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> You're worried that someone junior enough to run with random advice is going to be able to rearchitect their entire codebase into hundreds of microservices and deploy it to production without testing its performance/stability/etc?

No, I'm worried that someone senior will do that, because they want microservices on their CV. This has happened in the past and will continue happening in the industry with every new technology or approach - as I'm sure many have seen projects get burned due to being an early adopter of Kubernetes or Kafka, or even microservices in general.

As for how much testing should be done vs how much actually is done, you'd be surprised. While some orgs absolutely do things right, for a large part of them out there it's basically the Wild West - ship stuff and hope it works well enough. The entire e-health system of my country is a good example of this (though I cannot comment on the architecture itself): https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/zinu-analize/...

Some excerpts:

In December, the availability of e-health was disrupted for seven days (with one exception - on weekdays), but it actually did not work for five more weekdays. For example, on December 7, none of the e-health services were available for more than four hours (4 h 13 min) during the working day. January looks a little better - there are disruptions on six working days, while in February e-health is disrupted for three days, but for four days it can be said that the system does not work.

"If there are three, four interruptions for more than 10-15 minutes during an hour, then of course the user can be lucky to hit during the time when the system is working, but there are users who can only hit during the times when the system is not working, so I also marked red," explains Edgars Goba, deputy director of the National Health Service for information and communication technologies.

One of the users of the system, family doctor Ingars Burlaks says: "I have been working with e-health from the very beginning, since it appeared. Unfortunately, those problems that were there from the beginning, those chronic problems, like the system hanging up or getting kicked out of the system when you get a screen with an exclamation mark, those problems persist."

I've brought it up before, because it's one of the locally more well known examples. Furthermore, you'd think that it'd be the kind of system that should work: it's supposed to help with national healthcare, with millions spent on developing it, for the population of a small country. And yet, that's not the case.

> I think they should try. It's a great way to learn why, and why not.

This is something I can get behind for internal pilot projects, side projects, or hackathons and such. This is not something that I can get behind for projects with potential contractual penalties.

> It's just mouth noises which aren't dangerous. We need to be able to hear other people's opinions (advice is just an opinion after all) without immediately adopting it.

As long as no adopting advice at face value and no cargo culting follows, sure.
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I think email and phone spam differ, in part because there is a semi-centralized authority setup for phone calls, as the FCC and other govt organizations sort of control it along with a small handful of real consumer phone companies (in the US that's just Verizon, ATT, T-mobile). And I think email spam is basically a non-issue for most users nowadays, it's super easy to filter and ignore emails in aggregate.

Your 2FA thing is a good point, but perhaps they could be allowed to do SMS and nothing else. Or I could temporarily deactivate it. The point is, users have no control now.

Tracebacks are definitely something phone companies are attempting (or claim to be able to do so). If some companies don't cooperate, ideally those calls would never complete. If they make phone calls more expensive, I consider that to be a good thing at this point.
That 2013 Mac Pro can actually keep on chugging with the latest OS care of OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Thankfully Apple doesn’t seem too inclined to force these into e-waste/retro computing.
I actually really dislike when the From field is "John Cooper Smith" and I cannot tell at a glance it's from a specific company... I may want to look, I may not... but having to go in just makes me want to unsub. FTR, I keep and do look at a few of the misc marketing emails a month. Far from all.. and once a quarter I'll spend part of a day specifically unsubscribing.
I wouldn't say so, for windows you can run the same built package on anything from 7 to 10 without too many issues, on linux trying to install a package that hasn't been released on the current OS version package manager repo feels like blasting your brains out. At least for Debian/Ubuntu. And the only fallback is to compile the entire thing yourself, because fuck me right?

Like sure I understand that having specific packages for each version should make it reliably work, but the trade off and demand for devs to keep up is pretty huge.
You seem to have come out alright though? But you are on point that it can be pretty rough for kids, especially when the neighbors are far away or don't have any children in roughly the same age bracket.
There's another layer to this, people who work for a simple exchange of money (and the important part is we're talking people making more than the average in the field, not somebody at mcdonalds) are prone to going along with decisions even if they negatively affect the community. To be passionate is to care about your work and the only way you can produce high quality sustainable work is to care. But most jobs aren't creating products/services worth caring about (or worse, harming/exploiting people) is the catch.

See: the average Meta employee vs passionate successful figures like Carmack or Sweeney who can aggressively push back on ideas they feel are negative for the community. Although the comparison I bring up is a little funny since Carmack did work at Meta...

So I think there is value in wanting to be a passionate successful figure beyond just personal gain.

The question that should be asked is why we cannot have a society that has enough of a safety net for everyone so that they can work on what they care about? If that were to happen, what would you actually be working on? These questions are the reason why a lot of people wind up leaving software once they've accumulated enough of a financial safety net.
There's only one way to get to the bottom of this... we're going to have to have eat a lot of crows.

No arguments now, this is science damn it!
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You should attend a family-oriented drag event. Mormon friends of mine were taught the missionary position, in church bible study, as pre-teens. These drag shows don't even come close to that.

People keep saying it's not okay to sexualize kids but it's perfectly normal for, say, grandpa to ask a 5 year-old if he's got a girlfriend yet. But telling a boy that it's okay to not be attracted to girls? That's going too far.
Didn't see that one coming :) That's why listening before prescribing is a cardinal rule.

That is an interesting take. "Ask HN: How can we replace governments with software?" would get a reaction. Society's frustration with governance seems to be at an all-time high.
IMO they really messed up by tracking and using time spent on page per day (or something like this) as a metric. That’s something that makes sense if you’re building a side-app, or an app focused on addictive content like tik tok. But if you’re trying to build a useful tool for people then you’re going to move away further and further from that vision. Which is what happened imo: the useful tool was transformed into a content-consuming app due to tracking the wrong metrics.

The best thing that any PM with enough clout at fb could do right now is force the org to track a different metric, and move the content consuming side to a different app (because there’s still a lot of growth value in communities, watch, etc.)
Were you using a VPN or something? I’m curious if this was tripped by setting off impossible-travel flags or something. It seems plausible that this is just anti-account takeover logic working as-expected, but with a false positive alert.
Fewer cars on the road is better for drivers too. You’re not just stuck in traffic; you are traffic.
These are extremely simplistic takes on times that were the result of decades of power shifts and class struggles.
There is a very large difference between was and is, here. Human childbirth at this point is almost certainly a result of positive selection, not an “evolutionary accident.”

A “difficult birth process” has been played up in popular media. In the vast majority of cases, childbirth successfully exits a child, and also preserves the mother. There is some evidence that the mechanics of this process were better before early Western medicine’s gynecological “expertise”.

The whole thing stems from inaccurate, sexist attempts from the 20th century to explain why women are generally athletically not as capable as men.
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I'm surprised there isn't some automated drone-based system to detect and track the shots fired during an incident like this. Are we seeing any tech-based solutions to this yet? We've known about the risk to infrastructure like this since forever.
I find the opposite is true. Having better abstractions makes the code easier to think about, and hence it's more productive. For example,

D:
foreach (i; 0 .. 10)
{ body }

C:
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i);
{ body }

Which one is more better? I can speak from experience that the former is much better, much easier to read, and has fewer bugs.

C doesn't allow forward referencing. What this means in practice as people lay out the code in a source file backwards, i.e. the leaf functions come first and the top level functions come last.

This is just not the ergonomic way to write code. The public functions should be first and the private leaf functions last. The code should read top to bottom.
I have been handling physical organization by prioritizing filing. My reasoning is that if the house is a mess, filing isn't keeping up with retrieval, and I need to reduce friction on filing, because dealing with the mess is consuming more time than inefficient retrieval.

For paper, I don't have much trouble. Things go on the fridge if I will need them soon, or in one small sterilite plastic file box. It's nowhere near half full and I would not be surprised if it lasts 10+ years before I need any more storage for paper.

As an experiment I've been working on sorting things by category in a more general way, like the dewey decimal system rather than true categories, to remove the overhead of half full containers used to sort things. They're based on observation of what was already stored vaguely together rather than starting with an idea.

One common category is BAM, bulk artificial material. This includes paper towels, laundry soap, paint, water repellant spray, etc.

Another is TAM, tapes attachments and materials, containing tape, steel wire, foam, webbing, carabiners, key split rings, screws, and all similar things often having to do with either attaching things together or long things sold by the foot.

With wider categories I have fewer places to memorize, and organization within a category isn't that critical because they can be rummage-searched, without the overhead of a buch of individual drawers or boxes in some ever evolving system. It's just a formalization of random boxes of junk.
https://xkcd.com/1491/
You can say the same thing about many of the master pieces in just about any art area. Citizen Cane, the Mona Lisa, the Guggenheim museum building and on and on on. People have different tastes and they are going to like what they are going to like.

My favorite book is The Great Gatsby but many people find it boring and cliche. Partly because the book's general ideas have been copied by modern writers many time so by the time people read Gatsby it seems like there's nothing new or exciting about it.

It's just time and human nature. We don't all have to like the same things.
As far as I can tell, the people against market rate housing are really just using low-income housing as justification of their NIMBYism.

Kind of like how domestic espionage is justified with calls of “think of the children”. They try to make you seem heartless to oppose their position.
If you'd like some small programming jobs I'm sure I can find some for you to do while learning. My email is in my profile (as is my telegram, keybase).
Anti-ATO should not clear out security keys that have been registered for a long time. If suspicious new keys were added, it should clear those.

From the audit log in my email no new keys were added before this was tripped.

I am not using a VPN and as far as I know I am not doing anything unusual. I might be committing the crime of having a Linux Firefox user agent but I somewhat doubt that was the problem, that's not that unusual.
Domestic terrorism. Call it what it is.
lol I am 37 and would have no problem parenting. I do go to the gym 3x a week though so wonder if that plays a part.
I don't really use Facebook so for me Spotify is the worst for notifications. I've gone through settings and turned off all of the notification categories (and there are a lot of them).

They still send me notifications, including notifications that I have notifications disabled.
Maybe... A company I used to work at has a really good adjacent network... I had suggested that they put more effort into their industry blog and newsletter instead of some of the other marketing ideas. Both are now a significant portion of their traction and a lot of people are there for the content. Marketing is just a side effect, even if the purpose of the content was marketing in the first place.
The assumption is that chronological feed makes for less engagement, and if your business model is to sell eyeballs, that creates an intensive to hide it and make your KPIs better.
Good take. The "help" especially native americans are getting strongly encourages them to become passive drunks. I consider the current official US treatment as a final middle finger to the once mighty and proud warrior people who are now not only destroyed but humiliated.

For the folks getting uppity for the ugly truth: think about rewarding people for doing nothing and expecting good results. This extremely naive approach of just throwing money at the "problem" has abysmal track record. It'll never work no matter how much you wish. Good intentions are good, but that's it, you should get real and see for yourself how the "help" has created completely dysfunctional communities with no future.
Something like typeinfo<T> being inlined into an object describing my type. Totally opt-in, no need for every type to be tracked at runtime.
Im not sure how you’d quantify most here.

The highest valuations are not paid for sustaining innovations, but for market access risks, which is what this thread was about. The two can be the same thing functionally, but “sustaining innovations” sounds much better in a shareholder meeting.
I’m living in one of the most cyclist friendly cities in Europe (according to the city officials :) ). I used to ride to work for almost 5 years until I moved too close to work so now I just walk. I love my city, I love how you can cycle, use public transport or just walk and a car is more of a nuisance here. Having said all this, the only group of people that I can’t stand and I almost hate is cyclists. They are the most entitled and loud group, even here, and for me, even as I still almost cycle everywhere when the weather allows me, I am more scared of other cyclists than I am of cars.

It is amazing how the majority of cyclists ignore all possible rules, traffic lights, traffic signs, bike paths (and we have them EVERYWHERE). You will always have some asshole on a bike grunting at a pedestrian, another cyclist or at a car, while riding with no lights on the wrong side of the street on the walkway, when there is a proper bike path right next to him. Just this winter the cycling community was outraged that after an ice rain the city didn’t clean the paths, which was almost impossible to do, all while they were riding in the winter on ice with no special tires and then complaining that while it was not even recommended to go outside, it is dangerous for them to ride their bikes.

In the end I think there is a lot left to go, especially in educating people, because as e-bikes becomes more popular, more people get access to bikes that run faster than they could ever do (and we now have more accidents because of this), it will get worse before it gets better when it comes to cycling.
> Why on earth would you sabotage the electrical grid to disrupt LGBT events?

These people are not bright.
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Also <2mb doesn't really seem lightweight to me...
At least on reddit it's a little easier to spot astroturfing, compared to Amazon reviews or Quora or other single-purpose sites. Just click on the profile of the user who wrote three paragraphs extolling the virtues of Brand® razors. Does it look like a man with a varied set of interests, or did it just spam reposts of funny memes for karma in large subs?

I'm sure astroturfers will soon adopt text generation en masse to create human-looking profiles and add credibility to their recommendations, but I don't believe that's standard yet.
I quite like MuPDF. For ages its UI was small but dated; it looks less dated now. That said, I don't remember there being a save button...
My neighbor befriended a crow, and was recently asking around about how to unbefriend the crow, who has become a nuisance stealing every object it could carry from their back porch.
> counterdiscombobulating

what a discombobulating way to say "clarifying" :)
I agree except that I don’t think it was desperation that triggered this. They optimize for the wrong metric, and started seeing huge growth number and thought this was great. What happened is that they used the huge user base they had built to convert their app into an addictive tiktok-like app. Of course it was going to work in terms of growth. But it’s a different app. They should have spinned that off as a different app. Not as the biggest part of the social networking tool that was super useful to people.

It’s really a shame because I don’t think we’ll see many opportunities in history for an app that everyone has and that can be used to connect people.
Exactly, self-driving cars do not solve the car problem; Good public transportation does.
imo if you've waited until your 40s without having kids, you probably just don't want kids and would be better off without having them.
That conclusion might be adjusted a bit when the AI reads into our history, and observe that our track record for resettling people is not great.
There is a 'Most Recent' option for several years which provides chronological newsfeed: https://m.facebook.com/help/218728138156311/how-do-i-see-the... . It isn't well known, for sure.
You mean the same Sweeney who makes millions selling loot boxes to whales and in app purchases for pay to win games?

You notice he didn’t go after console makers who have the same policies as the mobile app stores because he knew where his money came from.
Sounds horrible to me too, but to each his/her own.
> bizarre transparent proxies

Any more detail on what is being done here? I don’t need to bypass the gfw, just curious
Any security mechanism is pretty much worthless if it can be trivially circumvented.

So yes, the second part is pretty important

Actually both parts are important, either is worth little without the other. Having well implemented hardware key is useless if you can't configure more than one -- too much risk having a single piece of hardware that if it fails or you loose it will lock you irrevocably from the account.
> I'll never forget the open contempt Meta has shown for me as a user of their products.

You can always return the contempt by extracting all our data out (provided that's important to you) and permanently shutting down you account. I believe that's the most efficient thing you can do to tell FB to go to hell.

Edit: I honestly believe that any FB user this is the most harmful thing you can do to them.
Project Maintainer here.

First of all, thanks rolph ;)

qwantify is a work in progress. As many have pointed out, it is not that different from it's parent repo Neko because this was essentially an MVP. I am working on a set of features including gamepad support and livestream-on-QUIC.

What people might be getting wrong is that qwantify meant to compete with Parsec or Sunshine.

qwantify is a docker image for running and streaming multiple apps or games together from a single machine with at least one gpu. All this can be accessed through the browser.

What (i think) cloud gaming companies like Nvidia or xCloud do.

Be sure to keep an eye out for v1.
> ... feels like a disservice from the reporting.

Not a disservice. It's complicity.
Why's the font so big? hahaha
Oddly enough, this is a similar dynamic with certain video games. Either the game is so chaotic that skill doesn't feel rewarded, or skill is so rewarded that unless you have the exact same skill, and you're only learning/playing with each other, someone is inevitably going to get better and start crushing the other.

I don't think that's an inherent flaw with the game itself, but with things like Fighting Games you have to still feel like you're having a good time (and be able to do cool things) while losing.
>Why would honey bees evolve to leave behind an autonomous pump with their stinger?

Or for that matter why would they evolve the barbed "fish hook" causing the stinger to stick in?
That's pretty cool. Aussie magpies have a ferocious reputation[1] so kudos to your Mum.

We have lots of magpies where I live and I've always wanted to make friends with them but they're both timid and obviously pretty smart so very hard to get near here.

1. https://gplama.com/2022/09/01/the-worst-magpies-ive-ever-enc...
Yea, but neither side comes out and says they represent "truth" (in quotes).
And here's the video they're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-C77ujnLZo
I had a similar experience recently when setting up a new TCF TV for my mother. I didn’t see a “was this you?” email to her Gmail account after logging her in to Android TV, and within hours her password had been invalidated by Google. The message when trying to log in at gmail.com was “Your password has been changed in the last week”, which caused me great concern and an hour or so changing passwords, etc. If the message had said “Google invalidated your password” I’d still have been pissed, but at least not panicked.
Ok thanks I understand things better now. I'll pester my boss to get new DIMM asap.