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My company decided that we would use windows laptops for development, even though we deploy to linux servers. Wsl has saved my bacon more than once. I wonder how many devs really have a choice.
Not to sound callous, but we really need a control group. Magazines, movies, TV, advertising… everything targeted at women pushes an image that would make non-models feel worse about their bodies. I don't see how Instagram is unique in this respect, other than how addicting it seems to be.

I say this as someone who uses no Facebook properties, simply on principle.
I have a fairly rough experience working at a consulting firm. I was on a long-term project, but even on relatively stable projects consultants are the first engineers to get cut or moved around when there is trouble.

I ended up filling in on project management type work which certainly is better than getting laid off, but I did not enjoy it much (it was good resume building experience at least!)

One good thing about being a consultant is that it is pretty easy to quit and move on! People are constantly rotating in and out of projects, so it isn't as personal as working on a small close-knit team!
I'm a big fan of Ada, and of all languages I've seen it is by far the most readable. It has been deliberately and carefully designed to be self-documenting. The Ada developers shared your vision. But it's also the reason why I don't think it's true that readability plays a major role in language adoption.
I didn't say you shouldn't protect yourself. For example, have written contracts. Put fraud protections in your accounting system. Half down, half on delivery. When I do a royalty deal, I include a right to have their books audited. I was cheated by a large company once (you'd recognize the name), and I sued and won.

But when you make a deal, deliver what you agreed on. When people like doing business with you, the word will get out that you are a good person to do business with, and you'll prosper.

For example, the guy who taught the accounting class I took used to be a used car salesman. I asked him how to tell if the car dealer was honorable or not. He said the ones in business more than 5 years were honorable, as they were getting repeat business. It takes five years to run out of suckers.

When I need some work done on my house, I'll ask the local real estate agent. They usually have a stable of contractors who'll get a house ready for sale, and they aren't using contractors that cheat their customers. When I ring them up, I make a point that Agent Bob recommended them to me, and so they know if they cheat me, I'll tell Agent Bob who isn't going to want his own reputation besmirched, and the cheating contractor will get cut off.
I don't use Home Assistant because it's not being packaged by Linux distributions.
Crowdsourcing Treatments That Work
There's a whole bunch of books about the CIA and the lead up to and aftermath of 9/11:

- Currently absorbed in Ghost Wars in audiobook format. Won a Pulitzer. All about the CIA and their dealing with their Pakistani counterpart ISI and the Afghan war lords. Lots of great cowboy stories and incredible amount of detail.

- The Targeter by Nada Bakos

- On another topic, you might enjoy The Spy on Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_(TV_series) about Eli Cohen working as a spy in Syria.
I never once suggested a technology as a solution to a problem. I spent a lot of time trying to convince clients that technology was not going to solve their problems.

Sounds like you would really benefit from spending some time doing consulting.
Is appdaemon standalone or does it require HomeAssistant?
yeah. This is the “I hate social media” equivalent of the daily mail’s pop science coverage. Most of it’s wrong, and the parts that aren’t are totally uninformative.
Countries that have accepted the World Passport
2 years uptime without major technology change, is quite amazing in the modern fast paced web dev world ..
Yeah I didn't intend it like an antagonistic answer, because actually is not a binary issue. Price takes in account many consideration, fluctuations in production and/or demand are one, monetary pressure is other, but there are many others (expectation of future behavior, for example). I would guess that, at this time, the larger the increase ratio, the more probable is that transitory elements are affecting the price.

Just a minor caveat I would have with your answer is that inflation cause price increase, when for me the price increase is just an indicator of inflation, not a cause or consequence of it.
Delft researchers unmask millions of unsafe face masks
If you send me a reminder I can send you a whole bunch when I get home.
How does Bezos' background disprove the notion that homeless people aren't homeless because they're lazy? That if only we made life just a little more horrible for them, that they would realize being homeless sucks, stop being lazy, and just go get one of those job things, and then pull themselves up by their bootstraps. (A feat which is literally impossible, mind you)
Put down. Interesting choice of phrase.
Yes, what people need to understand about the history of British unions is that they effectively shut down the entire country repeatedly to try and force the Government to keep coal mining which wasn't viable anymore going. That's basically intolerable in a democracy. Thatcher's breaking of the unions only happened after previous governments who thought the unions could be negotiated with were brought down by their inability to deal with the damage being done. (There's also some impressive double-think on the British left around this and global warming, since of course dealing with that means that coal mining and use has to go away.)
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Masonry is usually harder than framing, especially when you live in the US where framing is overwhelmingly more popular. You can get pre-cut studs for your preferred ceiling height; OSB, housewrap, insulation, windows all match standard frame dimensions; roof trusses are common and affordable; renting a nailer and a miter saw is easy.

I don't know if it's the same guy, but I watched videos of a guy laying aerated concrete blocks himself and it's much more work: you need a good supplier of blocks with good dimenions, you still have to rasp down and sand down the tops of each row so they form a perfectly horizontal plane for the next row or the glue won't catch, door and window gaps are tricky and upper floors are even trickier if you want to use aerated concrete for the floor/ceiling.
"Try another language instead" is always a valid option.

There isn't anything wrong with a language just not jiving with your sensibilities.
The Oracle outsourcing connection is interesting! I read about this incident at the time in Matt Levine's column. [1] See HN discussion at [2]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...
[2]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180785
That's not a mass-market solution

Tesla have sold well over 1.5 million cars at this point
Caste is so insane, in western diaspora communities its thankfully starting to die out though. My generation (3rd generation in the west) aren't really educated enough on traditions to know about caste or care.
FTA: only one-third of the 140 million face masks tested in 19 hospitals passed the safety test.
Reddit works fine as a forum. Just make a subreddit and start posting :)
> certain file type extensions may cause the user profile page not to load

There is no reason for this. They should always hit the same controller and be served as text/html. Why would the username ever influence this?

If that breaks an existing page then you either shouldn't have allowed the username to be created with the same name as an existing page (exactly what GitHub does) or shouldn't have created a page with the same name as a username [depending on which came first!] - or better yet, had them in a separate namespace so they cannot conflict in the first place.
Pathetic response. The OP gave context to the human condition that allows this and another example where such problems are entrenched.

But I do hope you find a better garage to get your car serviced at.

All the best.
I’m not sure if you can run it without HASS. I run it with, and I think it would be much harder without.
This is a common theme but I don't believe it's true. It mirrors all of those twee blog posts that come up with Yet Another Metaphor for technical debt as if people with MBAs would then just "get it".

It's not really about finding the right metaphor it's about lacking a common, shared unit of account.

Risks can't really be factored into decision-making unless you can measure them. Theyre not risks otherwise theyre just black swans waiting to happen (or not).

Technical debt and code coverage "as risks" cant be factored in either. Instead of trying to cargo cult the way "the business" talks or coming up with yet another metaphor we should be coming up with better ways to measure these things so that they can be plugged into an excel spreadsheet.

This is done incredibly badly right now. Most measurable code metrics which proxy things we care about are downright terrible at proxying them (e.g. test coverage). In place of working metrics most businesses (in my experience at least) rely on guesswork and trust in high level executives.
There are 1.5 million Tesla cars out there on the road. Most of them, nearly all of them really, are not on fire.
Nice to see HA getting some love on HN. A colleague recommended it to me about 3 years ago as an alternative to Domoticz. I've migrated back than and haven't looked back since. I consider myself a real Home Assistant enthousiast. I've contributed some small amounts to the project, created and maintain my own add-ons and love to share my configuration with others.

Although most of the things currently just work, especially with the (migrated) UI integrations. Some things still feel very unfinished, like blueprints. Which was a terrific idea, but maintaining and keeping those up to date is an absolute nightmare and you will have to that yourself [1]. Same with battery powered devices. When they work, it's all great, but having to watch their battery level is just a hassle. You can create your own automation to do that for you, but it seems unnecessary.

For me the community also sometimes feels very hostile. For instance, you can have a Portainer add-on, but installing other Docker images makes your system 'unsupported'. Same with some blacklisted images [2], which break Home Assistant Supervisor. Or when the maintainer of one of the add-ons completely ignores a breaking issue after a day [3].

1. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/reload-automations-aut...

2. https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/blob/main/super...

3. https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adguard-home/issues/1...
I mean basic in that it's like the feature can't even be added if you don't solve that.
As a European having lived in the US, brick walls and concrete floors are definitely a way rarer find than in Europe. Even some single-floor multi-apartment complexes are entirely wooden. The typical motel from American movies, but instead residential, is also almost entirely wooden.
Forbidden by the license.
France suspends 3k health workers for failing to get a Covid vaccine
That's basically what is happening in Java, too.

I have been programming Java for the past 20 years and I do enjoy new features. And I would like couple more features myself.

But I am also tech lead for a lot of new developers which I see they struggle finding sense in what is going on with Java. Not just the language, but the multitude of frameworks and other paraphernalia supposedly needed to make a working modern application.

Rather than trying to understand it they are giving up and revert to copying and pasting code that works. And wait for somebody with experience to catch obvious problems on code review.

I think this is not sustainable.
https://archive.md/7mVTx
While I do agree that title of the article is clickbaity. I also agree with most of the arguments in the article itself.

I'm a big fan of JavaScript as being a simple functional language with tiny bit of prototype based OOP. I do like some of the newer features of the language - arrow functions, block scoped variables, destructuring...

But I'm not sure stuff we're adding now are really giving us any value: the ugly async/await that is leaking abstractions and needs a lot of fixes to support iteration, classes, static members, constructors, annotations, etc.

For me personally it adds nothing valuable to the language. It simply is there to make language attractive to C# and Java programmers. It clashes with current libraries and way we used to work with JS. Thanks to that, we'll probably see explosion of crazy complex tools from these languages being introduced into JS - ORMs, DI containers, code generators and dynamic proxies everywhere...

Most of our problems could be easily solved using functions, objects and closures. But now we'll have Spring Data JS and in few years we'll also get our SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory.
> There is definitely a need for good people skills (passive aggressive doesn't work on the building site) and being clear up-front.

You don't even need good people skills, just being aggressive works, but you do have to be clear up-front: "stop right now, I am sure you fucked up this part: either prove to me I am wrong or redo it ASAP or I am not paying you for this" works much better than rolling out a list of complaints when they present the final bill.
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> I don’t think the solution is to try and artificially shore up domestic manufacturing capacity to the extent that it was before.

I agree that fully internalizing this kind of manufacturing is counterproductive. I feel that the optimum level is a limited capacity that could be scaled up quickly in an emergency. It's less efficient short-term, but resiliency always has some costs.

> Instead all the rewards disproportionately went to a small minority of the owner/shareholder class.

I feel there's some confusion in the way offshoring savings were, and are, being talked about. Possibly a purposeful confusion. The way I see it, one can't say "we're saving money by offshoring", where "we" means "our country/our economy". It's the private owners/shareholders that are saving money. The country only saves if they get to appropriate those savings, e.g. through a tax. If companies start to offshore and the government doesn't adapt taxation, then the country is actually losing on this.
> while also looking completely horrendous in its rural setting

Reminds me of my grandpa’s house kinda. Well, he’s from Southern Europe, so he built a brick box amongst a bunch of mid century/post WWII vinyl siding houses. Nothing wrong with it, but sticks out. Sure is solid though. And a cube is a good use of materials to maximize inside space to perimeter ratio.
You know, all these people talking about savings being sacred and driving investment. All that stimulus did nothing. It turns out, unlike the cartoon villain depictions of government in various economic ideologies, governments are one of the biggest drivers of investment in an economy and taking money away from them often results in less investment overall. Meanwhile it's the private sector that failed to invest its money.

When people talk more and more about how lower taxes on the rich boost investment you already know that private investment is dead and won't recover no matter what you do.
Well then obviously they need to be paid a bit more than minimum wage? If you can't fill the jobs at that price, you pay more, surely?
By using a dark color scheme with slightly desaturated colors for the highlighting, I get pretty much this already. The light grey text pops out, beyond the keywords.
https://archive.md/UOwkY
The problem with growing languages is often age more than size alone. Some features turn out to be less useful, or will later be superseded by more general features. But beginners still have to learn all of the the old ways to understand existing code.

C++ is perhaps the most prominent example of this, I’d consider it to be at least three different languages merged into one at this point. JavaScript has also accumulated some weird stuff over the years, like var, == and (arguably) a class-based OO system that doesn’t interact very well with the rest of the language.

One “solution” is using only young languages (e.g. Rust is very large, but young enough that most of its features are still useful). I personally like switching technologies every few years, but as a field, we can’t keep doing that forever. The other idea is using a language that’s more or less frozen, like C.
It's been a while that I've been to India (last millennium...). Back then, the Times of India had pages and pages of lonely hearts ads in the back, or rather, matrimonial ads. They were sorted by caste, though there were two special categories for NRI (Non resident Indians, i.e. expats) and MBA (yes, Master of Business Administration graduates) - they seem to transcend caste. The ads typically specified the industry and income of the candidate (or their family) in LPA (lakh per annum); some would specify that "caste no bar", and a few allowed that the "bride may apply herself" (rather than the family).

Quite eye-opening. I wonder how things are today.
Exactly. I ran a fairly "high-functioning" C++ image processing pipeline team, where every engineer had decades of experience. They were a diverse and individualized bunch of folks. We worked together well, as a team.

Unique talent was what I was specifically looking for. Since my company paid "competitive" (i.e. "low") wages, I had to look for "diamonds in the rough." We did interview some highly qualified people, but they tended to defer, when offered.

I feel that I was quite successful, and kept highly talented engineers for many years, but it made the search challenging.

"Cookie cutter testing" wasn't even an option. I'd have been crazy to ignore every advantage each unique applicant had to offer.
I've spoken to multiple consultancies to try and figure out if the career path would work out for me.

All of them made it clear that their MO is to provide asses in seats to build software quickly, then hand it over to the customer to whatever they liked with it - generally hire a bunch of outsourced developers to keep it barely alive, maybe add a feature or two per year.

Now TBF this is Switzerland, where salaries are always very high, but employee stock options etc. are pretty much unknown (outside of Google). Generally that means that companies are already spending shitloads of cash on software developers, so they might as well hire them as employees, not contractors.
Quite the opposite. Naive users will not be affected. They’ll just use generics and not realize that for certain types the code generated is more specific.

Or are you assuming newbies read the standard library source?
Some other interesting books to include:

The Spy Catchers - The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963 - https://www.amazon.com.au/Spy-Catchers-Official-History-1949...

The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 - https://www.amazon.com.au/Protest-Years-Official-History-196...

The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 - https://www.amazon.com.au/Secret-Cold-War-Official-1975-1989...
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I am more than comfortable for that to be your 'dream home' but it is not my dream home.
The just-announced Aukus military pact leaves no doubt in my mind. Pretty overt.
Search engine that show all but the big newssites
I created a search engine myself with YaCy. It's just a (complete) index of say 60 sources I use to consult.
Anyone can make such a thing. But using it together might be a better choice. So here is mine:
https://alterlook.org Enjoy it!
C++ is not a great choice of foil; people complain constantly that C++ is "too large" and champion a return to the simplicity of C
You know what's really sad about this? The caste system prevent a huge part of the population to contribute to the demographic dividends that made China, SK and Japan the powerhouses they are. India is taking the same path as Turkey and South Africa, and as long as the mixture of the caste system and the religious troubles they have is not fixed, even the Brahmins will pay the price (not even taking into consideration the climate drift).
For Duckduckgo users: !as instead of !a
Interesting that my phrasing is the only thing you seem to have issue with.

I assume you agree with my general analysis of the unions effect on Britain?