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I think this is a poorly sourced and not a reliably fact checked article.

This is at least the 2nd time on HN that a report has suggested Ashley Gjovik was complaining about "toxic chemicals at work". The previous article referred to something published at "The Verge" - "her office is in an Apple building located on a superfund site"
<https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22666049/apple-fires-senio...>

Other published articles (and I believe is likely the truth) indicate that the toxic chemical issues were related to her personal living space <https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...>

The nytimes ought to be very embarrassed about this stupid error.

I note that the personal toxic superfund site issues were previously discussed on HN.

I am also somewhat confused about the persona of "Cher Scarlett". I do not think it is a real identity. I also have some serious doubts if they, or their alter ego, is actually employed at Apple. Reputable journalists could actually verify this with employment and tax records -- journalists would actually have to do the necessary due diligence.

Twitter suggests that "Cher Scarlett" is located in Seattle. (This would make them a remote worker for Apple). Also seemingly making quite a lot of tweets. When does this person do any work for Apple? Is this person the reason why Apple isn't responding to Security reports and the bug bounty program?

After reading many tweets I am failing to detect any comprehension of, or demonstration of, a computer security "mindset" -- something that, in my experience, does tend to manifest itself in the personality of security folks over extended periods of time.

I am unable to determine what sort of security role this person has.

I am not suggesting any malice or ill will towards "Cher Scarlett". I am trying to present this as a technical analysis.

In summary, I really question if "Cher Scarlett" is actually a real person in they way they are presenting themselves to be.
What's really weird is it's a world of about 200 "people" (sovereign states), completely without outside authority. Historically it has all been about power, with international law having a minor role - but it seems conceivable that all the nations could police one another and all international law could become much more effectively binding.

It wouldn't be as effective as universal pacifism, just like the police can't prevent all murders - but they can deter them. It could be a future that still has nation states rather than a world government, without any superpowers.
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Sample size 1 and I don’t drink a beer a day but usually several times a week. I’ve been off it for two weeks though (covid) and my digestion seems much better.
https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed - does not need SQL/database - on a RPi0W as "server".
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I admire this enthusiasm so much, and it is so sad that it all has to happen in illegality.
The very fact that they don't know what the speech means, is exactly why they have no business trying to control it.
That is not correct.

Seawolf was cancelled and only three units were built, causing R&D costs to be spread across those three units, raising unit price.

It was cancelled because it was expensive, but it was ordered during the end of the cold war and was radically more capable than the class it was meant to replace. This cost was acceptable at time of order, but then subject to budget cuts after the USSR collapsed. This raised the per-unit cost, but lowered the overall cost.

The eventual replacement (Virginia) ended up being more evolutionary from the previous class (not from Seawolf) than revolutionary, but much cheaper.
Well France had already cancelled a Dinner date with the US, that's like Def Con 2 for the French.
What is baffling to me is why they're doing this now? They've clearly benefited substantially from last year's lockdowns[0] so what is the rationale for squeezing labor costs? A directive from holding company (delivery hero) following the trend of other players in the space to challenge the working status of the drivers?

As a side note: 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". The say that "they may ask additional identification". They ask for email/username (which they should already have??) and that depending on the frequency of your demands, they may charge you a "reasonable fee" for "administrative costs".
The GDPR require the capability of deleting ones account from a platform be "without undue delay"[2]. I'm no lawyer but their response seems to violate the terms.

[0]Article in greek. Basically says that their income went from 43M euros to 64M and they paid a dividend of 20M euros to their shareholders: https://www.capital.gr/epixeiriseis/3551288/tinaxe-tin-mpank...

[1]Greek again: https://twitter.com/mpodil/status/1438620693055352834

[2]Paragraph 1 on grounds of (b) https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
This seems like a fairly strong gesture IMO. Normally think of ambassador recalls when war is imminent, although know it can also be used to make a strong diplomatic statement. Guessing France wants to make it clear how pissed they are about the situation.

As several people have suggested already, the US should just buy these subs from France and give them to Taiwan or another friendly nation in the area. Win win for everyone.
u sure u're qualified enough?
A warning to directors of all shapes and kinds (people who manage managers, or direct their hiring/promotion): when you promote someone internally from an IC to a lead role, you're probably pushing them out of the company within a couple years.

If they fail miserably at the lead role, they will become disillusioned, maybe face a PIP if they fail bad enough, and best case will end up as a more grumpy IC that feels like the company screwed them over.

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. They will stick around for a while, but once something starts to go wrong anywhere on their team or in the company (and it will) they'll realize that it's probably going to be several years before there's any potential to climb the ladder any further, and they start to sniff around for what they should be making, and you'll lose them.

It's a valid choice to "burn" personnel this way because you need a project done and can reasonably hope that the person you're burning can get it done.

But it's generally less costly/risky to either a) fight the hard fight of getting an existing employee's salary in line with their new role immediately when they start it, or b) hire an external lead and fire quickly if they suck. The benefit of an external lead is that if they're really good, they might have director potential, which is even more valuable to promote someone into, and much more politically viable for someone who hasn't just been promoted to a lead/manager.

On that note, a warning to C-levels of all shapes and kinds: when you promote someone internally from lead to director,...
I'm from a small place in Norway, known for its speed skaters. And my impression is they actually bike a lot as part of their off season training.
Just yesterday or so I watched an "Alternative Contries"[1] video on YouTube where the most hilarious proposal -- took me a while to grok -- was Australia-Hungary.

___

[1]: Kind of a sub-genre of alternate history and/or history-simulation-game AI timelapse videos.
You are probably correct. Russia and baltic states also have high suicide rates. Also there is a lot of alcoholism in nordic and baltic countries, as well as Russia.
And who is that external lead? The guy your describing but from company b.
Sadly this is outdated. On September 16th, 2021 the ESA announced a delay of the launch until mid-2023 to repair pieces of the spacecraft dislodged during transportation to the launch site [0]. More info on the video including damages.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Mods, can we change link to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25788-w
Harmy’s despecialized trilogy is 99% as good as the real thing
The statistician in me is severely troubled by a conclusion like "statistical relationship" when the conclusion is drawn from studying just 3 (three) projects. At worst case this means studying programming habits of just 3 (three) developers (appended: actually, 1 dev is the worst case).
You just can't make any significant conclusions on such basis that generalize on whole population.

Even if it was huge projects with hundreds of devs, you still can't make generalizable conclusions, because habits of all this devs are clearly not independent.
Sounds like a mix of impostor syndrome and recognizing the absurdity of hierarchical labels and ranks.

Labels are a leaky abstraction, genuinely useful for those who don’t (want to) care and know. But useless, maybe harmful, when it comes to difficult problems, conflict and subtle interactions. In these cases we need to recognize that the map is not the territory.
Really interesting article, thanks!
Yankees truly defy parody...

> there are going to be a lot more disruptions without the US military to stabilize things

Or, you know...

there are going to be a lot fewer disruptions without the US military to destabilize things
From my own practice of doing a beer fast/having a beer before and after a run, I recommend doing this with non-alcoholic beer, which can have up to 0.5% alcohol by volume.
Human knowledge is evolving incredibly quickly, and has since before computers were even invented.

The first computer I played with was the (then new) Commodore PET, with 4KB RAM. My elementary school had one, and access to it was like some sort of special privilege.

There’s a certain tendency people tend to have, which is to believe that “things were better in the old days,” or “they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” Or “there are no new ideas.”

I dunno, for me going back to the pre-smartphone, pre-Google, pre-Internet world… pass.

Naturally, there are a wealth of core ideas, algorithms, patterns which have stood the test of time and even evolved and flourished. But our understanding of even basic ideas has significantly changed over time.

Personally, I’ve generally elected to not get too caught up with fads, and to focus on understanding fundamental ideas, algorithms, mathematics; how things fit together into robust, efficient, flexible systems.
> Every time I hear a story about how something more modern won’t even be released in 4K because they don’t have a high enough quality source because it's all digital I’m kind of saddened.

I think it depends on the movie, 28 Days Later was shot on digital potatocams and looks awesome.
Interesting, thanks! So, these MAOIs are not present in the ingredients of beer/wine, but are instead thermally produced (probably some cyclization reactions involving tryptophan or tyrosine?)

Anyway, judging by those tables the problem isn't unique to beer and wine; many other foodstuffs in there as well. And the doses are so low that I don't think you can conclude that beer consumption causes poisoning by monoamine oxidase inhibitors.

Those tables show 1-100 microgram/L concentrations of MAOIs. Compare that to eg. harmaline that requires >100 mg doses for pharmacologically meaningful effects, even accounting for slow metabolism and dose accumulation it seems farfetched.
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> React has changed their one true way

Is there even such a thing? I know that there was class components and then function components and then hooks, but outside of that, the insistance on React being a library means that the ecosystem is very fragmented. There's CRA, there's Next, there's Gatsby. There are lots of different ways to do CSS. TypeScript? No TypeScript?

I wish there was a frontend framework focused on stability over time.
Eh? Why the downvote? That’s what I have always done and it works.
It seems you believe that BBC, Fox News and CNN don't push their own propaganda?
Now you’re jumping from Apple not doing anything new in 10 years to a huge number of changes and developments Apple made over the last 10 years. Which is it?
Give them some meaningful compensation in options.
I hadn't paid attention to Lunduke, was he always this off with his thinking?

He completely disregards societal benefits to libre software (apart from educational advantages). Libre software's bigger impact on my life has been my way of thinking: on morality, on digital liberties, on sharing and societies.

He supposes that everyone is in it for the money and that money can only come from all users paying for the software (otherwise they don't value that software).

He begins with

> I've been an advocate for "Free and Open Sourse Software" for a long, long time

and ends with:

> That same software should also provide source code — at least in some form, in some way. At least most of the time.

Of course there are arguments for paying for software either individually or collectively through various ways. Unfortunately, the author does not take under account _at all_ how and why gratis software works now, the relationship basis of libre & gratis, examples of FLOSS gratis software that successfully has well fed developers and other where development stalled due to money.

There is a multitude of interesting ways to look at this issue but this is not one of them. It basically reads "you should pay for all software you use, otherwise you don't appreciate it". And it doesn't even deeply go into that either; would the user pay once and have a lifetime license? Would they pay for updates? Would everyone globally pay equally? He mentions 20$ for the browser but not everyone lives in a $ country.

Pff, a waste of time this article.
What my favorite Asian delivery restaurant did is launch their own webshop and tell their regular customers to please order there. They are still on the big aggregator, but at least I order through their own webshop.

However, as many others said I usually don't wanna order by calling. The biggest inconveniences are being misunderstood and not having cash at hand.
Some books starts counting pages after the table of contents and so the pdf page number and the book page number are not in sync.

I’ve seen some PDFs have the first few pages counted in Roman numerals and then “normal” numbers for the main content.

How do you edit an existing pdf to do that?
Out of curiosity (as a non-brit), do you ever measure anything in pints that's not a beer?

I'm somewhat aware that milk might still be sold in pints - I just find it interesting that the word has in common usage really lost the connotation of being a measurement and just mostly means "a beer" now.

E.g. "I'm going out for a pint", "I've had a couple of pints", "I'm not much of a drinker, but I'll have a pint or two a month".
It of course depends on the focal length of the lens, but with a tele lens in the 200-400mm region (also depending on your sensor size), I would estimate that the moon crosses the image in the order of a minute. There is plenty of time to frame and focus the shot, but you have to readjust your camera every couple of shots.
This motion is just the earth rotation and the same for the moon, the sun and all the stars. The rotation of the moon around the earth becomes noticeable only from day to day, as the moon roughly moves 13 degrees/day. Tracking mounts have a separate speed setting though, which does take the moons movement into account for greater precision.
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> Let's not pretend that France is going to go to nuclear war to over these territories.

Why wouldn't they? Nuclear retaliation is their whole defense doctrine. They probably won't need to because they maintain adequate diplomatic relationships with all of the different powers in the Pacific.

> I'm not really sure that's true. And why would it be less true with better detection technology now than it would have been in World War II where aircraft carriers were what mattered?

Carrier groups are too slow and carry too little protection to actually resist an attack from a military of an equivalent technological level nowadays. Anti-ballistic ship missiles and supersonic missiles fired from high altitude are a pain to detect and fly too fast to be reliably stopped. The US has been trying to develop counter-measures but their actual capabilities are unproved and they remain vulnerable to saturation. You will not be able to operate carriers close to China or Russia if they want them out of the picture.

> Sure I can. What exactly are they going to do?

Cripple your navy? Nuck you? Geopardize your economic blocus with China and provide them with the mineral they need? They could do all of these things.

Step out of your bubble. You don't understand the actual position of the USA in the modern world. You can't just dismiss countries. That's not how diplomacy works.
To totally complete the tutorial, it would have been awesome to have an example of an userspace software using the new syscalls :)
Yes, the vast majority of people doesn't behave like that.

Game theory is a discipline that studies the consequences of a even a small number of actors defecting norms that would otherwise be beneficial to everyone.
Yes. But the unit is ml/kg/min, so increasing your mass with muscles increases the ml extracted, but also the division by kg.
Could you point me to some resource on how would such a process look like?
Is there info on when the 0.5 is supposed to be released? I don't see anything on the Github except that the only issue left on the 0.5 milestone is updating the readme.
Because I copy & pasted it :) Thanks for pointing this out.
I think Bjarne Stroustrup is right: “The only programming languages nobody complains about are the programming languages nobody use” :)
On that blue "create merge request" button on the issue page, there is a drop down arrow to let you pick a branch to start from. That text input is super buggy and often says the branch does not exist even if the name is correct.
It really depends on the company. In my limited experience I can say that only FAANGs will probably allow such an environment. Other big corporations aren't quite there yet.
Interesting but another article mentions it's so expensive that the UK was reducing its F-35 order to pay for it.

In the light of its rekindling with the US and Australia this week, I doubt that will be appreciated.
Sorry, what does IC and PIP mean in this context?
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I've written few years ago text based application created in AngularJS to keep all my notes. It was inspired by builtin MacOS app. I'm trying to keep all my notes there. Before I've had this app, I've used topic based files with extension NOTES like javascript.NOTES etc. The application is running on my shared hosting, the code is Open Source but yesterday I wanted to add new feature (global full text search) and I have a problem to run the application locally, a lot of things has changed since it was created. I've spent few hours updating all dependencies including WebPack. After done it doesn't work 100% correctly. I also have on my TODO list to create mobile version, so I can read and take notes while on my phone.

The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/jcubic/notes

The app is simple on left there are notes, in the middle there is simple text and on the right are navigation into sections, that are created using special markers. This type of makers I always use in source code and text files as separators.
Those would be the people who do not seriously say they would have kept it. I'm asking about the people who are apparently not joking.
I'm allergic to beer, and it's the strangest thing. If I have one normal beer, the next day my face is flush and my eyes are red. Two and I've got a hangover and a runny nose.

I'm not much of a drinker, but other alcohol doesn't affect me like this - a cocktail or two and I'm fine the next day.

Bread and wheat doesn't seem to have negative effects, so I have no idea what it could be.

Anyone else experience similar things or have any idea what it could be?
Uberization. Legal? If you control the gov you don't care.
Ask the US military. They won’t recruit anybody with an IQ below 83. Even though the US military try to recruit as many as possible. And then check the IQ statistics. They found out the hard way that soldiers with an IQ lower than 83 are more dangerous to the US military than the enemy.
The actual title is "git-tutorial" :) The "Version Control Without Git" is the title of the first section.

But this is my first time using github pages, so I screwed it up.
Ignoring the (rather slow) orbital motion of the Moon, consider: the sky (and the Moon) appears to rotate 360°/24 h. This amounts to 360/(24*3600) = 0.004167 °/s. The apparent size of the lunar disc is about 0.5°, so it takes about 120 s for the Moon to move by its own diameter in the sky. Plenty of time.
Ass-kisser also has the same meaning.
They've never been team players. Don't forget they were happily building Nazi tank parts in WWII while playing nice with the allies. On the other hand, many EU countries have picked US fighters over Swedish offerings like the Gripen. It does go both ways.

I'd love to see the EU more militarily independent from the US. Especially because they tend to start wars for economic reasons. Sponsoring the military industrial complex, oil reasons.. In Europe we view the military more as defense and not as a geopolitical or economical tool. We also view joining the military more as a job and less as a duty to our country. But if EU countries start opting out it'll never happen.

We can still be friends with the US, but less military ties would be appreciated IMO.
Sorry, looking back at my wording I can see how that's confusing. You are correct. PipeWire replaces the standard JACK libraries with its own ABI-compatible implementations. This allows any JACK-compatible application to support audio through PipeWire using the same APIs it would normally use for JACK. This is also how PipeWire handles support for PulseAudio, ALSA and other multimedia libraries; it kinda reminds me of Wine for Linux audio protocols, if my understanding is correct anyway.

To use PipeWire in place of JACK, you have to install a specific package (`pipewire-jack` on Arch Linux) and run all of your audio applications using a wrapper command called `pw-jack`. You can update the `.desktop` entries for audio software on your system to automatically run this command; I've done that and everything I use launches correctly, tbh I forget that PipeWire is there. I just use Bitwig, qjackctl, Catia, etc. and they all think they're using JACK but really everything is being handled by PipeWire. Pretty kewl and it's been working perfectly for me for quite some time. :)
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It's remarkable how little you engaged with what I actually wrote, in your haste to deploy the usual LARPing tropes about freedom fighters and "armed civilians" and such nonsense.

Once again, for the slow kids with reading comprehension problems:

Armed civilians are not a reliable source of resistance against certain types of tyranny - notably right-wing authoritarian tyranny. They are, in fact, more likely to crop up in pro-government paramilitaries who are willing to do the dirty work that a tyranny doesn't want to get around to.

In short, for every gun in the hands of a genuine libertarian, there are 2-3 guns in the hands of hard right authoritarians whose embrace of 'libertarianism' only extends as far as "government letting people exactly like me do whatever they want".