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It depends upon how SVN is used, and for the team I'm on, it's going to be painful. SVN allows you to checkout a subdirectory of any given repository, and because of our history, we have everything my team writes (10 programs) in two repositories, with a lot of sharing between the two repos. This is something that is ... not easy ... to replicate with git [1].

As far as Macs go, the company I worked for was 50/50 Mac/Windows, with the majority (if not outright all) of the developers using Macs. We got bought out, and our new corporate overlords were purely Windows, and didn't know what to do about our Macs. Personally, I ended up with a fully manged Windows laptop that I never used [2] for three years before I could send it back and send me a "semi-managed" Mac laptop.

As for Jira, eh. I didn't mind it that much, except when management mandated that every team use the same queue for everything. That queue didn't match our preferred method of working, so we kept our old queue purely for internal stuff. Our time tracking system is way worse than Jira by far.

[1] Not to say I love SVN---I hate it actually, and would prefer to use git. But having used SVN for over a decade on these two repos, and given their structure, it's going to be interesting.

[2] Except to turn it on to have it autoupdate when I got "the email". What a colossal waste of resources. My team kept on using the Macs.
Anytime! FYI we've released a new product KX Insights which is a cloud native version of kdb+ that supports ANSI-SQL (PostgreSQL) and has a bunch of ease-of-use and interoperability improvements to open the technology to a much wider user base :)
That was definitely not 'the big pitch' of web3. That's a pitch of nfts. Different web3 companies have different pitches. Uniswap for example has little to do with virtual world items and is definitely web3.
Supply, Demand, and Stagflation
Too much money in the market looking for an investment. Well at least the boom times are over for now.
To stretch this metaphor even further, I guess some people don’t believe this is a prison and wonder why you are digging up the community park with a bunch of holes that seem dangerous and at the very least tear up the greenery we could have played on.
Several years ago I would prefer to wait for some lay people to get safely to the moon and then decide for myself. Currently I think that the only people who will make it to the moon are founders and maybe first couple of layers of their Ponzi pyramid.
I know this is completely subjective, and his millions of subscribers tell me my opinion is far from ubiquitous, but he's also just straight up obnoxious to me. One of those people whose voice, demeanor, appearance, everything, just immediately turns me off.
Afghan female ninjas want to participate in international competitions
I don't think that's true.

On my GNOME system GSConnect uses GIO. I don't have a KDE system to look at right now but I would eat my hat if they're using SSHFS instead of KIO.
Particularly egregious given that they ignore the Terner Center Study's main finding, which is that the #1 predictor of the cost efficiency of housing is density. If you want cheaper housing, build it more densely. Whether it's union construction or not is a rounding error.

This reads to me to be either deliberately anti-labor or someone who didn't want to make the obvious but hard to fix point in favor or making a divisive and clickbaity one.
> If this "transfer between games" thing is such a killer feature why isn't it happening now?

Do you even play games? It's literally happening between Blizzard games lol. Hearthstone and WoW had all kinds of cross-game cosmetics (mounts, card backs, etc.). Let alone all the goodies you get from Blizzcon in-game (which have a sizable secondary grey market on eBay).
rtings.com has great reviews for electronics, measuring detailed metrics and putting them through various tests. (for example, their AirPods Pro review: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-pro-...)

Outdoor Gear Lab for outdoor product reviews: https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/topics/camping-and-hiking/bes...
Politicizing the person is something that happens to some people against their will.

For example people don’t choose to be gay, it just happens like being tall or having blue eyes. But in Florida there is a law now saying teachers can’t talk about gay people in school. Totally still fine to talk about tall people, though.

This is why “Pride Month” is a big deal but tall people month is not. Gay people didn’t choose to become “political.” But since they are subjected to that scrutiny, they of course want to stand up for themselves, and other people who value equality under the law want to stand up with them.
> More than half a dozen affordable housing projects in California are costing more than $1 million per apartment to build

A quick summary of the supposed reasons for the high price tag discussed in this article:

- increases is labor and material prices

- stringent environmental and labor standards

- high parking requirements

- lengthy local approval processes

- bureaucracy to secure financing

- [paying] construction workers union-level wages

- paying attorneys and consultants to navigate state and local bureaucracies to secure financing

- consulting fees and other administrative costs
That number is wrong. For 2021 Amtrak received 4.7 billion in Federal money while their revenue was 2.1 billion.
This link says the share of cost burdened renters has increased from 25% to 50% between 1960 and 2014.

https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/rent-growth-since-196...

That's a type of inflation. The share of cost burdened renters has increased by 1.3% per year relentlessly for 55 years.
I did one of these after a long day spent deep in the guts of the web framework (Elixir/Phoenix) trying to optimize performance under DDOS on an ad-tech system.

They gave me a codebase with a "REST" API for their mobile client that had some problems and wanted me to spend "4 hours" adding features to it and fixing any problems that I saw.

I made the changes, then told them that the biggest problem was that their REST API was just ad-hoc JSON over HTTP, with ill-defined data and poor error handling. I recommended using GraphQL, which defines the over-the-wire format and error handling, reduces network round-trips, and is "self-serve", avoiding many meetings between front-end and back-end people and increasing dev velocity.

This was too much for them, as they were expecting some changes to put lipstick on the pig. I said that there were other REST-based frameworks that would add standard structure (e.g. JSON API) and support introspection with e.g. OpenAPI.

I got rejected because I "didn't have enough experience with the framework", and "it didn't seem like a good fit". Their "seniors" doing the interviewing were not able to build a system that worked before they ran out of money, and they are now out of business.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned ventilated prose, which is like this but even moreso: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose/
It's probably on par right now, but I think we can expect HUGE improvements on the one, so it gets better than the other and the NEXT BIG THING.

Hope that helps.
> But as an user, none of this matters. You can claim an id and no government or "owner" will take it from you...

I don't think this is even true.

For one, the service has a public governance process, and it is almost certainly the case that a proposal could be passed through that process which seized ownership of a "domain".

Second, any actual government that this service is operating under the jurisdiction of has the ultimate veto power -- they can order it to take action under the threat of legal charges against their company's principals, or the seizure of their infrastructure. You may see this as a problem, but it isn't a problem which can be solved by software.
A carbon tax is correcting the negative externality of using the carbon. So you are paying for the harm that you are doing to society.

In that same exact way, a land value tax is correcting the capture of the positive externality that is coming from your neighbors for your particular location because of your monopoly over it.
Anecdata from a number of friends in NYC: the mafia controlling much of the market on glass (windows) and other construction materials, along with union jobs costing a premium… with YoY increases because they can, is driving prices much higher than where they should be.

Mafia never left. Just transformed
if the placebo effect works, why not?
Yes, the numbers are from a toy example, one that the author used to make one uncontroversial point in one section of the post. Those are the numbers we are discussing in this subthread, which began with:

> The idea that the difference between 0.9005 and 0.90005 is "small" is … weird.

We aren't talking about a situation where both filters are processing all the air in the room. We're talking about a situation where the filters are only processing 10% of the air in the room. That's the defining characteristic of the hypothetical.
It's probably because we're using a native select element, which likes to steal selection on Android.
No, building codes are fine. Building codes exist for a reason, and just because you don't know that reason doesn't make them less valid. If you have a particular code example that you think is ridiculous i'd invite discussion on it, you may be surprised how many experts on the subject are floating around.
Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx, Richard Prior, etc. Comedians of old engaged in all of the above. I do not know a comedian that existed prior to 10 years ago that did not have some sort of sexist joke (Obviously Andy Clay takes the cake, I think), short of maybe some pretentious super wholesome "comedian" doing "wholesome jokes"
Gitlab Enterprise.

It's _far_ from perfect, but Gitlab Issues is a damn sight better than JIRA IMHO...
Only if you yourself don't know what you're talking about...
So why not impose an internal visa system?

Instead of having people buy up the property and jack the prices to shit, just have some notion of "Californian citizenship".

* If you were born there, you're grandfathered in by birthright.

* If you move out, we'll pay you some money or whatever.

* If you want to move in, either pay a big sum of money or convince the government you're helpful.

Then they could use the money from these sales to invest in the community, rather than it going to property speculators.
> In an operating room or chip fab, the room would be over pressure and the new air coming into the room would be filtered.

You're describing a situation where the filter is on the intake, but this thread and article are about purifiers within rooms. I agree that the math is really different in your situation.
Since some are throwing out good, more specific, gear tests. I'd like to throw out Baby Gear Lab (https://www.babygearlab.com) if you need baby stuff. They're way better than the Wirecutter because they're run by experts in baby gear. (I'm not affiliated in any way, but I'm a new parent that found it super useful.)
What you're asking for is a la carte access while still getting discounted subscription pricing, pushing all the risk onto the business. Consume as much as you want, but pay nothing when you don't. Sounds like a crap deal for the business.
I question your assumption about the velocity of money belonging to rich people. Barring flash trading, if they’re not hoarding it and collecting interest, they’re spending it on real goods or investing? Isn’t that more along the lines of what seibelj said? Aren’t the rich mode likely to sit and let it collect interest?
Yes, but in that case you wouldn't be comparing 0.9005 and 0.90005, but rather 0.0005 and 0.00005. No one is arguing that the difference in filters wouldn't matter in a cleanroom context, just that recirculating air in a home the difference in filtration is more like 0.9005 vs 0.90005, and the difference between those numbers is small (in any context to which they apply).
Well said. I have to deal with both of them in my current role, and while Jira is... not great, ServiceNow is next-level-clunky.
I had one take-home "4 hour" assignment that required me to install two different, poorly documented, third party packages on my computer before I could even begin to write the code. The Java-loaded piece of junk that I needed didn't work with my existing setup, and I wasn't going to rebuild my entire system just for some arbitrary assignment. It might have been "4 hours" if I already had an environment with all the extra cruft that they used, but if I had to fart with VMs or rebuild my machine? No, just no.

It's reasonable to expect someone have various languages on their personal boxen, and maybe git, but not repositories, specialized third party tools, etc. I don't run Puppet at home, for example.
If the land tax is identical between an apartment complex with 1,000 people and one across the street in a different school district with 10,000 people then it can’t.
Yeah, I disagree - some things that look nice do not take away from Japanese bureaucracy and the biggest things - literacy in the language.

Many people praise Japan, and it's culture, and alot of it is amazing, but they fail to highlight the dark sides.

1. Mobile Phones and Mobile Internet - yeah it's still the same.
2. Fax machines are common for business to consumer and business to business.
3. Cultural barriers that even natives fail to overcome.

The whole thread is just someone highlighting whatever made it to "top" reddit posts, w/o any background understanding.
This article is Northern California, not Southern, but are the building codes so much more ridiculous that the construction cost is higher than you can pay to buy new-build townhouses or standalone houses in LA County?

My other question would be: why are we building new instead of buying up old hotels, old office or condo buildings, etc, if building new costs so much?
That's easy to say until you consider that the people who need subsidized housing are also the people least likely to be able to attain contraceptives and abortion services.
Sunstone – the last unreleased Lisp machine architecture from Symbolics [pdf]
More bedrooms means the apartment can house more people. While the entire unit is more expensive, it’s probably cheaper per-bedroom. A four-bedroom affordable housing unit could be occupied by a multi-generational household, or maybe a bunch of young adult friends.
People have elderly parents too.
I tried one in a Sega or Taito arcade center in Tokyo. The "game" was just to pee as much as possible to beat an npc while some other cute character was cheering me up. There were no controls required at any point but it was amusing. Unlike the electronic washlets with the waterfall noise that are ordinary, I think this one is an unusual gimmick.
I'm sure you wrote this comment with soot on a tree bark, stuffed it into a glass bottle and hoped that someone far away with electricity and computers would post it online.
Yes, but in general I prefer I don't have errands I need to run. Other than picking up wine or whatever :-) I'm certainly fine with going into stores but I prefer to start out with some base-level stuff even if it adds a few pounds.
Wow, this is scary. These VR goggles remind me of the visitor's sunglasses in V. You don't think...?

https://www.scifipulse.net/richard-herd-passes-to-the-final-...
That's cool, but ironically middle class (even upper middle class) folks cannot find any "affordable housing" in SB. I gave up after saving for 10+ years and moved to San Diego.
His dad is living like a king of Canada though.
What happens when the Mighty servers are down?
You can block explicitly political stuff (I've seen some filter lists floating around that purport to do this for Google), but it will be hard to block implicitly political stuff without blocking 50% of the internet.

As an easy example: looking up where to get a booster shot for COVID-19? That's very political, at least in the US.
conveniently, they leave out the #1 cause of high construction price. Lack of density. Residential construction gets cheaper the more of it you build in an area. It's possible this is not a popular notion amoung the readers of this article and that's why it was left out but it is in fact the main conclusion of the Terner Center study that they cited.
I live in Silicon Valley. I went to one of the few clinics covered by my insurance, and the dentist spoke in heavily accented English I could barely understand, exacerbated by wearing a mask and a face guard. They showed me my X-rays and told me “something something cavity something something” and had me make an appointment for a filling. I came back and got the filling, then they told me to make another appointment for another filling. This happened eleven times. Eleven fillings after not having received one filling in the previous 20 years.

For my next checkup, I searched and searched for a dentist who spoke in unaccented English I could clearly understand. He checked my teeth and cheerfully told me I needed to have all my lower front teeth removed and a bridge implant. Out of pocket cost: $30,000.

I couldn’t possibly afford this and decided to get a second opinion. The problem is, my insurance only covers one checkup every 6 months. In the meantime I agonized over how I would possibly pay for my extensive dental work, and I managed to find another dentist with whom I could communicate.

I asked this dentist if I needed the $30,000 procedure and she scoffed!

I was instantly furious and gave the Rolls Royce doctor bad reviews on Yelp and Google Maps. I’ve been getting a real-life lesson on the practices described in the article. I plan on sharing it with everyone I know.
That was a royal you, not to the OP. the you is the fictional person in that example.
I hope you're right, but I'm suspicious. For the ones I know well there, they worked because the didn't need permission from the powerful Git, Slack, and Docker were definitely like that in the early days. But planning systems are chosen by the powerful and cater to their needs first.

There are plenty of minimal planning tools out there. Github issues, for example. Or I use KanbanFlow quite a bit. But having driven adoption of simple tools, I think you at least need an environment of benign neglect, as with a skunkworks project, or a tech project at a non-tech company. From what I've seen, in a lot of companies systems like Jira are too entrenched and too visible to management to allow for guerilla-style adoption of something that's more developer/worker friendly.
Just get offline
NFS doesn't do great on high-latency connections, but it really shines on (and was designed for) a high-speed LAN.
Poverty like means "regular life is unaffordable" by definition. The solution to "poverty line" is people getting more income, not cheaper housing.

"28 years" is still too high, but the units don't compare directly. Use "living wage" income for that.
Some ideas ...

- Do not put requirements into the job description if they aren't true requirements. For example, "ability to lift 25 pounds" is one that I see a lot, along with various other physical abilities that I don't think devs working from home actually need regularly.

- Offer extra paid (or unpaid!) time off, a 4-day work week, or other types of schedule flexibility.

- Minimize the required travel or indicate flexibility in this area for disabled applicants. (In-person meetups and adventures sound fun and totally reasonable for most able-bodied people who can travel alone, but for a wheelchair user who needs a personal care aide, your quarterly off-site to go skiing at Tahoe is, well, not a great fit.)

I'm answering mainly from the perspective of a physically disabled person with mobility issues. I'm sure people with other sorts of disabilities would come up with a very different list.
> Why is Epic going to design and support a Fortnite version of your hat NFT when they get nothing out of it?

They do though. The argument is two-pronged: (a) developers earn secondary fees on open markets, and (b) players get to resell stuff they don't want. It's literally a win-win.
I don’t think bitcoin actually saves you from these problems. It replaces something like a Swiss bank account with a group of miners who you have never met running code you don’t have time to audit (and probably couldn’t practically speaking), and can’t hire a lawyer to understand for you.
Shouldn't need another computer either. The extra security is having that one computer you use all the time participating on the login. If it's the one you are using, there is no reason at all to require another.
IMO, most engineers massively under-estimate the time it takes to do "simple" tasks if you don't already have the infrastructure/environment set up for it.
Did you want an exhaustive breakdown of the evidence compiled for you? You stated what you thought the "conspiracy" was, I showed that it wasn't at all what people who doubt the Helen Keller story are claiming. Also you've done nothing to argue against any of the claims being made in the video or the comments section of it, just that it seemed like random people ranting. That's what we're doing. That's what the internet is. Only take your arguments from people through approved venues or a flashy TED talk? Here you go, have fun being a big brained critical thinker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cflCyyEA2I
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