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Best option is to provide choice. Icons with Labels by default, show keyboard shortcut on hover. Want just icons? There’s a config option for that. Want just labels? Also an option. Want no toolbar at all, and only use shortcuts? Also an option.
Since this was first detected in Botswana, we don't know where ground zero is. What we do know is that countries with good detection systems get punished and that such travel plans always have come way after the cat is out of the bag anyways.
It's harder to damage things if tooltips give you some idea of what's going to happen when you push a button.
This sounds a bit hard to believe. Mind sharing some of the $ figures of this business?

Nevertheless, I'm with the parent. This practice is abusive. When you're not working, you're not working. Being on call is working. If a company wants you to work longer hours they should make it explicit, pay for it, and comply with the local employment laws. This sort of argument that the business has no merit if they were to hire more people or pay can be applied to many exploitative situations. Most of the companies doing this are drowning in profits.
And to be fair - even that quote "It doesn't provide the perfect protection people think it does" and "people touch the masks".

The science on masks points to them helping when used correctly, but many people use them incorrectly - not following the proper procedure for putting them on, taking them off, reuse and disposal.
For those that have actual turbinate obstructions like I have had, there is a new drug that can prevent their regrowth, Dupixent. Something to look into if you have failed to control this problem. It can also relieve mild asthma symptoms, so for me it was kind of a 2 for 1

As well, there is a new kind of allergy shot you can get now, where you get the injections directly into lymph nodes, and they last for 3-5 years rather than needing shots weekly etc.
Symbian Sis File Renamer
Depressing but interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I have many friends from BC/Alberta that spent a year or two in the oil sands and made a boatload of money, I feel like this gives a good glimpse into it.
Why do people use a separate search bar, when typing the search query into the address bar works the same? Unless you're often searching for strings that look like URLs?
Yup, from what I remember I could mute it by pressing the volume button. But that was after I had just been blasted with radio at almost full volume. It also lulled me into it because it's silent for what feels like half a minute whilst it is not connected to anything.
To be fair, if they are so far off the end that they think "man, getting called up at 2am without being paid was great because I learned how to keep my cool during a crisis!" then they are probably a lost cause.

It's fine to drink of the chalice of the corporate kool aid with moderation. Still, one should never get black out drunk out of it.
I’ve done a VIP tour 11-12 years ago (won it as a prize giveaway). It is pretty amazing and without a doubt if I had an extra $10-15k that I could spend painlessly on a family Disney vacation over the normal ton of money—I’d do it in a heartbeat.

It’s not just walk on to the rides, but special seating at the shows and depending on the guide you get some pretty good backstory and insider lore which was fascinating as well.
Also variable tabs! instead of being

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they could be

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The executive team elects to do it, and they also get a fuckload of stock incentive to do it. Not the case for lower-rung engineers.
A big nothingburger
> A small and portable Scheme implementation that supports closures, tail calls, first-class continuations, a REPL and AOT and incremental compilers. All that for a run time footprint around 4 KB!

It's portable, but it contains a compiler? For any architecture?

> Currently Ribbit supports the target languages C, JavaScript, Python and Scheme

Aha. So it compiles to another language, and relies on that for portably compiling to a target architecture. Actually pretty sensible!

Well, apart from the last option. Using Scheme to compile this Scheme implementation, written in Scheme, to a Scheme program which you can run on another Scheme implementation is surely just Scheme with extra steps.

Anyway, how does the incremental compiler work with the C target?
> Pumping in adequate amounts of fresh outside air, however engineered, will challenge running costs as well as carbon status.

This is wrong. Mechanical Heat Recovery Ventilation (MVHR) is a well established technology which can recycle 96% of the heat from the waste air in a house. It costs about the same to fit as a central heating system. Passive houses have very high Air Changes per Hour (ACH) compared to conventional houses, at 0.4 ACH all the air in the house is replaced approximately every 2.5 hours. All while having a whole house heat load measuring in the hundreds of watts to maintain 21ºC inside when it’s -1ºC outside. There is no reason not to put MVHR in normal houses, it’s just not possible to supply all the heat demand using air supply alone so you need a conventional heating system as well.

EDIT:
Also this just goes to show what happens when people make uninformed comments on fields they don’t understand, this sentence could make a whole lot of work on reducing energy consumption in buildings get thrown out the window. I would have expected better from people that have just had 1.5 years first hand experience of the effects of misinformation on their own field.
Seems like they lacked the fuel? I don't have a globe handy, but a quick glance at Google Maps suggests Boston is slightly closer to Johannesburg than Atlanta is.
Why are folks posting old wikipedia articles to HN? I don't get it?
In vscode I press one set of keys and get fuzzy search access to every feature. I'd rather barely memorize the phrases to search with (several phrasing find the same settings for me) than to to memorize dozens of barely used hotkeys. Most of my day is scrolling through code and editing it occasionally, not doing actual commands from the menu or whatever.

To each their own, however I can see how it would be annoying when they don't include a menu for anything for folks who prefer that.
Back in the day I used Alfred on OS X... basically a system-wide command palette. Lots of its features now exist in Spotlight natively- not just file/folder search- it can do math equations, dictionary lookups, email search with date/keyword matching, currency and unit conversions, language translation, it also supports boolean operators.

I have yet to find a similar functionality from any other OS.
SailfishOS is officially supported on a number of different Sony mobiles (e.g. X, XA2 range, 10 and 10 II ranges). All these devices continue to receive updates.

SailfishOS is not completely FLOSS, but it's real Linux, and it's polished enough to be a daily driver (I've been using it for 7 years).
Distilled water is much easier to get hold of compared to a reverse osmosis system. I suspect most people can buy distilled water, but can’t access a reverse osmosis machine.

Also it’s easier to be confident that your distilled water is still mostly pure as the manufacturer will be regularly checking their output. Unless you’re running regular testing on your reverse osmosis equipment, and cleaning it and the downstream pipes, then how you be certain about the purity of your home made water?

If you are doing all that work, then home made purified water from a reverse osmosis setup is probably as good as store bought distilled water.
I also wondered about the net. Never considered the ball idea, that's very interesting. One thing the video doesn't cover is potential other solutions there are for protecting birds. Maybe they have just been doing it for such a long time that nobody thinks about alternative solutions, combined with the fact that they have already spent money into the bird hut and other equipment and further investments in alternatives would just not have a higher net present value.
Positives would be re-tested to rule out false positives.

In that period 30k-60k people where being tested in NSW.
https://www.covid19data.com.au/nsw
Building Skylab (1972) [video]
and that is the crux of this medically dangerous experiment.
> Which scientist was that?

Did you actually read my link?

Dr. Jeffrey Barrett listed the mutations in a figure below. [...] Of these, some mutations have properties to escape antibody protection (i.e. outsmart our vaccines and vaccine-induced immunity). There are several mutations association with increased transmissibility. There is a mutation associated with increased infectivity. This slide, from a presentation yesterday from the South Africa Health Ministry, summarized B.1.1.529 nicely.

> Medical doctors are not scientists.

What?

> Remember, the WHO said closing borders wouldn't help, and how dead wrong they were.

About that: https://twitter.com/TrevorABranch/status/1464748201601159169

It still doesn't make a lot of sense as we know the variant has already spread elsewhere.
My handwriting was described by a professor at college as "dog's dribble" and has only degraded as I spent most of my writing time typing (or painting script!) for the last many years. I've been super surprised to find that doing a search in OneNote will find some of my marginal notes, in part because I knew it was OCR-ing but just imagined it would only address formal fonts/body text, and in part because that writing is really poor.

OneNote is the best software I've used from MS I think, VS Code made me wonder if I needed to reassess MS, but OneNote is super-effective. I moved 2 years ago to a paper-free work process (by choice when I started a new job) and OneNote has been central to that. It has flaws a-plenty (not too many bugs that affect me), but it just really fits for me.

Short version, MS's OCR is getting there. However, it's not 'recognise "A"' that's the issue, I'm a word-based handwriter, it's the general shape of the word I record in my writing when it's at its worst; that A might be more like a capital lambda with a floating platform in the general vicinity.
You can get close enough to touch it. But you mustn’t touch.
I definitely need to check it out. Thanks for the link!
Its explicitly legal to do this in New Zealand, for the purpose of shifting formats.
The original claim was that property tax is regressive. You asked how it was so. I explained. To now say "if property taxes are the only taxes I see your point" is to move the goalposts.
Changing profile is a separate story.

Separate keys, one for each driver. The profile is chosen by which key is used.
VS Code has menus and toolbars
I do it as well, just before bed, and it certainly helps me to breathe better while I'm sleeping.
Your experience with the Honda Civic is largely because of poor UX. You can make thoughtful touchscreen designs and combine them with physical buttons for a great user experience.

Pinching to zoom and using your finger to drag a map around to get sense of the terrain in an unknown area is fantastic.
Using a touchscreen to reduce volume is stupid. Etc. Etc.

I specifically avoided Honda/Toyota/Mazda because I didn't like the UX of their touch screens.

People seem okay to Tesla's implementations as well because they also have a very responsive system.

Don't forget that you can have crappy UX with physical controls as well.
> Special thanks to Marco Bellino for sharing the source code of "SISXplorer", without the sources for it, "SIS Renamer" wouldn't be able to work without binary dependencies https://github.com/IlSocio/Symbian-SISXplorer-Win

JFTR, Marco Bellino[0] opened source of all his "Symbian Toys" apps on September 21, 2021.[1]

[0] https://www.symbian-toys.com/aboutme.aspx

[1] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive/issues/34
The DX-7 has 6 operators per voice and 16 note polyphony. The DX-11 is a 4 operator synth but with 8 voice poly, but is multitimbral, where the DX-7 is monotimbral. I think both have their advantages and most of the time 4 operators are enough.
I’ve been looking for a Yamaha FS-1 which was the 1990s return to FM synthesis for Yamaha. It’s a rare-ish classic that I wish Yamaha would reissue.
You can have a UI and menu system with physical controls, too.
I've had this issue! I made a mental note today when having to tap a link three times to open. I have a Google Pixel 3, though.
Yeah, I feared as much.
To that point, my grandma's retirement home was as well locked down as possible.

But you know who didn't take it seriously? The staff who worked there and brought COVID in, which ended up killing her.

There's no way of isolating them without isolating their staff, their families, everyone they interact with. With a virus as contagious as COVID, there doesn't appear to be a way to target portions of the population effectively.
Start with the basics, create a blog and write about your learning process, participate on forums like dev.to, etc. You'll have to put in some legwork to get to the point where you can fruitfully engage with software engineers and designers.
It's probably easier to cure every type of Cancer than it is to cure obesity.
Disney’s FastPass
Please keep a close eye on your blood o2 saturation and stay in contact with your doctor.
When you criticize you have to concentrate on what you see as wrong (i.e. weakest points) unless you plan to write a full review of review, so "cherrypicking" sounds rather unwarranted here.
"very mild symptoms" - can we move on now?
I think there's a strong correlation. We did gain a lot in security and simplicity with the App Store model. Lots of people that would never install apps on Windows or Macs, due to fear and ignorance, do so regularly on their smartphones. Moreover, they upgrade their OSs and pay with credit cards, etc.

On the other hand, those same people had folders on their desktops and managed files reasonably well. And now that even got a bit more confusing on the desktop, especially with MS/Apple insistence in selecting One/iCloud drive by default.
Nothing wrong with it at all. Just found random and interesting. And I'm wondering why they all use / sponsor sweetalert ha
Lol 16gb not enough for dev? Get real
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safrican-doctor-says-pa...
VS code has menus on all platforms. All platforms also provide native menus. (Work on VSCode)
yep, once in a while, it will end being a once in a life discovery.

so, everything defying common sense should be reviewed, to find why and how exactly is this happening.
Not really, the FT was the first one to go hysterical.
There is no way that China has achieved Zero Covid. How would that be possible? Have they denied any trvel for the last 1.5 years? I would suspect a "Report Zero Covid" strategy instead.
It’s basically because of a meme created after Notch was outed for his transphobic tweets (and was even kicked out from the credits for Minecraft), people were all saying that Hatsune Miku created Minecraft. Hence the anime character with the trans flag on it, I think its actually a bit hilarious.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hatsune-miku-created-minecraf...
Either you have a tooltip explaining the function or you have to test it to understand what it does. But to test something you want to know it doesn't cause problems.

I feel like this is some fundamental UX dimension here. Cost and risk of learning. How much time do I have to use to learn all the commands or find the right command and if I have to try it what is the risk of breaking something?

Just as relevant in cli applications.
In December 2019, a deadly breakout of novel coronavirus SARS‑CoV‑2 spread and was declared a global pandemic. Recently, the WHO declared one particular variant first discovered in South Africa as a "variant of concern", and the US imposed a loose "travel ban" on noncitizens from this country. This is one of the last flights out of South Africa before the ban is set to be enforced.
I have not seen widespread data on symptomatic vs unsymptomatic cases however during the most recent NSW surge around 5-7% of new infections ended up presenting to hospital at some stage.
Testing was widespread and likely highly compliant - daily testing stats were available, NSW at one point was having 180k tests per day (PCR). People were notified of sites of exposure (or via checkin apps) and asked to test. Given it was PCR, false positives were as you would expect quite low but there were at least 2-3 false positives I recall being discussed in the media.

In answer to your final question - no - they were PCR confirmed cases. There was also a high degree of sequencing occurring to enable clarity on lineage transmission
Think about it this way: what is the evolutionary pressure for it to become more lethal? Particularly if we accept your premise that such lethality occurs after it spreads.

Now a given strain may mutate to become more deadly but why would such a strain become dominant?

Even if all this occurs after the virus can spread, consider the human reaction to it. You have two diseases: one is essentially the common cold, the other is basically Ebola. Even if those events occur after transmission, the response to each disease is going to be wildly different. The common cold will just be tolerated and managed. There will be no lockdowns. The second will have the military enforcing lockdowns and curfews combined with hard travel borders and checkpoints. There would be forced vaccination in some places and severe restrictions on the voluntarily unvaccinated.

Just the human reaction alone will tend to make the common cold version more dominant over a sufficiently long time frame.
A better analogy would be a plumber you pay a handsome annual salary to maintain and improve your pipes--to what degree should they owe some emergency time in return is the question in this thread.
Airbus A340 plane lands on Antarctica for first time
Distribution in the country is not the problem (look what "Medecins sans frontires" do). Mostly 3rd world countries do not have medical standards as high as in first world so you can instruct taxi drivers how to jab people and give them trunk full of vaccines and they will empty it in the same day without problems. And it will be still safe enough as those vaccines are applied to muscles.

I think it is the problem of supply and demand because EU and even more US* are making vaccines way more expensive.

* EU is buying vaccines together to not compete for price between states but the price is probably way higher than African countries can pay. Imagine the whole world teamed up together and vulnerable people would be vaccinated at the same time before young healthy people as it is done now in EU.
B-Spline Curve
Should you skip the great resignation?
Xi is most definitely not a common last name, I’ve yet to encounter a single person with that surname in China besides Xi Jinping. Mu (穆) on the other hand is far more common and yet it wasn’t skipped.

If you look at most common surnames https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames then Mu is ranked at 188, whereas Xi is nowhere to be found. Xi was solely skipped due to Xi Jinping.
Yeah, I’m willing to bet that most folks here are either into music/audio, photography, video production, or building gear and software that supports these endeavors in some way. I know a lot of people who code, but few of them visit this site. The ones that do fall into one of those categories.
Interesting! Now I have extra reason to set-up that Pi-Hole :) Thanks!
I see a lot of commenters saying it is part of the job and to be expected... that's fine, but in my own career what I observed was that the reason an on call rotation was even necessary was that the companies knew things would fail regularly, because they refused to invest in good practices up front. If a company wants to do everything it can to not turn on call time into a shit show and they want to fairly compensate for a person being available nights and weekends, then cool- we can all be team players. But, too often they want to squeeze you into doing the work of three people if they can get away with it.
Naval said to productize myself. WTF does that mean?
I don't find your experience to be the general case, though that doesn't invalidate your point. Accolades are an easy intangible reward to hand out so you will often see it given for heroics. Extra cash would be better. PTO is somewhere in the middle. On teams that can rotate through on-call, bonus PTO is more likely to be used than on ones where one or two engineers shoulder the responsibility all year.
I own a Remarkable 2 and really love it, but I agree that the lack of some kind of integrated ebook marketplace is a missed opportunity. I would love to be able to just buy a bestselling book through the device (or it's accompanying app) and read it immediately. Is there anyone the company could partner with to enable such a feature? I don't want to pirate books or hassle with Calibre, I just want to read books on this very well-designed device and I'm willing to pay $$ to do that.
Especially in Excel, using the keyboard to do everything is vastly superior in Windows.

However in MacOS `command-shift-/` (⌘?) immediately shifts focuses to the help menu where you can begin typing to navigate directly to any command that appears in an application's menus, without needing to know where the command is hierarchically organized. It's very fast, and seems to work everywhere.

I have Karabiner-Elements configured to register ⌘? whenever I press and release the left control alone without using it as a modifier of any other key. The `to_if_alone` condition in Karabiner-Elements is one of my favorite ways to re-use all of the modifier keys to invoke special commands. It would be great if I could figure out how to do that in Windows.
You're making the assumption that being on-call made some kind of difference to your career progression--as other commenters have noted, no one is doing good or interesting work during on call hours. You're just the company bitch and you get to do bitch work. Other industries require hazing like this too: finance comes to mind. But not every software firm requires on-call; you just picked the wrong company and allowed yourself to get screwed.
There is a great channel on Youtube called Ghost Town Living. It follows an individual living in an old California mining town, trying to preserve its history. Recently he has begun the process of pulling ore out of the mine and refining to silver. He talks through this cuppellation process.
https://youtube.com/c/GhostTownLiving
This statement is incorrect. Being vaccinated does indeed help others. People who are vaccinated against the virus are enormously less likely to manifest dangerous symptoms and require hospital care, thereby reducing the overall demand for medical resources.
Is hand washing even that relevant given the virus gets mostly inhaled? I've never seen any studies on this.
You help by not taking up beds in hospitals.
There are plenty of jobs in good companies that pay well and don't require you to be a slave to your job. Companies that can move fast and treat their employees well vs. companies that exploit their employees. I am a manager in such a company and my team can move fast and own stuff during the work day and then relax on their weekend so they can get back to moving fast and owning stuff when they're back at work.

This has totally not been this way for decades.

Now if you're a founder, or you're being paid for this extra work or own a significant part of the business and benefit from it's success, that's a little bit different.
"of nothing" -> "It's nothing"

I needn't say more.
How? Did you long press on it?