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My experience differs quite a bit. I did a bit of production code in Go and a bit of Rust as a hobby + one production Rust service. I guess it might depend on the kind of problems that you work on, but for the most part I don't think that my Rust code is so much different than Go. Definitely more concise. I admit there are times when I have to spend more time to think about how to implement a certain thing, but honestly, if you don't need raw performance you almost always can get away with one of the smart pointers and cloning (or just cloning?). So I don't feel that I'm much slower writing Rust and I'm happy to have more compile type checks.

I don't think that my experience is something isolated, either, here is for example a quote from one of Microsoft employees:

> "For the first week or so, we lost much of our time to learning how borrows worked. After about two weeks, we were back up to 50% efficiency compared to us writing in Go. After a month, we all were comfortable enough that we were back up to full efficiency (in terms of how much code we could write)," writes Thomas.

> "However, we noticed that we gained productivity in the sense that we didn't spend as much time manually checking specific conditions, like null pointers, or not having to debug as many problems."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-why-we-used-programm...
The fallacy of ML/AI companies.

Example: https://beta.openai.com/examples/default-translate

They even use flawed results in their marketing materials that they didn't validated with domain experts. ("Où est les toilettes ?" is not french).
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I disagree. If you have the data, try throwing ML at it. It's probably less work than trying to "understand it" and building a heuristic. If you don't have the data, how are you going to validate your heuristic anyway?
Perhaps the articles are not as interesting as the discussions
never ate in Michelin star restaurants, but judging by my experiences with more expensive restaurants I can genuinely say the tastiest best food I have in my life was from street stands in Penang (Georgetown), nothing from more expensive restaurants came ever even close

I guess I am not sophisticated enough to appreciate wasted money
No I think there are certain aspects about Apple products that are definitely not throwaway culture, mainly software support. The hardware is also holding up really long (I also use a MBP 2013, I have several iPhone 6s users in my family). The main issue is that in case of defects, repairs are not economical and I wish Apple would recognize that. Given the long viability of hard and software, I have reasonable doubt to believe it’s a decision made to maximize profit, but rather a legacy Jony Ive sized blind spot.
Yes or no.

Arguably the accident wasn't due to lax rules, but rather to lack of observance. The rules weren't followed. If that argument is correct, then the key isn't to make the rules stricter or looser, but rather to change the rules and/or environment to eliminate violations. Thus, IMO it's not a statistics problem, but rather a matter of how to design rules and the organisations to which the rules apply.

Germany, too, failed at designing rules for nuclear power: All of the nuclear operators disposed of contaminated waste without permission and without keeping records. How much? Probably not very much (or else it wouldn't have gone on for as long as it did), but there are no records.

Germany and Japan are good at rules. If those two failed, this task can't be a simple one.
Sounds kind of like the advice given to new drivers: look where you want to go, not at oncoming traffic. If you fixate on something, you’ll tend towards it.
> aren't that unusual

They're unusual in countries where you are treated like a human being.
How many months did it take Brin and Page to launch?
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Or some other type of sensor and minimal gear added to each locomotive...
If you have not seen James Mickens (Harvard CS) USENIX Security keynote presentation from 2018, I highly recommend it. It's hilarious while clearly showing how reckless and dangerous ML is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k
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Plastic isn’t much better. Something about glass just makes it so much nicer to drink beer out of. Not to mention, glasses can be re-used!
Can anyone with good knowledge of the protocol explain the differences between what WhatsApp is rolling out now and what Signal has been doing for a long time now?
This feature (or lack thereof) is pretty much my biggest gripe against Signal. I still don't understand why they won't let you use the same account in paralel on an Android tablet. And the weird part is they provide no explanation for this limitation while this limitation does not exist for iPad users.

If this new feature proves to work as advertised, I might as well sell my soul to the Facebook devil and go back to WhatsApp full time due to how frictionless the experience is (and everyone in the EU already being on it), and leave Signal only for private info sharing, as I grew tired of convincing people in my circles to move to Signal for privacy only to receive complaints that X,Y, Z features from WhatsApp are either missing, buggy or super frustrating to use on Signal. Oh, and receiving calls on Signal for Android is a mess (known bugs for years) where some calls just won't come through to my phone even if the desktop client is ringing, only to have it show up as a missed call notification on my phone a few minutes later. Unacceptable.

I do support the Signal team for their work and what they stand for, but my patience (and that of those around me I convinced to switch from WhatsApp) is wearing thin.
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Can't wait for availability in Switzerland, really want to get one.
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In the UK much of the benefits of Union membership is more like legal insurance. Which in this complicated world is really quite sensible if a rather more boring image.
Can't remember where i read this (so certainly don't take this as an absolute truth), but all movement tend to strongly follow line of sight. If you drive and look intently at an obstacle to make sure you'll avoid it... chances are you'll hit it. Skiers hitting easy-to-miss trees are frequent.

My personal theory is that if you intently focus on something to make sure you avoid it (physically or psychologically), you're naturally aiming for a near-hit: you're trying to _closely_ avoid the thing rather than missing it by a mile when not even paying attention to it
> McDonalds doesn’t pay Danes high wages because of a statutory wage floor or even because the state stepped in to enforce a collective bargaining agreement.

Are their wages even considered high by Denmark standards? I'd just say they have to follow local laws and wages if they wanna exist anywhere in EU, simple as that.
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I was curious so I checked it out. While I'm not American, and where I live that's not a thing, and I personally don't like it, it would seem kind of ridiculous to decide to use a service or not based on that Instagram.
nothing could possibly have gone wrong there...
> I would also (with the young version of the kids) do something horrible, Calvin and Hobbes style - getting super exited by something, they would get excited as well, the excitement is at the top, tension is unbearable and then the big thing is that we are going to bed. I did that twice I think, I am ashamed of myself.

Not sure if you’re joking or not, but I do that all the time with my son to make the mundane exciting again and frame things in a new way. It’s not a let down if you can still deliver by making the ordinary thing interesting somehow.
Defrauding the billionaire investors was likely not enough to get a lengthy jail sentence, so of course they do. Why shouldn't they, it's not like the victims aren't real?

But I don't see of it sets back research at all, if anything money invested in Theranos wasn't money available for companies doing something meaningful...
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> I find that the "random noise generators" are too distracting or tiring.

I've found sound of small rivers and birds chirping to be quite nice:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR4GNWcwAI8
https://www.mondo2000.com/2017/08/30/r-u-a-cyberpunk-well-r-...
Most countries it’s much harder to get controlled substances than in the US.

I mean, we had a massive opioid epidemic, not sure you know?
The whole point of nukes is that any given nation can take responsibility for its own defense and is not dependent on allies who may throw them under the bus if it is useful to do so.

Alliance networks are what gave us WW1.
Signal's refusal to allow me to export message backups is also unbelievably frustrating.
They know it, you dont have to twits their knife :/
It's a pro-union article, I think most people can realise that by reading it and decide for themselves whether they support or oppose it.
> Title is click bait, if McKinsey killed it then so did every other org that misuses “agile”.
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> I leave it to everyone else to make up their own opinion about that.

Yeah the article is pretty bad. Indeed it all boils down to your run-of-the-mill regurgitated and recycled complain that organizations abuse trendy keywords without any intention to actually follow through.

All in all, a waste of a perfectly good click.
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Agree it’s not a great or neutral look for all audiences.

Why not set it to private?
Super interesting product! Does anyone know if they have AMD processors on the roadmap? AFAIK they're beating the pants of Intel at the moment in terms of performance/W.
I don’t think that’s a fair labeling; from my experience ”cobbled-together, broken apps” are the result of taking the MVP approach to continuous development due to time constraints imposed by management due to contracts sold too cheap by sales directors.

The failure of a software project begins at the contract stage. This gives salespeople a measure of control over the developers, and it is in their interests to increase developer stress by selling more things cheaper.

The worst part is that salespeople are prone to corruption: if they can make a client company pay less for a service, the company may hand over a part of their savings. This is difficult to control, as the kickbacks may come in material or immaterial forms.

The effects of the corruption are very real to the organisation, which now puts undue stress on developers with projects that are designed to fail just enough to trigger contractual clauses in benefit of the buyer.
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He was a political poster on Something Awful named tinkzorg. His politics are definitely skewed towards the meme/edgy extremely online style, and the type to denounce idpol/woke politics as the province of the PMC, or that sort of thing.

He wrote another interesting article - “On ‘Strasserism’ and the Decay of the Left”:

https://www.thebellows.org/on-strasserism-and-the-decay-of-t...
Yes to the obliviousness taken as consent point. It’s been awfully convenient for them to move fast and break whatever they like and if no one screams just keep on going - but that doesn’t make it right.
That's something I discovered the other day on my pc.
At some point during the last year or so, I accidentally assigned a macro to the C key that did nothing but press the C key, so it was pretty much impossible to notice during normal use, except that holding it down behaved out of the ordinary.
Some good info here, did not now you can use ATA Secure erase from "linux" i thought you had to use the manufacturer proprietary software for that.

I am not sure what you mean with "I'd probably do cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sdX then partition,"

Care to elaborate?
It's not a goodbye speech, it's an I'm back speech...
Similar story of the development there too: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mcdonalds-conquered-fran...
Just out of curiosity - what kind of service was it? My experience with web services (API and websockets) has been great with Rust and actix, so I'm curious if it might be a difference of the work that needed to be done.
> Its not imagination, you can quantify these things.

Please get back when you find any rational and serious quantification of these externalities, specially one which accounts for a few millennia worth of babysitting residues to validate a business that goes for a couple of decades.

Until then, please cease with the hand-waving.
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I have a N7'13 gathering dust in a drawer, still working perfectly. Would love to try either Ubuntu touch or sailfish for development.

But would either ever lead to anything? It feels they are moving extremely slowly, almost like the GNU Hurd of the mobile world.
It seems unlikely to me at this point that Satoshi was anyone but Hal Finney. Until someone touches Satoshi’s wallets, the coincidences are just too great.
This. The subconcious/animal doesn't get negation, we need to translate and try to do it with our conciousness/neocortex, which is pretty weak in comparison. Wasn't there a term like ego depletion? To many Nos over a day leaving no self discipline left at the end of the day? Same goes for should/should not, but maybe worse, if you don't/do do it (which you probably will) you feel bad afterwards.

Telling what to focus on works with kids, drunks and adults.
Soviet, propaganda, whatever. These people have done a breathtaking job at the cutting edge of technology backed by paper and pencil. Let’s appreciate that for a minute.
> Decompiled code and the blacklist use "Ad" in naming a lot

It's a common tactic for spyware to use the term "Ad" and other terms that sounds innocuous at first glace. AdUps is a great example [1]

[1] https://www.slashgear.com/adups-chinese-spyware-still-on-and...
Not wittingly, at least.
Well, that model didn't stop Atlassian to become billion dollar corp. It may not work in all cases but often enough it does.
Shake down is sort of a silly phrase but I mean I run an adtech startup and the space could use more regulation to be sure. Right now its not really serving anyone except the adtech companies themselves. Neither consumers (privacy violations) nor advertisers (dealing with fraud both explicit and implicit through friendly fraud with bunk data) are getting what they want out of it unless you're an F500 bullying your way into solutions with cash (but even then not always)
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Just want to plug that I am super happy with my Casio W-735H.

Is there even a watch with a vibration alarm with battery that lasts more than a few days? (Mine advertises a 10 year battery life).

I find all gshocks only have sound alarm, no vibration.
Yeah, the comment had me curious as well. It's literally just a guy posting pictures of his guns and family. The most dramatic thing on there was the bio part that said "politically incorrect" while appearing to have nothing political on the page.

Are pictures of guns offensive outside of the US? I realize growing up in the US with a family of hunters has me desensitized, but I can't imagine being upset at someone whose hobby is going to the shooting range.
Is VSS deprecated? They took out the "previous versions of file" feature in Windows 8.
Does this mean I don’t have to go to standup today?
The thing about dongles is you don't always have it with you. The biggest change I noticed when I got a USB-C based mac is that I couldn't just plug it into every projector through the HDMI, so I had to start planning ahead more. Same with getting photos off of an SSD card

Abstracting the ports makes a ton of sense. I have some hardware laying around - headphones, e-reader - which is perfectly good, but part of me wants to replace it just because it would be much nicer to have USB-C everywhere instead of micro usb. I could see this as something which could significantly extend the lifetime of the hardware by removing those types of compatibility concerns.
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Spain is so good at gluten free beer, I wonder why
And here I was thinking to throw away everything I've been doing and just go back to waterfall.

Title could have been "Consulting company promotes themselves"
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According to this graphic, all 9 groups would consider a McDonalds cheeseburger to be a sandwich, even the "hardline traditionalists": "A sandwich must have a classic sandwich shape: two pieces of bread/baked product, with toppings in between; must have classic sandwich toppings: meat, cheese, lettuce, condiments, etc."

Clearly there's an entire missing dimension to the graphic, because it totally denies the existence of the Hamburger Irredentist Youth League to which OJFord belongs!
Authors or committers? Because if the “hero” is the project lead and reviewer there’s a big distortion right there
From a close outsider's perspective:

I am by no means a fan of agile as a 'religion' and in my role on the edge of the Dev world (Technical Delivery), I have seen many teams try to take the book of agile and implement it end-end, which focuses them more on the mechanisms than the 'doing'.

Agile has some good common sense strategies for (to use other phrases) common ways of working, problem triage, workload assessment, resourcing, progress tracking and measuring success but it's often deployed 'big bang' when (like ITIL), an *overseen* progressive change management exercise would be less of a shock to all concerned.

I stress 'overseen', because when you just dump the processes and tools on a team you often get situations where, for example, the sprint backlog just becomes a dumping ground for everything in progress and everything yet to be scheduled - with the icing on the cake (in one recent encounter) being that the backlog is exported into a spreadsheet for prioritisation and then collaborative updates to this are used to edit comments in the user stories!

I don't mind if agile is 'killed' because a lot of the common sense it conveys is either already being used (in perhaps a less-than-ideal joined up way) or can be used under a different brand name. Mind you, some organisations that have made their bread and butter from the concept might have something to say about this!

The overall aim should be for any team to work in a known and consistent way to meet their deliverables. Call it agile, call it foo; whatever!
That’s kind of life though.

We have a COM component written in VB6 running in IIS on windows containers on Amazon in EKS.

It works but it’s crap!
The unmount was just for verification. The tool is clearly intended to be used without unmounting the disk at any point.

Repeatedly copying until there are no new changes would produce a consistent image (if it terminates -- it requires the writing speed to the output device to be faster than the rate at which new data is being written to the input disk).

It may possible to stop earlier. The precise condition for producing a consistent image is as follows:

Let A[i] be the most recent modification time of block i, let B[i] be the modification time of block i at the time it was copied, and let C[i] be the time of the first modification to block i after it was copied (or infinity if the block hasn't been modified since it was copied).

We can stop if max(B) < min(C).

In detail, here is how to compute A, B, and C:

1. Initially, A[i] = B[i] = C[i] = 0.

2. When we are notified that block i has been altered, set A[i] to the modification timestamp. If C[i] == infinity, set C[i] to A[i].

3. When we copy block i, set B[i] to A[i] and set C[i] to infinity.
Did we? If somebody exercises their right not to incriminate themselves by answering a question that significantly raises the probability they have committed a crime or have knowledge of one and are attempting to obstruct.

I know the ruling class and their ruling class lawyers would like to gaslight us into not believing our lying eyes and think that pleading the fifth is a perfectly normal and totally innocent thing to do. I don't think that is progress at all. The reality is that it obviously raises very real questions about their motives.

It doesn't mean they did commit a crime, it doesn't mean it is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, but it is a data point that is perfectly legitimate to judge on its merits.

The fifth is to help defend against forced or coerced confessions, not to liberate a person being tried from being subject to judgement of their behavior.
Amount of carbon 1 person uses is more than what you can minimise, so it not NOTHING.

> totally different than having your own kid

Why? Why does one need one's genes to care for a child and to be a parent. Your comment is just complete character attack "stupid". If it's so big issue, than may be don't kid yourself about doing anything that will reduce actual climate crisis.
Losing 70 pounds doesn't mean you will live longer though.
What a weird case of 'nomen est omen'.
SAFe killed agile first :)

From my experience it depends on the company culture, leadership and the way agile is implemented and started with in a company.

Big companies with very old and complex architectures coupled with old school separation of business and IT and a bag of bureaucracy. Will properly need a PMO, or SAFe like implementation. Sometimes they are in luck and they are able to start with departments or a business units and move faster. But even if you have that the wider organisation will lag heavily. Most if not all can't become agile in an instance with implementing the perfect agile way of working. Even transforming to an agile organisation is best done in an agile way.
But the statistic of how often doing X gets somebody in jail is very important measure. (there is a fine for littering, but people constantly drop cigarette butts or gum on the ground, because there is no enforcement. And since there is no enforcement it is perceived as not a serious thing / acceptable behaviour)

Edit: to add to that, there are two dimensions: potential punishment and probability of enforcment. Both are equaly important.