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> when Brexit has enabled rightwing politicians and press to engage in the most divisive, dangerous rhetoric

I believe the most divisive rhetoric was and still is present in academia, the plump separation in victims and oppressors. The right is reactionary to that, but the source of the conflict are clearly reality starved academic circles that firmly believe they know better without the necessary facilities to even utter coherent ideas.

And this was gladly taken up by media that loves to show us the most warped and absurd personalities because it guarantees attention and clicks.
Well GCC was already eliminating a lot of proprietary tool chains in the embedded (as well as workstation) space. NeXT had paid us (Cygnus) for work on the gnu tool chain and it was by the time of the iPod the OS X toolchain (unlike the iPhone, the iPod used an embedded so not anything osx-ish).

ARM was one of the few embedded vendors not paying for GCC support. Our UK office was down the road from them in Cambridge and they asked us around a lot but always wanted the word done for free.
JS is as old as java, but they're both talking about the build process of JS.

in the beginning, JS wasn't really transcoded/compiled. The first time i personally found out about that was sometime after 2010 with coffeescript, not sure if there were preceeding examples.

and your claim that people move around is really false. React has been the defacto standard for a pretty long time at this point.

yes, other UI libraries/frameworks exist, but reacts marketshare has been extremely dominant since it displaced jquery/ember etc
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They have a good plan. Need Linux? Come and use our system. Need Android? We serve that, too. Need Windows for legacy apps? Of course we have that, too. I just hope people don't fall for that.
> parking spaces

If all cars are self-driving you don't really need any parking spaces at all, do you?
Wouldn’t cameras off increase the impact of soundism?
Paris-Bordeaux is about 400 miles takes 2hrs, is regularly available off-peak for ~€30 booked a few hours in advance and the 2nd class seat is a spacious as a first class seat on a UK train. UK trains are slow and absurdly expensive for what you get.
I learned in a documentary that pople who play some video games can immediately recognize 5-7. They tested with a handful of grapes.

I can reliably recognize up to 6 in most cases.
ADHD: I actually feel more focused with the light theme, dark theme somehow feels overwhelming.

OCD: The idea of having some apps dark and some light (some apps, let alone websites don't support dark themes) feels horrible.

Sun: shining bright from the back, straight into my monitor, good luck reading anything with a dark theme.
>> Why do you have to assign other bad qualities to people you disagree with?

Yes, inferring bad motives to other people is bad. We should try to be charitable.

>> They might judge you and believe the reason you're not on camera is because you're busy doing something else.

Sounds like these people ^^^ are the ones who need to hear that message.
I use this https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate in a deploy step to each environment with the upgrade / downgrade scripts committed to the repo alongside the code. The scripts can do pretty much anything you need to do in PG including defining and executing functions.
Kotlin is growing for sure on the server side. Far from replacing it though.
No. Ruby [1] is luxe's main dev.

They just announced today [2] that a second dev [3] officially joined the project.

[1] https://twitter.com/ruby0x1

[2] https://luxeengine.com/news-2/

[3] https://twitter.com/totallyRonja/
This can also be company or department specific. I remember when we moved, I encouraged and actually pushed that we arrange everything in a full privacy mode, regardless of where you stay and how many people are in the office, no one can see your screen or desk without coming up behind you. It's funny how other departments in our same company have a clear hierarchy, where the boss has full privacy and everyone under him needs to have their screens placed that they are visible at all time/when entering the office. The funniest, or maybe saddest was another dev team that forced everyone to face the walls around each office, so the screens are always public.
I always seemed to have a putty window with a colorscheme similar to my editor. Then I ssh into a VPS, browse whatever over lynx, have IRC open...
To add to this, not only is it a simpler problem, but they stood on the shoulders of giants that already solved it. They used ejabberd, a full-featured xmpp server written in Erlang. Imagine half your job already done for you. Granted, they heavily customized it by this point, but they did a great job picking the right off the shelf solution to begin with.
The idea of defining and executing a recursive function inside my production database seems a little scary. Might want to build in your own recursion limits to that one. Is there a way to set execution timeouts or something?
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If a cop kills someone and the other cops drag their feet on the investigation and then the prosecutors sandbag the case in front of the grand jury, what can I random citizen do?

We need politicians that can and will hold these departments accountable for their performance, including their performance when investigating crimes by cops.
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The employees ARE facebook aren't they.
With my current employer this is foosball.

At previous employers me and my team would sometimes do a few rounds in a team pve videogame at lunch, without anyone ever having an issue.

These things, if done in moderation, builds good team cohesion and spirit.
I hate how hn top threads usually degenerate into something totally unrelated to the original posts.
I love this design. Reminds me of the Esslinger's desk-integrated Snow White Mac, with a touch of the Jonathan's modular design, with a tiny bit of Bibdesign's geometric purity.

Maybe we can take some inspiration on the design utopias of the past.
So in other words, not a zero day
What is amazing to me is that they did scale to 400 million monthly active users with less than 50 engineers... In 2014.

That is: on hardware from seven years ago and older. Which is an eternity in tech. Since then we've seen incredible new hardware come out (EPYC 2 in 2018 for example).

One can wonder: up to how many MAU could a service scale today, on today's hardware, with a small team? And what about tomorrow's hardware...

This is fascinating.
> I've seen a lot of variations of this, and i myself would love an open-source personal/project management system, but they all ignore just how crucial UX is in one way or another.

It's not so much that they ignore it, but that everyone has a different understanding on what is important and what is the goal. The major problem of this area is that all apps and systems are their own walled garden. They all play for themselves, with barely to none interaction with anyone else. There is a reason why hyperflexible ecosystems like Microsoft Office are so successful, because while they are also walled, the garden is so big and open that it's actually a park where everyone can build their own small garden, where everyone can interact which each other.

What we need is a solid backend, which is topped by a flexible frontend, so everyone can build their own individual optimized workspace-garden. But what we have so far is people reinventing the same patterns again and again in their preferred flavors.
So freaking what?

The government has no right to mandate such nonsense.

(And don't get me started on subsidies they surely expect in return for their "cooperation").
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> But that's "Best Practice" will all Windows systems ;)

Reminds me of back in 1999 or so, when me and a colleague was installing some additional workstations for a small company, about 20-30 employees. While there, the local IT guy asked us to take a look at the domain controller as it had been a bit sluggish and acting up lately. As customary for small shops, the domain controller also handled e-mail and was a print server.

The domain controller ran NT4, and as one usually does we started by firing up Task Manager to see what was running. There we noticed the CPU graph, which showed the uptime: 849 days...

We were so amazed the thing ran at all we almost didn't want to reboot it.
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In the underlying mathematics, the only additive identity is zero, which is neither positive nor negative. IEEE-754 has signed infinitesimals instead, so it can't follow that. You just have to pick one to be the identity, and they picked -0.

I assume the reasoning was that they would prefer values to be +0 when possible. Assigning the sum of -0 and +0 to be +0 instead of -0 means that -0 is the identity and +0 isn't.
I feel the same way - if computers happened to use base 3 instead of base 2 we could have fixed-width signed integers which are symmetric about zero.
It's rather baffling the business world likes to pretend our communities don't exist despite the fact online collab communities have been doing this since the early 2000s.
Yeah that's my point! You could calculate the amount of needed cars and have them in circulation, and they could park themselves in some underground garage somewhere when usage is low. It could be just one big fleet of self driving taxis, self-driving Ubers.
By default, Microsoft now pitch Windows Server as 'GUI-less', with an option to install it with the added 'desktop experience' if you need a GUI. The GUI-less version used to be 'Server Core' but that name has been dropped now it's the default option.

It's not really text mode though; you get a floating PowerShell window on a plain wallpaper after login. From there it's all PowerShell commands to configure and manage the server (or you do it remotely via the Server Manager GUI). Some limited built in tools work locally with their GUIs, but not many due to missing .NET framework components and Shell (aka desktop) hooks.
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I understand the main point of the article is that the ships were lifted due to vulcanic activity. Still, as this creates the image of graves being lifted:

„To be clear, these ships aren't victims of a battle; instead, the U.S. Navy intentionally scuttled them at the location in 1945 after taking the island in an attempt to create an artificial breakwater for a planned harbor. Several of them are reinforced concrete barges, ships built to support naval operations and not necessarily for any direct combat role.”

https://www.thedrive.com/news/42802/volcanic-activity-lifts-...
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Last I checked, one of the big problems was the Rust panics when you run out of memory, which is unacceptable in the kernel. Is there any progress on that?
Are you sure about that? What do you consider the common brands? The one that most immediately comes to mind for me is Canada Dry, which does contain ginger extract.
Some cars with OBD 2 still require special connectors and software to fully explore the ECU. For example to properly connect to my Volvo you need a whole setup, to the point where an enterprising individual has made a business out of selling pre-installed software/hardware/laptop bundles: https://www.swedespeed.com/threads/vida-dedicated-laptops-fo...
Mark Zuckerberg is Facebook. He owns more than 50% of the stock and as such has no accountability.

“In multiple cases the final judgment about whether a prominent post violates a certain written policy are made by senior executives, sometimes Mark Zuckerberg,”
I think you would have to be pretty naive to think WA founders were above having a price at which they would sell solely for the money.
A surprisingly advanced concept for the 80s, and from the USSR no less.

I take it half (or none) of those peripherals didn't work or were really bad?

Like, I can say the flat speakers using the tech available at the time would've sounded absolutely horrible. And the flat screen was very likely just a mockup.
C is hard because despite being a "small" language, it's full of all kinds of unintuitive rules and behaviour for beginners to stumble upon, and the language provides next to no assistance in avoiding the pitfalls. People have to learn C by making potentially dangerous mistakes, hopefully in code where they don't matter.
As opposed to falling for what other option?
I know someone who had that exact experience on an ICE vehicle.
The design is cool, but was any of it actually functional at all?
What you see at the pictures is all USSR industrial complex was capable of. And I don't mean the computer. I mean single instance of wooden/paper "device" representing how the concept would look like.
Lots of things start off as only for rich people, and get cheaper as the technology matures and scales up. Making something only rich people can afford can be part of the process of making something available for everyone.

(In this case it costs $92k, so under 0.1% in rich countries)
Was it also an open-plan office? Lol
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Research paper (pdf) cited in article:

Algorithmic Amplification of Politics on Twitter

https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...
Maybe its part of the research methodology but I can't help but feel they cut the "art" a bit short here.

What if the generated art was more something like this?

http://color-wander.surge.sh/
I think Angular really delivered after they finally worked out how to do emit optimized code (eg. the Ivy rendering engine).

What is (was?) problematic with Angular is the toxic leadership: https://medium.com/@jeffbcross/jeffs-letter-to-the-angular-t...

But there are great things happening. The wider community has solutions for everything. (For example here's the "reactive forms are not strongly typed" issue [0] that showcases both the good and the bad. The need for this feature has clearly emerged in 2016. People stepped up and a PR was created, but ... basically no signal from the Angular team. Of course using a wrapper was an easy workaround with a distinctly sour taste in the mouth. Then finally something happened and an Angular team member now seems to be working on it in "full steam ahead" mode.)

I recently had to maintain a large React + NestJS application and I was seriously considering organizing a terrorist cell to go back in time and ...

[0] https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/13721
I'm not a huge cricket fan but there's something so pleasant about having Test Match Special on a crackly longwave radio in the background when I'm working. I'll be sad when they shut AM radio down in the UK even though it's probably impossible to listen in cities at this point.
>Homelessness is a solved problem.

It is but I can 100% confirm that nobody in cali wants to solve that problem.

>The only solution viable for these residents is getting rid of homeless people through force.

This solution isn't viable neither. The Cali government policy(ies) is increasing the rate of homelessness. Even if you were to round them all up and send all homeless out of the state, it isn't viably going to solve the problem.

>This in untenable give that these residents also have internalized a set of liberal moral values, which mostly means alleviating guilt by dumping money onto ineffective non-profit organization who at worst are siphoning public funds for themselves or at best are trying their best at executing strategies which have minimal impact.

It's worse than that. You might expect there's some benefit there but this mechanism itself is actually making the situation worse. Though it's certainly not popular to discuss that direction. Afterall what you're saying is road to hell is paved with good intentions.

>Norway has homeless population of 0.07% by mostly doing one thing: building and giving homes to people who don't have them.

Not quite accurate, they dont give away free homes. It's more like bomb shelters and such that the homeless can live in, but even that'snot quite accurate. The sole reason Norway has practically no homeless is because they have no actual minimum wage.
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You're right up to a point, but I've seen far worse red flags. Like companies that can never acquire these heroes in the first place because no one competent would work there that long.

As somebody else mentioned, these companies end up regularly throwing millions at consultant projects that always fail. In other words, they pay a hefty premium for shitty temp "heroes" that give them less than employee heroes would have given them.

You see this a lot in the traditional finance sector, where managers don't appreciate tech workers and relentlessly fuck themselves over trying to save a dime.
No, it's great. But keep up with the "ecosystem". Learn a bit of frontend, backend and testing too. (Then keeping it fresh won't be a problem.) And we shall see where it goes in ~5-10-... years.
It is called CV driven development. The cold truth is if you do not have latest SV hype in your CV, you become pariah, unhireable. It’s that simple.
thanks for listing all of these examples... i really like node-RED, and wrote up a tutorial on it a few years back, but have never actually reached for it to solve a real problem. you've given me some ideas!
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Recently Facebook took down a livestream of Brazil's president where he linked Covid vaccines to HIV, which I believe would've been a great move had it not happened 72 hours after the fact.

What's the point of doing that when you also give them enough time to spread the lie on your other platforms (WhatsApp)?
You could replace the censored text with gibberish before blacking it out. Or some secret message for QAnons to find.
Enjoy the decline.

You cany bend an entire country anyway
If secondary market teslas start bursting into flames it's going to hurt Tesla's reputation even if they swear up and down that it was an unlicensed shop every time. So they'd better start sharing repair manuals.
If you have good trust and communication within a team, the scenarios you describe are surmountable.

Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. IME, heroes are no more a red flag than pretending that good engineers are interchangeable. It depends on the context.

The expected outcomes of these teams are different, and that’s OK. If you’re a very small company and don’t have a couple heroes, you won’t build anything important. If you’re a very big company, the heroes that built it left years ago, and you need resiliency more than new heroes (unless the business is going sideways and needs saving).
Yes, I've used this in the past, though it can take a while for maps to be generated from their website, and the API is rate-limited. It's quite impressive overall, though it could use some help, especially as buildings are quite bland.

I like the fact that the tool is open source (https://github.com/ignfab-minalac/minalac as pointed by others) and uses OSM.

Screens from the world I generated for Minetest in January 2021 around Lyon, France: https://imgur.com/a/N2gVIeU

It takes a really long time to cross the generated city, even when boosting the in-game speed. That goes to show how much more smaller videogame worlds really are in general, especially when those are walkable.
Excellent additional detail, but not sure how it interacts with my point?

I think someone invading you (3 times) is highly likely to give you an opinion about them and their ideals, even if they fail, but maybe the Afghanis are a bit more "forgive and forget" than most.
Sorry mate, your argument doesn't make much sense. People can and do write OOP in C++, and just because it is multi-paradigm does not mean no one should write OOP.

It's like saying, because an artist is using watercolors for this painting, they should therefore never do pencil drawings on other projects.
> I'd pick it over many other languages.

I'd be interested to know which ones, because I can't think of one advantage that Javascript has - aside from the ubiquity of browsers. If we're comparing any other aspect of it though, I just don't know what advantage it has (seriously).
Policing doesn’t cause crime and any more than umbrellas cause rain. Systemic issues exist but those issues are more about circumstances that produce criminals (breakdown of family structures, etc.) not policing.
Copying stuff by hand or otherwise focuses you on writing not reading. Personally I felt experimentation with this method set me back in my studies.
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This is a mockup, most likely intended to showcase the vision and test the mechanics/ergonomics.

I'd be surprised if anything worked (even if the keys could be pressed). It's still a pretty impressive - and prescient design though.
Everyone here saying that the soviets didn't/couldn't build computers, there's literally a wikipedia list of Soviet-manufactured computers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_computer_system...), including this PDP-11 microcomputer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVK
> I know this kind of stuff spark the ``it's meaningless to rewrite everything (especially Linux) in Rust'' debate. I agree 100% that rewriting Linux in Rust (or your favorite language) is just a waste of time and such a project won't live long.

Considering that this is exactly how Linux was born (just a hobby project for fun), I wouldn't assume so fast that it's useless. Moreover, you don't need to justify yourself if you just want to have fun !
Because the thing I described is still more flexible than having no OS at all.

If you bundle some of the userspace into the kernel image, then you trade-off some security, and needing to have to rebuild this large image periodically, for much faster startup times, and (optionally) load times for some userspace applications - but you can still install and load other userspace tools, they'll just start up "normally".
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The first amendment was surely created because free speech was important to Americans. I don't think the previous poster argues on a legal basis at all.
This seems unnecessarily complicated. Installing Google Apps and Playstore on Amazon Fire is just a few APKs. Doesn't Windows not let you sideload apks with adb?
Great! Can we have one for HN as well, please? :)
So... mob justice?
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To be fair, I don't really mind the adverts on the tube. They're fairly often for things that are actually useful and that I wouldn't otherwise have heard of like plays / albums or taxi services. And most of them are paper posters rather than screens which makes them a lot less intrusive.
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My reading was that the article just didn't get much deeper than "because of course this is the kind of book an indebted gambling addict with a history of physical health problems and political persecution would write."