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Meanwhile, the main resource in software development is manhours. The faster you write software (add features, fix bugs, etc) the cheaper it is.*

People have argued that developer time is the most precious resource since forever. In more recent times, people have also argued that pushing new features needs to happen as quickly as possible, particularly in the context of web and mobile apps.

I am rather sceptical about both claims.

Yes, developer time is important. Developer compensation is probably the largest single cost in most software development organisations and you want a good return on that investment.

Yes, the goal is acceptable performance rather than perfect optimality every time. The best is often the enemy of the good here.

And yes, that means it is foolish to invest weeks of developer time to implement an O(n) algorithm when you had an O(n²) algorithm that ran fast enough in practice.

However, what if you have a data processing job running on some cloud infrastructure that is charged according to usage, and carelessly using an O(n²) algorithm when you could have spent an extra day to write an O(n log n) one increased your AWS bill for that system by a factor of 10?

Performance can be important in other areas that sometimes get overlooked, too. In communities like HN, most of us probably enjoy the use of modern devices with relatively high specifications, but not everyone is so lucky. A classic “works for me” problem is developers running on high-spec equipment who don’t experience frustrations that their users with more modest equipment will run into, when maybe that “acceptable performance” shouldn’t be considered so acceptable after all.

And what about other types of software, such as embedded systems, where there are often tighter resource constraints and being able to use less powerful hardware components can have a significant impact on the overall cost to produce a device?

Meanwhile, I see little evidence that the relentless push to push changes around every five minutes is an automatic win. Yes, deploying changes like security updates and critical bug fixes quickly is important, but are users really happier — or, from a business perspective, willing to pay more for our software — because of the modern culture of continuous deployment and frequent updates of everything? That’s less clear.

It is undeniable that a lot of customers will still pay for poor quality software, which means shipping poor quality software can be an attractive and lucrative business model, which means paying lots of money to developers who will only produce poor quality software can work, which reduces the incentives for developers to do better. This is unfortunately the world we live in. But it doesn’t mean some of us running software businesses or working in software development can’t try!
It's important that the websites are responsive so they look good on smaller screens, yes.

I'll get back to your co-worker shortly with a more detailed response tailored to your website!
I think it's not a coincidence that, over in the metaverse threads, there is discussion about creating intentional artificial scarcity in a world of natural abundance, as the basis for a new economy.

Even when there's plenty to go around for everyone, it seems we'd rather not let that happen.
Something I learned to do is to only water the leaves (ie make them wet). And if the soil is very dry, to pour water directly to the roots.

My reasoning being that rain unless it is heavy, doesn't actually reach the soil directly and then there is the matter of water coming out through the openings in the pot if there is too much of it.

I don't know why this works for me.
> There's not a thing any individual or even a group of people can do about it because the vast majority of people either don't care or embrace it with open arms.

I don't think history supports this prediction. We've been through several cycles of of this over the past few hundred years already -- the rise of powerful corporatocracy, followed by the people ultimately getting sick of that and knocking corporate power back.

I see no reason to expect that pattern won't continue to repeat as we move into the future.
Here's what happened the last time this was tried:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/vwrap/
It will not clear doubts, because «they destroyed the evidence!!!11».

BTW, there are few other labs, which are candidates for forensic analysis: Vector BSL4 lab in Novosibirsk, RF, which had major incident right before epidemic, and maybe other labs should be checked too, because China and US have different strains of SARS CoV2 with common ancestor outside of both countries.
I agree totally. All I want is to be more efficient at work and reduce the screen time so I can enjoy what the real world offers. Taking the red pill guys, not the blue pills!
I hear you, brother. Or sister.

I am now in process of buying a 120 sqm semidetached house in Ostrava. It is under construction right now. The price was about 270K USD. And this is in Ostrava, where good job opportunities are infrequent and which lost 40 thousand inhabitants since 1990.

And the construction corp. that is building the houses recently posted a new project of pretty much the same type of houses, only a mile away, but for 330K USD instead of 270K. This is the price growth since May!

The average salary in CZ is like 1600 USD/monthly pre-tax. The same new house somewhere around Prague would be around 500K USD at least, possibly 600K.
Many many years ago (think about late '80's, early 90's) I was somehow involved in a division of the building company I was working forat the time (in Italy) dedicated to pre-fabricated buildings (not your typical solo villa, rather multi-apartments blocks).

The head of the division was a very experienced and extremely smart technician, with some 20+ years expereience specific to pre-fabrication.

The base ideas were three:

1. have a small number of pre-made, tested, industrialized/industrializable designs/blueprints, with a somewhat "modular" approach

2. build these faster and cheaper

3. profit

At the end of the experience (several years/projects built) the results were that there was no way to re-use the same blueprints on different projects, due to a number of different reasons, local rules, size of the land lot, preferences (either technical or purely aesthetic of the client), whatever, each blueprint had to be modified/adapted/changed and at the end it took as much time and money as starting from scratch a new design.

Then it came out (again, in practice) that building pre-fabricated (and then transported and assembled) at the same (high) quality level as built on spot costed roughly the same.

It was only much faster, but I believe this mainly because you built panels/structures/etc. with highly specialized people, inside a perfectly tuned pre-fabrication area, protected from bad weather, with all the materials readily available, etc., and because of the much more accurate planning possible.

No profit.
Thank you for pointing that out :)
If it spread via military games in 2019, would the US Intel community be honest about it?

https://financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-canadi...
Iceland is magnificent, but when it comes to midnight sun and northern lights, it is to far south. I grew up approximately on the same latitude, and even though we saw northern lights regularly, is was far from guaranteed, and usually less impressive than what we saw traveling farther north.
If Greenwald's high school teacher found out he was gay and started referring to him with feminine pronouns, because the teacher felt being gay feminizes you, would Greenwald just chalk that up to free speech? Or would he consider it bullying that ought to stop?

What if a white teacher spoke to the only black student in the room using his own version of AVE, and used his usual English for the rest of the class?

I don't know the answer, but I can understand the ACLU seeing a case where rights come into conflict and choosing a result that seems more just.
The totalitarian association is what makes them so fucked up. The architects themselves had no true intention of making "art" - they were embodying evil, actually broadcasting and embedding evil into everyday life, for no reason other than pure hatred of the basic human needs in everyday life. They hated their own kind. And anyone who celebrated them, even as a cerebral exercise was evil as well. There are certain buildings in Buenos Aires that you know were where people were tortured in cages in the basement; under the dictatorship, this functioned as a type of psychological abuse of the population who have to walk by that place.

The Kremlin is a type of thing like that, even though it existed long before brutalist architecture; its purpose is the same. A boot stamping forever on a human face.
My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent
The main one, frustration sometimes kill the whole day. At the end the work is done in 30 minutes.
In countries where your employer pays your tax, i.e. most of Europe.
Same naysayers with Bitcoin, AI, and everything else.
>In what countries is it not customary to do so? I lived in 4 counties, including 3 in Europe and when talking about income the custom was always to use pre tax income

They realized they speak with an American so they tried to adjust.

People are using after tax income in Europe because it's easier to assess the purchasing power.
>Metaverse is not bullshit. It's a sign of desperation.

Or a sign that Zuckerberg's read all the popular fiction on the subject but failed to comprehend how much of it was either satirical or meant as a warning.
Most consumers have frequently experienced and enjoyed surround sound, and yet they generally don't find it compelling enough to be worth putting in their homes.
You can bang on about auditing open source for privacy all you want, but this is the audit that actually counts in my book.
probably along the lines of "unwarranted user impact" (google)

i.e. if your business depends on something that is working now, don't risk changing it unless absolutely neccesary.
I'd say Android TV is far more open than Roku.
I think it's both: they are so authoritarian and proud they do not allow anyone to enter their national research center and lab and they have a lab leak to hide.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, because this reads like the standard "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" arguments. I'll answer the questions on the assumption that you're being straightforward, and you can tell me if the joke went over my head.

> Killing housing values will take money away from hundreds of thousands of people who worked hard for what they have.

Making housing more affordable will allow hundreds of thousands of hard-working people to own their own homes, rather than being at the mercy of a rental market that can kick them out on short notice. For context, I consider significant increases of rent to be equivalent to kicking somebody out, and short notice to be anything less than half a year, as moving is a stressful and time-consuming prospect.

> Why can’t we champion hard work?

That's exactly why the housing market needs a correction. Because currently, hard work is not sufficient to get into the housing market.

> Why should anyone get anything for free?

To answer the question at face value, because we are all human, and every human deserves to have their basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, and health-care met. To answer the question in context, that's why propping up the housing market to the benefit of real-estate speculators and homeowners need to stop, because that is given a benefit for free.

I say these as somebody who is in a similar position, having recently purchased a house to live in. What I got out of it is a place to live that I can modify and improve as I want. It isn't an investment opportunity, it's a place to live.
This is essentially one of the same points Marx made. Capitalism is often really good at dealing with shortages but it will also perpetually create its own unless kept in check by countervailing forces.
Like an enhanced version of Second Life. If you don't offer some kind of immersive experience then no one will bother participating. Advertising as experience is exactly what I'm describing by having a car that behaves like the real one. Otherwise it's a dumb model with no difference from any other car/ad there.
On the other hand the FBO could accidentally put in jet fuel and not realize it.. and it could be done in such a proportion that your eyes won't notice it in a gats jar.. the best way to test it is either to dip a paper towel or toss it on the ground
TLDR: No

Usually it's not a dogs sniff but the dog handlers evidence about the behaviour of the sniffer dog. And dogs are far too good at behaving to please their handler/owner sometimes and acting out of instinct or boredom in others - how many dogs that have gone on a murderous rampage have been said to be sweet, loving creatures all their lives.

It's hard to see how a dogs sniff evidence can be treated with the same level of accuracy as fingerprints/DNA evidence unless tests had proved that it (perhaps even the individual dog) was accurate to 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000 or more cases.
I love Belgrade and have stayed there maybe a dozen times in the past few years. Usually I stayed in Old Belgrade, in the formerly (or perhaps still?) state-run hotel, which is partly staffed by students from a hospitality/catering college attached to it as they do their training.

A couple of years ago I stayed at an AirBnB apartment in New Belgrade. Beautiful apartment, but the building was brutal and huge, built in a long sort of zig-zag that went on and on. The name of the street nearest to the entrance I was using translated as "Anti-fascist struggle street".

Here's a picture of it:

https://belgrade.tips/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kineski-zid...

And here's the full article (not terribly good) about the building, from which I took the picture link.

https://belgrade.tips/index.php/2021/04/27/belgrade-is-adorn...
>...it doesn't change the fact that Signal doesn't have immediate easy access in the way you claimed in your original comment.

I did not at all mean to imply that. The assertive action that Signal would have to take might involve actual work. The question is if they could be forced to do that work by the authorities of the country they operate from. I doubt that the amount of work would really factor into the legal stuff.

Signal of course might of already done the work as part of some cooperation with a national signals organization or simply because someone felt bored and contrary, but they could not admit that if they want to preserve the value of the information gathered.

The E2EE encryption part is in the end the only provable aspect of Signal Messenger. The leakage of meta information is inherent when one entity controls all the infrastructure.
I try to do all of these as much as possible. Hiking, mountainbiking, go-cart, or even airsoft. They like all of that, but the allure of things like minecraft or fortnite is still very strong.

But maybe that is normal. After all it took myself decades to figure out life so much that now I enjoy real life. Was just hoping there might be a shortcut.
For me, this is the showstopper. If Facebook is involved, that pretty much poisons the well.
Facebook's apis have a reputation for being garbage with poor documentation and frequent functionality issues.
>> seemed not to be outright enemy of mankind

Isn't it incredible that people who had so much hate of their fellow man were allowed to design entire environments for people to spend their lives in? And that we were actually taught about this as a "movement" in school, as if it were just a natural extension of modernism?
Improving a "very bad neighbourhood" in the sense of "poor person's neighbourhood" tends to be undesirable for the people who are priced out as a result. Owners will do ok financially, but rents will rise, forcing many to leave the place they are settled in, may have grown up in, and often where their extended family lives.
For one of my projects I use CDK (JS) with a JavaScript project and the CDK part does call limited parts of the project to lookup how many DynamDB tables to create and which kinds of which indexes to generate.

Also the API gateway configuration is generated based on registered endpoints within a larger application, but that's not being done directly in the CDK, but as a separate explicit step in the Makefile as a dependency of the CDK targets.

Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but not on anything related to this, other than using it.
"I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole… we had entire training courses." -- former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" -- CIA director William Colby

Something tells me that a different source of information should be sought...
To be honest, I am more at peace with brutalist buildings in Ostrava, the city I was born in.

There are more trees around them and the city itself is pretty rugged, a former heavy industry center with corresponding soul, so to say. Even though the "sorela" in Poruba is actually nicer. (Early 1950s style, very specific, sort-of socialist Baroque.)

But Prague used to have, and partly still has, a different soul, so the combination feels inorganic, especially close to the center.
Or just fix zoning. No fancy giveaways needed.
Making no opinion one way or the other, convictions are (I suspect) routinely made on eyewitness testimony which has been show many, MANY times to be horribly unreliable.
Facebook did have a budding developer ecosystem back in late 2000s with game developers and app developers using Facebook's platform to build their businesses. While it did have tons of privacy issues and data leaks, they could have built it into a sustainable ecosystem instead of making endless changes forcing developers to leave their ecosystem.
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> Mortgages currently dominate the average person's life.

Indeed, it's sickening, and there's a very well developed structure to stop the average person stepping outside of the system via a tiny house, van life etc.
I think this thread is correct on the artificial nature of the scarcity. I had an epiphany that this is what we are doing in the stock market (via tax codes and retirement plans), and something similar in the housing market via credit schemes (typically govt backed).

In the stock market, there is an evergrowing pool of securities getting sequestered away into pension schemes and RRSPs. You can change what security you are in, but people/funds seldom get out of the market. When you cash our of your retirement (before actual retirement), there are huge tax disincentives to do so. For housing, people generally have a progression as they move to larger houses (as they have more kids, or kids get older). If all houses continue to get expensive, you just always stay in the housing market (well, until you go to a retirement home or expire).

Both seem to remind me of the classic definition of a ponzi scheme, except housing is a basic necessity. We are basically saying there is an evergrowing mountain of wealth - you just can't spend it till you retire.
Orwell was awfully prescient when he described the Inner Party as being able to turn off their telescreens.
In your defense, Justine's been at this for a long time! Give it time and effort, and you too can do amazing technical things. Potential isn't a concrete thing, it's a set point you can move around.

Throw yourself at the computer, and the computer will do interesting things with you, too.

If it's not working, go at it from a different angle. Sometimes it's helpful to go back in time to come across things. I'd argue that 90% of cool tech phenomenon arises from studying the past to make something cooler in the future rather than any force of sheer will.

A lot of Justine's projects seem to fit this mold (if I remember right she came across the idea for Cosmopolitan after finding that a legacy UNIX feature let you avoid specifying your shell; SectorLISP, McCarthy's metacircular, etcetera).

She even cites someone whose entire deal is doing precisely that: Nils M. Holm.
It's not really that "ce is silent", it's that cester is pronounced "ster". It's extremely common in languages that long, old roots like that are elided in speak - in French they basically always elide the last syllable!

cester/caster/chester (from castrum, meaning fort/castle) is a very common place name ending in English and the cester variant is almost always pronounced ster. Think Leicester, Gloucester, Worcester.
> There may come a day where the world is utterly broken for the unaugmented, just a confusing sterile landscape camouflaged in QR codes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
>Even when we get brain computer interfaces, I don't want to live in the embodied internet, because tactile sensation is a huge part of how we experience the world, and clicking a mouse feels better than making a finger gun in empty air.

This man is a moron.
Average doesn't necessarily mean that, often the mean is used and often that's not equal to the median. If housing prices are left skewed then the median is going to be greater than the average so more than 50% of people would be paying more than the mean.
You should ask your marketing people to back up their beliefs with research. While you are waiting think about how you react on other sites that use pop-ups. For me it’s an insta-close. YMMV.
> Any other country would allow this

The US would? Really?

How about a less controversial 'check', maybe let someone pop into fort knox and check if what they say is there is really there.
> The architects themselves had no true intention of making "art" - they were embodying evil, actually broadcasting and embedding evil into everyday life, for no reason other than pure hatred of the basic human needs in everyday life. They hated their own kind.

??? Of course not. They probably thought they were building happy communities under the glorious sun of communism. Unfortunately they were tragically wrong (on both their buildings and their economical system)
It's like Squid Game, except debt is replaced with, oh wait, still debt. Just of the housing variety (we call it 'mortgage').
> VR is the next 3D TV. A cumbersome, marginal improvement on something that already works fine.

I think it's always worth considering the timeframe with these sorts of things.

Right now, yes, you're probably right.

But in 5, 10, 20, 50 years?

I see widespread VR/AR (especially AR) as being inevitable at some point in the future. But we still have a long way to go. It could still tangibly be decades away before the technology evolves into the right "shape".

Even with the current generation of VR hardware we're still looking at the equivalent of Charles Babbage's difference engine and trying to predict the iPhone from it.
> And the vaccine is safe.

Are you willing to stake liability on that? Is anyone willing to stake their liability on that point?

The answer is no. No one has liability, which means theirs no incentives for honesty, accuracy, or transparency. Without the threat of lawsuits and bankruptcy, why would a vaccine company be more transparent and honest, than say Microsoft?
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Why combat corruption? It is a staple of the US' political system. And the US Supreme Court has all but ruled that corruption is speech.
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