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Comparing AsciiDoc to Markdown (instead of for instance reSructured Text/reST) is clever, but I don't think there's any widespread controversy about the shortcomings of Markdown. So that's just an easy win.

I've seen this premise a lot (quoting from the article)

»The most compelling reason to choose a lightweight markup language for writing is to minimize the number of technical concepts an author must grasp in order to be immediately productive.«

What relevant documentation markup languages have this issue?

If we already agree that documentation should be written as code, let's embrace it and not be scared of showing syntax. It's our tools that matter here - syntax highlighting, previewing, CI feedback.

I see much more that people writing markup languages get extremely motivated from their first victories with coding something.

Don't be afraid of showing people syntax -- Wikipedia got pretty far with a less-than-optimal markup language!

I think the real issue with AsciiDoc is something more along these lines: https://xkcd.com/927/

I'm working in a large organization where we are failing to streamline and spread documentation practices because of many different standards and practices popping up everywhere.

I like a lot how the Python community has centered around Sphinx and Read the Docs. It's great that for instance Sphinx support both Markdown and reST in that regards -- but then when things like Hugo/Docsy, AsciiDoc, Github Wikis, groovydoc etc. starts popping up, the unification of documentation practices in a large organization becomes harder -- and also of course across the specter of Open Source projects.
There's a theory that toxoplasmosis, given it can transfer from cats to humans, is the reason for the 'crazy cat lady' stereotype. Certainly, cat owners I've known seem more likely to have 'attacks' of extreme aggression than the general population, and giving vent to that does seem like a 'risk' to our status in the community that most of us don't take. Then again, having that sort of temperament may make someone more suited to owning cats than other pets...
While some engineers can be like that, they can be a useful part of the team if enough others are more business needs driven.
Interestingly I was just today explaining the paperclip optimizer scenario to a friend who asked about the dangers of AI, including the fact that there's almost no general optimization task that doesn't (with a sufficiently long lookahead) involve taking over the world as an intermediate step.

(Obviously closed, specific tasks like "land this particular rocket safely within 15 minutes" don't always lead to this, but open ended ones like "manufacture mcguffins" or "bring about world peace" sure seem to.)
Leetcode it is, then.
The post resonated a lot with me. You might be right that we're looking in the wrong place -- but confoundingly, at this point I don't even want to.

It's hard to know what I'm giving up by not looking for good movies. My imagination tends to light on the many bad movies I've seen, not the few moments of awe or other positive emotions. But it's easy to know what I gain -- something like four hours a week! That's so much time!
MDX is brilliant but challenging - especially if you don't work with it on a regular basis.
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This type of logic would say there no point in having more than a few CS programs worldwide because it already exists.

Credentials historically are built in the brand of the institution, a clock which is starting to tick.

Would you care for the credential of an institution if it goes out of business in the next 3-5 years?
I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that it should be opt-in but both approaches are equally unenforceable. The inverse of what's suggested in the article would be:

export DO_TRACK=0

Project owners that want to track you simply won't take any notice of these flags anyway.
> We don't GPL scientific research

Because people don't hide their equations and ask you to pay them money to evaluate them given a set of variables.

GPL wouldn't be necessary if sharing code were already the default. It's an ugly hack to solve a really stupid artificial problem.
>>AES 256 will survive much longer than the next 50 years against brute force attacks.

From what I understand it simply can't be broken by brute force because simply iterating through every possible value of a 256 bit key would require more energy than there is in the universe, and that's without actually trying any of the combinations, just simply having a computer do a i++ through all possible values.

I'm not sure if quantum computing helps here in any way , someone else would need to chime in here with details.
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>All the data is encrypted

Where are the keys though? If they ever end up on the same platform it doesn't matter.
Then turn off the news. You need to look for actual signals such as availability of emergency services. Hospital capacity.
Audacity is GPL, they can merge the upstream commits after removing the tracking.
It's tricky to find without networking; get yourself into a-team or a similar remote-friendly contractor agency first for 100-400/hour (interviews might be comparable to FAANG level of difficulty) and then network from there.
Not to mention the most unloved metric prefixes, deci and Deca. When have you ever heard someone use those?
I've worked in France and Spain in a large company, and we had about 40 days off per year (plus national holidays). I've always seen everyone take all their holidays.
Military defection as well.

The military has a lot of conservative pro-gun people.
Written word is far, far more abstract than video.
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> A 2015 article by The Economist says 32 countries have the death penalty for drug smuggling. Only in six countries China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore are drug offenders known to be routinely executed.
I worked at a place that did this! Those week-long planning events were soul draining in their own special way...
I was thinking the other day, if stores are shutting down in San Francisco to avoid shoplifters, will they switch to purely online ordering, or like some existing stores where you order from a front desk and the picking/packing is done by warehouse staff. I remember using a department store about 8 years ago in Edinburgh that operated like that.

And if humans aren't walking the aisles, will we see a change in product packaging to focus on shipping and picking/packing efficiencies rather than shelf appeal?
When communism fell in East Germany, pollution actually dropped for a while as living standards rose, because a lot of inefficient coal plants were replaced.
Being able to call getRandomValues from HTTP endpoints doesn't specifically break a password extension unless it was somehow serving over HTTP and had its Javascript modified.

It doesn't mandate entropy requirements, probably because that's a somewhat contentious measure that not all OSes provide information about (see also: the long and tedious arguments about merging /dev/random and /dev/urandom). As long as the browsers use the underlying OS primitives, it will be fine.

Browsers do a thousand things essential for security that are far harder than providing cryptographically random numbers, and I highly doubt they'll screw it up.
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DO_NOT_TRACK is forever tainted by it's initial Microsoft introduction and the massive opposition of the tech community at the time to this idea. Apache webserver to this day strips the DNT header in it's default config.

Accepting DNT would imply that the tech community was wrong on this one, and that will never happen.

So it's dead without a name change.
I have a big pile of Laserdiscs too. I couldn't imagine going to the trouble of selling them individually though.
I only watch movies when My girlfriend or someone else says they want to. When I'm by myself it's all NileRed, Adam Neely, and Applied Science.
Reminds me of the old essay by 'Eliezer: "The Hidden Complexity of Wishes".

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden...

In it, there is a thought experiment of having an "Outcome Pump", a device that makes your wishes come true without violating laws of physics (not counting the unspecified internals of the device), by essentially running an optimization algorithm on possible futures.

As the essay concludes, it's the type of genie for which no wish is safe.

The way this relates to AI is by highlighting that even ideas most obvious to all of us, like "get my mother out of that burning building!", or "I want these virtual wolves to get better at eating these virtual sheep", carry incredible amount of complexity curried up in them - they're all expressed in context of our shared value system, patterns of thinking, models of the world. When we try to teach machines to do things for us, all that curried up context gets lost in translation.
There's no way this is profitable. Local supermarket is similarly sized and there are maybe 30-50 employees visible in store, each payed $3/hour. This has hundreds or maybe thousands of robots, even if only 10 robots broke down every day it would be more expensive than paying people. Even if I completely ignore initial purchase costs, I just don't see a way that after 1-2 years this isn't massive money drain.
Looking at the code I can't see why it wouldn't work. It's an extra || condition. Can someone enlighten me?
The kind of analytics data a typical telemetry system will collect is pretty benign in isolation. It only becomes a risk when it's in the hand of an adversary with a global view of the internet, such as Google, Facebook or large-scale analytics providers such as Mixpanel (as their libraries are integrated everywhere and they have a ton of traffic they can use to correlate and deanonymize users).
These "chipization" conspiracies suddenly start looking more creepy. Imagine some controlled (or uncontrolled) infection indeed can cause humans to take some specific risky behaviors. For example, gambling or taking more credits.
I was going to mention sugar-loving fungi in our gut causing sugar cravings. Fascinating to think about next time my sweet tooth acts up.
It strikes me that the real mistake here was setting up an online poll to name something in 2021. If you're going to do that, and if you're going to include a joke name you're not willing to accept if it wins, you're kind of inviting 4chan to the party, and by this time we all know how that's likely to go.
Wouldn't be a HN password manager thread without someone randomly plugging Bitwarden when it has nothing to do with the actual topic :)
I call them "scripting porn".
If you are taking people’s money for banking or investment, you provide 24/7 phone support. Period.

This seems excessive. Even my own, regular bank, only has phone support between working hours.

I understand the sentiment, but this whole "everyone can trade options" is not solely Robin Hoods fault. It was, and still is, hyped and promoted on Reddits' WSB.
I'd like to send out my sympathy for any team members at companies moving to BitBucket. Good luck.

In my experience the offerings of GitLab are far better
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Yup. And the heavier the equipment used against civilians, the greater the anti government resistance. The military will run out of Apaches and Abrams long before the people run out of ideology/anger.
Are you suggesting that carbon emissions do not exist outside of countries that have private ownership of production?
I was being half-sarcastic. But, if you take most jobs out there, and you reduce them to the barebones of what it is you do every day, like really distill it - it's that.
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This research paper shows the vaccines are highly effective against the delta variant: "Conclusions: After 2 doses of either vaccine there were only modest differences in vaccine effectiveness with the B.1.617.2 variant." The efficacy drop was about 5-6%.

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It isn't a deterrent against local abuses, however well-armed civilians are a deterrent against massive and nationwide attempts (a pure tyranny trying to establish itself, or some foreign invading force).

The societal problem created by unstable personalities is due to... unstable personalities, and unstable personalities tend to boost other's instabilities, a retro-action quickly escalates the problem into major ordeals: the society (armed or not) progressively becomes something else and crumbles.

Someone wanting to destroy/maim/kill will do so (armed or not), and civilians weapons rarely are the best tool for it (check, for example, the Oklahoma City bombing '1995). Arson as a weapon substitute is common, especially in no-weapon zones.

Solving the main causes of tensions (dumb dispositions addicting many citizen to very dangerous drugs, race-related hate, extreme poverty, education and economic conditions letting youngsters leading nowhere...) would reduce the will to destroy/maim/kill.

Weapons don't do anything by themselves.
Exactly. Distro maintainers do not face the same issues that the upstream software developers do. Maintainers only make their job harder.
Housing is indeed getting quite expensive, but on an engineer's salary you are in the few lucky ones that are easily able to pay off that 400k€ before your 40s (maybe your 50s at most).
Things are getting better, just not as quickly as one would like them to. I’d rather have people tell me the facts than lie and pretend like everything is fine.
hm... "keep your friends close but your enemies closer" ...?
HCI remains one of my favourite CS topics.

Understanding the user beyond tactics of engagement and viral loops is a valuable skill.

With the sharding of software developers into frontend and backend developers, perhaps the HCI through the software layers is falling thru the cracks.
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You are not entitled to crash reports - that applies to open source developers just as to anyone else. If you wan't crash reports, have some kind of wizard or command to submit them and point to that when a crash happens, but you must always gather informed consent before submitting that data.
Similar experience here. I won't go into details, but the gifted programs have moved into covert operations at this point.
Given the sort of movies Amazon Prime shows at the top of its interface, I understand how you feel about movies now.
I experience the same and my solutions are to follow the works of specific directors and actors, as well as look forward to attending film festivals again.
Chiraq is calling Chicago a warzone. I never thought it was an insult.
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Types are not 'arbitrary' in any real sense. Type systems can be described as a sort of formal verification that leverages and is closely aligned with the syntax structure of actual code, thus type systems can preserve compositionality but don't generally support non-local reasoning, at least not in a very elegant way. This is exactly what can make them potentially more scalable than other sorts of FV, hence more useful for programming "in the large".
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I have come to the same conclusion as an author. My two thoughts why this happened:

1. Writers and directors use all the accumulated information about what viewers like and not like, extract patterns, and churn out new movies according to the same small set of rules. E.g. first time the main hero is approached to save the world, he/she/it should refuse. Then something bad happens and the main hero agrees to save the world.

This makes all movies and TV series pretty boring and predictable. Everything is written according to some meta-script. And I've read blogs of some writers so I know that such meta-scripts exist.

2. Storm of political correctness and other movements that took over USA, that look totally irrelevant and crazy outside of the USA. E.g. I won't be able to ever understand why historical persons in the movies should be black even if they couldn't be black in that position at that point of history. There're even more crazier examples.

Same reason why I stopped reading american Sci Fi written in the last 15 years. There're passages that are weird and loathsome.

Frankly, I'm happy that it happens. Movies, books, music is a powerful way to influence the people. USA used it successfully to spread its influence over the world. But if they continue pushing all their crazy beliefs down our throats, people start to avoid that.

I have a feeling that it's already happening although I don't know how to prove it. Probably Netflix has the numbers but it would be grossly politically incorrect to publish them. I know that Disney already experience losses from pushing current US ideology in their movies.

It's also interesting to watch what will win: ideology or greed.
Isn't this just a cock up with incentives? If they'd put a -100 score on dying it would have sorted itself out pretty quick.
> I don't see why he would be more qualified to assess the pros/cons of the GPL than the Linux and GCC authors.

That is simple: he has thought about it in more depth than most of them. Most Linux and GCC authors don't really care about licensing much, just code they can work collaboratively on. Since the code they are working on is GPL they use GPL and get back to work.

I suspect if Linus took the time to really think he would use BSD for Linux - it hasn't been possible to make this type of change since like 1992 at the latest though so there is no point in him thinking about it. And in turn that means my claim is not testable.
Apart from all the safety benefits mentioned, a modern language with modern conveniences.

Type inference

Language support for tagged unions (which they call enums for some reason), which among other things results in error handling which is "out of channel" instead of magic return values.

Speaking out error handling - syntax for easily forwarding errors to the calling function.

Generics, and therefore

- Libraries of collections with a rich collection of methods implemented for you.

- Library support for lazy iteration

- ...

Method (postfix call) syntax allowing for readable chaining

Hygenic macros

Compiler supported test harnesses

Compiler supported linting (that is really good)

Compiler supported automatic formatting (that is really good)

Compiler supported vtables

(pointer, length) strings

Proper namespaces

And so on and so forth
> You can do that in Fossil simply by merging periodically to a separate branch for inspection.

Unfortunately, it's clear that you still don't really understand what I'm talking about.
Probably various optimization algorithms. You'd want to have your robots move the least distance for the work required since that minimises energy use and wear and tear. Some form of knapsack problem would needed to be solved for packaging the goods for delivery optimally. Then there would be scheduling needed to handle incoming jobs effectively.
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To be fair, the latest Star Wars trilogy shat out by Disney is crap compared to the masterpiece that was the original.

The original trilogy had a great cast of charismatic actors with chemistry and a great story that kept you invested in the characters, while the latest one hasn't got any of those and is just cashing in on the nostalgia of the original.
I wish this video was longer and went into more detail, although I guess Ocado like to keep things light as they make money on selling this tech to other supermarket chains.

I used to be an Ocado customer for about 9 years or so and they were very, very reliable in terms of deliveries and order fulfillment (I rarely ever got substitutes) - I'm wondering if this tech and other things in the warehouse played a huge role in making sure inventory/supply always met demand.

When doing a similar online shop with ASDA we get substitutes/missing items/unavailable items every week, and the vans are always late.
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