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>> problem-solving for others.

This. I like to say that customers don't have requirements, they have problems they need solved (I hate the buzzword "solutions"). They're non-technical so they don't know what is possible or reasonable. It is up to the PM or lead to propose ways to solve those problems. Another issue is that (this appeared on HN recently) you can't tell people anything, so it's often necessary to show them something before they can really get on board with it. At that point things start to change and people will claim the requirements are changing, when in fact they are just starting to get fleshed-out.

There is a second layer of requirements which are essentially a design. Not design by a designer but an internal software design. The customer doesn't care about this level of requirement but people tend to confuse the two. Some developers ask for too much detail and some customers try to micromanage. It's the PMs job to manage this boundary.
So we shouldn’t try at all?
I actually got excited, thinking that this would be another drop to egress in order to compete with Cloudflare and AWS. AWS just significantly improved pricing on egress to compete with Cloudflare, so it seemed like an obvious next step for other clouds to do so.

Instead, huge price increases? That's... confusing. I honestly wonder if Google wants to kill off Cloud, given how much money they lose on it every year.
I agree that typing a program is not a single step. I broke the steps down in a sibling comment to yours, but the "visual" programmer still has all the same non-visual work and then a bunch of extra UI to deal with and visual discrimination tasks.

We didn't make programming visual. We replaced text entry with a bad UI paradigm.

If you want to see visual programming, go look at SpaceChem or Opus Magnum.

[video warning] https://youtu.be/FhymQvfjMhY
With US pulling out of Afghanisthan, importance of Pakistan reduces for the US and with Quad the relationship will grow. Until things solidify and some deals are worked out, India will have to tread carefully. That's my point.
No.

I'm against framing design as "requirement gathering."

If you're designing, deciding or otherwise doing subjective, creative work don't wrap it up in a fake-discrete process.

Customer feedback is valuable information. It's isn't ore that you refine into cutlery.
We could but our main focus has been improving the land efficiency of carbon projects and allowing trees to be planted on land that would not otherwise be arable for crops and other trees. We specifically focus using our trees to help clean polluted soil by accumulating excess metals in the lignin and stems of trees. This results in natural fungal decay resistance and improved durability of wood.
Doesn't work on FF does it?
“Underway “ is a little strong. Putting something at 500 AU is still not really feasible within a reasonable timeframe.

But I think there are exciting things to come up in the next decades for sure.
That's only a problem if I advise people will go in a certain direction (which is what the original comment did). Instead I suggested people think about their decisions.
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It's easy to think of ways this backfires if written too broadly. Such as the record label claiming the local record shop is hijacking their search results and stealing their sales, they want them delisted so searches always go to the record label's online store.
It's not impossible that "isolation and disruption" tilting people and that people drive faster with less congestion both contribute to more accidents in the US.
Sure, buying oil from authoritarian dictatorships that bomb innocent civilians is distasteful. But that hasn't stopped the West from buying Saudi oil. Hell, the EU is still buying gas from Russia!

So, why do people feel moral indignation if a relatively poor country might do something to mitigate commodity inflation?
I had a hard time getting your examples into a state that worked.

Even after that, I don't see how what you are doing improves over a switch. It actually looks less readable to me, with no gain in functionality at all.

https://gotipplay.golang.org/p/xpuAIC5xdL_7
What makes you thing the mini is EOL? I know it didn't sell that well, but that would surprise me. I think at worst they'll use start using the current mini form factor for a new SE.
Then kids with only tablets are also at a disadvantage when learning to compose documents on a computer, which is important for many kinds of work.

Maybe it's time I got my nieces and nephew Chromebooks for Christmas. By then, the youngest will be between 4 and 5 years old.
Doesn't work cross platform e.g. iOS device or smart TV
> without a NATO like equivalent that guarantees protection

This is also the problem with Ukraine. NATO members may like Ukraine and India for being democracies, but that's not worth much if they won't step up to defend when those democracies are under attack.

I think the US, EU or NATO should form a broader alliance that extends this mutual defense to all democracies, at least when under attack by dictatorships. Not doing so gives dictatorships a free reign to attack democracies just outside NATO's borders, as we're seeing with Ukraine.

And I'm mentioning the EU because I think being a democracy should also automatically come with beneficial free trade agreements.

We like to talk much about how democracy is better, but if we leave struggling democracies to fend for themselves, democracy will always be under attack. I think that's a much better idea than allying with autocracies, as the US certainly has done way too often in the past.
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> Misogyny?

What an extremely unkind thing to say. There was nothing in the GP to suggest this. In fact it’s entirely plausible that Apple decided to honor women’s day this way.

You must have known that accusing people of misogyny can have a impact on their livelihood in today’s hyper PC world. That makes your comment even more unkind. I think you should apologize.
They make a profit, then plow that profit back into innovation. I believe for more than two decades now.
Are you saying that these restaurants are selling food at 30% discount without even knowing what they are doing? That makes absolutely no sense.
The greater the market share of subscription streaming gets, the greater the temptation to add ads to them will become.

It’s already happening, a while back I got a subscription to the Discovery streaming platform and occasionally it would interrupt the show with an ad. I refuse to pay for that, so I unsubscribed. But sooner or later I will have no choice anymore.
Google being Google in their product behavior ^^
It's definitely possible. I applied for jobs with 3 days of Elixir experience + 30 years of dev experience. My requirement of half time was the issue, not my knowledge of Elixir, and I still got an offer from super.mx (we're hiring).
I feel Elixir is particularly easy to pick up for an experienced dev.
Think I saw something like this coming out of China, is this research sort of similar?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.71539...
Can confirm.

I've been interested in security since I was a teenager on the wild west internet in the 90s. I went into Computer Science and subsequently gained work as a software engineer, but stayed interested in security. I did my masters in Cybersecurity and interviewed for a number of security focused jobs (including pen test jobs), but I ended up taking none of them because the majority of them were not writing code. Usually we were either running existing tools (nobody wants to invest in developing their own tools, but that's another story), or doing code reviews of horrendously nasty code. I ended up staying in software engineering and the security work usually finds me.
For a good tunneling option, Oracle Cloud has always-free instances with 20TB/mo of outbound bandwidth.
I'd guess that they are having product differentiation issues between the iphone and the iphone Pro. Most people just don't see the value in faster screen, stainless band, and a not-so-great telephoto camera (I own a pro, but I'm hardly their primary market). An entire processor generation difference would give a big selling point to average consumers for paying the extra few hundred dollars.

There's been rumors that they'll be skipping A15 cores for the upcoming M2 processors.

If they skipped over the best-selling iphone, that would give them a TON of extra space for M2 chips. This would allow them to put a little more ground between the new Air with the M1 and the pro iPads. It would also allow them to drop a new version of the macbook air and drive a lot of sales there. I know I'd gladly upgrade to a M2 model -- especially with a decent CPU bump and a 24/32GB RAM option.

Then again, they could just stick with what people expect. I wouldn't be surprised either way.
This literally looks like the start of a sci-fi movie.

These trees might become Grey Goo, if they can outgrow other trees, they can eventually infect the other ones as well. We might end up completely ruining our environment and there's no way to stop it.

I don't understand how anyone can think this is a good idea, it's one thing if you want to grow a small genetically engineered plant for your own personal use, but if you're talking about spreading this stuff throughout the world, we have no idea what the environmental impact would be.

This is like saying hey, if we stopped building new cars, and reduced driving by 30% over the next 30 years, we'd reduce global warming.

But then some guy on the board at Ford says nah, let's just plant some super trees in the ground to suck up all the pollution we're going to put out.

We have more than enough, in this world for everyone to live a decent life. It's just capitalism demands e keep consuming more and more and more regardless of the consequences.
Interesting. Could you suggest how to rewrite that comment and express that a person noticed something (in the literal sense of the word) without using a dog whistle?
> I have an iPhone 6s, and even the A9 in that is fast enough that my phone never feels slow.

Last year I upgraded from a 6s+ to a 12 and I can confirm this the other way around: my old phone did feel slow for a couple of key apps; turns out they are still slow on the new phone. They are just poorly written, and one is basically just a CRUD app with no excuse.

So my lesson is to likely keep this phone for a decade. It's not like I couldn't afford to upgrade but why bother?
Link to the original tweet by the photographer:

https://twitter.com/ThierryLegault/status/149514029055385600...

(alternatively https://nitter.net/thierrylegault/status/1495140290553856001)
More interesting is they are working on mechanism to bypass dollar. They will settle deals in their own currencies, perhaps pegged to Chinese renminbi. It is very bad!
> There are no morals, only interests.

Very well said. Buying from Venezuela and Iran is something that some American prefer over local production even, which further exacerbates the obvious lack of morals.
> A Black millennial may have grown up in a $200,000 house instead of a $300,000 house

As an example: In Boston, the average net household wealth of a white family is $200,000. The average net household wealth of a balck family is $5 (no typo).

Your examples are just wildly off-base if you are trying to paint them as a "typical" example.
Wouldn't it be nice to generate the colour in HSL and/or clamp/normalise the luminosity so it's always darker than the background and prevent "invisible" avatars, such as the one generated for @lexicality?
And I think yours is an upside-down helicopter!
Very cool! I’ll have to finagle it a bit since it only takes zip codes, but this is super helpful!
Trivial. DoorDash has been caught doing this. Add this to TOS. If DoorDash persists, remove them from all searches until they prove they have fixed the issue and pay a penalty for bad behavior.
> >There was cold war and we could have defeated the opponent.

> What does that mean in concrete terms?

A thorough de-Communistification and collective education into the principles of democratic government and statehood, like the de-Nazification of (West) Germany after WW2.

> An invasion and occupation of Russia after the fall of the USSR?

Would have been preferable, yes; mainly because it would have been required for the above. Which would have meant that under the watchful eyes of a (comparatively enlightened) occupying force, Communism would have been far less likely to be replaced by a kleptocracy -> oligarchy -> neo-Soviet pseudo-fascist rule, which is what we've seen play out in Russia over the last thirty years. (Hm, about one decade per stage of this evolution?)

> An extermination of the Russian people?

If you absolutely want to be ridiculous, go ahead and be ridiculous. Not that comments like that make anyone more negative to the idea, you know.

> What would a more complete defeat looks like?

Pretty much anything would have been preferable to what the Russian people have become: The same as they have always been, a willing herd for autocrats to rule and use.

Isn't it about time for the Russians, too, to try something other than authoritarian rule for once[1] in their thousand years of history? If they can't even catch up to the seventeenth century, what use does the world really have of a "Russian people"? The Golden Horde and the Aztecs are also gone, and nobody seems to be missing them much.

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[1]: For a bit longer than the two single decades of dithering chaos under, uhm, Kerensky? and of kleptocratic free-for-all under Yeltsin.
Are you implying I'm racist or sexist for using a normal word in it's usual context?

I don't particularly care if a normal word, which is in plenty of dictionaries, is co-opted by a small group of people. My friends won't know this secret meaning, my family won't know that, whatever is on the TV, Radio, or Cinema won't know that.

And now this conversation is completely off topic.

The internet is so hyper partisan that even normal, boring usage of the English language is now weaponised as shibboleths.
I think the idea is that we're punishing Russia for inciting war and rewarding countries that have repressed their urges to attack other countries.

You would think India would greatly empathize with the plight of the Ukrainian people given that Pakistan would like to steamroll India and China would love to subjugate India diplomatically. I really don't know why India thinks this is a good idea other than that they think they could single-handedly take on both China and Pakistan without the West's help in the future.
Yeah I wonder the same, and we really don’t know. I often wonder if Facebook would be better if it didn’t rely on ads and data-mining. Would Facebook be “good”? Would Facebook even exist at this scale if people had to pay? People are so hesitant to pay even a buck for an app, it makes me question if all these massive services could’ve been possible if they weren’t “free”.
Except that, according to the article, other countries that also had lockdowns had fewer accidents as traffic reduced.
no one I know is concerned about gas prices. Yes, occasionally there is a joke about it costing as much as it does in Europe, but no one I know has changed even little habits. My teenagers still drive around the city needlessly with their friends. My brother still drives 30 minutes away to his "favorite bbq place".
Historically Soviet Union (and later Russia) had been a reliable partner for India, specially during crisis and on tricky issues (Nuclear...). While US and west generally aligned with Pakistan.

During the India Pak war of 1971, US and Britain had their ships near Indian waters to threaten India. While it was Soviet that sent ships to support India.
http://www.theworldreporter.com/2011/10/1971-india-pakistan-...

Russia collaborated with India in setting up nuclear reactors when the west was imposing sanctions.

https://www.orfonline.org/research/india-civil-nuclear-agree...
Before the internet, I was in radio, non-commercial, listener supported radio, sponsored through the Pacifica Foundation, at KRAB Radio. It was a great time for radio, I just wish there was a way to implement a model like that to the web. I know, I am crazy to even think that this is something that can be done. LOL
I agree the number of customers outright switching cloud platforms will be low. But some of them might start small explorations of multi-cloud, even if it's just at the level of "my team wants to use an AWS product for this internal project" isn't auto-denied. Long-term, that chips away at GCP's leverage on their existing customers.
While I doubt this war will trigger the end of globalization, perhaps it will end blind globalization. I can imagine a lot of countries are now asking which critical resources come from so few countries/places that a trade blockage from just one could cripple them.

Fertilizer is a good example. Oil for heating homes in winter, or energy generally. Food is an obvious one. I bet there are a lot more.

I don't think complete protectionism is the answer either, but I suspect there is a safer place between the two extremes that many countries will start to move towards.
The book itself seems to have middling reviews in Amazon, the top most review goes like this:

"The author who, on the first page of the first chapter of this book, identifies the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) as the final book of the New Testament hardly inspires confidence in the reader. This glaring error and a perusal of his sources, all essentially in English, induced me to return the book."
> I'm going to have to talk with my kids about why I don't have grandchildren yet!

If it's "I am curious and I would like to understand what has motivated your life choices not to reproduce" then go for it (heck, please report back!)

But if it is "I'm entitled to you reproducing to give me what I want and why haven't you done it yet?" then please don't. I've seen the latter destroy many millennial child/parent relationships over the past few years. Demanding grandchildren will only destroy your relationship with your children.
You're not wrong, but ironically this often depends on the CISO!

But yeah very few sec jobs are actually doing real hacking or dev. A much more common position is more like a PM mixed with a lawyer: Reading through mountains of compliance regulations, talking to engineering to find out if we comply, and documenting the compliance. If we don't comply, you'll often create high-level tickets and track engineering progress.

Then of course there's the tools you run and the boxes you check. Back in the day this often involved writing scripts if not full applications, but nowadays there's a SaaS for everything and everything is a REST API (or GraphQL) and very, very few CISOs will invest in custom tools. The only exception I saw was at a company where we were developing a layer 7 protocol on top of UDP. It was a lot easier to justify since by definition no tools existed for this protocol, but this is super rare.
I'd buy it by nobody stocks it nearby!
you're contradicting yourself here:

> I’m sorry but a state does not go full totalitarian in a week. Putin has been in control for 20 years.

the point is that it has happened suddenly in the past couple of weeks; let arrests of top FSB officials speak for it.

> This, was predictable and many had been predicting it for a long time.

oh that is absolutely true. every child in eastern europe knows this. the point is, when it happens matters - and it just has.
Hoping this is something that doesn't need to be said here, but just in case:

This is why you should NEVER provide personal information over the phone if you didn't initiate the call. It doesn't matter if your caller ID says it's your doctor's office or your bank or whatever.

Hang up and call them back at the number you normally use to reach them, from their website or the back of your credit/debit card for example. Make sure you're talking to the people you think you are.

Otherwise they can phish all kinds of info out of you.
A quibble:

"Sustainable – reduces the greenhouse gas impact of transportation, production, and use through renewable energy sources, feedstocks, formulations, and incentivizing greater precision in fertilizer use;"

That's not what sustainable means - I feel like we're watering down this term until it is becoming meaningless. "Sustainable" literally means that you can sustain the practice indefinitely, and any process based on fossil fuels or any other resource that can be depleted automatically fails that test. No process that doesn't use 100% renewable energy and 100% renewable material inputs is sustainable, by definition.

And also, by definition, any process that is not sustainable will not be sustained in the long term, because that's what the word means.

It's fine to use "reduced environmental impact" or something like that, but let's not use "sustainable" unless we really, actually mean sustainable.
> There's probably a good reason why C4 carbon fixation hasn't taken over the plant kingdom.

Simple: The efficiency of the C4 carbon fixation would be of little benefit to the plant itself. Evolution optimizes for the benefit of the gene-bearer.
> including the default settings for RDP I believe

There is no 'default RDP settings'. It is the security settings of the server (if an attacker tries local accounts) or the domain. Default AD DS settings are pretty lax, but whoever runs the open RDP with a default security settings deserves what would happen to him.

> this will only count as one attempt on each user

Yes, because the lockout policies are applied for user accounts, not for source IPs. Though it can be mitigated with a couple of scripts, if needed.
> What will it take to destroy the Ads market?

Sadly, it's looking like "WWIII, or Asteroid Dino-Doom v2.0".
Inventions don't come out of thin air either. They interact with context, needs. They arise within limitations. Etc.

I totally disagree. The spec dies not exist. It isn't buried in your customers' brain or your CEO's. It isn't mined. It is invented, one way or another, by those making the damned thing.

The "requirement" for a spaceship is "must travel to the moon." What software requirement mining tries to do is mine Kennedy's mind for the design of the bathroom.
I kind of had a similar impression, but Jean-Louis is kind of an elder statesman in the industry from his time at Apple. I actually find it heartening that a guy in his mid-70s and long out of the industry still follows it from a technical standpoint even at this level.
It’s literal propaganda:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30548972

Everything that pushes the required narrative gets massively upvoted and accepted as truth without verification, even if falsified later (like the “Ghost of Kyiv” which turned out to be screenshots from a video game)

You can try it yourself. Take a random picture from Google and put a made-up caption on it and note the results.
Why is the US so hellbent on fighting for Ukraine in this case?
I have this convenience as well. If I don't have a number from my home area code, I don't need it. Although I basically do not answer any unknown phone numbers at this point unless I'm expecting a call from a company for something.
They have an 8 tile version in internal testing for the next generation Mac Pro workstations.

It won't launch until 3nm is ramped up.

But that is when it is completely over with Intel, AMD, Nvidia completely.
Isn't it already possible for a phone to display the STIR/SHAKEN Caller ID verification status of each incoming call now?

This would be useful in the interim as this system rolls out, and would also encourage adoption by mobile carriers
this is disappointing to learn about, i have ordered through these options before, usually for in store pickup so its unfortunate that i'm still using these predatory services that i've been working to avoid
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