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I am really worried by the fact that I am the unwilling tester in the Great Driverless Car Experiment.

Tradition has it that when you load-test a new bridge, you put the architect underneath. I feel like this, except I didn't design those driverless cars, somebody else did. Being an experienced software engineer, my trust in the software in these cars is pretty low. And yet they are testing them on me, because I can be the one getting killed.

I think we should set a much higher bar for allowing those cars on the streets, rather than "it kinda works, so let's roll with it".
Honestly, with how investment you need in configuring jira, it's going to take a heck of a lot more than a week long outage to make the cost of a move worth it.
Twitter CEO says Musk declined to join the firm's board
> The swamp is a metaphor, not a physical place.

It's an old myth that Washington DC was built on a swamp.
> I _know_ I have it really good.

A big of the problem is the culture that measures everything in terms of money and perks.

It's well proven that a big source of burnout is misalignment between personal goals and your job. Humans crave meaning.

Being paid a ton of money to optimize some algorithm to manipulate people into buying something they don't need is the opposite of meaningful work.
Jetbrains is moving into the cloud. Look at their new products and what they are doing with their IDEs.
No, it's a german building, so brick walls, etc.
Check meetups.com and see if there are local DevOps or other technical meetup groups where people are demoing.
> Here in the States, you have a list of bubbles to fill in, and an "other" option. I assume that's how it is in most places.

I think a major difference is that in most places in Europe at least there is no "Other" option - the list of candidates is fixed by some legal date before the election. Doing anything other than choosing one of the official candidates simply means that your vote is invalid. Invalid votes are all counted together, not matter what made them invalid (a torn paper is counted the same as a paper where you wrote Mickey Mouse or spilled coffee on it); with the possible exception of blank votes, which are sometimes counted separately as "protest votes" (though I don't believe they have any legal significance, at best they may carry symbolic significance).
>Also, it allows manufacturers to roll-out features faster and learn faster from the real world.

I don't think that "move fast and break things" is the approach we want for self-driving cars.
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I really feel like people often compare long-running projects with ill-defined/ever-changing requirements that churned through 100s of developers with some trivially small-scoped new microservice written in Y that can be written in 2 months by a single dev.

Of course the former will be a disgusting monster compared to that, but that would be the case with any 2 frameworks substituted.

Spring does a shitton of things, because enterprise business project require the strangest things. But it has a clear structure convention and if the developers actually know the platform instead of using the chimp-typewriter technique it does make other devs job easier. I am not necessarily a fan of runtime DI though, but otherwise I think it is a well-thought out framework making the easy thing really easy, and making the hard random godforsaken requirements of businesses possible — many possibly better liked framework forgets about the latter. I would be interested in what others consider a good framework (in any language)

Nonetheless, I would like to see a new framework slowly emerge making use of new java features as much as possible.
Probably not as long as you don't trample any implementation specific patents. But the point was more about how it is much harder than just porting an old design to a newer process node to get good performance in modern games, modern hardware is fundamentally different than hardware of even the Geforce 7000 series.
How is it non-deterministic? If you run the same trained model on the same input data, you should arrive at the exactly identical output.
Raph Levien had a good post about using CRDTs for text editing. He feels they didn’t live up to his expectations.

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
Pony committer here, I don't think this comparison is very fair, Rust has way more users, and thus way more eyes looking at it and reporting bugs. We've also had a few runtime segfauts before due to LLVM (mainly when porting to new platforms, like Apple's M1), and we try hard to fix them when we find them.
In Italy our police cars are much faster, a police car is usually called "volante" (literally "flying"), the more correct name is "autopattuglia" which is more like "patrol car".

Then we have the two different animal derived names, police cars are "pantere" (panthers) and the Carabinieri ones are "gazzelle" (gazelles).

As well you can't cruise with a car, the cruise control (often untranslated) is a "regolatore di velocità" (speed regulator), but you can actually mantain a "velocità di crociera" (cruise speed) on a vehicle.
I really like a lot of the ideas in Quarkus. They also pushed for Spring Native which is an interesting new direction. But to me one of the biggest values is sheer traction. Spring controls the market completely. You have so many engineers with deep real world experience with Spring. So many books, blogs etc. When you run into a problem there's someone. When you need to hire, it's easy.

That's a huge benefit.
Seconding this. "Learning From Data" is one of the best intros to machine learning theory I've seen through the years!
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That only happens when your running from them. Imagine if we give the DNC a kill switch to every car in America. Place it under as a tax penalty, and you'd have to wait until their audit finished in your favor for them to consider turning your car back on.
Don't see the point of arguing semantics. What I mean by that is this allows you to have the most predictable key layout, physical shape and key wise, with the minimum finger travel needed.
I was skeptical of the news in the first place (not to sound like a "smartass" because I'm not, and we can only speculate about these things from outside).

Anyways, the move , whether Elon intended or not at any given time to join the board, turned out to be beneficial for both him (more so than for) & Twitter. I don't think it can affect him negatively in any way, he already has a de facto much higher base culturally speaking than the "Twitter" army.
As someone who uses Jira and BitBucket at work I wish they were more reliable. Switching to something like Azure DevOps is sadly not an option for us so we’re stuck there.
Well but it's not that you can lose data in the cloud _ONLY_, you can lose data from everywhere, I think the main difference is who has to work through weekend to restore it, and I am quite happy if that's not me, in my case it would be very unlikely as I would rather quit than work 24/7 to fix a fuckup I didn't cause.. but still
Tesla could loan him money against his stock. Not only that, but he could repay the loan in stock. This was a very popular C-level perk at a bunch of companies.
>While running a maintenance script, a small number of sites were disabled unintentionally

"sites were disabled", making it sound like they flipped a bit in the database, when they have clearly destroyed a lot of data.
Elon Musk not joining Twitters Board
Aren't we agreeing?
I think I saw that video - don't get me wrong, the officer was definitely an asshole; but I can see why he was annoyed, there was in fact plenty of space &time for her to pull over.
The real problem is of course using Excel to maintain data. That's not what it's for. That's what databases are for. Excel is for complex calculations over rows and columns. And of course it should be better at data validation; you should be able to tell it whether a certain column is a date or not, and Excel shouldn't be jumping to stupid conclusions about it, but it does, and that means you need to be careful and not use Excel for something like that.

Excel misuse is sadly rampant and one of my main frustrations at my previous project. Excel is popular for this sort of misuse because when you open it, it presents you with an empty table and you can immediately start typing. This invites tabular data. But Excel inevitably fucks up because it lacks proper data types, data validation, or foreign keys, and loves making assumptions about what you mean. This makes it a terrible and harmful choice for any sort of serious data. I even proposed a new project for an Excel-like frontend backed by a database exactly for these sort of situations. Because I do get what attracts people to Excel for this sort of thing. And most people don't realise what a terrible choice it is.
> We're not banning you, we're just want to prevent you from using our electricity for undesirable activities. Well, since we cannot actually distinguish undesirable activities from non-undesirable activities, we'll just stop providing you any electricity, that way we can be sure you're not using it for undesirable activities.
UTF-8 CSV with a few HTML tags for formatting?

You could call it CHU.

Now you just need to make Excel accept it.
> It turns out it just doesn't actually do anything you need that you can't easily do yourself.

That's neither a productive nor a cheap approach to software development.
>Constructors seems like a crutch for bad design decisions. You make these things called functions and make them globally accessible from anywhere in your application

I know allocating memory is haram for some, but DI is basically just moving constructor calls up one level
Glad to know I'm not alone: noise affects me disproportionately (both positive and negative -- good music is bliss to me) and the US definitely feels like the wild west when it comes to noise control
Value of everything, including money, is subjective and situational.

For a "win-win" transaction (which is the case if everyone is free to choose) you need:

(Value to buyer) > (value of sale price to buyer)
And:
(Value of Sale price to seller) > (Cost to the seller)

If I buy a computer for $1000, the computer is worth more to me than the $1000. To the seller, the $1000 is worth more to them than the computer. Value has been created for both parties.
Never thought of doing that. Usually for articles I do not read the comments at all. And I only look at the article if I have a STRONG interest. But NOW I have a new tactic, thanks.
I have a son who is 11. All of his friends have smart phones. He will have friends over to the house and the friends will sit there and stare at their phones. My son who doesn't have a phone will be like, hey can you get off tiktok so we can play or go outside? It is rather sad to see this, they are hanging out sharing videos they find on their feeds through their phones. One time my son said, hey get off your phone and lets go scooter around the neighborhood, the kid replied, hey I think I am going to go home. He wanted to surf his phone more than actually hang out with his friend.

I think I made a very good decision not to give my son a phone until he is driving. Instead of surfing tiktok all day, he learns music, does origami, plays outside, helps me with the garden and many other things that bring him a lot of joy. I obviously help him with whatever interest he has, and I think him seeing the way his friends handle social media has made him not really want a phone anymore. He doesn't even mention it to me like he did when all his friends first started getting one. He sees how addicted they are and how he doesn't even have those friends over anymore.

I think people over estimate the "pariah" thing. I grew up in a family of alcoholism, so I chose never to drink. At first people would ask me to drink with them at parties and such. Eventually they realized I never gave in, so when they were out buying alcohol, they would always buy me a pack of soda so when I came I would have something to drink with them. So if the friends are good, I don't think our kids will be pariahs. I think/hope that instead our kids will just find people who appreciate and understand their choices or the choices of their parents. If they don't, are they that good of friends after all? I think it is okay to have less friends, if the quality is higher.
Not a good look for Parag as an early move as the CEO.
> I’ve been working on a tool: https://github.com/xldenis/creusot to put this into practice

Note that there are other tools trying to deal with formal statements about Rust programs. AIUI, Rust developers are working on forming a proper team or working group for pursuing these issues. We might get a RFC-standardized way of expressing formal/logical conditions about Rust code, which would be a meaningful first step towards supporting proof-carrying code directly within Rust.
Great! I would prioritize and emphasize FOSS though over proprietary.
In the US, fines for moving violations identified by camera are the responsibility of the car owner, regardless of who was driving at the time of the infraction. The inability to identify the driver just means that the owner is not convicted of a moving violation, but he is stil l financially responsible for the penalty.
I feel the need to point out that whilst permanent headlights make vehicles more visible most of the time, in the most dangerous scenario, they actually make you less visible.

Low sun behind the vehicle, especially if it's a motorbike, makes it very hard to see. If the bike isn't lit up at the front you stand a fighting chance. If it's got the front headlight on then you don't even see the silhouette, you just see bright light surrounding and bright light from the middle.

Motorcycle Action Group in the UK has had to run a handful of "repeal this safety law because it actually makes things more dangerous" campaigns in the last 20 years.
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Same exact issue, I could write the exact same thing word for word. I even "contacted Gmail support" 3 weeks ago to see if I could get anywhere on it, whatever void that message went to. Same "no data" in Postmaster Tools presumably because of my low volume, messages just variously go to spam in Gmail. The last one was a message to 9 Gmail recipients I had never contacted before which I guess was the issue.

It's been so frustrating that I'm contemplating going back to a provider, or at the very least paying for one of the "warmup services" mentioned here. If anyone has experience with those for non-business I'd love to read about it.
If your on a narrow road where you can't safely pull over, you don't stop. You continue until you could safely pull over enough.

Stopping would cause more harm than good if they're actually trying to get around you.
re: "It’s inventible"
"inevitable", perhaps?
I run that newsletter.
Is anyone even using the full Jira featureset? People keep telling me that X doesn't have as many features as Jira, and I'm just genuinely trying to think of what those could possibly be to justify it? Like what does Jira do that Gitlab does not do that's absolutely vital?
I don't get the "slap" reference.

To be honest, my hesitation is based on the number of local news articles that surface every so often. There's an alarmingly high number of Google results when you search for "zwrócił uwagę pobili" (he made a remark, they have beaten him) [0]

This may be in general a cultural factor. Even in non-violent contexts some people just do not want to be told what to do. I think Sarmatism [1] echoes to this day in many layers of the society in the form of ill-understood "freedom" [2]

Now, I may be selling Polish society short, most people are reasonably polite and the above are deviations, not the norm. But these deviations are still visible.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=zwr%C3%B3ci%C5%82+uwag%C4%99...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Liberty#Proverb
There is another reason to knock down doors: search warrant and no one available to open it. Also, they did knock down a door - the back one.
> and make a media shit show out of it

I doubt anyone in the media will care as much as you think they will.
Went to a Spring conference a dozen years ago. It was positioned as Javas a answer to Ruby on Rails.

Almost every speaker talked about they wished they could use ROR but work required Java. So this is that they could do. I could hear great pain leaking from their souls.
Correction: it still has a self-hosted version, they just got rid of the cheapest tier which didn’t support clustering. They still sell ”data center” licenses which enable clustering but don’t force you to use it as you can run it on a single node. With this change they now only have one flavour of self hosted Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket and then the cloud. Only the classic server license is sunsetting.
These look interesting, thank you.

Anyone else annoyed by cheap trick of substack, not showing the pricing of the newsletter until you put your email?
> Fairly sure it's the card processors dictating that, not Square.

Not really, no. The card processors hoist a bunch of restrictions, arbitrary and stupid, on adult businesses, but they do ultimately not have a flat ban on transactions with them. That was Square's decision.
I've been thinking about a project exactly to replace this sort of Excel misuse. The frontend should be about as Excel-like as possible, where you can just easily type (or import) as many rows and columns you like, but without the formulas and other real spreadsheet calculations. Instead, make it easy to add data types, validation for those types, foreign keys, etc, and store the whole thing in a database.
He let me change my hours so I now work 6:30am to noon. The rest of the day I play video games, watch tv, walk my dog, go grocery shopping, etc. I just make sure to show up to the the 15 - 30 minute "standups" throughout the afternoon.

It might not be an ideal schedule for everyone but I have almost 4 uninterrupted hours in the morning and I naturally wake up early so it works for me.
Depends on the enterprise. We don’t use it and we’re pretty big. Many other teams here don’t, either. Some do — it’s a big place.

I suspect a lot of enterprise devs inherit the decision, or move from project to project and don’t want to reinvent the wheel, and want a framework that’s portable (ie take their skills to another company), can hire for, etc.

We don’t because managing our dependencies is important for us. Also we have a long-lived “product” codebase so keeping it simple pays off. Concrete advantages for us:

Faster startup, smaller footprint, easier to reason about dependencies, and also the code is simpler, even for new joiners — anyone with a decent knowledge of Java will pick it up quickly.

It doesn’t tick the “has worked on Spring” checkbox but it’s not like it’s made us unemployable. People do leave from time to time.
Jira is pretty weird too, where is never clear whether it's an intended behavior or bug.

As a long time user of both, I'm much happier with Gitlab, but manager-types still struggle a bit, because too much technical clutter in their UI (they just want issues/boards, not CI/CD).

I got used to less features, and kind of see it as a benefit. We tend to push a product to its limits, then throw it out the window when it becomes to complex.
Agree. It is my conclusion after a lifelong pursuit of knowledge, that life continues on the so called other side. We mess with the entrance and exit of this world at our own peril.
I have myself been very close to death. So I know what it feels like. Do not let the fear of pain choose your path - and even inflict death on yourself or others.
As a stoic myself, I can only support listening to Seneca. Life is precious. But do not cling to it. Live life and have passions. But do not get caught up in them.
Yeah his take is very interesting, but I think it's also very personal, very much coming from his own personal milieu (which contains a lot of very reactionary right wing folks...). I think it's an example of what I meant by saying this conventional wisdom seems to be more informed by "vibes" more so than data. It's definitely true that the SSC and pg crowds have are deeply convinced that this is a problem unique to the left, I'm just skeptical that their belief is as factually based as they might think. The SSC article does a good job of incorporating this uncertainty, but the OP does not, in my view.
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35% of affected customers after a 6 day and counting outage. The rest is still in limbo and there’s no real timeline for when it’ll be resolved for those remaining. Atlassian is barely communicating.

“Successful” is doing an awful lot of work in the title.
It’s worth noting that some of the residents of Kalorama include Barack and Michelle Obama, Rex Tillerson, Hillary Clinton, Jared Kushner, and Jeff Bezos.
Tarek Abou-Khatwa, my guess on that name (i didnt even read the article, lol) is Morocco? wdyt?
cellphone != smartphone != smartphone with Android / iOS / whatever Huawei uses != ALSO using the worst apps like TikTok

I'm not completely convinced by your argument either : what happened to the hacker ethos ? Why do you assume that this time progress is going to come from big sclerotic companies rather than from the usual free (including free-loading) fringe groups ?

(Speaking of which, if we fuck up our civilization badly enough, the Amish look to be in a pretty good position to be the basis for the next one ! (Efficiency being antinomic with resilience.))
9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth
Sears had THE MOST amazing Christmas catalogs. A highlight of my childhood.
You don’t think he knew that going in? He didn’t buy his shares through Robinhood…
That unstyled short message on a default, white background is touching. I felt Chris reading those technical debt bullets. Kudos to him and good riddance!
> How is it non-deterministic?

It's non-deterministic in a practical sense; you cannot reproduce the exact circumstances that caused a certain behaviour. Maybe a bug flew by one of the cameras at a certain moment, or a pedestrian with certain type of clothing passed by. You get the idea.
He profited from his pumping in a lot of ways, just not by selling stock.
It's easier to charge a monthly fee for software that's constantly changing than it is for stable software.
The entire foundation of that state is rooted in that religion even if the military has been the dominant institution. Without that religion in the mix that nation would not exist at all
> caching, transaction management, DB access etc

Aren't these mostly features of your data layer e.g. Hibernate?

> It abstracts all the layers so you can easily replace everything under the hood with full compatibility as your business grows.

Java is a perfectly capable language for implementing abstractions. What does Spring offer you there that you can't do with plain old Java?
Since moving to post-its on the wall I haven't looked back.

(We're a 1-dev startup so YMMV)
When I’m walking next to a busy road (which the only two multiuse pathways near me are next to), it’s quite loud and most of the noise is tire noise. (To the point where you have to shout to have a conversation with someone walking with you.) Those trails would be much more pleasant without the cars there, electric or not.
Ya know in the recent Pirates of the Caribbean films the character Captain Jack Sparrow is essentially pursuing eternal life in each movie. I wouldn’t say he’s the “bad” guy that kills others but he does make some questionable ethical choices at times.