images containing only a bootloader and alternate kernels with embedded userlands. One was the "update" kernel and the other was the running kernel. I could pull out the stick after booting; I could also mount the stick and edit the update kernel. The userland was generally a single statically compiled binary, like busybox, but better. I thought about the possibilities of distributing software by bootable USB stick but not the possibilty that people might run the images in VM's.
The point of queues is sequencing, storage and decoupling of events for the sake of scalability and durability.

By putting it in the same transactional store with the same transactional boundaries you’re instantly shooting the whole point.

Not only that, most queues define boundaries between different logical systems where transactional boundaries do exist. At which point your database’s transaction scope is extremely limited in capability.

In the real world of messaging transactions span more than just the database engine.

It’s just bad architecture. Full stop.
> A similar conception I've heard is that its like something and nothing, at the beginning of time, made a bet whether there'd be something or nothing

The problem is that nothing can't make bets.
What if they all seem the same? How to find a good one?
Articles not from the current year should include the year in the title, in this case 2018. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to take this case.
I worked with contractors based in Denver, their salaries were 3 times mine. I don't think cost of living in Denver is insane? Property prices were I am are insane
Wow.

The text that accompanies the image is so much worse than the image.

I had never heard of the state-sanctioned Belgian cut-off hand trade, and state-sanctioned child cannibalism and beheadings really takes it to another level.

It makes modern terrorism seem mild in comparison.

This is the sort of thing that should be taught in history classes.
Just tested out with my iPhone to Ubuntu 20.04. Works nicely with photos. Tried to sending some videos (iPhone to Linux) and some of them fail. A short 30 second video worked fine but longer 4 and 8 minute ones failed. Those longer videos may have also been stored on iCloud and not locally. Within the iOS app it doesn’t “select” the longer video files to be able to send them.

Hope this helps. Nice tool and I can see myself using this if these issues are sorted.
Too bad, "I have no other [ways to organize society] for you" (Stalin [my edit]). In a paradise there is no shortage of anything and everyone has whatever they wish. Not the case for the real world we live in. Take it or leave it.
Makes me wonder what kind of horrific stuff we would find in the secret archives of the past (and even the present), like unit 731 for example. Part of me wants to know, but part of me also wants them buried and gone so we as a species can just move on.

One thing is certain though - humans are as capable of horrific shit as we are capable of great love and empathy.