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That isn't really true, software projects fails all the time even when everyone knows what to build. A recent well known example is Cyberpunk 2077, its engine couldn't handle anything less than the latest hardware causing tons of bugs.

If you know what to build and that thing is something trivial that many has already built before, then sure it isn't hard. But any time you try to push and deliver software doing things that other companies doesn't it will be hard. If your business suite covers more cases than all other business suites then that is impressive and hard, etc.
I have a volunteer fig tree that is about 7 years old now. I am finally getting good figs off of it this year. With water and fertilizer it seems to have responded very well, with nice large figs. It is a mission fig variety.
> It's not that life was living hell for everyone either

It's not really that much of an exaggeration. Significant percentages of women died in childbirth, young children died of diseases, and men died of violence. If you didn't, multiple people close to you did. Back-breaking manual labor for subsistence was the norm. Even the small minority who lived "comfortably" could randomly die from a tooth infection.

It can be exaggerated to be sure, but I think it's even easier to discount the stunning drop in absolute poverty over the last two centuries because we've simply forgotten how terrible the old "normal" was. I highly recommend books like Enlightenment Now or Factfulness that do a great, detailed, and evidence-based job of driving this point home.
Why 'ludicrous'?
Framework Laptop Teardown: 10/10, But is it Perfect?
Nonsense.

Resistant to what? Last year's vaccines? So what?

There will be new vaccines if need be. The same as it is with the flu.
AE conserves features of early modern English, like rhoticity.
This quote from the article is counter-productive,

> I’d say it’s a pretty safe bet that some of these “reports” are from users who shut their MacBook screen onto a keyboard with a bunch of Doritos crumbs stuck in it.

> And if you, too, had a Doritos-related MacBook Pro screen incident, it’s worth driving that sucker right to the Apple Store and saying — with a straight face — that it happened for “no apparent reason”. Good luck.

Does anyone remember when keyboard failures started to happen for "No Apparent Reason", and everyone said the same thing?

Well, it turns out that was a faulty design. One that hadn't been extensively tested in the wild. That could very well be the case here, and further investigation is warranted.

The following is speculation, but if Apple has been using a new pre-stressed glass design, then it's well within the realm of possibility for some of the screens to fail spontaneously. It happens frequently enough in the construction industry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage

Modern materials are complex and display counter-intuitive failure modes.
I was having a lot of trouble falling asleep at one time when I was in college - to the point where it was impacting my health. I brought it up with the nurse and she asked me if I was reading in bed and I said I was. She said try staying out of bed until bed time and see if you have an easier time falling to sleep. And bam - within a few days, I was sleeping normally again.
Ha. Intel pushed Itanium very hard. AMD released AMD64 and that was the end of Itanium. No one wanted it. Intel killed it because it was a failure in the market place.

I love this graph of Intel's projected vs actual Itanium sales. They certainly believed in Itanium for a long time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Itanium_...
They're not being fined for making too much money, but for the harm they've caused the market or consumers through anti-competitive practices.
I could have misread, but in a less recent interview, I think he has been using git within the last two years. The interview where he mentioned that he didn’t use any source code repo was 4 years or older.
Larry Ellison started the Oracle ball rolling by selling an up-and-coming database technology, based on relationships, which was an R&D study at Stanford? (IIRC) to the FBI. I presume that Oracle powers all the "signals" gathering at the NSA/CIA/FBI. That alone would be enough to keep Oracle in business forever.
Was there ever a doubt about this? After all, if you don’t have a fairly standard human immune system the vaccine isn’t going to do anything at all for you.
It's tricky. I have a colleague that I'm pretty sure has a condition on the ADHD spectrum. He's spread very thin between many tasks, gets very excited about new projects, but often leaves tasks unfinished. He's older, very eager but disorganized. I've been kind of wanting to ask him if he's been diagnosed, not to push medication on him, but just to say "hey, you know, there are management tools that maybe could help you, like todo lists, etc." But I'm too afraid that he would be upset, or even that my manager or HR might come after me for saying something that's considered insulting, for labeling someone.

I think I have some kind of "condition" too. I have a mood disorder of some kind. I can get very depressed from time to time, and it has no obvious connection to real-life events. It just comes and goes. It's just never been severe enough to really justify taking medication that comes with huge side-effects, so I cope as best as I can. Ultimately, I hope that if I ever got really depressed, the company I work for would show understanding and support. But I also think what we really need is more science. We need a much deeper understanding of the brain. Some conditions are clearly genetic, not explainable by past trauma. I don't want depressive tendencies to be celebrated, I want to understand exactly what causes them, so we can help people like me and many generations to come.
Probably, but the article isn't about genetics.
Pandemic hurt low-wage workers the most, the recovery has helped them the least
This is a good idea and I wish you well. I would encourage you to think of gender in your marketing. Unfortunately there is a lot of sexism in home repairs, and I think many women would benefit from your service. I (a male) have several times had to get quotes for my mother (single), because she either can't get a good price or contractors will tell her she wants something else, or fail to see problems that need fixing. This could provide a bit more of a level playing field for women in this situation.
I doubt that legal departments are good at big court cases. They tend to be more concerned with mundane busywork like drafting contracts and reviewing public statements for potential issues. So it makes sense to outsource lawsuits, especially bigger ones, to experts with experience at court.
What's so great about Twitch that you decided to use it as an analogy?

As a regular Twitch viewer, the idea of anything Twitch that requires me to focus and learn just doesn't compute. Twitch is by its nature parasocial, and the experience is like attending a bar (small streams) or rave (huge streams).
We haven't had proper contact with him for a while. And even when he was "available", it was so intermittent that he may as well have been absent. (I've been in the team for a year and they have logged on to our Matrix chat about three times). This affected fundamental tasks like updating the site and having our servers for our services work.
I really dig the idea, but I wonder - how can you guarantee prices? Homes can differ tremendously. There's a reason plumbers ask to come on site.

For example front and center is a fixed price tankless heater, which is great. However if the customer has serious plumbing issues which have caused the existing (tank) water heater to fail (for the example corroded pipes), if you replace just the water heater without fixing the underlying issues it could cause the new tankless heater to fail by introducing sediment, etc. into the system.

In the software world this would be akin to asking a contractor to add a new feature to your site without seeing the existing codebase. Seems difficult.

Are y'all just amortizing the cost of these things across all customers or what?
> just use some extra room in your house.

unless your wife called it first.
> Stop selling user's data without their consent and GDPR is a breeze to be complaint with. Try to still sell that, eliciting the consent via dark patters, and complain how hard and complicated it is.

So it should be safe to entirely dismiss your comment on the basis that Amazon in this case hasn’t even been accused of providing data to a 3rd party, let alone selling it?
Breakthrough Covid infections show ‘unvaccinated putting the vaccinated at risk’
This is entirely tangential, but I'm interested to hear how, exactly, you think consumers have been harmed?
She has made her whole career about this event. I don’t blame her, but she is now fully in the game too.
Tencent Is World’s Worst Stock Bet with $170B Wipeout
What if law defined the processes more closely? “Billing data must be kept for 2 years numerically and 10 years on an offline device or paper. Marketing data can be kept for 6 months until renewal of consent by the user. The rest is permitted upon license.”
That's not how CRT physics works.

The screen is charged. That charge causes burn in. The best way to not burn in, short of turning the screen off, is to charge the screen as little as possible. The least charge you can give it is a black signal, which means least burn in.
> The "prebate" is supposed to compensate for that, so that the burden doesn't fall on poor people.

The prebate for a family of four is about the same as the Child Tax Credit for a family with two children., so at zero income they’d have about the same net taxes with “fairtax” giving a effectiv marginal rate on additional work income (given near unity marginal spending) greater than status quo payroll taxes (they would face 0 or negative net income taxes under the status quo because of standard/dependent exemptions and EITC.)

So, the burden still falls on the poor, particularly the working poor.

> So the effect is to shift the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class.

No, it shifts it from the middle class (or, rather, high-income wage earners) who pay the highest rates under the current system (not capital income recipients, which is the dominant income mode of the truly wealthy) to the poor, who pay taxes at lower income levels and higher marginal rates without significantly greater initial refundable credits.

That's even before considering that marginal propensity to consume drops with income (and is near 100% for the poor), and effective marginal rate under fairtax is the nominal rate times marginal propensity to consume.

The “fairtax” is “fair” to people who see the poor as “lucky duckies” [0] successfully executing a devious tax avoidance strategy.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_duckies
This seems logical, especially if the person who got bronze was not expecting to get higher. If the person who had gotten gold previously got bronze they probably are not going to be feeling this way so, so a bit of an expectations game too potentially..
HAARP?
The answer to the literal question is simple. Other people use your name, not you, so the name belongs to other people. Render unto Caesar, etc.

Your name refers to, not your identity (whatever that is), but the idea of you in the heads of other people.
But a real human is affected by trusting the AI. A real human might lose his/her only effective way to communicate with some people/communities who only use facebook. On the other hand, an AI cannot detect sarcasm, nonstandard quotes, and can be biased.

I know some people (even here) very much support removing and banning people for stuff they disagree with, and call all of that disinformation, but things change, you won't always be on the "right side", and then it'll be too late.

And even "sides" change... Covid is one such example, where not so long ago, you could be calling for people to wear masks to protect themselves, and with current facebook tools, your posts would be removed for misinformation and conspiracies/fearmongering about covid, because "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly" [0]

Then a few weeks/months later "whoops", let's ban "the other side".

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...
It will good probably useful on counties without proper internet connection. But almost all of the information needed about programming is already on the internet. It's just a one search away and you can find your answer
The "blood marker" in question is anti-COVID antibody titer. That's not genetic. (It may turn out to have a genetic component, but that has nothing to do with this article.)
Sure! https://archive.is/dFVwj
Begun the GDPR wars have.

Popcorn ready.

But seriously, the industry has largely been in a Wil-E-Coyote moment ever since GDPR came into force, because most of the "standard practices", and for companies like Facebook and Google their business model, became illegal at that moment.

The industry reaction has been to mostly ignore it and carry on as always, running on air and making sure not to look down. Oh, and trying to their best to annoy users by running nasty and also mostly illegal "consent popups", in an attempt to do a repeat of the very successful campaign against the cookie directive.

I don't think it will work this time around, because the EU learned from their earlier mistake, and specifically came up with fines that will really, really sting.

As far as I know, cases against Facebook are currently making their way through the system (not sure about Google, but they are also guilty as can be), but haven't resulted in a ruling and fine yet.

Immovable business model, meet irresistible regulation.

Popcorn ready.
I think either the i860 or i960 was a CPU used in Adaptec PCI cards in the 90s.
I did call the argument delusional, yes.

But even if I decided to call the commenter names, that wouldn't be ad hominem (link above on details).

It's rude, it's uncivilized maybe, we can have qualifications like that. But it's not "ad hominem", because "ad hominem" isn't about "you insulted someone".
Detecting these kinds of signal is an area of active military research. The key is that if the signal comes from one direction, you can use multiple antennas and filter by time-delay/phase to find it even if it is below the noise floor.

To this extent, there are methods to reliably detect signals 12dB under the noise floor, and as I said this is an area of active research and militaries are probably even further ahead.
Totally agree with this. External consultants are easily blamed. But the problem usually lies elsewhere - someone makes a decision without understanding the full scope of the challenge.
yes you can use @apply. DaisyUI also supports @apply directives as well both for their own and tailwind clases.

However you have to use them yourself. With vanilla Tailwind there is no out of the box @apply directives already set you can use. Think of DaisyUI as basically a whole set of @applies someone already made for you.

For users new to frameworks with utility focus it can be less steep learning curve to experiment and all the out of the box abstractions can reduce the need for having your own.
It's well known on message boards that it's controversial. It's a universal practice in the industry.
I never needed any manager.
It has wrecked Nashville.

At first I was a huge proponent of Airbnb because I liked the ease of use and less expensive than your standard hotel. But then I moved into an apartment in downtown Nashville that was overrun with Airbnbs. Multiple nights I would call the cops to come tell the people to calm down. Im talking like 1am on a Wednesday. I know this isn't Airbnb's problem per se, its the apartment and their lack of control but these STRP running companies seem to not care and I think that does some damage to the brand.

On top of that, multiple quiet neighborhoods have been wrecked by Airbnbs/STRP using the whole house as a glorified hotel versus renting on one bedroom and living there.
I don't get the problem even if there is a wasp in it, why would any vegan be upset about it? Wasp is dead, ended up there 100% naturally, died naturally, has no specific taste - what practical/medical/ethical/philosophical issue one can possibly have with eating it accidentally? What about eating other organic fruits then that almost always have worms in it, like plums or cherries or apples? Do vegans avoid that too? What about misc flours or coco powder that always have some percent of insect parts in them? Do people really obsess about things like that?
Not sure why you got downvoted; remote work has been awful for me mental health wise since COVID. Not every dev wants to sit at home all day while they work. The separation and social interaction are important for me.
Well, that article sure confirmed my biases. It seemed like an opinion piece, i.e. speculative. It does look like the author is qualified to speculate, tho.

I think managers can suffer from impostor syndrome, possibly even more than their employees. It's pretty easy to spot the behaviors of an insecure manager. Micromanaging. Needing to know all the details. Any now, not having face time as a means to assess his employees.

Remote work means managers need to learn a new way of doing their jobs. I don't think it means they will become redundant. I think it is more a matter of the discomfort some people get when required to learn a new job: "Can't I learn this?" "Will I be competent?" "This makes me uncomfortable." "It's just easier for me to make my employees come into the office."
Careful, I got buried by the downvote and flag brigade for pointing that out.
I think the cor of the issue is the -phobic suffix. We instictively feel that 'transphobic' is the same kind of insult as 'homophobic', and there is no place for homophobic people in our society. It immediately tells the reader that Rowling hates or is somehow against trans people while in fact it is something very different: she wants to protect women from men who pretend they are women, and who abuse new laws created in good faith for trans people.
For your browser history, sure. But I for one make sure I rsync stuff to a Raspberry Pi4 with an external disk, at my parents place every now and then. In the event of my demise they can unplug it and have all our family pictures and videos. I'm really afraid that I make things to complicated for the people that I leave behind.
The law presumably would if it was properly enforced.
> Nit: Not the entire 3 days is interest in this analogy because you are also paying down principal.

I didn't read the GP as saying that they were paying down principle. They don't say what the hypothetical feature is, but my assumption was that it's a feature that they could implement without a database layer but that would be faster if they had a database layer. That is, I assumed that even after the 4 days of development for the new feature, they still won't have a db layer – which is why the extra three days is pure "interest".
Those who could not work from home, were screwed by the pandemic. The poor were forced to work to serve the those who could be safe at home.
Did you have anything specific in mind?
Essentially yes. In cases where memory latency is predictable like DSP workloads then VLIW processors actually tend to work really well. Itanium had some facilities to allow speculative loads but they had a lot of overhead in practice.
Convergence of Infinite Products
This used to upset me as well, but I now think of it as reflecting the reality of the modern Internet. The post is on Twitter because the intention is for you to like and follow.

Had you seen it on a blog post, would you have typed in your email address into the inevitable popup modal? Gaining some Twitter followers and a bunch of retweets is better than gaining 0 emails from a hard-to-discover blog post.
==If people are doing knowledge work, then the privacy of their home gets rid of all the unnecessary play acting. ==

Except for all the hours you spend on video calls where people are looking directly into your home. If you use some type of background to blur your home, that becomes the same type of "kabuki show" you reference about offices.

==Maybe the pandemic will demonstrate once and for all that an employee with a good work ethic can be lots more effective from home than at the office. ==

Maybe you have a bias here? I know lots of people with "good work ethics" who feel less productive at home.
in short, water is wet studies, and water isn't dry studies are important, in case water is only wet under certain conditions.
With that much money shouldn't he have a private army to protect himself and his family?

He's obviously not a stupid man, but he had to have been aware of what would happen, I don't understand why he wouldn't have been prepared.
Indeed, it's unnecessarily derogatory, especially considering Apple's history of questionable design choices to pursue thinness.
> I don't think there's people walking around in t-shirts that say 'neurodiverse'.

There literally are though. I have friends that do but if you don't believe me, then [1] and [2] are for you. I'm not sure why you would think there wouldn't be considering the pride movement. The article talks about how the movement started.

1. https://www.zazzle.co.uk/neurodiverse_universe_adult_t_shirt...

2. https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Neurodiversity-by-PrintP...
They've certainly started getting flat in revenue:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/revenu...

My guess is they will hang on for a long time as the reigning king of on-prem. They aren't hurting yet, because the companies that are losing ground in on-prem are losing it both to AWS/Azure, but also losing the on-prem ground to Oracle. Eventually, the continued downward spiral of on-prem will hit them. But on-prem really never goes away. Oracle will just become the king of a much smaller hill.
right time and right place is always a major factor.

However, we are always in the right time and right place for a breakthrough. But it's unfair to not give credit to those that saw the opportunity, believed in it, and made it happen.
It should work fine until you get into the territory of having to store multiple terabytes of data, at which point cloud services can get expensive.
Are Covid Restrictions the New TSA?
My take on technical debt is that it’s a mismatch between requirements then and requirements now. And I don’t mean the written spec, I mean the dauntingly complete extent of requirements that exists mostly unverbalized in architect’s mind and applies to software’s existence in respective subject domain landscape over time (relating to maintenance effort, evolution of software, evolution of subject landscape, and so on).

I think the term “technical debt” is useful in the sense that it can do a good job of conveying the gist of the consequences of this mismatch that matter to people outside the development, without the above esoterics which I’d do a poor job at communicating (without confusing or alarming my target audience, anyway).