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Looking for master thesis suggestions (cloud computing)
I am at the end of my Business Informatics Master's degree and now I just have to write my Master's thesis.
I am having a lot of trouble finding an exciting topic in cloud computing that is worth researching, as most of the topics I can think of are already covered by existing research.
I thought it would be worth a try to ask for your ideas here, as perhaps you have come across topics in cloud computing (e.g. architecture) that are not yet sufficiently covered but are worthy of a thesis?
All suggestions are highly welcome and in case I chose your suggestion I would gladly share the result in 6 months with you!
That's the German language. That's what you get if you try to translate it very directly. It sounds a bit out of place in English, thus you have a surprise element (jokes work like that), which makes the quotes fun.

For example: "I have sticky tapes in my store that mere mortals would never dare to dream of." - I can guarantee the shop owner used "Normalsterbliche" in the original quote. A normal, if not a bit old school, German colloquialism, meaning normal, average people.

If you translate it to "mere mortals", it sounds like the Lord of the Rings, sticky tape edition.
Here some pictures: https://hb11.energy/
Why though? What is it that has changed their business model or people’s minds? Ask yourself that. What is it that is particularly biased? Opinion pieces and ‘advertorials’ etc. that they are forced to adopt because of falling revenues and fragmented attentions are bound to be biased.
I get the feeling that gaming PCs are restarted often.
It's a west-coast tech industry consortium language that is a mashup of subsets of SML, C++ and Cyclone with some very strong opinions about aesthetic differences. "Simple" is not a good description. Lisps are simple. Rust, Java, C++ & friends are not. Also, the core paid promoters of rust are almost all alumni of the Ruby on Rails hype-train. You can judge for yourself if their promotion of rails was grounded in truth.
Note: nothing to do with amyloid plaque (surprise, surprise).
In Japan (at least in 2012, the last time I was there) there were several specialist food shops. One dedicated only to different varieties of tofu. Another dedicated only to selling different types of edible mushrooms.
I agree that we will still have cars. At some point, yes, we will have to accept the level of car use we get to, and at that level making drivers miserable won't really help, I agree.

We're just very far from that level. Also, the Netherlands while amazing is not perfect, we can still do better, though it is great.
Society has tradeoffs. Paying taxes is one of them. Getting vaccinated is another.

Those tradeoffs are made to protect the weaker members of society so that everyone, even the less fortunate, gets a fairer shot.

In return, you get all the advantages of said society.

This idea that you're protesting tyranny or something is absurd. You're being asked to give up a few hours of your time and some muscle pain to fight back against something that is plaguing the entire planet.

You want to be selfish? Okay, but then go live on your own and don't go and contaminate other members of our society.

You want to be selfish but still go to restaurants and concerts and airports and what not? Well what the fuck can I tell ya.
I get your point but I like that you describe the name of a character in a fictional TV show as a "thing of the real world", as compared to the name of a coworker you speak with regularly. :p
The problem there is that you're now refactoring a bunch of code that is working on the other 99% of your pages. This model is great, but in CSS when doing this in order to fix your current problem, you are almost guarenteed to break other layouts elsewhere, and very very few people are using automated view testing to see if layouts break.

I think this is the core reason why functional CSS is growing, because by separating out your layouts from each other, one can actually approach CSS refactoring this way without worrying about breaking other pages.
My son is a computer engineering major who recently bought a laptop from Best Buy online. He bought a gaming laptop with good specs for about $1500, although the main use (I hope) will be for his coursework.
Buzz about thermoelectrics heats up with promising new magnesium-based materials
I like how i'm being downvoted without constructive feedback. Shoutout to every downvoter
"Just pronounce it the way it's spelled" might make sense in some languages, and it probably makes a lot of sense in Russian, say, where the person who transcribed a name from Latin letters has already decided how it should be (mis)pronounced (though the position of the stress makes a big difference in Russian), but it doesn't make sense in English because the spelling is rather inconsistent even if you're looking just at ordinary everyday words like "machine", "chemical", "bough", "cough", "put", "but", whatever.
MIT Predicted the Collapse of Today's Society in 1972. and We're Right on Track
I have an Ergodox Moonlander on which I have a few of the macro keys mapped to specific functions within PyCharm like auto-formatting, linting and type checking.

It’s helpful because I don’t have to remember key combinations and it means much faster feedback (and fewer broken builds).
Unless you want to visit parents in other, smaller city. Then half hour drive with car, changes to two hour struggle in a crowded bus.
This is a bad faith article that would have ended the same either way. Right now western countries are getting taken to task for not approving the vaccine quick enough. Had they approved it quickly in spite of the blood clot concerns, the headline would be something like, "Wealthy Western Countries use Africa to test questionable vaccine" and there would have been references to Tuskegee and some such.

Everyone is in unknown territory with this pandemic and frequent judgment calls have to be made before all the evidence is in. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. But saying countries "ruined" an entire continent's chance out of the pandemic is blatantly dishonest reporting.
> Everything is a rectangle.

I remember a time when everything was a table.
Yes, for about 400 pages.
That's the weird part. He could be so much more successful at making vaccines his legacy. Make a PSA for Fox News: "Joe Biden is trying to steal vaccine for blue states. Demand my vaccine!" The vaccination rate in the US would double over night.

Instead, he spent so much time insisting that the virus was a hoax, or unimportant, that most people (including his supporters) think of him as anti-vaccine. There's an incredibly straight line between electoral support for him and vaccination rates:

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...

He really could have been the hero he imagines that he is. It would be so easy.
Should we do what we now do in other areas (military) and change the definition / standards of GM to encourage "equality"?
James Heckman on Inequality and Economic Mobility
No.

However there will be written requirements into the policy on security expectations.

When the incident happens, there will be a post mortem review of whether the security best practices were implemented and how they contributed or hindered to the incident

The insurer will use that to either deny some coverage, increase premiums or worst case, advice that the policy will not be renewed.

The way requirements are handled is true for small or medium clients. I dont have experience with large firms but i would not expect those clients to be different.

(One does not go about winning business by asking new clients to submit to an audit prior to switching)

That being said, there may be audit requirements at renewals.
with this attitude we’d still have smallpox and polio
Understanding Where the Internet Isn’t Good Enough Yet
Perhaps, who knows.. It's very ironic to me that most of the c19 cases/infections in Israel are amongst the population who're vaccinated.

Edit: typo.
There is a good episode about homelessness in the US on the 'You're wrong about' podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/homelessness/id1380008...

In it they cite studies that show that efforts in the US somewhat similar to this Finland program are generally very successful, and typically cheaper overall compared to not having such programs.
How Fast Are Our Math Libraries? (2013)
https://www.peachesnstink.com
And bring it up in every conversation even slightly tangential to either of them =)
Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet
This scheme leaves out "-0" aka "negative zero" which apparently might be important in some contexts.

Incomplete view : https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2806...
Just recently we've discussed "faltering" talks in Europe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161217 and "eyeing" Japan https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-ey...

I wonder if this media noise is more to do with negotiation tactics than with real intentions.
Last time I used it, the Python package isn't shipped as a wheel, so you have to compile dlib from source using CMake on install. Makes it harder to use for Python devs.
If you have a Lishi KW1 or SC1, so do you!

My point is that these keys/codes/whatever aren’t particularly strong nor were they meant to be.
The argument isn't that iOS offers everything that a traditional computer does. The argument is that, for many many people and many many use cases, it offers ENOUGH while offering significant advantages over the traditional laptop.

Macros are a corner case. Sure, I use them sometimes, but they're only present in a small minority of my overall spreadsheets. I don't need them on the iPad.

Word functions BEAUTIFULLY on the iPad. I use it ALL THE TIME. Ditto PowerPoint.

"In my country for a couple of sites of some public administration you still need Internet Explorer!"

This is not a problem with the iPad.

Complaining about the email client on the iPad is REALLY rich considering most folks use a webmail client that is even MORE limited. I use iOS mail quite often, and while it can't do everything Outlook can do, it's more than sufficient for most people, and more than sufficient for ME most of the time.

You've made more of a case for "alerighi doesn't like iOS" than you have for "iOS isn't useful for real work," in other words.
All the problems he listed are very real, and its important that a technology fit in our actual working model, not just some theoretical model.

Take his example of the images being off thus screwing up your widths because you chose to inherent the image width as a constraint. Now imagine a very realistic scenario where you are reusing that style across multiple pages, and each page has a different image. Now you need to confirm this works for all existing and future possible images, good luck with that.

Point being, isolating element styles from each other where possible is a big win for maintainability and reliability.
People are very good at justifying what they are doing if their livelihood is at stake. I know many programmers - nice people - working as the digital equivalent of seal-clubbers... but there's good money to be made clubbing seals, and if they don't do it somebody else will, and the seals have a choice not be clubbed, and they need the experience, and they only indirectly club the seals, and remember that time when that "good" guy did a bad thing for seals, and also there's WAY worse industries, and there's this one study that suggests clubbing seals is actually good for society... etc etc!
That's a good suggestion!

Chess also has a very decent rating system (either the official FIDE rating or the ratings on online chess servers) so another way of setting yourself an achievable goal is to pick a rating (i.e. 1700 on Lichess) and then work towards that. Rinse and repeat!
This was discussed years ago, but it's been a reality for a long while. There are articles dating back to 2007 kind of dabbling into this, and I remember years ago a whistleblower, I think she was a journalist employed by one of these companies, and if I recall did a TED talk exposing a commercial enterprise built to both whitewash and smear people, and probably companies alongside it. One of their mediums was Wikipedia. Maybe someone here has a better recollection of it than I do?

But yeah, I don't see that this is novel. There's been both the architecture and the motivation for individual, commercial, and political disinformation since the inception of language. The rise in scale isn't even that alarming, they're probably actually just uncovering activity that started long ago, I mean this is just radical PR or propaganda, which has been around unobserved for centuries. I'd readily agree that the pre-liberal Catholic church, and the clergy under it, were staked so highly in justifying Divine Right that it became a sort of disinformation that had the added benefit of lining the pockets of the Pope down to the parishioner. Dumas and Hugo both had asides in their books, Monte Cristo and Hunchback respectively, both of which expounded that truth is fickle. And if Hugo was being intellectually honest, he had reason to believe that even in the 15th century Paris was rife with disinformation.

It's good to see these sort of things published from time to time, maybe it will breed some more skeptics, but mostly it'll be a talking point.
The proper pronunciation of my name requires an emphasis that is not on a first syllable, rolling R, and palatalization of a consonant in the middle. Even if I tell people how to pronounce it properly, repeating it back to me would be too much to ask from people who never palatalized a consonant in their life. My point is: I don’t grimace and I don’t bother.
Agreed. AFAIK, I've never met a dev making 6 figures in Austria.

I was in the highest technical software position at a name brand company, working in the state capitol city, and I was making like 8OK.
My last name has an 'ough' in it and that has made me intensely aware of that fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)
Also, related: The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951293
Another two good utilities to use is performance monitor, and process explorer. Perf mon is good for showing usage over time with its built in graphing and recording.
If you think the old system was based on merit, you haven't been paying attention.

Successful products that will work for diverse people need diverse engineers to build them. Hiring only "the best" leads to hiring mostly only people from the largest majority group, because that's how statistics work. And that leads to ridiculous product fails like facial recognition that doesn't recognize non-white faces.
Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
Indeed. And not only specialty shops but entire streets. When I lived in Phnom Penh there was entire streets devoted to whatever you were seeking. Ok maybe not a button street but there was a Khmer dude at our coworking office calling factories to sell his buttons. Needed something for the bathroom? Go to bathroom street. Some wooden furniture, go to wooden furniture street. The sewer street was best to be avoided though.
Is that 130k rally that comfortable to get in the Netherlands?

Since most local dutch companies pay around 50k with salaries of 130k coming only from US companies in Amsterdam like Uber which have the same brutal leet-code practices from SV that grandparent said aren't necessarily.

If all devs in the Netherlands could get 130k so comfortably then how would those Dutch companies paying only 50k still survive and not go bust?
So western countries should have pretended that adenovirus vaccines are on par with mRNA vaccines such that people in Africa would have been more willing to use it?
Via email?

Yoga Studio X website says: contact us at contact@yogastudiox.com, then as part of the registration process in your app, you ask for an email with exactly the same email domain.

You would need to manually verify though. But I think it's worth it. Steps:

- deny any generic email domain address in your registration form (e.g., gmail.com, yahoo.com, etc.)

- whenever a new "company" registers in your app, you'll get a "needs approval" notification. You quickly check if the email they submitted corresponds to the "official" email of the website of the business they claim to own. You could even automate this. The user will receive as well an email to confirm their email address
Sorry, I disagree. Do not oversimplify.

My case is: An unvaccinated person is more likely to be infected, and more likely to shed lots of virus if infected.

Vaccinated people can become infected, albeit at a lower rate, therefor being around infected people is not safe, even if vaccinated. This is clearly a mainstream opinion, as masks are still recommended, even for vaccinated people, in many contexts.

None of these risks are "miniscule".

This diagram might help you understand the basics https://i.redd.it/km870p4xn1d71.jpg

Citation needed for your case.
The number one news source in the USA is also the one most likely to make viewers less informed, or even ill informed.

I personally lost the last of my faith in the USA over the pandemic and the Trump era. We needed a vaccine agains News Corp about twenty years ago. What we got instead was normalization of “alternative facts,” and now everyone is worried about cancel culture or some other b.s. while I’m over here watching the end of the age of reason.
Ask HN: Looking for a simple Image Database (no overkill DAM)
I am looking for a simple image database to manage around 10k images and its (custom) metadata. Most of the digital asset management solutions are super complicated, offer workflows, are usually quite expensive, and are not very intuitive.

Any recommendations what I could use. (open source welcome, but SaaS also fine). Thanks a lot!
Any chance you have an invite?
> Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi — who made a public show of getting the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab as their first shot to boost confidence — opted for an mRNA vaccine as their second dose.

This is a classic example of putting a "spin" on a certain information. I'm not aware of the situation in Italy, but in Germany the current official recommendation is for everyone who got a first dose of AstraZeneca to get an mRNA shot (either Biontech/Pfizer or Moderna) as the second dose to increase the efficacy. So Merkel is not "opting" for anything personally, just following the recommendation...
TDD for FSM in JavaScript [pdf]
I think people really overdo the idea that certain sounds simply cannot be replicated by non-native speakers. If there is any remote proximity to native speakers and a bare minimum effort is made to practice tricky sounds, it's totally doable.

I certainly picked up French quite easily in school. Later, in university, I picked up Italian very easily (though I had some exposure from older relatives). More recently, I absorbed a tiny bit of "hey how are you" Mandarin from coworkers, who were surprised at my ability to accurately parrot some words after a little bit of practice.
A tweet reply says, "It's not a lock down. This is a requirement for tests of the unvaccinated, and this time at their expense and not at the expense of the state."
Can cite a position and/or company? Netherlands does better than most, but my understanding is that 130K would be exceptional anywhere in Europe unless you're some sort of highly specialized contractor.
>It showed us that most people are unwilling to accept even the slightest inconvenience

By slightest inconvenience you mean complete social isolation for an entire year, right?
They bought a house or apartment and can't sell it or rent it out fast enough when they had to take a new job?
Personally, Dell, Macbook, or Lenovo. Pretty sure this covers 100% of my purchases over the last 15+ years. They all have reliable developer laptops, and Dell and Lenovo both have models that play nicely with Linux.
Tuples vs. Lists vs. Sets in Python
The NYT is actually doing great financially. They lost their credibility because they did the one thing that a journalist can never do, lost their neutrality. They let Trump get under their skin, lost all skepticism, and started printing anything negative about him even if it was only a rumor. It's basically an organ of the Democratic party now.
Of the 3.6M people living in Berlin how many are under 18? How many are couples that need only 1 car?
> As a useful rule of thumb, the New York Times prints retractions.

And, yet, a lot of the US public opinion is shaped by Fox News...
Heavy metal toxicity is some sort of error. Lead, in particular, is required for glucose transport into axons,the failure of which leads to synapse loss and mental illness.
Israelis have killed family members of mine for the crime of living in an apartment building that happened to contain a couple of Hamas members.

I have no sympathy for Israel, whatsoever. They take pride in murdering my people and stealing our homes.

That whole neighborhood is now a very charming, up and coming, gentrifying Israeli settlement filled with nice patriotic young jewish families. Stolen in the name of Abraham because of those 2 alleged Hamas members.
Considering the source, remind me in one month. I'd like to see if the predicted 110° temperatures actually happened, or if it was just media amplifying the worst possible case for the doom clicks.

To go about this scientifically, we need to be comparing our predictions to reality, especially when the predictions are coming from a source incentivized to generate clicks rather than to provide an accurate view of reality.
Your post might be read by a crazy person who takes it as proof that anyone drinking is a danger to the world, and so decides to firebomb a bar. Since your actions lead to harm to others, you are no longer permitted to post on the internet (or elsewhere). Enjoy.
I wish we could lockdown Israel, keep their soldiers, their backpackers and their politicians from infecting the rest of the world with their zionism. Dirty thieving murderers.
I'd like to say I've never worked at/done those kind of things...I'd like to say it.
From what I've been told, full support as it's becoming obsolete is mostly the point. Running Linux on a highly closed and manufacturer hostile system will never be a good experience. Anyone who wants a Linux machine will buy a frame.work, system76, Lenovo or Dell, etc, not an apple. The point of linux support here is to give the device a longer life once apple drops support. In other words, when the hardware is no longer a sufficient apple machine and is more of a toy, at least it will be possible to put something else on it.
I think you're perhaps being slightly too absolutist about what opposing cars would mean: we will always need cars. We just don't need them for 90%+ of current personal journeys.

Even if we were wildly successful in opposing cars & reversing much of the car-focused infrastructure we have in place, many would still use cars for large weekly shops, furniture & building material movement... But:

- building materials is hardly "personal" & unlikely to be a regular need for most households. Car rental or professional builders' work vehicles fill most of the needs here.

- same goes for a lot of furniture movements: shop delivery services or moving company vehicles

- less road infrastructure and more localised urban planning drastically reduce the time-cost of low-volume grocery shopping. Couple that with the moves we're already seeing toward online grocery delivery and you get a massive reduction in the need for large weekly car-journey shopping

We'll always need cars: opposing isn't eliminating completely, it's just eliminating unnecessary use.
Interesting. Any references, further reading?