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The article resonated with my experience as as software developer.

At my first place, a small outsourcing shop, employees were required to log daily activities so hours per day roughly fit to 8 and 40 per week. From the beginning and unlike most of coworkers, I measured my time precisely with https://github.com/Klaster1/timer-5 and soon understood that doing 8 hours per day doesn't happen much and often involves staying late, so instead I simply adjusted the reported numbers to look plausible. In four years, I only received positive feedback on my productivity. What was the management thinking, I have no idea, just like the article says, this was a farce all around.

When I changed the company, the habit to measure productivity stuck. Nowadays, I start working somewhere at 9 and finish at 18, and result is still the same - honest 8 hours of work activity per day happen at best once a month, the average week sums to 30-34 hours. Code-related activities never take more than 3-4 hours per day, that includes both coding and reviews. I get the impression that some of my colleagues might spend more time on the job, but low productivity was never a topic of my performance reviews, management seems content with what they get.
You mean can I guess at what number you're thinking of?

With the appropriate amount of shame, no, I can not.

Please clarify your position in a legible manner if you have one.
Hidden costs? I've been in companies with their own datacenters from tiny to enormous.

The costs were very clearly spelled out and always lower that SaaS.

Why do people here think that cloud companies are charities? The cost of their hardware leasing, personnel, electricity, building management, insurance... it is all paid by the customer.

Plus a beefy profit margin. All paid by you.
Joe Rogan’s Podcast Puts Scientists on Edge with Climate Misinformation
Go ask your average Burger to read the original Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and figure out if they know how to pronounce it. Ask the same of a Dutchman and Van Den Vos Reynaerde, or any other people and their ancient texts, barring perhaps Icelandic people.
Patel orders extradition of Mike Lynch to US over 2011 Autonomy deal
https://archive.is/tabtE
They did know how to pronounce letters of their alphabet, though. "O-micron", as opposed to "O-mega".
If Google succeeds in making the whole web Amp, they won't need FLoC anyway.
Look, you're arguing by vague feeling and handwaving there, not by calculation. If you actually look at the numbers, solar's going to be cheaper than nuclear here. The shipping argument is obviously wrong if you think about it even a little.

I think you need to step back and ask yourself why you're allowing yourself to make such silly statements. You look like a person defending an irrational prejudice.
This is kind of orthogonal to what you guys are discussing, but I want a blog where new posts (and essays) can be drawn from a library of structured templates. Starting with the basic types in DITA, and then taking it forward. Extending tasks to recipes, for example. And an outline for product reviews. And outlines for (e.g.) software use cases and software requirements specs. And with templates having available all the microformats that the cool kids use.

Pardon my babble :)
Show HN: Criew - A place to share and review different types of contents
LOL
A full OS including webserver embedded in every PC's firmware.
A good example of it looking simple but having annoying corner cases.

The content type MUST be: application/openmetrics-text; version=1.0.0; charset=utf-8
People don’t watch only broadcast shows, there’re movies, streaming, gaming, set of box, etc… anyway you should ask this to the marketing managers =]
Mining Python fix patterns via analyzing fine-grained source code changes
Yes, we start to see improvement, but then that plateaus. To get back to a preindustrial state would take a very long time, as I understand it.
Actually, they are not that hard to kill if you know them well.
‘Pandemic vs. endemic’ sets up two conflicting Covid endgames
A Rust implementation will be highly valued!
https://kompose.io/
That's a meaningless tautology — a recursive definition.

> If you are cis, then you know what gender identity feels like.

I think that, near universally, we do not. I don't feel my gender; there is no frame of reference against which I could possibly correlate my subjective and entirely internal mental experience against some normative model of what it "feels" like to either be male or female, much less your tautological definition of "man" or "woman".
I share the same opinion. While perhaps more brittle, it’s also immediately apparent
for fun try https://www.hetzner.com/sb

Their prices have spiked because of electricity costs, the entry level used to be around 20 euros. They come with 1Gbit
The number of people conflating the high degree of skills and traits required to be a successful professional software engineer with the basic computer literacy and "hold my beer" ingenuity of day to day "citizen development" of Excel macros, RAD tools, and browser boommarklets is infuriating.

If you are one of those people: stop right now and go watch someone build something PowerApp or Appian.

Here's a good representative videos, feel free to watch at 2x speed, the details are unimportant.

https://youtu.be/s6-C2xismq4

And then read the comments on that video.

THAT is who this article is talking about; THOSE are citizen developers.

They are not learning Python or Go or recursion or symbolic logic. They are not on StackOverflow or Dev.To, they're not contributing on GitHub, they're not applying for Staff Engineer or even entry level web dev positions.

And they’re self-servicing precisely because anyone who knows how to code like a professional is working on way harder technical problems.

A Michelin chef makes thousands of meals a week, but they can't feed the world.

So we have cookbooks and air fryers and microwaves and ready to eat meals and yes they’re unhealthy or taste like cardboard or whatever but they fill the need.

Nobody is insisting everyone's food be made by Beard winners; but somehow they can't make the same leap that people can develop computer-aided solutions to their business problems without being Alan Turing.

And the "revolution" is just that automation of the middleware required to support these kind of folks - APIs, IaC, data catalogs - is reaching critical mass.

The available ingredients for the "cookbook" are better, and so the possible recipes are better.

Sprinkle in a little AI (think Clippy on steroids) and the home "cook" can make a satisfying enough meal.

Will they work at FAANG or build the next one? No? Who cares...?
Nim is a better fit for scientific computing. Reason being excellent C interfacing and easy to learn syntax. Fast, lean executable and compile time is a factor too. There is a community page with available projects https://github.com/SciNim
2 3 hour long windows in a day? That’s impressive. Most weeks I can fit one of those in. Workings consultancy is not the best for focus work.
Yes, basically if I could peek into your activity for a day it would be awesome (I'm not asking that, although I would like it :P :)). I'm just curious of what a day's work looks like.
did not know that. don't you need to use a new os for that? while this works on all desktop firefox machines, agreed not as secure and sandboxed but still
> No harm was done.

ever considered the stress you induced in the sales guy?
> You should take every advantage you can get.

If you want to be consistent with this attitude, you should answer "I've seen this question before" always when you see a question that is too difficult for you to answer.
>Although leaving out messaging and leaving in both int and Integer

Both are great choices... from performance point of view. Java is still modeled after plain C 1st and foremost. int should be the default and Integer(and Long) should be avoided. Up to java1.5, it took a manual operation (Integer.valueOf/intValue) to convert, so it was not abused as much. Marked integers have been in the works and they take a significant engineering effort for a nice to have feature.

When collection framework was introduced, it should have had primitive Maps/Lists - there was a regret (around java8 times) not including them initially - Streams attempted to amend the damage. The primitive types map directly to the hardware. Wrapped ones - they are pointer to an immutatable primitive and enjoy little optimization from the JIT.

As for swing, beans and properties - I'd say Delphi would have the most similarities.
Html2karax First Release
Deploy Matlab via Azure Functions
This was always accounted for in Tor's threat model. That's why you take many different circuits depending on what location you're trying to reach.

That's also why for the highest security needs VPN+Tor is a recommendation. Although to be fair i personally believe if an actor is powerful enough to perform traffic analysis across the Tor network, they're probably powerful enough to correlate your computer activity with the VPN<->tor link.

Networks that resist metadata analysis are called mixnets and there's some interesting research about them. The downsides are you add latency (because each hop needs to randomize sleep) so bidirectional sessions like TCP is unthinkable. So nothing as usable as Tor Browser for checking your webmail or reading a blog.
You’re not alone… I would start by removing all the notifications and subscriptions that aren’t indispensable. But there’s no cut off solutions, you can only start by reduce the stimulus by removing apps, leave the phone locked/at home/etc..
But don’t use drastic solutions, they will work only at the beginning, then you will fall again.
The point is that the water we inject into the atmosphere does not accumulate in the atmosphere. Once that water rains out it's in that enormous bucket that is the oceans (and to a lesser extent fresh water and ice), and the effect is gone. Emission of CO2, on the other hand, perturbs atmospheric CO2 level for a much longer time -- the reservoirs at the surface it's in intimate contact with are much smaller and more easily saturated.
Work is not work. That’s a single data point. I can mention few cases I experienced: student learning last week for exam. 100 hours week is nothing unusual here. Of course it’s not sustainable and does not take longer than few weeks. PhD student writing paper for most important conference of the year - 80 hours week. Working for your own startup 60 hour a week is imho absolutely normal. These are cases for personal gain. Now let’s talk about salaried jobs when one gets paid for sitting in the office or be green in Teams all day. And that’s the case where 10 hours each week of actual work is absolutely sufficient. I am pretty sure that productive hours are proportional to gain. Why should I do 50 hours a week for the Big Corp when my salary will be exactly the same as after productive 15 hours weekly!? There are individuals, that like what they do, so they enjoy daily tasks and are productive closer to 40 hours weekly. Luckily I know few such people, they are very inspiring.
No, that would be old news. I was never, ever the guy to pick up my phone aimlessly. It was always to a) swipe away the bullshit, and b) do the important thing. I don't think I am in any way affected by the dopey loops the news pull on you. In fact, I check out news when I overhear something or when there is no development for weeks on an issue that directly affects me. Never otherwise.

I don't own a TV since 1999 at least.
Karax [1] being Nim's SPA framework that also supports server side rendering.

[1]: https://github.com/karaxnim/karax
People don't understand what to call work, some include all of the dependancies others think those are just free. For me to work 8h means I'm generally working towards some goal, this includes getting a coffee and resting.
PIN number of iPhone are stored within the Apple hardware security alcove and are not readable.
EROEI of renewables is just fine and is not an argument for nuclear over renewables.

I get the feeling you're reading from a list of debunked pro-nuclear talking points.
If they have the technology to deactivate the device before sale. That same technology can be used to deactivate the device post sale.

I would want more technical details on how this is actually working
We're still on 1.7.x and using TSM (not TSI), because we've found that to work well enough for the time being. Haven't tried 2.x yet because the investment needed to properly benchmark and upgrade would probably be around a week at our scale, and there are just more pressing things to do.

To be fair, we still haven't paid you guys a dime so I can't complain. But if you're interested in hearing my thoughts I can email you after next week's holiday.
The article does not mention Rogan.

https://archive.is/20220129110802/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Nature on Trial: The Case of the Rooster That Laid an Egg
Seeing how HN handles potential spam and spammers, I can see why he would think that Twitter don't care... I think that Twitter just want to give more freedom to their users.

HN doesn't mind false positives.
I am implying he/she/whoever may be a minor attracted person and he knows is a bad thing, and needs to hide his true identity under a newly created account to slap me in face with it was fine to have sex with seven year old kids in Delaware in 1895. Why would anyone post with a random fresh account a link to Wikipedia? Why? Why do you need to hide when you are posting a link to a fact? Why do you need to hide when expressing your opinions?

Now to reply the post, just because 100 years ago was legal it doesn't mean it was normal or moral. The post is more enforcing in the same direction - legal in ancient Japan, legal in modern Delaware. I am waiting for more examples of legal pedophilia.
This is FUD. Neither Chrome nor Firefox are any good for *security*, as they both regularly get pwned at every hacking contest there is. Tor Browser is a different beast, because although it's based on Firefox, its attack surface is infinitely smaller than that of Firefox.

When running in Safest mode, it's essentially just rendering HTML/CSS/images: anything that involves convoluted decoding (video, webfonts, scripts) is disabled. Treating your web browser as an environment for declarative pages is best practice for security: no matter how many layers of sandboxing you'll use, people will find holes.

So apart from a few bypasses like the parent comment explained, TBB is decades ahead any other browser's security level out there (except for your favorite CLI browser over Tor which has roughly the same properties).
Yes, we do not really know what was the norm in Aman.

The Kinslaying was considered a great crime, though, which indicates that the murdered Teleri could not be just simply brought back to life en masse.
> What is even your point? Nobody really knows just how it was actually pronounced, so we rely on standardized reconstructions.

I imagine that ancient pronunciation can sometimes be induced from things like poetry.

> something tells me that’s not the reason your teacher taught you that way.

I imagine he taught it to me that way because that's how he learned it. I don't know how far down the turtles go, but this was at a school that has traditionally emphasized classics; all the teachers pronounced it that way, including those teaching science and maths. The BBC variant jars, because I have never heard it pronounced their way until this damned virus cropped up.
Malicious app on Google Play drops banking malware on users’ devices
Maybe I'm being downvoted for insufficient examples? OK, here's a big one:

OpenMetrics's production rule for the format says:

labels = "{" [label *(COMMA label)] "}"

And yet, the Prometheus Java client library exports a trailing comma with no subsequent label.

As for fp, I've seen parsers break on `e` v. `E`, and `NaN`/`Inf`/ vs. `nan`/`inf`. The latest IETF draft even has a comment,

; Not 100% sure this captures all float corner cases.

Control characters are allowed in descriptors and label values and no normalization form is specified.
I know servers are supposed to be "cattle" but I can't get away from the feeling that having at least a part of the name being somewhat sentimental is a nice thing. The default naming scheme for many containers, for example, will combine an adjective and a noun to create a unique name. I myself wrote a pretty silly script once that randomly returned the name of a British or German naval warship. It seems to me that "formalized" naming doesn't have to be exclusive with sentimentality, you can just add it at the end, like:

geotag-srvtype[#]-prod-[pokemon_name_or_whatever]

That way, if your environment is completely fluid, it becomes obvious when a node has re-deployed, and if it's not, you can just re-use the old name when re-deploying instead of generating a new one.

You can of course include hash-looking things in hostnames as well, but I'm a strong believer that hashes are for computers, not for humans to read (most of the time).
I work on it on and off. Sometimes I'll work on it full time for a few days, and sometimes I'll leave it untouched for months. I started it in late 2019, IIRC.
I wish Spotify removed podcasts, at least the public ones. They do not add anything: you can already listen to them for free with a different app devoted to that.
I have been using Overcast since forever and I'm happy with it, but Spotify is trying to shove podcasts down my throat because that's what they do, even if I'm paying for their service. Is it that difficult to have an app for music and another one for podcasts? What's next? Will Spotify also have movies, books? I just want to listen to music.
Spotify: if you're around, please have a switch to hide all podcasts.
The pandemic enabled me to work 3 full time jobs as a software dev 12h a day and I'm making tons of cash and I love it. Burned down a little but I have ways to keep that under control.
Yeah it turns out to be a mess, but it sometimes gets businesses off the ground. It’s crazy to think how much of the world’s software really consists of spreadsheets and macros.

Would you rather have a lot of businesses operating successfully with “poor” software or much fewer businesses operating with “good” software?
Image that you can implement LoRa using GNUradio but you will exposing yourself to litigation. That's very problematic IMHO
> I can't read Greek but I've always heard that it's quite a bit harder than Latin

I actually found ancient Greek (most from Herodotos' time as that was my exam subject) actually much easier than Latin, but that might have more to do with my interest in everything around the language like the stories, culture and lifestyle. So maybe it's just a personal preference. If you ignore the different letterings sometimes used it's not even that bad. Fortunately all textbooks are in the Ionic writing scheme (and sometimes adapted to suit students more) so no sudden digamma's or other dialects.
There are some tools, I think the reason they will never become widespread or high quality is that voice is just not a great medium for conveying that type of info in the first place.
If I type a sentence and then decide to make a correction it is very difficult to explain in words but very quick to click and retype. If I want to position my window somewhere, I wouldn't even want to start thinking about how to explain it, I would just click and drag. And so on and so forth.
This limits any potential markets for such tools greatly, so there is little economic incentive to develop them into anything truly high quality.
I would say go for therapy given you seem to be in an advanced stage of addiction.
Don’t pretend like you don’t know what ad-supported means.

I’ll explain it with a hypothetical example. Imagine a website called “Hacker News” where it is free to post and read and in exchange you see a few ads. Don’t now say that this HN website actually costs you something to use.
Emacs has TAGS-based completion (basically completing known symbols in a project) and you can use M-x compile to navigate the output of a command that generates warnings and error messages. It is not the same workflow as other popular editors, but has it's advantages too.
Space-based solar power beckons as a new frontier for humanity
There are definitely people who can work and focus for 8+ hours a day. I can think of my dentist and family doctor. Waiting room is full from morning to evening.

Some of my colleagues work hard. I can see their screen in the open space. They are machines. Never a distraction on the screen.

The article should be "some people don't work so much, I'm one of them".
While PDFs can contain malware and for some reason people trust hosts with domain names more than bare IPs, the sole reason Firefox showed the warning was because you attempted to download a file via HTTP from a HTTPS page - it had nothing to do with the file type or bare IP.

The reason for that is browsers already have some methods of differentiating between HTTP and HTTPS when displaying web pages, but not for downloads. So folks at Mozilla decided to implement a feature that warns the user in this specific situation. Personally I disabled this feature (block_download_insecure in about:config) but for the majority of the population it might be a good thing.
Yeah, that is why I said "manage via F-Droid". The implication is that F-Droid (the app) is responsible for updating your application, not some background service bundled in Signal itself.
> Friends dropping by unannounced.

This still seems to be a thing in contemporary TV shows.
Reading this brings back childhood memories of reading Two Centuries of Warfare (Chant, Holmes, and Koenig). I think this is why I've always both been attracted to and deeply disappointed by RTS games. The resource gathering, materiel production, troop mobilisation, and supply aspects don't live up to the (perhaps unfairly expected) promise inherent in the name.

https://www.biblio.com/book/two-centuries-warfare-christophe...
Honestly it depends. Work can means a few different things. I doubt a farmer is working less than what he says. When Musk says he works 100h a week, that's probably even less than the reality, he is probably working 7*(24 - 7hour sleep) per week.

Not all work needs 100% focus. When you are CEO and you go in the kitchen and you smalltalk with employees, is it work or not work ? Imagine if the CEO didn't do it, people would say the CEO is not talking with employees.

But if the question is : Do people lie ? Yeah of course, like for any other subject
I do not remember where I read it, but looking at it from the outside, I always have to think back on the quote:
"Republicans don't like people who are different and want them to be somewhere else. Democrats don't like people who are different and want them to be someone else."
Kirigami Robotic Grippers Are Delicate Enough to Lift Egg Yolks
Secretary? I’m not really talking about an organization, I’m talking about an individual.

A few hours of training is reasonable enough, I suppose?

Seems like it might be simpler to just have whoever is responsible be liable for any problems that could arise from not keeping the list secure? I guess maybe an issue issue with that is that it would be hard to track down all the harms that actually occurred as a result of letting the list fall into the wrong hands, and also hard to even get a good estimate.
Yes, that is my understanding; they are "little-o" and "big-o".

But then why isn't the latter pronounced "oh-MEG-er"?
Opening scene in a horror flic: "The bioreactor device triggered very complex downstream outcomes that bioengineers cannot yet micromanage directly."
> Glue a nightly trigger to AWS Lambda

You are forgetting the future cost of losing knowledge and control over your infrastructure.