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Like many other commentors here, I grew up playing primarily skill-based video games, like Legend of Zelda, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Counter-Strike, StarCraft. It was wanting to make these games that led me to become a software developer. But games were different. Even a game like Pokemon, which has a few loot-box mechanics, was only mildly addicting. The first game I remember being extremely addicting was World of Warcraft. It became a habit to simply click the icon as soon as the desktop loaded, and although I do have many good memories, I also know friends that played 8 hours a day for years whose lives look worse off to me. Through loot-boxes, social scores, and now mobile, addiction has been perfected.

And yet, we are not robots. We make our own choices. Parents set limits and create alternatives, and schools and community groups do too. Games also simply get old after a while. Anyone who really wants to stop a gaming addiction can stop it - it is only a question of will. So I find what the CCP is doing abhorrently wrong because their actions create the very dependence on government, and the removal of will at any other level, that perpetuates themselves as a solution. The Western way is messier for sure, but if we want freedom, we have to be OK with mistakes.
> How can you possibly have a valid copyright for software in French law if all license terms are considered contract breaches?

Perhaps you are confusing the copyright with the licence.

The copyright adheres strictly to the author. He can sell it, in which case he sells the right to licence and enforce.

If he licences, then he retains the copyright, and grants the licensee specific rights in exchange for specific actions. That's a licence agreement; to my mind, the word "agreement" signifies a contract. I find it a stretch to interpret a licence violation as a copyright violation.
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I hope this will, through rivalry with Apple, push Google to up the maximum quality of their audio streams on Youtube Music.

There was a significant decrease of quality since they migrated from Google Play Music (the difference can be heard especially with a good audiophile setup), and I hope they can undo that.
The Fed doesn't set bond interest rates. Rates on bonds are set by an auction. If bond interest rates are low, it's because bond investors want bonds. Which is to say, they think the US government will have no trouble paying them back. So the government borrows cheaply, and investors believe they will be able to continue to.

The Fed sets a different rate, one that banks use to lend money to each other. It forms kind of a floor for lending. They raise it to reduce lending, and thus slowing down the economy in general (and thus reducing inflation).

They've kept the latter at nearly zero -- arguably for the not-great reason of propping up assets. If anything, raising that would make bonds more attractive relative to stocks, dropping the interest rate further. Instead, we've gotten inflation, but only in the asset markets, not consumer inflation.

They actually wanted consumer inflation to be higher, so that consumers would be forced to put their money in asset markets rather than holding it in cash. They've finally gotten their wish, though it's likely that it is due more to pandemic-related shutdowns than to monetary-based demand.
> I think you can understand the artistic choice, from there.

A.K.A. Form over function / Style over substance ... a well trodden design road that never takes you in the right direction.
I love the one that comes with elementary OS[0]. Looking at those screenshots, it seems to be a fork of Gnome's calendar?

I've connected it to both Google Calendar and Nextcloud's calendar, and it works perfectly well, provides notifications, recurring events, and I can quickly access today's events just by clicking on the clock on the bar. No complaints what so ever.

elementary's tasks app, on the other hand, is still WIP.

[0] https://github.com/elementary/calendar
> Temporary

"Ahh, they fell for the temporary fallacy!"
Who in earth is a “lifelong cash holder”
Systems have to work with human fallibility. Surely the biggest burden should fall on those whose inattention, carelessness, etc is most likely to cause harm to others.
> I’m a classical neophyte and struggle with composer/orchestra/conductor fit.

If you're new to classical music you really don't need to worry about this. Almost all available professional recordings are of high quality, and the differences between interpretations are relatively subtle.

What is important is to get a sense of which composers you enjoy. Classical music spans a large period of time with very different styles, so try a few well-known composers from different time periods to see what you like. I greatly enjoy classical music and I regularly attend(ed) concerts, but my interests are very narrow and I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of Mozart and Beethoven for instance.

In my opinion, classical music is best enjoyed when you devote your full attention to listening to the music, i.e. when you're not doing anything else (or something with a very low cognitive load, like walking/driving/etc). Focus on how the music makes you feel, but it's okay to let your thoughts wander off a bit.
Generally it is 30 minutes meeting. If the we and candidate have a click we extend the meeting. I think works different for different organisations.
Those vaccines you mentioned actually worked to decrease infection rates though.

If the covid vaccine stopped the spread of the virus I would be agreeing with you.

Can you imagine if the Polio vaccine "wore off" like the Covid vaccine seems to?
Another thing to call out is that you also need to be precise in what the error is. Division by zero is indeed a grave error, but only when your code is not logically thought out - there should never have been any codepaths that divide by zero in the first place. So the error that your should report is whatever cause the denominator to be zero, not division by zero. That's almost entirely useless, and
misleading.
>they know what I want before I do.

Or did they tell you what to want?
Go look into the even richer guy that funds the elections of SF's DA.
I've no problem with mandatory vaccines. That said, I think starting with kids and school isn't really fair. Start with pensioners and their favoured activities and work down to kids etc.
https://archive.is/AYCH9
It's quite hard to be really bad physician - because Pareto principle applies to medicine. As far as I remember, 5 autoimmune diseases (of >120 described; ~4%) make up for 80% of total autoimmune diseases. My relative did research on kidney diseases and results were similar.
Watts = Volts * Amps

Any reason you've defined it as:
(Amps * Seconds * Volts) / (Amps * Seconds) * (Amps * Seconds * Seconds)
?

Fairly sure but not positive that I've reduced the units to base SI units correctly...
I know your type. Names are appropriate, mate.

You are telling me to abandon my family, friends and connections I have here... why exactly? So you can keep commuting while I am for remote work? All while telling me to move instead?

You, your attitude and people like you are the reasons /r/latestagecapitalism exist. As much as you might hate it, people are more than just a walking commodity.
Which libertarians are you talking to? Every libertarian I've read or heard from has been against these "[t]emporary and mild authoritarian measures". The more popular libertarian publication/website, "Reason" has been against (all?) these measures.
Pray tell, can you clarify what's incorrect in the above description?
I'm the author of the article, it's always fun to see your own articles pop up on HN unexpectedly.

This post was written several months ago and in the meantime I have given up on trying to cobble something together using existing solutions because they don't provide the extensibility that I want.

I'm building my own replacement from scratch focussing on tasks/projects/calendars first. The architecture is a postgres db exposing CRUD API endpoints and all changes are broadcasted over MQTT so I can easily hook into everything for automation and extension.

I have a desktop application in JavaFX and a mobile Android app so I can use Kotlin as one language across all clients and backend. Lots of code sharing going on for things like API models.
Vaccination is very effective at preventing deaths, but vaccinated people can still carry and spread the virus.
> IMO, a "code janitor" doesn't just sit around all day reading HN. When I use those words, I mean the type of job where you're expected to fix bugs and implement features and not much else.

Yes. We are on the same page, just using different words.

I definitely didn't mean "slacking off". I meant exactly what you said: have 3.5 to 4.5 hours of good solid programming work per day (because realistically that's what most programmers cover in terms of actual focused productive time in the standard 8h work day) where you have already ticked the boxes (or nobody cares about them as you said) so you just pull stuff from a backlog and move at a steady pace with not much supervision.

The company I am very soon starting with has people I like very much, plus I love what they do. But if that turns sour then I'd likely be looking for 2-3 "code janitor" jobs in parallel in order to protect my mental health for a while.

> When a recruiter wants to connect on LinkedIn and have a short phone conversation about an exciting new position, you always say yes.

Maybe you are right. To me outright insisting on a phone call is very disruptive and out of place. I've tried it several times and maybe I drew the short end of the stick every time but they all were young and fairly clueless HRs who just wanted to parrot their speech that was supposed to motivate me and then immediately pressure me for an answer. Don't know, didn't find that a good expenditure of my time.

Maybe I am doing something wrong, I am open to that, but I really am not sure that I want to expose myself to such toxic time wasters. Any advice?
I think the concept of "getting a job" will go away. It is from an area where we did not have software and the internet to work together efficiently as we do now.

"Giving you a job" carries work and risk. "Accepting a job" too. We do not need that type of friction anymore.

I think systems like Upwork will become the norm. Where you just start working on some small task. Without much of an application. Without much expectation. Then both sides can grow together over time and work together more and more.

To me, the old way of writing and reading applications seems rather insane these days. Imagine we would do the same for relationships. No more dating. Write and read letters instead. Then meet and talk once or twice and then BOOM: Marriage. Nobody would want that. I think we will abandon it for jobs too.
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Surely this is old enough now that they could surface the fork on an OS / DOS enthusiast site, the same thing for Apple Star Trek (also on DRDOS).
“You’re still early” is the official calling card of every MLM and Ponzi scheme out there. Gotta convince people they’re not too late so you can redistribute their money to previous participants.

Whether that applies here is up to the reader.

I recently learned investing in TQQQ at almost any point in the last 5 years would have yielded better returns than Bitcoin. With much lower volatility. shrug.

Financial opportunities are like a bus route: there’s always another one coming. Don’t let people FOMO you into investing in something you don’t understand or are uncomfortable with. Especially not with something of unquantifiable risk.
You're right that my comment smacks of "go outside, kids" and sounds belittling.

It's easy for me to make the claim that I did, because I have no stake on the internet. Neither my income nor my passion is dependent upon an online audience. Here I am in my armchair, "it's not a problem, you're the problem!"

That's insensitive and I apologize.

Still, do consider the possibility that the passion behind your response is grounded in an overinvestment in online interactions. I don't know you, and may be overstepping bounds, but this is the softer version of my point.
Yes some people just need a nudge in the right direction to carry the task through to completion. And some need to be pushed along the entire way. In either case they don't leave the interview feeling humiliated having floundered in the face of smug silence.
After spending years in manufacturing IT, there are hundreds if not thousands of systems like these running, where the company that created the software is long gone.

This where you end up with DOS, Windows 3.1 and even Windows NT computers controlling machines that make millions of dollars worth of product, 24 hours a day.

We've spent hours scouring eBay or industrial auction sites finding parts of computers to keep 'just in case'. None of this software virtualizes easily or can even be moved to a machine of similar vintage without relicensing. Some of it is hardware dongles, some of it software keys.

It seems like you could create quite a business being able to crack this software. Companies would pay tens of thousands to get these machines running. Often times the 'new' version of the hardware and software is $100,000 US.

In a few years, internet-based licensing will be the thing to crack.
whoever down-voted that needs to rent a sense of humor!
Some very famous prodigies made a 'game' out of their field. Terence Tao for example, said he used to make a game out of mathematical solutions. And that he knows more about math after graduate school than before or during.

My personal experience in this was with a imaginative text-based game called a MUD. There were times when I was spending 20-50+ hours a week role-playing and player-killing with a group of friends. I very nearly flunked out of a full-tuition scholarship my freshman year, and left anyway because it wasn't fulfilling to me - I wanted to be a sysadmin, not study liberal arts. In HS it was fun using a PoE adapter to POTS for Internet access.

The things I took away from excessive gaming were "saying the right words to convince other people I have their best interests at heart" (RP for player-run cabals) and "speed reading skimming" "fast-twitch typing" and "writing conversationally."

I probably could have saved myself a lot of trouble financially and academically and emotionally without these 'second lives' but I did see some positive outcomes. Real Life is usually a richer experience socially/experientially... except when it comes to playing make-believe... how much of the intersubjectivity superstructure (sociologically) isn't make-believe...? Perhaps, perhaps.
https://archive.is/PPjYr
GP's link is to landrover.ca, implying Canadian origin - a country which does not share land borders with Eastern Europe. By the time a group is big enough to be fencing cars overseas, I wouldn't be so quick to discount their ability to move through a seaport.
Except that the comment itself drew a distinction between the government's decision, how the people will respond, and how the government will respond to the people's response. I could see confusion happening only if the reader gave up part way through.
One I liked: Earlier in the war the British threw the Germans off by dumping a dead homeless man’s body off the Spanish coast, dressed as an officer.
Documents on him were designed to cause troop movements that benefitted the allies, and it was corrected anticipated that these would be shared with the Germans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
It's less about fairness or even effectiveness, and more about the art of the possible, to be honest. Restricting travel from France to Germany or Florida to New York would probably be _far_ more effective in controlling covid (though, even then, not all that effective; once covid is present it mostly spreads internally in practice) than US<->EU restrictions, but it's obviously far less politically feasible.

I feel like there's a large element of theatrics around covid travel restrictions (except for zero-covid-strategy countries, but those are rare); it's something that's relatively easy to do, so, even though it probably isn't particularly useful in most cases, it gets done.

Ireland's mandatory hotel quarantine is a nice example; it currently largely applies to countries which people rarely travel to Ireland from anyway (Brazil being the main exception). It does _not_ apply, and never has applied to, say, the UK; despite the UK having very high rates right now, travel between the UK and Ireland is far too common for it to be feasible. But at the time it was introduced, the vaccine programme was slow due to supply issues, and the government wanted to be seen to be doing _something_, so...
Yeah, like, Quake 3/Live, CS 1.6, MTA/SAMP…

Unfortunately even the current Counter-Strike incarnation has a fucking casino in it. Arguably more optional than in other games but still there.
From the site guidelines:

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

Your post and the ensuing thread is a great example of why this made it into the guidelines. An interesting article, but over half the comments are a discussion about the page's format. 1/4 (at the time I submit this) of the comments are yours, and they add no value to the conversation.
https://archive.is/mVz7i
Theranos founder claims abuse by ex-boyfriend in fraud trial: court filings
Pretty sure the Sabre website is out of date. sabre/dav requires PHP 7.1+ || 8.0+ per https://packagist.org/packages/sabre/dav
> What resources are used by cattle in Northern Europe? .. oh and btw don't forget to bring an umbrella, to witness all the missing water that happens to be falling from the sky.

In the UK, the resources include soya-based animal feeds imported from Brazil [0]. Cattle cannot live by rainfall alone.

[0] https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/soya/
Ha, I’d write ‘Tjajkovskij’ in Swedish and ‘Tschaikowski’ in German, so i guess there are even more variations…
Zozo solved this with the Zozosuit: https://corp.zozo.com/en/news/20201029-6375/ (that is version 2).

You wear a ridiculous looking figure-hugging suit and scan yourself with their app. Then you don't wear the suit again (unless you change shape). Version 2 of the suit looks much less silly.

Now you can order what you want and it's for your size!

It does works, but... make sure you know exactly what you want. e.g. do you want a closer fit? Looser fit?
You preclude the possibility that you can use both. High value docs should be in code, others can be normal docs.
Recent discussion regarding a similar(?) game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343941
https://archive.is/nVHPi

the only mention of lost is "lost hope" .. I'm not sure he lost the source, or maybe I misread.
perfect example of a keyhole solution. Also perfect opportunity to link to my favourite propaganda site [0]

[0] https://openborders.info/keyhole-solutions/
You make it sound a lot more scientific than it is.
> Overlord came around there was an enormous amount of accumulated experience in how to do amphibious assaults without need to consult the people in the PTO.

The failure to take armour has been blamed as a cause of the huge casualties the US took. However the weather was terrible, so it might have exacerbated the problem.
In my opinion no. France doesn't recognize copyright for software the same way the US does. And since an end user agreement is essentially a generic one-sided contract, the court can reject any clauses that it feels is over reaching.
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Can I get a job? I've been on multiple stages of interviews, of which, some are 2+ hours of coding and even if it seems promising and that everyone's happy... I still end up getting looked over. Even programs like returnships that are specifically for people who've been out of the game for 1+ year, despite showing them that I can code and architect software... I'm still kept waiting and don't get in. I feeling pretty dispirited at this point.
I think SWE requires two things:

- a centralized accrediting authority with uniform standards.

- a apprenticeship model.

An apprenticeship model let's you score folks while they're early in their careers and provides a standardized way to traverse levels of software engineering. This will show an engineer can write code.

In my opinion, writing code is not the same as writing optimal code, and also isn't uniformly required. For finding people that can write optimal code you need someone with a more mathematics heavy background. That is where a centralized accrediting entity can determine that you have tested on algorithms, data structures, and how they are related for entities that need that. This differs from college because the standard is uniform.
I currently believe that it is because software engineers are non-substitutable. The hiring manager is not looking for any qualified engineer, they are looking for a very specific engineer who is also qualified. Engineers also are not looking for "any programming job", they want a job at an early-stage startup or in an infrastructure team or to learn a new framework. This is true in many industries, of course, but significantly more so for software.
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The federal government has funded point of care covid screening, which is probably the single most effective way to limit spread in schools. It's the fault of local school boards that they haven't used the money.
> life is boring and unfulfilling for many people, so they are attracted to the notion that some spectacular event is going to suddenly upend their lives and make life more interesting

Mainly agree. As I was watching the Taliban take over region by region I wondered how many people were watching it in their comfortable home with nice things and climate control and couldn't help but feel envy in that these people (Taliban fighters) are doing something impactful and meaningful in their lives; creating the change they wanted. That while living in poverty relative to the person watching at home, they have real purpose.

Would the unfulfilled and bored person ever be able to put it all on the line for something they are certain is theirs and do their part in a collective of idealists with the same courage of their convictions? That the work to get there doesn't happen in a day or a month or a year but over decades, much like building a meaningful career and family that gives you fulfillment.
Except job security. If you join a company in Finland on a permanent contract, once you have passed the trial period (6 months nowadays), it's quite difficult to get rid of you.

Changing jobs can be a hassle. It means learning new names, potentially changing private healthcare provider, getting new equipment and setup, learning new company politics.
There are already many restrictions imposed for people under 18. To circumvent them kids link their parents' QQ when gaming so don't know how much of an impact this will actually have.
I haven't seen the travel restrictions converted into xenophobia that much where I am. I tend to consume a spectrum of Canadian media and a few of the late night shows from the US - but the only thing I've noticed is more negativity in reporting in Canada about American handling.