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> This is the formula of progressivism.

The process seems identical to majoritarianism.
The covid vaccines were not granted special "emergency use" anything, at least not in the EU. They just parallelized some of the trials and didn't encounter any setbacks. No steps were "skipped". The mRNA technology had also already been in development for a while, just not applied as a medical product (much like how multi-touch had been around for a long time before the iPhone capitalized on it).

They were also handled with an abundance of caution, which is why many countries suspended the Oxford vaccine after initial reports of adverse effects in young women despite the extremely low frequency hinting at sampling bias rather than genuine side-effects.
For a while, Jeep Wranglers had a 15 gallon fuel tank, with an optional upgrade to a 19 gallon tank. The tank itself was the same; the “upgrade” consisted of shortening the metal fill hose to allow the 19 gallon tank to be completely filled.
I'm just surprised that this thread has 360+ comments and still no-one has made a joke about Jordan Peterson.
What's good about open markets is that if someone else finds a permanent protection, then people will stop using your product and start using his/hers. This gives you an incentive to create such product yourself.
Government wanting to relaunch economy? Maybe they finally get that high count of infected doesn't matter if it doesn't kill people, and that the anti-social measures are going against other goals such as birth rate (which is made difficult since people meet way less than before) so it sends the memo to the media and scientists.
Technical debt is a bit of a fuzzy problem that is hard to explain without a lot of platitudes to a non technical person.

Instead of doing that, the key to staying on top of keeping your tech stack in a sane state is to assign ownership of it to a person that knows what they are doing that can effectively counter the pressure from non technical persons in the organization to move faster. It's all about prioritizing correctly in the end and that's not a job you can give to a non technical product manager.

I actually am a CTO that is also responsible for a lot of the day to day product management. So, I get to wear both hats.

My job is not to blindly execute somebody else's vision but to actually create and define the vision and adjust to needs and wants of our business based on what is technically possible with our stack and ensure that that stack is ready to do so. Additionally, I need to stay ahead of this game and a lot of what we do technically is about being ready for what I can see coming next rather than just reacting to current needs. The game here is avoiding over engineering while at the same time spotting and removing technical bottlenecks.

Technical product management is a thing; or rather it should be in almost any team. It's a natural progression for a technical leader to also start paying attention to what they are building and why. I've been interacting with product managers for years and have many product manager friends. Working with them instead of against them is key. Technical product management requires somebody with technical know how as well as a sense of the business and its priority. A non technical PM is the wrong person for this job. If you have such a person guarding technical quality and business alignment, things run much smoother than if you have a lot of people bickering with each other over technical perfection or doing quick fixes.
You are trying to find an answer through logical means.
This means you need to find a framework with a clearly defined set of axioms and clear reduction rules that bring you to the correct answer.
The world does not work like this. All concepts that seem well-defined break when you look at them too close or too far.

Does the dog has the Buddha nature? The answer to that is neither 'yes' or 'no', because neither will lead you where you want.
Does anyone else not use any of the ad hoc package management with Nix? I exclusively use a declarative `config.nix`, with `sudo nixos-rebuild switch` every time I want to install a package.
yarp is much more googleable than "camel"
Why? It's the exact same thing as binning, only that now the binning is done in software.
I do remember ask of those tricks even though when I started I build for IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.7. It was a nightmare in competition to today’s web development. We had it complicated by standard. Nowadays developers have it easy but it seems many of them still make their lives Herzen by using convoluted frameworks.

I feel like a grandpa that was in the 2. world war who doesn’t understand why his grandchildren play war with toys.
> Is there a way Intel can expose microcode and commands to outside so compilers can directly target them instead of X86 instruction set?

Maybe, but MOV is still MOV, so Intel, for the most part, is simply using a subset of x86 (or AMD64) instructions. Except for a few proprietary commands used to implement the more complex commands, most simple instructions are implemented as-is and are passthroughed anyways.

> If yes, would there be anything to gain or lose?

Gains: Very slight faster performance (reduced lookup is always great, but realistically it doesn't matter unless you're doing supercomputer stuff).

Losses: It's pretty much like the kernel land of Linux or NT's undocumented functions: subject to change, fully not supported. Also, cannot be done on the current CPU families anyway since that the microcode can't be updated in such a way that it is worth it.
What if they just keep talking, using up all the available time, and you’re never asked to continue?
~1 month ago, when setting up my new Macbook it took me forever to debug this. After hours of trying to mess with the builtin Apache service (thinking it was the culprit), I found a random blog post that said to disable the sharing feature occupying the port in the system preferences. It was devilishly hard to debug (and google for) at the time.

For those wondering why I needed port 5000 in my case, it was a standard Svelte app serving on localhost:5000 (via Sirv).
Even some single cells maybe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11677-w
As a very, very long time user of Firefox, I will say this: if Mozilla built a search engine with as good search results as Google, that would be the one good thing that has come out of all of their "new" programs. We sorely need a Google replacement more than a VPN.
Happy wife, happy life. - Transformers
They probably are referring to VMware being displaced by the major three cloud providers.
Hiragana/Katakana absolutely can not be interpreted as “uppercase/lowercase”. BTW kana also has full-width/half-width versions, which while also distinct would be closer.

For a more pure example, consider Bopomofo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
How to use AWS command line with Google Authenticator as virtual MFA device
movzx eax, al

is one byte shorter, but I'm not sure if any of this would make a difference. x86 is tricky.
It's a great channel that puts words to just why American cities are so dystopic.

It really helps understand exactly what "induced demand" means. If you add another lane, some of the people on the bus will take the car, and thus the new lane is almost immediately full again. If you remove the bus lane, bike lane, sidewalk, same thing.

Adding capacity for cars actually makes travelling by car worse.

It also gives hope. Like just because a city was destroyed to make it more car centric doesn't mean it can't be fixed to be livable again.

There's more to strongtowns than this, but it's all interesting.
I'd be a bit wary of corpse -> foodstuff conversion, largely because of prion risk.

This isn't that though, from what I get. It's just facilitated decomposition of the body.
I wonder how things would have turned out if COVID had different properties. With COVID, some people shrugged it off like a mild cold, while others were in the ICU with multiple organ failure. Risk factors tilt the odds but on the whole, the virus is weirdly random. This leads to people having wildly different personal experiences - someone knows a 60-year old who caught COVID and recovered with chicken soup, while someone else knows a family whose children were orphaned by the loss of their young, healthy parents. That randomness is fuel on the fire for partisan divides.

I think even with a 10% CFR, there'd be droves of vaccine skeptics, unless the virus hits people with more or less uniform symptoms.

...or maybe it even has nothing to do with lethality at all, look at the ebola vaccine rollouts in Africa.
And let’s remember that in business, like in war, the one with less empathy wins.
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and you can get a 64 core AMD Threadripper 3990X with 128x PCI-e v4 which makes the Talos II very moot.
That would imply there’s something wrong with me, something that needs fixing. I don’t feel like that at all.

In a sense, we are all a mixture of personality traits. It’s only when you get to the extremes, where it starts to be harmful, that it becomes a “disorder”.
I think this goes to show that the file system is not the right place to implement natural language handling to its full extent, like it's probably not a good idea to implement time zones as a primitive function in your new programming language.
I've created a GUI tool to interact with smartcontract
It supports many ways to import the ABI (from URL, uploaded file, or from deployed contract). You can choose how to sign the request (Browser wallet like Metamask, WalletConnect, or using keys)
> Israel - the most vaccinated country in the world

You should be aware that Israel's vaccination rate (62%) is only modestly above that of the United States (58%) and well below that of Japan (77%) and Canada (76%).

Israel was fortunate to deploy vaccines much earlier than most countries, and have the benefit of deploying additional boosters, but they are far from the most vaccinated country.
this is just straight out of Dragonball: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/f/fe/Gok...
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Yeah I'd take 100 Dicks over Gerry Harvey too
A supplier of voltage regulators sold the same (physically and functionally interchangeable) part to Ford and to Cessna. Cessna required 100% testing of the parts. Ford accepted statistical process controls.

Solution: make the parts on one line, inspect the greater number of how many they’d need to inspect for Ford and Cessna, stamp all the inspected parts and sell any part to Ford and only stamped parts to Cessna. All three companies can benefit from that arrangement.
> Clearly looking at the data from Israel - the most vaccinated country in the world - mRNA vaccines are not working as expected.

What do you mean exactly?
A quick back of the envelope calculation shows that Israel's approach is equivalent to saving half a million lives in the US! 500,000!
Data from [1]

> Like Ivermectin which clearly is working and some countries are in clinical trials as we speak.

Turns out the countries where Ivermectin is most effective are the ones, where parasites are most prevalent [2].

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249686
One significant change is that the practice of boiling live lobsters is now illegal.
Then let's wait until we have real data before jumping to conclusions. Your environment may just be a statistical outlier. Or you are more attuned to it because of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
That's correct, but this could be very surprising for anyone not familiar with Turkish. For example if you have an English text which has a Turkish word in it, maybe a place or person name. Or for example when doing OCR.
Nah. Talk to the other producer(s) in secret and make a gentleman's agreement not to create a permanent cure. The regulations surrounding pharmaceuticals is enough to prevent other companies from entering the market. Illegal as shit but crimes have happened before.
The notion that vaccines normally don't get FDA approval without multi-year long-term follow-up studies is absurd enough. That's not how any of this works.

All observed "vaccination damage" has been observed in very close proximity to the injection. The talk about "long-term" effects is almost entirely based on FUD spread about the measles vaccine which is in turn based on a fraudulent pseudoscientific article claiming a link between one specific measles vaccine and autism by a guy who tried to push an alternative vaccine. If you still worry bout vaccination damage as a serious concern in 2021 you're on the tail end of a failed marketing campaign.
I thought so at first too, but then I realized, no matter what distribution comes up in the future, learning a new distribution from the ground up is going to be hard no matter what. I dove head first into Nix and after a understanding the language, the OS and package manager was actually not that hard to understand. Now in after hand, I don't regret any of the the time I spent learning it.
A nice trip down memory lane. I remember building a site using tables and images to create a rounded border effect

Fun times!

https://web.archive.org/web/20051119043111/http://whistlebum...
Realistic mountains landscape in OpenGL ES
I think you missed the "technology or language or framework" part.

Their argument is that if you have a monolith and want to say move from Ruby to TypeScript, you basically have to rewrite the whole thing and migrate in one go, which is a massive pain. If you have microservices and want to do the same, you can move one service at a time.
Time taken by processing done by the application itself. Faster processing is good even if your backend is mostly waiting for other services - now it can wait for more services at the same time and deal with their output faster, allowing your app to use less resources or handle more traffic. That is especially pronounced on scale - if you're spending X million for computing time a month, reducing it by few percent is very interesting to you.
Sure, but how is waiting for external requests relevant in any way to .NET performance then?
This could've been a solution but is not what Unicode chose to do (in this particular case). Also relevant: discussion around unifying glyphs like A, B, C, E and so on across Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek, all with their language-specific casing behavior.
PM: "We promised higher management that feature X would be done by The Date(tm)"

DEV: "We can only do that by cutting corners, reusing code for purposes we shouldn't, and making it not extensible in the future"

PM" "Yeah but we promised higher management so it needs to get done"

some time later...

PM: "Hey can we add feature Y by The Date(tm)"

DEV: "It doesn't fit with the rushed work we did for feature X, we'll need to rewrite quite a bit of code to make those two fit"

PM: "Yes but we promised feature Y by The Date(tm) to this customer, so it needs to get done"

DEV: "Well we can hack something together which does 90% of Y on a full moon and breaks otherwise, I really don't recommend doing this."

PM: "We have no choice"

some time later...

PM: "Why are all features taking so much longer to complete than they used to"

DEV: "Massive technical debt"

PM: "Ah yes, the software industry's way of euphemistically describing their incompetence."
There are a few goals for 3MF. One is to have a common format that is portable across tools made by the big companies participating in the consortium. Another is support for specifying material in addition to shape. STL can represent a part, but can’t distinguish it as a specific metal or plastic. STL also can’t specify color. Those properties can be used in engineering software to simplify analysis and visualization. 3MF also supports multiple parts, which is useful in a multi-material build. For example, when a dentist 3D prints a mouth model they might use white for the teeth, red for the jaws, and a removable support material. With STL each of those sub-models would be a separate file, meaning the 3D printer operator would need to properly position them and choose appropriate materials at build time.
Searching for "product design book by uber author" gives me "Hacking Product Design: A Guide to Designing Products for Startups by Tony Jing"
I extensively use nix-shell if that falls under ad-hoc package management. Together with lorri[0], I can place a `shell.nix` in my project repository and when cd'ing into the folder, I will be dropped in a shell with all project specific dependencies available to me.

[0]: https://github.com/nix-community/lorri
Mostly yes. I’ve had a couple of repo-specific shells and some utils installed via nix-env -iA.

Do you find it works well for
you?

I think that a lot of my pain points with Nix comes from not “doing things the Nix way”.
I would start fixing about page https://vendazzo.com/about
No, we're talking about pointing a gun at a guy under your car and another one holding a bat standing and looking out. They can then either back up and run away or get shot. It's their decision.
It's better to identify those kinds of mispredictions and correct them as early as possible, otherwise the communication barrier will grow until everyone gets infuriated anyway.
Doesn't something like `lsof -i TCP -s TCP:LISTEN` quickly show what's monopolizing 5000?
El Salvador has removed all entry requirements relating to the Covid-19 pandemic
> It's not the dumbest engineering data format I've seen

It’s not, but should the models be binary, the format would be much better.

> just use HDF5

Last time I checked (a few years ago), HDF5 was only possible to handle with the official C++ library. That library didn’t even support multithreading, when I tried to write 2 HDF5 files from 2 concurrent thread, the program crashed with broken data structures in some global variables deep inside the HDF5 library.

My computer has 16 hardware threads, the servers I’m targeting often have more of them, and I’d like to actually use that hardware. Single-threaded libraries aren’t OK in my books; not in 2021.
It takes a while until the voting takes effect. Scrolling through the replies in a Covid or vaccine related post shortly after posting is an eerie experience.
I've had a 20 year career spanning 15 companies and in retrospect none of the work I did for any of those companies strikes me as meaningful. In most cases, if the work had not been done, project not implemented, things would have carried on regardless with no one much affected either way. Some large companies might have spent money differently - that's all.

My current contract is in the running for least meaningful ever. If the entire long running project I'm a part of didn't exist, the only effect would be that the people who work on it would work elsewhere. The 400,000 users would actually gain time that they are currently obliged to spend using what this project offers.

I have a few side projects in the creative writing space that added real value for real users over the past 15 years and probably changed and improved the way they worked, so there was meaning there, but that's pretty much in the past now.

I'm currently working on some dev tools for the healthcare sector - a side project that I have high hopes for - and if that completes I feel it has the potential to be meaningful and add real value down the chain to the lives of real people.
Here's a reference wrt cardiac damage, from the highest-impact cardiology journal: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.107...
Does lsof show that 5000 is in use?

Is Svelte hard-wired to 5000?
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Mostly in that it’s not what a futon actually is, in its country of origin.

In japan, a futon is not a sofabed, it solely bedding and during the day it gets stowed into a closet (or a corner of the room).

It’s not seating and it doesn’t have a frame. Those are western “additions”. But not improvements, because futons were never intended for slatted frames (or even hard surfaces). Because of this incompatibility and the desire to make them permanent the “futon-style mattresses” thus have to become much thicker and heavier, thereby losing the flexibility and stowability of the original, and just becoming bad mattresses (la requirement for sofabeds, really).

In essence, “futons are shit” is one more example of taking something which is perfectly fine, moving it completely out of its context, misusing it entirely, and then calling it bad after making it so. And the badness gets attributed to futons where it’s been a universal constant of sofabeds.

Futon-style mattresses have not made sofabeds worse, they’ve always been shit[1] they’ve just tarnished the name of futons.

[1] Which in fairness is not normally an issue, their purpose is to be an ok-at-best couch with some ad-hoc bedding so guests don’t sleep on the floor.
When evaluating whether to buy something: is it worth the amount of hours of work that took me to be able to afford it? I know roughly how much money I make per hour (money into my bank account every year / how many days I work every year / how many hours per day I work). So, say that something costs 100£ and it takes me 3 hours to make that money; would I work 3 hours to buy it?

Also when buying something: sometimes I feel like under a spell, really wanting to make a purchase. Then I just sleep on it. Usually the day after the spell is gone, and I can better understand if I really want to buy that something or not.

When doing something new: I'm the kind of person that - when learning to draw - spends more time looking at the perfect paper and pencils than actually drawing. I'm sure some of you can relate. I enjoy this process, but the truth is that to learn to draw you don't need anything else than any piece of paper and any working pen/pencil. So, learn to recognise when you go too far off track and go back to actually learning how to draw. There will be a time to hunt for the perfect paper. If you don't want to go back drawing, maybe you didn't want it that much to begin with.

When spending money: spending money on things (objects) is almost always less worth than it feels. Unless it's a tool that you use (e.g. a DIY tool, or a kitchen knife, etc). Spending money on experiences (traveling, concerts, etc) and learning (books, courses, etc) is almost always more worth than it feels. Especially, as an introvert, there is something inside of me that tends to dodge "experiences".

To be happy: I learned this recently from the Dalai Lama. You should learn the difference between happiness and pleasure/desire, and prioritise the former. E.g. when looking for a job how ethical a company is and how good you'd fit is more important than the salary, job title, and prestige of a company.
Last week I was trying develop a quick prototype, and instead of setting up a C# project, I tried Django.

At first, everything seemed super easy, but later I hit so many road-blocks that I had to give up (For example defining a self-referential m2m relationship with a custom join table, and getting it working on the admin site).

Don't people really have such problems with it? It really feels like a huge burden when you do things outside the happy-path. Also the documentation is indeed superb but you also hit a lot of outdated info when searching the web.
I would agree, Postmark is wonderful
You can use the .local, .localhost, .example, and .test TLDs for local domains -- these are IANA reserved: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp...
'Wake up in the middle of the night to strangers at your home - you just caught a bunch of people in the middle of committing a felony and maybe they are not the type to leave witnesses behind.' Literally every country deals with this problem, the vast majority of us do without using firearms.

Do you think that 'visceral fear'? only exists in the USA? Normal people in England, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, etc have had their home invaded or the car broken into and have dealt with the situation without guns.