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Ask HN: An etymology question, I am genuinely curious
I recently started encountering the word "Languaging". It has that academically desperate new-word stink all over it. Further, Google seems to like answering the question "is languaging a word" with an enthusiastic "YES!" which makes me suspicious that it will claim any noun that ends in "-ing" is a word. Super smart. Anyway, OED is more circumspect, but I still can't get any sources to reveal any historical usage. I found the definition below, and from my layman's perspective, I would assume it earned someone a phd. Does anyone know what this term means and where it originated.

I'm not sure how this construction makes sense. It's like domain name parking. what does building knowledge even mean? complex problems? why not simple ones? Didn't they used to call this "talking"??

Anyway if someone cares to share any knowledge they might have, it would be appreciated.

“Languaging” or “doing language” is a collaborative dialogic activity or a process of making meaning and building knowledge through language to solve complex problems.
Thank goodness. That was a terrible message. I remember my very first experience with unix was setting up Red Hat 3.0.3[1] at work for a small internet company in like 1997 and getting that message and just not knowing what on earth to do. There was noone in my company who could help me and all I had was a unix book from my local library which didn't even cover linux (but I sort of thought it would be helpful).

[1] With the legendary 1.2.13 kernel
Just tested myself. Pass.

However, I played a rehearsal and two concerts this week. I know that my pitch dissipates after a period of time. As a kid, I could tune my cello by ear, but I noticed after coming back from a long family vacation, I had lost that ability. It came back quickly, but still, it means that I don't really have perfect pitch.
A person with perfect pitch can no more turn off knowing the pitch of a sound than a person with relative pitch can turn off knowing if one sound is a higher pitch than another.
“propaganda ploy” is an awfully strong word for a business giving influential people a coupon. They were given to people like Lebron James and Stephen King anyway. It’s probably not as serious as the media needs to pretend it is to sell subscriptions of their own
> “Step counts are accessible. People can understand them.”

I don't. When I walk, one of my steps is roughly a yard (slightly less than 1 meter). Does everyone have the same measure of one step, if not then how can it be used as an objective measure? When I walk 4 miles in 60 minutes, that's only about 7,000 steps, but I bet I'm getting more of workout than the 10,000 step routine.

>Walking for 60 minutes at 3.3 miles an hour and running for 30 minutes at six miles an hour use the same amount of energy.

In the 1960s, a book titled "Aerobics" promoted the same conclusion and through a simple point system, equated different amounts of running, swimming, cycling, walking, and so on for exercise purposes. As long as you got your 30 points per week, you were well on the way to having good cardiovascular health.

Yet this article claims that simply being older means you expend more energy to perform the same amount of work. And also that how fast you walk doesn't matter. No direct evidence is provided for either claim, just some vague reference to a study.
In most calendar systems (including MSFT and Google) , meetings aren’t autoaccepted even if you’re available. You choose to accept each one
True, but in reality what can India do ? Its position on the Globe puts it directly in "harms way", they could cut carbon to 0 but that would not really help them. As long as all other countries are opening up Coal Plants (China) and more Oil Fields (US), places like this will feel a lot of pain.
I think it hasn't happened because much of the sandboxing of Android is part of the Android runtime, thereby only sandboxing code compiled for the Android runtime. If you could spawn a native Linux executable (that hasn't been compiled for Android the way the Termux executables have) from an Android application, then that process can escape the application's sandbox and do stuff it shouldn't be able to do given the permissions granted to the Android application.

That just means no container-based virtualization, though. There's nothing stopping a sufficiently-powerful Android device from running a Linux virtual machine, presuming that the hypervisor is implemented as a regular Android application using regular Android-runtime APIs.
Such as what?

The article states "Even as power plants burned more coal to provide the power needed to keep people cool, the country experienced a nationwide electricity shortage.", so AC units aren't going to solve the problem.
more confident about my understanding of chatgpt, how to use it appropriately, and abilty to filter its output or do expanded research as needed.
It's more complicated than that, as the judgement wrote:

> looking at the “big picture”, Dr Wright was awarded only nominal damages, so Mr McCormack is the successful party, as were the defendants in Joseph v Spiller and FlyMeNow,

...and the court awarded McCormack his costs for the trial on an indemnity basis-- which still doesn't cover his time lost and stress due to this, but it's about as good as you can get as a defendant. EXCEPT, in the interest in finality the court declined to reverse a ruling from an earlier stage of the trial that awarded Wright his costs, and Wright has now delivered his bill of £3.379m, still attempting to deliver on his public promise[*] of ruining McCormack.

So the fact that Wright "won" £1 isn't preventing a somewhat just outcome this case... because the court still rightfully regarded that as a loss for the purpose of awarding costs. The bigger issue is that the UK awards costs incrementally and so has left McCormack potentially paying Wright's inflated costs for his earlier efforts to get the deliberately false case discharged. And, of course, Wright is appealing is his "win" too.

Since Wright himself isn't funding his litigation, this suit was well worth his time in chilling his critics. And it has worked too: it's been difficult to get outlets cover what he's doing, except in the form of repeating both-sideism rendition's of Wright's press releases. I had previously been told outright by a least one journalist at a big publication that they didn't want to print on his claims being falsified because they didn't want to get mired in litigation.

[*] The most recent of which was also breach of a court embargo in the ruling on the case, which Wright was sent up for contempt for ... which had no effect "Faced with a 17,000-word skeleton argument advanced by Wright’s new attorneys, buttressed by 1,600 pages of legal authorities, [The court] concluded that the cost of continuing outweighed the benefits." in other words, he simply DOSed the court and the court dropped it.
I have done that, the files are created in their normal locations where the rest of the photos are. But the files created by ffmpeg don't have the execute x permission bit set and I think because of that they're invisible in the photos app.
> Programs that never halt but for which there is no proof

> We just can’t give a specific example.

This is the third category of such programs per author.

The other two are

> Programs that eventually finish executing (or “halt”)

> Programs that provably never halt
None, "GPU" is a word with a distinct meaning from "unit that processes graphics"
@tpmx
Same. The "explore" features are still kind of lacking in general. Can't switch to other country trends easily, or have a list of active spaces etc. I expected this to get fixed first!
Several news reports based upon interviews with staff is exactly what documentation is, don't be obtuse.
Just don’t accept the meetings. Or even better talk to the offender and explain why you won’t be going. A bit of communication is a small price to pay for the upsides of easy scheduling
The point of that thread starting comment was that it's what a bad doctor does. The reply was saying good doctors can do better.
Yeah this question is confusing without more context, because that is already how JavaScript objects work by default. If you assign multiple times to one key, only the latest assignment is preserved. It’s more complicated (though not much more) to merge two JavaScript objects while preserving duplicates.
Top ten surprising things I learned on my journey to discover a branchless differentiable query language.
Can Charles Keep Quiet as King?
If there's any justification for this kind of delay between detecting an intrusion and acting on it, it would have to be giving the government time to investigate, in order to correctly identify the source and means of intrusion, so the right parties were charged and innocents weren't dragged in.

Which, unfortunately, was not the case with Solarwinds. Almost immediately after the intrusion was publicly disclosed, there were a bunch of stories, in both industry outlets like The Register and mainstream ones as august as the New York Times, suggesting that software from JetBrains might have somehow been implicated in the hack -- citing no evidence other than that Solarwinds had bought JetBrains products, and that they were, y'know... one of them furrin companies (though Czech, not Russian -- one wonders whether the FBI knows the Czech Republic is an EU member these days).

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/07/jetbrains_solarwinds_accusation/

And yet, when a full technical writeup of the way the build servers got breached was available, it turned out that JetBrains software was not at fault; the hack to the build servers worked at a lower level, and switching to a different build orchestrator wouldn't have changed things at all:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-analysis/

So, extra time to investigate didn't keep the investigators from leaking a report that was just false. JetBrains obviously wasn't well served by this -- but neither were the rest of us.
so its like a combination of a regression model plus user defined logic?
Don’t create it. Use battle-tested approaches and frameworks that scale. Do quality work, at a sustainable pace.
Yeah I think nobody checked any reports since a good 25 years now.
What does "epsg:4978" mean?
Boy, I made so many memes around sudo. I can't believe they removed it. I mean, sudo does log messages in /var/log/secure or /var/log/auth.log on Linux when something fails or is executed successfully, depending on security policies. The default on most distro is to log messages.
I think we should ban humans from that first
Upvoted this, because opinions about an opinionated product should be allowed.

Fully agree that 37Signals’ products are very opinionated and often missing crucial features. I can see that they fulfil some use-cases, but could be more mainstream.
I am a professional musician (bassoon player in a symphony orchestra). I can, if I practice it a couple of times a week, achieve and sustain perfect pitch.

I had no semblance of perfect pitch until I decided to practice it at age 24. Before that the only chance I had to guess a note was to put in in relation to my own voice.

Even though I don't practice this anymore (it isn't very useful), I still often just instinctively know what note I hear.
100% this! My son is touring colleges now in US and UK. It is totally clear that the US academic faculty have totally lost the war to the administrative class!

In the Oxbridge system, for example, academic faculty are responsible for admissions within their major. This means that majors are non-fungible - you apply to a major and are stuck to it for the duration of your degree. But this also means the professors can protect their turf, e.g., they are not subject the vagaries of "market demand" for majors by the students. They have a certain number of seats to fill, and they conduct the work to get the best class for this. This is why Oxford still graduates 100 classics majors a year (more than the entire ivy league combined.) And they get to staff their department accordingly.

In the US system, we have the insane "holistic admissions" process run by a giant admissions bureaucracy. This bureaucracy is doing everything in its power to eliminate any trackable metrics so they can preserve their secret sauce and source of power (see 80% of universities are now test optional admissions.) The admissions bureaucracy is also in cahoots with other major bureaucracies - sports, diversity, development ($$), etc. The fencing coach has WAY more power to drive admissions decisions than does the professor of classics.

US academics were lulled into complacency by the dulcet tones of managers saying "let me take this boring administrative task off your plate." But in doing so, they have become the working class of the university system.
Microsoft wants $100/year for Office for every mobile user.

So they’ll likely make more money off mobile than Google will.

Although they don’t build any phones or mobile OSes, they are making a ton of money off mobile (without paying the App Store percentages to Apple or Google).
Wired isn't a scientific publication.
Is there a Powershell script to disable adware on a windows 11 box ?
It looks like their last time down was April 21 for about an hour, but for the year the site's only been down twice for a total of about 2.5 hrs. I compared that to the last place I worked and it was about the same. Both were at about 99.91%.
Could the deranged British legal system then be turned against those two, with equally vexatious retaliatory lawsuits? Fight fire with fire, as it were.
I say MSFT because they already use teams and outlook. Just not the calendar feature.

It’s be the same objection with any solution I think

And meetings aren’t autoaccepted , they’re marked tentative until you manually confirm
I've come to believe that almost everybody could learn absolute pitch, it is just not tought. In school I asked "what is that tone?" or "what does a D sound like?" and the teacher basically laughted and said that is wrong, you are not supposed to ask that, and music doesn't work like that. (Same story a few years later when it came to musical scales, I wanted to understand how they are built up and what the mathematical principles are, the (other) teacher said I have to stop using "problem thinking" and just accept that I have to rote learn the scales.)
You also made a ton of assumptions
I'd be curious to hear what gives you this impression. I've read that shadowbanned users on Reddit get banished to a sort of "heaven" echo chamber where they can see only bots replying to and agreeing with them, but I've not seen anything suggesting that happens for unbanned users.

There are loads of comment-copier/remixer karma farmer bots but reddit users are becoming better at recognizing and flagging those.
> Their main issue IMO is that they are not really bringing anything major to the table in exchange for the very high cost of breaking compatibility with nodejs.

This is why my money is on Bun, just like a safe bet in Carbon. Both are designed to be drop-in-capable in large codebases where the bean counters aren't going to budget a total rewrite that redelivers the same functionality.
Our daughter has perfect pitch. Her violin teacher was curious how she was learning so quickly and ahead of her first test did some aural practice, whatever key she played on the piano our daughter could tell her with 99% accuracy what it was. My family and my wife's family are quite musical (neither of us are).
The problem is "client credential" flow is not always available... And even if it were it might not as easy as you claim. In particular if you want to have an access token working on several instances. Most implementation allows only one access token at once so you need to have a shared storage and synchronization just for that...

If you are developing an API please have mercy: provide something other than OAuth. For me, avoid OAuth unless there is 3 distinct parties.
The moon dust problem facing scientists
> and the company is addressing it by charging (a lot) for formerly-free features as a way to reduce load

Twitter was losing a ton of money, the free features had to go regardless.
I'm gonna halt some day. I guess I'm not intelligent. Feels bad man.
While the author bemoans the increasing use of adjunct faculty, there is an issue (that I may have not spotted as I was speed-reading!): Where I teach, only a certain percentage of sections can be taught by adjuncts; routinely exceeding this number would cause us to loose program accreditation from our accrediting institution. The scrutiny was not trivial! So for at least some institutions deploying adjuncts has a limit.

I started as an NTT instructor, then program coordinator, and was interim department chair. With each step came more course releases and more administrative work; I was pretty unhappy by the end. Now I'm an adjunct and teach one class per semester. As the author mentioned, it doesn't pay but it funds my hobbies and I really enjoy the teaching part!
They used to call that "getting fingered".
The first thing everybody using "REST" should do is completely ignore Fielding's thesis. So much internet comment time is wasted on interpreting that document. It's overly confusing.

I'm fine with the idea that URIs reference resources and HTTP actions are verbs.

I also take issue with the claim that gRPC and protocol buf is brittle; the protocol was explicitly designed to allow older servers to process messages from newer clients (and vice versa) to the best of their ability. More importantly: there are enormous production servers that see waves of server updates (and their associated clients are also getting updated) sending petabytes to exabytes to each other every day; in that sense, it's clearly not brittle or far more users would have a negative experience.

I just spent several weeks onboarding a new system that is based around REST and JSON schema. JSON schema... like most of the things with JSON and Javascript, feel like they were implemented in a hurry by non-experts who wanted to solve a problem, and made something simple enough that large numbers of users adopted it. Now we're stuck with the "core technology is based on less-than-awesome technology". most folks don't even use schema, and the document databases that receive the JSON blobs just sort of treat them as a dynamically created schema defined by the envelope of all extant messages (see, for example, dynamic mapping in elasticsearch).

(my experience includes: XDR and SunRPC, CORBA, protocol bufs, stubby/grpc, XML, WSDL, SOAP, and many more systems. I am not authoritative, and I have my own strong opinions based on experience. But I have to say, I'd rather work in an grpc/protobuf world than a REST/JSON one. It's much more robust.
A Website Monitor That Sends Page Owners Live Updates When the Site Goes Down
This website monitoring application updates site owners when their page's live status is interrupted via text and email in real-time.

It's called https://sitewatcher.co/

You can test your website's live status right now on SiteWatcher's home page which is pretty nifty.

Would you use this?
> Humans will always be better at being human though

What do you mean by that? If you mean humans will be always the best being the creature we call human then that goes by definition.

If you mean humans will be always more compassionate/emotionaly understanding/better suited to deliver bad news then I am afraid that is unsubstantiated.
I definitely want to hand over all of my medical records to a convicted criminal who has made his career in running ponzi schemes and abusing people with rare medical conditions.
I got the idea when I was learning to cross a wide street with a white cane. three lanes in each direction - and it proved to be a challenge because I would veer left or right and frequently get confused and lost. Then I thought a compass would be helpful, but a quick survey of compass apps on iOS showed that they are either visual, or show your heading as a number that can be read by VoiceOver, but it is still not very practical. So I thought that I need to encode heading as something that my brain can easily decipher during crossing the street. I have prior musical training, so that's why I decided to encode heading as a musical interval. This allows my app to communicate with about 10 degrees precision and in practice this is well enough to go on a straight line for long enough to cross the street.
I think it's more realistic to move out of areas that will be uninhabitable (edited typo) than fight nature, but that's me. Move north, escape the heat, don't buy property in coast lines or future deserts and emigrate now so your family doesn't have to deal with useless real estate or become climate refugees. Moving now is way easier than in a couple generations.

Most people are worried about "the end of the world" when they should be worried about way more practical things which are much more likely.
We use a custom twilio number, some rerouting logic (which is easily configured in twilio), and an api endpoint to determine the next relative that will answer. There is also a minimal frontend to configure things like who is on the roster, their break times, a place to upload a recording, and see call logs.

These are the steps we took:

1. Get a twilio number

2. All incoming phone calls to the home phone are redirected to that twilio number [1]

3. If incoming number == grandma, request from an api endpoint the next relative to dial. Redirect her call to them.

4. If no one is available, play the voice mail

5. If incoming number != grandma, redirect the call to dad's mobile number [2]

[1] A child comment by macNchz noted correctly about "Selective Call Forwarding". This would have simplified the process and we could have skipped step 5, but our telephone provider did not offer it.

[2] Note that this is a bit of a compromise in the setup. The home phone never rings anymore and all non-grandma calls go to dad's cell. But they were happy to accept this.
Eh, there are serious issues on the mainland too - although not as "totalitarian" as some comments suggest.
Academics do not dictate what is and is not a word, usage does and it is generally difficult to find historical usage for recent words.

Edit: mistook what you meant by "academically desperate" most likely but I am not 100% sure about what you did mean by it. New usages have vague definitions since there is not enough usage yet and it may very well be a new way to say "talking" but the definition you gave makes it sound more like a new way to say "discussing."

You may want to read up on how language evolves and grows.

Edit a tad more:

Did a bit of digging and "languaging" has its first recorded use (according to google books) back in the early 1800s and has had a fairly regular niche usage up until the 1960s where use starts to increase.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=languaging&yea...

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22languaging%22&lr=lang_en&...
Bot that generates videos of old web pages and media files
Here in Brazil we have churches that allows members to sing songs from a book that we call it Christian Harp[1] as part of the worship, the result is a lot of people who can't sing to save their own life end up singing and musicians from the church try to find the song key and chords in real time, it ends up being a great practice to develop a good ear.

In this video you can see an example of how it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4onowI1xw

[1]: https://pt-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harpa_Crist%C...
okay well you don't need to apologize to me either lol. you were just sharing your opinion. if it means so much to you, how would you sum up what the author says in a few sentences? i tried clicking on the article it but got paywalled the 2nd time around.
In our case it was a landline, but yeah something like this would work if it was mobile!