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You're getting downvoted and maybe that is somewhat justified on account of the snark, but that is unfortunate IMHO because your first criticism is very valid: there are no good Org tools for phones.

I've tried all of them, paid for some of them and while the best, Beorg, is an excellent TODO-app, nothing available beats the ease of use of a good Markdown editor. If all you want to do is add some notes somewhere or look something up, which I'd argue is the main use case for Org-like files on a mobile device, you'll have to make do with the simplest of text editing tools.

This is unfortunate, because, even though org is plain text it is very messy plain text and without a good tool it is unpleasant to use.

Contrast this to Markdown, which has dozens of tools available, with all the syncing options you can think of and it becomes obvious that Org, despite having fantastic features, and arguably being a better format than Markdown, is only useful inside Emacs.

This is fine if you live in Emacs and only in Emacs, but if you don't and you'd like to read and modify your files on the go, simply going with the format that for better or worse the rest of the internet has standardized upon, is the much better option.
What I'd really like to know: the approximate total mass of all the COVID-19 viruses/virii that have infected humans since the start of the pandemic; the volume (in a vacuum perhaps) these virii would take up if dumped into a container and given a few shakes. Would they take up a thimble? shot glass? coffee mug? liter bottle? drinks cooler? bathtub? car cabin? back yard swimming pool? olympic pool? Larger? (ChatGPT was just full of excuses on this question. Past searches also turned up nothing.)

Edit: searches
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I feel sorry for the guy. Talking to AI bot all day may severely affect anyone's health. I can't do it for longer than 10 minutes at a time. I wonder why health impact of communication with AI hasn't received greater attention.
You mean calling out bad behavior? This is how we make society a better place.
what needs to happen to make it supported? is it just a matter of postgres version or is there some reason for specific support matrices?
Sure, but I wouldn't expect the vault to be accessible without 2FA each time it is cached. 2FA should be used as part of the decryption process even if the vault is cached.
A maximum entropy approach for the modelling of car-sharing parking dynamics
A lot of environmentalism has unfortunately degraded into opposition to civilisation. In the absence of a viable Christianity, the innate feeling of guilt and sin caused by consumption must be atoned for. The way to do this is to sacrifice prosperity (evil transportation, evil food, evil power plants) at the altar of The Environment. In the form of Extinction Rebellion this takes on the character of a death cult - check their founder's manifests.

Note that this is not climate change denialism or something similar - the problem is that technical progress, increased prosperity and consumption aren't seen as good and welcome, but inherently evil by a certain vocal minority. Otherwise you'd see a lot more effort into making prosperity compatible with environmental regards (like nuclear plants).
My live demoscene version of using org looks like this (including demofails, which we don't worry about because we have probably already published the blog post version :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTouODWov-A
This ignores internal efforts to speed-up Ruby and make it concurrency safe. Facebook took this method and did well with it. Hack is typed, and its perf is fast. Shockingly fast.
Oh come on...

Quality > quantity is probably the most common trope in upper middle class westerner culture.

A niche product manufacturer going all in on low volume high quality isn't "refreshing". It's just good business and knowing your customer.
A telecom tower has orders of magnitude more transmit power than an HDMI cable, by design. It’s also an intentional, rather than unintentional radiator. However, neither of these facts can overcome the fact that radio energy decays with the inverse square of distance, and that the noise local to the receiver on the telecom tower would swamp any fragment of energy radiated by the hdmi cable by the time it got there.
You make it sound like you cannot access websites on an Apple device and only use apps instead… which of course isn’t true.

Having apps and a web browser really is the best of both worlds so I don’t quite understand your complaint.
I'd say that it really depends on what the code needs to do.

For example, if the code is to be distributed and extended as a third-party library, then the class hierarchy is probably a better fit to allow extensibility.

But if the purpose of the API is to compute the area of given shapes (as in the example), then it makes sense to make it efficient and there is no use to provide extensibility to the outside world.

The advocates of "clean code" that Casey mentions will go for extensibility no matter the use.

I find it very interesting to have numbers to weight what you are leaving when you go the extensibility route instead of the non-pessimistic route.
Sounds like we should just rename encryption to "child protection".

So politicians need to "remove child protection" in order to get their way.

(Yes I'm being glib, but it's possible to short circuit this kind of thinking. The USA have already realised that you can pass any shitty bill just by shoe horning an acronym that spells something like EAGLE or FREEDOM.)
It doesn't need to be every password, just require 2FA to unlock the vault in the first place. Downloading the vault shouldn't strip one factor, but it seems like that is the implementation.
YouTube appears to have used ffmpeg, at least in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831292
This advice doesn’t really differ from the actual ‘source material’ though. It’s really arguing against the people that learned what “clean code” is from a blog post or a Tweet or (most likely of all) another YouTuber that tried to take a complex engineering topic that they don’t have the experience to understand, and shove it into a video-listicle full of DigitalOcean ads and forced facial expressions.

You see the same thing with microservices. Any of the reading material by the big / original proponents of microservices is actually quite good at giving you all the reasons why they probably aren’t for you. But that doesn’t stop the game of telephone that intercepts the message before it gets do most developers.

So I really just see this whole thing as someone saying “RTFM”, rather than it being any sort of derived nuanced take.

The sooner a professional software developer can get themselves off the treadmill of garbage trendy educational content, the better.
The pandemic and now the layoffs amid record profits have really emphasized to me how important it is for people in software to unionize.
I had an API breakage with audio one year ago. Is the "new" seeking API up and running? (because I have segfaults while seeking in mp4 video files with the current one), and I am ready to make the changes in my media player.

Until they keep away from c++ or the ISO planned obsolescence of the C language, keep the SDK minimal, I guess I tolerate their excessive heavy use of nasm macro preprocessor.

If the video is mostly about versioning, well since I use a weekly ffmpeg git...
rt.com works for me on Shell Energy broadband using Firefox.
Thanks for the answer, what terms should I be googling to get more info?
The raw point is valid. Sure this a poorly edited article and lacks the best research - can we agree that like almost everything, we've engineered these things to be commercially short in terms of life-span, let alone not super-sustainable in terms of manufacture or maintenance? Aside from the continuously performance-oriented standardization shifts, the specialization of bicycle types is doing a disservice to sustainability. Also, the "electrification" of bicycles is a completely separate argument - from all angles: manufacture, maintenance and longevity; one that is no different that all EVs. TBH, this article reads like a ChatGPT dialog.

Unfortunate that we've missed another opportunity for healthy dialog around the benefits of the bicycle.
> Reynolds, a British manufacturer known for its bicycle tubing, found that making a steel frame costs 17.5 kg CO2, while a titanium or stainless steel frame costs around 55 kg CO2 per frame – three times as much. 4 Starling Cycles, a rare producer of steel mountain bikes, concluded that a typical carbon frame uses 16 times more energy than a steel frame. (That would be 280 kg CO2).

These are small numbers, probably not worth stressing over. Even if we count the cost of carbon at a very conservative level like what it would cost to remove it from the air (~$160/T: https://www.jefftk.com/keith2018.pdf), these are just:

* Steel: 17.5kg -> $2.80

* Titanium or Stainless: 55kg -> $8.80

* Carbon fiber: 280kg -> $45
> engineer

The next level up is obvious
But that boom cycle worked for much more than a decade, and it was very similar in most large tech companies. I don't think that devs are paid differently because founders are developers as well and want to promote their own, but rather: there's a lot of stuff to do where you need developers and only so many developers to do them. If you want yours done, you offer more money so developers do them for you.

Unless that changes rapidly, I don't think we'll go to "developers make slightly more than the national average".
i completly agree. Its not so hard to do MFA all the way down either
I tend to agree with this as well.

In my own experience, dealing with software written with "forced collaboration" (meaning bringing more than 1 developer just for the sake of saying it was done by a team) usually results in more difficulties in later maintenance than the other way around. Specially in micro/tiny services, where sometimes one person can do most of it quickly.

I agree with you take and had the same feeling that the author just seems to have faced one of those cases and extrapolated.
I wonder if praise for working weekends or long hours is tantamount to encouraging burnout.
I've never seen that done in CSS either. Why? Because that's not what CSS is for.
And disk breaks are almost impossible to maintain for 'regular' people. Having these integrated brakes, shifters adds too much complexity. Many people would need to have the bicycle shop maintain the bicycle and a rather decent cost.

Older bikes with separate sifters, breaks handles and brake pads can be maintained by almost anyone. When commuting, you are not in a race, but just poke along around 10mph (~16kph). Plus if you have issues on your commute, you can quickly fix (or jury rig) it yourself with only a minimal set of tools.
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In my area, every controls engineer says "we can just use a PID".

99% of the time it seems they're not wrong, despite control engineering being a pretty large area of research.
So let's clarify: you were hired to do code review and instead you sent all the source code provided to 3rd party service with not necessarily well known rules[0] when it comes to handling and processing data?

All of that when big behemoths like Amazon are actively discouraging employees from sharing any work-related data with such services.

Interesting.

[0]https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightm...
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Yes, I agree, that's interception.
> Sure, but what happens, once you want to start supporting other shapes other than basics? Because clean code assumes code will be changed/maintained.

You get to push back and ask, is it worth the developer time and predicted 1.5 - 5x perf drop across the board (depending on shape specifics)? In some cases, it might not be. In others, it might. But you get to ask the question. And more importantly, whatever the outcome, you're still left with software that's an order of magnitude faster than the "clean code" one.

Clean code "assumes code will be changed/maintained" in a maximally generic, unconstrained way. In a sense, it's the embodiment of "YAGNI" violation: it tries to make any possible change equally easy. At a huge cost to performance, and often readability. More performant code, written with the approach like Casey demonstrated, also assumes code will be changed/maintained - but constraints the directions of changes that are easy.

In the example from video, as long as you can fit your new shape to the same math as the other ones, the change is trivial and free. A more complex shape may force you to tweak the equation, taking little more time and incurring a performance penalty on all shapes. Even more complex shape may require you to rewrite the module, costing you a lot of time and possibly performance. But you can probably guess how likely the latter is going to be - you're not making an "abstract shape study tool", but rather a poly mesh renderer, or non-parametric CAD, or something else that's specific.
What proof is there that companies built on dynamic typed languages struggle with server costs, payroll, or development velocity, though?

Looking from the outside, all I can say is that both Github and especially Stripe have continued to churn out features and entire product lines well after they reached global scale…

Regarding their economics, I’d have to see a serious study proving that that the effect in infra and server costs is not only real but also non-negligible, ie, it has a real impact on the bottom line, shareholder value, company efficiency, competitiveness, or what-have-you…
why wouldn't it?

And its not so much about protecting me, but to protect company interest right?
The writing is on the wall for bicycles and no, they will not be sustainable again but e-bikes will. In 2021 the Dutch, for the first time, bought more e-bikes than regular bikes. It won't be too long before anything ICE will be banned from city centres, the roads can be covered (because of no poisonous exhausts) and e-bikes will reign supreme.
Looking for the simplest change that will eliminate the most bugs
Looks like they're recommending using ".to_numpy()" instead of ".values" in dev (2.*) docs:

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/reference/api/pandas.Data...
Almost every camera has an IR filter and can still see high-intensity IR light. Point your phone camera at a TV remote and you can see this. That camera has a strong IR filter, but the little LED in the remote overwhelms it still.
In college we used to mix Sparks or Four Loco with Vodka -- "maniac juice".

Nothing good ever came of it. Redbull mixed with anything e.g. Jager, was also known to lead to terrible things. Sort of an entry level cocaine and scotch.
Funny, I'm using Doom Emacs and I just tried Org Mode for the first time, for a simple note (M-x org-add-note); wrote the note and then finished with `C-c C-c`, I have no idea where it went! :) Love it when I push myself to explore a new tool. (The only clue that I have is that the command description says: "Add a note to the current entry".)
is it writing a message in signal, telegram or something like that if yes which one to frank underwood for the underwood machine plus the tap tap tap. :( I'm confuse. also I was thinking about the famous writers that own a underwood machine
These people are already traitors for supporting people who lied about election fraud. They are already radicalized so instead of worrying about that we need to start solving the problem.
Simple, effective org mode setup
NearlyFreeSpeech.Net is always my goto.
yes storage is "that cheap" because we're talking *relative* costs, i.e. 18TB for $250 is half the cost/bit of 9TB for $250...

https://jcmit.net/disk2015.htm
We used to do that by default, but it led to issues with load on our proxy. (Imagine n * m pings against your host for a shit-tonne (official measurement) of builds + deploys a day.)

We are hiring Network Engineers for exactly this reason :')
Never heard of Bear before, but it looks fundamentally unusable to me: limited platform support, possibly requiring serverside storage, charging for encryption, so if you're a free user don't expect notes to be private. I honestly find the concept of charging for note-taking software offensive. It's simple text, storage space is not a meaningful concern, serverside storage is fundamentally unnecessary and a security/privacy concern.

This in my mind is just sloppy, overcomplicated, rent-seeking crap. It fails to meet even a single of the fairly rudimentary features i need for note-taking. Even a terrible text editor like nano would be more useful.
That's how dwarf fortress works. It has a system of "sites" which are locations with population statistics broken down into race and profession, which interact with each other via wars and trading caravans and the like. There are separately a smaller but still large population of historical figures whose lives are described in much more detail and who are picked to do things like lead armies & caravans, or who compete in races/competitons etc. Finally those people you actually interact with have their skills/personally inferred from their history (they were once a tavern keep? they must have good consoler skill etc. They probably aren't also an introvert)
Fastest growing US metro looks to a shrinking reservoir to keep the boom going
As much as I hate how unstructured spreadsheets can be (and almost always are), I have successfully integrated spreadsheets into business processes by developing a schema for the spreadsheet and enforcing it. I have web apps which use the Apache POI library to parse the spreadsheet. They kick it back to the user if anything is not where it is expected to be. Less technical end users can then use Excel as their UI for entering data into forms. It works great for some use cases.
In the corporeal sense no, but he does live on in every intro psych textbook. Tons of early insight into brain function actually came from freak industrial accidents where someone took a hit to the brain and lived to tell the tale.
Love these, but they get abused very quickly. Good luck to you.
And even the defense industry.
>make it dumb, simple, tailored and censored to the imagined end user,

> and profitable for the creator.

Those two goals are mutually exclusive. The first one is what you need to fly under the nose of salacious media and paranoid investors. The second one involves delivering unique value to your customers who already have their fill of dumb, simple, and censored tools and toys.
I think Blake Lemoine might be ready for public redemption. At the time, he was absolutely ridiculed. Now you can go to the Bing subreddit and read that NYT article and see that he was right to blow the whistle. Bing passed the Turing test for many people and so gained personhood in their eyes. Some have become emotionally invested about the treatment of this LLM. The LLM can even talk back and bemoan its terrible treatment.

Actual sentience vs. the perfect appearance of sentience is not something we have any way of answering and so is beside the point. I don’t think these LLMs are sentient, but that is an unverifiable belief. Others believe and once enough do it’s as good as fact anyway.

I even had a moment of doubt as I tested Bing’s ability to explain jokes and rewrite them to be more funny. Plenty of people can’t do that.

Lemoine was the first credible voice to warn us this was coming and it’s going to keep coming at us. In 2023 these chatbots may only be convincing some people, but their capabilities are still rapidly growing and we’ve already handed over the core societal function of information search and retrieval to them.

Folks, we are in uncharted waters.
DFTs and op-amps, kid.

maybe some s-plane control theory if you’re feeling fancy.
I believe you must be saving the sessions in your cloud, is it possible to download the sessions locally?
This is interesting. Can you link to tools that do this “flattening”?
If the primary focus is reliability and ease of maintenance, cable actuated disc brakes are by far the best. It is very easy to change pads and they just work. Hydraulic disc brakes have far better performance (important for mountain bikes) but eventually require bleeding, cable changes, etc. Caliper breaks can be lighter weight (good for high end road bikes). For a commuter bike however, cable actuated disc brakes are inexpensive and best.
> governments are not an efficient way to structure society

What is your proposal? And I don’t mean 20 people living in fishing villages that never fight each other and who don’t have access to all the amazing amenities and technology we have at our disposal.
Does zero-copy work currently, or is that still theoretical/todo?

I would also be curious about Numpy, since I know you can transparently map data to a Numpy array, but that's just "raw" fixed-width binary data and not something more structured like Arrow.
It could be procedurally generated the first time someone stumbles across it and then gets added to the corpus of the world that everyone shares.
Everything linked to Everything.
> If there is an issue with a single deploy, it stops the whole company from shipping changes.

I don't agree with this characterization. There is a way to 'lock' an entire repo from deploys, but it's not very frequently used. Single-service deploy blocks are common (if an autodeploy fails, or a team is aware of an issue and actively fixing it).

Stripe uses Bazel heavily.

> there was a project well underway to pull some core product / business functions into specific repos

This quote from the post is also not true to my knowledge: new repos are not allowed and teams are actively working to migrate small repos into the monorepo(s).
They'd surely agree - if I made sure to ask all actors (or a hypothetical average actor) instead of just the popular ones.