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Typescript is amazing for frontend development, but I don't understand why anyone would use it on the server side?

The point of TypeScript is it extends JavaScript in a backwards-compatible way and still compile down to JavaScript which will run in any browser. It cant make the quirks and design mistakes of JavaScript go away, but it can protect the developer against them.

But on the server side there is no compatibility issues, so why not just use a well-designed language in the first place? C#, Python, Go...all of them are much better designed than JavaScript.
>The fate of VS code seems to be really closely tied to TypeScript at the moment.

That's like saying the the fate of Emacs would be closely tied to Common Lisp (or Coq with Proof General). That's some languages Emacs where still beats anything else.
Use, support, and contribute to LibreOffice. It might not be fast as Office 2000, but surely still includes its soul.
Sichuan-Tibet rail project at full steam as workers wilt, machines melt
> I want a world where “I did a study, but I can’t show you the data” should be taken as seriously as “I determined P = NP, but I can’t show you the proof.”

The fact that this is not standard practice highlights some societal bias in favor of people in white lab coats that can't possibly be suspected of fraud or incompetence - for it will shatter our sense of safety and control over the world.

People are people and power corrupts. When your publication has the power to turn you into a celebrity, skyrocket your career and land you a top paying job and speaking arrangements, the corruption potential is strong. As the author further elaborates:

> But even if it’s only 1%, these will make up much more than 1% of published studies, and much more than 1% of important ground-breaking published studies, because correct studies can only prove true things, but false studies can prove arbitrarily interesting hypotheses (did you know there was an increase in the suicide rate on days that Donald Trump tweeted?!?) and those are the ones that will get published and become famous.

> So if the lesson of the original replication crisis was “read the methodology” and “read the preregistration document”, this year’s lesson is “read the raw data”. Which is a bit more of an ask. Especially since most studies don’t make it available.
Please look up studies by Mathew Walker. They did numerous studies with people claiming coffee did not affect their sleep. What they found was while those people would fall asleep, and sleep throughout the night, the quality of the sleep (i.e. minutes in deep sleep) was substantially worse.

But I agree that abuse is what is causing majority of the problems (and it was in my personal case)
Exactly; with a credit card paid off monthly by direct debit and an interest paying current account, you're earning interest on your cash and not paying any on your purchases. What's not to like getting what's basically free money with a little bit of no-brainer arbitrage?
>sudo su -

It's high time for this thing to die. sudo supports this natively since forever:

$ sudo -i
Ask HN: How to become a software engineer as a self-taught front end developer?
I am a self-taught frontend developer with a couple years of experience. Though software engineering is a broad term that may cover some aspects of what I do professionally, I do not consider myself a software engineer. Maybe it's the lack of formal CS education or having minimal experience developing actual products as opposed to UIs for them.

Is being a software engineer a state of mind or an actual profession that comes with certain prerequisites?
In this case it's a consequence of Brexit. In European economic area those fees are capped pretty low.
On the other hand, a UK company called Wise (formerly TransferWise) has switched its issued debit cards from Mastercard to to Visa recently.
> But there is a pretty easy explanation for why people are burned out. All the really manual jobs are being slowly automated away or are low-status, so everyone is chasing creative, thoughtful or social jobs. And those jobs are getting more full on.

That resonates with me. As a developer, I feel an intense desire to either contribute to open source, or go into a more "creative" field. And it's not the "good" kind of desire that gives me energy or pushes me to do things, but it's the kind of "bad" desire that feels like it's eating me alive sometimes. I have a master's degree, and a nice job with very good people. But somehow it doesn't feel enough for me.

I know this is a mental health problem, and I know that this may be a "real" calling instead of just a kind of FOMO. But a few people around me suffer from the same thing, so I wonder if there's not some kind of mechanism at play here. While I don't spend much time with "regular" people on social media, I spend time looking at open source developers, and creative people. When I was younger I felt kind of immune to the social media trap (showing your perfect life and all of that). Now, I realise that I may have fallen from it, just with different values.
> There is, at the point, no evidence whatsoever to suggest it is being unreasonably withheld in any way.

There is a plenty of evidence for that. We can start with censorship of ivermectin on social platforms.

> The cult of "magic miracle cure" that has built up around this one particular drug is fucking terrifying

That's a perfect definition for people believing in phizer and moderna.
Paxlovid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF-07321332 protease inhibitor;

Ivermectin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin binds to chloride channels and is a nerve poison for invertebrates.

The molecular layouts look completely different.
> Rock, rock, rock solid no matter what I through at it.

That's actually not how I would describe Emacs.
Not for Common Lisp either, Sly (and before that Slime) always had some glitches where I had to restart them or Emacs.
Opera Unite was more than that.

It was the centrepiece in the battle between visionaries and the money makers at a very decisive moment for Opera

A battle the visionaries lost.

The world would probably have been more interesting if they had chosen the blue pill instead of the red pill.

Not certain the shareholders would have been happier though. It is easy to root for the visionaries, but the choice is never that simple.
This article seems to be (in some way) AI generated. It makes a confusion about Javascript frameworks and Javascript language features.
This is interesting, it is similar to how doctors just include gonorrhea treatment for women that expect to bear children. Instead of embarrassing any particular woman who would suddenly have something to explain to the partner, they just give it to many amongst the cocktail of various other obscure sounding drugs.
I had the issue with the WSJ. I couldn't believe it was so hard to cancel. My solution was to update my card with an incorrect number, they canceled the subscription after the payment was declined.
I had to do exactly that with o2 Germany. They continued to charge me after the contract expired. And they even tried to charge for the router that I actually sent back.
> an interest paying current account

What is this unicorn you speak of...? :) jk, I know some exist, I've just been irrationally faithful to a bank that probably does not deserve it anymore (coop)...

(But I keep my savings in an account that offsets against my mortgage, so I'm effectively getting a similar deal in practice by not accruing interest on that.)
Wow, some ivermectin propaganda on Substack. Fetch me a fainting couch.
> infectious diseases were almost totally knocked off the leading causes of death.

Well, until 2020. Then we had another infectious disease. Which is why we're having this conversation.
COP26: Medium for Action or Procrastination?
SaaS Growth: Field of Possibilities
0.5% on Visa credit. Visa debit has no charge.
They're saying, instead of waiting 18 months to figure out the best decision for you and your family instead of jumping to a conclusion based on political affiliation correlated to the part of the country you happen to live in, wait 20 years because science iz kewl.
Regardless of whether this is anti-competitive enough to be illegal, I'm surprised that Microsoft are going anywhere near this issue given their history of legal trouble with giving preferential treatment to their own browser.
Huh, so the UK hasn't kept that law when leaving the EU? That's an odd decision!
From what ive gathered (doing interactive light/sound stuff and chatting with folks at CymaSpace) the issue is that its subjective. Synaesthetes are often frustrated with color to pitch mapping that claims it is "inherent" because the root color (this author picked blue because "it seemed settled") is the creators personal synaesthetic correlation. The issue gets complex when you consider what training set makes each synaesthete build the correlations between colors, moods, sounds, etc.

The article its-self is rad in that the circle of fifths is very much a "relative" thing to begin with so we are actually seeing some pretty "flavorful" results- but the search for the "true color of sound" is tough when light is 430-730 trillion hz and audio is 20-20 thousand hz. The factor that you then are dividing or transposing by is arbitrary.
> I have a credit card but I very very very rarely use it for anything.

But why? The credit card is strictly better isn't it? I thought the main reason people used debit cards was that they got one automatically with their checking account and just never bothered to apply for a CC, but that's not the issue for you.
Amex is more widely accepted in London, but thats a bit of a catch-22.

Amex also has many more premium card with annual fees , travel perks etc which might be more relevant for someone living in London.
There was a guy that got caught outsourcing his job to a team in China a few years back.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579...
I admire your conviction.

And I suspect you would have had the same conviction about smoking had you lived in the 1960s and noticed that many doctors recommended smoking.

No, it does matter why a doctor believes what they believe. The vast majority of them just follow the official top down advice. And some actors, notably tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, have been using that to subvert science (to great effect and profit) for decades.

Which, again, I note, is not a statement about IVM or HCQ or Cominraty - it’s about the reasons for your own convictions, which seem to completely ignore decades of evidence.

It does not at all matter that doctors know better than me about 99% of medical things. When I have a specific issue, it is far more likely I can know more about it by spending 100 hours studying, than a trained doctor does without studying. It is likely he would know more than me if he spent 5 hours, but it is very unlikely that he has.

I haven’t disagreed with doctor about many things in my life. But in the 3 or so things which I found vitally important to research, and in which I came to a different conclusion than the specialists, I was proven right.
Why would I want to read their woke hysteria anyway...
Just keep applying for jobs in whatever specialty you want to get into. Can you code? Yes? That means you can solve problems. Titles are meaningless. And there's more job openings than people to fill them right now.
I understood hard in that way as well.
"Mine is bigger!" does not define quantum supremacy. In particular, IBM does not claim to have performed any computations with theirs. By what they do report, that is because it cannot do any, yet.
Seems like they do not have a lot of experience actually using JS.
> why don't we just copy-paste it? ... Maybe license doesn't support it.

You did say the argument was bad, but a license that prevents you from making a copy manually but allows you to make a copy though the package manager isn't a thing, is it? In either case the output of your build process is a derived work that needs to comply with the license.

Unless, perhaps, you have a LGPL dependency that you include by dynamic linking (or the equivalent in JS – inclusion as a separate script rather than bundling it?) in a non-GPL application and make sure the end user is given the opportunity to replace with their own version as required by the license.
> Mainstream medicine has reacted with slogans like “believe Science”. I don’t know if those kinds of slogans ever help, but they’re especially unhelpful here.

To me such slogans are a disservice. Science should not be a matter of belief by definition.

This way of promoting science is what brings belief-centric discussions to an arena that cannot benefit from beliefs.

I remember one presidential debate in the US where the interviewer asked Trump: "Do you believe the science of climate change?"

Making such question is an absurdity and reflects the almost religious way these subjects have been considered lately.

No scientific field, study or conclusion should be a matter of belief.
From the article:

"The move to increase interchange fees will bring it into line with MasterCard, its rival payments group, which announced a similar move in January"

So it seems that Visa rate trails the Mastercard one and they will be the same.
You could just automate payment of your credit card bill and get all those benefits plus more consumer protection.
I use both for almost 10 years, here are my experiences:

The main advantage of IntelliJ or any other IDE by JetBrains over Emacs, is that the out of box experience IDE provided, especially from a new programmer's perspective. All they need to do to click a button, check few checkbox, then IDE will resolve it for you and tell you what happened.

But to make Emacs do any complex behaviors, you usually have to write additional codes or configurations to glue different features together. Not to mention you need to read documents and debug it when there is an error. In JetBrains IDEs those are integrated already. A context-aware error detection and code inspection is available the second you open the IDE first time. That is something default Emacs can never do.

The main advantage on Emacs over IDEs, is that you can ask Emacs to do whatever you want as long as you know how to implement it. Practically speaking, you most likely will accumulate many little functions over time that is specific designed for your workflows. That kind of customizability is something IDEs cannot provide. I do not consider myself an Emacs power user, but I still benefit form it.

Emacs is also have better text editing features in general. You can use the same features no matter what text file you are editing. That's why people want to use Emacs for everything.

In short, they are different tools, use it where it is suitable for you.

For me, I whine about how bad the editor is when I use IDE, then I complain about how bad the integration my Emacs has between multiple tools (mainly my inability to make it work).

Hope this give you some ideas.
No problem, I was very happy when I figured it out. Only issue is you don't get to test it until next year :)
No, that's not what I'm talking about. To try to secure against the analog hole you have to increase background checks, only open documents in secure areas etc.

What I'm talking about is a light way to secure documents that are sent with trustworthy technicians out in the field, to prevent against consequences from honest mistakes, not intentional spying.

This worked pretty well in first tests and for the clients demands (but every company should make sure to verify it for their own requirements).

What Microsoft tried to sell us on was that SharePoint should be able apply this lightweight protection automatically to these files.
Same here, was fairly new to OBS this year and I downloaded both thinking they were slightly different products from the same team.
Windows 10 LTSC 2021 is out, I think it has Edge in it still, but I don't think it has this nonsense.
My feeling is MS maybe have paid^W campaign-contributed to the right people on both sides of the Atlantic, that they're not worried about this.
The flip side to this is using something like an Amex which offers insurance, points, business lounge access and much more. Set up the card with diret debit (much like your automated payments) and never spend above what you can afford.

You now have perks, points, insurance, consumer protection and still zero worries.
Jesus Christ, who wrote this article? 3/4 of it is just plain incorrect.
It is a good way to sort out prospects, then.

I know people who actually believe a typedef for a pointer or atomic type is a Good Idea.
Yeah, my success rate for the corporate Amex in Europe is 70-80% which means the remaining time I need to fill out more tedious paperwork to get reimbursed to my personal card. The US based finance team continue to insist its much better now, but a 20-30% failure rate is too high
Open source media service based on Gstreamer
Microsoft’s reasoning is that features like search is an end to end experience. That’s odd to me — it just opens a web page. Is there anything special about it being in Edge that we don’t notice?

I mean, obviously it’s BS, but are there PMs who actually think it’s better for the user to override the default browser for things like this? A side note: one frustrating aspect of this problem is that my browser extensions are never installed in Edge. So things like password autofill in a lot of the MS auth flows (which appear to be web-based, as far as I can tell) just don’t work
Typically you can call your bank and ask them to block transactions from a particular merchant that you have an issue with, I have done that before, once on credit card and once on a current account.
Checkout God Mode, which is inspired by Vim but is designed with emacs bindings in mind, not vim bindings. I used it for years (before moving to VS Code).
Yes, beer52.com is atrocious for this also. I tried over a couple of weeks in lunch breaks and never got through.

Eventually I sent an email to some random customer support email I found complaining and they actually did it.
This is why consumers are so eager to use obscenely expensive (in terms of what the recipient actually gets) payment methods like Google/Apple in-app subscriptions.
I found the second thread re: vaccine hesitancy decent. The myocarditis incidence seems higher than reported to me too.

I'd also be curious if any studies could be made on needle aspiration being important or not.
Spain had 14,8% excess mortality than in normal years, Germany had 2,4% less dead, Sweden had 3% more dead. These numbers are adjusted for demographic changes. Sweden now looks pretty solid as well as Spain regarding new cases.

Sure, if you just compare it to Norway and Finland, it is very true that Sweden has worse values, more than 3 times as many dead at minimum. But the answer if it was the correct or wrong choice will be answered after the current seasonal outbreak or in a few years.

edit: Just looked it up again, Spain and Sweden are currently leading with Kosovo for having the lowest case incidence in Europe. Gibraltar has the highest and everyone is vaccinated there. I remember the articles about Gibraltar being the first immune country. They now have cancelled many official events.
> everything is biased by money

I said that.

> therefore I can't trust anyone

I did not say that.

> What people are telling you is that you don't really understand the bias,

What I don't understand about it?
>I still find it insane that the "normal" way to pay for goods and services is to pass full details of your payment card, sufficient to make any future payment, and just trust the merchant. Surely the sane way is you generate some token they can redeem against, but you can e.g. expire it or modify it.

That's kinda how Blik payments work in Poland. They generate one time code that is used to purchase goods, you also have to confirm it on your device(usually a banking app).

That code is one time use and expires after 2 minutes - and it can be safely told out loud. You also get transaction details before you confirm it on your device.

Expanding this system to a token that allows recurring subscription would be pretty convenient.
It's for both. 0.2% for debit, 0.3% for credit iirc.
What trouble?

After all, all of their legal troubles amounted to a financial slap on the wrist and the browserchoice requeriment which they managed to actually profit from (auctions), then dropped entirely when they saw fit.

By the time the government gets to slapping them again with another non-consequential fine, edge will have already managed to extract as much market share as they could with these techniques anyway.

When are they going to split the company? Never.
As I mentioned in another comment, "god mode" is an emacs package that provides more native-emacs modal editing features.
While reading this piece I got a little depressed that most journalism is just such utter trash compared to it. I've read so many articles on ivermectin and none of them gave me even ten percent of the clarity that this article gave me. Can you imagine if writing and journalism of this calibre was commonplace among practising "journalists"? And look at how this piece compares to the CDC's and WHO's science communication. It's a shame that clear thinking and communication is so scarce.
Your experience suggests that your level of coffee intake may have been excessive.

I abstain from coffee (normally eight cups daily) and alcohol (normally three bottles of beer weekly) for a two-week period as a prescription against chemical dependency.

Typically this results in one day in which I am more irritable, nothing more.

Any consumptive habit can be evil in the absence of moderation and discipline.
I really like how that worked out that X would be 10 instead of placeholder_name, and I do hope that at least our grandchildren will see such a discovery.
Depends on rand() implementation. The one in C is indeed deterministic. Others use hardware entropy as the seed, and are not predictable.

Either way, extending the TM model with an idealized rand() that is purely random doesn't significantly alter the model, and it makes it capable of non-deterministic computations.
> you pretty much described what they all say

Not true. Ricky Gervais makes the case that making animal jokes (e.g. where you tell a funny story, but the characters are animals having people-like problems) is too easy and so doesn't count as much.

(Actually, I'm not sure he said this on Comedians in Cars, or in a different show)

Maybe comedians are people too and have varied points of view on comedy gasp
That's about how long the Pfizer-BioNTech reliably prevents infection in that cohort.
Check the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. They do not even allow to subscribe by credit/ debit card, only by sharing your bank details. What a joke.
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if so, what did change so it wasn't feasible before? Now MS has more money to pay?
That doesn't make sense with 0.3% EU costs.
Mulva?
That's not true. The real problem is that he is implying that his software is faster than Lucene showing data from a benchmark that has substantial flaws.
The reason why the majority of criticism comes from Lucene users is because they generally have a higher knownledge about this field than the people that read this article without having the basic knowledge to form any kind of criticism
The longest lunar eclipse in centuries will happen this week, NASA says
I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet that the majority (?) of modern Linux installations which use systemd have resolved listening on 127.0.0.53, which surprised me when I learned it recently.
The people I work with are great. It's just management that are violating policies to my detriment. The work is boring and/or frustrating, but I would be tolerable if I were treated fairly.
Alimine error'
You’re probably right. I haven’t tried.