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The heart of this complaint is essentially that some people think that the difficulty in implementing something is because it requires code, and they can’t write code. “If only I could code, this would be easy”, they think. Code, as they view it, is incidental complexity, not essential complexity.

For a lot of tasks, this is actually true. Take away the requirement to write code by supplying them with a low code tool, and suddenly people can do lots of useful things that they couldn’t before. So in that respect, it’s no lie.

But of course, there are a tonne of other situations, where code is not the only complexity present. Sometimes you’re just trying to solve a big, complex problem. Take away the coding requirement, and you’re still left with a tonne of complexity to manage. And low-code tools aren’t the best for handling that. In those cases, you’re better off hiring developers.

I’ve seen a few people build very complex things using low code tools. Modern ones, but also going all the way back to the original low code tool itself, spreadsheets. People really can build huge things with them. But after a certain degree of size and complexity, it’s more trouble than it’s worth to go with low code tools.

But that doesn’t mean low code tools are useless – they are great for the first set of problems, where the code required is just incidental complexity. You shouldn’t write off this substantially useful product category just because people get into trouble using them for problems they aren’t suitable for.
How well does it perform? I have a MacBook Air 2013 that I run Arch on but I miss all the apple ecosystem stuff. I can’t imagine it runs as well as Linux which runs great.
> A vote of just 50.47 % ruined our radiant future...

There really should be a rule that important decisions can't pass with a tiny majority
>I'm not saying nuclear is worse than fossil fuels, just that we don't know the future impact of waste with such a long half-life.

No, we've got a pretty good idea.

>So I don't think it's demonstrably cleaner "in every way".

It is, objectively.
It looks clunky at the moment, but the idea has a lot of merit:

An LLM listens to the conversation you're having and brings up relevant information as you need it. Imagine having a real-time smart assistant in job interviews, sales pitches, business meetings, first dates, etc. Instead of asking the virtual assistant for information, it provides it to you when you need it.

I would allow end-users to give it some context in advance and tell it how often to interrupt ("I'm grabbing coffee with my best friend. Please interrupt me only if it's extremely important"). Also, I would consider implementing this as a discrete earpiece instead of as glasses.
I don't see any inconsistency here. The Metaverse strategy is about using special glasses to do anything from anywhere.
What to do with a broken LG smart TV?
Is there a way i can use a broken display in any way?
It is a LG CX and i wanted to root it headless via the link I provided. But what can I achieve with it?
The field is also something you can gather stats for. And the weather.
> after Fukushima in a move to align with popular sentiment.

So they were populists?
> nuclear waste has to go somewhere.

yes, and it's so dense that it fits in a ridiculous amount of space, unlike coal that will put cancer-causing dusts everywhere in the air for decades to come. Enjoy.
Thanks, yeah I’m looking for ways to stay in the corp but keep it healthy. There are plenty of colleagues who lead heathy lives, so it’s definitely possible.
"anti cheat" is the lazy solution, you can just buy it and be done with it, and if it fails you can blame someone else until they stepped up their game in this cat and mouse game.

Take that whole tarkov meltdown for example (YouTube g0at tarkov cheater). Everybody is screaming "needs moar Anti-Cheat" left and right when the first thing I wonder is "why is the server sending every client the position, health and inventory of every other player all the time?" - obviously the answer is because it's the simplest approach. But it's by far not impossible to continuously run hitscan between all players on the server and not update any player positions for players that can't see each other. But of course that takes time and effort to make work reliably, so let's just install a ducking rootkit on every player's computer and use the developer resources to instead add microtransactions or whatever.
> If you want your employees pumped up about work, focus on treating them well not hiring cheerleaders.

How is the company supposed to know what "treating you well" means if they don't have people who try to figure out what that phrase means to each individual?

Different strokes for different folks, and all that. I'm not picking on you personally, but throughout this entire thread the sentiments I quoted above have been echoed by others.

Look at it a different way ...

A therapist on the payroll (not a cheerleader) will talk to individuals not groups, and in individual engagements will be able to figure out what "treating you well" actually means to that individual.

After all, you want to be treated well by (for example) having some leeway in adopting new tech, while the engineer next to you considers that an additional stress and for him that is "treating him badly". For him, treating him well might involve fewer hours.

Or more Pay.

Or more direct reports.

Or fewer direct reports.

Or company-funded conventions once a year.

Or fewer meetings.

Or more meetings.

Whatever activity the company did that you considered to be "treating you well", I can all but guarantee that one of your peers would consider it "treating me poorly".

Now, granted, I haven't seen the show mentioned, but I think a role along the lines of "wellness engagement and support" is probably a good idea for any company that actually wants to treat their workers well.

How else are they supposed to figure out what "well" means?
Almost makes me happy that I have this (otherwise rather bad for, well, life) gaming habit, for allowing me to experience this rare case of capitalism working out rather nice (for two decades and counting).
Wear a brace that doesn't allow your wrist to bend when you type.
I’m gonna try this to get rid of the McAfee nagger that my laptop came with.
> So a couple hundred now might turn into millions until the waste is no longer dangerous.

Not if we store it properly, like we already do.
I suspect they would agree! LabVIEW is code, just in a truly awful format.

Simulink is perhaps a better example because it is at least relatively good, unlike LabVIEW, which is the worst thing ever.

(And if you're wondering why people use it, it's because NI makes a ton of very good (and very expensive) lab equipment and the software they provide to drive it is all LabVIEW based.)
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I think you can add IFTTT to your list (https://ifttt.com/). Maybe Yahoo Pipes too.
Not necessarily.

Usually when micro-transactions are present everything is validated server side, Leading to always online games like diablo 3+.

From my understanding kernel level anticheat is to detect things like aimbot, wallhack etc.
Programming tools have a continuum between power and simplicity (or, lines of code, or developer efficiency). You wouldn't (couldn't) write a device driver in Python, but you also wouldn't want to develop a dynamic website in assembler.

Low-code tools are a level beyond high-level languages. They are particularly useful where they are domain-specific, and offer focused functionality that makes them more effective for certain applications. Additionally, commercial low-code software can offer batteries-included solutions that you would have to pay for anyway.

As an example, my company's product is a low-code platform for pdf workflows in finance. The language allows for rapid implementation of form workflows, including validation, pdf manipulation and e-signatures. It also includes features like sso, api integrations into obscure financial databases, whitelabeling and various tailored user and admin interfaces.

Could you build arbitrary form workflows with a web service like RoR? Sure, but it would be a much more complex and expensive project, and you'd have to pay for a docusign API license anyway.

I checked out Outsystems that the OP mentioned, and it seems like one of these more generic all-purpose services. I don't really think you can square low-code with all-purpose. The lift in efficiency you would get is stunted by the requirement to maintain the power to handle too many use cases. If you need to support every single industry under the sun, you can't focus on really good deep native API integrations, or you'd have to charge so much money you lose your value proposition.
Ah OK, I've read nearly all his books, and I'm not convinced by the 'quantum microtubules' argument or whatever it's called these days, let alone any arguments about souls and so on.

I agree these models are surprisingly capable for their complexity, and that's going to be a challenge for mystics (even physicist mystics) and spiritualists, etc.

Perhaps intelligence isn't all that difficult after all.

I suppose one counter idea is that complexity, or scale, itself taps into some other dimensional consciousness or intelligence, but that starts to sound circular.

And there's always the fallback of why our universe supports such amazing complexity in the first place, it does all seem a bit magical.
Low code software development is not a lie -- it's a trade-off.

You gain (a) canned components / patterns for rapidly performing common tasks, (b) opinionated design that encourages one particular solution, (c) support for any issues from the underlying stack.

You lose (x) open development ecosystems, (y) general purpose flexibility, (z) ability to evolve a tool however you want and fix your own issues.

Given the above, when does low-code make sense?

When you have a common business use case, that happens frequently, and you'd prefer not to train/retain developers to deal with it.

Generally, the dominating value of low code is directly proportional to how much of your use case the canned functionality solves.

Some examples of where it's a good fit: application-application automation (provides interface glue and exposes higher-level actions), CRUD app generation (uses common design patterns to build everything the user doesn't need to change), data flow (allows the user to declare what should happen, then generates the how).

If you find yourself hacking functionality into a low-code tool often or substantially, it's inappropriate for your task.

If you're trying to use low-code to deliver a core business competency, it's inappropriate for your business.

Use it for the boring and less important stuff, that's not worth developer time. In the same way that businesses rent instead of buy carpet (because it's not a core competency), most businesses shouldn't have full in-house development teams to do ancillary development tasks.

Source: worked in UI automation for a decade+ and watched customers and the industry
It's not very identity-political, IMO. It is The Economist being The Economist on issues of economic liberalism, however.
I couldn’t find anything CarPlay related in the built in shortcuts app. Can you share the details?
I can't see mentioned anywhere, that they are working without visa? Where do you see that?
It's not misleading, restricted is correct
This sounds backwards. There was no way a teen in a few weeks could write a commercial useful application, nevermind distributing it or be taken seriously. Now a days teens are.

There are more teens programming than ever and creating more things.

The pie is bigger. There might have been thousands or ten thousands of kids programming before now it's millions.

Programs don't take millions of man hours. I can point to many useful one man open source projects. Selling business software is as hard as ever and it's hard to get buyin without connections. Teens are not making those connections neither were teens in the 80s or 90s.

Back than ever computer type was a different platform. Your c64 basic program couldn't run on an Mac. Things were much harder to package for others to use.

Programming has less benefits now for teens
As usually with these kind of posts, what’s happening inside the company (which is composed of many divisions and geographic locations, etc.) and what people perceive from the outside are two completely different things. I would not take this article at face value. There’s been such an article every month since the 2016 elections. They are useless, don’t lead to any interesting discussions on HN, yet people continue to upvote them to the FO because “hurr durr facebook is evil”
But a matrix is a kind of vector!
An Elixir lib to capture the build environment and display it at run-time
I initially read "morale crisis" as "moral crisis".
Sure. Yet any no-code derivative is therefore stuck with a general-purpose implementation. Which admittedly is fine in many contexts.

However, the distinction is important. You "assemble" no-code. You cannot buy a dog puzzle and reconfigure it to be a cat puzzle. IMO, this is the inherent limitation of a no-code toolset.

Also, users are handicapped by the developer's capability. That is to say, the efficiency and specificity of the tool's internal codebase represents an invisible glass ceiling for its users.
Yes! See the windowmove command!
> First off, what about all the folks in Montana who already have TikTok?

The ban is silly, but I’d have Apple and Google remove the app for all users with a billing address in Montana.
It’s usually rather about if you proved yourself or not. Who’s your manager, etc. It’s always been the case in all FAANGs since the last decade. Some people can do remote, some people can’t.
Never used either of them myself, but a cursory inspection suggests they fit the paradigm I’m talking about.
>You should also take in consideration, that nuclear waste is dangerous over a very long period of time. So a couple hundred now might turn into millions until the waste is no longer dangerous.

Take into consideration the burning of fossil fuels over a very long period of time. Billions.
When this was announced over 10 years ago, the overwhelming majority of people concluded it's a shame they will be replaced with coal. Fast forward ten years and the use of coal is at a record low, the use of gas has not really changed in a meaningful way and overall the situation has improved significantly on its own, but especially compared to some other developed countries. E.g. the US is still at 60% fossil fuels and not going down faster than Germany. This should be a bigger problem, but it's not really talked about, and neither is the per capita consumption a.k.a. efficiency which is in the US abysmal.

People should focus more on outcomes of policies and not their favorite tech. If they'd do that it would be easy to see that nuclear has existed for 70 years and it has failed to replace fossil fuels worldwide in a meaningful way. To me it's obvious the costs are prohibitive and this is unlikely to change. It hasn't thus far. If someone can get it done, by all means, but it hasn't happened. Instead we hear about small modular which was already tried in the 80s because of the high upfront investments of large plants, but those turned out not to work because of even higher per MWh costs. So it was back to huge plants which again turned out to be difficult to build. I am seeing a pattern here.

Renewables are accomplishing a lot more and a lot faster and there's no need to waste resources on something else. If they can't get us to 100% they can get us as fast as possible to whatever is possible. And thus far all the predictions on what is realistic for renewables as a percentage of the grid have failed dramatically.
Coal contains between 1 to 10 ppm of uranium. Globally about 8 billion tonnes of coal is burned every year to generate electricity. Thus between 8 thousand and 80 thousand tonnes of Uranium is emitted into the atmosphere every year.
Depends on the team. This is true in all companies
> Consider that electricity mostly comes from renewables now

That isn't remotely true yet. And while renewables are much better for the environment than other energy sources, they're still a lot worse than not using that energy in the first place.
Are you David?
>Baseball's baseline was already boring. Before moneyball games took three dull hours.

That's not actually the case, friend.

Moneyball[1] was published in 2003 and as you'll see if you bother to look at actual average game lengths[0], you're way off.

[0] https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/misc.shtml

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball
Totally agree - right tool right job.

Sometimes writing a full web application is the right solution, other times you just need a database with a front end and a low-code solution is best, other times an excel spreadsheet will be the right solution, and other times just physical process change is best.

Why take something out of your toolbox?
I have an original VisiCalc copy for an Ace computer 1981.. beautiful leather manual.
Back at the start of my career I didn’t know how to code, but I got offered a role at a startup after I came up with a solution of integrating google cals in a way that was crucial to the business - using Zapier. (The requirements were complex, but Zapier could handle it)

This was after the outsourced dev team that built the company website said that it wasn’t possible without significant cost. Here comes me, not knowing how to code, pointing out a solution that cost a few pounds a month.

During the next few years I built a ton of other solutions for the company using Zapier, to the point where we were running over 50000 tasks a month, easy.

I learned how to code in the process (I now work as a software engineer), but I always consider low-code or no-code solutions when problems arise, because I’ve seen them save massive time and expense in a real world scenario, and working really well.

It’s like the OP said in the end - we are problem solvers, and I would add that low-code/no-code tools should be part of your tool chest. Your decision as a problem solver regarding when and how to use them are crucial to whether they work or not - but I wouldn’t dismiss them outright.
Datapoint: I upgraded a min-2012 MacBook Pro to Monterey using this approach and it performs reasonably well for basic use. I also swapped the hdd for an ssd and maxed the memory to 16gb.
Looks like it's intended to replace SSH but no reason why is given. Is there more to read?
Not the poster, but Microsoft Powerapps had a massive price jump a few years ago, followed by a pretty large decrease last year.

Through the grapevine I have heard the same about Mendix and Outsystems - in my company we found that hiring internal developers is cheaper than paying the licenses at scale. (About a 10k employee company)

It may work for smaller depts and apps, but Retool or Airtable is often sufficient for these teams, and much easier for non-developers to learn. We do use Appian and Pegasus for some smaller depts.
That same logic lead to gas pipelines with Russia and Russia blackmailing Germany
Yes, absolutely nothing has changed. The national security complex regards itself as above the law and superior to all democratic control mechanisms. It does not see any reason to bother itself with public consent or constitutionality. If anything, it has gotten much worse.

There are things like this going on right now. We won't find out about them until later, absent somebody leaking the details. Indeed a lot of stuff in the Church committee findings mentioned by a sibling commenter has not only been massively expanded, but is widely accepted as normal and a good thing, actually.
Similarly, the wife and kids much prefer to use their own devices than to use the common car screen to watch movies.

It just makes no sense anymore for cars to have entertainment and navigation systems at all. Our phones do everything.

The only smart features I need in the can are vehicle instrumentation displays.
There are a lot more middle man then that, a lot of CEO and CTO i've met had an almost active disintrest in anything technical or even practical knowledge of there product, not knowing the priorities is in there own backlog or not knowing what an init system is or does but ask you how to start a process when a computer starts. Unbelievable what people complain about in meetings without having googles that problems in MONTHS. Most people just secretly hate technology and will grasp at anything that gives them an excuse not to care.
https://academic.oup.com/jaoac/article/83/6/1435/5656401#198...

> Fluorescence spectra of some common vegetable oils, including olive oil, olive residue oil, refined olive oil, corn oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, and cotton oil, were examined in their natural state, with a wavelength of 360 nm used as excitation radiation. All oils studied, except extra virgin olive oil, exhibited a strong fluorescence band at 430–450 nm. Extra virgin olive oil gave a different by interesting fluorescence spectrum, composed of 3 bands: one low intensity doublet at 440 and 455 nm, one strong at 525 nm, and one of medium intensity at 681 nm. The band at 681 nm was identified as the chlorophyll band. The band at 525 nm was at least partly derived from vitamin E. The low intensity doublet at 440 and 455 nm correlated with the absorption intensity at 232 and 270 nm of olive oil. The measurements of these fluorescence spectra were quick (about 5 min) and easy and could possibly be used for authentification of virgin olive oil.

From a Halloween website, may provide a clue to the red.

> Chlorophyll is green under regular light, but will fluoresce red under a black light. Chlorophyll fluoresces red under UV light.
Also, "Gasolina" and "Sweet Dreams are Made of This"
Colavita EVOO turns fairly bright orange.

I wonder if this could be a way to test for purity. I know that most EVOO is garbage.
Because nobody would want having to buy a new car every time they changed phones.
That’s one of the bleakest parts in US medical history. Just completely in opposition to the Hippocratic oath. They stood by and watched as so many Black patients died. And all of it was preventable with cheap penicillin.

Another thing that many are surprised by is how fashionable eugenics and forced sterilization were at one point in the US.

“I cannot read this sign, by what right have I children?” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eugenics_supporters_hol...
> Consider that electricity mostly comes from renewables now, it just doesn't matter what the efficiency is.

As far as I know we're not yet in a post-scarcity energy economy.

Think of your favorite topic of research. Now consider if you'd rather spend some of that renewable energy furthering that research, or on generating unwanted heat from a bulb and then moving that heat out of your living space.
Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker
I think you mean:

> software is designed to own your machine, take away your control and monitor you

This is not really a problem with anti cheat
Filming in Zero Gravity: How Apollo 13 Was Made
I highly doubt those remote workers are citizens of whatever country they’re remote working in or that Facebook/Meta relocated them there to a local branch. It’s generally nearly impossible (some countries have a remote work visa) to get a work visa if the company you work for doesn’t have an office in the country.
End System Design Interviews
Works pretty well for me on a 2012 Mac mini. It’s maxed out though with i7 and 16GB. I don’t feel performances are worst than with the latest official macOS version.
Browsers are dropping the ball. Yes, You can disable styles, and dig through settings to configure proper rendering. But browsers are 1. Defaulting to giving web designers control and 2. Are hiding the overrides deeper and deeper in settings.

The browser should default to your operating system’s default color scheme, text size, and font face, and no CSS. There should be a setting somewhere you can opt in to “let the web site decide these things.”