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> International conflicts are warming up, and the saber-rattling between the US, Russia, China, and various parties in the middle east is reaching a tenor that's unprecedented in my lifetime.

How old are you? Just 30 years ago we were on the brink of nuclear war and had been for ~40 years.
In some ways I’d argue it’s a particularly egregious violation of the spirit of leave no trace.

Littering saves yourself the hassle of cleaning up after yourself. Leaving crash pads behind serves a need for safety. These are selfish acts that benefit you for practical reasons while ignoring the well-being of the environment around you.

Rock cairns, while (probably) less damaging, serve no purpose other than leaving a trace for the sake of leaving a trace.
"...in the last two million years"

Frightening, clickbait title.

I was thinking due to recent climate changes that they had grown wings or long legs or something truly horrible.
Well the why makes it far easier to make the process repeatable, so yes it matter a lot.
How would a person follow a tradition of economic growth?

Do you mean consumerism? I don't think that one fits either as it's something people choose to do because it provides satisfaction.
Have these sex bases quotas led to better, worse or no change in the quality of government? Has having more women in charge led to better economic growth, lower crime, better educational results, or they worse or no real change. Has you country changed for the better?
I could often make an argument for smug “Considered Harmful” documents. They should be considered harmful.
The US alone produces several thousand tons of nuclear waste per year. If you take into account the waste associated with dismantling power plants it's easily tenfold. Multiply by all the countries that use nuclear energy and a few million tons over 50-100 years is no exaggeration, probably more of a conservative estimate I'd say.
Yes, communism definately proved that focus on strict equality of outcome economically is disastrous. It just made everyone equally poor.

It's a good question if that applies to things like affirmative action or minority quotas. Will that also act as a disincentive? I suspect probably, but to a much more limited extent. I don't know the answer though.
To be fair, thanks to lifehacks, growth hacks and whatever it seems hack slowly fades back into the original meaning. At least from my POV
you're right I don't mind (too much) getting labeled anything or getting downvoted but I do mind content being closed and blocked (often for outrageous reasons or no reason at all)

if someone with a math degree and 10 years of experience in the field is treated as ignorant I don't know want to know how newcomers to stack overflow feel.
How long before react updates to doing things the svelte-way?
If your job is on the red line, and your house is on the red line, it's an easy commute, maybe 20 minutes. Calm, relaxing, easy to zone out.

If you change jobs, the new office might be on the purple line. Which does not cross the red line. So now you need to take the red line, to the green line (15 minutes + 10 minute layover = 25 minutes), and then change trains again to get to the purple line (15 minutes). That's assuming there are no delays, weather, construction/remodeling at any of the stations. If your morning coffee takes too long you might miss your connection, and now you've blown out your schedule by another 15-20 minutes, especially if part of your commute takes one of the less-frequent suburban lines.

End result is your 20 minute commute to your old office, has turned into a 40+ minute commute one way, assuming no delays. On a good day. Plus walking to and from the station.

My old office used to be on Castro Street in Mountain View, a 5 minute walk from the Caltrain Station. Then they leased a large building in the warehouse district, a 20 minute walk away. My old train commute + walk was almost exactly 1 hour from San Francisco; with the new office relocation it turned into 1 hour 15 minutes each way, which meant when I got home in the evening, the tram I wanted to take home had already stopped running, meaning either walk 45 minutes, or take a $9 (probably $15 in today's economy) uber home.

What point was he making? Well, switch jobs, and just move closer to your new office! Easy! Just never buy a house and only switch jobs at the end of your lease term, and rent forever.
I am not so sure regarding the top comment. I think I am probably about as old as the person who wrote that but I find it rather abstract and not very relatable. I would like to hear an example to decide whether or not there is merit in this comment.

In software, I think the so-called best practices really don't deserve the status of traditions. Take the git flow. Some random person writes a blog post and now we have for some reason suddenly a 'best practice'.

Also, you do not really need to think that much about 'everything'. The KISS principle tells us to first try the simplest thing that could possibly work. Maybe KISS should be a best practice, I suppose.... What is rather interesting (and questionable), though, about the so-called best practices is that they generally lead to less simplicity and more stuff that all needs to be maintained. The cynic in me suspects a large overlap between 'best practice' and 'someone is trying to sell something'.
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> for all of microsoft's user hostile practices, google's products are fifty times worse.

I’ve never experienced any of these issues with Google Authenticator, or heard of anyone experiencing anything similar.
I wish Rancher didn't adopt Kubernetes. Their Cattle was perfect for running distributed services on bare metal. It was simple and just worked. After the move to k8s I couldn't get anything to work and it was flaky. I am still running some projects on Cattle and they have few years uptime.
> Also there is no Government who FORCES them to have just men.

The entity that forces the various particular Churches in communion with Rome to have just men in the priesthood is also the paramount authority of a state, so in a very real sense there is a government that forces them to do that.
I like it in principal but their inventory is so frequently inaccurate. There’s a lot of theft or a flaw in their return system. I was told by an associate that people return items that never left the store, and thus gets added back to inventory. Admittedly, that doesn’t make total sense to me.
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I would argue it's the other way around: storage is needed for when demand exceeds supply. You need to make up the difference somehow.

When supply exceeds demand, you could just "bleed it off" or reduce supply by decoupling generators.
I’m on the big island of Hawaii and Apple Maps is basically useless. I can’t find my hostel by name. I also can’t find it by address. It’s just very bad.
That's nice but I'd also want it for general desktop stuff.

So I guess it would have to be sitting on my machine.

For example hand gestures to switch the desktop workspace.

Swipe left/right motion to switch desktop workspace. That would be the dream :)
Microsoft VP Identity Division, Alex Simons, apologised on twitter and said they will release a fix overnight. I was actually able to log into my account today. But before you get too excited, what they've done is they've completely disabled the sign-in preferences menu and still have the bug - I cannot enable password-less login as it tries to send a notification to my phone, but that is no longer listed on my account. But the system clearly knows about it and wants to send a notification. Unfortunately, it cannot because it also requires it to be a sign-in option. It's a crazy loop of madness.
No, I meant exactly what I said. It would have been one thing if he simply fathered Pakistans own program; while that might have raised eyebrows in Capitol Hill here in the US, it would not have fallen terribly outside expectations of security elites in Asia as well as the EU and US. When he started playing footsie with DPRK and others akin, it most definitely was a wretched move.

Pakistanis can love him as a hero...there are people in the US who still worship Robert E. Lee, and they are idiots also.
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A job may be vital without being particularly valuable. Just ask any of the "essential workers" who had to continue working on-site last year. The value of your job depends more on the costs of replacing you than on what would happen if nobody does the job.
I though about this necessity many times in my life, but at the end the practical applications of these methods are kind-of useless.

For instance, re-writing code in flash and jumping at a specific location is what every bootloader is doing right now. The problems are:

a. The bootloader has to know where to jump, so this information has to be saved somewhere (in 99% of cases this address is hardwired). If my code can be loaded at an arbitrary position in flash, then I have to "remember where" by saving the address in flash.

b. Flash sectors are usually big and they have to be erased by sector (so writing any new information, even a byte, requires blowing up and wasting an entire 16K sector, for example).

So if the idea is either to update, in flash, a piece of code, a single function or the entire program firmware, it requires erasing and writing sectors in multiple of 16KB (and this number is getting bigger as flash size increases).

Still, if there is a workaround for this, then thinking "it's practical to have relocatable code because the code is updated at every boot so we always have the latest version" is the wrong approach since there is a finite number of times one can write in flash before it gets damaged.

Also, the article is about Cortex-M, so we have to think about the vector table. Address on the vector table cannot be "relocatable" as these are fetched as-is and not translated. So now you have to point all your interrupts to a single interrupt vector that gets the interrupt type, searches the correct function, translates it, and then jump to it.

It's also true that you can relocate the vector table in RAM, so you can modify these address on the fly, but that's extra work.

At the end of the day, you'll be better playing around with linker scripts and updating programs or pieces of code by pointing to known addresses (sections) from the linker script.

Edit: I didn't mean to say that relocatable code is just about writing on flash at every boot. Instead I wanted to point out that relocatable could lead to this idea.
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Like writing essays on slack/confluence/email is better than zoom. Not really for me.
To clarify: I meant cost per unit of rated power output.
This was actually a hard one, i previously had a background image that I had to drop.

Landing pages are hard, specially of they should be both beautiful and good.
Popular tools are free. There are few exceptions, most notable one is Intellij Idea, but even Idea seems to be eclipsed by VScode lately.

I struggle to remember a single paid Java library I've used in the last 10 years. Everything is free.

There was commercial ecosystem around Delphi. Paid IDE, paid components. There's paid Lisp IDEs. But it's definitely not mainstream today.
> That makes any non-lisps inferior to me

You didn’t write that though, so I get how some could misunderstand you here.
I hope you're trolling. This would have been a Masterpiece of trolling actually, except that it touches a sensitive topic that's literally about the death and lives of billions of people in the last 500 year of western colonialism, and about one of the most barbaric genocide in the history of humankind.
So they commoditized and failed, or they could've been commercial from the start and someone else would've commoditized it and they still fail. So what? That's the point of a startup, they tried to build something and it didn't work out as a business model.

The community still benefited greatly from all the development and new projects that came from this. And what is this other company that would've ate their lunch? How would that company survive exactly?

The only objection seems to be the license change, which is still free for the vast majority. Only larger commercial users have to pay, but that seems commensurate with the value they gain from it. Should companies never try to alter terms as the market changes? I don't see why people are entitled to products and services forever, and then hate the company if they try to be sustainable but also hate them if they abandon it.
Regarding 1. so far several of the bury all of it projects have had significant issues (water ingress etc.) Things are definitely not as straight forward as you make it out to be.

Reprocessing will produce lots of low to moderately radioactive waste which also has to be stored.

And the 3rd solution is not really a long time solution, nobody can confirm the safety for a 100 years let alone several 1000.
>Tatcher nor Merkel were products of diversity quota.

More like the product of massive competency in their field and absolutely no one can say otherwise (i am not talking if one likes them as politicians...that's something else)

>> neither [...] were products

Yes because of competency and not a quota, what's not to understand here?
But they've got an interconnector! With..somewhere.
She knows, heck even the Swedish PM back in 1975 knew it (there's a TV clip of him laying it out).

Knowing what's best is way different from personal political goals though.

North/northwest Europe got pretty damn scared by the Chernobyl fallout (in practice many kinds of wild game was banned for sale for many years afterwards in some countries and we measured everything that could possibly be contaminated) and that scare runs deep for many still today.

(This is why you have the irony that the "green parties" in Europe are so damn anti-nuclear despite at least some of them realizing that you can't properly fight global warming without nuclear power)
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> the other, and IMO more important one, is to give everybody equal access to education and the sciences.

That might be another part of it, but not the only other one and possibly not the most important. For example, this paper looked at problems with the confidence of women and how it seems correlated to the pay gap in STEM: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/48/30303.full.pdf So even if everyone has equal access to education, the stereotype threat (and other social factors) doesn't necessarily go away. I think, as the parent comment said, enforcing quotas might help with some of these cultural factors, or might make some of them worse. But I don't have data to support those claims.
Can't relate. I find it incredibly frustrating when one of my projects is delayed for a week because one component isn't available with overnight shipping. I wish every manufacturer used a shipping/logistics provider and passed on the costs to me instead of half-assing it themselves.

Products seem to have a bimodal delivery time between "tomorrow" and "whenever we feel like it". Is it any wonder that we prefer the former?
People are generally jealous. Docker feels small enough that "anyone could code it over the weekend", and so they think there is no way this is worth so much money. Of course nobody is trying to actually code something like this over the weekend, or once they do they just shut up.

The cognitive dissonance and entitlement with some is just funny to watch. They have no problem buying stuff from billion dollar companies who treat workers as crap and don't pay taxes, but a smaller developer wants to make money off of their hard work? Nah...

It's probably because a good chunk of the community is composed of privileged people, who never experienced the struggle.
It’s polite to not redecorate somebody else’s home while you’re visiting. When you go to a park, you’re a guest at somebody else’s home.
There is also evidence that it's not counter-productive. Eg, Clayton, A. "How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?", Annu. Rev. Political Sci. 2021. 24:235–52 at https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-polisc...

> The large majority of work on quota adoption suggests that quotas are followed by the greater substantive representation of women’s interests, priorities, and preferences. However, several studies have documented cases in which quotas have resulted in limited policy changes or even more gender-inegalitarian outcomes. ...

> On average, quota-elected women appear to influence policy in ways that substantively benefit women constituents, either by distributing resources in ways that reflect women’s priorities or by enacting or enforcing policies that grant women greater rights. Yet, these findings are not universal, and some work uncovers null results or even instances of backlash against women officeholders in ways that exacerbate patriarchal policies and practices. That there is such variation in the observed policy effects of gender quotas suggests the potential for moderating variables.

That's specifically on policy making, but I think it's enough to highlight how evidence of backlash - which certainly does exist! - isn't on its own enough to make data-driven decisions.
Who ever said it is fair?

There are many things rich people can do, poor cannot. You gotta have money, to make (real) money.
Thats the harsh truth and most of us who do not have it, have to struggle hard, to make some wealth and very, very hard and be very lucky and gifted, to get rich by it (without negating all ethics).
Did the simulator include hydrogen? In many places, hydrogen reduces the cost of a 100% renewable grid, vs. just using batteries for storage.
I am ok with people switching off for a while, but then you really need to catch up, otherwise it's really painful for people working with you.

I've had colleagues who would maybe quickly look at their mail/chat once a day (usually early in the morning before most people arrived). Latency is high, but that's manageable. But the most annoying is that maybe you would get an answer, maybe not. So you would need to ping them several times over several media, hoping one catches their attention. In meetings you regularly have to re-state/explain stuff because it was sent in a email and they didn't read it, while everyone else is up to date.

A common example: assign them a MR. Gitlab is too noisy (by default), so they redirect every mail from Gitlab to the trash and don't get a notification. You ping them on chat about the MR, wait a couple of days, no review. So you re-ping them. This time a review happens, maybe the next day. There are some comments, so you fix/answer them. Of course they don't know that you did (and don't check), so you need to re-ping them and wait. Depending on how insistent you are, even a small MR can take a week or two. The end result (which might be what they want ultimately) is that you avoid collaborating with them as much as possible because of how painful it is.
At my current company we started moving our setup to k8s...
And using docker-compose required another deployment platform.

So end 2019 we started using k3s... But developers complained about heavy resource usage, and slow startup time.

So in the end we moved back to docker-compose... This means our local dev environments are NOT the same as our k8s prod clusters.

But if this works well, and k3s is more lean. It could unify our infra stack across developer machines, to production. Same tooling everywhere...

Love it
Bah, these map both cannot escape being politicised. One shows Monte Bianco summit in France, the other at the border.
No it won't because lignin can now be consumed by microorganisms.
> To wake up from bed, walk a few steps to my desk, and start plugging away. Yeah, commuting can suck, but at least there's more stimulation and "life" to it.

You're allowed outside for non-work reasons too though haha. I've incorporated an hour of just wandering around into my day and it's the best work situation I've ever had
Assembly is just as readable/simple, in that every single line is easy to comprehend. Yet good luck getting the big picture of an assembly program.

The same is more or less true of Go. Abstractions can be bad, but in the majority of cases it is the only tool we have against complexity, and a method with an annotation may be thousands time more readable/understandable than the reimplementation of a given identical functionality for the thousands time.
I have an app that plays music. Sometimes I get asked to do a screen recording of the app, as the reviewer doesn’t have any music on the device.

This one time I did this, but they saw me launch the app from TestFlight. They told me I had to record it on a real device and not a simulator. You can’t get TestFlight on the simulator, so they don’t even know their own tools. Would not believe me. Ended up recording my physical phone before they would believe me.
Is it that easily enforceable though? Where do you draw the line between black and non-black? Appearance? Genetics? Culture?
OMG, guys, thank you very much. Never imagined this would hit front page or even someone ever doing something about it. You've made my day!
I have never needed to repair an Apple device, because they work well for the duration of their lifetime in my experience. When I have occasionally needed repairs, Apple does a fine job of servicing my product for a reasonable price. I can install every piece of software that I want on my Mac, and every business/startup I've worked at has used Macs as the default hardware so I'm not so sure about your "they prevent you from running your business unfettered" claim either.

tl;dr - the stuff you're worried about is probably moot to the average consumer, which is why Apple continues to make sales.
Thanks mate! I was expecting something more sophisticated and large-ish. But this is better.
> ...the point of using the more precise GPS-based ADS-B positional reporting is for controllers to be able to pack airplanes closer together

It's not.

Edit: at least, not in the places where there is adequate radar coverage - ie. in congested areas.
Looks very nice, but US date format will limit use for many. Needs an option for DD/MM, (or ISO-8601).
> He asked me a data structure question and asked me solve it on the white board, but then he got busy with his laptop.

It's bad that he didn't tell you this, but it's expected of an amazon interviewer to write a more or less accurate transcript of the interview. Almost certainly what the interviewer was doing on his laptop was writing down your work.
Hard to tell when there is no government some of the time:

https://www.france24.com/en/20191210-no-government-no-proble...
Only the company's own marketing materials, but as a data point six years ago they partnered with a Chinese phone manufacturer to create a device with an absurd (at the time) 5800mAh battery:

https://www.gizchina.com/2015/04/27/bluboo-x550-will-feature...

They've made some improvements since, but the exact parameters haven't been disclosed.
Ask HN: If you could change the UI of any software. Which would you change?
Imagine you have a magic wand and could change the UI of any software that you use into something that you like more. Which software's UI would you change (and into which direction)?