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That was exactly me as a car mechanic, finding the problem that no one couldn't find? Awesome, but even doing the work to fix it after diagnosed it was boring for me, not to mention the thousands of tire changes, oil changes... So boring.

Sold everything and travelled for 4 years where I worked on projects of my own (programming) and being self taught I planned to be a programmer when I came back (now) but thinking about it... I don't think I would like the day to day work, typing code like a monkey on the que of a superior, it honestly feels like programmers are the new factory workers of the industrial revolution.

Also doesn't help that I am in the Netherlands, where it isn't paid as exceptional as in the US, it maybe would make it bearable.

My big problem now, what am I going to do...
My focus is on "lazy gardening" -- or how much can I get nature to automate things. How much can I use waste biomass as a resource. Etc. I end up with a lot of failures, but the successes are really satisfying. The main challenge is that the feedback loop is ~1yr which means that it's not a hobby for the impatient. :)
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And what have you to show for the process you describe here? You seem very confident you've got the right idea, but without the opportunity to see the resulting work, it's impossible for anyone to tell whether you merit being taken seriously or whether instead you're just blowing air.
not really interesting - subliterate drivel/anger from someone who can't seem to handle the idea of people who are different than themselves
My question: what is new about what FB is doing currently? Are they attempting to maintain their current influence and social network? Stem the tide of anti social media talk? Encourage controversial misinformation? What do they need the employees for? Is it to improve their image for investors?
A TUV mark would only be accepted in North America it was a cTUVus stamp on it.

What I wonder is if TUV in Europe just tests at just 240V if it’s labelled 100v-240v, or across the labelled voltages (though lower voltage should mean fewer problems).
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I consider this (posting on YT) a huge change from his God Save The Queen days. He's still obsessed with control but offering free content is something he wouldn't have done then.

Adding for context: After GStQ shows, he'd sit on the edge of the stage and talk to the audience. He definitely connected with his fans. Yeah he's (openly) a control freak but he's no 'tone deaf' elitist.

edit: It occurs to me that Discipline could be a product of that controlling nature.
In the year 1975 I was told the same thing about the year 2000.
Not that many. I'm on their lowest plan. Sorry that I can't be of further help.
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Looks really cool with interesting options ! I love the "prefer green areas" option.
What are website maintenance services and its importance for businesses in 2021?
There's no mention of any Open Source OS, it lacks the analog audio jack (the USBC adapter prevents charging during use, so it's not a substitute), and also lacks FM radio, which would have cost pennies to add. I see it as fairly big step backwards. Not interested.
What is a good way to support sci-hub? Given the nature of illegally share documents and the constantly server hopping, I have always been apprehensive about supporting sci-hub even though I want to.
The Fripp-produced Hall solo album Sacred Songs is a great listen as well.
I too thought of SpaceX while reading your first paragraph. I've heard Elon Musk described as a "nanomanager".
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I want no idiots, not rules.
Hmm, that’s good to know.

For some reason I always thought biotech was in the Carolinas and finance in NYC.

As for Amazon, I mean they’ve been around… but until they decided to stick their HQ heard about was the warehouse and data centers which aren’t really prestige divisions to the outside world.
VAERS is for gross data aggregation. But it is the absolute zeroth step in finding a causal link between vaccines and negative effects in the population. It's raw data without scientific controls for confounding factors (or even independent checks against self-reporting error), and misleading to the point of actively harmful without rigorous analysis and (more importantly) follow up study with proper scientific controls.

To give an absolutely terrible, but perhaps useful, analogy... You're an old sea captain on a sailing vessel without modern weather technology. VAERS is the crewman whose knee acts up about half the time before a bad storm. At best, if he tells you his knee's acting funny, you put your weather eye out... You don't turn around and go back to port.
Kevin replied, “Stop the bugs, we need to stop putting bugs in...and the way we're going to do that is first, stop paying lip service to code reviews, second, actually take some time to write unit tests for each feature, and third, quit deploying to production from your freaking dev box, Hank!"
You should click through to the article. However little it may suit the taste of the grandparent commenter - or suit mine, for that matter, at least in the methylphenidate style and triumphalist tone - there are some things of worth in there, nonetheless.
My experience as well, although my large org sometimes seems to move to slowly it's loads better than the startups I've been at.

One thing I'm realizing is really useful, and which we're doing more and more, is putting "program managers" in charge of projects, totally separate from "project managers", which really should be called "people managers". With that split we can have a senior engineer who is interested in management work across multiple teams without worrying about the day to day personnel issues. This only works if everyone supports this approach but here it's working well.
as classified ads go, this ranks somewhere near the top

if this thing is for sale someone will buy it

shades of prancer the chihuahua https://twitter.com/HLMongoose/status/1380505940265463818
Donate unused or lightly used gifts so that they may find use with someone else, and don't spend a moment more on them. You do the gift giver no favors by merely warehousing their gifts.
Embedded ML smell detector: https://www.inputmag.com/tech/this-ai-nose-will-help-you-sni...
When do you raise rates?
You mean it has a camera island like every other smartphone out there nowadays?

As for the price, dude, how can you even complain about that with a project like this, don't even mention it. I think it is wonderful. Less expensive than an iPhone 12 mini and it just feels so good + you can experiment with OSes.
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Why stop at killing babies? Why not knock out a country's food supply and have them starve?

https://www.cybertalk.org/2021/09/21/blackmatter-ransomware-...
I landed in a great startup (lucky me) where the IT infra manager had an entire fake environment for the PCI auditors. So many laughs. They hired a info sec manager eventually, who wrote stacks of policies and put us through numerous successful and legit PCI audits...but yeah, that was one example of the regulations being skirted. There was a constant barrage of legal issues though that consumed three in-house lawyers.
I don't trust scrum because it has a whole industry around it. People who's main source of income is to go train companies to do scrum so the trainers can do more training. Conferences, books, authors, personalities, the works.

Why would I trust something like that instead of something organic?
Yeah, I should have used "primary"/"replica", I agree. Somehow this words did not came to my mind. Thanks
I've always thought that Robert Fripp is temperamentally a classical musician who plays rock music.
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Navicat for PostgreSQL (https://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat-for-postgresql)
I do somewhat agree but there's only so many niches you can cater to at once before you doom your product to obscurity and failure
whoops! my bad. Good eye and thank you
Discipline was the KC album that first "clicked" with me. Listened the hell out of that in high school, as well as Thrak and of course, ITCOTCK.

Didn't deep dive into Talk Talk until a few years ago, but so happy I have. Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock are both stunningly beautiful albums.
This is one of the major pain points with PostgreSQL.
Unless you absolutely need any new features and uptime is important, you can just continue using PostgreSQL 9.6 even thought it is EOL. https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
It will most likely work great for many more years.

I wish future versions of PostgreSQL will have some backwards compatibility for old system/data tables/datastructures and be able to do live migration when running a newer release.

pg_upgrade will not work if the internal data structure for your data changes. It only recreates the system tables. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/pgupgrade.html
This is very untrue and misleading statements.

GCP is not going anywhere. They have clients like Uber and Disney.

Google is not going to shutdown your account if you are not doing bad things.
Any time you see a related or recommended video that annoys you, you should click the three dots and choose "not interested"
Not all things are made because they need to be made. But then those things can be adapted to solve a problem someone needs solved.
How does docker abstract arch64 for you?
Well, I think I can relate to the corkpull problem but at least it is fully functional. There's a decent amount of objects that are poorly designed but I have to live with because I don't want to be responsible for more waste.
Well off people I know generally tend to buy new stuff just to have new stuff, because it feels good, creating wawes of abandonware. I just wish they had other outlets to feel better in their lives.
Please stop offering me stuff. A bottle of nice wine/beer/whiskey or flowers will do.
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"I'm a gnother gnu!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw
This feels like a nice way to navigate websites, but at the same time looks way better than most of the keyboard driven interfaces (since the apps that are optimized for that are typically TUI)!

In my eyes, that just proves the feasibility of the input method, as opposed to having to click around - it can work for a variety of types of content!
I use a PoE camera with a local zoneminder server. It has motion detection to log an event and can optionally send an email (not utilizing the email part myself).
expired:

btw: on Centos 7 server you NEED to update package: ca-certificates
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I like your description of "pest magnets", I have been referring to them as plant tanks. My overgrown raspberries tank the japanese beetles for the blueberries. Plus the yield of the raspberries isn't significantly dented by the japanese beetles.

My favorite piece of equipment is my wood chipper: I can turn all of the delivery boxes into mulch. And yard waste. And... basically any other biomass that will turn to dirt in 6-12 months.

We are not off-grid (dude, that's so much work). But I build most of my projects out of found materials (raised beds out of old fencing, etc). I tried my hand at making a basket out of grape vine, but grape vines are really "shreddy" and the basket is no fun to use. I was going to try coppicing some willow next -- baskets are really useful.

It's a fun hobby, but I am lazy. And I still end up with too much produce (though I have a lot of space, so that makes it easier).
Congrats on the IPO - Amplitude is a great product and the team behind it seems genuinely awesome.

I had a question about your view on the enterprise software sales process? Currently I am avoiding upgrading from the free tier of Amplitude due to fatigue with negotiations - the whole "contact us for higher volumes model" is a bit exhausting.

As someone who does this pricing model, I wanted to ask if you think it's optimal? Have you ever considered making your volume discounts transparent and allowing users to quickly understand how Amplitude pricing will work at scale? Are you just going along with the crowd on opaque pricing or do you genuinely think it's a better model?

Appreciate your thoughts!
I lean towards the Fripp/Wetton/Bruford/[Cross]/[Muir] lineup myself, although the current line-up is edging towards it, held back by the paucity of new songs more than anything else.
I bet he plays the “bring me a rock” game with all of his reports.
Yes, sorry, Sassoferrato. Thanks for the clarification. The museum and town are a great way to spend an afternoon. You must really have some good stories.
Zephyr seems to mostly target Cortex-M-based devices, which can't run Linux in the first place.
Lab leak and animal contact can both be true. Lab tech gets infected during animal experiments/sample collecting due to not following procedures and infects others in the lab. They carry infection out into the population, and you're off.
PostgreSQL 14 released – so many interesting features
godly many welcomes :)
Emacs org-mode is great at producing Taskjuggler charts. The documentation is a bit rough though.

This is the most thorough walkthrough I've found though it uses the QT-based Taskjuggler 2:

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html

This guide goes through the ruby-based TJ3, though it ends kinda abruptly:

https://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/taskjuggler/ox-taskjuggle...
That would make sense as to why they kill of products, in attempt to reign this in. In reality, killing products is still pretty uncommon even for Google.

Just today, I logged into Google Calendar on my iPhone and the mobile UI looked like it hadn't changed since 2008 and it was missing a ton of features.
I worked at PlanGrid for five or so years, and these sad looking graphs are really what inspired a lot of my colleagues. Even if the data is fuzzy, the directionality says a lot.

Construction is hard, and it's getting harder. New code and regulation is hard. The contractor/subcontractor relationship is hard, and it produces a lot of bad anti-patterns in "cover your ass," or doing things that are just plain wrong, but are what was written down.

Perhaps worst is that the tools have only marginally improved. A hammer is still a hammer, and a nailgun is still a nailgun. Hanging drywall doesn't go faster than it did 30 years ago really. Though, as homes/buildings get more complicated, it only serves to need more specialists, more cooks in the kitchen, and slower results.

Heck, just look at the cost to build a mile of highway. And that's a relatively simple construction. Yet when you look at what goes into it, all of the people involved, all of the engineering that goes into it, and all of the fixtures that are required to "finish," a road to a modern standard, it's expensive.

Construction is one area where there just really is little replacement for hard work.
It’s great until you realize everything has lead in it.
We have the same thing in the U.S., where people paid to dispose of people's dead pets just dump them on the side of the highway to save money. E.g.: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/11/dead-animals-found-i...
I ask that myself often.

new things are not always better, and inexperienced devs just use the hype-of-the-month framework to build stuff that miserably fails- see the articles from today about Event Sourcing and CQRS for example...
> He didn't know he was drawing a cloud architecture diagram.

No, cloud architects don’t know they’re drawing engineered prints.
Oh yeah the last bridge collapsed, but that is a known issue. It is fixed in this bridge, trust me.
> digital plumbers.

I had this realization over last one year, after 17 years of professional life.

Most of my work these days involves plumbing together right libraries and data pipelines to automate business processes. Sometimes I need to fix an existing plumbing to plug a leak here and there.

Now my Twitter handle says Plumber
they need to sell those 49$ books somehow.
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So the people shouldn't be allowed to choose to take that risk for themselves? Fuck free choice, we should coerce them into making the right one?
> This "verbal, intuitive character" is its biggest flaw: it makes grammar look like it is logic, while it is not.

I don't know if I would say it makes grammar look like logic. Rather, it holds that grammar has a logical structure. You would still need to regiment your arguments in many cases if you wanted to explicitly employ the formalism in question, but this is viewed as faithfully bringing out the essential logical character of a proposition latent in the grammar, not as a replacement of the original proposition with something else. Recall that FOL is completely indifferent to grammar (though apparently this hasn't stopped linguists from using FOL to analyze natural language, something Sommers sees as resulting in a distorted view of natural language).
Steven Sinofsky gave a talk and said something to the effect of, we've been building roads, bridges and edifices for thousands of years. So, best practices and solved problems abound---and even then we still get it wrong sometimes. Whereas, software engineering is maybe 70 years old (generously)? So, there is much to learn and a lot of "baseline" knowledge that has yet to be established. I think it's a good way to think about things.
Although it depends on the business the megacorp is in, reputation is also important.

Would you entrust your live saving to FinanZly? Would you go on a family vacation in a car from DriveFlow.io?

I think megacorps are mainly successful due to being the safe choice.

People love loss aversion, and you never go wrong with Bank of America or Ford.
And you just described me perfectly. I have valid safety concerns, a healthy immune system, and experienced a total of one day of Covid symptoms.
To make the comparison fair, in that world civil engineers would also have the ability to change the laws of physics.
>> what is new about what FB is doing currently?

You'd find the same sort of answers at FB that you'd find at citibank. They have regulatory challenges, content moderation challenges. Corporate structure challenges left over from acquisitions or whatnot.

I'm sure there are a ton of items on the todo/doing/done lists. There are "new and exciting" projects, oculus VR, whatever is happening with the marketplace, etc.

Same thing at citibank. From the perspective of a manager there, I imagine it looks like they're doing a ton of stuff all the time.
Pretty much. IT as a field is a toddler. But it makes so many people happy we don't care it's still at the anal stage.

Maybe in a century techs and standards will stabilize.
> Without drawing graphs and equations, it is absolutely useless.

For you maybe, I use org mode a lot and never feel the need for having graphs and equations in my workflow.
An alien visiting from another planet might not be aware that there's a correlation among humans in what they find exciting and that changes in heart rate correlate with excitement.
Finding a few files containing (BSD-licensed!) code that originated in the FSF doesn't sound like a particularly compelling argument that people have to use their code. Of course people will use their code when it does the job and the license fits, it'd be silly not to.

FWIW, here's a search for FSF-copyright code that excludes build generator output (autotools/automake/libtool/etc) and gcc/bison/etc related stuff (which many other projects which are not themselves FSF-authored use), as well as licenses themselves:

https://cs.android.com/search?q=copyright.*free%5C%20softwar...

193 hits, and a lot of that is ffi and libbacktrace stuff. Exclude those two projects, and you're down to 47 hits, most of which are random things like headers, test shell scripts, and some translations. I think it's fair to say that Android does not include any significant amount of GNU/FSF code.

(Keep in mind that the Android codebase is massive and vendors a huge amount of third-party projects, so it's actually quite remarkable that there is so little FSF code in here - part of that speaks to how little FSF people contribute to other projects!)
Michael Larabel probably knows this, but nobody pays list prices in these segments. Especially not for Intel CPUs, not now.
These changes look fantastic.

If I may hijack the thread with some more general complaints though, I wish the Postgres team would someday prioritize migration. Like make it easier to make all kinds of DB changes on a live DB, make it easier to upgrade between postgres versions with zero (or low) downtime, etc etc.

Warnings when the migration you're about to do is likely to take ages because for some reason it's going to lock the entire table, instant column aliases to make renames easier, instant column aliases with runtime typecasts to make type migrations easier, etc etc etc. All this stuff is currently extremely painful for, afaict, no good reason (other than "nobody coded it", which is of course a great reason in OSS land).

I feel like there's a certain level of stockholm syndrome in the sense that to PG experts, these things aren't that painful anymore because they know all the pitfalls and gotchas and it's part of why they're such valued engineers.
Not a great example. FB’s product surface is easily 10x 2012. If you think FB == news feed, go dig into the app. Marketplace didn’t exist in 2012, for example. Also, IG acquisition was in 2012 post-IPO, WhatsApp and Oculus were after that.
> But, more importantly, it shows just how fantastic software is these days. How spoiled we are to carry supercomputers in our pockets. In less than 200 lines of code, I used these incredible frameworks developed by Apple to get this idiotic idea working in an evening.

This was for me the essence of the post. We live in times that enable (some of) us to create fun stuff like this unbelievably easy.
> IF they can resist the urge to jump in the pool with the developers, IF!

Honestly, in most intellectual work, the first-level manager having an intermittent toe in the water of the actual work (not focussing there, of course!) I find to be a pretty good sign—if they don’t, my experience is that they either don’t understand it or are overcommitted (usually, too broad a span of control, but sometimes too much pushed down to the first level of management that should be at higher levels), or are inventing no-value work for staff in their slack.
If you are a novice or even if just a bit rusty with relational databases I recommend:

- Grab a good book or two. The Art of PostgreSQL is one. There are _many_ others. Take a bit of time to find out what suits you. I typically like reading a more theoretical one and a more practical one (with actionable, concrete advice, actual code in it and so on).

- Get a nice tool/IDE/editor plugin that can interactively work with databases, create them, query them etc. Almost all of the editor utilities that you expect from general purpose programming also applies to programming with SQL.

- PostgreSQL is a very powerful, primarily relational database, but there is very little it cannot do. For example it is perfectly feasible to implement a document (JSON) store with it, and convenient to boot. There are also great extensions such as for temporal tables.

- There is a ton of advice, discussion etc. to find, especially around data modelling. Word of caution: Some of it is religious, at least slightly. The book I mentioned above too to a certain degree, but it is still a very good book. Realize that a relational DB can give you a ton of stuff in a performant, declarative manner. But not everything should live in the DB, nor is everything relational in the strictest sense. Be pragmatic.

Source: I've been diving deeper into this topic since a few years and still am. The more I learn and are able to apply, the more I understand why the relational paradigm is so dominant and powerful.