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Shouldn't different people in different circumstances of life, have different opinions/philosophies/ideologies anyway?
How about this: if you want to change people's minds, work on changing their circumstances first.
>didn't pay attention in their mandatory communications training.

Arguably, if you did pay attention to said training, and deliverately sought to not call a spade a spade you are part of the problem.

If legal tells you to call something something else, that's when you need to start getting suspicious.
> Expecting to love your work and have fun doing it, is incredibly naive, yes.

Then I guess I've been naive for over three decades. And getting paid great for it too. I suppose I'll never learn this important lesson considering I'm close to retirement.

> Exactly the opposite, relationships become incredibly strained with the rest of the company and there is a lot of frustration when dealing with the software department. Developers are disliked in the company because they are selfish unprofessional time wasters.

I could imagine that happening with you. There are always a few envious types in any company who think the entire company feels the same way they do. These same folks are envious that the sales people get huge bonuses for "spending all their time on the golf course". Considering I have work relationships going back decades it's safe to say there are plenty of people in most companies who aren't like you.

> The users are just dumbfounded when they present their 8 month rewrite of perfectly working system, in trendy react framework, now with only 80% of the features and in a slower web page.

Of course they would be. That doesn't sound like fun at all. That sounds like a project that didn't take user requirements into consideration. Fun and poor requirements definition sometimes come together, but you are confusing correlation with causation. Loads of overly serious software engineers get the requirements wrong too.

I hope things get better for you and you learn to have fun while still being highly professional. It's a great club to belong to.
It is, at least in principle. As I see it, there's nothing that immediately discontinues a group when the last person leaves; it only makes it inactive. But a group could also become inactive in many other ways (e.g. deciding not to meet for a long time). It's only if whatever organization that found a benefit at having that group, no longer does and decides to discontinue it, then it stops being a group.
The article isn't really about box drawing generally, but box drawing with those specific characters.
> I’ve been screaming from the bottom of my lungs for ages that woke virtue signaling only makes enemies

That sentence right there makes me seriously skeptical of how well your conversations turn out, as well as how open minded you are when talking with people you disagree with.
I'm good friends with a guy who works at Walmart, he's an assistant store manager, and has worked there since we were in high school.

About 10 years back he was telling me about the scooters they have in the store, and how they had started receiving a heavier-duty model. I forgot the exact weight capacity-but it was somewhere around 500lbs.

Then it dawned on me that somewhere along the line, people had to complain about the scooters not being big enough, or enough scooters were damaged by large individuals. Enough people eventually complained that Walmart had a meeting at their corporate offices to decide "how big" of customers they were going to accommodate with the newer, heavier-duty scooters.

There were probably polls and studies, weighing people out in the field, etc. Not to mention the work the company that provides the scooters had to do.
The study dissolved it in DMSO, then that in polysorbate 80, then that in polyethylene glycol. Then injected that intraperitoneally. That seems doable.
correct me if i'm wrong, you can run lambdas locally whit firecracker, lost all the benefits of serverless (you are self-hosting) but you can do it if you need it.
I really doubt it[0]. Not your point but the fact that having employees sharp and excited about mastery is probably gonna push everything up to 11 (granted people are mature enough not to go rockstar). When you rise above a certain skill level on a topic, things become playful, creative, quality gets regularly high. What's not to like for a short termist corp ?

[0] I only pushed high perf in small jobs, not in programming so I can't speak with a lot of confidence. But in some clerk duties, what took 3 weeks became 3 days and a half (2 days the next time because it took me 1 day to converge on high speed layouts).
Would you pay $10 to create an AI chatbot to talk again to a dead loved one?
Url changed from https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/weve-unlocked..., which points to this.
If you were happy in your mediocrity this wouldn’t bother you.
“Intended” according to whom? The firebase landing page makes a couple references to being scalable, but otherwise it doesn’t appear that using Firebase at a smaller scale is outside its intended scope at all.
Chancellor warns of tax rises and squeeze on spending
> * In immediate prevaccine era, improved sanitation resulted in less frequent exposure and increased age of primary infection, resulting in large epidemics with high death count

How do you suss out the difference between increasing sanitation vs vaccination in a time where sanitation is on an upwards trajectory? Polio is spread from feces. Eventually people stopped drinking contaminated water. full stop.
> While my personal opinion is that Germany is not doing anywhere near enough to help Ukraine, I think they should be preparing a for a huge postwar assistance, not just money for rebuilding, but psychological / therapy based on their experience to try to reduce the effects of wartime trauma on Ukraine.

Well, perhaps they should, but I'm not sure they can. My parents never mentioned any help regarding postwar trauma being available in Germany. Perhaps mental health issues weren't recognized as such then, perhaps they had other priorities. The first few years after the war "were difficult".
Yes! I have a movie recommendation site:
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I don’t think you’re even trying to understand what I’m saying. I don’t think it’s wrong to give genuinely struggling people, including students, money. I think it’s wrong to draw the particular box that this policy drew: people with outstanding student debt and income below 125k/250k. That is a bad boundary. There are people excluded who should clearly be included, and people included who should clearly be excluded.
> If you're reading this, then this Gamma Ray Burst is not going to hurt you.

This reminds me of something my dad would say when I was a little kid afraid of lightning.

He would say “By the time you hear the thunder you have already survived”
If Gamma Ray Bursts have been detected by satellites, how come none of them have hit the Earth and cooked the atmosphere? I thought a GRB aimed in our general direction would be an extinction event.
I could be missing something, but since your cells are separated by water, it doesn't matter how many steps you take to get it in your body.
Really cool! But I would love some links to photos or street view if it's possible without you needing to surpass Google's free tier.
SurrealDB is getting there soon. You should check it out!
> Why the hell would anyone assume that the software vendor who made the browser had no visibility into the use of the browser?

Why the hell wouldn't anyone? I mean, expectations of privacy have eroded, but "you used this company's product, so you must be giving them permission to see everything you do with it" is an argument that, despite many companies' attempts to push it as just common sense, doesn't and shouldn't fly.
Not much of Ardour uses GTK (the editor and mixer all use our own stuff). You will find GTK in text entry, treeviews, menus and the filebrowser. In the long term we'd like to drop back to just GDK (window and event primitives), but those 4 "widgets" are major things to implement correctly, and that's not likely to happen any time in foreseeable future.
Yes, and radon is a fairly high awareness thing and tests are both readily available and often free. I got it done shortly after moving into my house.
Lambdas are run on Firecracker, but firecracker is just a runtime, it doesn’t include the rest of the FaaS stack Lambda provides.
> The only concrete answer to "why have swap if I have enough RAM" is "well, if you run out of RAM..."

Linux with swap available can swap out never used pages (say a part of library that never gets called) and use freed memory to cache disk IO. We see that on every server that has enough data to fill the remaining RAM with page cache. But you only need like a gig of swap to take advantage of it.
Putin's show in Ukraine's skies distracts from signs of weakness on the ground
And even if you did reach out to customer support, it would rarely ever get dev attention unless most people have the issue. Even in that case, it sometimes still gets a fat wontfix, like the famous OneDrive file corruption bug.
Page 9 of this study: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/myocarditis-risk-significant...

Men under 40 have significantly higher risk of myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines than from Covid itself.
That’s a good point. But the absence of this tech doesn’t mean we have to have propaganda.
> The CDC should clearly the whole time have been "Go ahead and mask, it can't hurt. Even a bandana or whatever if we're worried about the good ones for doctors"

This is wrong for a couple reasons. First, it would have led to a run on masks, which were already in short supply for medical professionals. My girlfriend is a physician at a major east coast hospital and has been treating patients with COVID from day 1. People don't seem to want to accept how dire the lack of PPE was for them. Intubating a patient with COVID isn't on the same level as walking past someone in the supermarket. The situation was dangerous. To add to this, even if we somehow equipped everyone with a properly fitted N95, the average American would amaze you with their inability to use it effectively. On multiple occasions I've seen adults in crowded airports lower their masks to sneeze, for example.
We use it as early alert to give more RAM. Just like a gig of swap per server regardless of RAM size.
Ahead of the Game: Inspur’s Machine for Digital Twins and Immersive Experiences
vcpkg is the best thing that's happened to C++ since C++11. As long as it supports all the platforms you need, it takes all the pain out of dependency management, even if you need to maintain an overlay with a couple extra packages.
I'm not going to do that because it's effectively double the work for 1% of the users.

This implies that if you only did the CSS version you'd do the same amount of work as the JS version but it would work for everyone. Why wouldn't you do that? Doing only the JS version means you spend the same engineering effort but it doesn't work for as many people. Choosing to do that when you have a choice makes absolutely no sense.
But you're responding to a warning with "let them," not a bill in congress.
Thanks for your comment! Indeed, I often wrestle with something similar as you describe, and I wonder if your last paragraph is really the solution. To elaborate:

I have done a lot of self-reflection in the past and a while back I realized that the thing that brings me the most joy in life is to improve at something that I work hard at. However, after looking into Stoicism, I find myself asking if I'm not being honest with myself, and that in reality I focus less on chasing "more" and more on mindfulness and enjoying life's moments. I'm very fortunate in that I've never been depressed or struggled with mental illness, but I feel that this tension between "I want to be the best" and "I should focus on being grateful and present with what I have" is a core question I have yet to really answer. For now, I'm very happy with my life being around the former, but a future me may look back at this and laugh :)
> So this lawsuit is just concern trolling? Nobody is actually upset about the feature itself, some people are just taking the worst faith interpretation that nobody irl actually has and pretending to be mad about it?

Websites mediate a significant part of how a significant chunk of the people in the world live a significant part of their lives. You and I know what incognito mode is and isn't, but can you seriously claim that, among a significant chunk of the population of the world, no reasonable person overestimates the privacy incognito mode offers?
I'm not an American, but the situation is very much the same in Europe. I always imagined big fat bribes that would buy a corrupt politicians or some official big house on an exotic island, etc. The reality is most are cheaper than an average prostitute on a street. It's shocking what <100K can buy in most cases. The ROI is insane.
Note that I only started reading HN in 2019, which is why you won't any info from me in earlier items.
> how can any community become less wrong?

While seeking to be less wrong is a worthwhile goal, it is but one of many things to pursue. The question arises about why does a community need to be less wrong. What happens if you don't course correct? Sometimes, it's better just to let things happen.
Appears to correlate with smoking rates and longitude.
Did you see the camera roll button?
Unique and well made. I like it
Your post is not in the spirit or letter of Show HN and its guidelines which, again, you can check out in the URL in my comment - they address your specific points.
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I’ve heard that poliomyelitis (the specific nerve damage) can be also caused by other things than the poliovirus. Most notably certain pesticides that are fortunately no longer in widespread use.

It’s hard to find non kooky references, but the notion of environmental poisons in the gut somehow transferring to the lower spinal cord sounds at least plausible.
Map of roughly risk of radon: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-07/documents/zo...

Given that lung cancer is driven by a) smoking, then b) radon, one would expect some level of correlation here.
Boring or novel should your technology choices be
what are the most common types of queues for large data center applications (eg. Stateless app that handles rpcs, running on N machines). Are they mostly M/M/N? For example, is memcached different than nginx, or Postgres?
and JDBC too.

Why servlets instead of Jetty handlers?
You can also pay somebody to check it.
The gifs in the README are a great idea. Makes the instructions very digestible.
Really excited by projects in this space! I'm working on a similar project myself [1], intended mainly for collaborative web-apps and browser games. It's more of a light-weight approach with processes instead of containers. Pop in a binary or script and let multiple users connect to a shared process via websockets. Process-based architecture limits its use to simpler cases, but these kinds of apps are at-best delightful to spin up and develop.

[1] https://www.scalesocket.org/
His explanation makes sense to me, and I don't think it was an argument to begin with. 15%, 7% - that sounds like a problem one would encounter "often" to me. It sounds like you're actually both in agreement.

The weight issue has gotten bigger because, well, people have gotten bigger while the infrastructure for storing bodies remains the same. This all seems relatively straightforward and unsurprising. We have the same type of problem with other old infrastructure built to hold human bodies -- like airplane seats.

Today I learned that I'm apparently too tall to donate my body to science. Now that's surprising!
> the greens

There were never greens in the French government.

> they even put the reduction of nuclear straight into the law

after decades of little investing in renewable energy, which is now cheap. France has a long coast and lots of sunshine...

Example: there are thousands of offshore wind turbines in Europe. A tiny fraction of those are in France.

> two decades being forced to sell electricity below production

The French nuclear industry now is mostly government owned. It picked up the failed business of EDF, which had debt of around 60 billion euros from exploding costs of new reactor constructions. It was always a political instrument to sell cheap electricity, while the tax payer pays for the hidden additional costs.
Researcher variability is a threat to reliability of scientific findings
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> If they think there's an oppurtunity to improve the developer experience at the cost of complexity, they'll try it and see what it looks like

IME this fails most of the time. Perception of complexity varies across the team. A proactive developer pushing for a new shiny thing is unable to properly recognize complexity of his solution because he is the most familiar with his solution. Familiarity changes perception of complexity.

A lot of developers have a catastrophic combination of being non-confrontational and having impostor syndrome, so when then new shiny thing gets enforced upon them they are unable to push back. They don't like it, but they think it's their fault, so they keep silent.

> "Good" boring code bases in my experience are flexible but tedious

It is true, but I taught myself to love that tediousness and I absolutely love it. I treat it as enlightenment. I write way less code, but ship way more value.

It's really sad that most engineers are excited by solving their own problems, not by solving customer problems. Talk about misaligned incentives.

We even rank companies based on how much fun they allow us to have, not by how much impact they are allowing us to have. I've heard numerous stories about folks at Google not being able to ship to production for months, but still praising their tech stack. To me that's just insane.

> Getting buy-in for refactoring is a huge effort because everyone argues "complexity is evil"

That's strange. In my world most of the refactorings are aimed to reduce complexity, not increase it.
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I think it's a discount, and he shouldn't flip-flop on it. I'm pretty sure he is not losing money on it and did it as a marketing opportunity. He keeps lying about everything, so who knows, but we shouldn't expect to bow down to him either way. He is not above criticism. Never mind his tantrums, lately he started regurgitating Kremlin talking points and that's an issue.
Waiting for it to get cancelled.
When you had just 256 unique 8x8 pixel characters to draw all of the game graphics, you tried to use as few as possible. For drawing a thin line rectangle, you need at least 4 characters. Which are exactly the ones mentioned in the blog post.
A tale of three generals – how the Ukrainian military turned the tide
That depends on how the dev building the site writes them. They can work but they usually don't.
> The problem with lobbying is that to the degree that lobbying happens, the people are represented less and those paying the lobbyists are represented more... You might think that the degree of lobbying happening in Washington is fairly small.

Believe me, I know how much lobbying there is, I've studied it a bit academically. Which is why I'm taking issue with how you're characterizing it.

Corporations have legitimate democratic/governance concerns. E.g. there can be outdated regulations unfairly hampering their ability to do business or innovate. They need to be able to bring their concerns to politicians, the same way pro-choicers donate to Planned Parenthood to lobby, or environmentalists donate to Greenpeace to lobby on behalf of the environment, or gun rights advocates with the NRA.

Your claim that lobbying is in conflict with "the people" is categorically false, as "the people" lobby as well via lots of organizations, such as the ones I've just listed. "The people" also have interests in corporations not being unfairly burdened.

The notion of making lobbying illegal is utterly anti-democratic. The idea that you could outlaw voluntary domestic organizations from trying to support democratic candidates flies in the face of what makes democracy work, whether those organizations are non-profit or for-profit.

The more relevant issue seems to be more with the notion that corporations have more money to lobby with than the general population does. However even with that, some academic research suggests that the issue isn't so much to do with money, but rather the fact that corporations often lobby on behalf of niche/arcane issues such as specific corporate regulations that voters are often virtually entirely unaware of. So it's not so much corporations vs. "the people", but corporations vs. "the people don't even care", or corporations vs. other corporations.
Because they accepted terms of service that explicitly stated what information can be collected.
> It's the same reason I'm vehemently opposed to my team using AWS Lambdas for anything non-trivial. And no, SAM is not the answer here.

I’ve had to start using Lambda at work and this is my biggest problem. Waiting minutes to see if it was a typo or if there’s a larger problem is terrible. I miss Docker.
Which of the following scenarios is preferable to you?

A. People that make under $125k get $10,000 of student debt forgiven

B. Nothing happens. Everyone’s debt stays the same.

Are you aware that in reality, complaining about this happening for people that make $124k is exactly the same as complaining about this happening for people that make $15k? Are you aware that by pointing out that this helps people making 90th percentile money you’re also admitting that 90% of people do not make that much?

There phrase “throwing the baby out with the bath water” comes to mind.
Too bad, it's on medium and they seem to be blocking legit VPN connections.
Design is not a formula, it’s an odyssey: replacing the Double Diamond
Can passenger Tom Scott land a B737MAX, alone?
It shouldn't have to. There's no implication that the list in the Incognito start page is comprehensive. Nor is there anything special about Google in this context -- the fact that they created Chrome doesn't give them any more access to users' data in Incognito mode than any other web analytics firm.
This is Michael Shellenberger's philosophy around saving the planet/climate. Basically, that economic justice has to come first because only people who are comfortable and middle class can afford the mental and emotional costs associated with caring about that stuff.

And yes, achieving that result on a global scale may well involve the construction of a bunch of new oil and gas infrastructure in places like Africa and South America— well meaning westerners should focus on what can be done at home to reduce, and stop protesting exactly the kind of thing that helps more people enter the middle class.
When your a wealthy citizen who the IRS understands and your integrated with the US political machine, yes, it's just tax paperwork. When your the kind of person with a lot of abnormal imbalances with cash vs. how they understand you, an outsider to the political machine, your audit score goes up and you get a lot more scrutiny in general, because your a high value target to collect more in taxes and such. You get more unpleasant interactions at any government interaction checkpoint. It's bureaucratic, but still unpleasant and could land you jail and to them, it's just another day at the job where the computer machine said to poke you more.

The person we are talking about here is immigrants with dirty cash basically, not doing it properly, a pretty different kind of person in the US gov's eye, and might be drug related, which is a great career boosting lead for their buddies at the DEA.