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It's too bad this didnt lead to a discussion, I'd be curious to know what different people think.

I like Calendly a lot, it saves a lot of time, certainly more than some more polite scheduling method.

But asking others to find time in your calendar definitely has a power dynamic aspect to it, even if it shouldn't. It's the same as someone asking you to find time in a shared calendar at work (even though that in principle is worse, because the requester could have done the same in that case).

Maybe the solution is a more widely used calendar standard, where you can ask people to share their availability and find a time yourself.

Bottom line, if I was doing any kind of jockeying for power and someone sent me their calendly, I'd ignore it. On a day to day basis, it's easier, but you're showing your lower status vs the requester, even if that's as stupid as it sounds.
Being from Brazil, where table salt is universally iodized, I have a hard time understanding how in 2021 there are still rich countries out there that haven't figured out a proper iodine fortification program. And we even have some people saying they intentionally prefer non-iodized salt!

On the other hand, there was one time I had to do a short no-iodine diet and it was pain in the ass. I had had to go out of the way to find non-iodized salt and good luck finding any pre-packaged food without iodized salt...
Nat Friedman moved on after getting mauled in 2 political fights with MSFT
Suicide is a human right. Interfering with someone's basic right to self-determination is absolutely despicable, no matter how ill the person is.
All this posts miss the best low code environments of all time: Microsoft Access and FileMaker Pro. Unfortunately these two never made it to Internet era in big time and we have greatly come down from 90s RAD movement.
Thanks. Actually I've tried both the built-in pixel-scroll-mode and good-scroll. None of them gives me the experience of a modern text-editor (e.g. VSCode).
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it's not ALL first-order data, man. have you ever seen an official document of any size? 99% of it is description of the 0.25% which actually matters, and the remaining 0.75% (AT LEAST) is whitespace.

That 0.25% is mostly known to subject matter experts. The rest is there to meet documentation requirements.

it is definitely NOT 329k pages of absolutely vital facts that can't be skipped.

besides, it can be split up among many people over the course of time.

experts know how to do this stuff.
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Yes they are. I'm not sure what the person you're replying to is talking about.
Microsoft overrode users' choices. Not anyone else.

EdgeDeflector just changed microsoft-edge links to https links so they would open in the browser the user chose. Users had to choose to install it.

Firefox and Brave just added microsoft-edge to the protocols they supported. Users had to choose to make 1 of them the default browser.
The two most interesting facts about the Goodstein algorithm are 1) that it always halts (Goodstein's theorem); and that 2) in a certain narrow technical sense of the word "difficult", it is difficult to prove that the Goodstein algorithm always halts. The proof of this "difficulty" is called the Kirby-Paris theorem, described in the Wikipedia article about Goodstein's theorem. Goodstein proved the first of these two facts, and Kirby & Paris proved the second one some years later.

There are ways to concoct algorithms along the lines of Goodstein's, that are even harder to prove always halt, and that take even longer / grow even faster. I haven't heard of anyone using any of these as BB champions but it seems like an unsatisfying answer, since you already know they halt.

What is nicer about the Collatz and similar iterations is that you don't know whether they halt. So maybe your current champion takes 123456789 steps before halting, and you've got a Collatz parameter that you experimentally find runs for even more steps, but does will it eventually halt and become your new champion, or will it never halt? The only way to find out is keep running it, and similar keep running all the other parameters that, in your current knowledge, might or might not halt.

See https://googology.wikia.org for some fast-growing functions, such as the Buchholz hydra which grows much faster than Goodstein's.
Have you ever paired with a junior before? This is definitely the kind of thing you would encounter with a fresh grad/intern.
"Fun and easy" is almost the exact opposite of my perception of bonsai--when I think of it, I think "I can't even keep mint alive in my backyard. This is a meticulous science and if anyone makes the mistake of letting me touch a bonsai tree, I'm inadvertently going to kill something that's older than my grandparents." The article doesn't quite have me convinced, but it does sound like they're having fun.
> Reimplement in the way that they change certain rules to accommodate a more "modern JS" feel

What exactly do you mean by this?

> And they absolutely use TS for the std library, just not in the runtime itself

Yes, internally. The code that actually makes up deno itself is just plain Javascript.
Oh. Undo tuna I’m on mailbox.org and I was looking for a mobile and desktop client rather than a provider. But yeah I’ll definitely consider them the next time I’m looking to move mail provider.
Only for their latest iPhones (12 and 13) and M1 macs ... sometime next year ... after repeatedly claiming that it is 'dangerous' to do the repairs yourself - https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjw3w4/apple-tells-congress-... ...
Company resources are next to useless. They are meant to be short term and are encouraged to turn you around in a few sessions. If you can, go private, since it's more open ended and the process of over over the basics of your life story are tedious.
Yes, that is what it means. It is described in the page linked from where the article refers to the spaghetti conjecture.
My wife spent over $35k getting her eggs frozen when she was younger and we never even ended up using them (despite waiting till she was 38 to get pregnant). I guess having them around gave her some peace of mind, but that's a hefty price tag for someone in their early 20s, even in a "rich area" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll need it on mobile (iOS) more than on desktop.
Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features
What on earth did you do to the mint?
Cookiephobia in Europe
Data in the 1-15 GB range is more common than you'd think. Spark is overkill and comparatively a nightmare to configure. You can fit 15 GB in memory nowadays on a single core, but you probably want things to move a little quicker.
This is a really cool write up and really intrigues me, on the topic of crystals. I admittedly have very little knowledge or frame of reference on the topic. But there is something very cool about the idea that you can ‘grow’ crystals, like they are little house plants, or that they are like little living creatures or something.
That was magnificent sketch of a part of the world gone mad.
I don't think that's being pessimistic. I think it reflects dask's documentation. Some items I looked up because I remember from the past:

> If your data fits comfortably in RAM and you are not performance bound, then using NumPy might be the right choice. Dask adds another layer of complexity which may get in the way.

from https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/array-best-practices.html#us...

> In many workloads it is common to use Dask to read in a large amount of data, reduce it down, and then iterate on a much smaller amount of data. For this latter stage on smaller data it may make sense to stop using Dask, and start using normal Python again.

https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/best-practices.html#stop-usi...

So, dask even says not to use it for small data sets. And in their comparison to spark, they say spark has a lot more features.
That's the thing that's most baffling to me. It seems like GPS as a feature would cost nearly nothing in money or space inside the camera, but it's still extremely rare. Pentax had it in the K-3 II but dropped it for the K-3 III.
Just read the Project Zero https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dr...

It's really amazing to me that people can understand how a computer works to the level to be able to make that a viable attack. Very impressive.
Would love to see the US Digital Service step in to get this data released faster than 500 pages per month. Sheesh.
Cannot agree more. Just like many other acts which are punished today, but should be rather dealt with by showing support, self harm should definitely be taken off the list of acts that are treated like a crime. I can only guess, but it feels like the current approach only makes things worse for those who are already suffering.
The thing I'm finding hard to get my head around is people who are arguing that various languages such as COBOL or Python are, or might be considered low code or no code.

To anyone who needs to hear this: if it's code based programming then it's not no-code or low-code - it's code.

Put more simply:

code != no-code
I assume you are referring to Apache Maven tooling (and compatible) and the pom repos, like Sonatype's Central Repo.

PGP package signing is a huge plus. Is that a requirement for publishing?

How many different repo's do you typically have to deal with in the average project?

Would Sonatype react quickly to malware issue's like this in the repository? Have there been examples of similar package hijacking?
Many hobbies have a tension between catering to high-effort purists and to more casual people. (And while I think a lot of the Japanophilia in the post is beside the point, Japanese hobby culture does seem to tilt towards pursuing a single hobby to perfection over dabbling in several hobbies). The author mentions polishing an engine past the point that it actually makes a car go faster; I've seen similar things in some cycling cultures where people focus on getting the right bike parts to the point where it overwhelms the original intention of actually going for rides. Or gaming cultures, where serious players want everyone to play optimally so that they can practice their high-level skills, versus casual players who might enjoy it more if they roleplay or goof around a bit.
I've definitely read somewhere else (can't remember where) that the predictive loop is a core learning mechanism. Your brain diffs its prediction against what actually happens, and when there's a big enough difference between prediction and reality, learning occurs (ie your brain tries to change its prediction model so that it can encompass whatever it just perceived in the future).
yup. Thanks
Totally! Docker Compose is so useful for this.

I want my tests to talk to a real DB, or a real MQ, or a real instance of a service, because that's what the software does in real life. Running tests themselves inside of containers with access to the other services is good practice IMHO.

So what if a connectivity issue or some esoteric SQL thing explodes some rigorous test on a specific, seemingly-unrelated business function. In fact, I want that to happen. I want to discover failure modes and anomalies sooner than later, and to simulate real-world conditions.

The idea of mocks and stubs, and puritanical testing of things in complete isolation seems counterproductive to me. Why do people bother putting effort into abstracting away the most important components of their systems?

Imagine driving a car where every component was rigorously tested in isolation but never as a whole? It would be a disaster. Sometimes it seems like this is how teams approach testing. See the recent NPM registry issue where the integration of a few microservices led to a disastrous security issue.[0]

On my own projects, I go so far as to not even clearing my test database between tests, unless it's called for. Why? It surfaces bugs that are otherwise easy to miss in testing against a pristine database.

[0]: https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-eco... (second issue, Nov. 2)
60m in the US I guess, where it's a very restricted secondary use of a military band. That's quite a special case.

Also these modes being ok or not on 60m has nothing to do with the question I asked?
Here’s something to think about: You and some buddies start a startup whose product is a complicated piece of medical software that uses Tensorflow’s inference but most of it is written in Go. Cool stuff, you’d never do that in PHP.

You’re getting ready to launch, and you’re going to need a marketing site and a site with documentation and help articles for users. Do you write that site in Go?

Hell no. You hire someone cheaper whose skillset isn’t systems programming or ML, and they spit out a templated site in a weekend that looks sleek and makes a good impression, and when you need more content you tell them and they turn it around in an hour, and you spend your time on the Go stuff.

And that market, the market for Good Enough sites that front Really Good products and are fast to work with: that’s a great market for a lot of people who want to sling some code, get things done, clock out at 5 and spend time with their kids in a nice house in the suburbs. That’s why for people who want that kind of life, I recommend learning some PHP (or rather, learning the super-common frameworks that use PHP).
Those do exist now. Those probably not advanced enough to be widely available just yet.
> Is it reasonable to take 50 years to release the documents he's asking for?

Absent Congress appropriating funds specifically for it, yes.

Should Congress do that? That's a separate issue, which is not the court’s job to address.

> He and other taxpayers paid for the studies,

Citizenship, not taxpaying, is relevant for public data, but citizens (through their representatives) didn't choose to pay for the segregation of public and nonpublic information for release on a schedule more expedited than general FOIA releases.

> Document creation should be in the open from the start.

Maybe, though for processes that can involve mixtures of personal private info, confidential commercial info, trade secrets, and public data that will significantly increase the upfront cost of operations.

But neither the executive branch alone nor the courts are the venue for that.
The author seems to value direct, polished prose. Surely some academic writing is direct and polished, but most of it isn't.

Writing an academic paper is the existential obligation of its authors. There's something in there that you want to get across to somebody, but the rest of it be damned. I'd expect the quality of the prose to be a low priority, not unlike in much developer documentation, school book reports, speeches, and other writing that is mostly filler to meet an obligation.
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Thanks for sharing, I missed this one!

I was worried for a bit, but they put a significant amount of time into explaining how they want to work with others to develop some kind of standard.

Hopefully the client API is also something that can make its way back into the browser at some point.
Do you have benchmarks against numpy on big computations (10-1000s)?
Agreed. I eventually found a very good counselor for my situation.

But I'm extremely fortunate that I'm both very well off and wasn't suicidal. And it was very apparent to me that if I was different in either respect, I perhaps wouldn't have been able to turn things around.
wow - that entry could really use an editor!
Aside from testing framework concurrency limitations, why wouldn't you allow parallel tests?

If your running system speaks to the DB in parallel and handles pre-existing data, why wouldn't you want your tests to do the same?
The issue is that not all of the data is subject to a freedom of information request because it may contain PII, trade secrets, etc. Therefore the data must be review to remove that information not releasable through a FOIA request.
Let me tell you: no/low-code solutions can be just as hard as if not harder than actual code in some cases. One of the more difficult engineering solutions I have had to implement in my career was with a tool called Tasktop, which synchronizes different requirements analysis tools like Jira, Jama, GitHub Issues, etc. No actual code is involved (unless you need to add customization scripts), but you definitely want experienced engineers creating these integrations, as there are a great deal of software engineering concepts that need to be understood in order to understand and create successful integrations. So “democratization” of programming is misleading for low/no-code solutions, as non-programmers will quickly find themselves in trouble and eventually hand off the solution to a an actual software engineer.
I suspect something missing in pair programming that you get in a code review is someone stepping back and looking at the change as a whole, rather than the incremental bits as you go along. It can be helpful! I know at least when reviewing, there are things I miss when I only look at the update vs looking at the PR as a whole.
This article that talks about the obsession with technique kind of reminds me about when developers talk.

If someone mentions they made a web app, likely I will spend far more time asking them about the programming language, the architecture, the framework, etc than actually about what it does.
> Do you write that site in Go?

Yes! https://gohugo.io/ would be a great choice for that kind of thing.
Is there any evidence that the-thing-we-call-philosophy-today has actually contributed positively to those things? I've seen it claimed that professional ethicists act less ethically in their daily lives than the average member of the public, and most ethics training classes seem at best useless.
That makes a lot of sense. The DNA part I would have never considered.
It's too bad APL never enjoyed ubiquity on Unix-like platforms. The world would have been a better place. Maybe if Stallman or some early GNU participant had championed APL we'd all be either using APL or constantly excusing ourselves. Like Emacs did for Lisp.

I'm decent with sed. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but know how to employ addressing and hold spaces, which are sadly aracana to most people who employ sed. I ended up learning sed because it was there, proved useful, and it fit into the command-line toolkit really well. (In order of importance.) APL would never slot into that toolkit as well as other tools, but it's value-add would more than compensate. Unfortunately, the value-add isn't enough to compensate for the fact that it's not there and in your face every time you're exploring a problem and its solution space.
I don't feel that any of the questions on the general actually equip me to know how to even connect the components of a complete radio setup up, so I'll just have to agree to disagree.

A good chunk of the questions are memorizing frequencies and wattages you're allowed to use for various things... something you can print off on a chart and tape to the wall.
Sounds promising, thanks for sharing! "--headless=chrome" isn't google searchable, so I'm still looking for details.
Lotus Notes was the greatest no-code environment of all.

Far, far ahead of its time.
> Great points, but also consider for medium and small (and large) businesses, being able to provision and pay for only what they need today is often cheaper than spec'ing out beefy hardware to handle tomorrow's scaling issues.

Pretty much every major vendor has or is building an as-a-service play so that you don't have to buy today for 3 years from now. Imperfect for sure, but getting there.
Raw histograms are a no brainer, I don't understand why this isn't already commonplace.

16 bit raw is another matter. If you're not getting 16 bits of dynamic range from the pixels, all you'd be doing is getting a more accurate reading of the noise. That just adds a lot of expense for no perceivable gain.
I think I let the other variegated indigenous vegetation overtake it for a little too long. Whatever spiky leafy things we get here are even more aggressive than mint, apparently.
I don't agree with the premise. There's option 4, start off a new branch for the new feature, make that a new PR. That solves most problems, you can push that new PR for review as soon as your earlier PR is merged in which will allow you to rebase on master.
I get that there are different ways to price a human life. I was mostly curious about what you meant by this statement

>relative to the actual state of the world

"the actual state of the world" does translate to any definition I know.
How did you contact them, email?
what do you mean? crypto markets are incredibly liquid. $35M eth trade is a drop in the bucket vs the $25B eth that trades daily.
> Maybe if Stallman or some early GNU participant had championed APL we'd all be either using APL or constantly excusing ourselves.

I think the major issue is that APL seems to require more than ASCII to work it.
These schematic shops... don't give them money. It would be different if they added any value at all, but I've seen no evidence of that - just a moneygrab. Here is what you do: use a DHT search engine to get the same thing. That is probably how they got it in the first place.

A query of "ThinkPad L440" on btdig yields the schematics and denies the scammers $20 - further denying funds to the DDoS SaaS or botnet rental they'd eventually have spend it on.
>spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing

He's even jazzy with his insults
If I may have a bit of your time, usually sales like this are pre-arranged.

Billionaire goes to a Bank (like GS or whatever) tells them I need to sell X number of Shares by Y date on Z price, the Bank gathers up the buyers, and then the the transaction is committed in one fell swoop, on market down, GS takes their commission and it's over by the time the markets open next Monday

What are the pros/cons of doing this bit by bit, over such a long period of time, on the public market? He is still not done and will be selling well into next week.
and/or, details about the soil layer topology which weren't known when the building was built now are known.
I smell a "Robot or not" episode coming in.

I would assume Japanese people would call bonsai any plant in a recipient that has enough art to be enjoyable to watch. For instance I think moss is accepted, as long as it's artful and well groomed.
I remember when I picked up 2019 I found it was much better than previous versions that I used. (In terms of refactoring and other coding assistance)
People unable to distinguish no/low code from abstraction should not post about it.
Tru integration is really something worth doing but I'm trying to figure out a market to target.
One of the important issues that the no-code world hasn't really come to grips with is security. Generally speaking, you have similar security issues (not exactly the same as there are no buffer overflows or js-eval/java-object injection attacks) but the code is being written by non-experts. That means all the subtle problems of faulty business logic in which end users or third parties are given too much control is going to bite you bigly.

Moreover, it's a myth that "no-code" code is easier to read or less buggy than traditional code. Moreover the lack of propery IDE support, often improper version control, and difficulty of extracting the no-code from the platform for proper analysis makes it very hard to audit in a systematic way. And the existing security tooling can't understand it. We are going to end up with piles of this stuff, often highly privileged code, written by non-experts, running on important high value systems.

Frankly, it's a nightmare.