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I feel like people get way too bent out of shape about this kind of thing - user stories are just one way to communicate, and you definitely don't have to use them. I use user stories, technical requirements and visual designs to communicate the needs - which of them I go with depends on the particular context of the product and team.

If you work at a place that requires strict adherence to user stories or whatever other bit of methodology you find repugnant, then either try to change the way things are done or quit and find a place that suits you better. I get the impression from some posts on HN that people are toiling away under Agile regimes for years, letting rage build inside them at the indignities of having to estimate/write user stories/whatever else.

If you feel that way, consider joining an early stage startup - there isn't strict adherence to much of anything, and you can have a lot of impact on how things are done. You might take a pay cut, but if you hate the day-to-day so much, that's probably worth it. If you won't leave somewhere that you hate working because they're paying you $500k and you don't want to make less money, I don't think you really deserve sympathy anyway.
> For as long as I can remember, I have heard people say C/C++ when referring to a project written in C and or C++. A lot of programming/developer jobs also refer to C/C++ when they need a programmer who knows either C or C++. To most people who have never touched C or C++ this might not seem like a big deal. However, the problem is that when people say this term (C/C++) they make it seem like C and C++ are similar or closely related programming languages. That is not true.

The post answers itself right off the top. They're close enough that finding someone with experience in either is potentially qualified to be considered for a role.

For someone who specializes in only C or C++, they're very different. In the context of programming languages on the whole, experience in one often means a lot of context to using the other.

If you have a problem with "C/C++", I'd even have a problem with saying C++ since usages can vary so widely. I learned K&R C, then some MSVC++ with MFC/ActiveX/COM, some OS/2 SOM/IDL C++, then more ANSI C and later C++. But now the modern C++ I sometimes see is quite different. No one uses all new features but if they did, it seems like a different language. We still call it all C++. And to me C is still an improper subset.

Edit: I also sometimes write F#/OCaml, is that wrong? Depends on the context.
Moore's law normalized to power and cost is dead. Ignoring power and cost it is continuing along because people want it more even if it is getting more expensive.
Downvotes are well deserved, I didn't mention that my comment was about night part of the theme.
Even if you focus on a category of shops what I said is still true, for most categories. Dozens of food shops, dozens of bakeries, dozens of fruit shops, dozens of clothes shops, dozens of supermarkets, maybe 5 or 6 hardware stores.
I don't get why Langchain is so popular. It's classic inner-platform effect: "a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using."

Once we get better at getting structured output from LLMs, we can use the standard control flow mechanisms in built in to our programming languages.
Yes, the sun was producing more output 3 billion years ago.

However I was discussing the Exxon-financed Willie Soon theory of sunspot modulation of Earth's climate:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/28/climate-...

> "Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, is known for his view that global warming and the melting of the arctic sea ice is caused by solar variation rather than human-caused CO2 emissions..."

If he was correct then you wouldn't see a steady trend of stratospheric cooling, would you? However, if you were looking at an increase in the IR-absorbing blanket of atmospheric CO2, then you would expect it, right?
> This is pretty directly refuted by Dobbs. Roe v. Wade was not ambiguous and was a settled matter of constitutional law until the new court decided they didn't like it.

I don’t like the decision here as well for political reasons, but if you read the arguments the Supreme Court is just saying that abortion law is a state issue not a federal one. Which limits the power of the federal government. Which is good.
>Rioters

>Demonstrators

Hmmm...
For instance, the first subway systems in London were installed via cut and cover. Dig a trench, build a roof. Usually those trenches were in the street, or a former canal, not under a building.

Using modern tunnel boring equipment, Seattle's attempt to move the downtown section of 99 into a tunnel ended up stalled for a year because the ground shifted and pinched the boring machine in place. Oopsie.

And of course if you're worried about gasses, puncturing a solid piece of concrete is just going to make that problem worse.
CentOS was nice for two reasons:

1. Big "enterprise" software would run on it because it was basically RedHat.

2. It had an exceptionally long support cycle, so you could setup a machine and ignore it for ten years.
Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
Do any of those non-persona real people you know use Burmese on their computer? Are any of them blind?
Anyone familiar with the size of their SVE registers?
Yes, I wrote a paragraph on that, but I removed it at it was caustic and a bit insensitive, but to me, this neo-fascism in the west and in the USA in particular have no aim, doesn't really change policy, and in general have no agency. At the most, its kind of the useful idiot of this weird Christo-conservatism.
"Grind a quarter cup (for each cupcake) of red cherry seeds in a mortar and pestle, then add to batter for a surprising flavor!"
> As a developer
Rocky and CentOS are both based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

CentOS used to be a free and open source downstream version of RHEL. Keeping the history short: Red Hat effectively acquired CentOS and discontinued it as a downstream version of RHEL. They turned it into 'CentOS Stream', which is, more or less, a continuously delivered upstream version of RHEL. This isn't acceptable for a large number of the CentOS user base.

One of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, started Rocky as an alternative. It's basically what CentOS used to be: a free and open source downstream version of RHEL.
How does "As a user, i would like to..." help?
https://rockylinux.org/ :

Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. It is under intensive development by the community.

It's the only above the fold text on the home page.

The About page is

...Red Hat announced that they would discontinue development of CentOS, which has been a production-ready downstream version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,... In response, ... he would again start a project to achieve the original goals of CentOS.
I don't see how thin layers of air would heat before denser layers below. Less molecules equals less heat absorption.
The same phenomenon takes place in traditional Industries as well without VC investors. If an established company comes out with the new product, say a medical device, it might not be profitable until they get their sale volumes up.

I think the key difference is how the price for the sold good changes over time, not the net profit for sales. If Your business model is to hold price relatively constant, but only see a profit when you hit your target market share, that's not dumping. It becomes dumping if your business plan is to capture Market share at a low price, and then ratchet up your price once you have displaced competitors.
The only thing that's new is the interactive interface the rest of it is old tech... You can use it on art breeder.com. Photoshop even has it in their face neural filter. GANs are not feasible for a variety of reasons you need to have models specific to your subject ie. why they change to a elephant model to manipulate the elephant.they are also not style agnostic but it's a great demo and the right time to release it. Just before the summit of the hype curve I bet one VC is dumb enough to throw millions at them.
So these are "cloud-native processors": many cores (80-128, etc?) that are single threaded, which allows for simultaneous connections in a cloud environment resulting in scalability. The processors are also smaller with more efficient power usage and can run both enterprise and cloud-native applications, making them more cost effective than other alternatives.

.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-native_processor
I don't understand this "can't have it both ways" argument. Moderation on social media is a good thing, it would be less usable without it. It's also good that people can post their thoughts to the world without a bunch of pre-approval by platforms to make sure it's legal (which would be nearly impossible to do well anyway). I also don't see any reason why platforms should be liable for things their users post. The person who posted it should be to blame, as they have the most direct responsibility for it. Overall I see section 230 as mostly beneficial without much downside at all, and the results have been incredibly positive.

Courts shouldn't decide cases based on the viability of a business model, but we can certainly write laws for those reasons.
But I listen to audiobooks while exercising. No way to look at a computer screen or fool with a printed document. Same would be true for those who listen to the audiobooks while driving.
While I see your point pointing out potential exceptions, your examples imo sound least suitable for something like "I as user want to sort my notes alphabetically" aka User Stories.

Rather, for those critical cases you mention, frameworks like the Waterfall- or V-model, in combination with proper testing, perhaps seem much more called for to ensure compliance, security, and rigidity.
> but any business that want to impose SMS 2FA on me will not have me as a client

Where I'm at org policy requires a specific 2FA solution. Thanks for the suggestions, though, I'm hoping to move on in a year or so and I should hopefully be able to a void this going forward.
My point is that people don't poop or pee less at the office (I guess?), so those 2-4 toilets should be flushed about as much as if they all lived there and had a toilet each. And offices have more people per sq feet, so residential conversions should not flood the pipes.

Although showers could mess up my 'theory'. But the sewer from those is easier to get flowing than toilettes I guess.
Oh my, NASA is getting sloppy again :-(

In the 80s standards declined and astronauts ended up dying. Afterwards NASA tightened up again.

What you go a long time without accidents you forget the benefit of being meticulous with safety. I believe there's a name for this.

You'll see, SpaceX is gonna get people killed, NASA is gonna commission an investigation, and find that NASA was sloppy by accepting SpaceX's sloppiness.
This seems like a legit thing to do - are foreign spies whipping up violence in the USA.
Why is it mad? From a system perspective, what benefits would they get from meters? Energy saving from not having to purify and deliver the water, granted. But from a state supply perspective all that water comes from and returns to the big river.
If I wasn't already clear, this isn't something that normal devs should have or want to think about.

But it's hard to avoid if you end up dealing with separate compilation units that are run on a different build schedule. Sooner or later your refactoring will either blow up with an obscure error, or work even though if you really think about it, the compiler would say it shouldn't. And of course if you actually dig you'll find it out as well.

If you want sophisticated dispatch you want to use invokedynamic, but that was an RFE when I was learning about this stuff.
> nothing beats just doing the damn job!

Okay, but you have to define what the job is. That's what user stories are for. You don't have to use them (there are many other ways of scoping and defining work), but you literally can't just do the damn job unless there is a definition of what the job is.

> I have yet to see a single successful software company that attributed their success in any significant manner to practicing any or all of the mumbo jumbo that is taught in this pseudo-discipline.

There are lots of multi-billion dollar companies that use user stories. I guess they don't attribute their success to it by proclaiming that user stories are amazing on earnings calls, but if you're suggesting that there are no successful companies that use Agile and related methodologies, you're demonstrably wrong.
Yea, would it make a lot of noise, you wouldn't really see it right? Would the energy be detectable by some sort of equipment that you could visualize on the screen?
Considering SO's corpus is liberally licensed, couldn't anyone take up this project?
I think that if a drone is threatening civilian airline traffic you don't mind blasting some birds, either.
We do it because we have had the money and military to do so but I think you will see this go in the other direction over the next 20 years. It is hard to see how the money situation does anything but get worse and worse.

We are also pretty much at the point of missing military recruitment numbers by 20-25% every year now.
The original Moore's law was about transistors per chip AT CONSTANT COST. That has ceased to be true as design and fabrication costs are increasing exponentially. However, the number of transistors per chip (regardless of cost) has still tracked Moore's law.

What is definitely over is Dennard scaling. As transistors got smaller it used to be possible to reduce the current used to drive them. That in turn made it possible to increase the clock frequency without frying the chip. Heat dissipation is proportional to the frequency and drive current. It's not possible anymore because you have leakage current and other parasitics (electrical noise essentially) that does not scale with transistor size. In the past you could take a 486 dx, overclock it from 25 to 50MHz and it would "magically" get about twice as fast. That is not possible anymore and chips are unlikely to ever run much faster than 5GHz.

However, Moore's law still provides performance because you can fit more cores, larger caches, specialized circuits, SIMD units, etc, on the same chip.
I like your “programming at the edge” turn of phrase.

Centralised IT functions have some bearing here at an org level, not just the wider market. It’s vexed because while I deeply believe business needs would be better met locally, we still want a line of accountability on things like security and availability and data integrity that require a bit of longer term thought. Feature factory thinking certainly exists in bigger centralised teams, the kind that accrete management-speak and overbearing agile processes — but it’s also a false dichotomy to say “just build with the business and nothing of value was lost”.
Sure, batch editing is cool - but that seems like a small feature to add to the existing app, rather than a massive feature that requires a new app.

Moving forward, what AI-driven features will be added to Photomator vs Pixelmator Pro? I bet that it's not going to be batch-specific. They are going to start adding new single image editing features to Photomator and _not_ to Pixelmator Pro.

Lightroom vs Photoshop is one way to think about apps. But not the only way.
> to avoid the need to faff with a shitty build system.

Then maybe don't use a shitty build system?

It's true, C is not trying to be a programming environment or tech stack. It's a language, that's it. Whether or not that's desirable depends on what you're trying to do, it's not something that is good or bad in some absolute sense.

You have your choice of build systems, so pick one that meets your needs.

Vcpkg isn't for me, either, because it doesn't solve any problem I have. If it does for you, awesome!
I think this is a major problem with LLMs. You often want to know where the answer came from not just so that you can verify the correctness, but also so you can do your own research, learn adjacent topics, and solidify your knowledge.
It’s energy, but is it kinetic energy? The photon’s massless, but it has momentum… so it can transfer kinetic energy, but does it do so kinetically?

More to the point, ‘kinetic energy’ is ‘movement energy’ - energy you possess by virtue of the fact you are moving.

Show me a stationary photon and we can talk about its ‘kinetic’ energy vs. some other kind of energy.
Looking at the release notes, it's still the Linux kernel 4.18, and for the upcoming 9.1 it is only 5.14. Are there any RHOS-like distros with recent kernels like 5.19 and 6+?
Freedom from what? Britain?
In most cases it does acknowledge that it doesn't know.
This happens sometimes with fitness, especially products like Fitbit that are gamified. People start trying to max the metrics instead of what they're meant to represent.
As in, I'm not in the USA, not as in, this doesn't happen in the USA.
A new frontier for Hopfield networks
It wouldn’t result in a monopoly or near monopoly in any real sense, and it’s also hard to say it would meaningfully result in a restraint of trade. It’s also hard to say the consumer would be hurt by free diapers, at least in any concrete way, and if he didn’t add in ‘and raise the prices later when you’re dead’, it also wouldn’t be an easy thing to provide it wouldn’t just be wasting money out of spite. Which is purely legal.

Is it a strong arm/shitty tactic? Sure. Welcome to the real world.

[https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...]
This coupled with their device attestation stuff scares the hell out of me. Once enough of the internet is shielded by Cloudflare, and they only allow access to authorized (read: uniquely identifiable) devices (or else you have to answer a captcha on every request)… I just don’t see a very good future for the free internet.
It is useful, but it's worth knowing that most of the learning effort to get up to speed comes only after you've been through all the intermediate stages, just gradually speeding up on the final full-colemak stage. But it's a big help in not quitting early on from frustration I think. There's a few really painful changes like the changes in where R and S go, and making noticeable progress before that is a big motivator.

I just typed "leasning" instead of "learning" 3 times, all these years later, huh. I suppose because I was thinking about it!
>actually bother with a coherent investment in a long term strategy to make a better product.

Pretty much every company on planet earth other than Apple. There are actually Three key points here, long term, correct strategy and better. Most company would do pretty well if they even have just one of the three.

One could argue Intel didn't have any of the three for about 5 - 8 years.
Netflix uses FreeBSD for their dataplane and AWS Linux for control plane, at least as of ~2020.
Observation changes the thing being observed. Having a measurement of it allows you to find the measure lacking.
I truly would like to see just one successful software company that started out by creating User Stories vs just simply creating and building their vision.

Sure, plenty started incorporating all sorts of stuff much much later on.

I haven't seen it be a significant initial contributor for the eventual success. Especially not vs simply doing.

The vision defines what needs to be done better than anything else ever could.

That said, some of the companies with the most budget out there (cough something from Redmond cough) probably use these sorts of modern "techniques" all the times yet manage to regularly fail utterly when it comes to basic usability of their products.
I've wanted something similar for quite a while. Basically like travelling with a full-sized desktop monitor.

But I would prefer if the glasses were sold to work with existing laptops and only run software to render the VR/AR screen(s). I'm imagining something in-between the Quest 2 and BigScreen Beyond in both price and form-factor.
> I have never ever seen a soviet-era suburb which didn't have 4 to 12 story buildings with parks and aisles all around them and all kind of services being at a 5 minutes walking distance top (church, shops, post office, elementary and middle school, etc).[1]

My stomach tingled just reading that, and then when I clicked the picture I felt real, panicked claustrophobia. If I believed in hell it would look like this. Maybe lots of people like living this way, but for me, no way. I'm a human. I'm not meant to be a bee living in a giant concrete honeycomb next to tens of thousands of bee neighbors buzzing around. I can't even imagine myself living that densely without having a mental break.
I've got similar garbage out of ChatGPT (though tbf, pre-GPT4), I don't think LLMs can understand math
Works well in proton
Huh. In all of those years when people were talking about wavelets being the ultimate solution to JPG artifacts (on square boundaries) , nobody ever mentioned that they were built on a square wave function. They just talked about being able to move the positions and adjust the diameter arbitrarily. I have to say I'm a little annoyed.
Orcas sink 3 boats in Europe and appear to teach others to do the same. But why?
The idea was better than the execution sadly. I had one of those mice and it never really felt like you gained much with the vibrations etc. I'm sure had it been more widely adopted it might have become much closer to the promise.
640k is all you’ll ever need.
On the last, there are these sorts of things where people decide (or hallucinate) some particular distinction which is not reflected in usage (current or historical). Reminded of, e.g., http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/001461... .
Like anything, it can go wrong due to lack of experience and/or competence, or even technical debt.

But it's clear what the real issue is in those cases.
For servers I've been using Ubuntu LTS ever since CentOS died, but this might bring me back.
If you block third-party fonts or Google Fonts specifically—and you should for privacy—this whole tool doesn’t work. Prefer first-party hosting, and always provide a native fallback (at minimum sans-serif, serif, monospace, or fantasy).