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I've done plenty of direct customer support as an engineer, and I think everyone won because of it.

This was usually on some more difficult issues, or issues that involved an actual bug. Why bother going through a support person if I can just talk to the customer myself and explain the issue better, or ask the right questions straight away? Seems to me that's not a waste of time, but a time saver for everyone.

Same with feature requests; a support person can fob a person off with "thank you for your feedback" and create an internal issue with no context, or I can talk to the customer myself, get a good idea of what problems they're running in to, and discus with them how to best fix it. Sometimes these are almost trivial fixes or changes, but a support person doesn't always realize that. In general keeping an eye on the support inbox gives me a better idea of how customers are using our service and what kind of things they're running in to.

The amount of time/money spent on this is minimal, if it even exists at all, especially considering this is the sort of thing you can do a bit later in the day when you're not producing the sharpest code in the first place (I usually don't anyway). Even as a mostly backend engineer I've gotten a lot of value out of it, and I think our customers and the business overall have as well.

That said, forcing developers who don't want to do this is probably a bad idea: they will do a shoddy half-job, be unhappy, and no one wins.
It exports as a high-res PNG. During editing it does behave like vectors a bit (e.g. if you select part of an object, it extends selection to the whole object instead of cutting it).
Why does Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza appears as if they were countries, when they are islands belonging to Spain ? [1]

Just curious

[1] https://world-power-plugs.com/europe
Isn't Biden considerably older than both?
Clock Ramp on ADL, Zen 4, M1, and More
It seems a multispectral satellite photo would quite easily spot bears. Heat signature visible in the IR, and shadow in the visible spectrum.

You could get pretty good population estimates by just reviewing random 1 km^2 samples for bears and then extrapolating.
Summary here in case people are interested http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E06900
Well, we don't know, with out limited brains we very well might not be able to come up with machines capable of equalling or surpassing organic life, it doesn't have to be magical
Are we certain of this or is it popular speculation?
> Thats another problem we can throw money at until it is resolved.

My argument is it is possible the US cannot throw money at it until it is resolved, perhaps due to the R&D not resulting in success, due something external that causes US to lose ability to throw money at it, due to something internal that causes US to not politically support it, enough people not sufficiently interested in the sciences, etc.
A standard Guix System install is one example.
Yep. It’s like software in that sense. Show me a concise program, and I may be able
To find some bugs. Show me a complicated behemoth, and I guarantee it.

The founders understood the nature of power, and thus the importance of decentralization and diversity.
I kept a paper notebook for years, using a page a day to scribble to-do's on it and replacing it each year. I have an archive box with years of notebooks in it that I should probably get rid of.

I now have a year's worth on notes in the remarkable, with no need to archive it. I look forward to being able to astound people with my instant recall of meeting notes from years ago ;)

I have actually used mine for sketching, too. It works - and the ability to zoom in for details is cool :)
During birthdays and days like Christmas, I ask friends and family to not buy me anything but if they can think of something fun for my kids. I have all the stuff I want already so either you have an awesome idea and really have a specific gift you want to give me or I'd rather you don't get me anything at all. This is well respected in my circles and I don't get as much junk anymore.
Meta Quarterly Earnings: Profit Declines with Losses in Reality Labs
What’s Python library substitute?
https://archive.ph/1nTed
Transparent solar panels pave way for electricity-generating windows
Universal suffrage amendments came later and we like those too.
The key element is training. It is indeed idiotic to put you on customer support rotation without training you first on how to deal with customers.
I don’t really buy this. Somehow Europe manages pretty well with much smaller and more granular country level decision making units.
The iPad Pro is expensive, but with the pencil, it's far more versatile and can double up as an actual computer. I use it practically for all my note taking now. And it also doubles up as an entertainment device
First time I’ve ever seen “good DX” as one of bash’s selling points.
Aside from it being utterly irrelevant when the Enlightenment started as to whether the Bill of Rights 1689 was a precursor to the 1789 ones, how does John Locke fit into that choice of start date for the Enlightenment?
The fact that it could theoretically be achieved doesn't mean that _we_ can achieve it.

For example the way we build computers might be super archaic and the equivalent of the flint stone, a flint stone is nice but if you need a fusion reactor no amount of flint stones will do the trick
This is a secular apocalyptic religion by this point, I’m afraid that arguing based on past facts won’t have any effect.
So in your mind coal produces the same amount of emissions as fracking just about.

Not even that but every country and it's industries that have been transitioning from coal to nat. gas are fudging the numbers to pretend it's better?

And you know that because you were a roughneck "who did fracking jobs", therefore you can see through these numbers.

That's quite a story, but I'll go with the breakdown of energy production by source, and the tracked emissions of energy production trends.
I can't really stand Bash's arcane syntax, it drains my brain power (and time of consulting manual) every time I have to work with it. Switching to Fish has been a breath of fresh air for me. I think some people who want to use only Bash need to open their conservative mind. All of my personal shell scripts now are converted to Fish. If I want to run some POSIX-compatible script then I just use `bash scripts.sh`

Of course Bash is ubiquitous so I use them whenever I can in the company. A golden rule for me is: if it has more than 50 lines then I should probably write in a decent programming language (e.g. Ruby). It makes maintenance so much easier.
Oh no! You just got a present to give. Don’t throw it away, give it to someone who actually likes chocolate, which fortunately is most people.
The UN vote on not recognising the annexation was a crushing defeat for Moscow, they only got votes from Syria, NK, Nicaragua and Belarus.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129492
Not only is low-code and no-code making things easier, it is also elevating the roles of technology professionals within their enterprises, to facilitator, educators, and consultants. Industry observers agree.

Doesnt this article feel very stiff and unnatural? The low code solutions we've tried don't save on complexity, rather they contribute to irreducible maintenance tha you will never be able to get away from.
> sadly now gone the way of all things

Which is to say, overpriced on eBay and yet mostly unusable without now-discontinued proprietary applications and compilers.
Apache Kafka 3.3 Replaces ZooKeeper with the New KRaft Consensus Protocol
There's always icloud.com
> If we replicated a human brain cell by cell

With "ifs and buts" we could go very far
Because combined with the apple pencil it's one of the best drawing / note taking / reading device ever made.
Interesting because of meta-analyses concluding the opposite about URIs at least, if not COVID per se.

One thing to note is that period of time of the trial was very weird with regard to non-COVID URIs, so the results might be influenced by that. Not to dismiss them, but there might be something to be learned potentially with the types of URIs.

Or vitamin D just has no effect on URIs.
> individual rights over everything else

I used to admire the US constitution. I've grown up now.

Who could possibly be opposed to human rights - i.e. human beings having rights? And indeed, the US constitution does appear to be largely about rights.

Over the years I've increasingly leaned to the view that these rights are mostly a legal fiction, and that the things that are supposedly rights are highly subjective political footballs. Nowadays I think of a constitution as a largely non-political set of rules for how government works; i.e. it's a description of a mechanism, not a description of an outcome.

From that point of view, the US Constitution is an awful constitution.
True story. Through a friend of a friend I was among the first to have internet at home. World Wide Web didn't exist yet. I remember hearing about it, I downloaded a browser and contacted CERN. The only website available. I've the solemn prediction that this would never ever amount to anything, since Gopher is sooo much better. It even has a search engine (Veronica).

Anyway there we are. So let me go on record. The metaverse will never ever amount to anything. You heard it here first.
Personally as a paper gperson, who loves to write on sheets any quick thoughts, TODO lists and anything that comes to my mind, it seemed a very good choice, but pricing now seems quite high. I have tried multiple online tools, but I do not like the feel.

After reading multiple real user comments, I do not think I still want to buy it. Does anyone know any other good alternatives for paper notes?

I see multiple people recommending cheap LCD panels, is there any cheaper or simpler e-paper note takers but with multiple notes features?
You'd expect people who are much more productive than average, if they exist, to be relatively rare. So it's understandably not necessarily easy to round up a population of them and do a comparative study.

But even without a study, some people seem noticeably hyper-productive, beyond noise or luck. I like to work on personal projects, but if you tried to compare my productivity to your local Fabrice Bellard-class programmer however you want to measure it, I'll have to admit the ratio's probably pretty far from 1x.
It's high time we rethink search, but it's a really difficult problem.

Google were absolutely very good at it, but there are probably multiple factors at play in why they're getting so bad..

The constant "SEO" battle, the least relevant websites happen to be the ones with most investment into cheating themselves onto the frontpage.

Search is probably a bad business, it's very expensive to do right, and nobody seems to pay for it. (I'd be willing to pay a reasonable subscription for access to the good old google search, if it could still exist, I'm sure many others are too, now that we know what we lost).
Is it easy to use for reading daily news, or would that require some hacking to get my news content to transfer to it automatically?
pushd and popd are commands which change the current working directory. In contrast, variables like $PWD are expressions, which are far more flexible. For example, we can run commands like `diff "$OLD_PWD/foo" "$PWD/bar"` which reference multiple directories. Doing that with pushd/popd would be weird, e.g. `diff "$(popd; echo "$PWD/foo")" "$PWD/bar"`
Oh that's sad that it'd happen even in a public school. When was that?
I'm not sure why nobody is talking about TypeScript? If browsers were to natively support it, that would be a game changer. We could phase out quirky features of JS and mark them as obsolete in IDEs. More use of the Map class for example would avoid some quirks of using objects.
YouTube opens up certification program for health-related channels
Yes, I get it. But in my case I simply give u+x permissions to the script and then run "./script.sh" and then the script will be executed with the interpreter defined in the shebang.
> Annual PV capacity production of around 400 GW in 2023

How does that make sense. 400GW Peak? Average?

Or are they talking GWh

If the IEA can't use the right units in its reports, what hope is there.
You're attributing a coherence and unity to US foreign policy that I don't think it has. It can be a stabilizing influence in one part of the world, and destabilizing in another.

As to your specific charges "When the US goes to flatten countries in Asia, the Asian powers politely ignored them.", you'll have to be more specific.
Are there any 10x professions? There are certainly 10x products and companies (e.g. Oreo vs. Hydrox, Google vs. Lycos).

They got that why by making better choices. Many more than "10" x better choices. Could this apply to developers also?
Computer (Occupation)
Being on the same day as its neighbours is much more important than being first for new year.
bash is rather ubiquitous but wouldn't it make more sense to target /bin/sh?
Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data
> I think the odds of a planet developing life by random chance in the first place is astronomical, and then the odds of that developing into intelligent life - that happens to have the necessary appendages to build things and lives in an environment amenable to creating tech - almost certainly an astronomically small portion of life bearing planets.

I take your point, but even if it is true that life is astronomically rare, we are literally talking about astronomy. Life doesn't have to be common for there to be countless worlds with life in our galaxy. In terms of intelligent life, not only must we reckon with the billions upon billions of planets in this galaxy that could host it, but there are also the vast timescales in which it could unfold.

Based on the current trajectory of human civilization, I think the Great Filter [1] theory is increasingly convincing, although that's unfortunate (to put it lightly). If we do manage to avoid destroying ourselves in a sudden cataclysm (such as via nuclear war), we will have to deal with a planet with a destabilized atmosphere, a massively damaged ecosystem, poisoned water and a host of other problems so serious that the word "problem" doesn't seem sufficient.

The timescales required for other advanced technological civilizations to overlap with our own requires that civilizations that go through these periods are able to stop actively destroying their home planet, and then survive the aftermath for a long time afterwards. Whether we are able to do this is very much an open question. We are just a couple of centuries down this road and on balance, I don't think it's going that well.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
You can, but you'll be doing linear algebra in the dual space, with covectors, instead of in the regular space with vectors.
Just adding my opinion to the fray: I love mine (purchased last month). Have been using it constantly -- much more than I expected, actually -- for marking up books, taking notes, etc. I am not paying for a cloud subscription and it works perfectly; no dark patterns or nags getting in the way of anything I do. The niche it's filled for me is that I have been fighting wrist pain/strain from writing with pencils etc. as a lefty, and this tablet "replaces paper" by offering a way to write handwritten notes without exerting pressure downward on the page to make a mark.

In this thread, I'm seeming some mentions of Kindle Scribe alongside critiques of the optional reMarkable subscription system. Do you really think that thing will not funnel people to Amazon Prime... ?
Point! YT confirms there were cutscenes on Liberty Island before.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jnbCwPwJNFY&t=3m30s

So maybe it was the first player-controlled viewing of yourself.
Indeed; that was my point exactly. People complain about things like "curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh" from the Rust homepage, but it's essentially the same as trusting "cd vim && ./configure && make && make install" (plus, if I would hide anything I'd do it in the probably quite large binary that script downloads, which is much harder to audit).
Well, both Syslinux and Lilo access the file system, from the (scarce and IMHO also inaccurate/confusing) info this thingy here accesses the kernel as a sequence of RAW sectors starting from sector 1.

I.e. it is not a replacement for Syslinuz or Lilo, or any other kernel loader, though it can be used/useful in specific scenarios it is something else, there is little sense in comapring sizes if the features/possibilities are not comparable.
Interesting. My own alma mater UCL was founded on openness to women
and Jews and has thrived on that ticket of inclusivity. It was early
to the table in admitting overseas students when most UK universities
only recruited provincially.

When visiting central London I sometimes feel like a walk around the
Gower Street quad, and seem able to mooch about the campus and poke my
head into familiar lecture halls - even though it's central London
location would seem to make theft/vandalism a threat.

I think a lot of this physical security lockdown nonsense is
post-pandemic culture, and obviously the profitability of "security
industries"
These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely unusable at that point. And now they are reverting ONLY because Kindle Scribe is going to be out soon, and they need to look like they are a similar product. I can guarantee that unless they have a major shake up in their organization or put it in writing that they will not change their service offerings, this will absolutely happen again.
I’m a lefty and have used my RM2 every work day for the past year. Really changed how I work.

If I had to choose between giving up my RM2 or giving up my work laptop and working on an iPad Pro, I’d figure out how to get my job done on the iPad. It’s that good for me. But my job is leadership/management, not coding so that obviously makes a difference.

It took me about a day of frustration to figure out I could close the on-screen menu by tapping the dot in the upper-right hand corner. Then there was no more accidentally closing the file I was working on.

My workflow now is 30 minutes at the start of each day planning on my RM2. I have a planning template I made and duplicate daily. Then I reference that day’s doc throughout the day and add new incoming info into it. I can move stuff from yesterday’s doc to today’s easily during my planning session if I need to.

For hiring, I put PDF resumes and cover letters into a folder and mark those up as I prep for interviews. I do the same with articles I want to read. I sync everything w/ their desktop app.

It doesn’t distract me like an iPad would and I get around 2 weeks on a charge if I keep the Wi-Fi turned off most of the time.
I guess we would not need to compile it down to js and instead evaluate or jit it directly?

Could someone do this on an open source browser perhaps? Or would it require some initial big chunk of work?
I'm happy you got all of that from video-games and in no way I'm advocating against video games for everyone.

But, in my life, I credit sports for everything you said.

With the added benefit of a healthy neurology and biology in general. Something video games - and the digital world, as a whole - have been demonstrated to be detrimental. I mean, by serious studies.
That’s actually super useful. Do you want to chat about this (the other side as you call it). There are open source lists of lacklisted domains and I’m curious why current solutions don’t quite do the trick. If you’re open to chatting please email me at ykarmi (at) gmail
I know a board game illustrator currently using a reMarkable 2 for drawing his illustrations. Those illustrations are being used in final versions of games. They look extremely detailed. Not sure if he'd get the same level of detail on an iPad or Surface Pro. He thinks it was worth the purchase for him.

Also I think part of the appeal for this is you're not staring at a backlit screen like you would be with those devices.
A while as compared to the age of a human or a specific government or a while compared to the age of life, planetary, or universe timespan?
> makes it illegal to store or access data on the end user's devices without consent unless it is strictly necessary for the provision of the service.

How is that different to what I said above? (Modulo "s/without consent/implicit consent/g")
Or just try small claims and see.
Yes, I was talking about scripting. I don't care what people use for their interactive shell: that's their own personal choice.
And my car no longer comes with a cassette player. But it also says “CD Player” on it just in case you try to stick one in.
In vanlife some people have built recirculating showers that use just a few gallons of water running in a loop. They run it through particle and UV filters which supposedly clean the bad stuff out, but I haven't seen any scientific studies done on how effective that is. I imagine it is no worse than a bath, other than you are potentially putting bacteria into the air and hence your lungs. The idea sounds interesting though, as showers (even low flow) use a lot of water and heat, which typically just goes down the drain.
This undervalues Facebook's social network moat, which is honestly what they should be leaning into: a more interactive Yellow Pages / local groups directory.

That's much harder for competitors to disrupt, especially when you give people tools to amass and customize content on their pages. E.g. wiki's, info, etc.
Sure.

Of course, rich people pay more VAT than poor people. In absolute terms.
TIL about bash3boilerplate, thanks! Going to check it out.
Programming languages: Why Meta is moving its Android apps from Java to Kotlin
That's what USB "On The Go" mode was for I think. The 2 devices weren't peers simultaneously, but you could decide which device was in control and "using" the other one.
I am always happy to see people make their own languages and write about it.

For this article in particular, I disagreed with the first two parts:

1. Premise: Simplifying assumption: There are two kinds of languages, static and dynamic. Somehow, it's just good to know this, and nothing is said of which of these the Duck language fall into.

2. Syntax: Wait, no.

There is an implicit premise here, being that if you make a language, it's probably going to be a general-purpose one with expectable control-flow structures, and because of that, what we care about is how those control-flow structures look, i.e. should there be curly braces around blocks and such.

A premise I would prefer is: When you make a language, you want to solve a problem. Imagine a language being an overgrown library. You don't start a tutorial in making libraries about how a good library interface looks like. You start by saying what problem you want to solve.

Another premise I would prefer is: Most problems are domain-specific, so most language-shaped solutions to problems are DSLs.
Space race vs. the timeline for Seattle to build a bike lane
"I have 22 years of experience in the area of woodworking, and I always had a huge difficulty when starting a new project: choosing a tool. Do I need a chisel? Or a hammer? Or should I go for a screwdriver?"

Databases are tools like any others, and you choose them based on what you actually need for any specific time. In fact, many projects already use multiple databases - storing dynamic state in a RDBM, and static resources in the filesystem (which is absolutely a database).

Of course, there are other criteria involved, like e.g. the familiarity of the team with different database paradigms, but the core fact stays the same: database is a means to an end, which can be summarized as "finding a solution for persistent storage of some data".
That's definitely strange. I order stuff to the US from AliExpress probably every other month and haven't had any real issues.