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I left mid-August. I have a form that I would need to fill in, but the feedback was the window was closed and I needed to wait - I first inquired mid-July whilst still at the company. This sounds like it doesn't apply to me this now I've left.

I don't want to get to this point of being a pain, but it's already been 2 weeks after leaving with no feedback at all (2 chases) and the window is 3 months. I will allow up to 1 month before starting to up the effort even further.
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> I bet you won't find any or less than 2% of the entire codebase

One can look from another angle into some code bases:

https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM/blob/master/Examples/stopwa...

It uses a ton of complex macros:

Built in macros: DEFPACKAGE, DEFMETHOD, MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, LOOP, ...

Language extensions: WHEN-LET, ...

Library macros: WITH-OUTPUT-AS-PRESENTATION, FORMATTING-TABLE, DEFINE-APPLICATION-FRAME, ...

Even a generated macro: DEFINE-STOPWATCH-COMMAND (which was defined by DEFINE-APPLICATION-FRAME)
It's recommended by me, at least.
Many many moons ago, when I hung out in a group that ran CBs with linear amps, we used to win bets with people by saying that we could light up a florescent bulb without any kind of power source... which we did by holding the bulb near the CB antenna and keying up.
I enjoyed Measurement [0]. I was unsurprised when I eventually learnt that its author had previously written Lockhart’s Lament [1].

[0] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?content=reviews&isbn...

[1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
I think when I heard it (from a radio ham in the 80s) he was using bales of fence wire in his loft as his coil. Still that detail about powering the lights (not the whole house) though.
I doubt he read it the first time. :)
I think you may have missed the point: the team with other work to do also insisted on taking on this work, and that team prevented our protagonist from taking the requisite two days to do the work.
"This is the type of unscripted event in our nearby universe ..."

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/oddball_burs...

"The first stars, called Population III stars (our star is a Population I star), were much bigger and brighter than any in our nearby universe ..."

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/timeli...

"In our nearby universe, dust is pumped out by dying stars like our sun."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/10000-earths-worth-of-fresh-du...

"We can't yet directly rule out mysterious sources for this light that could be coming from our nearby universe ..."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-spitzer-finds-first-obje...

Looks like it is not uncommon for them to say so.
The comment is about turkish tenses that are "similar" to the kind of knowledge conveyed in the tenses OP points out. It seems relevant to me.
Which 'Katyusha' rockets?

There were different types.

Just to poke some fun, you may be faster on a no-flight-list than you think.

Depending on the rest of your profile.

But then again, this is harmful to the climate anyway.
Both are false. They still actively shadowban users and already banned users have stayed banned.
Yes and yes, in a comment on this very forum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171465
Cat regurgitating a plant on the zoom call isn't as bad as a mouse. Yeah that happened.
In serious engineering wheels are reinvented everywhere, but somehow in software you're supposed to use existing parts that do 90% of what you need and then struggle with the remaining 10%.
That's rate limiting. This is enabled on accounts if you ever post something "controversial". Shadow banning, where the site lets you think you are posting successfully, has definitely been used in the past on this site and probably still is.
How often Afghanistan appears in German TV news since 2013?
> Look, if you just want to retreat entirely to a "might makes right" ideology, you can go ahead and do that.

It's not an ideology. I'm saying that it's simply the way geopolitics works. The way things have been throughout history, including the modern era. It's what all the books on this topic talk about. Might does makes right when it comes to countries relations with each other. Countries act in their self interest. The strongest country gets their way. The law of the jungle. There's no judge or god for a country to appeal to or to enforce rules of morality. Ultimately there's only armies and allies. If the group of people running things in one country think they can dominate another country to their advantage, they do. That's why all large empires ultimately make so many enemies, causing their downfall. In this case I think that China wants to regain their traditional territory and expand their influence in their neighborhood region, and the U.S. doesn't want to give up an inch if they don't have to. At stake is economic and political influence in South East Asia. The rich and powerful care about that, not morality.

I personally have a quite different ideology when it comes to these matters, but I'm not the one in charge. I wouldn't send people to fight a war over Taiwan. I don't think it's justified based on a fear of them attacking the West, nor because some people think China is evil. Is it better for China to quickly take Taiwan or for us to enable a war that could kill millions? If you want to raise money and hop on a plane to fight the Chinese over Taiwan, I'm cool with that.

> Just be aware, that if you do that, you can't complain about anything at all, regarding any moral issue, what so ever.

> And you cannot complain, when people, who actually do care about right or wrong, treat you equivalently to the worst of any political ideology that you can think of, and call you horrible political slurs, regarding the obvious bad ideologies that should immediately come to mind.

I saw your comment above before you edited it. You seem to be quite emotional about this, and quite hostile towards me in this thread.

You seem to look at international politics very differently than anything I've studied, and I'm not sure that I understand. I've tried to explain my understanding of the way the world works in this regard, but you haven't much explained how you think. Worst case I might assume that you just get enraged over whatever the news headlines tell you to, but that wouldn't be very charitable.

I'm genuinely curious and have a lot of questions. How should a country choose what evil in the world to oppose, seeing as how there is so much? If we don't always confront evil, does that mean that other considerations are more important? Do you think that the leaders of countries think of good and evil in their calculations, or money and power? Does it bother you that the U.S. sometimes supports evil regimes? Or sometimes does evil things itself?

I'm wondering if you have answers for any of these questions. I know a lot of people haven't thought much about this stuff.
The more stuff like this I see (Rails view components and HTML over the wire) the more I realize how, for lack of a better word, "advanced" ASP.Net MVC was over 10 years ago...
I am wondering if antitrust laws are applicable in this case.
One needs to lookout for their config file being overwritten [1] if another ansible.cfg exist. In my case my ~/.ansible.cfg config got overwritten by a local ./ansible.cfg (as per the order the config files are read [2]) in a project directory.

In my case I workaround it by _merging_ all potential config files into one at runtime using `crudini` as demonstrated by rsguhr [3].

[1] https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/35

[2] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/intro_configuration.htm...

[3] https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/1851171
It was much better in the 90s and very early 2000s.

The creation of the politics section, Sept 2004 was the beginning of the downfall, in hindsight. The site really kept changing for the worst from then on, and the latest change in ownership turned it into complete trash.
Some users are simply not valuable participants. The kind that get shadowbanned can include those spamming Viagra, scams, and other nonsense.

I think that not getting rid of that content/malicious participants (not community members) undermines faith in moderation.
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Ok, I'm double dipping. Another problem I'm trying to solve is: I've got a database of several hundred interesting conversation questions that I've collected over the years. Essentially just strings, though I've attempted to categorize them, rank them, and add other metadata. I'd like to figure out a way to sort them or dedupe them based on semantic similarity, but I'm not sure how to determine semantic similarity without painstakingly going through and manually looking for similar questions. Any suggestions on how to solve this would be welcome.
Let's get hands-on with the QBE compiler back end
I only tested it out a couple of days ago, I'm no expert.

So far it's been plain sailing, I'm already familiar with Yard-style docs and getting everything up and running from the spec/dummy app was really straightforward.

The library I maintain currently uses a home-rolled docs page (https://dfe-digital.github.io/govuk-components/) that needs to be refreshed manually. It's been an 'ok' approach until now but as it's matured we need something that's automated and easier to maintain.
Where can I buy such devices? I’d like to hide one in the garden of my neighbors (or maybe my own garden is sufficient), so their Bluetooth speaker stops working. Ideally I’d not like to jam headphones to stimulate good behavior but at this point I’ll take anything.
Had very similar experiences at not even a "big company" it's more of a mentality of a "Big Co.". People hired to just not care, sit at meetings to make managers feel important and provide some pseudo progress to higer-ups to make things look like they are moving somewhere.

In reality, I have not doubt a half decent motivated engineer can replace a group of these unmotivated developers, which I have seen done and did my self in the past.

The real reason unmotivated engineers are there and things work this way in a company, in my experience, is bad management. Good people leave, who ever is left does what ever they can, those who care, suffer.
Have you sat with an average user? They have no idea what they are doing with these modern UIs. My mother with an iPhone is a fine example. Has no idea what to press or slide.

She could use windows 7 fine. Anything later, more difficult.
Of course it was just an example!

But even a chat message or an introduction does wonders.

My point was that, from the tale, I don't think the author did enough to actually accomplish the task and that the complaints on the internet public square is hardly justified.

Said so, I find it a well written piece that may be useful to younger engineers approaching these kinds of dynamics.

I would find extremely interesting a similar article comparing when stuff goes well and when they move at high speed highlighting the differences of approaches and results.
But there is no network of users on reddit, HN or other similar forums.
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> Maybe we can agree on that they should be different

Why would we? And how should they be different, and what useful properties would that provide?

> in languages where all code is a method it is dangerous to assume they are different?

Why would you assume undifferentiated functions are different in the first place, and what would the difference be?
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An overweight of food will make you go past whole since you need to taste everything. There are more than two or three choices of snacks in your home so you will eat less, considering the way that you will get depleted of and in every practical sense, unclear old kinds of food.
Maybe the solution is in your fridge?

... Not being flippant; I find that these kind of prompts can help in thinking from a new approach.
The BBC isn’t a typical organisation, it is a public broadcaster created by the British government.

Plenty of flaws (is anything ever otherwise?) but it does try to aim at public interest more than eyeball count.
> You don't have to be looking for death rates to be affected by survivorship via.

I didn't say you did, but the post I was replying to said it the study here sounded like it. It didn't at all really considering the death rate is vastly lower than the infection rate and the infection rate differences were so huge.

> That said, you can account for this confounding factor and perhaps the study did account for that (didn't read it). I'm just pointing out that the question cannot be dismissed just by looking at whether death rates are part of the study or not

I didn't dismiss it, on the contrary I gave the poster a chance to substantiate their claim.
>but as an awful person to work with

I see what you mean but keep in mind this is where she(?) vents out, so that should make some things show more than others.
I went into the ditch last year in a new car and car had some repairable damages. I asked the dealership if I could get some logs from the car. Apparently there were no logs.

I wanted to see the logs as it felt like the ABS didn’t engage and I wanted to see and review what actions I took so I might be more prepared if there is ever a next time.
There was a story a couple of days/weeks ago on here (sorry I can't find the link) where someone had been phishing their way into iCloud accounts and downloading all the photos from them. Despite making absolutely 0 effort to cover their tracks (not even a VPN),this went on for a very long time before they were caught.

Just because the knowledge is there and there's a paper trail doesn't mean anyone will _actually_ put the pieces together
Yeah, that's undoubtedly the case.

Rails appears to have (Apple-style) taken some cues from elsewhere and made the user experience actually nice.
Agreed that objective science and non-division are much needed.

On the topic of art, have you seen this song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1A5gxJn_I
I guess that's not the problem. If you're interested in history there is lots of good and amazing achievements.

If you do or are supposed to feel some guilt or sorrow or shame for the bad, then you could feel some pride or happiness or thankfulness for the good.
There used to be one dead user that would post... wild racist stuff due to mental illness. But lately yes, I agree with this characterization.
I did not downvote you at all, I replied because I wanted to discuss it with you. Others have replied, and I think its really interesting you think an unruly playground needs to be moderated. Others have pointed out you just "go to your corner" or dont engage so to speak. But you seem to think it needs to be moderated. I am not saying you are wrong I 'm curious as to why.
I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
I’ve seen this before, but it’s essentially a compressed air subscription service.

> Replacement cans are easy to use, 80 to 100 sprays per replacement
Yeah but they were only three stars.
The more common distinction between functions that return values and procedures that do not return values is not important at all.

On the other hand the distinction between "pure functions" and other kinds of functions or procedures is quite important.

In many early programming languages, the "functions" had to be what now are called "pure functions".

Later many languages relaxed the restrictions for "functions" allowing them to have side effects, but then the more important distinction was lost.

Only relatively recently many languages began to provide again means to specify that a function is a pure function.
The "value" falls off quickly and dramatically though. Unless you have a desirable car that is well known to be just as good used as new (examples: Tesla, Jeep Wrangler, etc.), the second owner isn’t likely to get much of anything for it. If they bought it used at 3 years old, they probably paid 80% of the price it was new, and the dealer probably paid the original owner 60% of what it was worth new. If they hang onto it long enough to pay off a standard length auto loan (5 years) and drive it for a bit after that, you’re probably looking at a ten year old vehicle. They aren’t worth much to trade in. The dealer will pay you 5% of what it was worth new. At 20 years, be happy that they’re willing to dispose of your car for free. I’d be lucky to get a dealer to give me $2k for my ‘04 expedition, but they’d only give me $5k if it was a ‘12 with half the mileage.

That all being said, most cars in the US aren’t replaced because they’re not working or serviceable. People get bored of driving the same car every day. Either that, or they don’t trust a car after an accident, or the insurance company declares your car totaled because they think they can make a profit by fixing it a bit and selling it in a country with less stringent safety requirements.

I still drive my SUV because I’m a 6’4 dude who has a lot of trouble finding a comfortable vehicle. Most crossovers have my knees jammed into the dash or the entertainment system.
This really exemplifies the problem with the current state of the discussion: Here's the result of an open minded search, it's a statistical statement across all self-driving automotive systems, independent of vendors, but, as the results are not pleasing, it's clearly anti-Tesla.

How should we be able to discuss these things?
Seems fun!

>for Linux

Is there a reason that it cannot run on other Unix/Unix-like systems or even Windows?
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You’re on hackernews, not Instagram? It’s fun to see people solve things in an over-engineered way.
Which app has full listening history? I’ve been looking for that.
It's not censorship. Guarantee of reach on a post has not existed on FB for 10+ years if ever.

If it did, FB would be a spammers heaven.
That's not what I was talking about. Of course governments are not going to easily admit their own crimes and incompetence and failures -- the same as in the US they don't admit their failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria etc for example.

But they absolutely do love to push the moral and economic burden for such things on to the common person.

And of course people are proud of their country and history and societies because that's normal healthy part of the human condition. This behavior and thought is increasingly shamed and bullied though.
It's a normal part of censorship. During wars some countries have employed sensors to intercept letters from soldiers. The soldiers will never know what was censored en route or indeed if the letter made it at all.
I don't want a unified tablet / phone / desktop experience. I want interfaces that are optimised for the device rather than optimised for encouraging vendor lock ins.

Also it wasn't Windows 7 that first attempted that. PDAs back in ~2000 ran Windows CE with a Windows 95 / NT4 era UI. That also wasn't well optimised for smaller screens touch screens, hence the requirement to use a stylus. Then what followed was Windows Mobile 6, which looked more like XP, and 6.5 that had a vista / 7 type home screen but with classical Windows widgets. It wasn't until Metro (Win 8 / Mobile 7) when Microsoft really united the look and feel of Windows across all their platforms again, Xbox included.

Personally for me, XP was the decline of Microsoft's professional shell design. Windows 2000 was when Microsoft peaked. It was free from fluff but still had some minor tweaks of visual flair. XP was ugly, Vista and 7's widgets were poorly optimised for screen estate. And there after everything has taken a massive step backwards in usability.
That doesn’t make his conduct legal. See Martin Shkreli who was convicted of fraud and sentenced for 7 years despite making his investors money.
I recently found this subreddit which is kind of related: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/

I'm not identifying with it very much, but it's interesting.
I am a 78 year old contract developer, maintaining/developing a medium size system +- 200 modules. it takes me about 4-5 hours a day which is fine! Experience teaches you to tread carefully with critical systems (and people). There really is no need to work 10-12 hour days! Unless it is an unforeseen disaster this usually means you are not very well organized!

The "bright young things" are busy rewriting this system in mvc c# etc, which I help with in a minor role. This has been going on for 9 years with very little signs of completion! Not only have local developers been involved but also software companies in Russia and India have been involved! Developers have grown old on this project (including me!).

So whatever malaise has hit this project it seems to be international. My background on projects is mainly using the "waterfall" approach. My customers wanted a fixed price and so must have a fixed specification. I however appreciate the agile approach as being more flexible and reactive. But both methods must require users and developers to think through the problem and draw up at least a framework of requirements? This hasn't happened on this project and probably accounts for the slight overrun!
> It's probably bad if you're living paycheck to paycheck and you're struggling to get by.

That's precisely what kickstarted the Gilets Jaunes movement in France almost 3 years ago now.
Of course they are! It's just that this mass concentration appears to be outside a domestic regulated market and NASA/ESA are as helpless as the FTC against laws of nature.
I can see cli.go invokes syscall.Getdents(...), which is a Linux system call, so I'd say Linux, even if Go is supposed to be multi-platform.
That was only an issue with the DOS-bootstrapped versions. The NT line was a lot more reliable for early adopters. Or at least it was until XP came along. Which is another good reason why Microsoft peaked with Windows 2000.
See also (from 2014):

Running Multiple HTTP Endpoints as a Highly Available Health Proxy, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/running-multiple-h...

Doing Constant Work to Avoid Failures, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/doing-constant-wor...

A Case Study in Global Fault Isolation, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/a-case-study-in-gl...

Organizing Software Deployments to Match Failure Conditions, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/organizing-softwar...

Shuffle Sharding: Massive and Magical Fault Isolation, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/shuffle-sharding-m...

AWS and Compartmentalization, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/aws-and-compartmen...
Note that this is not just due to geography but to actual urban planning/architecture. Post-WWII US cities were explicitly designed for cars, and that's a disaster ecologically and practically.

See also Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality which has a long analysis on why car-oriented cities has a terribly-low efficiency.
Will this get the nod from dhh and make it into Rails? Dhh wdyt?
User A messages user B using iMessages.

User B screenshots all of those messages and uploads them unencrypted to a random FTP server.

Now replace the random FTP server with iCloud. Or Google Drive. Does that change the nature of the messaging between User A and User B? I would say it doesn't. In fact, WhatsApp does basically the same.
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Your messages delivered as standard unencrypted sms/mms instead of encrypted imessages.
Singal-jammers are relatively common. You can buy really good multi channel jammers online. Cellphone/WIFI jammers go from $100 - $1000.

Criminals use them all the time. People have so many wireless security cameras and everyone has mobile phones that jammers are becoming must have.

I guess only thing that made this noteworthy was that the jammer was stationary, used continuously and was easy to find.