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When Margaret Hamilton coined the term "software engineering", I believe she was thinking more along the lines of chemical engineering: whereas chemistry examines how chemicals work and maybe how to synthesize a given compound, chemical engineering is about designing processes to produce a chemical at scale so that it may be used in industry. And I think that's what software engineering should be about, if indeed there is such a field: the design of formalized processes that, when applied, can be used to write, deliver, deploy, maintain, and fix software at scale.

I also think up to this point we've mainly been LARPing at software engineering. To really do it, we are going to need as a first step tools that give us stronger assurances that the software will function as needed at scale. Things like unit tests and Rust's borrow checker get us part of the way there but we will need better tools that give us stronger guarantees when it comes to integrating various components.
If the economy contracted 90% you wouldn't have to pay any loans because the loan collectors would be dead. This is sort of like "if you owe the bank a billion dollars the bank has a problem".
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Why can't they just use person and person-dress which are alike in design to the prior icons?
Gmail still has advertising, it just is targeted by the standard google way of "hoovering up" your data from across the web and the rest of your google profile. Not by scanning your emails. Google's blog post says https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in... :

> Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products. Ads shown are based on users’ settings. Users can change those settings at any time, including disabling ads personalization. G Suite will continue to be ad free.
> Labomotomies
Writing good utopian works is really hard!
Bad news, isn't it? Because of C/C++ is dominant now.
The Crack In Space is the only Phillip K Dick book I have read. I found it on a bookshelf when I was maybe in middle school or early high school. I don't remember much about it, so I guess I did not find it memorable.
I would not trust my dog to a walker who walks them as part of a pack of 6.
It would be pure torture for her as:

1. She's a working breed, so walking doesn't really do anything for her. It's very mild and generally unstimulating exercise (same for humans really. Walking is the most boring exercise you can think of)

2. Doesn't get along with other dogs very well. Especially the ones that are very curious and don't get the hint.

3. More risk for my dog, since the person's attention is split 6-ways. Can one person even physically control 6 dogs if they react and pull? Maybe a very large and strong man. But I'm not going to risk it.

But I suppose there are 6-packs of dogs that you can arrange to have a decent experience being walked at the same time, it really depends on the breed and temperament.
The keyword here is incentive, not coercion. Most of the world uses English as a second language because the British used to run a fairly large part of it and most of their former colonies still have a lot of English speakers and quite a few even maintain it as an official language. And then after two world wars, their former colony the USA of course became a super power. So, for the past few centuries, understanding English meant access to a large market where English just was the main language to do business.

There is an enormous economic incentive to do business in English as it gives you access to these huge markets with wealthy customers. Additionally, a lot of content is published by English speakers, which re-enforces the need to learn English. Finally because pretty much every country does at least some business in English, it's also the most common language for any two countries that wish to engage with each other.

I'm actually Dutch but I live in Germany. While I speak a little bit of German, my English is far better. I don't actually need German to do business in Berlin; so I don't use it a lot I have no economic incentive to learn it. There's a critical mass of foreigners here that mostly speak English far better than they speak German. And while some Germans don't like that, a lot of them don't mind it and actually move to Berlin because they speak English and because is so international. You see this dynamic in a lot of economically important cities across the world. As soon as you get any concentration of foreigners living in them, English becomes an important language to the point where the locals start using English to be able to keep up.
I made a spreadsheet of all of his books, and read everything my library had, which was about 70% of them. His early stuff is shlocky and gets tedious by the 10th book from that era. About 20% of his stuff is truly groundbreaking, the rest is ... boring.
What is the difference between Apple TV and Apple TV+? Do you work for Apple?
CrypKey License Service Allows Privilege Escalation
In my culture, one generation is often defined as 30 years. Probably the years between own births to giving births.
I am working on a multiplayer adult metaverse game that's running on two blockchains, and so far it has earned me over 1000$. https://coomiverse.xyz

I guess it will leave the side project status once it gains even more traction but for now I consider it a side job.
One of the best gists i have ever seen!
Essentially person is both gender neutral and alike the old male icon as it just looks like a person with what I imagine are pants (hopefully anyway). If you want something explicitly feminine there is person-dress which looks like the old female icon.
Yeah. I watch AppleTV shows on my computer (their web UI is sometimes janky but it works) and via Chromecast.
That's not what happened.

I'm not responding here to get into an hopeless post-truth argument and I'm not going to reply any further.

The reason I'm posting is to ask the readers to go search themselves and be very very skeptic about what they read hear. There are quite a few news stories and videos from that period.
Naming things :)

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

Some choose short variable names that they can type fast (this might be correlated with vi programmers).

Others choose long variable names that are more descriptive (this might be correlated with emacs programers).

Personally I chose the latter, because copy-paste is easy, and ambiguity can be confusing.

But ambiguities are great fun for making puns and dadjokes.

u = qtπ
Seeing lots of these Reddit-tier comments recently. Hope HackerNews stays high quality and doesn’t become populist garbage.
Cool to see another jailbird here turning things around. I just did 8 inside. How long were you locked up for?

p.s. I would love to fix the audio on your intro video - the hum and echo is killing me. I used to be married to a voice actor and I set up her studio and recording pipeline. [Audacity and Audition both have a quick filter to remove background noise]
> actually, it's entirely unclear what is even going on

That's a good way of putting it and it does fit the theme of the book. I just spent a bit thinking about the ending again and while it's not any clearer I do like it more now.
What is "woke"?
Because the root cause is that the government has a monopoly on public schools. It is only a recent development that the indoctrination of the captive audience has become enticing for woke proselytizers.
How is that? Strikes and collective action actually do work.
This is the most forward thinking process i've seen in a long time.
I'm glad I got to see this in the wild.
I've always thought about creating self hosted apps that replicate social media.
Yep they're full-time marketing people, not random devs taking time out of their day to respond.

Very rarely do devs at these companies feel comfortable enough to respond directly, I think, that's natural because most people aren't comfortable representing the company they work for. Usually when you see that happen, it's some coordinate effort internally to get a dev from some team to respond.

https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/marketing/developer-ev...

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...

every dev tools startup out there does this.
Hyperinflation happens when you print USD to pay non-USD-denominated debt, because you'd have to print an infinite amount. The interest rate describes how much you have to print to pay USD debt, and it's consistently not been much (or even a negative amount) for decades.

> That in turn often leads to a change of the form of government - usually not for the better.

If this is a veiled reference to Nazi Germany, that was not Weimar inflation, it was caused by deflation later. Why hard money people are terrified of hyperinflation instead of deflation, when that's worse, I don't know.

An example of a country that does everything wrong economically and has constant inflation is Argentina, but oddly it's still there and nobody seems to be overthrowing it.
You've thrown any sort of internal consistency so far out the window at this point, I don't think you even know what you're saying anymore.

You start by implying there's something wrong with insisting on the quality of a price then...

> If they want a steadier income that's fine, but wanting a full retail paycheck every single year is going too far.

Right. So you're now you're not just saying that the subscription model is bad, you're saying that you've decided what a full retail paycheck for their software is.

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You say:
> That $3 doesn't guarantee they'll still be around
> for a simple product like this, the more ambitious they get the more worried I get.
> Also this company is an order of magnitude or two bigger than "sustainable"

Yet it's all exactly the reason why this is true:

> They're not going to have insufficient money to pay the staff of their core product.

I mean how do you think 1Password reached the size where you're essentially calling them "too big to fail"?

They did the ramen noodle "sustainable" thing, and they'd be a footnote if they had stayed there. Instead they were ambitious, they scaled, they took people's money in a way that works for them, and now some internet person is simultaneously saying "They're so successful they'll never fail if they don't want to" and "Why are they doing what they did to reach that point???"
> The value I deliver as a passionate dogsitter is probably worth several hundred dollars a day.

Yes, but the joy of sitting my wonderful dog is worth at least several hundred dollars a day as well, so it all evens out.
> reducing ... into text.

Are you though? You can just view the text as memories.
Same as taking pictures on vacations: "reducing vacations to pictures" sounds like a pretty bad vacation/more like photography work. "Taking pictures of cherished moments and places" sounds like something you might look at again from time to time to fondly remember.
That article is not wrong. It doesn’t go in to much technical detail.

Black starting a plant is one thing which can basically be solved by having a working and large enough diesel generator on site to power the plant auxiliary systems such as oil and water pumps required for start up.

Reenergizing all of the loads in a large system from zero is another thing. Energizing transmission lines with no load are essentially giant capacitors that initially appear as a dead short, energizing transformers that are essentially giant inductors that initially appear as a dead short, energizing resistive loads requires all of the sudden opening whatever the throttle on the power plant is - water flow, steam flow which itself requires gas/coal/feed water/etc in to a boiler, or natural gas, that is as rough on equipment as flooring the engine in your car except you have to make sure the power plants connected are as large as the loads being connected. And the inertia in the rotating masses in the system has to be enough to supply the energy to the load until those throttles open and generate the additional energy - time delays here are measured in seconds. How do the fish in the river or the people camping on the river bank like it when the river goes from 5% to 100% all of the sudden? More restrictions and considerations there.

The whole process is a bunch of step responses to systems at unusual operating points. Operators of many facilities that normally just run at constant load points won’t be familiar with the unusual demands placed on the equipment. Equipment will be operating both at minimum and maximum limits in very short time spans. It’s a recipe for equipment failures unless it is practiced regularly.

Solar and wind unless supplanted by batteries are no help here either.
Cheers!

Especially worth noting how things can snowball after several months of consistent shipping.

You're not just starting from scratch every two hours, you've already got work to build on top of, to keep you growing.
Also @me.com. Apple have some sick domains!
What, you never thought about taking a chemical sacrament to enter a parallel digital universe? It's cyberpunk as hell.
I did more than 20 trips to Germany for work in the 1990s and early 2000s (I'm American). Of course my work colleagues there spoke good English, as did the staff at the hotels I stayed at, museums and airports, but enough people did not (shop owners, some restaurants, agents at train stations) that it really helped me to learn at least enough German to order at restaurants and shops and struggle through basic conversations; I took classes and practiced when I could. Often a mixture of my bad, limited German and the person I was speaking to's bad, limited English got things handled.
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From?
Now we just need to define "solve", "cleverly", and "technical".

What if their solution is non-technical, still an engineer?
The price dropped because load on the grid dropped after ERCOT ordered blackouts. This was the correct thing to do as despite lower load there was still clearly insufficient supply, and as long as there is insufficient supply you don't want expensive peaker plants to stop getting paid.
It's funny you've mentioned chickens. My favorite food at 90s was frozen chicken and chicken sausages from USA. We called it Bush legs. There was no any other affordable meat at that time.
Personally I became alienated from the music industry and don't know how to find new music.

I care about privacy, so I opted out from having a youtube/instagram/facebook account. I never used streaming because I listen to albums and want to own my music.

The result is that I don't even get notified when my favourite musicians recommend a band or even release a new album.

Where is the product for me? I am not in any of their data and just sit here listening to an offline library I built more than 10 years ago, desperate but struggling to find new stuff
So the vast majority of Asians have disrupted endocrine systems?
Reducing inflation by raising interest rates is indeed painful because it basically works by making everyone unemployed so they can't ask for raises. This is, as you can see, a bad idea and a violation of the Fed dual mandate, which they for once aren't ignoring.
Don't forget to reread the punchline in the last sentence too ;)
I've left Gmail and Google Apps (with my domain) long ago.
If you need to pay anyway and are looking for email I recommend Microsoft Exchange Online. They're doing a shit job in marketing it, but $4 a month for Exchange email with immediate push to iPhone/iPad etc, good anti spam filtering and no Google profile building is worth it for me.
Apple TV is a hardware device that connects to your TV, Apple TV+ is a streaming video service
> Understanding no one cares about how I live my life .

I don’t think no one cares. In fact, I think there are many people who care too much.

However I agree, that is not something you should worry about. Even if I still struggle with it myself often, it’s been freeing to enjoy myself without putting too much weight in what strangers will think of me.
CCC – Covid, conspiracy or chaos theory
Scrappily - any way I can, whether that's content marketing (my preferred means), commenting on forums, twitter, facebook, broadcasting my domain URL via my phone's hotspot, merch/stickers, etc.

I'd recommend the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg for ideas.
I think GoDaddy's one is used by a lot of sites?
OK, this is annoying but it looks like there's a combination of features that allows me to continue using my domain as an alias for my @gmail.com account, including being able to send mail using the alias:

1. Email forwarding: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3251241?authuser=1...

2. Send as alias: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?authuser=1

I think this will actually end up being a better set up for my usage than GAFYD was.
No, I get that. I get how you can reasonably argue about that feature. I don't get how you can argue that feature suggests we shouldn't stop SSL stripping at all.
Whilst this is good, as long as it is an option and the user still has the choice to have the original language with subtitles then great. Many enjoy films in other languages they don't fully understand for many reasons, learning the language, nuance of the language and tonality, many things. After all, a Shakespeare love scene in Klingon is just not going to cut the ambience like many other languages.

But one thing that bugs me, why is it that even today - we have to have programs with a hard-overlay of sign language interpreter in a you have it if you want it or not and the selection is limited. For those who depend upon such sign language, wouldn't it be great if they could watch anything and some AI would do the sign language for them. You would of thought that such a task would be easy, and the market is there but yet, it seems to elude us.

So my hope is that whilst this is useful, it may well open up avenues like the above in which these tools can be leveraged in more practical ways for a group of users who in effect have what they can and can not enjoy, somewhat overly limited as they are at the mercy and whims of the broadcasters who in many instances, only do them to quota tick some regulation put in place to at least not totally shut out a group of people who can't hear at all.
I can only understand things through examples, so: what was the most important connection you were able to see through Zettelkasten which you didnt otherwise?
Calories are not just calories. They're a useful rule of thumb but they're not a metric to live and die by.

Always remember that calorimetry is basically burning mass(nut) and measuring energy(nut) by how much it increased the temperature of some water.

Combustion is an extremely primitive hand wave over the VERY COMPLEX digestive system not to mention how we then go on to store that energy (glycogen vs fat) and then eventually burn that energy.

Drinking x ml of olive oil vs eating y g of nuts for equal calories will have different outcomes even though they're primarily both fats. Fiber is key and will affect energy absorption intake. Even chewing efficiency will affect how well you absorb that energy. Let's not forget that digestion itself takes energy.

Obviously if you eat an extra 2kcal of nuts a day you're going to see the effects of that, but calorie for calorie, I'd rather eat nuts than a big mac or ice cream (and expect to see less weight gain)

Or being healthy - I'd rather have whole almonds supplementing my meals than cottage cheese (from a pure calories perspective)
If we mitigate climate change, it will be through carbon pricing. So I support that. Mostly by giving time and money to [https://citizensclimatelobby.org/], as I think their laser focus on passing a Carbon Fee & Dividend is clearly the best plan.
This is great! I tried "chicken burgers for aliens"* and it came up with some fantastic options.

* not currently a real business plan
Takeout is a terriffic service, but not a great way of doing this. It will actually create additional work. When you set up the new microsoft account you can simply migrate all calendars, contacts and mail as part of the setup. [1]

A lot of people are talking about entitlement and saying how people shouldn't complain when free stuff goes away. I think those people are missing the point. Google is an incredibly profitable company and it would cost them almost nothing to continue to offer this service. By choosing not to, they piss people off (rightly or wrongly) and won't make much of anything in return. We can speculate about how they got to a place where maintaining this service was painful enough to justify doing that, but from the outside it seems like a poor decision that is hostile to users and antithetical to how they used to do things. That plays into the narrative that this ain't your mamma's google any more and something cool about the 2000s spirit has passed away.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/import-gmail-to-o...
Highly likely.

I've also spent a year or two consistently writing about React and building an audience, and the service can monitor React apps too.
Germany’s Pivot from America
Hmm… Is there a good way to export all the email across all the accounts and move it to another more sanely priced service?

I have been using this since it was “gmail for your domain” and have a number of old addresses I’d like to keep for history but am unwilling to pay $6 a month for, not to mention many friends having long neglected addresses I’m sure they’d like to keep.
Mainly content marketing.
It's really amusing to watch rich, well-heeled people who know how the money system works believe they can be given a pass just by handing over a few more electronic blips back to a system that can never run short of electronic blips.

No nation needs the tax money of the rich, because the rich are not hiring the people the public sector wants to hire. It's the people that are doing the hiring, and competition for resources with the public sector that need to be taxed. The only operational purpose of taxation is to free up real resources so the public sector can hire them.

Count your money billionaires. We don't need your electronic blips, and we certainly are not going to assuage your guilt for failing to invest in the future.

We also know how the government's credit card works. https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-governments-super-plati...
It absolutely does not usually mean that, there are a ton of finance VPs that nobody would ever let sign anything meaningful without someone up the chain reviewing it. There are also tons of people who sign contracts for companies who are not VPs. There are companies where VP is really just about comp; all jobs above $x/year are some flavor of VP, even ICs.

It doesn't have to always be self-aggrandizing for it to be true that lots of people are now called VP who used to just be middle-managers.
Today I learned that python, javascript and php are statically typed languages.
Estimated Probability of Incarceration
Reducing inflation by raising interest rates makes money more expensive, which hurts those that need to borrow it and benefits those that can lend it. Higher rates also make assets cheaper to buy as less leverage can be brought to bear in bidding. Anyways, the fed should have raised rates when the economy was good (and not just good because money was cheaper), so they could reduce them when the economy was bad. These days, we are all just addicted to cheap money and all fiscal discipline has been thrown out the window (cut rates in bad times and good!).