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Agreed, history is very problematic, it can and does create false dichotomies.

My comment and your reply provide an excellent example of why it's so difficult to post an adequate reply in short HN posts (see my detailed reply to anm89 in response to a similar issue).

No doubt, self sacrifice can end up being noble in circumstances where such action contributes to an overall better outcome but that's not the general case with WWI. (Please, I know that statement is grossly inadequate and that in specific 'local' instances it's not even correct—given that many of those soldiers who made such hugely noble sacrifices did so in order to directly benefited their buddies—not the nation state that actually sent them to war – however that explanation will have to suffice for now.)

Whether Owen fully realized it or not, the reason why his poem is so often associated with the negative aspects of Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is that in the real political context of the First World War it is an undisputed lie.

At the time, if the average soldier, French, German, English, US etc., etc. had been fully informed of the actual reasons for the start of said war—the horribly degenerate state of the underlying politics of the nation sates involved, the pathetically inept and inbred thinking of both English and European monarchies—just to mention a few, then these soldiers would likely have walked away from those hellish battlefields and left the fighting to the protagonists who actually stated the war.

In short, millions of lives were lost unnecessarily over inept and faulty reasoning and the many 'petty' squabbles that occurred at both domestic political levels and similarly with international politics wherein diplomacy failed most spectacularly with enormously disastrous and tragic consequences for just about everybody. Moreover, many of these issues were never fully resolved let alone properly handled at war's end—Versailles and all that—which, in the end, led to WWII and even many more millions of unnecessary deaths.

If ever there were a war to make Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori the ultimate lie then the First World War has to be its quintessential example (it's why I selected it as the example).
This is very true, and important context.

One minor nit: the Sinn Fein revoicing was done by the BBC, but not for that reason. The government had required them not to broadcast SF and IRA 'propaganda' and the revoicing was a way to get around that ban. Thatcher was, apparently, livid.
This is the norm in many places in Europe and elsewhere. 6 year olds walking to school by themselves and crossing multiple roads on the way.

America is a bit different. It is also built completely differently when it comes to car-oriented infrastructure.
Calories, grit, carats (for diamonds), Beaufort, viscocity is of ten boven in cP, grit (based on inches), dernier, rpm, dpi, lightyears, and of course km/hr. Plenty of non-SI units in use
At the same time? Be careful of burns.
I've noticed this in the educational sector. It's technically not that hard to produce good software for it.

It has mainly settled at a local maximum.
The software is good enough, money is tight, the priorities are different and procedures are bureaucratic.

Switching to new and better software means, first making it a priority.
The procedure for larger schools also mean getting legal on board, writing an invitation to tender, etc.
Wait, how do we get the Fermi bubbles without a period of active galactic centre? Or do you mean that there's been no large scale jets from our SMBH?
I have two young kids, one is in the early toddler years so we get plenty of early wake ups and other night disruptions

When I wake up, my brain is immediately on — feels like a light bulb.

I think this is partially because my life is otherwise not very stimulating (due to COVID and dead-of-winter) but also because I go to bed early.

Every night asleep between 10-1030. Wake up around 530. Last meal was at 6pm (and no snacks after). No caffeine so my default is the same state I enjoy all day.

Morning run after I drop the older kid off at school, sometimes defer to lunch (depends on how icy it is outside). This is every week day. Settle down for work shortly after that. Work through most of the day, breaking up as I need. Sometimes will catch up in the evening after kids are in bed but I try not to as it can lead to burnout

I feel I get sufficient rest while giving decent inputs to my brain, so it doesn’t have that morning grog.
> You know it's wrong

not quite wrong. Maybe not the most secure way. It worked and saved my life when password need to be changed, needed to get a more secure pattern, got lost and so on.

> Do you think that asking questions here will have an effect on how you see your current workflow?

Hmmm. Good feedback. My workflow gets disturbed by Github and Bitbucket, so I have to change it. I just try to learn from the community how to handle this requirements. Every developer has to find a way to handle secrets and it is not universally solved yet what is the best way. And additionally it changes from time to time.
> actually keeping something alive (let alone building new features or making those features work) takes more and more man hours.

And the people who made the brittle architectural decisions aren't the ones suffering the fallout increasingly often; with companies shunning internal promotions and substantial raises, more and more developers turn into nomads who switch companies every other year just to keep up with inflation. They rarely if ever get a chance anymore to grow with a single codebase and learn what makes it stable and easy to iterate on long term.
It seems (am I doing something wrong?) that I cannot find a timezone by simply using the keyboard and incremental searching (that should focus on the part efter the slash). Instead I have to use the mouse to select from a long, long, long drop-down list of possible timezones. For every team member.
I've been doing a Japanese Wordle for the past few days and enjoy it very much! There's three of them, but the first two in the list have 5 characters which I thought was extremely difficult. The last one (言葉で遊ぼう[0]) has only 4 characters, and since there are (I feel like) many more common words with 4 characters, it instantly became much easier for me and I was able to solve all of them so far. (You do get 12 tries as well since there are way more characters than in the Latin alphabet.)

[0]: https://taximanli.github.io/kotobaasobou/
> Steve Jobs that cares about whether things actually work

Did he? at least according to my experience Apple cared about the looks of things and not whether they actually work flawlessly.
> The directory list view keeps "losing" the position at which I am, so every time I share a photo, I have to scroll down to where I left (in a directory with 5000 pictures)

It was not tested with that large folders.
"Apply" sounds like a more correct word, then: "I wrote a script to automatically apply 100s of Grammarly corrections"
A bit of ridiculous goes a loooong way. Embrace the weird and fun.
Wayflyer becomes latest Irish tech unicorn after $150m fundraise
Don’t worry, I’m sure NYT will have it up to a proper 10 MiB in a month. They need metrics so that they can improve the UX, and of course trackers so that your ads can be personalized to the ads you like to see. It will be enterprise scale Wordle in no time.
You could argue if incest is morally bad then so is procreation when you have negative inheritable traits and know about them. It gets ugly pretty quickly from there though.
Its because of JIRA :P
Justice is the correction of evil and wrong. There are no grades of purity. It is always within reach if we act. But I agree about being honest and admitting we can't achieve justice in some situations and settle for preventing harm to others, we need to be honest about that.

The core principle you must understand is, in order to administer justice you must accept that guilty people will not have provable criminal intent most of the time and will retain their innocence. But when criminal intent is provable, all effort must be made to administer a fair punishment while allowing victims to show mercy.

Your statement about relationships makes sense, I would say establishing sociental trust is the primary step needed before establishing any rule of law that serves as the contract between the government and the people.
The creator says here

https://slate.com/culture/2022/01/wordle-game-creator-wardle...

that he built the first prototype in 2013. So it's not exactly an overnight success.

From the same article, he says the two big changes he made were that

1/ the first prototype allowed for continuous play, ie when you got one word right it immediately offered another, instead of having one word per day

2/ the list of possible 5-letter words was reduced to "common" words (you can guess using all existing words, but the words to be discovered are usual ones, not obscure words nobody ever uses).

The second element is a kind of "dumbing down" that broadens the audience, and the first one clearly has a social element to it.
10 years ago I could get up at 6am, have a workout and get back by 7:30 ready to start the day.

These days I feel so groggy in the morning that there's just no chance. After 3 cups of coffee I might feel sort of okay and awake by 11am.
>Knowing they're very far away, are we looking for them closer to home?

Not only that but they're also huge. If we were inside one we may see them as some sort of an almost uniform, isotropic field ... perhaps like cosmic background radiation?
>I moved to Europe from Northern California

Europe is not a single country but a collection of vastly different countries with different opportunities and issues. May I ask which country that is?

>almost indefinite, if you get your expenses lower than Jobseeker's allowance

That's not universally true. In some EU countries jobseeker's allowance, as the name suggests, is paid to you as long as you prove you're looking for employment, not to boot-strap your side hustle as you please, unfortunately. And to get unemployment you first need to have at least 2 years of employment, at least in Austria. You can't just show up and start cashing unemployment checks.

>our house is paid off which helps

I bet that helps. Ballooning housing costs is a major issue in Europe's biggest metro areas and most young people don't have this luxury and end up spending a significant portion of their take home pay on it, so I feel you're situation is far more priviledged than the average European.
C++ is great if you forbid the class keyword in your project. It turns into an amazing new-age language with cutting-edge concepts.
Weird headline wording suggests grammerly is wrong and this guy fixed it.
Indeed, it's harder to deliver sustained torque, than sustained power.

Stall torque = current, and there is no trick around that.
This was a game changer for me as well. Set my alarm to go to sleep, not to wake up (though i set that too in case i accidentally oversleep on an important day)

I find my body gets into a natural rythm. And 8 hours of solid sleep makes my mornings so much more productive.
I worked on Citrix-remoted VDI machines at two previous jobs. The first one was Windows 7 on dedicated hardware with some kind of a custom client on top of Citrix, and the second one was Windows 10 virtual machine (no GPU) and a WYSE terminal as a client.

Windows 10 seems to be not remotable at all due to the fact that everything is rendered in 3D space, so the only way to send data to the client is by sending bitmaps. Plus, there is added latency due to the fact that you have to cache a frame or two to optimize compression. This made it impossible to work, those dreaded delays in key presses, oh God. As I heard from a guy at the top, adding a GPU to the server helps a lot. But no corpo would do that en masse. It will for sure cause an exodus from this VDI setups in the nearest future. Maybe apart from the cheapest people in India.

I wonder if Citrix has any future at all.
For those that enjoyed the video you linked, Joe Armstrong's "The Mess We're In" talk could be interesting as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
Doug DeMuro review of the Koenigsegg Gemera 4-seater hypercar employing three of these motors in addition to a fuel engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mPmCDS66Qc
I saw this years ago and it's really appealing. I still don't understand if the thesis here is true (are things really getting worse or are we just seeing software of the past through rose tinted glasses). But it feels like we could do things much better with better incentives and if we aligned our efforts much better across the industry.

It feels like it could be a possible scenario that we otherwise end up in a situation where software in general become unmaintainable in practice.
Just when you thought the vastness of space could not get any more mind blowing, you learn about filaments and superstructures spanning billions of light years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%E2%80%93Corona_Boreal...

This one measures 10 billion light years. Now recall that 1 light year is about 10 trillion kilometers... tick, tick, tick, boom! Mind blown again.
Are those tuners full of bloatware, ads and telemetry like Samsung's or android TV's?
It is missing the Occitan (Aranese) version: https://www.jornalet.com/motamagat/
(I may create a PR tonight)
CDC (Centers for Disease Control) maybe?
I wonder what the genetic factor is for stevia, because oh boy does that taste awful. Aspartame is unpleasant, but stevia is something else entirely.

About the only diet sweeteners that taste sweet to me are xylitol and saccharin, and they're hard to find outside their niches (gum/mints and coffee sweetener). Kinda sucks tbh.
It probably goes down after that, cause you’re traveling back in time. Just a leverage from Quantum Gods, not a real investment. /jk
Horsepower is different though, you have imperial horsepower and metric horsepower (and many more). Both are not the same and neither is a round 750 watts.

For the last years I’ve mostly seen watts being used in NL, but it’s been ages since I saw a fast and furious movie or a top gear show. The car sellers use kW and often also, I assume metric, horsepower.
Yeah, but motor size might compete with other things in the limited space. If you get (say) 30L more space from making 4 motors smaller, then that's 30L you can use for batteries which is (....really bad napkin math...) perhaps around 10kWh?
Or 30L more trunk space or cabin space.

In a hypercar it's obviously even more cramped, but more importantly a smaller engine is lighter.
Working link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%E2%80%93Corona_Boreal...
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Is that ISBN 9780801868092?
I'm now writing my MUST list each morning before I get out of bed. At least 2 things (w/ the task broken into sub tasks as needed), less than 5 things

The must list has things I need to do to avoid increased stress and hassle down the line. Todoist then has my SHOULD list which would add up to the ideal day

From there the day's mostly just a checklist that needs ticking off. Easy mode if I'm feeling a bit naff, ideal list if I'm in a productive mood. It might be that psychology of choice but so far it seems to motivate me enough to know there's an easier option available

As long as the handwritten list gets done I'll be less stressed the next day and find it easier to start tomorrow. Bonus: being a written list you can rip it up when done and release some tension if they were painful tasks :)

I'm not a morning person so I do boring repetitive tasks in the morning while waiting for coffee to kick in - data entry, customer tickets, adminwork, invoices - then switch to code and systems stuff after lunch
Using Vue or React only on the frontend, via an api is a pretty good time, imo.

The interactivity is pretty hard to beat. If you were looking for this experience to also further your career, I'd say using React would be pretty hard to beat. React is still eating the JS world.

But if I were off on my own, building my own site to live off, I'd definitely see if Vue did the job. Having built complex projects with both, Vue is definitely simpler. I haven't written with Vue in a few years now, but still find React to just be much more complex.
Which in and of itself doesn't mean anything. At face value, it promotes extreme relativism, but contradicts itself. Nietzsche as the proto-edge-lord.
Start with your base assumption first, is software now worse than it used to be?
Solve the Wordle.
It's possible, and I wouldn't blame them if that's their reason. My issue with that is that they then didn't take the death threats seriously, and still put some tacit blame on the local administration.

So they willingly risked their employees lives, and after someone got killed they protect their own neck but still sort of hint their employees will continue the actions.
Use Feature Flags
> You can stick it on every laptop with just a USB stick.

Yes, I can do it, but 95% of people can't. Incidentally, about 5% of people run Linux.

> how this is related to the fact that almost no actual consumers are taking advantage of GPL code

Because the more people use the code, the more development occurs there.
I don't think people building websites explicitly think about the expected lifetime and plan for whatever specific lifetime they expect.

On the contrary, people do that a lot. Every abstraction, every 'separation of concerns', every micro service or micro-frontend, is a response to the belief that at any moment a developer might need to replace some part of the whole. Pushing content into markdown files that can be loaded with any build process that understands markdown is an attempt to be build something where the website, eg the content, can outlast the current code. Every template-driven design populated by values from an API that's loading a dictionary from a database is decoupling the pages from the code, which greatly extends the life of the website.

The website is not the code. That's just the part of it that you see. The website is the ideas, creativity, content, effort and understanding that went into defining what the code does.

Some parts of the code might change relatively quickly, but that's the nature of code. We find better ways of doing things. Browsers change. We choose to optimize for different things. That's a good thing, even if it means throwing some old code away.

It's a bit like the Ship of Thebes. Everything might have been replaced a few times, but the website is still the same website.
The problem Europe has isn't that they lack money, the problem is that all the things US tech companies do to get ahead are illegal in Europe. Out of FAANG, European regulators are decidedly against the F/G and probably have reservations about at least one of the As. I wouldn't feel off guard if it turns out Netflix were impractical in the EU due to challenges both regulatory and linguistic.
Sometimes I just start working, other times I need a cup of green tea.

I find that regular exercise help a lot in general.
Pro tip: the entire game is self-contained within the page that you download, so you can take an offline copy - you know, in case it happens to change for the worst in future...
> 5HP (3.7kW) is not enough for a two ton car, but it is plenty for a small city vehicle.

It's not enough for a car. I don't want to get pedantic about it, sure it could power a clown car or two scooters and an umbrella duct taped together.
Thats totally ungraspable for human brains, mind blowing!
Thats 10^23 kilometers, the same order of magnitude as the avogardo constant, means e.g. 14 gramms of carbon correspond to about 6.22 * 10^23 atoms of carbon, its the same magnitude to some of the larger smallest things...
I think they kept it free, had an invite system that gave invite no one ever. Tried twice then out of mind, out of sight.

Basically it seems like a gimmick or app-download-bait.
This is much better news than the idea that they would completely ban all official crypto/fiat conversions through exchanges.
Everything being revenue optimized and run by MBA people
As others have already pointed out, at large, software is much more reliable today than it used to be. But you also have more of it, some % of which is bad.
My problem wasn't so much about waking up, but what I did before going to bed; I would roll in bed for hours without getting any sleep, check my phone and think about everything.

I decided to leave my phone outside the bedroom and never taking it (no exceptions) and go to bed regularly at the same time, after a few days by body adapted and I'm having wonderful sleep again, to the point I can remember my dreams again.

All the numbness that I used to have in the mornings is gone, also I don't take any coffee or tea.
So just define your classes with struct. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good thing is, if one searches for it, one can find really good, stable, fast software from developers who care about bug reports for most tasks. It’s not always easy, it’s most time more expensive, and you’ll probably not get all those shiny features that look good on landing pages. But it exists.
Does it really help you if the engine weighs nothing when the batteries weigh a ton? Economically viable (battery powered) electric aircraft is sci-fi.
Those connotations don’t apply to the “main” branch. That’s why the new name is more intuitive - previous one was misleading.
As both a military officer and a senior JavaScript developer for a Fortune 50 company the problem, industry-wide, in this slice of software is weak leadership completely opposed to quality in institutional terms.

Institutionalized quality would include:

* Uniform minimum accepted standards of practice.

* Uniform foundations of minimum accepted product quality.

* Uniform accepted measures and metrics.

* Formal training dedicated to standards and software as a platform, not tools.

* Credentials to certify standards of practice and conformance to ethics therein.

Instead children are left to drive the bus and cry about how hard life is. Anytime this subject comes up there appears to be no adults in the room.
Not if you disable file conflict checking, as the author did.

> As we used a lot of unsafe hacks (disabling dependency and file conflict checking, for instance) to get this to actually work, I wouldn’t recommend using this system for anything other than proving it’s possible.
SI isn't being used for real in Europe either. Highway speed limits there are always in kilometers per hour, instead of the SI units of meters per second as used for spacecraft. Heh.
For me, the takeaway is pretty deep:

Other peoples world views are valid.

It's so easy and so human to criticize other people's views, filtered through my own world view. But then I'm really only criticizing own interpretation of their view.

For me, this is a lesson that almost can't be repeated enough, because I tend to slip into forgetting about it.

But good for you if you find it obvious and banal :)
References are kind of redundant when you already have pointers, and they make the performance characteristic of the code you read less clear (am I passing down a pointer, or am I copying the whole thing?).

C structs can already do most of what C++ classes can do. Including inheritance and virtual methods, when you really really need them. As for encapsulation, pointer to implementation provide a more stable, harder to cheat interface than private members. A must for stable ABIs.

C does lack generics, and I do often miss them, but templates really aren't a good solution. I don't know what a good solution looks like, I haven't looked at Zig or Rust yet.

Another thing I miss in C is a namespace system, especially when you ship libraries: makes every name longer, and you still have annoying name clashes from time to time.
Martial arts/Exercise