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Maybe getting rid of all the e-waste generated by having a proprietary standard that is not used anywhere outside the apple ecosystem? I think that's quite a compelling reason.
> My 92-year old house with single layer brick walls says otherwise. (

Not structural by current building standards. No doubt it is carrying a load today, bit you can't build a house that way anymore.
The kind that is more crypto currency than crypto punk, per their bio.
My first tech job was similar. ~15 person “IT company”. When I joined I was hired as a webmaster/developer to manage their own corporate website, and their main income was doing Citrix installations and outfitting SMEs with computers and networking hardware.

The CEO and 2 others were old high school mates, funding seemed unlimited, we had “company cars” we could take anytime we wanted for errands or lunch or whatever, all were pretty expensive performance cars. Company lunches every day at local restaurants etc (I generally just ate in the office because they all weirded me out). Any hardware/software/whatever you needed was on your desk the next day.

In the 2 years I worked there, the company pivoted maybe 8 times. I’d come to work and suddenly my role was to develop custom e-commerce sites, a few months later I’d be doing graphic design for hardcore porn (DVDs/etc) distributors, a few months later I’d be helping develop hardware prototypes for shopping mall displays, etc etc.

It paid very well (for a first tech role), but the whole thing constantly felt “wrong”, I kept expecting the feds to kick the doors in one day. Just bad vibes all round. I ended up getting a way better job through a workmate there and when I checked on their website a year later it was squatted and domain for sale.
The construction industry is full of these "convenience" tools. If you had a working human-sized robot that could just lay some bricks, pretty sure everyone would use it, even if it didn't do the angles or whatever.

The problem must be somewhere else: setup time is too long, too many constrains or whatever. It's not that the edge cases are not handled, it's that the main case is not handled well...
Many companies in the EU actually blanket ban any storage of their sensitive information in the cloud, especially the Atlassian cloud after the Australian espionage law change.
My sysadm colleagues and I have been doing "GitOps" for the last ten years. Puppet, chef, ansible, terraform et al. are not really valuable without version control and some form of deployment pipeline. I am close to getting the same allergic responses to BuzzOps words that Cayce Pollard has to corporate logos.
Starting for partners is $300k at a big four but that does not include equity grants or profit sharing. It also rapidly climbs from $300k, especially if you can make it past the first 3 years. A senior partner with 10+ years as a partner can pull down $20M+ a year easily and would be a candidate for C-suite jobs basically anywhere if they decided to leave.

But making it into the partnership is more about playing politics than being good, so it’s definitely not for everyone.
You interview them as well. You give me dumb, unrelated coding questions - you are out.
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I totally agree, but I think today’s systems have more incidental than essential complexity.

The sentiment behind that list is okay but it does demonstrate a lot of ignorance The biggest joke is simple tables or file systems as a SQL alternative. If you do that for anything that needs more than just a map you will eventually end up with a badly implemented buggy slow relational database.
You continued to work for 3 months without getting paid?
Consider Jevon's Paradox. Yes, we're more efficient at turning materials into products, but that just means we do it more, and the net consumption goes up. Did you replace your camera, encyclopedia, game console etc every few years, 30 years ago? Do you think we're mining less?
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Exactly, you should not use Gmail then.
But that's off-topic.
Tell me you’ve never interacted with a white collar union worker without telling me you’ve never interacted with a white collar union worker…

None of this happens at any of the recently unionized journalists I know or the long-unionized film industry members.
I remember one dev kept talking about simplicity, even made a session about it and then just lumped business logic, data access and transfer layer mapping into a single API file...
This reads like a sales pitch. And the idea of letting a sales team sort and organize leads is impractical.

I absolutely agree with the premise - but some of the anecdotes are laughable.
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> let's not pretend

I pretend nothing, I just didn't knew it since I had an iPhone for years.
this makes sense because operations and development have different priorities which are sort of opposite of each other.

changes increase instability and unpredicatability in environments. and the people keeping them running 24/7 are usually the ones getting paged when shit hits the fan.

Long-term maintanability is especially hard, and the lower you get in the OSI model, the more painstakingly it becomes to replace things without major impact.
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I was just pondering.. one could add tokens to the links and dramatically reduce the number of ads and other cruft for RSS subscribers. Like say, do we even need a navigation menu? We look at every headline and are very likely to continue to visit if something interesting pops up. We are also much more forgiving if a bullshit article comes along. Its much better to have subscribers than visitors out of google. (The ratio depends on the content)

Personally I don't even parse the <content>, I just have headlines sorted by <pubDate> that open the pages in the browser.
Of course, my comment was related to the app of the post Groups specifically

Which used to offer both social sign-up (FB and Google) and a traditional email sign-up option

You probably don't know that in this case, Groups was also forced to include AppleID or risk being removed from the App Store

Removing all social logins from this point to ensure compliance would have definitely affected all users who had originally signed in with FB/Google, way before AppleID ever existed
In short: yes.

The recent fire in a French DC saw serious disruption across all kinds of industries in many European countries. I know a sales engineer in a hardware manufacturing place, who was back to pen and paper until the IT provider figured out restores. But it wasn't that bad, as both the clients and competitors were decimated too.
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Depends if they care about commercial or non-commercial stuff. Banning commercial use of software is fairly easy (tell the gatekeepers to disallow it, or at the very least to let the police find who did it); banning non-commercial isn’t strictly impossible, but I recon to be effective it would need governments to treat international internet connections like any other international border, and they are not prepared for the side-effects of doing that.

Most people don’t grok computers, so a commercial ban would probably cover most people, yet Bush-bin-Laden photoshop I saw back in the early noughties would still get made and shared.
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I don't see how that's relevant; my comment was about the OP's assertion that completed TODOs disappear from view. In Roam, when toggling an item from TODO->DONE, the "DONE" items persist in the UI wherever you created them. (No extra decisions involved.)
Digitally is/has become synonymous with "on a computer" or "algorithmically" because we do not have any non-digital computers to which we refer to as computers.
Mine's on fine form. I've ignored this virus; no mask, no vaccine - no problem. This whole episode seems to me to be financial incentives and vocal minorities.
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> We are denied customer interaction

And that is why I am still an Apple customer. Or, 'prisoner', by author's words.
Technically, this is the same rabbit hole that leads to DRM and device intent superceding user intent.

Because that's the only way to be sure.

It's unfortunate that it also allows havoc and burdens good services. But device-over-user is not a future I want to live in.
Pretty sure causing widespread damage was illegal then, just as it is now.

It's not illegal to throw a rock. It is illegal to throw a rock and break a window. Why should the same not apply for emissions?
I am completely pessimistic that any substantive learning will come from this entire mess. It's already political; any results will either be massively and inappropriately influenced by politics, and/or valid results will just be scoffed at by one side or the other, depending on the result.

I have no faith in major world powers to not use this as a continued power grab and cynical boost to their voting base.
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> > The immune system is 'not a muscle.'

> TL;DR: Eating dirt won't work out your immune system because it doesn't work like that

This isn't a good analogy at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
It's pretty common for any flight over 4 hours to be business class required. I'm driving millions of dollars per revenue...being tired for the first 2 days of a 3 day trip to London simply isn't efficient.
Yes... particularly when you cache the assets.

Also, Data URLs aren't supported evenly across browsers.

It's like people are slowly unlearning how the web is supposed to work.
There are sizeable non-human animal reservoirs for many viruses, including other coronaviruses (which are one cause of many for the "common cold") and influenza.

The viruses can survive just fine without us.
I’d love to see any statistics to support that claim. Anecdotally I disagree with that risk assessment but I don’t have any hard data on the risk(s) associated with social isolation.
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So just delete the exif data, and we're back to square one.
Doable with cwm (window manager with being everything manageable with a keyboard), st (pick any terminal here), tmux (better than spawning lots of terminals) and vimb (keybindings based web browser, but you can use the mouse if you want too) under BSD/Linux.

It helps against RSI.
I’ve meant a proper government, not a dysfunctional one.
No, don’t lick more door knobs. In the rural environments you have more germs but not everything there is out to infect humans. A good fraction of the crap in door knobs is here to kill you.

The correct advice is to grow up in a farm or a wooded area. Eat everything as soon as you can. Visit Africa as a child and get a worm or two in you.
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Agreed, it screams two things to me. First that the company is supremely interested in collecting my personal information beyond what I would normally expect to provide. Second that they’re just too lazy to implement their own user system.

Neither is a good thing
> soon we won't be pushing the planet's limits any longer

What constitutes as 'pushing limits' depends on the kind of planet that is considered tolerable. For many conservation-minded people, pushing the limits happened well before 7 billion.

A population shrinking to a quarter of it's size is only considered undesirable to some because the economy doesn't factor in the externalities of having a large population - e.g., climate change, reduced access to nature, increased stress, polluted environment, species loss, food chain collapse. The solution is to no longer permit these to be externalities, and I don't see that happening without government intervention on a global scale.

As for anyone concerned about an ageing population, within the next few decades human labor shortages will be solved with automation - to the point that there will be a shrinking job market. As for caring for the elderly, they will have access to new mobility technology, and life extension - at first expensive, but then trickling down to poorer people before 2 generations.
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> mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=80:h=60 /dev/urandom

Change that to w=720 h=576 (for pal countries) and you can relive the glory days of analog TV static. Except not - mey memory seems to tell me it's more colourful. I guess it's to do with the limited chroma resolution in pal?
This makes pages far more complex than just linking to the assets.
Man, I am in full agreement with you on every single point. The pure animosity between Dev & Ops was really a negative self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating trope that did a great deal of harm, both emotionally and professionally.

One thing that really helped my teammates and friends was asking them to do code reviews of my work, and them realizing "hey, if I understand this, I can fix it, if I can fix it, I can write it!"

Another was Ruby. Sure, Ruby sucks, but it's easy, almost anything you did just worked. This was why Puppet was written in Ruby (Luke spent months trying to do it in Python, then when he tried Ruby he had a working prototype in 2 or 3 days). Ruby was a great transition language.
"Most" is a very strong word to use in this situation. How do you back that up? Demographic data? Psychological profiles of those demographics? Or just because you want it to be true?
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I would suggest that the increased throughput comes from the technological advance. We're getting ever more efficient at converting energy and raw materials into stuff we want. That means it's cheaper. That means we do it more.

And yeah, "the economy" includes services as well as goods. But services are performed by humans, and humans need to eat and live in houses and wear clothes etc.
Why not have multiple providers?

Why would the airport want to deal with a dozen small providers, a third of which will no doubt drop out on any given year? Far easier to hand it off to one provider, let them deal with everything, and focus their energy on more important parts of their business.

Also in many places one company will own or operate several airports. I'd assume having the same company provide restaurant services across all their airports just makes life easier.
Of course if there is another, unlimited way of getting the data, then it's perfectly fine to "redirect" people to another avenue.

What this conversation is about (since we're talking about web scrapers here, not "data downloaders" or whatever you would call it) is when there is no other avenue to get the data, you should be able to access the same data via a machine as you could when you're a person.
Robotic masonry is the "faster horses" version of cars. It's everything humans do easily but is nearly impossible for machines
I agree. If you use an email address as a fraud signal, you need to seriously reevaluate your decisions. I've met a site that blocked my Gmail address as "spam" once, but another Gmail address works just fine.

In my case it was just a nickname, but using an email as fraud signal also feeds into racism. People who don't have an average white American-looking name will suddenly be flagged for fraud.
If you proposed an idea conflicting with a good part of the audience here you could probably get some fruitful discussion, because this place attracted enough "good" participants.

If you did that in a more noisy place like YT, a fader downvoting would just "remove the heretic". If your population is large enough, heresy is the place to find the "right" point, the "expensive, not cheap" idea (in some areas) (hence my previous statement "1 classroom, 1 teacher, 30 pupils").

Also:

In noisy places - take Reddit -, downvoting has a sinister side of "feel free to express how that makes you feel" - an invitation to devaluate prefrontal work. So: downvoting is a big problem, before becoming a solution.
In order for the CIA to continue its legendary fight against transphobia, it is important for them to use these technologies to gather OSINT on regions that house millions of backwards non-progressives and all of their content.

I can't believe HN is such a hotbed for transphobics like this to make comments without moderation or punishment.
> You don't want to type `string` or `int`. It really is as simple as that.

I prefer to write "string" or "int", but it can be borderline impossible to write the type of a complex query, the kind of thing returned by LINQ or the like.

What's the type of a class or struct that has fifty non-optional (not null) fields of various types? Easy! It's just the name of the class or struct.

What's the name of the same class after applying the "select" or "project" operator, with one of the fifty or so fields removed? Umm...

Okay, next: How about the name of the type that is a projection that removes one arbitrary column based on a dynamic, runtime input? Can your static language express this at all?

This is the most basic query operation possible, affecting one column or field, and your fancy static typing has fallen flat on its face.

This is not about typing speed. It's about solving trivial problems with fit-for-purpose tools instead of fighting the compiler.

This is why SQL is still a thing, and why a lot of people massage data with Python or R instead of C++.
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I'm sure a qualified actuary will be able to take this data along with models of expected outcomes and give you (well not you, but an insurance company) a fairly good idea of the consequences in terms of lives lost over the next 5 years or so.
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The reason "privacy" is in quotes is that some of us have started seeing through what Apple really means every time they use the word. As the EU's Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager has recently said regarding their Apple probe, privacy can't be an excuse to stifle competition.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/02/eu-antitrust-head...

All was well because nobody was forcing me (the developer) to include anything I didn't want. Users could still use traditional email signup. You are free to choose whom you trust. If your choice is Apple, well, that is your choice
And it makes me think : what happens to the "proxy emails" affected to your application when Apple decides to ban your app from the App Store ? Are your users still reachable ? Is there any information on this ?

Given an alternative storyline where Epic Games allowed users to create account with relayed apple mails, wouldn't all those accounts suddenly became unusable today ?
On the contrary. Starting from the release of the original iPhone SDK in 2008, developers gained more capabilities and app entitlements than they lost.
Laying the bricks is only a tiny proportion of building a brick house.

A good brick layer can do all the work in a few days.
"For a family whose household income is exceeded by one-third of the population", in other words "rich". Yes, it's only 30% household income in extra spending! And perhaps with a lot of effort it can be lowered to 10-15% extra spending. This is a lot, especially when you don't have such an enormous amount of leeway in money that you can just move somewhere else.
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what about other fields of operation? Operational folk have been using automation since atleast the 70's...

Routing is completely automated for instance, and has been for over 35 years.
I'm over-simplifying "fraud signal" here, but it's a component of one of our payment provider's signal, mostly around "friendly fraud" where people might just have lots of overdue payments or not be responding to payment requests. It's less about signal about addresses and more about the same address being re-used on multiple stores.

Edit: being super clear...

The payment method is a pay-later service, it's literally a loan. The email is used to look up to see if the person has paid their loan balances off late before and other factors like that. "Fraud" was probably the wrong term to use here.
Probably all over the world. I started out working a summer for a slighlt sketchy company in Iceland, ran by a friend of my dad's. They made websites for small businesses. They did have a decent core business but looking back, the senior people I looked up to at the time had no idea what they were doing. They also bid on a bunch of big government projects, knowing they had no chance of fulfilling the job and their plan was simply to "hire some people"... wages were paid out at rand intervals since they had no reserve cash and seemed to be on the wedge of bankruptcy the entire time I was there, although I did get my pay in the end.

It was, however, an incredibly educational experience.
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>In a dynamic language you end up writing a number of tests that would be covered by a static type system

Not once have I done this. I've written plenty of invariants that would have been covered by a static type system but no tests.

As far as I'm concerned if you had to write an extra test to "cover for a dynamic type system" that test is a bad smell that should be deleted. A test validates that a method raises an exception when being fed a null is pointless if it's just testing a one line assertion that does the same thing. It's a waste of keystrokes. It doesnt catch bugs.

There may be some exceptions to this rule but they would be under very obscure circumstances, I think.
Ya flue shots are almost a waste of time. A good diet, regular cardiovascular exercise and adequate sleep are 1000x more effective at keeping us healthy.. not to mention all the other positives that cone with that lifestyle. The healthy, natural one. Even looking at Covid, close to 80% of people at ICU's are obese. Spare me the shots, lets go running.
And I am trying to do so every day. This is not some small operation, where I can just go over to a different desk and talk about just doing it differently. I am talking about an organization with hundreds of thousands of employees. In this case Ops is literally a different legal entity. I have no say whatsoever over "them". If you want to change something, it's more about constantly begging and nagging. It is a very fine line, you risk to become difficult to work with. After all, sometimes you actually need "them" to do something for you. It also costs a lot of energy. At some point most people just stop trying and focus on more important things in life.