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> I know there is no handbook for peace

What does peace look like to you? Do people just stop fighting and start loving their neighbours?

You mentioned Jerusalem. I'm Israeli, so I'm biased towards one side of the Jerusalem story but let me try to frame the other side of the story as to not play my biases. I probably won't be accurate because my propaganda is different from their propaganda. And I won't reply because this will otherwise turn into a flamewar real quick.

Does peace mean to you that the Palestinians stop fighting for a state of their own? They just raise their hands, lay down their guns, and embrace Jewish rule? Should they accept your $2 trillion - the number that you stated to invest in the peace project - as reparations for loosing their olive groves, villages, and roads to Israeli settlers? Will that be enough for them to embrace no public transportation on Saturdays, even though their culture would have it be Fridays? Will that be enough to forgive the years that cousin Ahmad sat in an Israeli prison? Will that be enough to forget the eye or leg or life that cousin Mahmaud lost?

And what of the five million people whose grandfathers either fled or were chased from Palestine in 1947? Should they accept some slice of the cash and relinquish their dream of returning to Palestine? Sure, some of them live in the US or Italy or the UK with their nice standard of living. But some of them live in refugee camps - to this day - in Lebanon and Syria and they have no rights in those countries. Under your peace plan, what becomes of a child in Yarmouk, whose family has been forbidden from education, health care, and most forms of work for three generations? Does he take that slice of $2 trillion and now buy a house in Syria? Forbidden to him. In the UK? He doesn't even qualify for a passport. In Palestine? Palestine has not enough land to quadruple its population. In Israel? To live under _their_ laws?!?!? What if Palestine and Israel are a single entity under this plan... does that make the situation easier or more difficult?

In my opinion, some problems just cannot be solved with money.
This is an awesome comprehensive How-To guide.

One suggestion, though: Choose higher syscall numbers. The syscall numbers that this guide uses (334) is already taken in a recent kernel update. Syscalls are added to almost every kernel version, so if you choose, say, syscall #400, in a decade or so you'll have to make a choice between your syscall and the new "official" one.
As to your last two paragraphs, the quoted one and your reply: You're still, after a week of arguing, reading shit into that which simply isn't there. Now you're quibbling about "radically different groups"... Hey, wake up! It doesn't say that, it says "radically different concepts"! Nobody ever said it's different groups holding those concepts; we all hold them both simultaneously -- one for ourselves, and the other for others. That's the whole damn problem.

After a whole week of this, and you still so convincingly demonstrating the whole brouhaha you're raising is all due to your own inability to understand what you're reading, I've had enough and will bow out here. Thanks for the discussion; don't hold your breath for me to return to it.
"A drink a day makes your brain fog go away"

See data from "The largest human cognitive performance dataset reveals insights into the effects of lifestyle factors and aging" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2013.0029...

In particular, the optimal cognitive test results were for ~1 drink a day (0 is worse than 3 drinks!). Also, 7h a sleep a day was the best.

With a disclaimer: correlation is not causation! (E.g. I suspect that some may abstain from alcohol for health reasons.)
IC = Individual Contributor

PIP = Performance Improvement Plan
Thanks! I love detailed answers like this :)
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Individual Contributor and Performance Improvement Plan
Small precision, because the title of the article is wrong:

JWST is a joint NASA–ESA–CSA project and is actually launched by ESA.
I should note, in the interest of fairness, that about half of the top 10 cities in the USA by homicide rate are in states that could be described as "gun control states". Thus "no pattern". Although, I will reiterate the idea that any city in the continental USA is really not that long a drive away from a state with lax gun laws.
How are the loans paid back? I could never figure this one out. If they have to sell assets to pay for the loan, don’t they then get taxed at point of sale?
How many thousands repos do you have ? We are 10k+ users with many many more repos scattered around the world.

But the thing I ll say is the git part is satisfactory. It's the CI part we are livid about.

It's not "years in front of the competition" if you think of Teamcity. Github focus on what it does right.
Great read thank you. I can't wait for next part
I wonder if google had to plead the same way or if already-big players are given a free advantage.
Extensions can request a higher level of permisions so you typically wont run into that issue.
What's the alternative? If they are really good they will leave anyway, so challenge and coach them until they do.

Failing miserably is less likely given you have some "success in role" criteria they are clearly demonstrating beforehand.

Not sure I follow the burn concept here? If they are shitty why promo, unless you want the initiative to fail? If they are good see above
Ben Franklin (PX-15) Submersible
"the most"
Individual Contributor (primarily makes stuff directly rather than working through other people) and Performance Improvement Plan (supposedly a plan to improve performance, but often actually just HR making sure they have watertight documentation justifying sacking the person).
For 99% of people, a job is simply a means to support themselves/their family. Sure, you can make friends along the way, but as you get older and start accruing more responsibilities, life outside of work starts filling up and you no longer will have the bandwidth to be a social butterfly at work.

Take a cue from your coworkers and look outside of the workplace to fulfill your social needs.
> Sometimes people build things of value and want others to take it. For example, open source.

And it's always suboptimal for the person who does it.

Want to compare the bank account/quality of life of Linus with the one of Larry Ellison or Bill Gates?

People rebut that given the geographical constraints and the "winner take all" market that is software Linus played his hand in the best way possible because there would have been no space to fight Microsoft, Apple or Oracle on a for-profit basis.

If that is true then it's not a real rebut, because it ceases to be altruism . It's just the same mental process experienced by entrepreneurs who decide to be at the helm of for-profit organizations. Except it has virtue signaling baked in it to sell it in a better way and capture a niche of people who are politically charged or hate big for-profit organizations.
Yes, and it's surprisingly easy to find out where to help! The best colleagues and best teams are where there are a lot of "thank you"s.

The same is true in the article:

"I am indebted in particular to one woman, whose name I will never know". "I also thank the Excel product team for shipping this technology without which this work wouldn’t be as famous."

I wish I knew how to reach out to the author (Sumit Gulwani) or other people in the Excel product team, about a feature that would be really hard to code but really useful to me.

Hierarchical menus of Sheets.

Like bookmarks folders, or Playlist Folders in iTunes, clicking on the Sheet Folder would show every row inside, concatenated into a giant Sheet. Clicking on the Sheet Folder would bring up a menu, which I could then navigate to find a sub-sheet. From a programming perspective I know that it's really hard to do hierarchical nested databases. But from a usability perspective, it would make some of our Excel documents with hundreds of Sheets much easier to navigate.
Mine is extra annoying. It will keep recommending videos I have already watched. If I go to my subscriptions there are new videos from the same channel, but on my recommended tab it keeps showing the same months/years old already watched video. I'm not sure how that is supposed to drive engagement.
Thank you!

>>They follow in the beaten track,
And out and in, and forth and back,
And still their devious course pursue,
To keep the path that others do.
Are you one of these developers? Our management speak the same way of our infinite suffering during the migration ;)

You may betray yourself: developer dont maintain the CI system, they use it. And while I may accept it's now easier to maintain, why not, it's because it does less of what we need, possibly ?
if not using the service causes their customers to go to another restaurant, that means the service is beneficial.

It's like saying if the restaurant cannot be on a busy street, then they will lose out to restaurants that _are_ on a busy street. Therefore, the busy street is beneficial to the restaurant.
I remember Synology ships their NAS with custom vendor syscalls that used unassigned syscall numbers at the time, but those numbers are now clashing with real syscalls - causing undefined behaviour when running arbitrary code (e.g. Docker)

So TL;DR only implement custom syscalls if you intend to maintain for all of its consequences in the future.

Here's the tweet on Synology - https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/1357733309737021444
Before grabbing the pitchforks on this, please note that:

- The email they sent was about ~100 of the 3,000+ delivery drivers that had a low performance rating.

- Instead of just terminating their 3-month employee contract at once, the company offered them the option to become freelancers (like their major rival, Wolt, does from the beginning).

- This also came after e-food found that some drivers were using fake-GPS apps that changed their location so that the algorithm didn't assign them many deliveries (of course, they were paid by the hour according to their contracts). Paying them by the number of fulfilled deliveries would help with identifying the ones that were slacking.

I am also against the uberization of all work sectors, but I think this just blew out of proportion through social media.
What ever happened to E INK Keyboards?
Ironic, given that it's one of the oldest philosophical positions. E.g. Socrates in Plato's Gorgias:

"We must either refute this argument and show that it’s not the possession of justice and self-control that makes happy people happy and the possession of badness that makes miserable people miserable, or else, if this is true, we must consider what the consequences are. These consequences are all those previous things, Callicles, the ones about which you asked me whether I was speaking in earnest when I said that a man should be his own accuser, or his son’s or his friend’s, if he’s done anything unjust, and should use oratory for that purpose. ... I deny, Callicles, that being knocked on the jaw unjustly is the most shameful thing, or that having my body or my purse cut is, and I affirm that to knock or cut me or my possessions unjustly is both more shameful and worse, and at the same time that to rob or enslave me or to break into my house or, to sum up, to commit any unjust act at all against me and my possessions is both worse and more shameful for the one who does these unjust acts than it is for me, the one who suffers them."
Will anyone notice?

They forgot to recall the ambassador to the UK. The UK also often pisses them off.
On Code Review
Wow much edgy
Either it works or it doesn't. But the role of architect is working with leadership on their level, not being a super hyped-up developer. But cool story nonetheless.
Another naive outrage :-) Obviously the US, like any other country, was not going to let a "gift" of 50B to France, if they could get these 50B for themselves. It's not friends, allies or partners, it's just business.

France, like Europe shall play both cards with China and the US. There is more to win than to take a side, especially if that side might lose at some point
I'd say 5-6k users, and the number of repos is easily between there and 10k on the biggest Gitlab instance I've used. The CI/CD part works well, including for complex multi-project dynamic pipelines. We don't have crashes, ever.

> It's not "years in front of the competition" if you think of Teamcity. Github focus on what it does right.

The competition for me is the all-in-one solutions like Github and Bitbucket. If you have to deploy, maintain and sometimes pay for an extra CI/CD solution, either something is wrong or you have very very specific requirements. What is it that TeamCity does better than Gitlab CI/CD?
Now just set it so you can subscribe to dadafacts via sms...
Yes, and I agree with that conclusion. But your comment demonstrates an empathy and understanding that the blog post did not. I don't think it was quite a rant, but it had that "I was right" tone to it the whole time. An awkward fit with the lessons learned at the end, and coincidentally, another possible explanation for why things went so off the rails.
minuscule anecdata: a few aussies are apologizing on france subreddit

what an odd event
Killing subscriptions with no update in 90d seems a bit aggressive. At least for occasional blog feeds - perhaps it could be more intelligent, and do something based on a moving average of the timr between posts? Or simply send a 'do you want to stay subscribed' email?

My biggest question though is does it follow links and load the full content - I assume not, because it doesn't mention it, and it's technically out of scope for reading/forwarding RSS of course. It's just that a lot of feeds are all but useless without that in my experience, just headlines and perhaps short summary with a link.

I used to use feedbin which did a reasonable job of loading the full content in such cases.
I’ve just been reading up on the JCPOA [0] as I have to admit my total ignorance on this topic.

It does seem like you’re right to be emphasising the significance of the US pulling out of this. (And that’s probably an understatement).

Thanks for your level headed elaboration of your thinking on this - I’ve learnt a great deal from this thread and shifted a few perspectives!

This is why I come to HN.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_...
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In fairness, the Windows Subsystem isn't for Linux either.
If they are really good then either figure out how to pay them (a lot) more, or don't put them in a higher responsibility role. Promotion without a pay bump equivalent to what they'll get from a move to another company might as well be a firing.
You would think so, but I keep not using it in my projects.

It's a very "in your face" UI element. It's the star of the show, and I have a personal philosophy that UI should remain in the background, as much as possible.

This is why waitstaff at restaurants often wear black uniforms.

The checkbox widget[0] has actually been far more useful to me. I use that all over the place (In its SFSymbols form, so it looks like a Mac checkbox). I'm not a fan of Apple's UISwitch widget.

I will, eventually, do SwiftUI versions of these widgets, but I'm not in a hurry.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Checkbox
> Since yesterday's twitter backlash, a lot of people are requesting to delete their accounts only to get a response back with a dodgy document[1] stating "that they require time to understand your demand" and "that it will take from 1 to 3 months to process".

Two months ago Foodpanda Thailand (also a Delivery Hero subsidiary) took a darker pattern by removing the delete account button in its entirety. This doesn't last long, though if two companies under the same parent company try to do this, I would consider it a parent company's corporate culture, not just the action of its subsidiary.

To elaborate, the massive influx of deletion in Thailand's case is due to Foodpanda's so-called "miscommunication" of labeling a protester (who is caught on camera setting fire against a sacred artifact) a "terrorist". Sympathizers to the protesters' cause then rush to delete the account, only to see a dark pattern mentioned above.
Well gitlab has all the features of teamcity on paper: it can run a remote script and build any random thing.

But why do we need so much work to write the script ? Why is the reporting so bad on test failure, why building complex dependency chains running in parallel and in sequence doesnt work ? Why do we need to touch the repo to change the build descriptor?

It's just not as fun to use, immediate, beautiful, and productive. It's thrown on top of the git part, half assed.
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"I think this just blew out of proportion through social media." is an oxymoron.
I don't understand smart cars. My friend had one and I said something to the effect of "at least it gets good gas mileage". I was shocked to find out he was getting roughly the same gas mileage as my old Honda Civic. What is the point if it doesn't even get good gas mileage?
It’s worth mentioning that Zoho comes in two flavors - zoho.com (US) and zoho.eu (EU) with corresponding data protections.
Knowing nothing of the particulars, I emphatically agree. This past month I have twice disabled ads that circumvent my ad-blocker placed on my homepage by Mozilla labeled as a fucking “experiment.” It’s mind blowing to me that leadership there is so lost and without a paddle they’re putting ads directly in my face without asking. It’s a huge violation of trust and honestly has made me start to regret supporting Firefox and Mozilla all these years.

Mozilla literally goes around preaching bullshit about a safer web, acting like they give a fuck, when I’m reality they’re as eager as anyone to sell you out. It’s disgusting behavior.

I truly don’t want to move back to a Chromium based browser (I hate using Chrome), but they have maybe one more chance before I’m forced to. At least if I’m using Chromium, I can assume my browser is hostile and leaking information instead of assuming it’s trustworthy when it’s clearly not.

Whoever is at Mozilla that approves of this kind of stuff should leave. You’re doing the world a disservice and likely harming the future of the free internet. If that’s the CEO, then by all means, please let the door hit you on the way out as it slams shut.
> There's a good possibility that my hypothesis is incomplete or just plain wrong. I thought it's worth sharing nevertheless.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a good chance my hypothesis is incomplete too! :)
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Synology is a bad example. Many of their custom syscalls are related to filesystem things like btrfs raid5 self repair and carefully removed from their gpl source code. Ianal but imho this is a gpl violation.
Yes, you state it better, and my characterization was a bit facetious. The common thread is that, he implies, or explicitly states, that he has the organization's best interests at heart and others don't.

That might be true or not, but you can't operate with that mindset and expect people to come along with you. Whether or not it's true, you need to presume positive intent. Perhaps they see aspects of their jobs that won't automate well that you do not. Is that stubborn self interest, or standing up to a naive new leader who doesn't get it?
What do you mean "low performance" ? Not enough return on ROI ?
Cars had value without the need for major changes in the world. Road signs were codified and universally implemented only after cars proved their worth. Roads were not invented for cars, road-ready cars had existed for a good few thousand years before the first actual car.
Almost spit out my coffee. Thanks for the laugh :)
But that person can be paid what they're worth without Politics and horse trading because it's a hire (The Market, etc), not a promotion.
> Will that be enough for them to embrace no public transportation on Saturdays, even though their culture would have it be Fridays?

Crazy idea. Jews drive/catch public transportation on Fridays, muslims drive/catch transportation on Saturdays, and the rest of us ride around everyday of the week, because in what world is any of this a good idea?
I’m French, France sounds ready to put up a stink, but I have difficulty understanding who is right.

I guess Australia is building submarines in preparation to keep China within their waters. So the contract (even though it’s already signed) should come back to the nation that is least under Chinese dominance:

- Australia itself is deeply impregnated of Chinese spies, currently focussing on busting Chinese citizens evaded in Australia,

- USA has chosen the president who had the most ties to China,

- While UK banned Huawei products notably for national routers, France has signed a historic major partnership with Huawei, which is suspected of being the main reification of the Chinese’s secret services.

Whatever the Australians are trying to buy submarines for, I don’t think they can be isolated from the enemy they are supposed to fight.
That's what they said about personal computers - Negroponte, OLPC, etc.

Like with global warming, those predictions were abysmal failures. It turned out mobile phones gave people enough processing power (experts never saw that coming) and so did cloud (you can buy and pay by the second, also not predicted by "experts").
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Boson stars!

https://www.sciencealert.com/there-could-be-transparent-star...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_star
Reflective roof paint only helps if you have no insulation (which might be true of a shed, detached garage, etc.). Basic R-4 insulation performs dramatically better.

"A cool roof does not improve energy efficiency if your ceiling is [...] insulated, the roof area temperature is not lowered enough using a paint to make a quantifiable difference."
The real cost is the tax he would have had to pay up to this point, and I have no idea what that would be.

More generally, Gitlab has done really, really well since then, which definitely wasn't a given at that time.
> If they succeed, then you will almost certainly be unable or unwilling to pay them what some other similar company would pay them now that they have proven their ability as a lead.

This assumes all companies are unable to pay market rate for leads. Otherwise it is mathematically impossible.

So, easy fix is raise pay for internal people when they prove themselves in new role and match market salary.
Always plenty of blame to go around in situations like these, and CEO operates like the goodwill line item on a spreadsheet. He takes the blame so we can all move forward.
It won’t eliminate AC for me; I run my air conditioner at night.
The bigger insult was changing the dinner menu to be dairy-free at the last minute.
Macron is throwing a tantrum because they lost a contract
}:-)

I was especially careful not to promise a video of the tutorial...
A 3-months contract is not better than non contract at all in the sense that is way tooo short to be able to stabilize your work around it. 3 months contract basically means you'll be as bad as before except that the employer doesn't need to go the illegal route to use the worker (and the employment statistics are better).
> The email they sent was about ~100 of the 3,000+ delivery drivers that had a low performance rating.

[CITATION NEEDED] over at /r/greece and the original and subsequent message, there has been no such indication.
> It's not like Youtube makes you pay for hosted videos if they don't get monetized properly. So in a way those who are properly monetizing Youtube are helping to pay for a free platform, no?

A monetized YouTube buries quality under orders of magnitude more shit than a non-monetized one does. Without the ads, you'd get a thousand good videos among ten thousand crap ones; now you get ten thousand good ones among ninety billion crap ones.