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> These are all things that affect whether a product could be perceived as good vs. bad.

Yes, and it is actually useful to say "I need this product to be inexpensive", rather than "I want this product to be good."

That's what the author is getting at. Just saying "I want the product to be intuitive and simple" is worthless. You have to actually define what that means and what properties the product has to be considered "intuitive". But too often, "I want it to be intuitive" is about as far as they get.
Initially? Successfully. Coalition forces overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's baathist government in Iraq. It was the subsequent occupation and nation-building stage where things became hairy.

Which is why I suggested to hand off North Korea to China once its government has been defeated. China will use the cheap labor and vast mineral resources of the country, NK's citizens will see major improvements in their quality of life.
To add some circumstantial evidence, Namecheap currently has 52 job openings, of which 47 are in Ukraine, 1 each are in Portugal and India, and 3 are remote: https://www.namecheap.com/careers/openings/
NASA has some unique challenges because they usually can't use elastomers (too hot/cold), so their tires are usually metal.

Airless tires usually depend on a finely-tuned elastic polymer of some kind with a fairly narrow temperature range.
Agreed.

It's one thing to teach general skills and another to help do the actual hacking

If they are being guided through the actual hacking then that's saying that only the driver in pair programming is producing code
I don’t think this is me, haha
This reminds me how in Germany the "government" parties CDU and SPD kept this balanced budget meme going for a decade by cutting spending on infrastructure and now that we've made the sacrifice it's time for Germany to go into debt... for income tax decreases for the wealthy... FDP's proposal feels like a big joke. 88 billion for absolutely nothing.

https://twitter.com/AnnaGallinaHH/status/1432079457905483779...

https://twitter.com/boavista_social/status/14246286234961264...

Whenever a government goes into debt to finance infrastructure the bean counters will tell you, no, you can't waste money like that. That infrastructure will only last 20-30 years. Future generations will be burdened by the roads, public transportation and clean energy infrastructure we have built for them.

The truth is that when you are doing something like an infrastructure investment, the people that are making sacrifices are people who could have worked on something more productive. Companies don't seem to care. If they are lacking labor they simply set up business in Asia. If the infrastructure bill hires unemployed people then the present net burden could even be negative.
Rails, which GitLab is based on, uses suffixes to select content renderer (such as .html, .json - apparently in case sensitive manner), also I think it will serve underlying files in some cases (e.g. the example of dashboard.html) given elsewhere.

The proper fix is to disable this mechanism at least for the username segment of gitlab path but perhaps GitLab developers are too lazy or unaware or just in rush.
Ouch. I’ve had a few cases of developers on the verge of being fired because of bad code causing friction with the team.

Code reviews never help in those cases. There is always an underlying cause: the developer is trying to rush to prove something, or maybe over-engineering for the same reason. Maybe he has some issues at home, or isn’t sleeping well. Maybe it’s just lack of experience. Maybe it is a personality issue and the developer is trying to save face by sticking to his guns.

Either way, I find that it is much better to have private discussions with the developer to increase the code quality via mentoring, or pairing. It helps removing the defensiveness, doesn’t make them feel publicly humiliated and doesn’t spend the time of the team with the review-fix cycle.
Perhaps you haven't seen this one yet: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...

Someone else summarized it as "Being in the hospital with covid is not the same as being in the hospital because of covid"
Thinking about the effects of subtractive colours with paints never maps successfully onto additive colours we have on screen. In fact the way in which say blue and yellow make a form of green by subtraction is fascinating and explains why you can never mix a really bright colour. There is no equivalent on screen as far as I know.

I was taught to put my black paint away and never ever use it! You really don't need it (unless you want to paint something that is actually black).
If we're bringing up costs... what actually bothers me rather severely is the $2100 price tag per Monoclonal Antibodies treatment.

But it works. And people are freaking out about COVID19 so much that its free. Maybe we should start a debate about the moral hazards of giving highly expensive (though effective) COVID19 treatments to population centers who have refused to take the $20 vaccine?

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If people want the "cheap miracle drug that works", that was dexamethasone, at a price tag of like $15 or so. And the vaccine of course. I don't know why they're going for IVM.

As a steroid, its an innately risky treatment (steroids suppress your immune system). But its been shown that the cheap steroid dexamethasone, when used in correct doses, can greatly decrease mortality rates. So yeah, take with assistance of a doctor (to make sure your situation is the right use case), but we already have a "cheap miracle drug" success story here if people just want some hope or optimism in their lives. Dexamethasone was credited for cutting out 50% of deaths or something along that magnitude.
You may conflate politics with medical best practices during a pandemic, but as long as I’m paying their salaries they don’t get to have their freedom dole cake and eat it too.
I wouldn't even want that guy on my team as a junior, because he's a headache waiting for a place to happen.
I'm not a super-coder; give me a JS project of moderate complexity and I'd have no idea what's going on or what I'm supposed to do with it. But as a data scientist I do have the reputation of being good at coding even among some of the engineers at my company.

And some of the code produced by both data scientists and engineers ... it's, hm, not great? Just between you and me? So I'm glad I've never had the inclination to tear anyone to shreds. Indeed, part of my job used to be to help people with their coding problems, and I loved doing that.

But sometimes when I'm reviewing code ... it's very hard to bite my lip and not call out every little issue, even though it would just be too much and most of the "problems" aren't actually very important. I try to impress upon people that developing good code is useful when I lead training sessions, but it's hard, especially for people who'd rather be doing data science than coding.
This "solution" means Tokyo and/or Seoul gets nuked. That's hardly a solution.
Authentication - its Apple and googles way of knowing that the card is actually issued by a known app developer, linked To a real financial institution with the right relationship with a card network. Bc the AppStore is locked down Apple can do it this way more easily than on the web.
I love this, and apart from its intended purpose it seems like a potentially valuable learning tool for devs new to a language.

Years ago I used Adobe LiveCycle, a horrible "low code" enterprise framework foisted on us from far above.

One thing I always did like about it though was its replay tool which this reminds me of. I was always surprised it wasn't more of a thing in the dev space, it seems very useful.
Funny. I'd say that if somebody can't work with or maintain code written by others then that's the sign of a weak programmer. If all code you work with has to be written exactly as if you wrote it yourself then that's a weakness.
Especially after what happened to Gaddafi.
I always find NK as a threat such a silly idea. The moment things escalated to anything real they'd be wiped out or even if they did manage to put up a fight they seem so resource constrained that it'd be over within weeks. I can only imagine the reason it keeps being hovered over our head is because the US needs an enemy and russia and china are too powerful to put in that position anymore (but what do I know I'm just speculating).
Super critical code review culture can also end up with balls of mud. The two are not exclusive. Example is a team I was on that would critique the hell out of syntax and grammar in javadocs, formatting of annotations arguments, stuff like that, fine. But never look outside the source file for how any of it fit together. No design planning cause "code reviews". End result was tons of duplicated code everywhere.
How does every developed country manage to be so much cleaner then? I find all your excuses inadequate. And we still have the highest poverty rate in the country—it probably only marginally declined due to stimulus and COVID relief.

There are more tents and people camping on the street and openly using drugs and brazenly stealing than ever before. California looks like a failing civilization to people from Western Europe.
> No, the decentralized web is the decentalized web. And it's easy to be a part of it.

The IndieWeb community deserve a mention here, they're all about exactly this kind of thing: https://indieweb.org/
It's unclear that NATO + Japan need to do anything. What is North Korea going to do, hit Tokyo? That would be the surest way to get Pyongyang "liberated" ASAP ...
Does anyone know whether the spyware mentioned is anyhow related to Project Pegasus[1?
It's also really interesting that Apple patched Security issues for iOS that was targeted by NSO Group and makes me wonder if that might be the same vulnerabilities exploited by the UAE hacker for higher company [2].
[1] [https://cybernews.com/news/expressvpn-cio-daniel-gericke-fin...]
[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036869715/apple-issues-criti...
US was pretty close to a preemptive strike in the 90s.

There were estimates of massive SK casualties just via artillery strikes. (1M+, Seoul destroyed, ...). NK also had chemical/biological weapons...

There was also always a threat of nuclear escalation via China if US went too far...

> The US and SK could have handed over NK to China as an industrial colony for all we care

China wants what is currently in place, it's doubtful they would have not intervened as they did in Korean war after which war becomes one of attrition and keeping the Chinese out of SK...
War was give a chance and the North won, with of course China threatening to move in on the action as well as the Soviet Union. UN forces continuing to fight in that region over the long debunked "domino theory" would have led to WWWIII, perhaps even a nuclear holocaust for what? Some peninsula? Same with Vietnam which the US lost? Its not worth it.

Revising that was decades later would have been political impossible, ethically evil, and set off the same China/SU hostility chain that leads to WWIII.

We are constantly giving war a chance. The problem is we rarely give peace a chance. Imagine if instead of blowing up children and women in Afghanistan for two decades we asked the Taliban to the parliamentary table and built a government with them? They'd be the most powerful party, but it would have saved tens of thousands of innocent civilians lives and literally everything would be better off today there. but instead we listened to people like you, fought a foolish war, put in a "democracy" that, of course, failed within weeks. The same way it would have in NK, assuming a second NK conflict wouldn't lead to WWIII, which it most likely would.

Remember when you say go to war, you're asking the West to murder hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. America is happy to do that and calls its "democracy" but they are simply crimes against humanity writ large. The war on terror has at least 380,000 innocent civilians killed. Stop killing people. Stop making war the default goto. Give peace chance. Its not your job to be the world police or tell China or NK what to do. You're just a bloodthirsty keyboard commando who wants to contribute to crimes against humanity. If I was you I'd reflect on what you've written today and think about why you're carrying water for the mass murder and human rights violation machine we call the US military.
I didn't say anything about "monopoly". One of the most common fallacies when discussing this topic is that anti trust only applies to monopolies. This is dead wrong.
Do you have a demo video of doing exactly this? I downloaded the app, it's unclear how to edit code that's already run.
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The goal of North Korea is not to build a self-defense that could withstand US/NATO invasion. It's to pose a credible enough retaliation so any outside invasion attempts would never be worth the cost. Demonstrations such as this are just North Korea declaring "we can nuke Tokyo if we want, are we really worth that?". Thereby North Korea's ruling class are insulated from being externally overthrown, and can focus all their efforts on suppressing internal threats. Unless something dramatic changes, North Korea is not going to be "wiped off the planet" anytime soon.
That's because you buy a Koenigsegg to show off how rich you are. You don't haggle over things you are buying for the sake of spending money.
Thank you for saying that. I read the piece because of your comment and hopefully understood it a bit better because of it.
Another good example here is the Long Bets project, which I wrote the initial code for: https://longbets.org/

It has been an interesting exercise, and our largest bet was over $1m: https://longbets.org/362/

It has been a success as far as I'm concerned, in that it's still up and running almost 20 years later, and it has generated a lot of discussion about long-term topics, which is our goal.

But at the time I hoped it would turn into something much bigger. Lots of bets! Lots of money on table! Secondary bets! Maybe even options! That was definitely not the case. It has stayed niche, and so have prediction markets generally. I think there are good reasons for that.
> I think I would much rather mildly inconvenience people and have my favorite political team’s score go down than the alternative of Italy-style medical system collapse with massive death totals.

That's a nice false dichotomy you have there. Florida's average death rates in the US despite having a highly vulnerable elderly population prove that.

Of course vaccinated people can still get COVID. Everyone knows that. Why repeat it? The point is that covid becomes a very low risk to the vaccinated. Once vaccinated, you are more likely to die of the flu than of covid.

Most theoretical mask studies were done when we thought COVID was primarily spread by droplets, not aerosols. To this day I haven't seen any study plausibly show that others' masks protect you as much as your own mask. I'd be happy to be proven wrong if there's any real scientific evidence out there.
The point isn't that he's defending her, he's defending his grandkid. Morality is tricky when it comes to your obligation towards protecting innocent family members. Specifically if there are legal actions you can take to potentially influence the trial, which is the authority, towards more lenient sentencing to protect your grandchildren.
Their main threat is that they can start a war that's incredibly prone to escalate.
I might buy the self-determination point of view if the ordinary people of North Korea had any input on their governance, which they hardly do. North Korea is ruled by the Kim family like a monarchy. There are no elections, no referendums, no multiparty system.
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Not only that, but the title of the post is, "I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry".

This person is so confident in himself, that he thinks his code review takedowns are so brutal, yet effective, that he is ruining lives. It almost comes off as "I'm so handsome that I ruin people's lives with my looks and I'm sorry."

And then there is this...

"I was mad that, while I spent my nights learning F#, my daughter started calling everyone around “fathers”. And this guy, instead of getting better at his job, went home to his children. And I wanted to punish him."

Uh, whose life is being ruined?
You try focus stacking at 4:1. I could barely get things in focus at 1:1. People who judge photography contests look for different things from most people.

Here's a good video on what judges look for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxcGBbLIwk
This new "Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions" (NFTC) license[1] is still not a free or open source software license due to its following provisions:

> (a) internally use the unmodified Programs for the purposes of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your applications, and running the Program for Your own personal use or internal business operations; and

> (b) redistribute the unmodified Program and Program Documentation, under the terms of this License, provided that You do not charge Your licensees any fees associated with such distribution or use of the Program, including, without limitation, fees for products that include or are bundled with a copy of the Program or for services that involve the use of the distributed Program.

Both the Free Software Definition[2] and the Open Source Definition[3] require the license to allow the user to modify and redistribute the software, including for commercial purposes (such as selling it to other individuals or businesses for a fee). The NFTC does not allow this, so if you are able to use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK, you might prefer OpenJDK's less restrictive free and open source software license (GPLv2 with Classpath Exception[4]).

[1] https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/no-fee-license.htm...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[3] https://opensource.org/osd

[4] https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html
This is the most stupid idea I have read in a while.
It's because even though North Korea would be destroyed, that wouldn't prevent millions of South Koreans dying before that happened.
I would pay pedestrian walks but noone asks me what to pay or not. Bad. Btw if you did not want to pay (I do not mean cannot) and you do not make use of them then, great! What is the problem?

As for health care, I recommend you to go find a privately funded health care business by a doctor from Lady Diana. He changed the protocols and management. It is 10 times as cheap and as reliable as others. Cancer tumors 700 usd.

There was a surgery that in US was 200,000 usd. In this place it was done by 10,000 and with profits. Yes, the state kidnaps the health care and makes it ridiculously expensive. This is what shows it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-26/the-world...

For sure now you will tell me it is bad to make money and business from health care. U know what? Cutting costs like this saves WAY more lives than public monopolies and bankrupting countries with their amazing on-debt systems in the mid-run. That is the truth.

I do not see them killing people bc they are private. If u had free market in both education and health care then these things would be both WAY better than they are now because they would be way more affordable due to real competition and you would not pay all in taxes whether u use it or not. For the very minority that could not pay it something could be done. But hey no. Don't! Why? Because the State loses control of people. They just want to control you. That's it. Here is where the lie is. They do not help u. They pretend to help u. Data shows something else.

Instead we have way more rigid protocols and politicians babysitting every aspect whether you want or not, whether results are good or bad. That is bad. It is as if they chose the movie you have to watch in cinema or the phone you must use. Yet we accept it because "it has to be like that".
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Hello. Long lover of lyseragmides and novel phenethylamines, and stoner.

Why does smoking have an immediate intensification effect when combined with lysergamides? Is it because of the combination of partial antagonism and down regulation blocking of certain receptors?
Can you open an issue elaborating on this? I’d expect the ability to disable broken cipher suites to be enough to work around this, and that is not changing. (What’s going away is controlling the order in which enabled cipher suites are picked.)
Interesting that there's money being set aside to convert trucks to electric. I'm assuming that means converting existing trucks and isn't just a shorthand for replacing old gas trucks with new electric trucks.

I think EV conversions of regular passenger cars should also qualify for a tax credit. (Perhaps there should be a few minimum standards for safety and usefulness.) EV conversion is rarely done now because it's a lot of work and doesn't make financial sense given the cost of parts, labor, and custom engineering. However, if the costs were less it might be more of a thing. Especially if major manufacturers started selling kits that can be installed by a mechanic in a reasonably short amount of time. This could create a lot of jobs.

Some other things I think we should be looking at are establishing some pilot projects and mechanical and electrical standards for electrified highways. EVs would be a lot more attractive and less expensive if people could drive cross-country without lugging around 800 pounds of batteries and instead could recharge at regular intervals while they're moving at freeway speeds on major interstate highways. The benefits for long-haul trucking would also be enormous.

Something else to look at is establishing high-capacity transcontinental high-voltage DC lines so we can buy and sell renewable power internationally. If we can sell surplus solar energy to Asia and Europe during our day and buy solar energy from the Sahara during our night, then we wouldn't need to spend so much on grid-scale battery arrays.
To overthrow the Taliban means destroying them. They only retreated. You declared victory foolishly way too early. You didn't realize this was a decades struggle and, of course, lost that conflict.

You also lost Iraq considering you killed 200,000 innocent men, women, and children, setup a terrible government, and a military that conceded so much, ISIS took over large parts of the country and neighboring countries. You had to start yet another war to clean up and now are just awaiting the next ISIS-like event because you destabilized an entire region.

These wars were total and utter disasters and crimes against humanity. Stop defending them.
> With Japan and Taiwan’s industrial sector and precision machinery, how long before they could develop nuclear bombs and ICBMs, maybe a few months?

Longer than the conventional invasion of Taiwan and destruction of its regime would take.
Anything you can do with a print statement can also be done with a logpoint, if your debugger has that concept. Logpoints can also sometimes be simulated with conditional breakpoints (log something and then return false).

The debugger saves so much time wasted recompiling/reloading with new print statements, IMO it's strictly better on every aspect.
The end result is that Taiwan would become a Chinese colony, Japan would get nukes to no appreciable geostrategic gain, and the entire economy would absolutely crater, killing millions of people.
I feel like most people don't realize how close China and NK are. This is probably because the media doesn't discuss this link much. China would never let NK attack another country let alone launch nuclear missiles any more than the US allowing a Nato state to randomly attack another country it didn't like.