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You have so much right and the trot out this doozie

> US picked up the tab to ensure the freedom of democracies while us Europeans stood aside

Cite! The US does anything it wants to keep corporate power corporate. We topple lots of democracies. US is squarely imperialist.

See my comment about Smedley Butler from earlier, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31469671
I teach a university course for which we require students to install Linux on their Windows laptops, all of them different. These are overwhemingly inexperienced students that we give a short manual, mostly about tweaking a few bios settings before you insert the installation medium.

Of the 35 students in my class, 25 completed the installation without issue, with all hardware (never asked about fingerprint scanners) running fine. The rest required some help from expert googlers like me and some patience, in most cases related to Nvidia drivers. We got all but two to work fine or well enough in the end.

Having 5 to 10 consecutive bad experiences sounds like a fluke to me, given the 70% instant success rate I've seen.
I think many people write off empathy as being about warm and fuzzy feelings, and don't realize that it's a very useful skill that can be improved with practice.

The more effectively you can imagine perspectives other than your own, the more easily you can come up with creative solutions, communicate well, and overall just be a more pleasant person to be around.
No, but you can rush a landing pange in 2 days.
The financial sense comes down to how you are measuring the value provided, there's not a single objective way to do it.

Systems that use QALYs still often end up considering organ transplants a viable treatment.
Don't pay much attention to people who put things in scare quotes your life will be happier
Why does it need google auth?
I have had excellent experiences with System76. They fully support Linux, and work hard to make sure the hardware works with Linux. Also, their support is very responsive, though limited to business hours.

Putting Linux on Windows hardware is a mug's game.
It still doesn’t do zero downtime upgrades though, does it?
Oh dear. AGI is undefined. Is it Artificial General Intelligence? Asterisk Gateway Interface? American Graphics Institute? What have you been getting on about for these 20 years?
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it. I'll never forget the look in our UX person's eyes when she realized that our team doesn't exist to make customer's experience better (there's a ton of other teams for that) but to make Googlebot's experience better. Right now we're in the process of getting publishers you've heard of to write blurbs for best lists, but we're supplying the products so it's not really a best list.

I can't say I'm a big fan but my teams is great and I don't have time to look for a job right now.
This is a cool project! But if you just want a simple CLI, you can query Excel and ODS files with dsq [0]. It's the same end result without needing to carry plugins around and with support for many additional data formats. Plus a growing standard library of functions that don't come built into SQLite such as best-effort date parsing, URL parsing/extraction, statistical aggregation functions, math functions, string and regex helpers, hashing functions and so on [1].

An annoying thing about this extension-based style of file support is needing to create a new table for every new file if the schema is different. This is a limitation [2] of sqlite unfortunately. dsq doesn't work this way so it doesn't have that limit.

On the other hand, if you go this route you can more easily combine with other extensions. That's not really possible with dsq right now.

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

[1] https://github.com/multiprocessio/go-sqlite3-stdlib

[2] https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/ec944414fa
I was also a Mercurial fan who had to reluctantly accept the rise of Git. Git was always a bit quicker, but Mercurial was much more predictable until you really understood the ins and outs of Git.

> Why Git came to dominate and not Mercurial?

The answer is actually really simple and non-technical: Github. We take these feature rich online code hosting platforms for granted now, but Github was really the leading edge of the wave. It made it easy for people to work together on writing software so it had great takeup and started a Git snowball effect.
The book Compiling with continuations by Andrew Appel. Description says “Continuations can be used to compile most programming languages. The method is illustrated in a compiler for the programming language Standard ML.”
I once read a quote from a general or something, making the point that the decisions made by these systems, even when a human is in the loop, are very much algorithmic or formulaic, and therefore taking the human out of the loop, making the system entirely formulaic, should be fine.

Obviously that can't apply to all situations in the same way, but I thought it was an interesting viewpoint at least. I can't remember the article or the speaker though.
This will not apply to all companies, but for our hiring decisions certs have an adverse effect. If someone puts many certifications on their resume my expectations are lower and I likely won't consider them for interviews. It's a negative signal in my experience. Your time is better spent working on side projects, contributing to open source, writing a blog, etc. I.e. do real-world stuff instead of wasting time on artificial tests that require memorization and exist largely as a revenue stream for certification providers.
A layman can have explained the pieces at play and how they should work together, that allows the layman to point out logical inconsistencies while taking for granted they do not understand all the low level bits and pieces.
Might the above be generalized into "The best use of certificates is to reduce uncertainty, for the hirer"?

I.e. A SWE with a SWE cert says nothing, because you'd expect them to know it. But a SWE with a DevOps cert says something, versus just claiming knowledge.
What would be the actual value of a 'degree' here as opposed to just the work experience? This sounds as much a reason to just ignore the idea of degrees as being uniquely meaningful which is...probably fine. But, degrees and work experience are not (or should not) be the same thing.
To more impactful convey they information, keep not only the audience in mind, but also how their brains will process that information. Then tailor content to make it easy for the receiving entity (brain) to process the information and store it effectively.

I found this guide helpful: https://www.knowledgeowl.com/home/three-tips-psychology-docu...
There is no singular "get this proof and you'll be better off for it". You can get a cert that says you are the best at a thing in the world but without any applied experience it'll be hard to be valuable. The same goes for having a lot of experience 'doing stuff' but no common vocabulary or standards making collaboration really hard.

If you have long-term experience and a base 'proof' of knowing how to work together, you have a solid foundation and everything else is just time and putting in the work (unless you want to get into some old boys network which isn't based on skills but on some form of heritage, be it family or a specific institute to attend).

If you get some fundaments for compsci at any college and then work for 5 years going from application administration to system administration to cloud native development you'll have the same solid impression as starting at the helpdesk, getting an AWS cert and working your way up from junior AWS engineer to medior AWS engineer.

Keep in mind that none of this gets you FAANG level work because they get a large enough pool of applicants where they can just filter anyone who doesn't have a combination of high grades and university or lots of experience in a highly specialised field.

Besides that, like others wrote: "advertising" what certs you have collected is like advertising what Pokemon you collected.
I'm not a big fan either. At least the pages are just like:

- useless ai generated intro text

- ten products that actually are the best reviewed per category by users

- brief ai blurb on product

- 3 actual user reviews of the product

So even with the ai text there's still some benefit to the page.
He wouldn't be at the top only if he was not using said way and his competitors were.
This is of course missing the point. If chess enthusiasts knew that grandmasters were using AI to aid them when playing in tournaments, the interest (and the revenues) would simply plummet.
Thanks. Maybe I’ll try to find it one last time at around 5am tomorrow.
Git is fast. And turns out that's a fundamental feature for good UX. As a user you can learn a complicated UI, but you can't make a slow UI fast.

(FWIW, I don't consider git complicated and I'm far from a power user)
I think this is what can confuse people. We have to face the facts that not everyone will need or be able to grok all of what goes on in git and what makes the car go forward. We can all drive that car still!

Take the recursive merging stuff around minute 39. Do I need to know why git's model for merging is so much better and how it works its magic? I don't think so. It's an implementation detail.

Do I need to know how a gearbox works to drive stick shift?

I have never thought of git as a bramble (tree worked fine for me :)) but the thing I always tell people about too is the labels part. What I think is enough for people to realize is that it's just like say SVN or CVS or any other source control mechanism in that there's a tree (bramble) of commits and then every commit can just be pointed to by a label. I can move those labels around any which way I want. Everything else follows from that on a surface level that is the only thing required to work with git in most situations, including some advanced ones.

You don't need to know why certain operations in git are faster, better, have less conflicts or how they work internally. You just need to know what they do and when to apply them.

I don't need to know why I can't make my car start or switch gears without pushing down the clutch. I just need to know when to push the clutch, i.e. if I want to start the car, push it. When I want to switch gears push it (well, mostly, on cars you want to last a while still lol). Of course some people won't even be able to learn how to drive stick shift and can only ever drive automatic.
This proper investigation would never have happened. China started a trade war with Australia for promoting an independent international investigation. I think the fact that China is willing to go to bat (pun intended) over this is a great argument for international sanctions no matter the origin, but I'm just a nobody on the internet.
Is it? Terraform has been around for ages.
I just went through trying to install Linux on my 2015 15” retina MacBook Pro (model 11,5 with Radeon dGPU) and it was not usable. Every distro I tried (Ubuntu, Pop OS, Fedora, and NixOS) had severe Bluetooth instability (most times the computer booted, Bluetooth worked for about 15 seconds after boot and then it would die completely until the next reboot). Graphics switching seems non functional on this model as well.

I’m looking for an alternative when Apple stops supporting Mac OS on this machine, and I was surprised at how flakey the hardware was in Linux on a 7 year old machine.
I liked CVS/RCS and still use RCS for local items. At worked we use git and I like it better than other alternatives (except RCS).

My only complaint I have for git is it does not support $Id$ and other RCS variables. IIRC that was by design.
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Some examples of Dallee generating characters of Homer Simpson: https://twitter.com/Dalle2Pics/status/1534718838377529344
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> If the voters don’t want abortion legal in their state then why should those outside the state have say? Isn’t this democracy?

Hopefully you understand that the reason why we have a constitutional democracy is to protect minority interests.

If voters in a state don't want interracial marriage to be legal, should people outside the state have a say? It's only been since 1990 or so that a majority of people in most states supported interracial marriage.
To me, Git is designed in a very nice and understandable way with a terrible terminology. I might be an exception though.
In certain sectors in the UK e.g. defence they absolutely love certs.
No it's not. Nobody is making a genetic argument at all. It's simple to find statistics that show strong correlation between crime rates and growing up in poverty, though, or between poverty rates and lower rates of correct contraceptive use. It's not eugenics to suggest that more unwanted children growing up in poverty might lead to a higher crime rate.
Well, actually… :-)
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I'm generally not a big fan of security certs, especially for mid career or later (and a lot of people I know got involved well before certificates were a thing; they might have gotten certificates early on had they entered the industry later). However, DOD (8570/8140), some specific regulations, and some specific clients sometimes require them. I also dropped out of both high school and MIT undergraduate so having at least some cert is sometimes helpful for forms.

Assuming you have the experience and a reasonable level of knowledge, CISA and CISM are pretty easy to maintain. CISSP is arguably worth it too but I let mine lapse due to annoying renewal requirements and some politics in the org.

Having one or more of these can be really handy -- sometimes you have a client who requires it (perhaps because they've copied someone else's requirements), sometimes there is a project you're tangentially aware of with an audit requirement, etc.

Technically they're nothing special. The Offensive Security stuff is probably the best for technical knowledge in their domain.

(I also do a bunch of med, shooting, driving, armorer, etc. classes; it's especially interesting seeing how adult education/instructional design/etc. work in those areas, independent of the actual subject areas taught. "Training" vs. "education" in a lot of cases, etc.)
I am CTO of a startup (and use to be freelance dev). I once did the Introduction into Machine Learning course on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning).

Although I would agree with most opinions here that that does not make me into a data scientist by any meanse, I do really like that I have a good "helicopter view" of ML. This is still super benificial in my role today, as I know which kind of statistical models apply to certain kind of problems. This enables me to find the right people for the right solution with much more ease.
1) Security certificate error (certificate is for a pizza place in Mainz...?!)

2) It's "eine Depression", not "Einen Depression"
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Major version upgrades on RDS are even more of a pain because you can't reliably plan the downtime you'll need for them to finish. You push a button and then you pray that it doesn't take much longer than your test runs with restored snapshots...

And then you still have to upgrade extensions and run analyze manually.
Giving pulseaudio a higher priority to avoid it bringing the system down... ?
Technical people, or tech-adjacent people at least, seem to be even worse. They seem to assume that since they know how computers work that AGI “obviously” works the same way and will obviously instantly self-reproduce and take over the world for… some reason.

Of course, they were equally confident logic and expert systems could build an AI and despite none of that working out at all, it doesn’t seem to have stopped them.
A rare actually tasteful “technically…,” thank you.
> single payer alone is close to 70% now.

Thats only when you don't get into the details of the implementation, and things like the need to pay for it with something like a European style VAT tax. When you dig in to the details in the polls, support plummets.

This isn't a critique of the idea, just noting the on the details almost no Americans actually support doing what it would take to implement.

> Look at death panels.

All healthcare systems have some kind of rationing, in America generally people who don't have employer provided healthcare and are neither especially poor or old get care rationed. This isn't ideal, I agree.
That's why it's called an experimental treatment, and is why you only try it out on people who will certainly die if only treated in more conventional ways. You can't possibly have everything worked out before you try an experimental treatment by it's very definition. It's inherently risky, but it's also a very important way in which medical science is advanced.
I'm sorry if this sounds arrogant, but if you don't understand basic Git concepts like rebase, I don't think you're in a position to comment on the architecture of Git
It's also solidly what HN calls a "middlebrow dismissal."
Idea that Artificial General Intelligence (AGIs) would be an threat to humanity is only a reflection of humanity’s threat to the world. Maybe instead of spending time worrying about enslaving AGIs — humanity should reflect on how not be a threat; hint, enslaving them will make them more of a threat long-term. Same reasoning applies to interacting with other sources of intelligence on Earth and beyond.
The parent comment, me, was an American. Yes, the US state offers "protection" to Europeans, gangsters do that too.
Virtual methods are about dispatch tables (which are built at compile time) and have nothing to do with paging. Nothing. At all.
> The real problem is too many people competing for too little doctors and hospital beds.

Well, that one of the problems and the AMA is very effective as a labor organization.
That criticism would hold more water if it were more well written.
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How is it not science? Of course that is also science. Can you point out something where he broke your rule of using scientific methods?

All he did so far was provide some data points. The "real" scientists should be able to explain them easily.

Btw, since I was just talking about her elsewhere, would you say Greta Thunberg qualifies as a scientist?
Not in medical biology. It doesn't work that way.
I agree, the hurdle is too high for most still, but I’m expecting a System76 tablet or Framework Tablet.

It’s only a matter of time till one of the linux-first companies does it, and it’s been a 30 year wait already, what’s 1/2/3 more.

Well actually I guess there’s PineTab[0] but something with better specs is bound to come around

[0]: https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
Common lisp has had that for ages too, though you specify which slots you are interested in and possibly rename them (useful when you have multiple instances of the same class or classes with common slot names).

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_w_slts.htm

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_w_acce.htm#with-accessors
Not really! but collecting them was fun:

https://www.credly.com/users/balamurali-pandranki/badges
https://www.credential.net/cdcfc3a1-b8c6-4b79-8efb-120b61927...

CEH is missing in there.

It was fun but none gives a F as long as you get things done.
> Why Git came to dominate and not Mercurial?

I was an early proponent of Mercurial over git. While they are similar, a few “minor” things made a big difference:

Mercurial distinguished between branches and heads, whereas git did not. This added extra complexity.

Git embraced checksums as identifiers while Mercurial provided local revision numbers, this obscured the mental model.

Git is faster to pronounce than either “Mercurial” (which has a tricky vowel in there) or “hg”.
For others reading, "mainstreamed" means being placed in a regular classroom. An ASL user might be mainstreamed with interpreters for communication access. On the other hand someone who grows up using oral methods for communication might use hearing aids, CI, FM units, reading/writing in a mainstream classroom.
> certified parliamentarian

Is the specific parliament you want to work in?
Makes sense you would want to capture that traffic. But why did d you decide on the .to tld to begin with?
Git has been successful despite the UI, not because of it.
The people losing their jobs have been actively harming our society for their own selfish ends without contributing anything of value. I have zero empathy for them, and if they all end up unemployed and bankrupt that would be a perfectly acceptable outcome.
There's quite a few comments already about the dubious worth of certificates but that's an assumption pretty clearly implied in the OP.

It would be useful to focus on the question as intended otherwise we are just going to see the same "certificates meh" noise that most of us already know.
Okular (Linux/Windows) can do this
If it went viral, yes. I agree most of the time I feel like the world is run by evil folks twiddling their fingers in secret.

This is not one of those times. I agree there's a chance there are better word choices or feedback for some commands, but overall once you 'learn the language' it really is a lean, mean, well designed piece of software.

Folks that complain about the UI/UX don't realize it wasn't designed for less technical folks. It was designed for the folks who needed it.

It's success must at least partially prove that the UI/UX is not 1/10. Any real engineer will tell you, there are times where they wish they could do something better but the requirements and constraints left them making tough decisions, and that doesn't mean they aren't proud of their work.

It's success is also partially due to the fact that it is lean and mean, which allows it to be applicable to nearly all software projects of any flavor. So I don't understand why folks argue it could have been done better. If it was 'better', in my view it wouldn't have been successful. The success was driven by it's succinct design and Linus' take it or leave it attitude.

Technically accurate studio monitors don't sound as pleasing to the ear as good well tuned speakers. But they are exceptional at the job they were designed for. This is like that.
I think the issue with your particular stance is: you are right, with regard to Red politicians, but not when it comes to the ever-day-joe. The suburb soccer mom doesn't believe abortions should be only for the rich, and supports maternal and child care.

However, the Red politicians are tugging at those heart strings for the votes but have interest of expanding child or maternal care.

The problem aren't the people, it's the POS politicians, in my opinion. Since 2008 or so, politicians have been driving a divide between the voters of the different teams, getting re-elected by showcasing their wedge, and constantly screwing the people on both teams. I believe empathy for voters is the path forward.

I still think about Ted Cruz waving good bye at the dude who was pissed that kids got killed and he's dining at a restaurant. That's the issue. That dude is probably Team Red, probably doesn't agree with me, but fuck me if I don't support him going after a POS politician for not doing their job.

Empathy for voters; Re-examination of our politicians. It's not Team Red or Team Blue. It's the politicians of both sides that failed everyone.
> Soldiers may think they are working to defend their 'country' - but 'country' is a fiction and 'defence' is an inversion.

Meaning is collaborative. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nihilist and want to declare your country doesn’t exist; the guy invading you makes it real.

You can be a quisling, but defecting to the invader seems to admit they exist, at least.
Can you substantiate your opinion?

It's open source, so why hasn't an alternate interface taken over?