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What! Did you fail to set "S.M.A.R.T. goals" for yourself in your personal life? :-)

If it _really_ mattered to you, you would have done it no matter what, but you got distracted by other things in life. That's OK. There is no HR department for your job as a human being. You don't have to rate yourself on a scale of 1 to whatever.

If someone assigns their worth in life by material things or external measures, they will NEVER have enough. There will always be "unchecked boxes" that will override any satisfaction for the "checked boxes".
my two boys are the hardest, most rewarding, and impactful code i ever wrote.
Hi HN

We developed an algorithm that match developers with client's needs based on the developer's GitHub activity. We calculate, among other things, the developer's contributions, information about the repos they own, pull requests that were made and issues that were open.
Let me know what you think, I'd love to get feedback
Very similar experience here. I work on a two person "DevOps" team. Without AWS ECS we would have to have a much higher headcount. I get to spend most of my time solving real problems for the engineers on the product team rather than sysadmin work.
My company has let at least a couple people go since the start of the pandemic - people who would just disappear for hours, would spend hours/days working with very little to show.
I'm curious - do you think that time management is a learned skill? Is working from home biased towards people who are inherently better at managing time?
When the pandemic started we had a drop off on productivity as a whole, but we've since improved and have reached levels at least equal to where they were 2 or 2.5 years ago.
You can encourage GAO to investigate: https://www.gao.gov/about/what-gao-does/fraud

Remember to keep it polite, brief and to the point. This isn't the time for a three page discourse filled with emoji and slang - keep it professional and to a five sentence paragraph.

Ditto for your congress critter. Unlike with GAO, paper letters carry the most weight here, followed by phone calls. Forget email or other electronic forms - the traditional methods will get the most traction! Indeed phone calls seem to carry the most weight - I have gotten follow up every time I have phoned in to bring something up; not so much with other methods.
In all my contracts there has been a clause prohibiting a second job without prior approval. I'm in Europe though so don't know how it is in the US.

TBH I'm not sure what to even say about the idea of doing two full-time jobs simultaneously. I definitely wouldn't have time for that with my current contributions, and would feel betrayed if any my colleagues did that. I'm pretty sure I would snitch to management if I found out.
I think you mean the New York Times, where one indeed has to play that game.
Le Monde Diplomatique though is high quality.
Relationships are reciprocal, if you don’t influence the other party it’s not a relationship. Aka: A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having dealings with each other.

I can have strong feelings about a cloud and it might change my life, but it doesn’t care.
> The word "Relaunch" doesn't appear on that site

I think the "Our website will be launched in" banner counts as "relaunch", since they were active before.
These two comments make me think that a careful study of Conway's Law, its implications, and related understanding of people's behavior when organized to work together may actually be the most important knowledge for software architects.

Barry Oshry is one author that has investigated and detailed organizational behavior and developed simplified models that can provide insight and guidance for daily practice and planning. He has multiple books available, I recommend "Seeing Systems". Here's a video recording of a talk covering some of the content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYpO-pK7IFA
A lot of small airports are smack in the middle of residential or other populated areas.
The weird computers and claustrophobic hallways of Severance
Meta plans ‘Zuck bucks’ virtual coins for Facebook and Instagram users
I think it's awesome that it works for you. I've built out all types of infrastructure setups and was simply pointing out that whether you need an Ops/SRE person is a cost that doesn't seem to be based off of whether or not you go serverless.

You mention that serverless.com offers a sort of PaaS that simplifies your life. That's similar to Heroku, which does the same thing but with regular servers and similarly allows you to defer having a dedicated Ops person. Having worked at plenty of places that leveraged PaaS's for most of their needs, I'd say it's normal to not have an Ops team until you begin hitting issues around general maintenance and secure networking setups.
Paint it black: wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities
I've been hearing/seeing Stephen Wolfram's name for about 2 decades. Each time I see it, it's associated with some supposed incredible breakthrough in math, science, physics, or perhaps a combination of those; and that's it. There's never any application to the real world, there's never any great discovery that enlightens or improves the common man's life. You could argue I'm not smart enough to understand his work, but I could argue he's not smart enough to make the importance of his work comprehensible to dumb people like me.
Sony shouldn't have killed the Vita
We've left the 19th c. a while back.
> also agitate for every war it could

It isn't agitating for a wider Russian-Ukrainian war right now (hell, it's explaining why it would be a poor idea for NATO to get directly involved in the war). It didn't agitate for a military response to the Russian annexation of Crimea. It didn't agitate for war against Iran, not even when Trump was considering it after the Iranian missile attack on a US base in Iraq. It's been a while, but I think it's criticized all of Israel's recent wars, as well as the proxy war going on in Yemen.

It's also criticized the Iraq War, and they are very open about the fact that a) they originally supported the Iraq War, and b) that support was a mistake. You don't find too many people who will admit to both--for most people, if they now believe the Iraq War to have been a mistake, they try very hard to bury the fact that they ever thought otherwise.
Too bad. It seems like paper cartons were wax-coated when I was a kid.
I have not succeeded in tracking all my expenses - the only spreadsheet I have is one with a row for each "bill" I have to pay X months on the X axis.

This lets me at least compare values for each month easily. But of course my variable expenses are all under a CC card bill...
Even trying to talk to a french person as a foreigner is a pain... Almost as bad as with italians, but in italy you can atleast wave with your hands, the french ignore that too, and doing it over the phone is totally impossible.

(source: live an hour drive from italy, buy cheese and pasta there, and often go to france on business).
Part of the irony here is the FAA enforces strict deadlines upon those it regulates, but seems to ignore deadlines set for itself or by Congress.

My medical certificate is due for renewal in August. I have no ability to tell the FAA, "sorry, it's been delayed, I'll have an update for you in a few months."

Edit to add: Lest this come off as generic complaining, here's an example of people dying because the FAA failed to do in a timely manner what Congress repeatedly told them to do:

Ten years ago, Section 203 of the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 mandated that the FAA create an electronic pilot records database (PRD), which was intended to improve the timeliness and efficiency of the PRIA records retrieval process by providing hiring operators and DAs with direct access to pilots’ FAA, NDR, and former employer records in a single database. By 2016, the FAA had not yet implemented the PRD, and Congress imposed an April 30, 2017, deadline, which the FAA also missed. Although the FAA has begun phasing in the use of the PRD, the PRD is not yet fully functional; it contains only pilots’ FAA records and is available to hiring operators for use on a voluntary basis.

On March 30, 2020, the FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that outlined PRD functions.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/... [PDF] (page 49)
Pwning the Bcm61650
I generally agree with this sentiment, though COBOL may be overkill. Anything stable and not latest/greatest probably helps a lot - Java, C#, and of course C/C++. Big boring companies seem to have older people - my company's average age is probably in the mid 40s.
I'm not sure what this comment is meant to imply, except that Bay Area is the only place that matters?
I use 6000/8000kWh between September and May though, because that is when I'm using a Heatpump to generate electricity.
I wish there was an npm library that made an entirely self-contained SVG from a tweet.
That would be neat.

A hacky way to do it, I guess, would be for banks to make is really easy to spin up debit accounts. You drop exactly the right amount of money into the account, then when you want to unsubscribe just stop putting money there. I guess, though, some organizations would keep providing service and then consider you to owe them money, and eventually send it to collections... but if this was the conventional configuration for paying for accounts, I guess that sort of behavior on the part of the people looking for payments wouldn't be scalable, and so they'd have adjusted to just accepting the signal of non-payment=unsubscribe.
That's exactly what I'm saying. And not "can". Have to. Kubernetes or not-Kubernetes isn't the problem that huge enterprises ever have.
In startup mode, we switched multiple times, from Azure to Google Cloud to AWS, chasing those startup credits. Things that were easy to move tended to move quickly, but systems that lost owners or priorities didn't tend to get moved all that quickly, so left a fun legacy of a system or two on an old cloud account.

Growing out of that mode has the team mostly focused on a single cloud provider, with a few things that'll remain on alternatives because they're better suited, and projects will clean up the rest in a couple of years.
Part of the problem is that the entire point of textbook problems is to not be representative. Failing all else, even all the also-excellent points described by other people in other comments, they have to be pedagogical. The vast bulk of almost all jobs, tasks, problems, etc. are highly stereotyped, and trying to give some sort of "uniformly random" sample of some task set would produce problems that are simultaneously 1. too boring to be worth using to teach with and 2. too complicated to be useful. If that seems paradoxical, the resolution is that it would be generally the same complication, over and over and over, from whatever problem set you're drawing from.

We have to present simplified problems, and in order to get a sampling across many possible complications that our students could be going out into the world and seeing (because while all of them are likely to end up solving stereotyped problems in some domain, we don't have any idea which ones they are yet!), we need to sample things in an unrealistic manner. It is an unsolvable problem.

I still have my opinions about how education is done; I think one of the most fundamental errors it makes that is not talked about is that it is virtually impossible to provide a solution to someone who doesn't have the problem in the first place, and our entire system is top-to-bottom structured around providing solutions. This, I think, is an even more fundamental view of the disconnect underlying the issue of textbook problems not being representative... "textbook problems" are a misnomer, really, because they aren't problems. I don't care if Sally does or does not get her 1/7th of an apple, and the technique of connecting a grade to whether or not I answer correctly is really quite clumsy and of dubious effectiveness. But it would take a top-to-bottom rethink of the curriculum of the sort I've never really seen anyone try. I've seen people peck around the edges and I've seen people throw the baby out with the bathwater but a problem-first-centric education would be such a radical departure that I don't think people can even think it.
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France: Le Monde Diplomatique[0]

[0]:https://mondediplo.com/
If you have an example of anyone getting a career ended because of a GAO audit, I'd love to see it!
The Most Productive Working from Home Routine I’ve Ever Made
Maybe it has to do with managers seeing stuff like this:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220329-the-coasting-w...

and thinking that having people in the office will reduce that situation.
Fake news now in English... For anyone not familiar with the French version, Le Monde, at least in its digital incarnation, is pure state/oligarch propaganda. Each and every article and editorial is published to push a narrative, the same you heard on other channels (public TV and radion, etc.) anyway. Don't waste your time reading it or even spending money on it. Their section Les décodeurs ("fact"-"checking") is even most specialized in the twisting of facts and reality to reach a predetermined conclusion. It's a little less obvious than Kremlin's propaganda, but only slightly.

The only use I have for this newspaper, which I consult a few times a week, is getting informed of what the government and CAC40 top's CEOs want me to think, then I think the reverse.
>Many opponents of UBI claim that a UBI will cause inflation and reduce the value of money because the supply increased. Proponents reject this, pointing to MMT and the concept of fiat currency.

To be clear, MMT doesn't say you can print money and hand it out without causing inflation. It only says that if the money printing is offset somehow (eg. taxes), there won't be inflation.
I’ll take the opportunity to expand. Say you observe an event directly, with your own eyes. We’ll exclude optical illusions, hallucinations, or the possibility of a demon manipulating your brain in a vat. Is your direct observation a fact?

It’s an important observation, so you must communicate it to others. You perform a speech act to tell a few colleagues, with utterances and gesticulations to describe your observation as closely as possible. Is your oral exposition a fact?

You must communicate the observation widely for the good of society. You write a Tweet thread, and publish a scientific paper to the journals. Are these written productions also facts?

It’s retweeted, and a summary of the preprint is published to nature.com. Facts?

Colloquially, most people would refer to all of these things as facts. And each one is a carefully constructed human artifact, whether it’s sensory data imported and stored in your brain, a speech utterance, a Tweet, or a scientific article.
Sure but Le Monde, with all the veneer of real journalism (tm) that it supposedly has , is arguably even less neutral than the less respected mediapart.

French society is extremely "dérigée" by the traditional vielle elite, much more so than the US for example. And it's not because they are conspiring to keep control or anything! It's mostly just due to how french society is structured. Power is very centralized and so are cultural institutions, in both cases around Paris. The education system is even more elitist, with the Grandes Écoles acting as a very selective gatekeeper. To the point where a career at Le Monde is probably a lot harder if impossible to sustain without having attended those schools.

What does that all mean? Well you get a very incestuous relationship between state, industry and media and a media that is extremely "parisian". They all went went to the same school, know the same people, share networks, etc.

Once they get in that very bourgeois clique, they become less trustworthy than even an opiniated source like Mediapart imo.

[Especially since direct state interference in the media/culture (or in general) is much less of a taboo in France than in the anglosphere. ]
That seems like complete bullshit, since Germany doesn't mine anything apart from lignite, which can't feasibly be transported. Do you perhaps have a source on coal export to Poland? Also, Germany exports more electricity than it imports.
ah, neat! Looks like there are even deployed IRCv3 networks like libera.chat, very cool!
Federal agencies generally have complete legal immunity for their decisions. Concerns over getting sued are not the reason for delays.
hckrnews.com mostly. The best links go to Pocket never to be seen again.
https://jason.nabein.me

My personal website, effectively what I wish I had when I was younger, but more professionally tuned now.

JS free, Lynx friendly, and under 250KB! [1]

Content overall is sparse as I'm in the midst of a major project before traveling, and my documents are scattered between Zim and random folders. Really looking forward though to publishing some of the writings I Have in my Zim drafts area.

(Also, I'm not sure why but mobile formatting doesn't seem to work properly on some phones, compared to the source css from benharr.is. if anyone can point out why, it would be great to resolve that)

I am also working on https://doyouhaveabackup.com as a similar site to https://worldbackupday.com, but less corporate, and more accessible.

[1] https://250kb.club/
The latter. Also misunderstandings about APIs. IME these combined are usually something like 70% of all bugs so the ROI on unit tests is not particularly high.

I find integration tests paired with BDD do a good job of catching "code plain wrong" bugs as well as misused APIs and misunderstood specs. They're harder to build and run slower but the ROI is still higher.
Yeah, I don't get it. He's a guy who runs a business to support his hobby, both pretty harmless. Bonus points for creating and sharing enjoyable and useful things and ideas. I'll debate his ideas, but I'm not gonna tell him what to do with his life.
I use emacs as an IDE with a large C++ (and python) codebase. I use emacs-lsp + clangd for completion/jump to definition/syntax error highlighting etc, but for whole tree searches, I find clangd unreliable, so sometimes I fall back to emacs-ag (I assume that emacs-ripgrep would be even better) for brute force searches.

I never found a side panel of any use (many are available), but I use projectile for quick jump to file all the time.

My python setup is less refined than C++ (I haven't bothered yet to enable LSP), but I use elpy which is works fine for lisp-style programming with a persistent REPL.
All Turing-complete programming languages (i.e. the encoding used for the Turing machine's instructions) can be compiled into a "universal" language, and the length of the compiler is a constant. So the choice of language affects only a constant factor, and can be hand-waved away when speaking of asymptotic complexity.
Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ Covid origin State Dept memo says
> But the packaging itself matters, eg soda in a Al can and a glass bottle is perceived quite differently.

I agree with that. When container-touches-mouth I think there surely must be some electrochemistry involved that makes the drink from the aluminum can taste ... metallic.

Or it's all in my head. (But that too is important.)
Focus on who's going to show up to your funeral and what they'll be thinking about you. That's what matters anyways, far more than your hobbies or career.
newest article in Spain section there is from more than one month ago, I would not call that news source on Spain, even day old would be pretty lazy for English edition, but this seems to be pretty dead for someone interested in Spain
On a lark, I would have tried to go the other way: Java (or whatever) to ALC. Then gradually move maintenance of IMF from ALC to Java (or whatever).

FWIW, parallel development sucks and likely to fail, but I've not seen another strategy work at all.
I'm a very strong believer in G100UL being the best future piston aviation fuel and have a lot of trust in the engineering and lab work that GAMI has done here.

The biggest drawback IMO is "there's no question that 100LL is a safe and reliable fuel operationally; it's been proven over a 50-year period; G100UL has significantly fewer operational hours in its history."

I could not care less about any sub-20% difference in retail price. Very few pilots paying out of their own pocket fly over 100 hours per year. $0.85/gallon increase in cost represents less than $1000/yr difference for reasonably high-utilization recreational/private pilots.

Even for higher utilization operators, fuel is around 25-40% of the total annual costs of a piston aircraft. A 20% increase in price of fuel represents a modest change in overall annual costs.
Another key aspect you need to consider is that (pseudoscience/hand-waving incoming) your brain is very good at taking all of your prior experience and extrapolating it forward, and telling you "if you do this thing, this will be the outcome".

My point is, you're not considering all of the things you don't know, because you can't. It isn't just about "start a company that will probably fail based on the % of companies that actually succeed". It's about "who will I meet while trying to start the company, that could turn into a life long friend", or "what skills do I know so little about that I'll be required to exercise while starting my company that may blossom into a passion I never knew about", or "what sort of example could I be setting for my kids/family/friends who might be on the fence in regards to taking their own leaps of faith"?

We're all too quick to assume we know the outcome of things, and we too easily forget the crazy, spontaneous circumstances of our youth that grew out into huge parts of our lives; that possibility doesn't go away when you're older, it's just most people tend to stop letting their lives have any risk or slack in them that could introduce those sorts of catalyst events.
Not sure whether a personal landing page of a website counts but I've tried hard to design my website to be Lynx friendly :)

https://jason.nabein.me/
From the article:

> If you rip a CD with Apple Music using the Apple AAC Encoder (the default option), it will reserve approximately 5 kB of free space inside each file for this purpose.

I was saying that even this is too much, and 500kB is 'way way too much'.
We don't have our own mobile client yet, so right now we rely on the WireGuard app. You configure a gateway, and then generate raw WireGuard configs + QR codes which hook them into the network: https://docs.netmaker.org/external-clients.html
I worked with the FLAC format and it also recommends padding to make it easier to edit metadata. I think libflac reserves 4 KB by default.

> PADDING: This block allows for an arbitrary amount of padding. The contents of a PADDING block have no meaning. This block is useful when it is known that metadata will be edited after encoding; the user can instruct the encoder to reserve a PADDING block of sufficient size so that when metadata is added, it will simply overwrite the padding (which is relatively quick) instead of having to insert it into the right place in the existing file (which would normally require rewriting the entire file).

-- https://xiph.org/flac/format.html#format_overview
So, it worked yesterday. Today I'm getting these errors:

Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://wordall.xyz/_next/static/chunks/main-101cfeaa18eb0e6.... wordall.xyz:1:1

Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://wordall.xyz/_next/static/chunks/889-e1aed44fdbbf5ec4.... wordall.xyz:1:1

I tried with a fresh browser in case it was a caching issue on my side.
I like both cold, I probably slightly prefer fresh milk as a drink on it's own but I much prefer UHT in coffee (it's creamier without been cream).

No absolutes in matters of taste though.
That's called welfare.