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Yes, if you have a team, the team should discuss work progress, discoveries and problems in a shared space that is accessible by other team members. If conversations about the work itself happen in silos because someone is not comfortable, you're doing it wrong because you're fixing the symptom instead of the cause.
If there are things in your community you can change, then stoicism certainly does not say dont do it. Marcus aurelius, one of the most famous stoics, was roman emporer. Hardly a position someone who felt they could change nothing in their community would take on.
Sure, if you have a dedicated dev team just for SAP automations.
As other said, it is not a good practice so inline all the code, I prefer well named variables, and I assume you can find examples in your code where you have a local variable that depends of a function parameter.

Funny enough I was correcting my son c++ homework yesterday, he had a complex if statement like

if (somefunction(m,n, y[j]) == m[j])

and I made him make a local variable to make it clear what is happening. then the code was easier to understand and debug because we culd print that local variable and see if is fine.

Btw, try not too respond that smug, you proved that you are an inexperienced coder and a shit person.
>Is it bad for the public that Costco and Walmart deliver lower prices to customers via efficiencies if scale?

Obviously not. Whereas if they could pay local governments money to keep the other one out so they could jack up prices that would be bad.
I’m doubting the author read the whole of Meditations. Maybe read an executive summary from a book club? Marcus exhorted people to be the best they could be in their role in society. To accept the vagaries of life and world around them and focus on self improvement for the benefit of self and society.

Author seems hung up on modern use of the word stoic instead of reading and contemplating on what was actually said, and importantly what was DONE by the early Stoics.

FTR I am not a Stoic - I’m Buddhist.
There is TalkYard: https://www.talkyard.io/
If you are responsible for your own happiness, it follows that others aren't.

Healthy relationships operate under this principle- that of recognizing (and respecting) the autonomy of the other. On the other hand, consoder toxic relationships where you feel a friend or romantic partner _owes_ you happiness and satisfaction.
And yet has solved none of those. I was involved in the big effort to modernize EDI decades ago to use XML, then JSON, then REST-based approaches to simplify and encourage adoption of electronic invoicing, and yet none of it really had any effect. Emailing PDFs it is. Now the best solution is using RPA tools to automatically extract information from emailed PDFs to get them into the system. Yes, it's ERP to PDF and back to ERP using NLP and automation. Such as it is.
> Before becoming too alarmed, one might want to read about the Holocene Climate Optimum

People are alarmed because a) the compositions of today's atmosphere is much different from 8000 years ago. So very different feedback circle become relevant for the future dynamics of the weather/climate, and we have every reason to expect that no limiting feedback circle kicks in before it does not get a lot worse than today. b) we are already well beyond the Holocene Climate Optimum (see the "2016" marker in the diagram of the Wikipedia page) and the increase of temperature (the derivative of the curve) has no known equivalent in the current Cenozoic period of earth's history.

> Did the lucky people 8000 years ago just barely escape disastrous climate tipping points?

I would rather rephrase the question into: Why did climate stabilized in the Holocene the way it did? and thus avoid "tipping points", because tipping points are not directly observable. They are features of (complex) dynamic systems. It makes only sense to discuss actual tipping points in the context of models that describe those systems.
More of a nihilism and anomie IMO aside from the usual cult of the golden calf which is not philosophical in nature.
How? And who is we? So long as the GPU remains closed and proprietary, we can't port a general purpose OS to it and have it take over the boot.
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Here's the article rendered as html: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2208.14755

(Replace the x in arxiv.org with a 5 to get there. I feel like it's working well enough in most cases, when will they start linking these from the actual arxiv article pages?)
The Signal Foundation, Mozilla, and the EFF are other prominent examples.
We should have put George W Bush on trial for the war crimes committed in Iraq under his administration
> 4. I have to moderate myself because some stupid parent determined that it's now a "kids" game and everyone should cater to their crotchrats.

I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being this upset at children. If I'm at a bar and I see a kid walk in, yes I will act differently because they are in earshot. It doesn't matter that the child is in an adult space.

"Well I was here first" is such an immature dismissal of acknowledging how your community is changing.
Arguably Zig is a better fit for game dev. At the high end game dev is all about memory layouts and cache optimization, and that goal can run counter to Rust's approach to memory safety.
Sure, there are technical arguments for this approach, but there are also technical arguments for "the strings in our strings API should really be valid Unicode strings". I have no horse in this race and I have no preference, but I do see both options as completely valid.

The problem is when you say things like people that prefer the latter approach "can only be either dishonest, or incompetent". Putting it kindly, you're basically only making enemies at that point, and you seem unwilling to consider other points of view, at best. You seem absolutely baffled about why your tone, phrasing, and language are making others uncomfortable, even as you continue to insult those you're trying to influence.

I have never met you before this conversation, and I came away with a very negative impression. There are reasons you aren't being listened to, and they are problems with you and your behavior, not grand conspiracies.

There are battles worth staking your entire professional reputation over -- the GC repo is full of people doing that -- but this is definitely not one of them.
What is your 2nd best option?

If your 2nd best option is a job making 200k.. and you ask for 800k and they just say no? Well, being cocky just lost you 200k (you could have asked for 400k).
> There were similar articles when Apple launched the iPhone exclusively on AT&T. We can clearly see now that a) Apple had no interest in controlling the network provider (many people thought they would eventually launch their own MVNO or even network), and b) the overall effect was hugely positive even for networks considered “competitors” at the time, like Verizon or T-Mobile.

It was also good for the customers of those competing networks. Cast your mind back to how Verizon did business before Apple forced them to open up.

>Verizon Wireless customers in California are suing the Bedminster, N.J.-based mobile phone operator for disabling some of the Bluetooth capabilities in a Motorola Inc. handset.

Verizon Wireless has disabled the file-sharing capability, which allows users to transfer photos or other files via Bluetooth to their PCs, printers or other devices.

Motorola, for its part, said the decision over what Bluetooth capabilities to include in handsets is solely up to the wireless operators.

https://www.eweek.com/mobile/verizon-wireless-users-sue-over...

Customers were forced to pay Verizon for file transfers instead.
Roald Dahl wrote in "Uncle Oswald"

> “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

And I think that's exactly what you and Bukowski are saying here.

Of course, the "don't try" line is an aphorism. Often enough, you won't know whether or not you'll like something until you've tried it. And sometimes, it might take a few tries and some warming up. That's only human. Often enough, though you already know deep down your gut "this isn't for me" while your mind hasn't caught up yet. Bukowski's poem might just be the bucket of icewater that some aspiring writers, stuck in a grueling grind over their keyboards, really need.
The solution is pretty simple and given out in the answers below :

> It's a good idea for everyone (including Bob) to have a well defined side or pet project. Something that's useful for the business, fun to do, but doesn't have a hard deadline or deliverable yet. Could be technical or scientific research, tools, process improvement, experimental features, documentation, user research, competitive analysis, etc. This is "stuff to work on" if your hair isn't on fire and your tasks are mostly done. These can be defined in collaboration between the employees and the business stakeholders.

> Have bob start filling up his own task queue
Can't run the demos on my M1 Mac - I can't find the #enable-unsafe-webgpu flag in chrome://flags. Anyone know a workaround? Or is it just not available on Apple Silicon?

Edit: I didn't read it properly - the flag is only available on the Chrome dev channel [0] (and presumably also Canary). The demos work great on my M1 now.

[0] https://www.google.com/chrome/dev/?platform=mac&extra=devcha...
Twice per week in office might be the best for everyone?

That works if you're happy living near the office. It fails for anyone who wants to live far away.
Hmm, half of what I told them was derived from the game (and The Illuminatus! Trilogy). I think they might be just old enough to play the game (I’ll have to check for any cards I might need to hold back though).
Cloudflare are pure evil. Their business will never a vendor of mine.
I'm not even sure what an ISO layout would even mean here? This keyboard is otholinear, and already deviates fairly meaningfully from the normal US layout. It is mising 5 keys from the core typing area, and only adds back 3 of them in the extra row with arrow keys. So you already need to utilize the extra new buttons for some of this, in addition to space bar, modifier keys, layer/mode control keys, etc.

People who buy these types of keyboards often create very customized layouts to handle things like convenient macros, buttons not physcially included on the keyboard etc. ISO users could do the same. For example, moving shift buttons down to the thumb area gives you a place for the extra ISO key in that row. The missing extra key from in the home row could be moved to say the key between return and backspace. Or return could be remapped entirely, or whatever.

It is really very unclear to me what an ISO variation of this would even be.
Good point.

But I don't think it's a good idea to build a career on shifting sands -- if you know that you want to work remotely, it would be silly to accept a job at Amazon when you know they could force you back into the office at any time and you can't do that. If the job market significantly cools, or you like your current project and coworkers, it would be a shame to go through another hiring process because of an external decision like that.

If they make a great offer, and you're really excited about the opportunity, though... could be worthwhile. Just another factor to consider in the process.
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> invested a lot in solar power because it is cheap

This is an outright lie, let me dig in a bit. They're cheap only if you look at watts generated, if you ignore extra grid costs and backup supply. For 1 MW of solar, you need 1 MW of backup. If you use solar for most of the day and use the backup just for 20% of the total electricity required, then the backup plant will look like it's very expensive to build and operate, while the solar seems cheap. But solar cannot operate without backup.

What needs to happen is that you have to transfer some of the money generated by the solar plant to the backup plant. How you do that will make it look like solar is either very cheap, or expensive - and this is all political and a PR move. In the end, consumer will pay for both anyway, which is why Germany and California have such high electricity bills.

A real life equivalent example would be to say that your truck can downhill with 100 MPG and very cheap to run, and this is absolutely true...if you ignore that the truck must also climb the hill.

> Had they invested any other way they would be even worse off
Germany is lucky that EU just implemented the unified energy market, otherwise they would have been absolutely obliterated this past winter + wartime.
Declining since 2001! That must be such a glacial decline
Audacious [0] works on macOS through brew and supports Winamp 2.x skins.

I'm using it right now, here's a screenshot:
https://imgur.com/NQ5y9Hi

[0] https://audacious-media-player.org/
I bought one as soon as I saw it was usable as a dive computer.

$800 for a dive computer that I’d also wear as a daily watch is a steal - I’ve been procrastinating buying a dive computer because the ones that wirelessly integrate with air supply are super expensive $1000+. I don’t see any announcement of wireless air integration for the new watch yet, but I’m hoping Oceanic capitalizes on their partnership with Apple by adding Bluetooth to their transmitter (https://www.oceanicworldwide.com/product/computers/transmitt...)

My partner might get one too after we test mine out. We have 10+ friends who a) already have and enjoy Apple Watch and b) are scuba certified. I don’t think any of them have a Garmin/Suunto type sports watch yet…
Core to almost all economic study is a set of simplifying assumptions that make models of the world so that from those models we can then make predictions. The problem is that economists lose sight of this. When the government intervenes in the economy it makes the economy not look like economists model of the economy. So they claim the government is distorting the economy, but in reality that's rubbish. The government is an actor in the economy, one that economists are bad at modelling, and even if they were good at modelling it, there's no normative reason why the world should behave like their model. It's a wildly right wing view of the world that has been subtly smuggled into the core of economists view of the world.
To be fair, I don't think those are random theories. There's plenty of research on the ill effects of (bad) diet, pollution, etc.

But yeah, volatile chemicals are a form of hyper-local pollution. Perhaps less proof ATM, but close enough to regular (?) pollution to want to avoid it. Err to the side of caution, not to the side of cancer.
"Thus, in New York, the median employee in the stock market sector who earns $440,000, according to the State Auditor’s Office"
As someone who works in this sector, this does not look True. An investment Banking VP with 10+ years experience at a bulge bracket probably brings in this much in income however this is not the median worker. There is a huge workforce of admins, Ops, legal, IT that work in the sector and bring it down. Also there is a large amount of burnout/turnover/layoffs in these jobs so that in any given year someone is not getting their full bonus.
Reading the bullets for a minute I thought I was Bob, but I've never done Android for real, so no, but the rest mostly fits. I'm maybe not quite that productive, either, but close. I have the advantage of being old and curious, and working with the same codebase for the last 10 years.

What helps me is a really good manager - of which I have had two out of ??? in 25 years. When I'm out of tasks they allowed me to refactor and fix longstanding difficult bugs. It has the added advantage of getting me deeper into the code and allowing me to build better foundations for future work which makes me more productive for a nice feedback loop.

They also have allowed me to train up other developers and write up official coding standards with down time and that has been great, too. It's nice when all your code looks mostly the same.

Also being able to repeatedly decline a promotion to management but still get paid well has been good for company loyalty.

There is a downside in that most days feel like, well, kind of like a Games Workshop orc going "Waaaaaaaah!" where I'm just hurtling through the work and my brain is just spinning max RPM and then I go home and it's hard to stop the momentum. I have to excercise to clear my head or I won't sleep.
I am intrigued. How does the book practically destroy itself?
Ask HN: What are some effective ways to attract donations for a dog shelter?
I am sorry in advance, this is 100% irrelevant for a place like HackerNews. But this is the first place with so many knowledgeable and technically advanced people.

If anyone cares to come up with a piece of advice, I will really appreciate that.

There is a dog shelter in the city I live in that has absolutely no sponsors or support from the government. Yet, it's the only place known to shelter dogs all around the country, trying to save them from being killed or dying from hunger.

I donate money to that shelter almost every day. What's more, my own dog is from that shelter.

https://hayotislife.com/help-en

I am wondering whether you have any experience with raising donations for such places. I don't even have any ideas but really want to help them financially. Right now, they don't even have funds for food and medicaments.

There was a place on Reddit for donations, but they have very strict rules regarding the required reputation so I can't post there.

Are there any other options?
What is wrong with it can be summed up by Henry Ford's quote: “If I would have asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

(In this analogy horse=GPU, car/truck=general purpose compute hardware)
Oh, it isn't just the internet that's funny, overall society/humanity is this way - we are swimming in it daily, and complain about it endlessly.

I sometimes wonder if the reason no one seems super interested in fixing things is because we've been living in it for so long, we instinctively write it off as being "just the way it is" &/or "there's nothing you can do about it".
Show HN: I made showcqt-element – an HTML custom element for audio visualization
Exactly. And I'd say that the Bloomberg Terminal user experience is pretty good especially compared to other "enterprise"/expensive applications like SAP. So the only reason you'd want to switch is cost, but that's usually not a problem for clients considering how powerful of a tool it is.
This is the kind of inefficiency that used to kill companies before the "everything is a monopoly" era. Nobody will ever replace SAP on the companies that use it, and if they are safe from competition, well, nobody will replace the companies either.
Milliseconds at a time, sure.
> You were disappointed that there was a moderation warning when some people are celebrating her death?

Actually, if you read dang's comments you'll see that's not why it was moderated. In fact, there's obviously nothing wrong with celebrating her death as many see her as a tyrant who committed and maintained massive atrocities. The problem here, were the massive amount of low-quality comments just saying stuff like "Good" and "fuck the monarchy" (and nothing else.) See his comment above for more references and explanations.
Tim Cook says Steve Jobs was the best teacher he'd ever had
Sometimes this is why I think we'll end up with a refresh of the corporate world with digitally native businesses not running on SAP. I imagine at some point we'll run out of people who know SAP and are even willing to learn it.
Dude, it is about debugging, or work in progress...

Did you ever tried to debug some issue and start commenting stuff to try and find the problematic area? Hell when I comment stuff soemtimes private function will get unused , so with a shit compiler you would need to also comment the private functions, remove unused classes etc.

In my code I assure the linter will say 0 warnings.
There are people in this world who are very smart. Those people can be much smarter then you.

Often smarter people tend to congregate and less smart people do as well. So many people live in bubbles where they think they're the smartest person in the room; but the reality is there are plenty of rooms out there where they'd be the stupidest person.

I don't know who you are but the fact that you can't comprehend the existence of someone who has superior productivity is an indicator that I think you haven't been humbled. You live in a bubble. Try switching rooms sometimes to see what's out there.
All WASM related stuff seems lacking of know-how of WebAssembly itself. I want the promise of "language-agnostic". For example, I have AST, I want to generate WebAssembly (either text or binary format, lets start with .wat), there's only a couple articles I found talks about how to map string to wasm's memory or table.

Current situation is it's not language-agnostic as movement, it's just c/rust mostly.

So wasm-4 seems to have more interesting examples than the other e.g. https://wasm4.org/docs/tutorials/snake/handling-user-input
I'd love to see an alternative that doesn't look a whole lot like a CBDC.

The "serious ramifications" are all things that are not being proposed. No one is suggesting to make cash illegal.
This poem romanticizes work, but I believe this notion is false from this video on turning pro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTcgSzf0AQ
The poem is the first thing referenced in the video.
Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures
Ask HN: What task would you pay for a mobile robot to do for you weekly?
What would you pay $100 per week for a robot to come to your home, office or wherever to perform a task.

Literally anything you can think of. No wrong answers.
It sounds like you are doing a lot in your personal life. Well done!

Don't be so quick to disempower yourself. Everyone has something they can do (you're already doing a lot). Even just talking about it is extremely important (https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_importan...)

FWIW there was a good comment piece in nature recently about activism. Summary thread: https://twitter.com/ThierryAaron/status/1564276454904430596 .
There was another study - can't find it now :( that showed that actions from Insulate Britain (blocking roads) were effective.
Despite what the other commentators on this thread seem to want to believe without evidence, I'm not at all attracted to children, and I'm offended that someone would drop such a gross accusation in a HN thread.