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For deep dive into Inca culture, including Machu Pichu, check out the Fall of Civilizations channel. It is hours long but well worth the time. This creator is more sensitive towards the local culture that most other television or YouTube creators.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BRB9dJmZhVk
I think I should have been more specific, I was talking more about SEO copywriting than creative writing.

Writers aren't too expensive you're right - I pay $.04-.06 per word for the 10 that I employ. But depending on the scale, level of competition, and return potential bringing in more AI gets attractive and could be necessary at some point.

My point in my comment was just that if you're a writer and aren't paying attention to these new AI tools you could end up getting blindsided at some point or you might see your pay decrease and be left wondering why
Yes, the baseline for “armel” is ARMv5T. But IIRC we made the switch already for Buster.
I agree with you, but also having maintained a fairly large corporate OSS project, our backlog has gotten unsustainable. We've thrown more bodies at the problem, and are trying to deputize more of the community, but I really don't know how to manage/organize super old issues that may be legitimate, but typically aren't very searchable for people with similar problems (which often aren't obviously similar).
Another variable is the kind of work you want to do.

Want to be hyper specialized? A medium company in that field or a FAANG will be your best bet. You'll probably well paid for your specialization, compared to median dev salaries. At a small company, even in your preferred field, you’ll wear many hats. Which might be to your liking as well.
> You were part of the lucky 1% who make it through the program from application to funding,congrats!

People aren't selected at random. There isn't any luck involved. It's hard work.

I feel it's diminishing peoples achievements to say that their lotto numbers came up and YC let them in.
The Inca repairs theory is not well supported by evidence. Incas used smaller stones for detailed elements higher up and larger stones for basic elements lower down. Along the same lines, most of Machu Picchu is earthworks that support the structure and landscape terraces and that has an even more mysterious relationship to the buildings on top.
All I know is that I'm starting graduate school in the fall, and I've found out most of my classes are going to be online, even though all students are required to be vaccinated.

And I'm really freaking pissed off about it.

We just can't do this forever. If you're vaccinated, you're more likely to die in a car crash than from COVID. So why aren't we shutting down the roads?
Why not just report odometer readings annually, and tax based on that? It would avoid the need for implementing so much surveillance to track every movement of every car.
I think that once you reach a certain point, you stop believing in magic solutions to all your problems.

You’d think you find this out over the course of a single project, when every new thing you introduce requires extra pain to support in the future, but in reality it takes years of this happening many times before you internalize that.

I do think it’s a bit dependent on the organization you work for though. If you know them well, you’ll realize that adding the single integer field is not going to cut it because they’ll come back in a month asking for the 1 to many relation (if you try to clarify in advance, of course they tell you they don’t need it).

I fully agree with not building for requirements you do not immediately (next month or so) anticipate though.

That said, as you say, I’ll probably go off and add some unnecessary complexity somewhere when I go back to work tomorrow ;)
>46-47C looks high but in Andalucia, Murcia and Extremadura you got 43 C temps granted every summer. If the North of Spain reaches temps over 30 is when you should be extremely worried.

That's kind of a non sequitur. We don't need to worry for 47 in Andalucia/Extremadura because they get 43 "every summer", but we should worry for Basque who is 26 if they ever get "over 30"?

Isn't 43 to 47 in the South similar to the North going from 26 "over 30"? Why is the first (which is here) not to worry about, but the latter would be? I.e. why would record temps in one area not be worrisome just because another has low temps?
Absolutely. I have some hair scissors for around my ears but that's about it
I'm sorry.

Much though I love perl, terrible perl really is truly terrible to work with.

On behalf of those of us who're aware that if perl was a tool it would have black and yellow stripes down the side ... we've all also encountered the sort of perl that would make you think such a thing.

With great power comes great capacity to screw all of the pooches.
On a side note, I find it fascinating that someone who worked on KSplice went on to work on Zulip. Kernel dev and chat software, to me, are two different worlds.

Would love to here that story.
Are you serious? A large number of people will fill garbage numbers, just as they do for insurance estimates.
Intercausal Reasoning
Because most developers also think they’re one of the rare exceptions.
Years after they became popular, I found an Arduino "starter kit" at a garage sale. Didn't use it because I didn't want even more software complexity in my life. Later I needed to solve a particular problem, so I googled how to program an Arduino. Hmmm. "yum install arduino" and 10 minutes later I had a blinky light and 15 minutes later I had my first actual program running.

I keep seeing diatribes about how "modern" microcontrollers like the RP2040 are so much better and how the Arduino environment is too limiting. Well the Raspi Micro or whatever it is called is dirt cheap, so I ordered a few. And cracked the manuals, and ran the enormously complicated build environment complete with the complex modern Makefiles I won't understand in my lifetime. And got a blinky light. But I'll be darned if I'll learn all that stuff. But that's OK... eventually everything gravitates to the Arduino model again. The software underneath may be a nightmare, but the user interface is simple and ... inviting. This matters.

I'm no idiot technically. I work on some of the most advanced ASICs on the planet at my work (won't get into details on this). I just don't need even more gratuitous complexity in my life. My Arduino projects are not trivial, some of them in the thousands of lines of code category. I still like the simple, clean environment of it all.

I had to add a feature to a homemade photo repository that required Javascript. Cracked the manual, wrote some first principles Javascript. Oh, how do I do X? By using this gigantically complex framework. Bzzzt. Wrong. I'll do without X then.
Because just like the Apple CSAM fiasco, end-to-end surveillance is the point.
You would have to compare against the cost of all predicted climate-related trends, not just the ones that hindsight has validated you about. Go back and find all the wrong predictions, and lump in their preparatory or prophylactic costs if you're interested in a true apples:apples comparison.
> Open firmware, but who says the silicon isn't backdoored? And why is open firmware more important for your freedom than open silicon? What about on-chip ROMs? :-)

Safety is not binary.
Apparently we no longer trust each other not to lie?

Honestly I feel this applies so much more widely; it’s frightening to think on too long.
Just add more tolls instead of surveillance?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/
Why would CoW+SSD be bad?
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>People say that like it is a law of nature. It isn't. Prior to COVID I was regularly moaning that the government was destroying lives with their overzealous safety standards.

Given how friendly nuclear with safety standards has been, nuclear with those pesky "overzealous safety standards" would be a hoot.
Yeah, you are correct. Though it depends on what you mean by "app installation." Many feature phones supported Java applets. I had some third-party games on my first Motorola feature phones.
The mnt reform still needs proprietary blobs.
This is also the case with government contracting. Just like how VCs ignore most pitches that come in cold through the "front" door, so too does the government ignore most responses to solicitations. 90% of deals go to those who are connected to the original source through personal relationships of "back door" deals. 5% of the deals go to those who know how to persistently work the system. And only 5% go to those who actually have the best product at the best price.

When the worlds of venture capital and government contracting collides, it gets even more murky. There are many deals in that government folks are closing with silicon valley firms where someone within the government then ends up working for that same silicon valley firm. It's such an I scratch your back, you scratch mine world.

I don't doubt that VCs tend to prefer those they know to those they don't for the very same reasons.
>The US has been a stoppable juggernaut since Korea. Vietnam certainly didn't help. In the 1970s, the country was unable to secure its own embassy or fly helicopters successfully, at least in public perception.

Maybe? But the Boomers emerged from those conflicts to be the most prosperous generation in world history so I don't buy your argument.

Millennials and Gen Z didn't really live through the events you described and from their point of view, all they saw was optimism...until they grew up and saw the fire at their doorstep in the form of the events I mentioned.

>The US is rather more hamstrung dealing with larger, or nuclear-armed, threats: Russia, China, North Korea. Iran have been taking notes.

We will see. I think it is too early to tell. I don't disagree but this may just be a symptom of a fading US superpower but the underlying causes are unrelated to these countries and anything specific they have done.
> in the end you might reach a point where stakeholders would prefer it to fail than to make another concession

In this case your project will fail regardless. You just won’t have wasted person-centuries of development time.
How about you just let me read whatever I want and come to my own conclusions about what to believe, thanks
It's a little weird to compare local crime hotspots to a national average. Costa Rica seems to have about twice the murder rate of the U.S., but that's still low. By "low", I mean if the average accurately represents your risk, it wouldn't be worth worrying about day to day.

Safety is highly situational, and it depends a lot on the way crime happens. If it's criminals killing criminals (e.g. gangs), ordinary citizens and visitors might be fine. But if there is a lot of opportunistic crime, a foreigner might be a target.
Curious collections: two tusked narwhal
Do you think everyone who wasn’t accepted simply did not work as hard?
One time I had Windows become unbootable because I hibernated it.
I'm in the simplicity zealot phase and I wonder what's next.

I can kind of sense what the next phase is. I don’t know if it will be the case for sure, but being in this frustrated phase inevitably leads to a quietness inside. When you start out the quietness is not there, so you are always in this anxious state implementing everything under the sun. But now in the aftermath of all the internal directionless energy, the somberness makes me want to make solutions. Build that simpler framework, write that simpler language, make that simple tool/product. Not because you feel the pressure, but because you are finally quiet inside to think peacefully.

It’s odd, we always complain about meetings being a distraction, yet, it’s the endless pursuit to live up to the ideal of ‘being a great developer that’s worth the money’ that has always been the most noise. The turmoil manifests in complicated codebases.

My armchair psychology for today.
I'm from Costa Rica and I'm not aware of that, drug trafficking like what? We as other countries in the planet has issues with illegal drugs yes is true, but never in any way this has influenced into our culture.
I'll give you the non cynical answer: the funds wouldn't go to the right places because you'd have no idea where the driving happened. So your home state gets paid for you to drive all over the country on a cross country road trip.
Every X years you take your car to the DMV. If you lie, your penalty is 5x your reward. If you don't go go the DMV, your registration or license is suspended.

It's not rocket science.
This building has a special place in my heart. My dad used to work here when I was growing up and would take me there occasionally. I remember going between cubicles and asking people what they were doing, learning to make simple circuits in one of the labs there (simple stuff though, like hooking a battery up to a motor), and generally being fascinated by how fun of a job that looked to be and meeting the sorts of people who did it. I guess it was a good formative experience considering what I ended up choosing as my childhood hobby and later my job! Super weird to see this place again, sad to see what happened to it.
This is disingenuous, Australia is in lockdown right now.

You know there are people who (3) want mandatory vaccinations, passports and those without to be lockdown, fired, etc and then (4) the other extreme, for non-vaccinated people to be thrown into the ovens.

(2) is the reasonable spot, but most people (social media) and politicians seem to be pushing (3).
Wow! This is actually exactly what I wanted, thank you!

Our classes were shut down at the start of COVID-19 in March 2020, but if we ever actually go again, I will definitely use this!
There are lots of ways to implement it. The problem is that one of JSON's strengths is its ubiquity: every language under the sun has half a dozen different battle-tested parsers for it. Clients and servers and everything in-between have first-class support out of the box. You can even paste it directly into JavaScript as valid code.

If anybody short of a standards body tries to expand the spec, you lose out on most of that.
This could actually be the perfect answer, for large roads like interstates. And if you left municipalities and regions solely responsible for building and maintaining everything smaller, it would probably work perfectly.
I was hoping it was written in Go. Python is ok though.
I use geany a lot for its simplicity but usefulness. Give it a try.
Even though this is labeled 2020 this is work done in 2002 or earlier if I'm not mistaken. And I've seen many articles, videos, and interactive versions over the years. Very cool!

https://web.archive.org/web/20130422193857/http://escherdros...
And artificial strength isn't muscle attached to ligaments, yet factory machines outperform humans.

We should be defining intelligence by outputs rather than the methodology by which they achieve them, or else the only acceptable definition for intelligence will become "a human brain".

If you choose the former, you can comfortably say airplanes don't fly, they just glide, if you want to define flight as flapping of wings. Yet airplane flight is more efficient than if we tried to achieve it the biological way.

Similarly, it seems apparent we'll be able to solve many tasks that we attribute to "intelligence" using methods different than the biological ones. We shouldn't limit ourselves to comparing the methodology when deciding if it has achieved the goal, it is more productive, from what I've seen, to define by output, and to increase specificity there if the result is still unsatisfying.
I wouldn't call descents controls straightforward regardless of what mod/engine you use. 6 AOF Games are hard to play and descent is quite a hard game even in easier difficulties. That being said, it's a lot of fun for sure.
Heinlein had a great quote on this: When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

You can regard the ID's part as any kind of serious tracking beyond your word about what happened, but unfortunately we're a bit off on the space travel...
Coca-cola produces over 100 billion plastic bottles per year. Multinational corporations seem happy to keep cranking out items they know damn well will end up in the ocean. Because money.
You might like Pop OS. It's downstream of Ubuntu but has some convenient stuff added and some annoying stuff removed (like snapd).
I'm discussing Spain in a Spanish thread in case that wasn't clear, where it's been declining for the last 20 years in % of energy demand: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energ%C3%ADa_nuclear_en_Espa%C...
I'd contend that Excel spreadsheets are an acceptable LISP.

Sure, you start out statements with an = and variables are named things like B42 rather than foo... but there's a rather nice vector based functional language asking to get out of there.

To that end, teaching Excel could be a more accessible way to teach programming fundamentals than some other approaches.

I still miss LOGO and its unrealized potential.
Back in the day I had a Nokia phone with StraightTalk. It has a flashlight, text, calls, and a few games. Battery lasted a week. I programmed my computer to send headlines and email subjects as texts. It was great.
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It is baffling to me that people get so angry about what starts out as some fairly basic observations. The Sphinx, for example, has an obviously mismatched head that represents one of the later kings and also has some interesting weathering patterns. Also, many very old monuments have similar characteristics being made of very large stones without ornament. Some go way too far with their theories, but there is plenty of room to speculate about prehistory without being accused of randomness or conspiracy theories.

Early observations of ruins in the Americas concluded that some ancient civilization had traveled and built everything there since native Americans were considered to be primitives. Giving credit to the Maya for their language and literature was considered a weird conspiracy at first but ongoing study proved otherwise.
Having had 3 full time Elixir engagements and one engagement where I partially used Elixir, I am not so convinced Elixir/Phoenix is the best career choice.

It limits you to certain jobs and there is a lot of competition (from anecdotes I see there is a lot of interest for developers to learn but not a ton of interest in companies to use it). I started with Elixir in 2015 and even though there are more companies now using it than back then, I don't see a strong upwards trend line.

Furthermore what happened twice: Elixir will be one or two projects within the companies. In one case it was a micro service architectures with plans to replace Elixir with a different language.

So worst case scenario is you will end up in a company that technically uses Elixir but for various reason you will not end up working in an Elixir based project and you only have a limited set of other languages to choose from. So at the very least pick a second favorite and apply to companies that use that technology.

All of that being said: I use Elixir for 100% of my side projects and love the language. I love the ecosystem and the community.
I tried and failed to find the xkcd that your comment is an obvious setup for. They talk about not needing to write code and instead writing a precise specification of the program's behavior, and the other person says "code, that's called code"

(Ah, I see the sibling post linked to it, and it's not xkcd which explains why I didnt find it)
Hydrogen production via electrolysis isn’t over 90% in real systems. It’s more on the order of 70% for real world systems. Some small scale research systems can hit 90% or more for various solid oxide electrodes, but they’re fragile and generally not commercially available yet.

See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258929911... as an example overview.
Here's a playlist with all of these songs! Thanks for the great recommendations

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7...
I had no idea they'd put in so much infra at the Grand Canyon, yeah I'd be drinking water like a fish :)
highly recommend the works of radix, especially FIRE&ICE2
It is not, it's in fact one of the cheapest, look at the "coste marginal" in the table (only more expensive than solar and hydraulic):

https://www.eoi.es/blogs/merme/coste-y-precio-de-las-diferen...
That was my plan. I'm still disappointed lizmat stopped me.

Poor kid deserved better friends.
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I think a lot of the challenges of defining software dev is that it varies so much.

There’s people who get to own a problem and build stuff start to finish. And there’s people who are just automatons , implementing a specification. And everything in between.

So I think this can be absolutely true and false at the same time.
To be fair, the scientists aren't wrong.

Alcohol is a pretty bad drug and probably wouldn't be legalized without its history.

Lots of drunk people get violent. Alcoholics can die from simply being dried out. Alcohol is a drug habit that's really hard to shake.

That doesn't mean prohibition was correct. However, the negative effects of alcohol are quite well documented.
if you add unnecessary hierarchies in your code directories

That's one of the things I've noticed a lot especially with open-source projects on GitHub, and it absolutely does irritate me when what should really be a single-file or maybe at most 2-3 file project turns into a dozen files of little content spread out across a maze of deeply-nested directories. I wonder what compels people to do that --- is it a fetish for organisation, attempting to emulate other projects, or trying to make something look more complex and "impressive" than it really is?

I've heard it said that expert code looks like beginner code, except simpler and more correct.
Plasma Desktop does this with Activities.
In depth:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan-russia-p...
Lucky NASA pushed hard to have SpaceX as a second source or would still be waiting for human rated spacecraft.
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It isn’t actually, near as I can tell as a user. It’s actually pretty painful to use to get anything done.

The demographic is, ‘someone who needs basic phone functionality, but is trying to go cold turkey on distracting smart phone functionality’.

If you need Signal, you’re probably also not in the demographic. The idea is - you should want to NOT be able to check Signal, because that is crack to you.
I know that this won’t likely be a popular opinion but I really like the MSBuild configuration way with xml and interpolation. I have found I can even reason about fairly complex configurations without too much hassle. You can also debug them which is great. It’s not that it doesn’t have its warts it’s that it really does a good job for what it’s mean to: semi-programmable configuration. It’s also extensible.

However, it is of course extremely proprietary
Not true really IMO - it’s recovering smart phone addicts.
I mean sure but I’ve never seen any software actually use that feature in the wild except for “you’re allowed to concat your YAML files instead of separating them if you want.” Like I’ve never seen software require a certain number of documents in a file with different schemas.