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> One advantage with low/no code I have seen be successful, is allowing non IT teams to do the work themselves therefore reducing the load on IT teams.

I'm increasingly beginning to question how this is even an advantage. If your IT team is overloaded... hire more and pay them better.

Another way of saying "allowing non IT teams to do the work themselves" is "taking a specialized job that can be efficiently done by a dedicated professional, splitting it into thousand pieces, and distributing those pieces evenly to everyone". Sure, it's nice that a marketing manager can no-code some automation without having to bother an overworked IT person, but now no-coding that automation becomes yet another little bullshit task that distracts them from their core competency, i.e. marketinging.

This is one of those trends that feel beneficial on the surface, but less so if you look closely, at least in job context. The OG one are office suites - particularly word processors, spreadsheets and calendars. Yes, it's nice that I can write my own reports, tally stats on my own, or manage my own meetings. It's less nice that I have to do it all the time, where in the past, there were people hired specifically to handle this job for everyone else. How many highly-paid software engineers are being distracted and waste their time on this, only so that corporate can save on hiring lower-paid secretaries?

I don't think it even adds up economically, but the trick is, once you eliminate a job with software by outsourcing it bit by bit on everyone else, even though it's now much more expensive, it disappears from the company books. Not having to pay extra salaries is legible. Overall unexplained productivity drop is not.
The problem I have in this case is that many things are being reported which would be immediately indictable. Billions of dollars was misappropriated, which is a felony that could easily result in decades in prison. Billions more simple disappeared, and there was even a 'back door' in their software enabling unaccountable access of funds. And this all about the time that SBF was splashing around billions of dollars like beads at Mardi Gras - living extremely lavishly, and even trying to get in on Twitter for $3 billion.

Bringing immediate charges against him on the low hanging fruit does not preclude later charging him with anything that may require further work. And it also helps snag him before he decides his little 'blame everybody else and get the corporate media (which I also "donated" to) to back me up' isn't working out and plays a disappearing act. He's a billionaire already living in the Bahamas who could easily spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is an extreme flight risk, yet the DoJ continues to hem and haw.
The total selection of movies available on streaming services is certainly much better now than it was ten years ago. For example the Criterion Channel is only four years old.
Do you have any evidence of this? I've sat to pee my entire life and have never run into this and indeed experience the opposite, where no matter how much you shake it and try and force everything out, when you put your dick back in your pants it always finds more pee to drip down your shorts.
If Codon becomes similar enough to Python, it will be trivial to port Python libs to it, thus opening Codon to the vast Python ecosystem.
Correct, I should have said a mixture of HighDPI screens, and non high-dpi screens rather than mentioning resolution. Thanks for the clarification.

What I used to have on X was one model with 2x the pixel density as another. You either have things being tiny on one, and massive on the other or vice versa. What I did for a while was configure everything to be halfway between them so everything would be just _slightly_ off on both, but it was kind of horrible (and made the fonts look terrible).
What a kind/just way to open, haha. I thought, 'how does one not know about this, but knows HN?'... in less kind terms.

Seriously musha68k, steer clear - Facebook but with even weirder content

A lot of things like 'I ignored my family for work' with applauding
Seems short-sighted. That Twitter hasn’t fallen over appears more like a credit to the SRE work that went into getting everything running on, effectively, autopilot. Today’s Twitter infra is clearly a far cry from the stuff a decade ago.
And in the mastodon fediverse, it's very easy to de-federate from a community. So, toxicity might spread less easily in mastodon.
#1: This sucks
#2: As you pointed out, this was (From my perspective) reasonably-well communicated through emails and warning messages from the Heroku dashboard.

I think it would be nicer to issue a final warning in the form of shutting down the DB prior to deleting it; unfortunately, that's not what happened.
Take a look at Standard Ebooks[1] as well, which I heard from here at HN. Their motto is "Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover", and they live up to that standard.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks
Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
I think the replies to you missed the main point: standing on the shoulders of giants. RH has a LOT of resources and being a fork of it means you get all that person power for free.
At heart, it might not be a big problem.

But the optics aren't great.

And the response to the criticism reads like Pi's social media person is trying to take them down from the inside.

Being that toxic to fans and customers on social media is - I'll put this bluntly - stupid. It's unprofessional and very, very off-putting.
And it's a fun way to get/stay in shape, if the race is low-stakes and you don't care if there's an occasional cheater.
"could not overcome Heisenberg's complete lack of interest and gave up the effort"

We all want to excel so naturally we pick topics which seem easy to us and thus can expect to excel further in them. If we did not do well in some topic earlier, we are not very interested in it, because the best we can hope is to do ok in that subject.

I did not like "technical drawing" in my first year and so I found a way to pass without taking that course. Now I lament I didn't take it. But I wanted to excel, not be mediocre in something.

I wish this psychological observation was taught to first year students.
Halifax is good for timezone to Europe and close to US. Toronto has great connections to US, but an hour farther away. Real estate is nuts. Montreal could be better.

As far as sunshine is concerned, it has to be Calgary - two more timezones away from Europe.

Politically far more sane than US, far fewer guns and mass shootings. For employees with young families, decent schools, government funded health care and reproductive health care without the uncertainties brought about by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Across the globe, Apple and its teams find new ways to give
You may also like: https://github.com/jwilk/viclip
Most of the issue is RPi's utter failure to read the room.
Sounds very similar to https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/
Or, it's a writer, who writes for a living, spinning a story to draw the reader in. He pitches his product at the end: he want's subscriptions to pay his rent and buy his socks.

I have no ire towards the author. I thoroughly enjoyed the post and found several aspects of it that helped me find some introspection to something I was talking about with my wife just the other day (regarding capitalism, career, compensation).

I think in the end that's what he's doing. It's an overly long winded way to say he wrote the poem. He's trying to wrestle that recognition for his work he thought Mojang was going to provide him and he's sharing a tale of one artist who wants to live above Intellectual Property law and create beautiful things while recognizing he has to eat and put a roof over his head.

I pass no judgment on the author. I might slip him a few bucks in the paypal link he gave because I acquired Minecraft during beta and continue to play it off and on today and consider his contribution to be a nice addition to the game. Perhaps I will buy his novel. I think he did a great job trying to market himself here.
The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months
> I think the goto is to post the job as available in every location the company has an office, and see what the applicant wants to do.

Yep. I started a job early this year and the job posting said it was in person but I'm the only one on my team in my state. My manager just didn't have company approval to post a remote position but the fact that there's an office near me gave her the ability to hire me. Now that I'm employed, it's a fairly easy process to switch to remote if I want. I personally just use the office space like a wework so haven't applied to be remote but it's definitely an option.
Judging the entire Crypto based on SBF / Luna is like judging the entire Silicon Valley based on a handful of big-name adtech scums. Sure, they dominate the zeitgeist but there is a lot more to those ecosystems.
Inconvenience is understating it, electricity isn't a luxury in the modern world anymore.

What if you can't afford a generator and fuel, and you're medically reliant on a CPAP machine or a chair lift? You may be physically unable to leave your 2nd floor apartment, and unable to call for help because your cordless landline phone no longer has power? Not to mention the financial cost of all the food in your refrigerator spoiling.

All of those things can be accounted for with money. But a government should plan to ensure a certain minimum standard of living for its citizens.
Try again now, we've increased capacity. Increasing more now.
Most science is extremely iterative or investigative, not ground breaking.
FTC sues to block Microsoft’s acquisition of game giant Activision
I would go as far as saying that the problem with blockchain is not even blockchain, but in the fokloric narratives around decentralization, which is treated as if it's a binary condition (X is/is not decentralized), rather than as a blind, innate and monotonic behavioral tendency of a network. And that's being generous, because very likely decentralization - in spite of any attempt to implement it - will turn out to have been a mirage all along, and blockchainism thus amounts to our century's version of ever-more-convoluted epicycle "tech" straining to reify a philosophical dead end.

It's absurd to claim that something is decentralized when there is always team at the core of this so-called decentralized network whose self-appointed job is to maintain its state of decentralization.

I would argue that there is no such thing as any intentionally decentralized anything, and all claims as such should be treated with extreme skepticism. "trust us, it's trustless."

The only decentralized phenomena are ones that come to us from the universe itself. And even those can ultimately be traced to an origin so the decentralization is only a local phenomena anyway.
> The 2008-2009 housing and economic crisis had effectively no prosecutions that came to fruition.

Because it was not a crime at that point to bet against common sense.

> Bury things in sufficient complexity, and it's easy to get away with it.

Yes, but that's why there's the whole system of independent government institutions, staffed by specialists, and they are supposed to understand the complex aspects of economy/society, recommend specific actions, warn legislators, publish summary statistics, ask for better tools, etc.

And as is tradition these institutions are themselves used as political tools, are suffering from regulatory capture, are underfunded, and ineffective.

Just as the SEC was "asleep" the FDA/FTC was too.

*But* it's very important to not forget that, even though everyone wants magically better institutions, just making laws stricter and other "brute force" solutions don't lead to better institutions, they lead to more government control over society, which is rarely a net positive.

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> I just wish we'd see the same reckoning for other fraudsters who are bit better in hiding their malfeasances.

Yeah, but that's mostly consumer protection. Which is soooo laughably missing nowadays. Amazon gets away with filling the planet with junk. People already don't want to spend effort on safety if it would come at the cost of some individualism.
I'm yet to see anyone using SUSE or openSUSE (might be a regional thing), though I've heard good things about them! Thanks for pointing out that detail!
Studies have shown that there is no difference for healthy adult males, but sitting is actually better for evacuation as you start to get an enlarged prostate (Roughly half of men over 50).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4106761/
"People also are willing to pay for convenience and simplicity"

This is my reason for primarily banking at one of the large banks. I have my mortgage, checking and savings accounts all in one place and the physical bank and ATM is less than a mile away. That said, when I do have a large amount in savings I do move it to an online savings account with better rates.
This is a challenge across all esports and not just cycling. In other esports, competition may be online, but hardware is usually provided by the organizer and overseen in locations where refs can ensure nothing is being done to machines to cheat. Nowadays cheating scandals only tend to come up in competitions where people are playing from home.
Altar I December 2022 progress report
I don't know what to say other than — you are wrong. It's extremely rare for someone without an actual heart defect to die because they exercised too hard.
Building a GitOps ML Model Registry with DVC and GTO
If only zoom and nvidia would catch up with the rest of the world everything would be literally perfect.
> the community trusts that users are submitting answers that reflect what they actually know to be accurate and that they and their peers have the knowledge and skill set to verify and validate those answers.

this confidence is not fully achieved in most answers. It's very likely to come across many answers that don't work at all. and these answers, oddly enough, can get so many points. It is debatable how good he is in terms of trust.
It seems to be common with "edgy" responses from corporate twitter accounts lately, I don't see the difference with this?
Why the heck did you think the prime spreader of covid was through pee or feces instead of, you know, people coughing around each other like nearly every other respiratory infection?
I probably have no idea what I am talking about, but I think the time of day plants are irrigated is quite important.

Hypothetically, if you were to water right after the sun goes down, or when the sun is going down, there would be reduced evaporation. But, at the same time, the roots would be sitting in a wet environment overnight, which encourages things like rot and fungal infections, as well as bugs and such.

Again, I'm not a commercial agriculture guy...just a home tomato grower...watering in the morning right before the sun comes up seems to be the consensus, and I have never heard of anyone watering any plant or crop, for that matter, during non peak times.
I'ts trivial. Only the functions needed are built into the binary.
Zach from Warp here. Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.

Re: login, I get the concern and we are exploring product options that let folks preview warp without login.

From a product perspective our goal is to make the terminal cloud-native and have a way of facilitating collaboration, and it's not really possible to build that without user identity. Specifically, login allows us to build cloud-oriented features that make the terminal have a concept of “your stuff” and “your team’s stuff” – for example Block Sharing. This is the same reason other collaborative apps like Figma and Github require login. We do get the concerns though and understand that this is not traditionally how a terminal has functioned and that it will make some users uncomfortable. But on the whole we feel like it's the right way to push the command line experience forward.

Re: configuration issues, we are trying as fast as we can to fix them. It's hard technically to both innovate on the command-line and maintain complete backwards compatibility, but that is our goal.

Re: Mac only, this is also really just a limitation of eng bandwidth, not a product strategy. We are 100% planning on bringing warp to more platforms as fast as we can.
It's my direct personal experience. What kind of evidence do you expect, a video?
I agree. They hired a person who was a field tech for a police department focused on organized crime. That's perfectly respectable work that society needs. It's great place to get a lot of maker experience.

I respect Raspberry Pi for standing by their employee, and the need for technical skills in law enforcement.
> Of course employers want people to come back. They have millions if not billions of dollars in real estate liabilities that are effectively useless.

If employers able to get productive work out of employees who aren't using that real estate, the real problem is getting the real estate costs off their books, not getting the butts back in seats in some arbitrary office location.

This is a problem for landlords, not employers.
I was once a part of a team who's job it was to create a low/no code solution for our product.

The issue we hit square in the face is that while it was easy for our C level person to say "Yeah, this is simple, let's just make a low code solution!" when rubber hit the road and we started asking "but, what should this DO. What sort of solution do you want?" we got nothing but "We want it to do everything, but we also want that in the next 3 months".

In other words, they wanted a full blown programming language and integration with our legacy system (with literally 1000s of datapoints) all done with like 5 devs and no requirements other than "everything" and a PM that couldn't give us a "we are successful if we can do x" sort of usecase.

Needless to say, it was a giant CF and failure.

On the flip side, the low/no code solution that I've seen work unreasonably well was doing a custom groovy dsl hooked into the necessary bits doing data transforms. It worked great for us in dev because we simply wired in an existing language and it worked great for the product because the people writing the groovy scripts were easier to hire (and often got moved over to dev if they were good enough!).
I'd trim-off the "Junior" and leave it at that. For a formal job-title (as HR would demand) it's common to have Roman numerals appended, e.g. "SWE I" and "SWE II" before you get "Senior". The semantics is the same: "SWE I" == "Junior SWE" but without the
unpleasant connotations that the term "Junior" specifically has, especially when you have older folks coming in at an entry-level (e.g. from coding-camps or a midlife career change) where referring to a 40something as "Junior" just feels weird.

That's how it's done at all the US software companies I've worked at, including Microsoft and some startups.

My current company does has done away with job-titles entirely and we make up whatever we want on our business-cards (within reason).
Spot on. The kind of features that accountable execs care a lot about. The engineer’s conception of companies like IBM and SAP and Oracle is that they sell terrible clunky software, but a substantial part of the value comes in the CYA that the above brings. The users are rarely the real customer.
It's surprising to me that those people haven't been arrested yet. People get raided for far lesser offenses compared to running Tor exit nodes.

Exit nodes are a mistake. The web is a lost cause by now. Most sites already consider access through Tor to be abuse. Exit nodes are also the focus of the deanonymization attacks that I've seen. The Tor hidden service network should be strengthened instead. We should launch hidden services instead of web sites.
For me, the main issues of low-code/no-code tools are:

1. Leaky abstractions. Our industry has been developing software for decades, and we almost generally agree that MVC-like architectures offer the best ratio of flexibility-to-productivity. How am I supposed to trust that an abstraction made by the low-code/no-code tool will allow me to implement even a slightly less-common use-case? When I use these tools, I'm constantly 1 use-case away from having to throw everything away and start from scratch using something else.

2. It doesn't solve the most prominent problem - designing the system. Implementing the software is in fact very straightforward and isn't that time consuming. On the other hand, having to think of all the use-cases that your application needs to support, thinking of all the edge-cases and less-obvious quirks is 2 orders of magnitude harded.

3. The highest degree of vendor-lock.

4. Not clearly stating what their limitations are.

I'm not entirely dismissing the idea, and I believe these tools can be helpful in some cases. But I believe that more often than not, people don't get the promised outcome, or even if they do, it doesn't come without significant tradeoffs.

In my oppinion, the better approach to save the time of your development team is to just give them better tools. Tools, that don't require them to completely dismiss the workflows and architectures they are used to. But rather tools, that just improve and simplify what they are already doing.

This was also my main goal when designing https://stacktape.com

I wanted to create a tool, that provides the highest possible level of simplification of DevOps, while at the same time being flexible to cover any-use case. I also very clearly state our limitations - it's only for AWS. If that's a dealbreaker, you won't need to spend 2 weeks to figure that out.
Windows Vista came out in 2007, and it explicitly had a dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 implementation. Around that same time, the BSDs were finishing up KAME, and Linux support was decently mature. That was 15 years ago. Software and OS-wise; with the exception of some features of Mikrotik routers + managed Meraki & Ubiquiti stuff just now getting onboard; the support is there. Node's using it properly now. I was able to update Pidgin to use it 10+ years ago. So I think we've got the software-side long figured out; we just needed to get the damn vendors on-board.

I'm glad we agree on NAT sucking. Though given a lot of ISPs are doing DHCPv6 without fixed net-ranges to clients; a work environment does benefit from having ULAs still; sometimes even with NAT66. Performance & security-wise, IPv6 still wins that battle: most routers disable automatic inbound traffic, and you can pinhole traffic directly between hosts.
If you're just looking to pimp your terminal and sand off some of the edges, fish is a great shell replacement to try: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell

A lot of Mac users either don't know they're using zsh by default now or simply don't take advantage of it's scripting language/featureset. For those people, I think fish makes a compelling upgrade. No log-in, just a slightly nicer interactive terminal prompt.
Are yoy being sarcastic or serious? The article seems well-substantiated and well-written.
> Your experience, and your home network, is absolutely exceptional then.

Actually, it's not. Just check google for "ipv6 slow internet" and check it's not exceptional. It's normal because many sites/games/software isn't that tested/optimized for IPv6.

Even the basic step of having setup Google/Cloudflare DNS for you forget that you have not set it up for IPv6 might make your experience of IPv6 really bad.
What's the problem with '$'?
Thanks!

I played with a self-hosted instance a bit (we need to store all code on premises) and it looked like several interesting CI/CD options were marked as "only in Ultimate". Is it worth it?
This is a service for people building apps on top of the Blockchain state. So history and "what's the current state of X".