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"Want" or "is good" are two different things. We're living in a culture where a lot of people clearly love believing all sorts of untruths, and don't care much for the real truth. Is that good? I think not.

Of course movies are for the most part relatively harmless entertainment, but they too do shape expectations. I've heard of Juries rejecting reasonable evidence because crime shows have taught them to expect iron clad proof.
> No-code is still in it's very early days

This is simply not true. WYSIWYG is no code and has been around since long before people had catchy names for it. Dreamweaver and FrontPage were early examples of it, the benefit they provided was they attempted to let you design by a GUI first, then they'd let you peak the code underneath. Usually, no-code or low-code these days does not come with the source, which makes it especially useless to anyone who wants to do anything meaningful with it.
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Along the lines of AnIdiotOnTheNet's points, I'm surprised simple curiosity never led to browsing the bitwise operators - they're core features of every programming language (the languages themselves, not the standard libraries).

Bitwise Or is used all the time for flags in higher level languages (e.g. regex flags in python). And dealing with any kind of efficient binary file format or network protocol usually requires their use.

Guess these are things you could never encounter at a job, but it does worry me - modern software performance on our supercomputer phones and desktops is often atrocious, and needlessly so. Using compact binary representations has a lot of benefits - lets you do a lot more work in a single cache line (fetching from RAM is 100x slower), saves storage space (when you're dealing with a million or a billion of something) and is often easier to understand and maintain, surprisingly, than an over-abstracted class hierarchy that does everything it can to bury and hide the data your program works with.
So... I wish I could share how my company/team-within has been approaching federal procurement tech challenges. We've built automation from a design-first perspective, to combine what generation tools like Create React App, Ruby On Rails, .NET Entity, JHipster, openapi, etc all do. But with further abstraction through templating and initial app overhead buildout.

We'd have an mvp reddit in a day, scalable as needed (right now on K8s in any cloud).

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Or literally sterilize them.
Prices are meaningless on their own. What actually matters to most buyers is availability of financing and total monthly housing expense as a percentage of income.
I am not sure what you call "revolutionary" UI ideas, perhaps more in-depth changes, but as far as surface is concerned, they have already abolished a lot visual cues, by flattening almost everything and turning icons into B&W :-(
I hadn't come across that Omnia router before - it looks great! Bit of a shame it doesn't support 802.11ax, and it is more expensive than I'd like, but still...
We do want this to be a global company. Obviously, we have to start somewhere, so the U.S., where we are, is a logical first step, but we already have content from outside of our region, and hope to expand that greatly in the months and years to come!

And yes, our site needs a lot of work in terms of the meta data. We're working on getting that filled in across the site as much as possible. Hopefully, the free episodes we made available have their descriptions in place!
Thank you for this tip. If I use a sub-domain for the blog mailer will that dodge the issue? Or do i need to get a whole new domain for the blog mailer?

We really need to fix email, it shouldn't be this hard -_-
That's a claim by Apple. Due to the opaque process this is completely unverifiable.

As well this statement relies on the fact that no malicious actor out there is trying to thwart the system. The hashes used are deliberately chosen to easily produce collisions otherwise the system won't work. This almost certainly will be abused.
> The technical overhead some people introduce into their lives just to avoid pressing a button to turn of the light is mindblowing to me.

I use a "smart" socket to switch off most electronic devices in my home for the night (and I tend to hide cables so it's not easy to do manually). And because it's automatic I don't have to remember switching it off and then on in the morning.
Slavery crushed a lot of them into a cultural group with a shared history no matter where their ancestors originally came from or their cultural backgrounds.

There are of course those who immigrated later.
It's not "IS not important"... it's "SHOULDN'T be important".

Bigotry, hatred, and violence, whether explicit or less obvious (voting rights, bias in many services etc) is the problem that some us unfortunately continue and the rest of us want to end.
Interestingly, Quillette published an article last week, suggesting that the concerns about the insect crisis are overblown:

https://quillette.com/2021/07/25/the-insect-apocalypse-that-...

They cite many decent sources that seem to corroborate this, though none as respectable as Nature.

What's interesting about the Nature news article is that it very carefully avoids making any definite claims of what is going to happen if things stay the same. The author points out that pollinators are important to the ecosystem (true, of course) and that they're "under threat", which seems intended to imply that the stability of the ecosystem itself is under threat. But no explicit claims about the impact of on the ecosystem at large are actually made in the article.

As a layman, I'm not sure what to make of this. At this stage, it seems like these studies are mostly of interest to researchers, and there is no real need for the general public to worry about "A World Without Bees", yet that's probably going to be the popular interpretation anyway.
The gall to refer to this as “features”
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I never learned about marriage in school, I learned about it from my parents since it is a global social norm.
I would teach them about false equivalence in school however.

Anyway the issue isn’t with kids learning about LGBT, it’s HOW they learn about it. I wouldn’t promote nightclubbing or pickup artistry to my kids. I do also have issues with how aspects of mainstream ‘straight culture’ are pushed to kids as well.

For example, drag is an inherently adult form of entertainment now being pushed to kids. Grown men throwing money at drag kids makes my stomach turn. Two moms or dads taking their kid to play in the park does not.
I would actually like someone knowledgable to chime in if possible: what is the actual risk here on a standard 110 switch? I’ve changed a bunch of switches (and even zapped myself a bit) without ever having the slightest of issues.
It depends on where parent is from. There are a lot of relatively monolithic countries from an ethnic perspective.

To the broader point, I think what Uzo is talking about is "representation."

Which doesn't just mean "some type of person on the screen." It means the full diversity of experiences and aspirations of that type of person... on the screen.

Living Single isn't Friends with African Americans.

It's African Americans put in the situation of Friends, and then living their own similar-but-unique story in that situation, informed by cultural differences. (IMHO, it's also a helluva lot better of a show)

The 90s had a lot of shows about middle class, successful African American families.

That kind of... stopped. Once TV got homogenized and distributors realized that African American viewers would watch shows about white people, but white people weren't as happy watching shows about African Americans.

And the lack of aspirational and affirmational media that speaks to every person is absolutely a problem.
> the positions we have that more traditionally handle a more complete design.. are they being overpaid in our org?

Probably, depending on the size of the org. There are lots of places for semi technical people who sort of know what they’re doing, but don’t really provide value, to hang out in a large and growing enterprise sales org. They can collect what I believe are reasonable salaries and just route between the engineers on the customer side who actually know what they want, and engineers on the provider side who can actually provide it.

Any giant coupling between an application and platform ends up looking like this, I.e. pick your favorite Fortune 500 company and their cloud provider, security engagements, hardware vendors etc.

> I don't think i'm being _underpaid_ for my architect + dev hat, but i do wonder if someone else is also being paid for architect but i'm cleaning up for them lol.

Yep. I made a joke recently that in companies that have a formalized promotion process, if you apply for promotion and are denied, one of the consolation prizes should be that you get to apply for someone else to be demoted. I jest, but sometimes it feels like that would be just as helpful and fulfilling.
> It seems strange to me that software engineers are so frequently singled out for schedule slippage

It follows this trend I've seen across the board in business throughout my career, of mistaking the last hair on the last yak for the entire job. The classic example is documentation. "Hey the electrical drawings are due on Thursday the Aprilteenth, can you have them ready by then?" Oh sure, that's two months away, that's plenty of time to bang out some drawings, right? But wait! The drawings depend on the functional specification. And the functional specification depends on the functional description. And the functional description is blocked on some TQs from the client. And you're still expected to produce these drawings by Thursday Aprilteenth when realistically you're not going to see even a first draft of the functional specification until the Wtf'th of August. But now it's your fault that the drawings are late because you weren't paying attention and you agreed to a due date that didn't depend on your dependencies.

I take this one particularly personally because I'm in industrial automation and, almost by definition, we get the last bite of the pie on every single project. Sure, there are some things we can start early but on the project-specific parts, generally we're waiting for everyone else to do their job before we get priority.

"Can you help us with the motion control software for AwesomeBot?"

Sure, no worries!

"Just remember we need AwesomeBot running by Thursday."

Hey cool, you present me with an AwesomeBot-shaped shell and I'll fill it with closed-loop-ey goodness.

"It's Friday, why isn't AwesomeBot doing somersaults like you told us it would?"

Uh well, AwesomeBot is lying disassembled on the mechanical workbench and half the laser cut sheet metal hasn't arrived.

"But you told us Thursday! Okay, we'll finish putting AwesomeBot together and let you know when it's done."

<fast forward 17 months>

"Hi remember us? We're AwesomeBot inc."

Oh hey how's it going with that?

"We've got AwesomeBot fully assembled and we're ready to go! Can you come down tomorrow and install the software on it so it does everything we ever dreamed of including anything we might have imagined it might do in the 17 months since we last saw you?"

Uhhhh... so how's testing going, have you switched it on yet?

"No, why would we do that? We were only waiting for you!"
Human consumption of soybeans requires less farmland than human consumption of beef, because humans can eat the plants the cows would've needed to eat.

So less rainforest needs to be felled for the same amount of nutrition.

Arguing what the land should be used for is the point. Some uses are more destructive than others.

"If we didn't put gasoline in our vehicles, we'd just put something else in them, so arguing over what to put in our vehicles for fuel is besides the point."
I think that the pollution aspect needs to be considered: deceptively packaged products produce more disposable waste than products that are not deceptively packaged. Unfortunately, nobody that creates consumer products has to worry about the cost to the environment of discarding those products. That should change.
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ah, daily mail...
Yes, display lottery is still true.
I appreciate these, but in my experience it's not that relevant. The harder problems in programming are more of knowing your ecosystem. Knowing the design patterns necessary to create well meaning, understandable code in the first place. This is especially cumbersome when working on projects with complex data patterns.

For example, working with GUI applications and C/+ can make your code a big pile of garbage really quickly because representing your data in something like an ORM is not standard, you can't do the many tricks like getters/setters in C/+, but you can in Python, or C#, etc. The benefits of VM languages are, in my opinion, not appreciated enough.

In my opinion knowing the right tools for the job is far more important than how you comment your code, how you name your variables, or anything else. I wish there were more posts where people impliment an application with multiple tool sets and compare them, give insight into what some things are good for and not. "Tool Benchmarking" might be a good term for it.
This just makes me sad. We seem to be returning to a segregated society with separate services for every ethnic group. It’s not the “melting pot” idea of America that I was raised with, where everyone contributes their own unique culture to a unified American whole. That was the brilliance of American identity, which is now fracturing at an accelerated rate.
We still have many programmers whose entire programming work is customizing WordPress/Drupal themes so I don't doubt it.
Hersey’s is the lowest tier chocolate one could buy beside some off brand imitation or store branded.

Godiva (Belgian but owned by a Turkish company) is usually what I see people buy for gifts. It looks like they closed all the US stores this year.

Aldi and Trader Joe’s sell great European chocolate. I know the house brands are relabeled but I’m sure they sell other European brands.
Why do you need internet connectivity for any of that?

My sprinkler system has a sponge hooked up to the roof. If the sensor detects the sponge has too much moisture it doesn't turn the sprinklers on, because that means the soil is still saturated from recent rain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_culture
The screenshots on the “Free episode” page give me the immediate impression the shows are low budget productions. It’s a combination of the locations/backgrounds, lighting, and the randomness of some of the frames…the out of focus hand in the first image.

For marketing, it might help to color grade the stills on the page similarly. The natural balance of the first still makes the green and magenta casts in others more obvious.

Good luck.
Well that's a relief!

Maybe I've just spent too long in the city!
Best of luck with your endeavour!
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Tried the demo and got stuck at the Stripe payment step and hit the error "Provided API Key is wrong".

That said, this is a desperately needed product for small teams. Was considering building something like this as a SaaS for the last couple years. A small team I was apart of spent multiple sprints mulling over onboarding tweaks for our users involving all these components.

If it's not already a feature or being worked on, please consider making template Q&A flows that can plop users in a bucket. It's often asked for right before or after signup and is a relatively big lift to keep building over and over.

Looks great and good luck!
This is a good idea; I had the same one, it seems like an underserved market. I too miss the era of '80s and '90s black American sitcoms.

I think some recognizable shows will be needed for this to take off though. "Original Content" is a hard sell; that's why Netflix started with a AAA show like "House of Cards" to establish credibility. It's only after that they started diluting the Netflix Originals brand by buying up every half baked show out there.

Here are some I thought of:

- Roc (rare sitcom where laugh track comedy is mixed with heavy drama)

- Everybody Hates Chris

- Martin

- Girlfriends (CW)

- My Wife & Kids
A story involving Black people centered on Black culture and/or Black experiences, the same way Moone Boy is an "Irish" story.
> The obvious conclusion is Apple will start to scan photos kept on device, even where iCloud is not used.

Why is this the obvious conclusion?
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> I am at a complete loss why this should not be smart enough. The technical overhead some people introduce into their lives just to avoid pressing a button to turn of the light is mindblowing to me.

My leg is currently broken and I'm on crutches. At this point I'm really glad that I installed voice-controlled lighting in my house. Good reminder that things that seem trivial are very much not to people with disabilities.
I think it's only a matter of time before this sort of thing finds it's way to Android phones, but I think there's a very clear line between scanning material that I'm uploading to a company vs. scanning material that is on a device that I ostensibly own.
It's not a "cultural divide", it's a "representation divide", and it goes way beyond ethnicity and it's also way beyond the US.

Many institutions in the Western sphere either don't match the demographic/ethnic composition of the target market any more or never have. Parliaments, cabinets, newsdesks, movies, highest level management in big companies, even access to voting - all of this has been dominated by white, straight and often old men, with women, non-White people and LGBT not being represented at all.

Over time, many of the discriminatory policies fell - but the reality was, until maybe a decade ago, representation still lacked - and now, change is coming in ever faster and faster. You now have female-centered superhero movies, Black superhero movies, transgender people in parliaments, a Black US President... and the speed of that change was for many conservatives simply too high, so they framed the quest for equal representation across all parts of society as a "culture war" instead.
>but it seems to be a thing of the past in many areas.

Varies greatly by income (which is why HN thinks it's extinct).
That's true for all OS'es (except iOS & android), if you have the executable you can run it. Installing usually just consists of placing the executable on a specific path and creating some directories to hold data/config/logs. You also often need to consider the dependencies of the application (unless it's statically compiled), so it's a lot easier to use your distros package manager.
What constitutes as the “black experience”? Are you speaking in terms of the modern day experience of black people? This is a genuine question, and I would really appreciate to hear a response from one who is black. Also, is “black” a culture? No really, aren’t there different cultures that make up the black population, just as there are for whites? Or is there also “white culture”? Or “brown culture”? These seem like dangerous over-generalizations that lack the nuance they deserve.
Lucky for you #6 is "Have a wide variety of tools and know which ones to use for the job." :)
This may have had the opposite effect on me. I am no longer worried about being replaced by “no code” Bubble apps now.
I'm often thinking the same, and am only aware of a single popular library doing that: rnnoise [0]

This library combines "classic" digital signal processing with a smaller RNN. As a result, it's smaller, faster and probably also has less uncanny edge cases than approaches that use an RNN for the complete processing chain. I think many use cases could benefit from this approach.

[0] https://jmvalin.ca/demo/rnnoise/
What replacement terms would you recommend?
His LinkedIn profile photo would indicate he's not exactly early-20s.
"modern Auth" means OAUTH, so, you aren't giving passwords to the email application.

If you have IMAP on GMail you get two choices, you can admit you're sacrificing security, and they'll mint a random password just for that IMAP application, or you can use OAUTHBEARER. As I understand it if enabled IMAP for Office365 can do OAUTHBEARER.

The nice thing about OAUTH is that it's a natural integration for your multi-factor authentication, which as I understand it doesn't fit well into Kerberos. But to be sure Kerberos is much better than yet another human memorable secret password exchange.
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> Once you've been around in this software business for long enough you see the same articles written over and over again

My favourite is watching successive generations discover thin client vs. fat client over and over again.
- Never be afraid to refactor code

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1. What's the most populous arcology that's currently inhabited?

2. Do the seasteading people and the arcology people have much overlap?

3. Are arcologies aimed at making affordable housing or no?

4. Is anyone working on incrementally built arcologies, or is that just a city?

5. There is basically no discussion of agriculture in the article; is anyone working how arcologies integrate/improve the food system?

Thanks for offering your expertise!
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I guess I'm just extremely dense.

I see Apple implement a trivial (laughably trivial) system -- a tiny little pimple on a massive platform of hardware and software -- and I don't think "this is it! This is what puts the surveillance state over the top!", I think "Hey look, trivial, constrained system".

But if you believe that this was what was between a surveillance state or not...well you must be much more intellectually capable than I and I am honored to be in your presence.

It is the very definition of a slippery slope. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but usually you're just walking to the bathroom.
Alternatively, if you don’t use iMessage or iCloud then I don’t think these changes affect you.
Writing about what I learn

You think you understand something until you go to write about it for others. Nothing structures knowledge in your own mind like writing about it. Nothing fills in gaps in your knowledge than being forced to write about it. Writing helps actively think through problems, helps you explain to others technical concepts. It also helps us structure programs to be readable with a writers eye. Writing helps you build empathy for others that don’t share your knowledge by forcing you into their shoes.
That they're boring? (But then, that's true of white people who enjoy those channels too)