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Almost. I'm from Argentina. I'm not sure about the translation, and the system has changed recently, so the current information may be different.

My "Secondary School" was from 13 to 18 (6 years). https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educaci%C3%B3n_Secundaria_T%C3... You had one additional year than a normal "Secondary School" here, it [1] includes normal classes in the morning but less History/Geography/Whatever and in my case more Chemistry, a lot of Chemistry. Half of the days in the afternoon we had practical classes, making Chemistry experiments. At the end, I get a the "Secondary School" degree that enables me to go to the university and also some official habilitation to run a small chemistry factory or laboratory (oversimplifying the legal details) (probably is more accurate to say that I can supervise a few persosns in a factory or a lab).

Other students instead of Chemistry classes had Masonry classes and got an habilitation to build a small house (up to 2 stories?) and other Electronic classes, ... Each School has a different specialization, a bunch of specializations.

Edit: [1] The last 4 years. And the first 2 years have also more technical classes than a usual school, but they mix other stuff like basic electricity or metalworking.
I have a slightly different interpretation of this, and it comes down to the horrible manager-ese phrase "risk appetite".

As a small scrappy startup shipping is the absolute priority - get something out in front of customers, because the existential risk to the company is that you run out of money before you've got either a sustainable income or investment. Security might get some lip service paid, but ultimately who cares if your code is insecure when there's no customers who's data is at risk yet.

Over time the company will (hopefully) grow its customer base. Maybe you get some big B2B contract to fulfil. That's the point at which things like security audits land, and people start having to really care about security, because now there's half a million people in your databases, and if they get compromised you're going to be front page news.

You need different kinds of people as a company grows. The scrappy "get it shipped" engineers of the early days are going to find it increasingly difficult to function in a larger process focused organisation because its no longer just a case of sitting down over lunch to hash out a new feature before hacking something together in the afternoon. Process means that's now a multi-week process involving three different departments, followed by a month of waiting until the necessary people are available to actually build it.

I don't really have any good answers to that. I suspect small skunkworks like teams are probably a good first step to being able to retain those early engineers into the later stages of a company, but I've never had the chance to try it.
> It's okay to laugh at the ancient Greek and its words that look similar to us

I never laughed at this, it's not strange that there are words or word forms where the only difference is a single phonetic feature, or indeed where there is no difference at all. As you say that is the case in all languages.

And regarding accents in Greek, I don't recall encountering any case where the position of the accent was the crux. Which isn't really surprising given that the texts didn't have accents originally, so the writers couldn't rely on that alone.
Interesting - i haven't heard about the battery life performance of the new AMD chips and linux. I might have a go after all!
Maybe, but that change was coming for 20 years, it just so happen that the marketing money only came in for the upgrade / rewrite more recently.

I was first involved in outsourcing in 2000ish, I'm now actually working for an outsourcer, having always worked at local technical consultancies. It's actually the customers pushing for the offshoring not us, based on the perception of lower costs. They know that they have/had a huge number of experienced competent technical people who knew their business very well, but they were happy (at a high level) to risk that to untie themselves from that staff burden and reach mythical offshore productivities.
> We all know deep down that it's a BS ponzi scheme.

I don't believe all cryptos are a Ponzi scheme. I don't feel that way about Ethereum or Bitcoin for example.

Anyways, you shouldn't be so concerned about how to 'crash crypto'. Many crypto currencies have crashed multiple times over their lifetimes. BTC alone recently crashed 30% or more (as it did several times in the past). There will likely be a future crypto crash related to Tether.
What are the tools my "non command line fluent parents" could/would want to use that don't already have a human crafted GUI ? This lib, as smart as I think it is, doesn't create "simplicity" from a void.

Never in the last two decades did I encountered a "parents" usage where any CLI tool were needed to do some work. Yes it did happen that I had to use them to repair things. But having auto-generated GUIs on these tools wouldn't change anything about the lack of understanding of what it is, why it's needed and what it does.

If we are talking about generating GUIs for complex production tools like ffmpeg, tar, git ... there already are plenty of wonderful and less wonderful frontends that a auto generated GUI could never beat.

But I'm not saying this tool is not nice. Just I think it's targeted at power users that don't want to open a terminal. It's not a lot, but it's something.
Hey. I tried to signup, and it redirected me to the login page in the french language. My locale is English. After manually changing the url to use English, and trying to Sign In, it redirected me to the French Signup Page.

Something strange is going on.
> I can see the clean water and pesticide not passing because it was too much too fast and scared off a lot of people. Sadly in the same go people then also killed the CO2 law.

Yeah have to agree on that...it's just, that pool gave me the feeling of no step forward three steps back.

>Also it appears that the Police law may actually be illegal (Grundrecht Verletzung) and could be killed by the courts.

I really hope..it's like we don't need the justice system if you can tag peoples (potential terrorist)..a bit like the Stasi (potential capitalist) in the DDR, no need to ask a judge and take responsibility for it.
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Archive.is; if I ran a site like HN I would put every paywalled article through it.
That's why they're not listening to everyone. They're listening to those who have managed to get their ear.
That's a really cool use case I haven't anticipated :)
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This is for merely viewing issues, not submitting or commenting on them, so arguments about limiting abuse do not apply.
I don't think ownership really lets you do anything more than what "sizeof" tells you in C. In particular:

- Some types have dynamic memory allocation (Vec, HashMaps etc...), so those would have to be computed at runtime and can change at any moment.

- Some types have shared ownership (Rc/Arc), so it's unclear how you would measure memory usage then.

- Some types, especially in foreign interfaces, will effectively just hold a pointer to some black box data, you'd need a special API to figure out how much memory it hides. For instance what's the memory usage of a database handle or a JPEG compression library context?

- When you care about memory usage things like fragmentation are usually very important, and the amount of memory used by a given object can be misleading. If you have a string that takes up 12 bytes but it's the only object left in the middle of a 4KiB page, then just counting "12 bytes" for this object is misleading because you have a huge fragmentation overhead.

The only advantage of the borrow checker is that safe Rust forces you to make ownership relationships explicit but not all Rust code is safe and there are many escape hatches that muddy the water (like Rc/Arc mentioned above, but also threads and a few other things).
> A library can be stateful or have a data store but that means the user of that library has to be aware of changes beyond the API and hat to operate this data store.

No, it does not mean that at all. Where are you getting this idea from?

> Users of a service only have to worry about the API that it exposes

Users of a library only have to worry about the API that it exposes too. What kind of libraries have you been using?

> Note that a service equivalent to libpng should probably not exist and be a library instead. A more reasonable service would be a wishlist service that keeps track of every customers wishlist and sends notifications to customers when products on their wishlist get discounted or are back in stock.

What's the difference between the two? The only difference that I can see is that the libpng and libwishlist wouldn't waste a network round-trip and lots of serialization and deserialization compared to a png service or whishlist service.
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> Technology alone is not enough.....The solution is political

Sorry, but all the evidence so far suggests you are wrong. Different kind of political solutions have been tried for decades without any practical result so far. Meanwhile the renewables[1] have been chugging on with relatively steady state towards being an actual solution. Once the technical/economical solution has crashed fossil fuel consumption, there will be a really flashy political agreement and huge amount of self-patting on the back from politicians about their magnificient political solution to the problem.

\cynical rant

[1] Hopefully, hopefully with nuclear helping there as well in the end.
Maybe marriage wasn't a good simile...

I've never started a job thinking "I'm going to work here for X years, and then quit (for Y reason)". I've also never started a job expecting to work there for the rest of my career, although I would be happy if it was a good job and I did.

I might end up quitting my current job after a year or two, I might be here 10 years, maybe I'll leave in a casket. I don't have a set date for when I'll quit.

My father has had the same job for over 40 years. He's had different roles (originally a telecommunications rigger, now a network engineer) and worked for different companies (buyouts etc.), but he's never actually had to apply for a new job. He's enjoyed his work and had a good career.

I guess there's not many jobs like that these days though.
I think you might be overestimating the amount of planning that went into 1970s hijackings. One person hijacked a plane with nothing more than a can of bug spray and a lighter. Another was an ex-Green Beret who came to believe that he was at the center of a CIA plot to Assassinate Castro alone. For the most part, hijackings in the 1970s are best described as "clown shoes shit".
My "attitude" is merely that sustainability needs to be a primary concern and a prerequisite for any advancements. It's so easy to sit back and say technology will solve the problem in 100 years, long after you're dead.

Bicycles are an example of sustainable individual transport that improves on horses. But they've been driven off the roads by increasingly fast and heavy cars. That's what happens if you just let the market decide. The market is blind to sustainability.
If you're younger than forty, it's likely that you'll live to see pretty bad effects of climate change.
So basically we need a climate tax on software to fix the problem. Putting the tax directly at energy would not cause much optimization in software in my opinion. I don't believe software development has a culture than can take on responsibility of its actions, neither in energy usage nor in security, which all leads back to programmers not being an engineer kind of worker but more like an author/writer. Hardware engineers on the other hand can and often do take responsibility. All in all I don't have any hope of software developers being up to the task if it landed in their lap to fix this so if we wanted their hand forced the tax needs to be directly on software instead of hardware or energy. I don't believe this is mainly market driven as the market is unlikely to be able to fix it. It's at least as much a culture problem.
I read the interview of Philip Greenspun in Founders at Work recently and in it he says that he realized applications will be written for the web in the future because you don't have to deal with different operating systems. This was early 90s. It's really amazing that this had actually happened by 2009, and the author of the quoted blog did not yet get it.

It could be that "web programmers" are not smart enough to understand all of what was listed. It could also be that the listed stuff does not actually matter, as it's just one way of doing things. I don't think that having a job that is difficult to do is something that you should wear as a badge of honor, if it can be done in an easier way. The important thing is what you're able to do with the skills and tools you do have, and how much the people that use it like it.

The cynic in me thinks some people spend a long time to understand difficult things and concepts, and therefore don't want to let them go because it will effectively mean that they'd wasted their time.
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There is technology, proven, tested and old. It is nuclear energy. For some reason people prefer spending time and money on less reliable technologies like wind or solar, which require either flexible backup from traditional energy sources (what is expensive) or energy storage technology that we don't have.

All those attempts to fight climate change are so full of ideology and emotions that I am not surprised we still don't have any working solution.

If Germany spent on nuclear energy power plants all the money they've spent on wind and solar power plants they would be almost at zero level CO2 emission (except cars).

I can understand Germany, they are putting pressure on other countries, making their economies less competitive while they have a deal with Russia to buy huge amounts of gas (which, for some strange reason is considered to be "green").

This is good for German economy, but for sure will not help environment. Not a big surprise that Swiss people hasn't bought that bullshit.
Thanks. New ones are in somewhat comparable prices, but used ones are at least half price on your market.
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Easy enough in my experience. You just build in time for these projects into your estimates.
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> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5”

> I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise

From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where students get "called out" for doing something in a different way.

In fact, from the many workbooks that I see on the net, my impression is one where a lot of pain is taken to ensure that students understand the material without resorting to rote memorization.

Also, my impression is that students, if they show independence of thought or potential in an area, are given a lot of support to pursue it from within the schooling system in the form of being put on accelerated paths, freedom to attend classes of higher grades, etc.

In contrast, many other countries have rigid grade structures, where students are forced to stick to the level of discourse in their grade in school, and can only pursue their interest outside the schooling system.

Perhaps some of the European systems have it better, but this flexibility to rise beyond your grade within the school system is something that isn't available in a LOT of countries.
In a similar vein, from memory the i3, i5 & i7 chip is absolutely identical in every physical way from a manufacturing point of view, except that the less powerful chips have cores / features disabled.
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The TED Talk on "internal rebels" within a company was extraordinarily insightful.

https://www.ted.com/talks/shoel_perelman_how_a_company_can_n...
PCR test has a 100% error rate beyond 35 cycles. Tiawan is using 40 cycles. Ie false positves. Look up the science on PCR from its Nobel prize winning inventer Kerry Mullis. Fauci even said above 35 cycles you are detecting dead neucleotides.
It doesn't look like this site was made anywhere near 2021.
DYI with a bike motor used as a local mode of transportation on Russian abandoned railways.

https://youtu.be/M9O1h_PtAo8?t=89 - in this specific case that is the only transportation connecting a remote (20 miles) village with a town where minimal services are available.
> What do you mean? All phone have GPS chips, they don't depend on google for that.

In many everyday instances, the phone won't quickly get a signal from GPS satellites, rather it relies on network-assisted GPS. Even the open-source Android distribution (AOSP) uses Google's servers. It used to be straightforward for phone owners to switch to a different location assistance service like Mozilla's just by installing from F-Droid and then changing a setting. However, in a subsequent Android version Google made a change to require location-assistance services to be installed as a system package, not a user package. That requires connecting to the phone over ADB and using the shell, which means that only a tiny, tiny minority of techies will ever do it. That is just one example of how, over time, Google has made design changes to Android to benefit itself at the expense of privacy and competition.
That's one of the coolest programming demos I've ever seen!

Suggestion: make the completed rows fade asynchronously.
Your retina does quite a lot of noise filtering at the beginning of visual processing.

Background radiation is also a noise property of the universe, as is the background microwave radiation from the start of the universe. Is this just noise because it's an artefact of the measurement aparatus?
I don't understand how suppressors would work against figuring out the elevation angle of a sniper shot.

Likewise, wouldn't multiple snipers all firing on the same fake target simply give away the number of snipers and all of their individual elevations?
It sounds like you are describing a tech/project lead, which, depending on the context, can be a thankless task. The organization gets free project management/strategy out of you without any increase in compensation, title change or added authority and with the expectation to still perform all programming work of a senior engineer. It's a line that engineers need to walk carefully, otherwise you will find yourself doing two full time jobs and burnout will hit you rather quickly.
Despite the little cop picture there's no requirement there to 'return ownership'. It's more like saying I'll gives you a doc provided you agree to give me a doc.

It seems that &mut fits better there.
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I love that you looked at this website, saw its <table> layout, saw the copyright was the year 2000, saw the images with terrible drop shadows, the freeservers icon in the top, and thought “uh, weird this isn’t https”.
Mandatory to buy, but available from a choice of competitors with adversarial interests to each other.

IMHO, an adversarial bidding process (under control of one party) is no replacement for a strategic adversary (capable of planning and executing strategy).

The former may prevent the most egregious price raises, but it's insufficient for creating the broader competition that ultimately drives prices down.
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I was thinking of noise - or randomness. It crops up in many places. When I was studying visual perception a long time ago (back during the second wave of neural networks) it amazed me what a hostile mechanism light is for actually getting a coherent signal that looks well put together (like what our brain does)
> Indian languages havent had any change in their pronunciation in the last 2000 years

This is an ideological belief -- it is not even a theoretical possibility.
Browsers too
we are not doomed

we just have to stop taxing everything in order to "make a change"

change should come without the feeling of being taxed

empowering civilization shouldn't come with more taxes

fuck taxes
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I have to wonder why this is done. I know it must make sense or it wouldn't be done, I just don't understand it.

If you're intentionally disabling functionality in order to sell at a lower cost, you're not actually saving any money because you still have to manufacture the thing. It also (I assume) opens up a risk to someone finding out how to "jailbreak" the extra cores and now you can buy an i7 for the price of an i3. Is the cost of having three different manufacturing processes so large that it's not worth switching? Is the extra revenue from having three different versions of the same physical chip enough to justify the jailbreak risk?
Beyond that there are categories that I believe normalize behaviors such as transgenders, where the reasons for their increased visibility in wider society cannot be uncoupled. So it muddies the waters whether the porn, is playing any role, and prevents critical questioning of root causes. which in this case “sissy hypno genre” within trans porn directly tells viewers they want to be a girl and get fucked over and over. This is a large portion of transgender porn genre that viewers will eventually rabbithole to w the algorithm.

Personally I’d be very skeptical of supporting my child transitioning if it was rooted in blatant porn brainwashing such as this.
For a decent take on that organizational deficiency, Rickover wrote a 1.5 page memo in 1953 addressing similar issues for the nuclear US Navy. At some point, it's a failing of process and structure rather than people. [1]

1: http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/Rickover.pdf
It seems to use wxPython underneath, and that supports MacOS/Linux as well: https://www.wxpython.org/pages/downloads/

The Gooey docs do mention mac: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/blob/master/docs/packagi..., and there's some code in the repo written specifically for Linux, so I think it ought to work.
I don’t understand if they picked up the image from reflections of the dolphins ultrasound or if the dolphin actually produced that image after the fact.

The latter option would be incredible.
> "Yeah have to agree on that...it's just, that pool gave me the feeling of no step forward three steps back."

It did feel like that. At least we can make pressure on the farmers by buying only bio (even if it means eating less meat because it costs more) and showing that we are willing to pay more for "clean" food.
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Isn't "I was working on side projects" a decent explanation?

You could even put them on your CV and close the gap, work is work. Being able to show you can build something on your own is a big + in many ways.

Developers are in demand, so it would not surprise me if a gap doesn't matter in any way.

Maybe just try to apply to something. Even if you don't get hired it might give you some pointers what you need to focus on to get back to it.
Even accounting for tonally differentiated words, Mandarin Chinese is rife with exact homophones. Shì can be “is,” “try,” “thing,” “kind/style” and many more. It amazes me how we are able to pattern match so well provided a little context.