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I don't celebrate it, and I don't want anything special to happen. I tend to get somewhat melancholic about this token day, marking another year of life has gone, an entire year less left. I find that I get more so if celebrating it and left tired in the evening.. So I just prefer to ignore it and try not to think about it.
True! Here's a pull request to BEIR to compare Manticore with Elasticsearch in terms of relevance https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir/pull/92. Spoiler: in this test Manticore provides better relevance than Elasticsearch in average. Of course you can tune both further and Elasticsearch now has KNN which when combined with BM25 can give even better relevance. In general I would say for most users the results quality in terms of full-text relevance is about the same in Elasticseach and Manticore.
It's usually only a "beautiful extendable maintainable paragon of elegance and purity" in the eyes of the original architect. Everyone else sees it as leaking abstraction with bolts everywhere to keep the original idea somewhat working... Or just a massive pile of technical debt.

Code quantity is always dependent on how well the person making this judgment understands the software. While I'm sure that everyone will agree that there are some clearly better ways of doing things, they sure as hell won't all agree on what these clearly better ways are.

One person's pile of garbage is the next person's perfect implementation with easy to understand procedural logic.

Please take note that I'm explicitly not saying that any implementation is better then another. I'm just trying to convey that the term technical debt very much depends on the mindset of the person looking at the implementation
> Reasoning About Software

What's wrong with this? I need a way to describe techniques that make it easier to...well I don't even know another way to say it. Maybe I'm biased by my experience in formal verification, a field in which it's expected that you can formally study a program's behavior.
I agree, and I love the metaphor too, but you have to admit that something about the metaphor isn’t reaching peoples’ brains the way a good metaphor does.

A good litmus test here is to ask someone, “what if I told you that technical debt was originally a good thing?”... Like “Yes! Let’s go and get some technical debt, it will be great!” And so, can you understand why it might have started out that way?

People who really get the metaphor, can understand why it was originally a good thing to be desired. Because debt is a useful tool for the same reason, and if you can pursue what “being unable to take on technical debt” looks like, you can understand that it was a reaction to waterfall-style approaches.

But a solid 80-90% of people in tech don't understand how it could possibly be positive... “tech debt” is just a shorthand for the stuff that is causing development to go slower than you would have liked it to go.
Exactly. The Godot components are very performant, and the glue code doesn't get in the way. And Godot 4 is getting compute shaders, IIRC.
I'd say it's more than that. These lists aren't hurting us. I think caused by the kind of people who write or give heavy credence to these to kinds of insanely hyperbolic lists about the future employing the authority to do stuff like:

-Push to tell you when you need to wear what

-That you need to put something in your body

-Say whether you can/should go outside

-If you can have what job

-Whether you can do business

-Whether you can travel

And if it's not you, it's someone you know and love and care about. Perhaps you have nobody you know or love or care about due to atomization and then the source of the distress would be obvious. It's further caused by the fact that this willingness to employ the authority at the state, employer, and organizational level is active all the world over, and isn't going away. You can agree with the authority's reasoning, you can value the importance of public health and sustainability. You can trust these authorities deeply. You can vocally champion the authority's legitimacy. It won't erase the pressure's effect on you emotionally and spiritually underneath all that.

I say this as I struggle to cope with the fact that in my personal life an local authority figure who I love and respect and overwhelmingly agree with is becoming more authoritarian. Authority doesn't stop taking territory from us, in pursuit of its vision for growth and success. It doesn't relinquish control. That's a ratchet that won't go back and stay back without breaking it. Authority will go as far as dehumanizing you, and openly mismanaging your resources if it feels doing so is a safe way to prove a point of its own victorious supremacy over you. What I'm experiencing is that when you live under a growing authority who holds your community in grasp, here's what will happen: doubts, fear and despair will threaten to rule your heart. It's really hard to be strong to that. Some people can't seem to do it on their own, and need each other's help and the help of those who love them unconditionally. Because authority and its figures will too often act as if they love you, only conditionally. Legalistic authority is deeply scared of how border-transcending solidarity and love resurge from the darkest depths of death.

Take care, to all of you. You're built to love and be loved, even if you absolutely hate this post.
Well, he was of his time of course. It's not realistic to expect him to have an anachronistically enlightened view of animal rights (beyond what might be considered common even today). It wasn't anything he wasn't prepared to do himself for that matter. I think his general standard of interpersonal behaviour more than allows him the descriptor of gentleman - by the standards of his day, naturally.

(As an aside, he did pioneer the use of motor sleds for antarctic expeditions, but that was a disaster for him too.)
The design of the first iPhone SE (which came out it 2016) is that of the iPhone 5 (which came out in 2012).
I think "technical debt" is a good metaphor, as long as you recall that taking on debt to fund investment can be a good idea sometimes. Debt isn't always bad in the long term.
Very cool project, and also reveals buggy data to fix.

One note if the creator is here: it looks like deprecated locations are included. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q596717 includes both Indiana (deprecated) and Linton, Indiana, and he shows up on the map near the center of Indiana apparently as its most notable person, which is clearly not the case.
60hz vs 120hz is also obviously apparent if you have them next to eachother (when using multiple monitors, for example). Just jiggling the cursor around or scrolling a webpage makes the 60hz look almost stuttery in comparison. Same goes for UI stuff like the animated dropdown of a menu.
>this part I'm not too sure about.

Modern China exhibits genuine imperialism. They've even developed and published plans for dominating world standards bodies by 2035[1]. They're crafting a gigantic blue water navy[2]. They maintain a standing army with larger numbers of soldiers than the US, to put on those ships[3]. And they have no qualms about exerting their power globally, challenging freedom of navigation at sea[4] and territorial integrity on land[5]. In their meticulous and naive way, they are most certainly pursuing a world domination strategy.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/27/china-standards-2035-explain...

[2] - https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-has-modernized-the...

[3] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/29/just-how-strong-is...

[4] - https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/16/asia/us-navy-freedom-of-navig...

[5] - https://news.yahoo.com/china-threatens-forceful-measures-pel...
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as a result, the best location in ex-jugo cost are now still those naturist (mostly belonging to F.K.K.) campings: there is a say: "do you want the best location in the cost, go into a FKK campings"

btw, they have the cleanest bathrooms ever (!)
It doesn't seem ungoogleable to me: if you google "black midi" all you find is that band.
Technical Debt is a very descriptive term that everyone can relate to. The problem is we don't have a consensus on the nature of the interest on the debt, and what happens when it doesn't get paid back.

In my opinion, most technical debt has usurious interest rates.
How can they claim that it's "ultra compact"? That's just plain misleading advertising. Heck, it's bigger than my current Pixel 3a, which is already a bit too large for my comfort.
I still wish for a clone of Google+ v1 to succeed and replace Facebook.

Sometimes i still wonder why it failed.
My eee is remarkable how much the thing found uses, first as intended to have a computer while commuting, what 5 years later smart phones would do, then for a very long time it sat in my living room as a always on email terminal, in which role it easily delayed buying my first tablet by a first year and then until two years ago as a podcast player next to my bed. Thing is, I'm considering to reinstate it, since right now my phone does that and I'm not sure being able to check twitter when just woken up in the middle of the night is actually an advantage. So, really just an amazingly useful design.
Less moving parts means you can concentrate on delivering impact. Also less moving parts means you can have deeper understanding of those parts, not only stackoverflow-copy-paste-understanding.
With U.S. on brink of recession, Twitch streamers tighten their belts
Wouldn't the intermediary dns server then not just set the truncated bit and make the client retry using tcp, just as always?
> One person can effectively stall all progress out of spite.

I'm not sure about this one, I can understand why someone might agree with some of the arguments about list comprehension making readability worse, like stated in this comment: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/2972#i...

I have to agree with @pycbouh. While a lot of things python does is good, I really don't like list comprehension, especially when it becomes nested.

numbers = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]
print([n for sublist in numbers for n in sublist if n % 2 == 0])
# > [2, 4, 6, 8]

Not very readable, and you save what, 3 lines? Not worth.

Some might enjoy writing code like that, others might dislike it. The current lack of such functionality doesn't hold anyone back that much and therefore doesn't get prioritized. It might get introduced in the future, but when there is still lots of discussion for and against adding it instead of how best to actually implement it, you know that the time has not yet come.

Personally, I enjoy both LINQ in C# and Streams in Java, perhaps more than a one liner. But again, that's a personal preference and the opinions are often split about syntax related questions.
Also describing any software as "modern".

I find this especially amusing when it's used to describe things that are 50 years old (e.g. programming languages with "modern" features like type inference)
How do you respond when the bartender, grocery store cashier, 7-11 clerk, or movie theater attendant ask to see your ID?
Advanced web security topics (2020)
Well rather than trust promotional material, see the gsmarena review ;) https://m.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_9-review-2455p3.php
That's why employment contracts allow for an experience period (typically between 3mo and 6mo)

"Last place you'd hire in the West" I can assure there are plenty worse places.
I am an EE, that works with microcontrollers on a daily basis. I know some html I play around with sdl and ncurses a bit, I can do some internet stuff. I am clearly a full stack dev right?
Regarding unions, I believe that there are much more union members in the UK than in France. A "comite d'entreprise" is not the same as an union, either.

An issue (if you see it that way) in France is that the right to strike is written in the constitution and extremely liberal. Basically if you have a work-related problem and you find just one colleague to agree with you then you have a constitutional right to strike.

On the other hand, in the UK a strike is only legal is organised by a trade union after a formal ballot.

Beyond that the UK is much more business-friendly with much less red tape... The French administration is kafkaesque.
Woman: a pretty big one!
Also consider MHRD[0], which is similar to nandgame, except you write your designs out in a (primitive) HDL starting with just NAND gates and working up to a functional CPU. Like the zachtronics games, it blurs the line between "game" and "work" just the right amount.

[0](https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/)
Live performance (starts around 3:45): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgT94A7WgI

Amusingly, YouTube is full of videos that claim to be "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz" but are in fact Marasy's performance[0] of a Cool&Create arrangement of U.N. Owen, which (as mentioned in the article) was the first work to be arranged as Black MIDI.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEQ7XzBnByU
Apparently the CDC literally changed its definition. From the Miami Herald (but you can check against other sources):

> Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”

Webster dictionary broadened its definition too. From USA Today:

> Merriam-Webster revised its "vaccine" definition to replace "immunity" with "immune response."
Oh, and I designed an UI for my smartwatch OS. For which I wrote everything from the ground up.
> also "devops". It's really job title for "sysadmin but paid and owned by the software department to keep ITs fingers out of everyone's shit" but with a flashy name that sounds important so mgmt will agree to it

If that's what "devops" is now, sure, kill the term. Devop is not a job title, and I will die on that hill. The concept of DevOps is close collaboration between development and infrastructure teams throughout the development process, rather than throwing things over the wall and saying "that's infrastructure's problem now". Having a completely separate team entirely misses the point because it should be one team.
I am happily using a 6 year old Zenfone 3. It was high quality and very cheap, ~ 200 EURO. It was a good phone to own, but Zenfone 9 is not a good replacement, it costs 4 times more. While some people still want to buy 800 EURO phones, they are a small minority, for people like me phones like Google Pixel 6A will be the next purchase.
> to comment you have to click through a very scary permissions dialog that claims it can "Act on your behalf" in your Github account, without any qualification. I'm pretty sure the permissions dialog is misleading, but it sucks.

What should the "act on your behalf" mean? Is it safe to provide my readers Giscus?
I'm 30 now, me and my friends still try to come together for birthdays, have dinner, go to a club, etc. Just an excuse for a nice get-together / party. Sometimes we give each other gifts (if we can think of something nice to give).
> But such actions can encourage manufacturers to partially or completely substitute sugar with non-nutritive sweeteners to avoid penalties or cater to evolving population preferences.

> In our study, we found regions with a higher number of policy actions to reduce sugar intakes had a significant increase in non-nutritive sweeteners sold in drinks.

I genuinely don't understand why someone would write this.

Replacing sugar with less harmful sweeteners is the whole point of the regulation.

Is this an intentional attempt to undermine regulation?

Is it just clickbait?

Is it Big Sugar doing the "Windmills kill birds" angle as regulators crack down on them?

I know for a fact my parents think that artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar due to decades of this kind of fearmongering. That kind of disinformation cannot possibly be good for the planets health.
I use Apple's Scheduled Summary for most notifications (Android may have something similar, but I don't know the platform). Scheduled summary collects notifications and then delivers a summary at a time of my choosing. You can choose which notifications go into the summary and which are delivered immediately.

I turn off notifications for most apps, put non-urgent ones in the summary, and leave only a few to be delivered immediately ( e.g. iMessages from VIP contacts). Then I glance through the summary when it arrives after work and deal with anything that needs a response.

Also, I turn off all browser notifications. I never need them.
If you have separate estimates / noisy measurements of the same quantity, and also have some estimate of their variance (e.g. pollsters or weather forecasters with different accuracy track records), you'd probably want a weighted mean (inversely by their variance) rather than a simple mean. If you have a system that runs for some time, you'd usually (but not always) want an average with higher weights placed on the recent past than on the distant past. (The arithmetic mean is the optimal estimate in a model where the true value is unknown but time-constant.)

The Kalman filter is "just" a recipe to calculate the weights for optimal estimation, given different model assumptions. The difficult part is not applying the formulas, but mostly in coming up with a good model of the movements of the things you want to measure/estimate.
The specific linux on the eeepcs was pretty bad too, IIRC. I couldn't use it. So you really had to be someone interested in messing around with them to get the best out of them.
"Ell" used to mean arm.
In the forward looking sense you are using it, sure. In the backward looking way it's usually used ("development on that is slow because it's full of technical debt") it usually 10% what you are talking about and 90% over engineering and stupid things that were done for no good reason at all where no one at the time was even thinking about the tradeoff for speed.
I laughed out loud at the "waterfall" with stand ups. Totally agree.
I barely even use them on my phone, everyone except close friends and family are muted.
Curious notability ranking. Obama is the No.1 ranking person and Trump the No. 2, Leonardo Da Vinci is No. 3.

Also was surprised to find that Audrey Hepburn is from Belgium (rank 158)...
APIs, frameworks & libraries are so often being used interchangeably & its getting confusing for us too, specially if planning for a new feature to integrate

"is it a framework? is it a library? is it a API" whenever I have a cursory glance at a product on HN/Github or likewise
For kids, birthdays are a big deal (and I enjoyed mine). As an adult, I’m happy to wish my friends HBD (and to get the same), but the particular angular alignment of the earth and sun doesn’t seem such a big deal otherwise.

I’d rather those close to me act consistently nice rather than having 1 day be noticeably better than the other 364.
The Zenfone 6 remains the best Android phone I've used since 2019. Stock android, a fingerprint scanner, a headphone jack, a customizable hardkey on the side, notchless display and a great processor that still holds up today. Not to mention having what is easily the best selfie camera in the world (the back camera flips to the front to take selfies).

I only regret getting it in 64GB because after a point, I've run out of apps to delete as every app has gotten bigger - and I can't install to SD card.

A shame that the new Zenfones skip the flip camera.
If that's what "devops" was before, we needed to kill the term earlier than you might think. Devops was originally a set of software release practises and culture that result in higher quality software, including high release cadence, blame-free postmortems, small patches, time for experimentation, automated testing, continuous integration, etc.

These practises normally require close collaboration between dev and infra, but are separate from it because you can have close collaboration on big, quarterly releases based on manually verified long-lived feature branches -- yet that is not devops.
no doubt for Italy.
Object-Oriented Programming:
"Luckily the industry doesn’t really use this term any more"

Wait really? What world are they living in? Am I just out of touch or something?
It should be replaced with the more accurate term 'handwaving about software'.
You've misinterpreted the comment, this is exactly what they mean. The recent band, has made the term ungoogleable.
> The west is prude?

The anglosphere most certainly is.

If you need convincing, just look at the pics in the article: not a single full frontal.
Since I'm happy with my current lifestyle, I simply increase the fixed amount that I invest in broad index funds.
We use the term data-driven to describe certain parts of our product wherein we use SQL queries against faithful models of the domain to make deterministic, traceable choices.

Certainly works for us, but I don’t think this is how most people understand “data-driven” anymore.
Take on lots of debt and you'll have a quick flash and then years of problems. Refuse to take on any debt ever and you may never get to university or buy a house.

Taking on debt is not inherently good or bad, it's context dependent.

I feel it maps to technical debt very well.
Where I worked at least, DevOps didn't do anything "full stack" and had nothing to do with the developing or maintaining of any of the actual code that got deployed. They where responsible for working with the developers to come up with the best solution for having a secure and fast way for deploying and running an application. Sometimes they would help write custom deployment scripts or come with suggestions on how to make things easier from a deployment and/or performance point of view, but they never actually touched the code in any way.
Snorkeling in Their Own Plastic
Ask HN: Should SysAdmin Day Be Renamed to “DevOps Day”?
SysAdmin seems like a term from long time ago, where admins mounted hardware in 19" racks, installed cables and were typically found in a dark room with tons of hardware pieces, sitting in front of a display with an terminal and installing a Linux distro manually.

Today's admin work (if you can call it still "admin work") is completely different: Writing YAML code for your automation tools, checking the CI/CD pipeline and deploying stuff to the cloud. The industry gave this kind of work the term "DevOps".

Classic sysadmins are an extinct species. Shouldn't this day therefore not better be called "DevOps Day"?

Happy SysAdmin Day :-)
You raise a fair point. Stalin himself was a paranoid, power-hungry psychopath.

I did not intend to argue that Stalin himself expected to bring about a communist utopia. It's more likely that he was a straight-out liar. Still, I think the USSR's government and society could only function, in the long run, if it offered progress in line with its promises, just as the US can only function by promoting a mythology of individual freedom and exceptional destiny.

The promise made to the people was that economic totalitarianism would end. It never did, but we still don't know if that was because the USSR was irredeemably corrupt, or because the country was attacked by some of the world's most egregious assholes (the czarists, then the Nazis, then the capitalists).
Intel Reports First Net Loss in over 30 Years