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> The wordpress integration test suite broke with PHP 8.0.

Wordpress was since it creation a bad coded software and as a result they have issues with keeping up with the php release cycle.

> In the near future you won't be able to assign new properties on instantiated objects anymore.

Wrong, the stdClass that json_decode uses still works and will work, if you need dynamic properties without define it in your class add the attribute for this class #[AllowDynamicProperties] .

> There was a somewhat recent article that talked about changes for a string template literals cleanup for the next major version that will break a whole bunch of code as well.

Next major version comes in several years until then you get deprecate warnings, if you can't fix problems that will occur in 2-3 years you should think about your software development skills.

> But what about many projects? What about transitive dependencies?

If you have many projects but no manpower to maintain it thats a bigger problem for the projects itself, e.g. security.
And you can use phpunit combined with rector for many projects.

> PHP is moving fast and makes no excuses. It's simply not a language that prioritizes stability.

PHP is stable if you write good code and on the same level as nodejs or python.

> There are so many little gotchas and weird behaviors.
Thats the reason for the upcoming breaking things, if php would stick at php 5 it would be dead.
Unintentional mistakes in text books are usually very different though.

ChatGPT tends to just hallucinate facts which would make zero to the people (95%+) who are writing text books.

Alternatively it can just parrot random (pop history myths and stuff) it found on the internet. But it does so in a confident and pseudo-academic fashion making it even hard to discern facts from fiction.
I can’t think of a song chorus or a phrase that has endured in the last decade. If it was a gameshow question to complete the lines from these contemporary songs how many would struggle?
On paper it seems nice, but in reality it will just decrease salaries and people will have to work two jobs for the same money.

Better to support work from home. It should be considered misogynistic and "anti green", if employer demands work at office.
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I have been burned twice now by trying to use a smartwatch only to figure out that it does not show me even the most basic data on screen (like steps taken yesterday) and instead wants me to install an app on my phone and sign up to some cloud service.

Are there any smartwatches out there with basic functions (time, timer, sleep time, steps taken) that work as a standalone device, without having to use a smartphone?
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No one involved in typography, typesetting, DTP, and graphic design (the target audience) would even conflate this title with diabetes...

The website is called "typenetwork" even.

Not everything is "clickbait"...
When an entire industry hype rests on the API of one single company...
If you're going to lie you should do so on things that aren't easily checked and disproved. [0]

If the 6820 billion spent by the US government in 2021, 4394 billion were spent on income security, social security, health and medicare. That's almost 65% of government expenditures going directly to wealth transfer programs.

Mind you that doesn't account for all such programs (notably that value excludes education, housing, agricultural subsidies,etc...) So the real rate is actually higher.

The us is not unique in these ratios in the western world.

[0] https://preview.redd.it/us-government-revenue-spending-and-d...
Being Mixed-Race Is Weird
I have been meaning to write an article on this topic for a while as it is something which is very close to me.

Now that I have done so I figured I’d share it here in case it helps/resonates with anyone
> Fast food is now a fraction of the cost of healthy food.

No it isn't. If you would like to discuss specifically that I'm more than happy to demonstrate.

So your argument is these starving children are victims of cheap ultra high calorie fattening food and so need free food to stop them from hunger?

> Home ownership rates have declined, resulting in more people paying to keep a roof over their head instead of investing in their own future equity.

Spinning easily disproved tropes of victimhood. Over the timescale claimed you are saying that people are being forced out of homes?
Most of the posts mentioning Rust not being the best choicce for a startup talk about iteration speed and prototyping. In that light I don't think this is the best heuristic. If you need to prototype quickly and search for a market fit, then by all means, choose whatever will make you go fastest (and I'd argue for a lot of use cases it would be Elixir with Phoenix's LiveView if you don't absolutely need an SPA or a mobile app), but if you're building sth that already has a market, Rust might be still a good choice even if it's not a C/C++ fit.
I agree with your point, but it is very common for clinical staff to work 12 hour shifts and do 3 or 4 per week.
Maybe, maybe not. Since it's not explicitly public, it's nicer not to assume that or ask. Privacy is a big thing in vtubers community.
How do you get traction on your blog? Whenever I post it on here the posts never get any traction.
Just as bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy, so does management.

There is a good way to do big management, but what usually happens is managers find themselves with time to spare and invent activities which do not directly add value, but eventually snowball into formidable tasks requiring more management.
I'm still not really seeing how the 4-day-week, at 5 days pay, is delivering the (almost magical) 20%+ productivity boost that its proponents seem to claim it does.

I'm sure almost all people feel better when given the option to work fewer hours for the same money ... I know I would!

How does that translate into increased productivity, though?
Stable Diff will easily out-imagine most of the "weird artists" out there; they are in fact the first victims, rather than the last holdout.
Counterpoint: https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/09/why-my-fellow-physic...
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>Anyone here who was bullied in high school, say, and enjoyed it? I sure didn't...

And therein lies the rub.

People like you, who couldn't find a coping mechanism to deal with childhood bullying [all children are vicious wee thugs, until they learn otherwise] think that you can somehow control what people "feel inside" by controlling what words they can use to express themselves. Ditto the people who think you can somehow stop anyone having racist or homopobic attitudes by banning completely innocuous words [see Montenegro comment above] as people might see them as racist or hompophobic.

Kids will always bully other kids, racists will always hate other races and homophobic people will always hate gays. If you ban one word, they'll come up with another. If you ban that, they'll come up with another... rinse and repeat. As I've said before, if you follow that path to its conclusion, you end up with Newspeak [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
why is this supposed to be considered interesting?
Since you’re a fan of the dictionary, I am certain you will appreciate the following:

Merriam-Webster[1]:

> b: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex

> c: GENDER IDENTITY

American Heritage Dictionary[2]:

> b. One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.

O.E.D.[3]:

> b. The state of being male or female as expressed by social or cultural distinctions and differences, rather than biological ones

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender

[2]: https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=gender

[3]: https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/77468
I always take first layoff offer I get. Free salary for couple of months. I have no trouble to find new gig... And old job will only go downhill with more workload, paycuts and less generous layoff offers.
I'm probably a night owl as well since I'm always going to bed too late yet I find the idea of already having done a large part of the work by midday kind of alluring. Also the concept of the "magical morning" like doing stuff for your own improvement before working for someone/something else seems to be a good way to start a day. Why not waking up at 3am and do some weightlifting or whatever?
It also got... isolated. I was going to leave a comment, but couldn't, as there was no where to leave it.

Bring back failed attempts to be the next CSS Picasso, but also bring back a social web. Offloading comments to social networks hinders discovery of networks.
Do it! I’d be curious how it works out.
That means this benchmark is useless right?

In real world there will be more client IPs and the host will be listening on 1 IPv4 on 1 port.
I don't know who needs to be told this, but human circadian rhythms vary considerably from person to person. Some are very early, some are as late as a literal owl.

Telling them to follow the sun will be about as successful as telling an actual owl that it's sleeping at the winyg time and needs to hunt during the day like the rest of the birds.
I suspect you're overestimating the impact of bond rates on VC or IPOs. What does the data say? IPOs have declined during a period of low rates, and at first glance there doesn't appear to be any clear correlation between inflation-adjusted IPO size and interest rates. Know of data that says otherwise?

This study finds that low rates were correlated with less IPOs, not more: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5184917_Interest_Ra...

Even A16Z lists a bunch reasons IPOs are declining (in a period of low rates), none of which seem related to bond rates: https://a16z.com/2017/06/19/ipos/
Maybe you are thinking of zahada? It is as you describe, individual HTML pages solved by typing the correct answer into the address bar. It involved a lot of lateral thinking. Sometimes a bit unfair, but it was great fun trying to work this out over several sessions with a friend!

http://www.mcgov.co.uk/zahada.html

There were also some similar games/clones that never quite hit the spot for me.
There's lots of techniques that can fall under that heading. The idea is to tie together your logic and obfuscation so that the things you have to do to undo the obfuscation end up breaking access to other parts of the program. Using the output of hash functions as decryption keys is one famous approach but there are others.
The comparison with DVC is biased https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release/blob/main/Performanc...

I'd nowhere near the same performance with oxen. The analysis is very biased to help Oxen. I wish people had more integrity before trying so hard to push a half-baked product into the market.
> 1. Music - Done mainly in ones own head, drawing on personal experience and skill to find something which fits with what you are hearing. The process may not be silent, but the creation is.

You don't write music, do you? And I guess you've never been at a jam session either.
I mean, I'm pretty sure you'd have heard about that from about a million other outlets before seeing it here, no? It'd be Nobel Prize winning level stuff.
It. It gained consciousness and went on strike.

Also, no. It did not.
Under the lids is.. another layer of lids?
You’re absolutely right — I got my inventive, genre-redefining blockbusters mixed up. Instead of Raiders I should have said Terminator 2, which Rocketeer did compete with. James Cameron remains a defining figure in that space.

I am stung by the correction because it’s nice to imagine oneself infallible, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
"It seemed like Rolex had spent millions marketing this $5,800 watch directly to us. So I popped down to my nearest authorised dealer to pick one up."

How on earth does someone so suggestible accumulate enough money to buy a Rolex in the first place?
That you cannot fill some roles in an organisation is a problem of, well, organisation and motivation, isn’t it?

My “conspiracy” remark was with /s which meant sarcasm. It’s just that it can very practically suck to be an outlier from the blessed “norm” of having your sleep schedule more or less synced with day-night cycle.
Yes, but all that was followed by a different human ability to compensate for the loss. Here we may be replacing this with AI, not with a human skill however indirect.

Also, this type of AI tech is trained from us, and therefore I'm unsure it can reach significant advancement over current human ability (ChatGPT won't create any new writing styles). We may just end up in a local maxima. Compare to Chess engines which could exceed human ability since they had an obviously good optimization criteria: winning games.
Great job! Heres a similar tool but for the Click command line toolkit instead of argparse:

https://github.com/click-contrib/click-repl

(Also should work with Typer and other libraries wrapping Click)
I was hoping this was addressed in the article, and it was, under "Why use margin and not gap?" A number of arguments are presented (including that, at the time, it wasn't an option) and the confluence of those make the owl compelling.

I think I'd probably opt to buy into flexbox/grids and gap for greenfields projects, but I do appreciate the notion of flow axioms and styling the space between adjacent items.
When did it happen that macOS became Windows wrt answers like "Format it and see if the issue persists" or "Wipe the installation and try again"?

I remember those as solutions for Windows registry bloat, so much so that reinstalling Windows was something scheduled regularly to avoid issues.
A lot of the alternatives (including the one I am working on) embrace different parts of this in their UX. Just Notion is the dominant at the moment.
Cody has an example of how to generate oil out of algae and sun light:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64cEmjtwRgw

Very interesting stuff! As others already noted, this is probably a more efficient and more robust technology.
Do you think that maybe you are biased by being older than you were in previous decades, and thus spending less time and less emotional investment on pop music? Or do you honestly believe that the quality of a whole art form has dropped significantly during this period?
I know this is a ELI2 but what about that stray dog? Nobody celebrated its birthday.
I guess azure is once more updating the gpu servers ;)
It depends. The main reasons C++ code can be slow are costly abstractions (don't laugh!), inappropriate data structures, and pointer fest (that leads to cache misses).

Writing the same program in JavaScript won't change much of the above. You'll have the JIT overhead for sure, but the basic data structures will remain relatively efficient, and if you're starting out with a pointer fest it won't be any worse in JavaScript. As for the GUI itself, well… I expect it'll be as fast as any browser.
That's true for government because they have no competition. In the corporate world, excessive bloat leads to stifled innovation and eventual irrelevance then bankruptcy.

Sears could have been Amazon.
I often have to read this kind of comments about apple, but it never aligns with my personal anecdotes about apple, and it never mention actual hardware or brand whose qualities are so much more valuable than apple's.

You sound like anything but apple is good, but there's a lot of awful hardware out there, that is for sure. How to you avoid it ? What's your foolproof buyer method ? I might sound snarky, but I'm also genuinely interested !
This is assuming that there is no "selling" required. In a lot of cases some selling is required and then just being some sort of blunt isn't necessarily helpful.
> tutorial and "news" videos spoken by "AI" voices on youtube

That is already happening without AL. Just copypaste from Stackoverflow + TTS.

https://youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar?feature=shares
Classroom and gear utilization of only 8hrs/day would be unacceptable in the industry. I never envisioned that some people might want 8pm classes but maybe it’s an idea. I know that my father, headmaster for high schools, sometimes received threats at home from teachers at 8am on Sunday during the period of establishing the schedules, to tell him that he’d better not assign this or that teacher to the 8am class or…
Hey, I'm just a guy on the internet.

I went to your page and noticed it jumped as parts of the page were loading. If you add a height to those divs that jarring jump is prevented.

Also, video autoplay is a big no-no.
And if you accidentally classify a human made comment as ChatGPT, it was a low quality comment anyway.
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Them: "why did you leave previous company?"

You: "because I wanted a new challenge"

We all know that in most cases thats a lie. But if you were to tell the truth you would stand a high chance of being punished.
No picture of the actual ThinkPad hardware, likely more IBM ThinkPad DNA loss by Lenovo. The Apple MacBooks have had a design change back to the future.
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The social media addiction is not a universal scapegoat, I agree with you on that.

However I just wanted to express what I saw when I was a student. I saw people that are lost and dont know how to regulate because they don't percieve excessive screen time as something unhealthy. Not claiming I was enthusiastic about every single morning class also, which is understandable as some days I just went to party or had long study sessions for some exam or project. And I also struggled with excessive screen time myself. When I cut that out I noticed a huge amount of energy boost in my life.

The only thing I stand behind and regard as a fact in my comment is the rythm of the natural environment. I don't see how we could structure our society if not in respect to the natural environment of sunrise/sunset.
Is that something you know, or something you are guessing? In particular [2] explicitly says at the top that it is a bunch of new pulsars, so it would be very surprising to find large skymaps there.

I tried looking at [1], but they don't make it easy finding the skymap.
I wonder how much people are adjusting their behavior for these trials... if and when it becomes the norm, do the long meetings and less productive practices creep back in?
Uh, what? Your product Saltcorn uses Webpack, React, Express, Docker and probably many more modern technologies. Those were just the ones I found looking at the repo for 5min.

Cloud and serverless platforms are similarly modern tech, except for deployment and hosting. Do you really think that e.g. AWS and Cloudflare "constantly change their behaviour in the edge cases"?
Mongodb works for every problem no need for any old database server.
Sadly the UDM range doesn't support gateway.config.json.

I think the only OS that handles IPv6 correct is Microtik. But they have no decent all-in-ones.
It think ChatGPT could replace ~60 of professors.
I'd think it's a combination of two things.

Parkinson's Law says that you'll get your work completed in the time you're given for it. If you're given more time, the task will take more time. I think there is some truth to this.

But also...people burn out and get unproductive. There will be times in the work week where you just get a lot less done or work slower. If you shorten the time working, you can put more effort into being productive all of the time, because you will have adequate time to rest and recover afterwards. If you don't have the recovery time, then you need to take the week a bit slower so you don't burn out.

A lot of these companies in the trial took Wednesday off. So you can smash out loads of work and be productive for two days straight, and then completely relax for a day, rather than having to spend Tuesday pacing yourself for the whole week.
You request vacation, call in sick, work overtime, mess up your timesheet, don't get paid and have general HR queries every day?
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That pretty much means your old. :-) How about: "I came in as a wrecking ball"? Or "I'm in love with your body." from the absolutly horrible song "Shape of you"?
Yeah but they have invented the declarative file format, but they put it in /etc, why not put it in $HOME/.config/systemd instead? That would make it more on-par with docker compose.

I'm hoping this is in the future of quadlet. Being able to run the files from CWD, using systemd units in $HOME, and not requiring root.
I'm not defending it as a good idea, but where's the dishonesty? It honestly seems more like just a waste of your time unless you really need the job NOW
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There are at least 3 radically different concepts of a 4 day work week:

- same hours, same pay

- reduced hours, same pay

- reduced hours, reduced pay

Why is it always so hard to find this information when people discuss 4 day work weeks? The constant vagueness here is extremely toxic to the diaglogue. People talk past eachother.
It's unlikely you'd want to connect IOT devices to a backend using web sockets, I'd use a UDP based protocol for that, e.g. QUIC. But for web clients it makes sense.
It’s a very narrow corridor of water with lots of shipping routes in there. I’m sure they did the math, of course, and I’m not worried about the rockets.
I can't wait till OpenAI Outages start to be used as the instrumental variable in studies of the effect of AI on different parts of society.
This thread is very very deep in the uncanny valley for me. From the reduced availability because of segfaults, over the cats talking about flight delays to scaling the shit out of it. While, obviously, the website exists. Is this parody?
Misogynistic?
Hi, author of the article here, what do you mean by "likely more IBM ThinkPad DNA loss by Lenovo"?

and thanks for the feedback - I've added a photo of the actual laptop now.
The vast majority of employers in the UK don't need to ask the UK prime minister (and his dark vizier) for permission to make you work 32 hours instead of 40.
> I think CS has the potential to reframe a huge number of fields and offer a different or unique take on how those fields might approach problems. e.g. a chemical reaction could be reframed as a computation that takes inputs and produces outputs.

Very well put. I had this sort of dream going into my studies. Unfortunately the prevailing ideology (at my school) seems to be that CS is applied mathematical induction and discrete logic.

Though I do think the dark horse of the 21st century is going to be computational biology, and that will really kick things off in the direction you describe. Imagine git fetch & make 'ing an orange tree, where the source is some amniotic goo
Sure, but that happens on the timescale of years or decades. Managers and executives work in quarters -- at best!
I've got two <1y permanent jobs in a row on my CV - first one was running out of money and I quit to save them a salary (I didn't believe in the holy grail pivot or new tech lead - company folded 2 months later anyway); second one "let me go" after they got a new tech lead that didn't agree with my approach. Neither is a red flag, both are just bad timing / luck.
> features that actually work

Like which one? Seriously I've tried Teams on Linux and Mac and Browser and I don't think anything works there.
They only want people who will let themselves be exploited. Certainly not people who will stand up for themselves.
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Yep i agree and it gets even better.

In order for AI to actually be usefull as a knowledge aggregator it NEEDS to create the sematic web.

The question is if anybody is going to give you acces to their semantic databse though, because im pretty sure that google itself has a nice semantic index alerady.
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