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> You can't just compare Fallujah and Grozny.

That's a fair statement. Depleted Uranium is a gift that keeps on giving.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-depleted-uranium-as-ma_b_3...

https://www.nuclear-risks.org/en/hibakusha-worldwide/falluja...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Iraqi_populat...
Sometimes, but you'd be amazed at how much documentation there is on meditation.
In Clojure you can use JavaFX through cljfx

https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx/

I haven't used React, but I think it's very similar. You have a state atom and then a datastructure that represents the GUI and associated callbacks that modify the atom. So it ends up feeling very functional. It doesn't use hiccup, but it's a similar structure. I've got to say it was fantastic. The least painful GUI programming I've ever done. The core architecture isn't opinionated so there is a little boilerplate/plumbing to setup but then it's very smooth sailing. It even has a very handy memoization structure that allows you to seamlessly have intermediary derived states that update automatically. I release an app using it and it was very performant, used some Java CV libs and drew diagrams to the canvas and it was all very snappy.

My only minor complaint was that the final bundle was like 150MB, which given the scope of the app seemed a bit gross - but it's manageable. And as usual, buy default, the JVM gobbles up and doesn't release memory back to the OS which is annoying. But i think it's surmountable and In theory you could trim that all further with GraalVM. Just out of the box it's not the best for little hello-world apps
Let's not exclude Runescape, when it was a java applet back in the early 2000's.
You say tomayto, I say tomahto.
It's not just about experience as an individual though, Google has hordes of arcane institutional knowledge about it's own platforms to maintain, like any large organization. Even if they were replacing everyone with senior devs and not juniors, you'd still be losing little bits of that each time someone left.

You see it at institutions, hundreds of individual "low bus factor" risks spread throughout the organization. The company would survive, but it would be a tough time, and a terrible place to work, during a large knowledge exodus.
"If you can find a worthy meditation teacher - that may be a valid route too, but the lack of professional qualifications makes it difficult to estimate the authority of such a person."

Vipassana teachers do at least have some guaranteed qualification, and there are schools right around the world. Despite being a 'silent' practice you can speak to the teacher at the middle and end of the day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vipassana/comments/agaqbo/what_is_t...
Engineering is well over 20% of Google staff, so the point stands, and isn't the only org to allow remote work.
Yes, and, RV32 is 32-bit, and although addresses access bytes, generally, the hw I've seen fetches at least a word at a time. Such a word may be 2 packed instructions, true. But I still see no advantage putting the opcode in the low-order bits.

Now, there is a bit-serial implementation of RV32I, which may indeed benefit from this bit ordering. However, optimizing for an unusual hardware approach (bit-serial) seems sub-optimal.

In other words, I would hope there would be some demonstrable benefit to putting the opcode in the low-order bits when memory fetches are at least 32-bits wide in even the simplest machines.
What server-side framework did you use for the request/response rewrite?
The article states that was a UK officer, and not the US.
I'm sure there's got to be more to it than this. The intro was too obviously mapable to a relational database using foreign keys and associative tables. Look forward to a post getting deeper into EdgeQL.
> This seems rational until you are actually responsible for managing a large organization.

This reads like an argument against single management for large organizations. If you need to fit thousands of square pegs into holes, perhaps it's not the best approach in the first place.
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I know. But SWEs and SREs account for way more than 20% of employees, so even if you just look at them the "only 20%" figure is clearly wrong.
> Only the horribly uninformed would ever make such a bad faith argument.

Nevertheless, it's one that I've heard repeated quite often.
Anecdotally there is a trend towards entropy and complacency on remote teams within big tech companies.

In Big Tech, there are innumerable hard blockers that exist for reasons that almost all parties would think are stupid. Forward progress typically requires consensus or permission from potentially dozens of teams. In many cases the company doesn't view rocking the boat on a profitable product to be beneficial.

To at least some extent, when you are in the office there is at least some push for folks to find a way forward - while remote there is a strong trend towards the "tune out" option.
But is a job just an exchange of labor for payment? I view it as so much more. Even if we look at it from a job perspective, its also an opportunity to build personal connections between team members; "I owe you one" - goes a long way. Yes you can absolutely build these personal connections online, and it may be easier for introverted people, but I would say for most people a handshake or a smile passing down the hallway or a 'cool jacket', or someone fixing a bug and rushing to tell their co-workers, and other organic interactions are very hard to replicate online.
I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like that piece of legislation was specifically for DHS, DoJ, and FBI - not DoD or DA.
In my experience, SWE -> PM ladder transfers are very unusual.
It depends. For some things, yes. For others, no. This is the best book ever on Risc-V (I think): https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Reader-Open-Architecture-Atlas... and they directly compare arm, x86, and risc-v to each other. As you'll see, "it depends".
Might as well say entire Brits prop teflon PM to kill Libyans and Syrians. Let's be honest here, you just don't assign guilt simply by association. Hitler did that. We all are better than that.
CDC Suggests some people should wait longer for 2nd Covid shot
> But as a counter-point, seeing a whole bunch of people who were never remote before, how little work they are actually doing, it is no surprise to me that a lot of employers are going to start forcing - to the extent possible - employees back into the office.

It happens if your company, originally on site, suddenly become remote. Nobody knows how to do remote works.

My manager is one of them. I am slacking because there is literally no tasks (no tasks given from him). Also same when in the office, but he has a habit of initiating small talk and assign / proceed tasks there, which isn't possible in remote world.

Changing at how you work remote is crucial at maintaining productivity.
I came here to say this but instead I am upvoting this. Pyinstaller is awesome.

Another thing to add, if you use run pyinstaller in docker with an old base image and copy the executable out, you can make a pyinstaller executable that will run on a vast range of machines due to runtime backward compatibility. I have single executable python apps that run fine on redhat, debian, ubuntu and suse.
Same here haha!
Corporate espionage? Really, just dump exposed kit and revoke trusted certs and 99% of "easy" attacks go away.

Frankly to have any trust Nvidia is probably going to pay for an audit to reduce scope of future exploits based on people analyzing the code. Remember Linux is oss just because the code is out there doesn't mean just anyone can walk in and find a zero-day...
You should've budgeted some time to see the sights on the weekend, at least! My company is usually fine with letting me stay somewhere over a weekend or two on business trips.
Not a new thing by any stretch, though maybe more widespread these days as more people have the money to quit work and don't need to actually earn money as farmers. Back in the pre-Obama era, one of my girlfriends moved to California for grad school from the Pennsylvania Amish country, where her dad was a former electrical engineer who decided he hated it and would rather be a farmer. His was the only non-Amish farm in the county, but he used his engineering skills to run the entire operation on waste vegetable oil, disconnected from the grid, and he obtained all of his fuel for free from the Philadelphia restaurants he sold his vegetables to. I still remember and envy staying there for a week, the way he threw away no food, instead collecting all waste and giving it to his chickens, and they in turn gave him fresh eggs every day. Having that kind of symbiotic relationship with animals seemed almost magical. I love my cats, but all they do is consume and make messes for me to clean up. He had cats too, but they spent all day in the woods, slept in his barn, and killed all of the mice for him!
Basically every post-release review for the PC version mentions stuttering and performance issues. They aren't affecting everyone but they are widespread enough that Bandai Namco have apologised and said they're going to work on a patch.

Clearly you aren't having issues, it does seem to be hardware dependent, but for me and many, many others it's the first game I've played in a while to be so buggy at release (though I didn't play Cyberpunk). I've never had a game crash my PS4 or PS5 like this game does, and quite a lot of people are reporting the same.

However the general consensus is clearly that the PC version has serious performance issues for many people. PS5 certainly doesn't seem to have performance issues but it is crashing the entire console for me and others so that's hardly better.

I'm not even saying it's a bad game. It might be great. I just can't get far enough to tell because the game crashes my console.
> can easily bypass SWIFT restrictions and transact with the affected Russian banks directly

“Easily” is the squishy bit here. If they’re settling in dollars, probably not, unless someone’s carting around paper dollars. (This has been done.)

If they’re settling in rubles or yuan, for most definitions of “easily,” yes.
I’m not sure I understand why we would want to put things back into the carbon cycle? Isn’t the problem that we have to much gaseous carbon out there at the moment? Wouldn’t it be better to sequester the excess carbon in some way?
I use archivebox(Django-based) for keeping offline copies (which uses SingleFile and few other libs in backend)
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/
Note that you can trim about 1/3 of that video by using an online GIF compressor such as https://www.freeconvert.com/gif-compressor (no affiliation).
I'd prefer to work an environment where I can't get interrupted synchronously by someone wanting their problem resolved that moment.

Also, one thing with those in person interactions is you have no artifact of the interaction. Slack or tickets are great for documenting how decisions are made.

But ultimately, I have no desire to waste an extra 5 to 10 hours of my life just driving back and forth to sit at a different computer.

I do think it's great to meet your coworkers so they're more than faces in Zoom, but I am absolutely never going back to rotting away in a car and office most of my waking week.
That's not the fault of the language, though I'd say maybe Kotlin is a considerably better choice nowadays. If by blockly you mean the visual interface, what you said is going to be true for any language. If by blockly you mean javascript, maybe, but honestly if it's an exercise to build foundations (and not just for personal gratification), javascript (or python) isn't much easier for kids than Java, because it has more footguns. And if there's any fault in the language chosen for AP computer science, the blame should go to the designer of the curriculum.
It’s tough to introspect on exactly why, but I was certainly more productive and less fucked in the head when I was going into the office every day.

Maybe it was general mental health, partly. I live alone, so getting out of the house daily and seeing other people is good for me. I had office friends who it’s hard to keep in touch with.

Structure was another part. I had to get dressed and leave the house at a certain hour, then I had to get my stuff done by 5, when I came back home.

And general peer pressure. I had an open office desk, and I hated that, but in hindsight, it did help me stay on task. Which is kind of hilarious, because the open office floor plan was so distracting that I was terribly inefficient at my desk, so I hid away in corners most of the time to get real work done.

There were tons of negatives to being in the office (god I hate the open office floor plans), but for whatever reasons, I was more productive before the pandemic than I have been during.
What evidence have you seen? Every research paper in the first page of this search is evidence that it works.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mindfulness+meditation

It seems to be a staple for therapists and psychologists to improve emotional intelligence. It gives you clarity about what you're feeling, why you're feeling it, and what you're going to feel soon. From there it can be used for a whole host of other maladies: addictions, anxiety, depression, etc.
> It might be better if they all stayed in their home states and handled congressing electronically on zoom or something.

Lobbyists can easily create big zoom meetings that still get everyone virtually in one spot.
> That is, it largely came to be appreciated after it had been superseded,

You don't "supersede" the idea of applying computation to purposes beyond number crunching.

> As for the comment that upsets you, I would ask - do you disagree that Lovelace's life and work has been used as a football by people with a point to prove for decades?

It was picked out of the clear blue sky in the comment I replied to, if we're looking for such things.
AFAIK, US Army Psyop does not belong to or is considered an "intelligence element" of the Army. We were often reminded that we don't do intelligence work, but rather information work / warfare.
When to Walk Away
Cases have plummeted?
> "Despite shipping more than ever and having higher velocity than ever before

I've been a member of several manager-centric forums since before COVID.

This was definitely not the case for most teams. The sudden switch to remote was not a productivity or even a morale boost for most.
“With the present commercial price of graphene being $67,000 to $200,000 per ton, the prospects for this process look superb”

Tour hopes to produce a kilogram a day of flash graphene within two years

Ah, scaling problems.
How evil are you, and your past deeds?
It’s called Paruresis or Pee Shy which I learned from Reddit. There’s plenty of talk if you know what to search for. It happens to my kids sometimes so I’ve had to coach them through it.
The large majority of SWEs didn't apply for remote work.
I'm sure they are. Most SWEs hired at Google are pretty good at programming and don't need to be tucked away in PM.
Cities are large targets, and given the disregard for civilian casualties (indeed the specific targeting of schools and hospitals which are generally large facilities) would seem to reduce the problems of poor visibility.
Even if your editor "supports" other encodings than ASCII -- i e. it can save text in other formats -- many (most?) of them can be set to save in some particular encoding by default (so set it to save as ASCII), and usually they save previously-existing files in the same encoding the files already had.

And, as someone already mentioned, all the first 127 characters of the UTF-8 encoding are the same as the ASCII ones, so a UTF-8-encoded file containing only those characters is identical to -- is -- an ASCII-encoded file.
>The problem is the mixing and matching of state management

Routing (history management) is also a big problem (I'm assuming you weren't including that in your definition of "state" here).

Some would say, "but React, etc. have solved the routing issues", and that's perhaps the case. But what's difficult is wiring these routers up outside of a full React app. That is, if you truly want routing "solved", you generally have to go all React (or whatever) or just let the browser handle it in the traditional request/response sense. Sprinkling in just a bit of dynamic interaction wherein you want the history managed is purgatory.

And, on mobile, things get even more interesting. Consider the simple case of popping a modal (especially a slide-out). Many users will hit "back" on a mobile device, which they would reasonably expect to simply close the modal. But, if your app/page doesn't intercede to manage the history, the previous page is loaded instead.
Altered states of consciousness are know to trigger psychosis in people who many develop bipolar disorder.

It’s relatively easy for me to deliberately trigger psychosis, despite being on antipsychotics. And it is a very bad idea for me to do that. Losing touch with reality isn’t exactly fun.

For those who are interested,
I’ve written about the four-month-long psychotic break that ended with me being diagnosed bipolar. https://kayode.co/blog/4106/living-with-psychosis/
Hacker News exists for curious, open-minded discussion of ideas, whether they're esoteric and confusing date formats, the history of operating systems, or the future of work in the wake of the pandemic. It does not exist for partisan struggles in which people compete to most vehemently condemn whoever they consider to be the other side, which is what mattl was doing. If you're looking for that, go back to Twitter; don't try to turn Hacker News into yet another wasteland of content-free dunking and ultimatums.
"Food waste is valuable as compost and can be put back into the carbon cycle, and I think that is far more valuable than graphene in terms of ecology, rather than the market."

This was my first thought. I agree. The minerals and nutrients are much more valuable as fertilizer. I think we rely too heavily on synthetic fertilizer and fail to realize how much arable land we throw away each year (by not reintroducing the waste to the lands).
Can’t agree more. Especially when the source code you want to build has a lot of build dependencies, and they have version conflict problem with your environment.

Sometimes it will ends with: XXX is missing, required version mismatch, install correct version, your computer crash.
the original network model of the web was REST[1]

a core aspect of REST was HATEOAS, which stands for Hypermedia As The Engine of Application State[2]

htmx goes about it in the same way as the original web

perhaps that is wrong, but the web was pretty successful overall

[1] - https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
[2] - https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/
I don't see how cutting down on space too much is an issue with the idea of flexibility/choice? If anything they're reducing choices.
The quality of the power grid seems to vary a lot in the country.

I live in California and I have had maybe 2 blackouts in 15 years? For maybe 3 hours?

Granted, my electricity bill is kind of high.
My knowledge is limited on the front end. May I know which Node framework do you use? Is it NextJS? If not, what do you think about using NextJS because I really consider it a better approach and want to use it at new projects.
Look for figure tags, not image tags

Even better, just search for ="http
Even reading “intelligence” as in AI is interesting in the “millions of cooperative dust particles” sense.
Black hole that was closest yet found does not exist, say scientists in U-turn
Oh my God that was epic. Ellison as lawnmower is spot on.
Perhaps author of essay will volunteer to be on the front lines of an american strike team since he doesn’t approve of financial pressure against evil. Sadly that will also affect innocent bystanders by causing then to be exploded, as will inaction. But yes some oligarchs may unjustly lose their super yachts I guess.
The Interaction Consortium | Django/React Web Developer | Anywhere in Australia or NZ | REMOTE | Full-time

The IC is a software consultancy based in Sydney. We build web-based applications for other companies and we have a lot of experience building content management platforms for museums and art galleries. We usually maintain the stuff we make for several years. You can find out more about us and our culture here: https://interaction.net.au/work-with-us/

We are looking for an experienced developer to work on and extend an existing Django/React application that our client uses to archive video assets for video production companies. The application allows staff to monitor and manage the process of media ingestion into the archive; it also allows clients at the production companies to search, browse and explore the assets they have archived for later use. Upcoming work will include using machine learning to improve the existing search module. The archive stores more than 2 Petabytes of data.

We're after someone with a few (4+) years of web application experience, ideally in Django or another framework like Rails or Laravel, and some solid experience with React or another modern Javascript framework.

Our work tends to suit people who like talking directly to clients to figure out what they want, more than people who need a tight spec.

If you think you're a good fit and the project sounds interesting, send me a CV and tell me about it: tim@interaction.net.au
It's probably a mix. There's a number of fake accounts creating the volume of fake news, while the regular users then pick it up from there. I've never seen such an influx of fake news coming from literally every source. When even newspapers blindly lie it's hard for the regular person to understand what's going on.
I love kotlin and have messed around with javafx + kotlin. It works well once you have set it up.
How well does React Router solve these problems if you're not using React fully?
What about making baseless predictions about peoples lives?
> I get a bit annoyed hearing about the 2 hour a day folks. They are probably forcing their peers or managers to take on more work than is their fair share.

It's either this, or they have some unrealistically narrow view of what constitutes work.

I've worked with engineers who were concerned they only "worked" 4 hours per day because they only counted time spent writing code in the code editor. Had to remind a lot of people that communication, meetings, and other job-related activities are also work.

But there are also a lot of people who do the 2 hour per day thing by shifting as much work as possible to other people. They might do bursts of intense work when they know other people are watching, but it's back to the minimum as soon as they're not being closely observed any more.

The other half of that equation is to change jobs frequently. It can take a year or longer for some managers or companies to catch on to employees who aren't really doing much work, at which point the person can easily move on to the next job and start the process again.
Crypto is a planet-destroying ponzi-scheme, but in a collapsed economy like Russia, I wonder if everyone can just have virtual wallets where you can buy goods by sending the seller some "coins". Which is basically the WeChat payment system, or how the Brazilian Real got established: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...

We already just exchange "coins" electronically, but with the Visa or MasterCard network getting involved...
This is the implementation that defined the movement. You can distill it down to principles, but if you're saying things that contradict it, you're talking about something other than ZTN.