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> Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero.

No they didn't.

All human cultures I'm aware of have, at least, the concepts of none, one, two, three, and many. They all understand that none is exactly one less than one, and most of them (but not all!) understand that there's no natural limit to the counting numbers, and have a way of expressing some amount of those numbers.

But zero is a human invention. It comes from India (probably, might be China) and is probably related to the abacus: but the abacus came to the West without the zero, which followed it later.

Zero is both a symbol for null and a placeholder used for writing numbers modulus the radix. This is a conceptually powerful force multiplier, making all arithmetic operations dramatically easier.

It also lets us make up a "name" for any integer we want. We can just add more zeroes; when this gets awkward we can start counting the zeroes using exponential notation, and when that becomes inconvenient we can develop ↑ notation, which gets us further than we really need for any practical purpose.

It should be obvious that crows neither know about this nor care. It's interesting and cool that they understand none, but so did the Ancient Greeks, who had no idea about zero and could have gotten much further in mathematics if they did.
While the web is quite complex now, I think the expectation of 100% uptime for anything is unreasonable.

My local taco shop ran out of rice a few weeks ago. A few days ago they had some unspecified kitchen issue and had to close. They don't open on sundays.

Occasional downtime is normal. We can try to prevent it, as devs, working with machines, but it is inevitable. Nothing continues working forever. All industries have downtime, it needs to be accepted and planned for.

Even in the old days, with the simplest possible thing that needs a db connection, you could outscale that db, or bandwidth, or whatever, and crash. It was easier back then in a lot of ways - 1000 people visit your new site? Crash. Before auto scaling infra you had to either deal with it or pay for too much hardware. I'm sure there are many other examples.
> When the real problem is significantly harder. Social, governmental, institutional and systemic racism.

This post is a perfect example of Poe's law. I genuinely can not tell if it's satire, it is so extreme.

I'm not trying to demean the post or poster, but I think this is a good microcosm of current Western society, especially the US. Taking this post on face value, I genuinely don't know how to respond this this. It triggers the same feeling I get when someone tells me Jewish people secretly control the world.

It really seems like these conspiracy minded beliefs are getting major uptake on both the left and right, and that strikes me as extremely dangerous. I wonder how this sort of thinking correlates with excess screen time? It does seem like these ideas largely spread online.
What part of the constitution gives you the right to surveil the whole world?
I like the idea of Cue and I wanted to try using it to improve some of my system integration glue code - stuff that sucks in terse master config files and generates inputs for ansible and for various periodic ETL jobs.

But it seemed to me that Cue wanted to be in charge: I could see how to import an existing JSON or YAML file, converting it to Cue and committing it to the repo, but I could not work out how to load JSON or YAML as input data at run time.

I hope this is easier now, but when I tried it seemed to lack some basic command-line affordances that would make it usable in place of Python or jq.
Wait, that explains why my Chrome history (at work, which doesn't allow Firefox) keeps disappearing! What an anti-feature.
Who else googled and saw git gc/git fsck SO answer and tried it.
> If you all stop doing good work, it will fall apart quickly and you will all be poor.

I'm replying late, but wow, this is a gem of an argument.

Really? The economic incentives that create this lucrative field in the first place are all gonna collapse if devs realize they don't need to bust ass at their job anymore? It's amazing that you think the individual work ethic of engineers is the only thing holding the tech economy together.
> Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

I hate that companies are saying degraded performance for "its not working at all" (even if only for some people). That's not degraded performance, that's broken.

At least the status grid says Partial Outage, but stop with the degraded performance bullshit.
Yea, super weird name....
The language of the tsarist elite was french. They even didn't need to know russian, except for speaking to their servants
Bitcoin cannot go green, it's designed to be as wasteful as possible.

If I own a polluting coal plant mining coins and suddenly get my hands on an equivalent amount of green wind energy, why would I switch off the coal plant when I could keep polluting and generate double the hashes?

Any crypto using PoW should just be banned, any nuclear/renewable energy they used can be used to displace fossil fuels used by other processes.
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"Partial Outage". What a fancy way to say everything is broken to avoid SLA issues. (And reporting on git itself last). What a joke.
Vue 3 has definitely been a terrible launch for such a large framework. Many of the official supporting libraries are out of sync, the devtools don't work and require a manual beta install, and other projects like nuxt.js seem to be in a perpetual delay. It's unfortunate as Vue was known for having a strong lead and consistent releases but it's too much of a mess right now.
I’m having a hard time transitioning because idk what our management is doing. Have a good track record and done all the management training.

Starting my own company instead.
We should be increasing the retirement age for public pensions as quality-adjusted life years increase. Unfortunately people don’t want to spend extra years working, or contribute more to pensions during their working years, so we wind up in this unsustainable system.
It boggles the mind that you have to install an extension to get that simple basic feature that was present in all browsers before.

Also, for some reason, I setup a new machine today, with latest Win10 updates and the only section I have on that setting page is _New tab page_

The other two, _When Microsoft Edge starts_ and _Home button_ are not even there...

On the customize page you show, I don't even have a setting to turn off the bing search, quicklinks, etc.
Apple didn't build the first smartphone; they made it mass market because the technology (which Apple did not invent) had gotten to where bundling it into a smartphone would provide sufficient value to a consumer to be worth paying for. There were other mass market smartphones even then; what the iphone brought was UX (so kudos for Jobs for hiring Jony Ive) and an app store (so kudos for Jobs either for recognizing the benefit of allowing others to do the work to extend the iphone's software capabilities, or for hiring someone who did).
This must be a hoax. In US, you solve math problems. In Russia, math problems solve themselves!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia
It's not paranoia. Illegal parties and large gatherings are a huge problem with Airbnb's. Keep in mind - this article is from the guest perspective, we don't have the hosts perspective. But we have an author who admits to being busted for breaking the rules? Personally, yes, I'd "let it slide" and would not have even broughht it up with the guest. I agree it sounds petty on the host if the author is factual. But my comment is mainly to explain why I have exterior cameras - it's a sad reality that, to be a responsible host, and a good neighbor, I have to have them.
But if I travel for 45 years at 1-g doesn't the largest scale of the universe become significant to my travels?
I could see things like this messing up launch date/times occasionally, but what workplace falls apart if you can't push code to github for a few hours? Surely you can do other work while waiting for them to fix things.
Space manufacturing startup plans to build first off-world factory
Sure, and they can be proud of it and make all that money, but if you are in the market to ramp up a vaccination programme, you talk to Pfizer and not to Biontech. Almost like you'd go to Apple and not to FHG IIS for buying an iPod.

(I'm pretty sure that this comparison is a wild exaggeration of what actually happened and that Biontech representatives were very much involved in all the talks, but I assume more in an expert advisor role than as someone with actual influence on the outcome)
I agree with the majority of the other posters; internal is typically best.

In my experience, usually how this plays out is:

1. Establish yourself has a high performing SSE. You need to build this reputation both on your direct team and department, but ideally across the org broadly.

2. Make it known you wish to become a manager at some point in the future. Have conversations with your direct manager, but also consider having conversations with other managers and leaders in the organization broadly. Ask them how they made the transition and what advice they would have for you.

3. Try to take on as much manager-like responsibilities as you can. This could include:
a. Mentoring and helping onboard new employees
b. Informally overseeing the activities of some employees (interns or junior employees can be a great place to start)
c. Figure out if your organization offers some type of future manager training. Enroll in that.
d. Getting involved with interviewing.
e. Offer to take on special projects outside of your day to day work.

4. At some point when you have done the majority of steps 1-3, sit down with your manager and put together a written plan. Some companies will have great competency models or career frameworks that you can leverage, but many don't. If you fall into the later camp, check out online resources for companies that have published their engineering manager competencies. Use those to inform your plan and cite them in the document.

5. Get agreement from your manager on this plan and then execute.

6. Never stop working on your management skills. Being a people manager is a huge responsibility. Its deeply personal and you have a huge impact on the day to day welfare of your employees.

Edit: some engineering manager reference career frameworks
http://www.engineeringladders.com/EngineeringManager.html
Square: https://assets.ctfassets.net/1wryd5vd9xez/6bDnTwb4H7bfiFvg55...
Dropbox: https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/m3_engineerin...
Exactly.

Basically all GitHub services are currently degraded or down today.
> The threat is supposed to be that all the engineers will step away from their keyboards

The problem with threats is the company might call your bluff. You have to be prepared to actually walk away to have real leverage and Google pays well enough that most engineers would probably take reduced pay over walking away.

The reason strike tactics worked historically is that the work conditions were actually *that* bad and there was also the component of striking workers threatening scabs.
I did a search of the comments for "food" before writing this, and I don't think it was adequately covered.

I worked at Google 11 1/2 years, and I've been retired 4 years now. I still bemoan the convenience of being able to have whatever food I want for lunch or dinner, just by walking down to a cafe. Yeah, I buy it now, but I'll never have as much variety as Google did.

The food costs for Google per employee are not insignificant, and they go to zero if you work at home. Same for all the other famous benefits Google has.

I've also developed a theory about management, by the way: do you like it?

Middle managers are the cause of all corporate problems.
> and the No Man's Sky iOS app "Assistant for No Man's Sky" is just a ported Android app, complete with Android interface, which really grates against iOS IMO

Options:

- Build a Swift port that needs constant upkeep

- Ship the version that already works on phones
The [dupe] is funny
I don't see the relevance of this video. It refers to illegally installed cameras.

I specifically excluded the creepy owner or manager who spies on guests.
> This material is prosecuted under a "strict liability." It doesn't matter how you got it, you're liable.

You're overselling it.

First, there is a statutory affirmative defense: if I obtain CSAM and "promptly and in good faith" delete it or report what happened to law enforcement, liability does not attach.

Additionally, federal laws are clear that you have to knowingly receive CSAM. That's not just a legal flourish or a word – knowledge is an element that a jury or judge will rule on. If I ask you to send me an illegal video and you do, we've both knowingly violated federal law. If you send me to a webpage that purports to offer me a job, but actually has images hidden with CSS to poison my cache, I've not knowingly received anything.
FYI, it's only for PostgreSQL.
> All industries have downtime, it needs to be accepted and planned for.

And those that can't - e.g. those with lives at risk over failure - have very slow, conservative and burdensome processes for changes and approval, that would never be accepted without the necessary risk.
meh, here I thought my git-foo was wrong.

Ran garbage clearance for nothing also. :-(
I remember watching that episode. Such a great series.

I think this is a slightly different phenomenon though. The problem with Epstein is rapid acceleration resulting in an increased gravitational force relative to the speed of acceleration well beyond 1g and continuing to accelerate faster until fuel is exhausted.

The scenario in the article is about indefinite acceleration. Indefinite acceleration doesn’t have to be fast to eventually reach near light speed provided enough time.
I'm an Xoogler, and I have to say: Google does all kinds of stupid and annoying things which are horribly counter-productive.

They way they gamified travel was a HUGE waste of time. We had a travel system which required you to come in at the average price of past trips for a trip you're taking (or get VP approval). You could "bank" any $$ you saved if you came in below average. No matter what you did, you had to waste time. You either booked a trip in minutes and likely had to get VP approval for going over the cap, or you set up travel alerts and wound up wasting hours to days booking travel. Did they really intend for engineers making at least $250k in total comp to spend hours booking travel? I doubt it, but that's what happens.

And don't even get me started on REWS ("real estate and workplace services") converting cubed workspaces to tables, while bragging about the open concept micro kitches, waterfalls, and eco walls in public building spaces. We got a regular REWS newsletter about new buildings, and the focus was on the nice public spaces, while never mentioning the spaces where we spent 90% of our time doing actual work. And those spaces kept getting worse and worse.
> I don't think it's really "brutal" but "challenging".

Brutal was the term used by the parent, I just picked it up from there.

> if the kid has no interest in Math he/she would regard that as brutal and for others who do have interest it's just challenging and maybe even fun

Throughout my education I was in both camps at different times. The more "brutal" things got (dry, formal curriculum, tough teachers) the more it put me off. On the other hand patient and engaging teachers could get me to spend countless hours after school working on math problems.

Interests are things that develop based on intrinsic attributes but also based on environmental feedback. I suspect the latter is fast more important.
It was probably IBM; the Simon Personal Communicator in '92. Depends how you define smartphone, but it could take/make calls, send/receive emails and faxes, and had some apps like a calulator and an alarm clock. All for the low low price of $1100 1992 dollars, and rockin' a fat 1 hour worth of battery life.
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You're right, but this kind of stuff is actually much more rare in "tech". Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple were all quite profitable (GAAP) at their IPO time, which was also earlier than today's standards. Look up the old S-1s if you want to verify. It is very common in biotech, though.
Changing database seems like a dumb idea to me.

After reading their experience at https://usefathom.com/blog/viral it is clear to me that they should not change the databse but invest in a deeper competence in mysql.

After all, when they did create the proper indexes and set the proper column types, mysql did perform well.

If anything, I'd enable additional monitoring (eg: Performance Schema in RDS mysql and/or percona monitoring&management) and invest in learning about reading&interpreting such monitoring.
I've heard this before, but it seems to me that the 'problem' isn't the too-high ISP, but rather the heavy power source. For rockets, we've got the rocket equation which gives the exact fuel trade-off (carrying more takes you further, but also means carrying more weight). Is there a similar 'hard' relationship between ISP and power supply mass for electric drive systems?
So what? Children are suffering so everyone must submit to surveillance? No.

If abuse happens at all, you've already lost. Detecting pictures isn't gonna undo anything that happened in them.
Where to start reading: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Manual.... maybe

If you ever feel like trying it again, and get stuck on something, https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree is the place to ask :)
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I've used this, years ago, at a company for exactly this, and it's really solid, I've also used it in a developer environment as a more expansive "fake S3" than the simpler ones I'd run across at the time. Good stuff.
This makes me want to learn Akkadian and it's descendants even more now.
`watch -n1 "git push origin"`

Time for lunch. The push will get through eventually.
Lmao where in the USA are teachers spanking and hair cutting blacks in the inner city.
Glad it's early enough to go back to bed!
This may sound odd, but I never understood using heavy classes with relational databases.

I use javascript too, and at most I need a couple of HOF (higher order functions) to do most of the work I need.

Then again, I do use typescript and its type system, so maybe I am not the target audience.
And if you do touch the server-side code..do it in an open source fork?
Which seems like an understatement on their part - shouldn't everything be 'red' if all services are down? If not, what kind of outage does it take to get to red?
> don't want to spend extra years working

How many 60+ people do you know? Do you honestly think they should still be working?
Calaxy – built for speed on Hedera Hashgraph
Wokona's workspaces solved my problem
Tale of a Failed Startup, or the Day I Created a Mint Clone
You speak about walking a tightrope with your neighbors and needing a special exception and yet blame for any souring of that relationship falls on guests that you invite to your property.
But you'll still need to create an account and share your listening preferences with them to use their service.
I think I found it maybe? https://github.com/rauhkrusche/sunders

Hasn't been committed to since 2016?
Lol this seems like a terrible example, because i _do_ want surveillance/oversight on politicians.
I've heard from many Russian immigrant friends who insist that Soviet education was one of the few areas that was done well in USSR. Particularly, mathematics, which, other than the obligatory Marx/Lenin quotes at the top of papers, tended to avoid ideological corruption.
> The other option is scanning encrypted photos on cloud using secure enclaves to do the scanning.

This doesn't work because secure enclaves only move trust from the software developer to the hardware manufacturer, who has the code signing keys to update the firmware on the secure enclave. Which in this case would still be Apple, or someone equivalently [un]trustworty and subject to external coercion.
Depends on the commute mode. It sounds like these are people in expensive urban areas, so they probably have transit access. So if they’re commuting by train or bus the morning commute can be spent working and the evening commute streaming TV shows or scrolling through social media.
> It doesn't imply a political dictator,

Who cares when the set of allowable things are defined by what would be best for people who are worst at it?
I just open the DOM editor and remove the popover if it takes more than a second to find the reject all button.
Seems like GitHub is in read only mode right now -- no write actions work (creating issues, adding comments, pushing, branching, PR's)
There may be exceptions in hot climates with AC, but I strongly suspect that the far bigger cost for people is now those who need an additional room for work rather than those with a somewhat higher utility bill or footing the cost of a new desk chair.
Very cool take on an age old problem - productivity measurement/context for developers.

Signed up for a demo - looking forward to it.
Sounds like you don’t understand gender bias
Unrelated to animals, this really surprised me:

> Moreover, he added, “When you look at the history of mathematics, it turns out that [zero] is an extreme latecomer in our culture as well.” Historical research finds that human societies didn’t begin to use zero as a number in their mathematical calculations until around the seventh century.
The most important thing is to shape your kids in such a way that they can make choices themselves.
Worst thing is when parents are pushing their children to go for the highest (their eyes) education.
A child who likes what he/she is doing, even when it is 'just' wood making becomes a much happier child.
Northern Europe is good in this. The US so so. But China and India are the worst examples. So many talented people doing things not in line with their real desires.
Imagine one of these no-click zero-day iMessage exploits, but instead of taking over your phone it opens a share link and adds a gallery of illegal photos to your own device or cloud storage.
I just open more browser windows.
Do the birds and the bees actually count? Or is there some more innate/intuitive process involved. I doubt I could tell the difference between 9 or 10 dots on a page without actually counting them.

Many years ago there was a study involving crows, as I recall. N, starting at 2, researchers went into a blind, then N-1 came out. They had to get up to N = 13 before they fooled the birds into thinking the blind was actually empty.
Changing menu item names and locations is just stupid. A month later and I am still looking for "Undo Close Tab." Was it really that important to change the name to "Reopen Closed Tab?"
Last week I did something I was planning for 10 years. Yesterday, I did something I was planning for 1.5 years. Don't underestimate yourselves. Even a car under a tarp have enormous value to the right collector who's been missing a piece of frame that cracked on his car under a tarp and both of them have value as a yard decoration in the background scene of a space movie where the spaceship is flying away from a farm with old cars laying around for 50 years.