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> I can imagine Go shining a lot more brightly when working with a team which has mixed skill levels.

Thank you for expressing that thought. However: I came quite to the opposite conclusion. I´m currently working in a small team with members that are not so versatile in coding, coming from a JavaScript background. It has been surprisingly easy to teach them Spring Boot. You follow a typical layout and everything falls into its place. I have my reservation that the same holds true for Go. It feels like there is much more room for confusion. Do I use global functions or receivers? How do I inject my dependencies and where do manage them? How do I build constructors and do I really need them? I found surprisingly little advice on those topics.
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I've never had a bullshit job, but I have had a lot of rather pointless meetings through my career... If you do take a bs job, isn't that exactly to pass the time while you make money? Or are there also bs demands put on you that you cannot get away from? So you're forced to do pointless stuff through-out the day, that makes little or no impact on the business as a whole? I think I'd become really, really cynical if I had to work like that. Chances are also that I'd become "creative" in such a job, but not in a good way. Or perhaps there are ways to macro such jobs? I'm really curious about these things... :p The only way I can relate to jobs like these are really through movies such as Office Space or Fight Club.
It occurs when you have glasses with 3D objects produced by either stereoscopic, multi-planar or other means overlaid onto the real world.
I used to joke that I gotten so many tetanus shots that I can cure it by laying on of hands. But consider women, they have all sort of intrusive health related stuff imposed on them. They get pap smears, mammograms, then consider all the things that happen with pregnancy. And they just roll with it.

Thing though, when I was reading about potential vaccines spring so 2020 people that knew what they were talking about were unsure if a third dose would be needed. Because there are a number of vaccines that require three doses.

Also I've come to be suspicious of any argument that includes the demand that we not 'panic' or 'live in fear'. I'm beginning to see nothing but masculine anxiety/panic in that.
> "the professor", "this type of thinking", "superior systems", "happier"

Your comment makes me believe you see "the professor" as somebody from another tribe/group and you now want to show that "they" are wrong. Why this urge to defend superiority or who is the happiest?

The research doesn't ask these questions - it's game theoretical models applied to societal cooperation. The whole Bezos incident is just a narrative hook to draw you in.
China is threatening to attack Taiwan. https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/06/the-signal-and-the-noise-u...
i think we all know the usefulness of rss, however google cant monetize it so it must die.
ArchLinux

https://archlinux.org/

Something more esoteric: TempleOS (https://templeos.org/). I used it a few times years ago, very weird but with some interesting features (shell JIT'd all commands).
> Most people don't care that it takes an extra 10-100 milliseconds

I probably wouldn't care about it too much if they didn't mess up the rest of their apps into the dogturd that they currently are.
Doing bad UX is one thing, making UX consistently worse with pretty much every update another. And that's what Spotify has been doing for years now - if I could go back to a client-version from a few years ago, I would, immediately, without thinking twice.

The fun part? My company jumped on the SAFe-train a while ago, and Spotify was heralded as the "prime example" of where agile and all that works out really well.

I have no idea what they are doing, but whatever it is - if they continue like this, I'll go back to pirating music, because they're getting really close to having just-as-bad of an experience as that. And I really don't mind paying 20 bucks for my family account; experience is all I care about.
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Arguing app performance doesn’t matter sounds like extra polish and better fitting parts without gaps or creaks on luxury cars just do not matter.

Yes, rusty creaking lambos are the best. The rustier and creakier the better.
> The recommendations are also getting worse IMO

It seems to me that this happens on a per-user basis as recommendations are overfitted to the recommendations they've already listened to. They overfit so much that if you put a playlist of 1000 tracks you like on shuffle, it will only play the hundred or so tracks the algorithm has decided you "really like", and it will play almost the same selection if you put it on shuffle the next day.

YouTube music (music on YouTube, not YouTube Music) works the same way but less subtly. I had a great few months discovering music through their recommendations, until literally every song I listened to would be followed on autoplay by "Sergio Mendes feat. Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada" or "Funky Destination - The Inside Man (Soopasoul remix)".
I live in a tiny blink-and-you-miss-it "village" called Hampton Wick, which is nestled between Kingston upon Thames and Teddington. The river is approx 50m from my house, and Bushy and Home parks are right next door. Richmond park is also nearby (can walk there). Kingston is like a mini compressed London (retail wise) and it's a 15 min walk. Not gonna say it's cheap here but nothing compared to central London. And if you venture 15 minute drive further out prices do drop. Schools are all top, and it's a great place to have your kids grow up in. I'm still in Greater London, and only 30 min away from Waterloo station. I highly recommend this whole area.
There are lots of MMOs like that and they are all niche and not very successful.
I thought it was not a good idea to be unhappy about the previous work place in an interview?
When you have an unchecked military, everything looks like an enemy combatant. With a populace conditioned to casually suggest military invasion as a solution to every international (and sometimes domestic) problem, I’m sure history will keep repeating itself.
NY is currently forcing employers to withhold income tax for people in NJ who have not been in NY in the last 18 months. I know quite a few companies who told their employees they will not stop withholding NY taxes from their income, and the issue is currently making its way through the courts.

Edit: I missed this update, but apparently the SC told NH they cannot sue MA, so as far as I now, NY and MA have been cleared to continue collecting income tax from people not working in their states.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-wont-allow-new-ha...
Also some retail places. Home Depot is a huge retailer in the USA, but they will not accept contactless payments. I assume it has something to do with having to pay a higher percent per transaction.
Wouldn't public transit still take up quite a bit of time if you don't live near your office?
> moving towards the understanding that all software problems are data transformation problems.

But this understanding is fundamentally, deeply wrong, in the same way that civil engineering based approaches to software engineering are wrong for most software applications.

That is: yes, all software systems are data transformation systems, but most software problems are not “how do I produce the system most narrowly tailored to the present requirements” but more often “how to engineer a system for success with the pace and kind of change that we can expect over time in this space”.

(Now, games, particularly, are both pushing the limits of hardware and fairly static, so making them narrowly-tailored, poorly adaptable static works is often not wrong. But that doesn't generalize to all, or even most, software.)
I’m sure Russia and China would too. And then use it to open new fronts against America.
Yeah i still pay for it too even though I mostly use youtube music now which is much better in my opinion. I'll go ahead and cancel it because of this thread.
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it is a relief to find someone else is curious about this too
99% of afghanis believe Sharia law should be the law of the land. [0]

Finally they are free from their foreign oppressor, and they can go back to having their country ruled as they please. Anyone who believes in democracy will agree to this

[0] https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-relig...

Edit: the Taliban also outlaws the Afghani and Pakistani tradition of Bacha Bazi - the widespread custom of raping young boys, and with this in mind I am not surprised they are overjoyed to yet again be free to punish those who partake in it [1]. Truly a win for democracy and for protecting children from predators.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
Yeah, China just defines a country as "not another country" when they want to interfere. See Hong Kong, Taiwan, or pretty much every other neighboring country and their territorial waters or exclusive economic zone.

It is important to keep in mind that China is a startup empire. They are still trying to dominate their immediate neighborhood, whereas the US is an established empire, mostly concerned with global matters. Interestingly, Russia is a declined empire and had to turn back to affairs closer to its borders again.
Less than a dozen major banks makes it pretty easily to roll out these systems in Canada.
Crudely put, luxury market is iOS.

A lot more “luxury” apps compared to android, and priced accordingly.

e.g. $50 for a todo list app, etc.
Not necessarily. Urban/suburban spaces today are dominated by parking lots and four-to-six-lane roads. Eliminating those would make cities more compact without sacrificing size. With everything closer together, you wouldn't need the parking spaces in the first place!

Of course, I also don't think it would be a bad thing to stop building McMansions. Many consider Tokyo to be an extreme example of density, but even there it is quite common to find 80-160sqm detached houses. At half of Tokyo's density, people wouldn't even need to give up their yards.
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If the Taliban are really smart, they don't do any of that for quite a while. That would give them a ton of legitimation internationally.
I would go even further and say that the US is the only Western democracy that has abandoned some of the most important social-democratic principles. E.g. it's the only Western democracy with no universal healthcare, an industrial prison complex, weak labour rights etc.
Of course Germany had democratic traditions, going back to the early/middle of the 19th century. The Frankfurter Nationalversammlung at 1848, while it failed quite spectacularly, consisted of people from all over Germany debating. Even before that in many of the smaller kingdoms the people had achieved some representation and constitutions they guaranteed them the basic democratic rights of assembly, speech and a parliament in which to voice their opinions.

The Kaiserreich had a parliament. Weimar failed in the end and had plenty of problems but still it was a democratic government and that despite major challenges (Civil War, lost World War, bad economy).

And if you are willing to look into the many states and small countries that made up Germany before its unification you have 'democratic' city-states going back to the middle ages. Don't forget that Germany was and is deeply federal (Its official name is 'Federal Republic of Germany' after all).

Even right before the democracy was abolished by the Nazis the largest federal state was governed by the Social Democrats (Prussia).

Hell, our social democrats keep telling everybody that their party was founded on 23 May 1863 even if nobody cares.
I mean, the other way around is also true, but the other way around is obvious. Obviously going from a weaker logic to a stronger logic can't eliminate contradictions.

What's surprising is that in this particular case (the Peano axioms), the reverse is also true; you won't be able to eliminate contradictions by passing to this weaker logic.

Note, all I said is, if you can prove a contradiction classically, then you can prove a contradiction constructively! I didn't say, if you have a classical proof of a contradiction then it's a valid constructive proof of a contradiction. Obviously not! But it will still be true that you'll be able to prove a contradiction constructively; it just won't necessarily be the same proof.

If you want to know more about the particular transformation, well, here's a relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-negation_translation
A couple things here.

First is that this is fundamentally a question of tradeoffs, which means a single axis diagram like this is fundamentally misleading.

For instance, we have the conclusion about 'being mean to users' toward the slow end of the scale. But if the tradeoff means the app costs more, or has fewer accessibility or language features, or doesn't run on the user's chosen OS—which is more mean?

Second, this topic is contentious not because Spotify is slow but because many readers believe that building on Electron implies your app will be slow and is a basically negligent technology decision, a blight on the field of software engineering, and so on and so on... So, while I agree with your placement of Teams (though not Spotify incidentally), saying that because a couple Electron apps are not optimally snappy in this context reinforces the (imo) mistaken attribution of non-snappiness to Electron: afaict, of the major Electron apps out, there are at least as many that are snappy, and of the ones somewhat lacking in this department there are no native apps with feature parity to compare against (i.e. for Slack or Teams; Spotify otoh, maybe it is really bad for some people—not my experience, and the sample of 1 wouldn't prove much).

In any case, I like the diagram and largely agree with its assertions in isolation.

Edit: I'd be happy to take a look at one of your longer rants if you want to point me to one. I am genuinely interested in better understanding the situation if I've missed something.
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Past related threads:

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317655 - May 2021 (249 comments)

SerenityOS: Writing a Full Chain Exploit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115141 - Feb 2021 (9 comments)

SerenityOS: A love letter to '90s user interfaces with a Unix-like core - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911180 - July 2020 (1 comment)

SerenityOS Update (April 2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23037581 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Introduction to SerenityOS Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479132 - March 2020 (43 comments)

Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116914 - Jan 2020 (28 comments)

CTF writeup: First published SerenityOS kernel exploit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21918351 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)

SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212294 - Oct 2019 (52 comments)

Serenity OS update (August 2019) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851356 - Sept 2019 (2 comments)

SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986126 - May 2019 (179 comments)

Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807 - March 2019 (83 comments)
To draw an analogy - we are more than happy passing around the works of Shakespeare in its textual form. But as we know, a good performance can bring so much more than is encoded in the text at face value.

Music is really just a non-verbal language. If you become fluent in the language, you can appreciate music in its textual form just like you can appreciate Shakespeare for its literary value.

To my mind, this is why notational representations still persist, even in the age of media recordings. That higher level of abstraction still carries plenty of value and its compactness (over performance) is convenient to creators and academics who wish to reference them with fast read access.
Are you remoting into your vim on a satellite link or some really far away box somewhere?

I see no other rational explanation here
that poll is not suspect at all. nu uh.
Sure, also V8s are basically obsolete tech by now. Even more so than ICEs in general. It just feels right to have one in certain cars. And yes, I know it doesn't make any sense. Electric, supplemented by bio fuels, is the way to go.
Public transit and compact cities is not the awesome solution people make it to be. (I live in Europe)

Usually the commute time is longer because of trips to the station + waiting for the vehicle to come. Even worse people typically all go to work at the same time and rush hours form. No breathing room. Usually never being able to sit. It is horrible always and even more so during pandemics. Having exclusive seats at the vehicle and preordained vehicles vetted by the company. That works but only large companies can afford this. Also public transit only works in large cities.

Compact cities with houses are good. The cities in Netherlands are a really good way to model every society in the world. Everything in your neighbourhood just a 5 minute bike ride away. Everything else should be done remotely if possible.
There is you not wanting to delete information from a public web service when they ask and there is people dying because you wouldn't delete information from a public web service.
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Classical logic can be embedded into intuitionistic logic. The double-negation translation N [0] turns any tautology of classical logic into a tautology of intuitionistic logic, so if θ ∧ ¬θ is provable with classical logic, N(θ) ∧ ¬N(θ) is provable with intuitionistic logic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-negation_translation
I’m an American and have never heard of this. Calling bullshit.
Do you have some evidence that this particular algorithm is so effective?

I have some doubts that there is a 'perfect' forgetting curve that maps over all items equally that this would matter to such a degree.

I.e. if it comes back after 3 days then 9 in Anki, or 2 days and 10 in SM18.

What matters is showing up and spending the time with your SR tool, as well as adding high quality cards.
I used to travel with public transport to work. More than happy to not do it for 2 hours a day.

I don't know why 2 hours of public transport is better than 2 hours of commute by car? It's still time wasted.
Not sure what I think about it.
Can't decide if I like the Rails path more (SSR + JS sprinkles), dotnet blazor (C# to browser crosscompile) or something like Angular + Go.
Don’t be surprised. The almighty dollar rules here. If they have to pay a dollar to upgrade the infrastructure to support contactless payments, they won’t do it until they absolutely have to. And even then, if there is a payment machine that doesn’t support contactless payments and it is 5 cents cheaper than one that does, they will go with the one that is cheaper. Multiply that by all the hundreds of thousands of different stores. There is a huge national retailer near me that recently replaced all of their sales terminals. I thought that finally I’d be able to use contactless payments. Nope. The new machines don’t accept contactless payments.
We don't really know because the even the phase 2 trials for these vaccines have not been done..
This is the benefit to holding a phone number for an area code that's far away from where you live. I can spot and ignore those calls easily.
Unpopular opinion: You really cannot fight an ideology, the Taliban is so successful because it has some (if not most) support amongst the masses. If there wasn't any, people would've resisted. May be this is a beginning of a long civil war in the nation but I doubt ordinary people will have a voice, they are surely significantly outnumbered.
And a gltf2/glb loader! Web frameworks will become game engines now.
Googler: RSS is effectively dead.

Translation: Google is killing RSS in its products so you have to either go to their ad/tracker infested sites, or download an app geared towards tracking and spying on you for the purpose of advertisement; and pretending this means RSS is dead.
> many of them have believed the platform’s timeline for development and implementation of it has been “too aggressive,”

Publishers can't get used to the idea, that they don't own the conversion funnel anymore, without knobs and hooks provides by cookies, it is hard to know when to upsell, when to show an ad, when to show more ads. I don't feel bad for them, but on the other hand, I don't like the idea, that all these control will be transferred to Google. Without 3rd party cookies but with its scale of search, ML capabilities, Android devices, etc. Google will be the only one who can track users cross site reliably.
What can I do as an individual? Honest.
For one, everything would be closer together, which helps reduce transit time. Advocates of density and public transit also usually advocate for mixed-use zoning, which would make it much easier to live near within walking or biking distance of where you work. So with good city planning, you could drastically reduce the time spent commuting.

Even with a commute, riding a bus or train is much less stressful than commuting by car. You can read a book, reply to emails, etc..
Yes, and the reason it caused bad side effects was the strong immune response[1], which is a short term effect. That is exactly what has been extensively tested for the Covid vaccines.

1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-pandemic-flu-sho...
Good for you, but I don't think it's fair to pass judgment on someone's situation without knowing the whole picture.
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It's not clear whether the Taliban will allow Afghans to leave the country. However, for now the Taliban has re-opened the border to Pakistan. The current issue, surprisingly, seems to be Afghans stuck on the Pakistan side who want back into Afghanistan.

No idea how this plays out. The Taliban leadership may just let people leave for a while to eliminate opposition the easy way.
Are you on the west coast? What are these “areas”?
I am trying this today.
This makes me remember that people with the same dreams and urge for fast food as myself, has been living on this planet for thousands of year. And of course - memento mori (remember that you have to die).