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Well this is bigger news, a giant battery from a well known company failed catastrophically within 24 hours; versus a plant running since 2001*(edit, wrong generator)

I personally have no idea the numbers, but i'd argue that lithium batteries have alot more explosive potential than your average powerstation fire...curious if anyone can compare energy density here
I agree that there used to be an overlap between an academic and a programmer. But as you pointed out, it hasn't been the case for a long time.

Plus, I'm not really sure good practices mattered to them even back then. Academics, whether they're programmers or not, chase different goals and have other incentives.

Like you, I'd love listening to one of them one day (if anyone speaks up). I'm sure there will be a few pearls of wisdom in such a shared experience.
I have found that gaming chairs tend to be bucket style seats that aren't wide enough to not cramp your shoulders.
Believe it or not, most business decisions are not data driven, and even if these were certainly data driven, we have neither the data nor their conclusion. Just one observable artifact of a business decision.

Thus, all we can do is speculate.
The game is coming to Steam sometime, and with a new GUI interface.
Yoga ball is better and will train back. Allows for improved movement and spreads pressure. Might need something underneath to lift it up a bit.
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The hardest thing for me these days is writing code that is easy to use in the 90% case yet simple to extend, esp. at the architectural level.. code that has enough guardrails to prevent lazy mofos like me from copy pasting off a cliff, but is also flexible enough to allow for other devs to properly deal with the supposedly exceptional cases that seem to pop up with alarming consistency.

Bonus points if I somehow can also make it so that adding new features to said code doesn’t require a significant refactor or doesn’t result in other devs piling on yet another gross hack in order to meet their deadline, despite the mildly concerning interest we already pay on our existing tech debt.
> In 2003, AMD launched their 64-bit, but Pentium-compatible, Opteron CPU. Everyone stopped buying Intel CPUs for a while. Within a few years Intel made their own 64-bit, but AMD-compatible, CPUs to avoid entirely losing the desktop and small server market. They were right earlier: almost everyone immediately embraced AMD's instruction set and no one but HP wanted anything to do with Itanium.

This is the only reason why Itanium failed.

Had AMD not been allowed to produce Intel-compatible CPUs, everyone would eventually be forced to eat Itanium regardless how they tasted.

One doesn't get to be picky when food supply dries out.
Note that this is talking about MACs, not Macs: I initially thought it just be a post about codesigning flaws in Apple’s desktop operating system.
As mentioned in another comment, the upper classes (and most politicians) have great manners and charisma. You feel good around them. But most people are never going to be around them.

It's tough to attack them on their personalities when they have better ones than the majority of your own friends. Meeting them one is surprised by how not snooty and haughty they are. But hardly anyone actually meets them.

It's easy to attack on their personalities as most people will never meet and interact with them (or politicians either!).

Optics. it's easier to criticise an image of them than the reality of , for example: landowners, historical abuses, establishment inertia, oppression, invasion, colonisation, corruption, injustices etc.
As is in bread, in cereal, in any kind of bean or lentil you can think of....

Ironically, the only kind of food that you can be absolutely 100% certain is definitely insect free is stuff like milk, eggs and meat.
This is the worst "feature" ever.

What's the point in spending 20 hours learning some custom interface that's only used in like 5% of projects and will probably be gone in 5 years, when you could spend 30 hours learning the standard that's been around for decades and understand every library for years to come?

Just learn CSS, it's not that hard.
That's a mental thing and it's as easy as it gets to prevent it:

1. Your work is not your life.

2. Since it's not your life, don't get too invested in it.

3. Plan your free time ahead and fill it with stuff that makes you happy.

4. Eat good, sleep good, and Sport sport sport (from everything a good amount and not too much)

5. Don't take drugs on regular "recreational" basis (yes alcohol is especially included here)

6. If your away from work, don't think about it.
> And then eventually start tantruming

It's so crazy when you try to make dwarves feel great all the time and then the simulation comes up with some completely insane causal chain that messes up everything.

I once tried to isolate a miasma problem with a wall. Which works fine, unless the dwarf tasked with building the wall decides he needs a break, sleeps on the floor and then gets grumpy because he just slept on a hard surface in a smelly area.
And you can get the debt vindicated too, by being unable to further develop or deploy the software due to changing environment or requirements, especially in a timely manner.

Tends to happen at the worst of times when you're least prepared.
They definitely "can" port it, but would they? I believe HP is internally using Linux for more and more things -- the question is if there are enough customers paying for HP-UX to make porting worth it, or if they are legally able to sell the rights to it as they did OpenVMS. Only HP knows the full answer.
Author here:

I've been bitten by this collision of terminology before. Ironic considering the subject of the post. :)

I've edited a disambiguation into the first paragraph to hopefully mitigate any confusion earlier in the article.
> You think it's unlikely that water is packaged and shipped?

You're refuting a different point than the one the parent comment made. They didn't claim that no water is ever shipped. They just claimed that these types of drinks machines don't work that way.

> What do you think bottled water is?

They weren't talking about bottled water, they were talking about this type of drink machine. Of course bottled water in a proper restaurant is shipped as such. It also usually arrives at your table in the bottle, partly so you know that it's not just tap water.

> Whether you think someone is cheating with tap water at the source is beside that point.

It's not besides the point at all. Actually it's completely central to the point. The comment chain you're replying to is precisely about whether people are being denied tap water, or some (supposedly) more premium product. If it's the latter, it completely invalidates the point of the original tweet.

Plus it's interesting in its own right. If the makers of Dasani admit that it's indistinguishable from tap water, then that's very relevant to people buying it at a store to take home and drink instead of the tap water they already had access to!

> Your regular variety grocery store Coca Cola is ...

Now that actually is beside the point. If bottled Coca Cola is the same as tap water + Coca Cola syrup + fizz, then that's not really a surprise to anyone buying Coca Cola in either form.
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Somewhat related to your comment, there's the phenomenon of upper-class English being in many ways more similar to that of the lower working classes, while middle-class English tries to differentiate itself by using words and expressions that sound fancier or more refined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
I'm glad that people are finally starting to understand that "Programming" is not a binary "you can compile the linux kernel" vs "that excel formula is cute". Almost every job I can think of that involves a computer (which is almost every job) would improve from a basic understanding of how a computer thinks, and an interface to speak it's language. Scaring people off with "Do you even Rust" just further moves away the world where a checkout-employee can macro a common order.
It’s very hard to type as you need a non-breaking space.
Everything is hard when one doesn't read the programming language manuals, or in this case, VBA, Lambda and PowerQuery.
That's not very nice, maintainability suffers in the same way. You can obfuscate your classes later on.

But alas, the battle for semantic css has already been lost and the community keep going in the opposite way (first bootstrap, which was halfway through, now tailwind which is basically inline styles with variables).
Program complexity does not grow linearly. In fact, it theoretically grows faster than exponential; just consider the halting problem. Of course we use tricks and abstractions to reduce complexity and get stuff done.
Try burger king. In Portugal they (in a few places I have been, not sure if all) also have free refills.
A day or three is a long time to have to wait before being able to take actual enforcement action on a communications platform and newsfeed
(assuming Facebook's response isn't "do nothing and wait for the next lawsuit"... )
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When I tried that, I found that as soon as I wanted to alternate into more "passive mode" (Youtube, reading a blog post) standing didn't work. I like the stool idea, would love to try standing desk one day again.
Yes. The situation is likely similar all over the world where there is a housing bubble and large markets for drugs.
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Do you not think a great many people go to the polls and vote along party lines so that the party leader becomes PM?
I note that Debian still has an unofficial ia64 port:

https://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/ https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/ia64
That's just one part of it. In modern development practices you have dependencies, each being at risk of getting outdated or insecure. Even if it's the programming language, build environment or OS.

No abstraction will save you from this.
Yeah, assuming you are using something like C.
ncluding having
the factory repainted.

Okay. So what's the problem?

Well, apparently,
the painters left some
oily rags in a garbage can.

Mm-hmm.
But because of cuts
to the sanitation service,

the trash was not collected

and the rags smoldered
and caught fire.

And because of cuts
to the fire department,

the blaze spread.

A number of concerned citizens

volunteered to help
fight the fire,

but because the water
was cut off, they could not.

Okay, so what happened?

Well, the vast majority of our
expensive, rare earth materials

survived the fire.

Well, that's something.

Until the flames abated,

when because
of mass layoffs of police,

the locals that were
there to fight the fire

decided instead to loot
the burned-out factory.

The National Guard
attempted to reach the factory

to help stop this, but...

The roads.
The roads, sir, yes.

Okay.

So, we lost it all?

Everything?
Yes.
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I can’t find a source for this. Do you have one?
Except for Oliver, everyone on your list went to public school.

The fact that they're not upper-upper doesn't change the fact that a public school education is a fast track to Oxbridge and to insider status.

But even with the fast track, the upper middle classes are motivated by anxiety and envy about not being upper upper enough. The original article almost highlights this, but doesn't quite hammer it home.

The class system is about aspiring to become the kind of person who has ancestral money and some huge houses. (Not just one huge house. That's the entry level.)

But the people with the ancestral money and huge houses are neither special nor interesting. They're groomed for confident self-interest and social polish, but they don't actually do much except cream money off the markets, order inferiors around, and breed.

Their self interest sets the tone for those lower down the tree who aspire to be like them. That's why they're so toxic. They're hostile to any kind of collectivity which erodes their "natural" privilege.

And they'd rather own a country which is falling apart than lose some status in a country with more social mobility which might challenge their self-perceived high status.
Programming is hard because you need to have a lot of pre-acquired knowledge before you can even start to delve in the only interesting aspect of it, which is the logic solving.

Is like having to learn everything about how a lego brick is built (from the materials used, to the production processes used in the factories, to the composition of the houses where lego bricks are used) before being able to play with them. Everyone (aside from an very motivated subset of people) would find Legos "Hard" in that context.

Having to memorize a myriad of arcane incantations, software setups and a million "standards" will always make programming look "hard" and daunting, even for those who have an interest in logic problems, but not have an interest on babysitting a computer.
a vessel deliberately sunk is scuttled.
Have you changed your mind after reading it as suggested by the article?
Also lack of supply in compelling geographies.
Let's see:

- They have feedback from every venue, sales data, and dispenser use data, and these teams have been running the company for years, some decades.

- And we have A SINGLE TWEET, and 30 seconds for a hot take during a coffee break.

Clearly, we know better.

FFS.
KFC in Poland does that. You pay once for a cup, and then refill as much as you want.
It was the same with Intel's drivers. We had the same issues happen on ESXi servers with X710 NICs, with VMware's repackaged and then Intel's original i40e driver, and it worked terribly, either kernel panicking or just freezing the NICs. It was a fun one to debug, but thankfully we only had to wait a few months ( the issue was known for a year) for Intel to come up with the fixed driver.

The bastards at VMware kept the buggy driver on their hardware compatibility list and kept shipping it for multiple versions probably a year later.
I think in general writing code based on hypothetical requirements that never materialize is just wasteful. And leads to bad code.

You can ship good code fast.

Shipping slow is not a guarantee of good code.

I think the pathology here is defending "sloppy" or "negligent" code by the need to ship fast, when in fact you probably could ship as fast with cleaner code, but the coder just could not care enough.
It's cool to know that there are plans for it. I look forward to hearing about them when you get there.

Enjoy your vacation!
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Little anecdote:

The Itanium led to one of a more remarkable episodes in my career. Around 2007 we were running a heavy workload on MS SQL Server in a fast growing business.

We faced a lot of outages due to DB overload. Instead of trying to investigate and understand the issue better and optimize the software, some external consultants were brought in and recommended to upgrade the hardware to an Itanium based monster. It was a massive piece of hardware with a price tag close to 7 figures.

The thing went live and performance decreased and issues increased. After a couple of weeks of trying to run on the Itanium we switched back to the old setup and then focused on software improvements.

Long story short - after about 8 weeks of dedicated troubleshooting and improvements the whole app became stable, was capable to double workload on the same hardware without outages for the next 12 months.

The Itanium took up a lot of space in the server room before it was dismantled and used as a paperweight. A lawsuit involving multiple parties (supplier,consultant,business) eventually got settled out of court in 2015 (?) long after I left there.

Farewell Itanium :)
Allegedly rich.
It's still not clear how rich or poor he actually is.

In any case, I very much doubt he spent any time at all in a McDonald's.

At most he would have used the drive though. More likely be sent someone else to the drive though.

It's even understandable - he's been very recognisable since before the apprentice. Would you want random bystanders asking for your autograph, or insulting you while you were trying to eat a burger?
No, it's a tool, not a panacea.

If you are feeling disconnected from the value of your work, being away from other people doesn't reconnect you.

If you are fire-fighting one emergency after another, not seeing other people in vivo doesn't get you downtime.
I've met a few people I would consider "hardcode" vegans. In that they are 100% vegan, and believe that veganism significantly improves their health and lives.

They are very chill people. They don't really care if you eat meat and won't try to force veganism on you. They don't get caught up in issues like this.

The only "crazy" vegans I've heard are on Reddit. I didn't even think there were actual people like that until I went on Reddit. I think it's a problem with social media, not veganism.
Depends where on the globe one is.

There are markets where iOS is pratically 0% and there are markets where it has almost all the market for itself.

So it depends to whom certain business want to sell.
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The reason why lithium batteries are portrayed as green is because they are a necessary enabling technology for most forms of non-fossil energy. Without them, a transition to renewably-sourced energy is impractical—arguably impossible.

The dirtiest part of lithium batteries is cobalt, which is being substantially reduced (or removed entirely) from lithium battery chemistries. Lithium itself is an abundant resource and is not especially dirty, at least when compared to many other raw materials. And there are prospects for future mines being much cleaner than in the past.

With sufficient investment, lithium batteries can be highly recyclable and it's feasible that within a couple of decades, nearly all the materials in new battery production could be recycled. And would be recycled because it would be cheaper (and thus more lucrative) than mining from earth.
This is about forcing Apple to allow other engines. You can still choose not to use them. It follows that there is no reason that your choice of engine should be the default and only option for everyone that uses an iOS device.
Are you offering a full IPv4-enabled VM or just IPv6?
The most capable and ergonomic interface device I have found is, after extensive configuration, the Steam Controller. For file management, web browsing and social media I don't really have to use a keyboard aside from typing, and in both modes my posture is symmetric. Transition to games is of course seamless.

Sadly, it is no longer on the market but the community behind it expects a new model.
It's the zoning laws that aren't realistic.
Oh, yes good point, I forgot to mention that.
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Although Web development belongs to my activities, it should have stayed as it was in HTML 4.

Native apps with APIs are the best approach.
Slightly OT, the given answer makes more sense than some (semi) organic result I see for a search for 'population nairn'. It returned a "people also ask of":

"What is the fastest town in Scotland"?

Answer: walkwithdinosaurs

Nonsensical question and answer, not related to the query. Clicking through to the result you can see how G turned a statement into a question, just the why doesn't seem to too clever.
Even the open source Epiphany Web browser from GNOME can roll out updates to the core WebKit faster than Safari. It's not a 1:1 comparison, but it's the best way I can test WebKit from Linux even if Safari lags on releasing.
4G/5G is pretty good on security, compared to 2G :)
Being the one who decides to pay or not pay bounties in our bug bounty program: trust me when I say that the internal discussion, fact finding, classification, quality control, release planning & the rest exceeds your bounty by a factor 10.

Same goes for the dialogs with unhappy hunters who like 'proof' for the arguments that a bug / vulnerability is not there.

There is literally no financial incentive for me at all to not reward, au contraire actually.
I think the issue here isn't that Safari is lagging behind in features. IE did that too, and we know where it is today. It is the fact that Apple does not allow any other browser (to use it's own engine) on it's platform.

I don't mind telling users that a particular software doesn't work on Safari and to use Chrome/Firefox. and Many of them will switch too.. if they could.
So Rust comes to mind, right? Anything else?
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The article isn't about tech workers and people can decide to work from bed for reasons other than a lack of space. I've seen my partner do it for comfort reasons because her job involves reading huge amounts (on an iPad), but as an engineer I would never consider it.
If anyone is "killing" the web, it is web developers using shitty frameworks and gimmicks on their i9 development machines, resulting in multi-second load times on 90+% of devices in use.
I think that OP's question is about increases in salary due to different cost of living, and you're responding about increases in cost of living.
Why would the business be interested in keeping the homeless out, if it has no impact on the bottom line? What’s in it for them?
> They're directly responding to a comment literally saying that this is done to drive away the homeless and poor so "the rich" don't have to see them.

ok, makes sense, it's not <so "the rich" don't have to see them> but <so "the non-homeless" don't have to see them>.
Those that embrace Chrome have literally helped Google with their masterplan to turn the Web into ChromeOS.

Safari, regardles of Apple's selfish reasons, is the last man standing.
(half of them without waking up)
> (after setting up jupyter lab with anaconda)

That right here is a very hard step for anyone who isn't an experienced software dev with some Python familiarity.
That was... phenomenal. So much joy. Thank you so much.
Before posting a random poll, please check the sources and the authors.

FWIW that 'study' was carried out by craftjack

https://craftjack.com/toolbox/remote-work-from-home-statisti...

And who knows how biased/correct it is.
> You're refuting a different point than the one the parent comment made. They didn't claim that no water is ever shipped. They just claimed that these types of drinks machines don't work that way.

Really? And how do they work?

It's a drink dispenser, not a Mars spaceship. How complicated do you think it is to have one that mixes in syrup and tap water, and one that just serves from a container, like a regular water dispenser THAT'S LITERALLY IN EVERY OFFICE around the world?

> It's not besides the point at all. Actually it's completely central to the point. The comment chain you're replying to is precisely about whether people are being denied tap water, or some (supposedly) more premium product. If it's the latter, it completely invalidates the point of the original tweet.

No, if it's branded as a specific type of water, it's not tap water. You're reaching here for a conspiracy theory based on how "these types of drink machines work", despite evidence to the contrary.

Also no, a business doesn't owe tap water to anyone, either. So it's absolutely irrelevant wrt these RFID chips.
Low rates allow high ratio mortgages(5% or less down) so all the rent needs to cover is 1-2% of that down payment to break even. After that the tenant works to feed the mortgage and gets zero equity.
Fix? If you buy to reside in it = normal realty taxes. If you buy to rent, it is a business and needs to be taxed as such. Extracting money from the current positive feed back loop changes the equation and could eliminate this sort of rent seeking behaviors.