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Here's one question not on the list: what's the Ada job market look like?

As a web dev looking to deep dive on some non-web topic with the pragmatic constraint that it must be a hireable one, Ada seems promising but I wouldn't know where to start looking for jobs.
{
auto p =
new std::make_unique<type>;
...
} /// oops again.

The fact being the "reliability" is a good as the hundreds of developers that touched the code.

Real reliabile features don't depend on their skills to actually work 100% of the time, and doing something like newing a RAII type would be a compiler error, but alas it isn't.
What? They have been studied. For this and for other vaccinations. Kids get duplicate MMRs all the time because of lost paperwork.

Sometimes it feels like a new virus comes along and people forget we have 111 years experience with vaccinations.
They already do this using security cameras. How do you think the manufacturers know which shelves and the placements of them to bid on?
There are fall sensors the elderly can wear, they often have a bonus panic button too.

In answer to your question: This isn't useful for anything yet as it is early academic research that mostly just proves it is possible, it would have to be refined and minimized to become commercially useful.

That being said I cannot imagine this being more accurate or cheaper than optical sensors + computer vision, privacy issues can be mitigated by building a closed-look with no outside connection. The point of this laser technique is for situations where you cannot/don't want to have direct vision of the location (e.g. inside the body, inside a room, etc).
I like data. I would like to review all the metrics my medical device collects. I'd welcome an app to make it even easier to view. That's all pro-consumer. That can be done by storing data on SD cards; via a USB connection; via built-in Bluetooth or WiFi. It's an easily-solved problem, and with modern wireless networking, something that the average consumer can navigate without much trouble. Even for the most tech-unsavvy patient, a removable SD card that you can bring to your doctor is a fine solution.

The problem starts when third parties are involved. Now I've got a CPAP with a cellular modem in it. Where is that data going? Who's processing it? Who are they sharing it with? What are the security precautions? Can they change settings without me knowing? At least the thing doesn't have a microphone on it too...

Even beyond medical privacy, I've now got a device that reports where I am and when I'm asleep, to who-knows-who. That's a wealth of data and I have no idea who it's being shared with. I realize that my cellphone is an even better surveillance device, but I trust my cellphone provider a lot more than I trust all the companies involved in CPAP manufacture and monitoring. Google and Apple are a whole lot better at security than some medical company that outsources data management.
Yup. I don't think the similarity is because I'm copying Knuth (I certainly wasn't deliberately doing so); this is a very well known argument and there isn't all that much scope for presenting it very differently.

(Oddly, I think the presentation in the later Concrete Mathematics is worse than in TAOCP; they're trying to make it more approachable but I think just make it a bit more roundabout.)
My sister is a nurse in a "red" state. During Covid they CLOSED 3 entire floors of the Hospital due to inactivity, she was PISSED because those floors could have easily been used as overflow.

And yes thay are "full" now because operational capacity has been significantly reduced.

>>"I almost wish that the anti-vaxxers would just stick to their science-rejecting principles and reject all health care, not just the vaccine. If they were to just die at home instead of clogging up the health care system unnecessarily, the vaccine would not be such a big deal."

Comments like this are just pure disgraceful and disgusting. What sort of degenerate would wish this upon others blows my mind.
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> Mature stagnant shuffling

It's worse than stagnant. I don't get why Verizon paid 9B for Yahoo and now is just selling it for 5B. Perhaps there's some bizarre finance logic behind it?

But wouldn't it have been better for Verizon and now Apollo Global to invest in fresh stuff instead of the VERY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED DOWNWARD SPIRAL of the Yahoo brand? Did Verizon actually intend to revive the brand? It doesn't seem they did. Nor does Apollo Global which, it appears, are just a bunch of bankers.
> I don't think there is a such a thing as a bad programming language, only bad programmers.

Bollocks. A programming language is a thing that is created/engineered. As such it can be evaluated as well fitting for its purpose (aka being a good programming language) or being bad fitting for its purpose (aka a bad programming language).

This reply makes no judgment on the validity of the arguments present in the article, only about the existence of bad/good programming languages.
Looks fine and dandy but could also be represented in JSON with not much effort and then you'd be using an interchange format understood by many tools instead of a bespoke language.

I'm definitely biased being a web dev but JSON is just so widely used and supported... seems ideal for small bits of config like this.
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You could weigh insertions by how much perplexity they add (sum), deletions by how much perplexity they remove (-sum), and replacements by how big the ppl difference is in the replaced word (abs(sum)). And report this as a 4-part score (combined mean, then separate i/d/r). Lower is better.

Theory being you don't want to add or remove confusing words, but common stop words are less of an issue.

I'm not sure how this interacts with a multi word replacement, where the new words together make sense but independently make no sense to the LM.
Yes, that's what they're called by Twitter users, but the word has a meaning that originated (I believe) in the 80s with Usenet threads and is now applied to other places where similar structures exist (Like this HN comment thread). It's obvious that a forum thread or HN thread is basically the same as the original meaning, but Twitter threads are more like disconnected individual sentences that are so illegible and difficult to navigate that it doesn't seem reasonable to call them threads.

Clicking "Show Replies" a few tweets down seems to have a 50/50 chance of actually getting me to the end of the thread. On a desktop browser, not logged in, there are a handful of real sentences per screenful. There's a plethora of user interface elements you have to ignore to find the content, with repeated user icons, both a name and an @, dates and times (when it's all practically posted at the same time), retweets, quotes, likes, free-form continuation indicators counting 1/ 2/ 3/, and so on. Twitter will randomly offer seemingly unrelated tweets interspersed throughout.
> why isn't Covid antibody testing a suitable substitute for vaccination?

As I noted elsewhere, in many jurisdictions it is, as is testing.

In fact, as the very article upon which you are commenting notes, under the new OSHA rules those who do not want to get vaccinated can simply take a test once a week instead!

I admit, some mornings I have a bit of dry mouth, but after my morning coffee I always have enough spit to hock a loogie into a cup. For science and the greater good.
No I’m simply rejecting your framing of the discussion. Rights are not a question of votes. It is not up for deciding democratically. To frame the question this way is to fundamentally misunderstand how rights work.
Mahjong Soul. Probably somehow related to refreshing part of the screen. I can open it and then twitch archive and then try to jump in that archive and screen goes black, and the game stays black.
> It didn't email a complaint. It did precisely what he configured it to do

From the tweets:

> I don’t even remember giving permission for our fridge to email.

Also, if you read the thread, this seems to be a new 'feature' they've added since he set it up - the fridge was silent for a year, then boom - stupid email.
The idea that people made their lives intentionally harder in the past is absolutely ludicrous. Almost every person in history would swap places with me right now in a heartbeat.
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Is this using the original yt-dl or the fork with more features? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Given that at any one time that means that at least 90% of the developers will be trying to ignore one or more conversations (while trying to work or having their own) it comes back to the question the intent of that space and if that's actually helping productivity.

Is that team of 10 collaborating and trying to ignore everyone else while doing so more productive in that space than they would be in their own team office or sets of offices? And are the other non-talking developers not being less productive because of the distraction? It doesn't take a lot of distraction for a team of 10 to drag down the productivity of the other 90 people into a net loss for the room.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/12/05/so-hows-that-retir...
Most conflicts would start with coordinated strikes on known anti-air and anti-ship installations, unless these land based launchers are road-mobile and constantly on the move, they'll be quickly targeted.

A corvette at least has the chance to blend in with a few fishing trawlers and keep moving around to make itself harder to find and take out.
If you are expressing the views of a foreign state or group will your anti US rhetoric be respected?
Cade Metz is such a tool.
> The vaccine does not in fact guarantee person X will not be infected or hospitalized. Widespread vaccination does result in systemic reduction in community spread.

We aren't going to wipe out COVID. It's here to stay. From people to animals. At some point most of us will likely get it. There has been a fair amount written on this.

If we look at past times we had pandemics (e.g., pandemic of 1889-90) we can see patterns. There the virus hit people and was bad the first year and gradually was less and less until they stopped tracking it. When we get hit the first time we get some immunity. For the virus from that pandemic it happens today as kids. Antibodies fade over time (while T cells remain). That means our nose and throat can easily get reinfected but after the first time we usually just get a simple cold (and first time is usually a simple cold, too).

That situation moved from pandemic to endemic. The same will happen here.

Yet, every year ~40k people in the US die from cold/flu.

We can't stop it. How we treat people along the way will say a lot about us and impact our relationships once we hit the endemic stage.

We'll get to endemic without or without the vaccine. The vaccine will help. Forcing people is going to create enemies and the side effect will live beyond the pandemic.

Just a thought to ponder.
Great thread so far.

Anything specific for Python, and recent enough to be based on the latest Python (3.9.5, or at least 3.x)?

I remember (but can't find it, sorry) a great "learn by example" web tutorial, but based on Python 2.x, and possibly at least 6-7 years old by now.
Open plan offices are unpopular partly because the C-level suite tries to sell the idea that they are somehow superior to offices. Everyone knows it's a way for the company to save money. Being lied to, on top of feeling miserable in an open plan office, is what really gets people's skin boiling.

Personally, I worked in a cubicle for most of my career, but when I switched to an office, it took a good year for me to get used to not turning around to look who's behind me when I heard an ambient sound. Not because I'm doing something I shouldn't be doing, but simply because I hate the idea of somebody being behind me (I even sit in restaurants with my back to wall when I can).

> I know they’re “notoriously unpopular” but if you did a survey I’m sure you find waking up to go to work in the morning is pretty unpopular too. The alternative is to increase the cost of employing you in a way that doesn’t result in any form of compensation, which if you think it through is likely not a very good idea.

People also hate sitting cramped in an airplane, yet they still fly. But given the choice to drive, they would. Meaning that morale will be low and people will take the first opportunity to find something more comfortable. I understand that it's a balance between cost and morale, but there's a point at which you cannot recover morale by other means.

The proliferation of work-from-home policies is the best thing to come out of the pandemic, in workplaces where it is possible. If you took this survey now, and divided it among wfh and wfo employees, I suspect you would find a big discrepancy.
There is usually a setting for the rear seat reminder. It's to remind people to not leave their babies in the car. Maybe the volume is purposefully set a little high to wake the kid up just in case you forget.
Just in time before 2022. Great!
> his first name was Gilbert

Which the French pronounce, zheel BEAR (with the usual guttural R at the end). (Source: lived in France as a kid, had a family friend by that name; cf. Stephen Colbert.)
I remember when Microsoft had the "every engineer gets a private office" policy.

The offices were often these dark, depressing, holes, but many folks liked them.

I believe they have gone open plan, and I'm not sure how that's being received.

I know that Intel had a cubicle culture, and even the CEO had a cubicle. Not sure if they still do.

Japan has the open plan offices from hell. Huge rooms, with rows of desks, and the manager's desk, crammed at the end of the row.

Even Vice-Presidents, with billion-dollar (hundred-billion-Yen) budgets, would have a small, "schoolteacher"-style desk, in the corner of the room.

The offices that I liked the most, were in Germany. They would have a couple of engineers in each office, with big windows. Someone told me that there is a law, in Germany, that requires windows in offices.
A previous place I worked at had open plans and lots of "Audio Privacy Rooms". Open plan was like a library, things hushed and almost no talking. For any call or conference to be joined, it was done from the APRs, which had a comfy seat, a phone (redundant with video collab software), a door and some sound proofing.
That doesn't address the core hypocrisy of the statement, which is that bodily autonomy is "non-negotiable" for some and non-existent for others. Either the government has authority over your body or they don't, regardless of justification.
my own theory: they all provide the same thing - me time.

I've tried them all too, and found success from most for my mental health.

I effectively meditate when exercising, and that is what I think gets these results.
LIFO is a perfectly reasonable mode, when overloaded. FIFO will give you a stable equilibrium where every request takes too long and fails. LIFO breaks out of that operating point.

This is the key feature of the CoDel solution to buffer bloat.
On the contrary it's the vaccinated people who are sick but don't know that they're sick who are spreading the virus.
But when you're coming from an open source perspective, or just expect tools to be free, like they mostly are for other languages (and should be imo), then those other vendors don't matter as you cannot afford them anyway and AdaCore becomes the only vendor, you can't afford gnatpro either btw.
Mandatory https://xkcd.com/1914/
Thank you for this needed comment. ER wait times were a problem before Covid. I've experienced waiting in an ER with a loved one who was convulsing, it was extremely scary and sobering to see how long we waited (about an hour or so). This was before covid.

Emergency Rooms were scary and full before Covid!
It may seem hard to believe, but not every civilization throughout history has put consumerism and comfort above all other values.
There have always been options for healthcare, the best one being have a spouse with a job with good coverage.

Now, with the ACA, you can get meh coverage without the extensive shopping and hoop jumping it used to require.
Yeah? How often are they at their places in that open office doing work vs traveling or in conference rooms? I betcha for most of them it's 'not often'
Are you kidding? Have you ever snatched heavy? thrown around kettlebells ?
"Never" was too strong a word but I stand by the market being small. I know modern x86 CPUs are used in embedded and I even have a robot arm that uses a 486 with bare metal software for motor control.

My comment is a reply to the parent but also to the article which I could have clarified. In retrospect I am probably replying to the wrong comment to give my opinion. I think a few CPU part numbers per generation guaranteed to be available for decades is a good idea (and I think it's true already). I also think custom SOCs is a good idea. I just don't think there is feasibility for both custom and long life in the same part.

Then, to reply to you, are you using x86 CPUs in a part of a system that will actually last 50 years? I used to work in automation and perhaps I have a bias based on what I saw in my projects. I was generally paid to automate old machines (oldest was about 60 years old) or upgrade the automation of machines. Sometimes we would keep ancient PLCs running for decades, and sometimes replace them (with a newer PLC that can certainly run for decades). For worn-out mechanical parts we would usually find an old drawing, or reverse engineer an old part and make a new identical one.

But for HMIs, dataloggers and webservers, everyone seemed to be trending towards using industrial products built around x86. These would always be secondary systems and interface to the PLC, but not actually be critical components (well, maybe 1 out of several HMIs is required). But, these tended to be replaced every 5-15 years if they stopped working or a new feature was required, and not maintained with spare parts. It doesn't seem that the manufacturers of these things keep them available for a long time either.

Out of interest, I just looked up the current product line of Beijers HMI panels (I used to mainly use them in my projects), and they seem to be built around Atom, Celeron and iMX6 (great CPU btw) CPUs. Having seen inside the older products, I doubt these have standardized sockets to drop in a new CPU 30 years from now. In fact, the models I used to buy 15 years ago are no longer available and the only option is to buy a newer model and translate the old UI screens to the UI model (either manually or automatically). They do still work with ancient PLCs though.

My thesis is for these, or one of the x86-based "soft PLCs", or in general, for the most part it makes sense to use available commodity parts and keep the product line inexpensive and compatible at the software level rather than select a CPU with 50 year availability. And especially not ask for a custom SoC and then pay for 50 year availability. And not use an off the shelf OS and libraries and hope they work for 50 years. Much better to standardize some interfaces and maintain only those for 50 years.

As a final comment, there are absolutely cases with huge qualification costs or human safety requirements where it makes sense to pay big money to keep using old, proven parts even if they are obsolete, like aerospace or nuclear.
aicoder< What is a User?

nocoder> a User registers with a unique email and a password of more than 16 characters, but not the weird ones just the normal ones. Oh, and on registration give the user a unique id.

aicoder< So, email the user their unique id?

nocoder> No, no, it's our little secret.

aicoder< Would you like to design the registration form now?

nocoder> God no, just make a standard form. With client-side validation. And server-side validation too, just to be safe. And give it some flair, we're a cool company after all.

aicoder< (I don't get paid enough for this shit.)

nocoder> Wait, what?

aicoder< Would you like to add the flair now?
your framing is that anything you say is a right/violation/infringement is one

that framing does not reflect reality

if and when a SCOTUS ruling says that this specific mandate is a violation of constitutional rights, you will be correct

until then, you are not correct, by default

otherwise any random dude on the internet could just declare _anything_ a "right" and declare _anything_ an "infringement"

I still respect you as a person, though -- have a great day
Mostly to people that are unvaccinated... If 90% of people were vaccinated r would be less than 1 and there would be no spread.
We do need new terms for everybody. These terms from Revolutionary France are making enemies out of pepper who mostly agree with each other, and allies out of people who don’t actually agree on very much.
>> they (Google & FB) didn’t add those things because they wanted to. They added them because their platforms would be banned from Europe if they didn’t.

These regulatory environments, including european countries, merge regulator and platform. One controls the literal regulation, while the other controls implementation. Both are heavily involved in each others decision making.

I'm not saying that advertising plastic surgery or sugar dating to teenagers is good, or should not be regulated. Lots of things are troublesome and need courts and legislators to do stuff. I'm just noting what happens the difference depending on who's pocket book it impacts.

No countries, certainly not EU countries, make quick turnaround decisions that could gut a major revenue stream at FB-scale.
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"You work wherever you want."

Yes and I like working in an office so does that count as "wherever" ?. The future is not Either Or. The future is "work from office if you like, work from home if you like".
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Those rankings are laughably out-of-date. People can't leave the house in Australia without a visit from the police. In any case, these NGO-compiled lists are suspect to begin with. So, you think federal Covid vaccine mandates are a small issue? What are the 'big issues' the country needs to solve, in your opinion?
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The only question that matters is will you force me to work in the conditions you prefer against my will?
Looking at the article I'm not sure what's with the choice of photograph at the top.

I've never once had a problem with open plan. I can talk with people or not. It's easy to communicate when needs be, and I can put headphones on when I want to not be interrupted.

What I have been bothered by is the idea of someone staring over my shoulder whenever they feel like it while I'm at work. It's creepy, it's invasive, and having a glass panel surrounding the office seems like the worst of all worlds. I get that the caption says it isn't creepy. It is creepy. You're completely cut off from everyone else but anyone that feels like it can easily spy on what you're doing all day while you work.

This is why so many people don't ever want to return to an office. It's not just the commute. There are so many subtle little negatives that add up and companies don't even want to acknowledge it.
FYI, here is an article from The Atlantic describing just that from 2015.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/emergency...

It may not be the norm, but how unusual was it?
precisely and concise.
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The belligerent aliens with their Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulators laugh at our puny nuclear weapons.
> The pandemic showed that productivity sky-rocketed in remote working

The pandemic proved that productivity sky-rocketed when almost everything fun is cancelled and all's you have to do is stay inside and work