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Exactly.

As a freelancer, every time a client decides for a cheaper alternative, I make very clear I would be delighted to work with them in the future anyway. It rarely fails, one or more years later, the clients calls me back because their cheap alternative turned out to suck and be expensive eventually. Last month, a client from Luxembourg called after 6 years of total silence. They still had me in their listing. 3 years ago, one called me because 2 years prior, the 50k quote they rejected from me turned into a 400K bill from my competitor, and still no release yet.

My rates have been steadily increasing for years thanks to this. Before, geeks were at a disadvantage because people didn't know better, and teams with a good marketing would destroy us. But now, they have been burned so many times. And it pays because more and more devs coming to the market are becoming dependent on their tooling. Now, more often than not, I work with teams that have been copy/pasting git commands not knowing what they do, that have never, ever looked the source code of their framework or don't know how to use a debugger. The HN bubbles tends to blind us to the reality of the corporate world.

Yesterday I did a deployment, but was not allowed to touch the machine. Instead, they made me call a guy sharing a screen of a Vista machine, while he was sshing prod using cmd.exe, and I had to dictate him the instructions to debug the deployment on their custom linux setup. A near retired sysadmin that couldn't type with 10 fingers, pressing 30 times the up arrow to find a bash command in the history every time. He could click on WinSCP very well though.

This 20 minutes job turned into an afternoon of billing.

Though I suppose that's what I look like as a Python expert to an old timer from the 80s that can code in assembly, debug using strace and understand L1 cache :)

People are scared we are going to get automatized by AI.

I am preparing for the most lucrative decade I ever worked in.
+1, seems like leap seconds could be covered via a leap hour every 10k years or so. Implemented as a daylight savings change that gets skipped. Implement it at the level of time zones, which is complexity that we already have to deal with most of the time when we want to interface with humans.
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These people use economies of scale AND also have a legal and physical protection against other people stealing their riches.

In the old days, the rich would have to hire their own small defense/army just to protect their riches from being stolen. And we're not even talking about the public road/education/health/communications system that allows their products to be made and delivered to customers that pay the money that becomes their profits.

From the above you can see that the these people want to "ride free" off the backs of people that pay their share back into the system.

It should be treason.
Seems silly to make this into vaccination distrust when it should be government distrust.

They can get DNA from any charitable mission that gives moments of physical contact. They would have had to add extra steps to the vaccination process to get a good sample anyway.
The actual reports discuss a range that’s unbelievably wide in terms of civilian casualties. Somewhere in the region of 100,000 to 1,000,000 which seems incredibly broad. The US did not deliberately engineer the situation in Iraq of course, and the insurgency, Sunni/Shea civil war that happened as well as Al Qaeda and other foreign fighters made the situation unmanageable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

I think the testimony of so many Uyghur people about this and the huge “re-education” holiday camps you mentioned I’m not sure the West is fabricating such things. There’s simply too much evidence the other way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
> Obviously having 3:30 pm suddenly become the middle of the night would be bad, but we're talking a delta of 18 seconds spread over almost 50 years... hardly big enough to be called "out of sync" in any noticeable sense.

And the Julian calendar was 'good enough' for a long time… until it wasn't and Pope Gregory XIII had to announce the skipping over of 10 days so that (e.g.) the Spring Equinox actually lined up with the season of spring more accurately.

I understand the sentiment of wanting to simplify things, but kicking the can down the road so it's someone else's problem is wrong in my eyes.
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> One quiet place where blockchain makes sense is shared ledgers between large financial institutions,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive

Usually refusing to share information or API is a business choice. Besides, once you have a closed group, you just have signed transactions ("permissioned blockchain"), and can (must) ditch proof-of-waste. So it barely resembles what people normally think of as blockchain and starts to look more like signed git commits.
Many years ago, I did a cross-country Segway-based 'hack[1]'.

After orientation and a bit of balance training the group I was in followed the instructor as we spent a good hour or so travelling down muddy tracks and across country fields.

For my part, I enjoyed the experience, and I could certainly see the appeal of using one off-road[2] and would have happily spent my weekends on one in the countryside. On the road/pavement, they had much less appeal as they were bulky and hard to steer nimbly in crowded areas.

As we know they were an important first step to self-balancing vehicles/robots so we shouldn't judge them too harshly; many initial inventions fail, just to be reborn years later as an improved concept.

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[1] The horse kind, not the keyboard-warrior kind.

[2] These Segways were fitted out with larger off-road tyres compared to the ones you usually see.
IANAL, but until the question of whether software produced with the aid of Copilot, thus potentially containing LGPL'd, GPL'd or even AGPL'd code fragments (you never know really AIU) is subject to these respective or other copyleft licenses is settled, I think customers are well advised to stay clear of using Copilot. To the best of my knowledge, github won't provide legal shelter if customers are getting sued for xGPL violations; GPL, OTOH, has sufficient case law to make using Copilot very risky.
It SourceForged itself.
Have you considered the possibility that existing regulation is one of the barriers to use of cryptocurrencies?

Is it possible that there are uses for cryptocurrencies you have not iterated over in your comment?

If I suggest that sub-cent microtransactions are a use of cryptocurrency that I find useful and have implemented in a hobby project, I predict the response will be, "but that's not wildly popular, speculation and gambling are widespread!"

I don't accept that these widespread uses justify prohibition or over regulation. Even if we accept that these popular uses are worthy of prohibition, other developers should not be punished or unduly burdened because of the actions of the majority. This brings us back to the first point, if regulatory burdens are too high, individuals won't innovate.

>There’s nothing you can do with this stuff except speculate, gamble and build obfuscated Ponzis.

>Not offering these services seems like a positive outcome.

>has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value

This reads as, "Prohibit everything I personally dislike or can't fully appreciate"

>Overseas sounds like a fine place to continue this...

"If you don't like it leave the USA", this ignores the chilling effects the US's regulations have around the globe.
Of course. There's no reason you need the latest & greatest autofocus glass just to shoot stationary-ish celestial objects, that's for sure. And, that is one good thing about lenses, too: old lenses can keep on chugging literally for decades with little more attention than proper storage and some basic cleaning every once in a while.

I don't do astro, but I do shoot macro shots of stationary objects every once in a while. My workhorse lens is an older 105mm Nikkor (https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/105mm-f28.htm) that you can get in excellent to mint condition for little enough money that if it breaks or you drop it or something, you can just buy a new one.

It's truly a nice piece of glass, even though it doesn't autofocus with my body or auto-meter. It's every bit as sharp as Nikon's newest version of the same lens (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/424744-USA/Nikon_2160...), at 1/3 the price (or less), and without features I don't particularly need shooting stationary objects. You can even shoot a decent portrait with it, if you're not bothered by the lack of autofocus. Turns out there are lots of opportunities to save a little money if you don't care about having a fast lens to autofocus on a moving subject. :-) I spent more on my copy stand and stabilization equipment than I did on glass, and that was 100% the right thing to do.

If I had to share some takeaways from my experiences buying and using my DSLR + other equipment, I would say to focus on what you actually need, don't worry about getting the latest and greatest, and definitely consider used equipment. Following those principles, I got myself a couple of nice macro lenses, a D3400 body, a Kaiser copy stand, a lighting setup, and the cables & software to drive all of that, for around or maybe a little more than $1000. And, it works great & serves my needs just fine. Had I gone with brand new and current model stuff, I'd probably be well over double that.
This was a nice trip down memory lane. One of my first-ever Internet comments was on a piece about Ginger on Fark.com.
That supports my point even more.

If certain groups of people are being treated poorly in modern times then an algorithm that sentences people would possibly include that bias as well.

Is that statement offensive to you?
It is not just for timer, as part of evidence you also have to capture when that event occurred. There it does capture the date.
>From what I've seen copilot really lowers the barrier to writing buggy code

There is no barrier to writing buggy code. Writing buggy code is considered trivial in any language.
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I think Copilot is a hard problem, maybe it isn't even solvable.

Sometimes it blatantly copies GPL code without my knowledge.

Sometimes I myself write code that could be part of a GPL code-base, without knowing.

Funny thing is, the difference here isn't the actual code that's written, but that Copilot has seen many GPL code bases and I didn't.

Sometimes I really have the feeling Copilot understands my code base and suggests code that seems to be custom tailored to it. Albeit in most of the cases it doesn't fit 100%.

I think the latter cases are when Copilot shines and doesn't violate GPL code at all, but can I be safe? Probably never.
Science. The universe has no source code for us to read, so we tinker and investigate, take our best guess, see if it holds up under the test cases we're capable of running, and update that guess whenever we encounter edge cases the last guess can't explain. We've gotten quite far without perfect understanding.
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I think the diffusion rate of Ca and CO2 is also important. Even though the ocean is supersaturated *globally*, the local area around your plant might not have enough concentration. Hope you can get someone to check that.

Might have to spread your plants across multiple regions, or place it around somewhere with low impact to marine life I think.
Yes, the barrier to unionizing is too high. Laws are in the works to lower the threshold prior to vote because the current situation practically requires people to organize before they officially organize, which is dangerous at places like Amazon where involuntary layoffs and turnover are inscrutable (eg- at will / right to work states) and high.

Weakening collective bargaining isn't a solution to low unionization.
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> Its going to take decades though.

Who knows, maybe it never happens. If climate change brings about tens of millions of new refugees I don't think people will have that much time/energy to the so called Palestinian refugees anymore. They will have to get along like everyone else.
Topical example, people claiming that "well it could have come from a lab" were effectively bucketed with people who said "this is a communist bioweapon!".

It happens, but is relatively rare, that scepticism of a COVID vaccine is allowed to stand on its own in an internet discussion. Being distrustful of the government can literally get people attacked as though they wanted to inject themselves with bleach.

Pointing out that the government is untrustworthy and suggesting maybe we should move slowly will get people hit with being anti-science. Facts or free choice be damned.
If you think the part where they blitzed 5G so hard that a) you could build 5G network using only Huawei b) it was effectively impossible to build 5G network without Huawei, didn't have impact on USA push to sanction Huawei...

I have few bridges in Brooklyn to sell, good price.
Projects bringing USD's value - namely globally credible & low-volatility price denomination - into crypto doesn't mean crypto is 'reliant on' USD.
If you had CHEAP device, which uses exhaust at 70C to still generate some energy, this could be useful. This way, your exhaust could be lower temperature than your heated water. Currently this is not feasible, because such devices are not cheap enough.
Have you used the product and the software and games they've been publishing?

Honestly they're the only players in the industry treating it as more than a hobby and the only viable headset for mass consumers. I think without their pressure Valve would have never bothered with the Index or HL:Alyx.
Come on. Plantation era slavery was great! Free housing, free food, a lot of excercise, no Bay Area rent prices.

What's the big deal?
Waiting for the HATEOAS zealots to arrive, then the real fight can begin.
I think MS knows damn well that they've forfeited the ethics of their code generation. There's a reason they've trained the model on Github repositories instead of, say, the Windows kernel driver tree. They know their model arbitrary copy/pastes other people's code so they train it almost exclusively on other people's code that they don't care for it it gets stolen. Their assumption seems to be "if Bing can find it, it's up for grabs, no matter the license". Good luck getting the same treatment from MS if you upload the leaked XP kernel to github to make your own fork.

I'll accept the ethics of copilot when they add the source code for Windows, Azure and Office to their training set, because only then will MS truly reflect that their model doesn't cross the spirit or even letter of any licensing.
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I miss the practicality of IRC for quick async conversations.

Instead Slack & co add server side search and effectively turn company chat into a eternal meeting with random participants.
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> The coding part might or might not be pair-programming

If more than one developer is working on a task and they aren't pair-programming doesn't that suggest that they have looked at the task and how to implement it and split the task into independent sub tasks that they are each working on. But isn't that the approach to just about any modern development process?

In just about any team I've been in we've all had a good understanding of the architecture and issues/approaches that other developers are working on both formally and informally.
Hi @howolduis!

It isn't. Curious what made you think so!

We are just a tiny team of product enthusiasts. Please feel free to share your concerns here and we will be happy to address it.
When this issue was closed 27 days ago a new one was opened: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/150...

I am not the OP for either GitHub issue nor have I responded yet; I just found these when doing a little digging after our legal department responded that they were hesitant to approve using WebView 2 in our products. Later a may join the new thread to provide that data point.
It's good to know. Unfortunately, in Uruguay we're not part of the 28 countries where Brother has recycling in place [1]. And I don't think we get any real alternative except for rogue refilling of the cartridges, or just recycle it as regular plastic waste.

Still, I consider having recycling in 28 countries to be pretty good.

[1] https://global.brother/en/eco/product/recycling
REST is a software architectural style and SOAP is a protocol.

Lots of people argue over whether or not their API is RESTful.

Use of HTTP verbs is only one method of metadata intent of an operation ; but it often gets watered down to this.
You observe that the political class benefits disproportionately from their political power. Next you conclude the solution is to grant them more power via regulation.
A programmer is a living breathing human, a legal entity that can hold copyright and is capable of violating copyright.

An AI cannot hold copyright however and isn't capable of violating copyright (legal entities are, which an AI is not).
Why is it obvious that 3:30 PM bad as the middle of the night is bad?

I'm all for a universal world-wide time. then we'd just have to learn what time is middle of the night for what location, but we have digital aids for that. It solves all timezone bs.

My guess is is that we whine for about a month and then it becomes normal for ie. 14:00 to be middle of the night depending on you location.
This would eliminate any ambiguity, ZFS would simply be GPL now.
Seems to me you're also solving a 4th key problem : what to do with renewable electricity when it's being produced but there is no demand at that moment.
Sounds like you’re describing theft and harassment.
we are building out of clay, stone and wood for a long time. we are only using concrete because it's cheap and convenient.

still not convinced of hydrogen for steel rebar production also.
From homepage of apple.com:

"iPad Pro: Supercharged by the Apple M1 chip."
After reading this, I think I've actually changed my mind a bit - not that I ever had a super strong opinion. But now I'm thinking that yes - we absolutely want the military occasionally doing things like going out and designing their own toilet seat.

The military is kind of an odd organization. As the world in general increasingly specializes, the military doesn't. Not really. At the end of the day the military is there to "interface" with the rest of the world - and that's basically been how it was and how it's going to continue to be. Them having knowledge of how things - even toilet seats - are manufactured could be legitimately useful in their military function. It's essentially letting them get a first-hand view on how the world - particularly in terms of manufacturing - works. What steps, technology, infrastructure, etc etc are required to build things?

Ideally of course they would, and still should, get subject matter experts in to advise them for strategy and planning and all that. But it's somewhat naive to suggest this is likely to work perfectly all the time. It rarely does, because humans are going to human. If they can get some hands on experience it gives them some trusted internal people who can better communicate with the subject matter experts and ultimately reach better conclusions.
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Automotive ECUs use cyclic communication and are event driven. ECUs send their signals over CAN at a defined message rate, regardless of whether the state has changed. Other ECUs set up their hardware to monitor the signals they care about, and trigger a hardware interrupt when the signal is received.
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This is a hundred year old technology showing you don't always need the latest and greatest to electrify transportation. We certainly have had all the technology to reduce most CO2 emissions for quite a while, and the economic framework is simple and well known - using a combination like cap & trade, rationing for poor households and Carbon taxes, incentives can be created.

Climate change is more of a political problem than anything else.
Both GCC and Clang have -Wparentheses, enabled with -Wall, which will warn on constructs like `if(x=0)`. MSVC also has a warning for this.
I'd estimate about half of all programming is throwing up barriers to writing buggy code.

There's a constant tension between building fast and right (or should be if you're not fucking up).
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I am really turned off by articles or speeches (ted) that start with some trick of perception or language to build trust. Yes, our eyes process information in strange ways. Yes, our brains sometimes make assumptions about complex scenes. Showing me an example unrelated to your work doesnt make me trust you. In fact i distrust people who attempt such trickery. If are dedicated to this as a persuasive technique, at least come up with one that i havent seen before. Dont just yank one from wikipedia.

(I never want to see that video of the bear and the basketballs ever again.)