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I usually don't respond to comments, but there's a lot of things that I can identify with in your comment and I'm far from experienced as a developer.

>The amount of politics, power jockeying, engineers who hide behind decisions as if they were technical only to be highly personal preferences, how many people reject simplicity and prefer complexity while calling it simple, lack of documentation, etc.

Learning on my own and participating in online communities, receiving feedback and coming up with project ideas led me thinking that this field is creative and people treat it as a craft. The hiring process has you either do leetcode, show off your projects and talk about them or both.

Given the above, it's easy to understand why someone would expect to see the same in the job. But instead what you get is completely the opposite. My first job felt like I joined a restaurant that actually is a fast food joint, and the metric of performance that makes people happy is how many burgers I can churn during a sprint. Documentation? Can happen later. Testing? Slows us down, test by hand.

And on top of that I had teammates who refused to use the phrase "I need help" and "I was wrong", almost as if it's a sign of weakness. I don't know if it was their upbringing, culture or just because they had to demonstrate perfection to show how worthy they are of their position, but it sucked and I ended up spending more time tiptoeing around their ego than being an actual junior engineer, so I had to quit and recalibrate my career goals.
I don't disagree, the expressiveness of base Python is less than Python + whatever libraries you like.

But the difference in line count between Java + a bunch of libraries and Python + a bunch of libraries is a lot. And the J one-liners rarely involve libraries.
Perhaps Bertyar88 didn't believe they were breaking any rules, and fully expected to be able to withdraw the funds, regardless of what anyone knew.
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> Sam Vimes' boots

This is a silly economic theory. Rich people buy high quality goods that cost several times more money, often thousands of dollars as opposed to tens, for signaling reasons. Those products often are more durable, but not in proportion to how much more they cost. If a $1000 pair of boots lasts five times longer than a $50 pair of boots, you're still paying $750 more in the long run, and paying it as an up front cost, and taking a higher risk because anything that damages the high cost product is a bigger loss.

That isn't to say that you can never find a product which is such garbage that it costs more even though it costs less, but there is no reason to expect that to be the common case, and a big reason to expect the contrary: Sellers will try to charge more to people who can afford it even past the point that higher prices can cost-effectively improve quality, and rich people will pay those prices because they're less price-sensitive or more willing to pay for signaling.

> Poor people relying on a fake review are harmed by a greater proportion than are rich people who can afford to wait to send it back and get a refund.

You're making a proportionality argument here, but that's irrelevant. The question isn't what rich people do. It's if the amount it would cost to prevent fake reviews is more than the cost to ordinary people of them existing.

And the effect you're referring to only applies to a narrow range of products. If you order some paper towels and end up using napkins for a couple of days while they send some different ones, it's not a big deal. Conversely, if they send you an incompatible replacement battery for your device, you're stuck using the one that only lasts 15 minutes until you can get another one even if you make $100,000/year.

> When the buyers can't tell if they're being ripped off, there is a death spiral of quality on the market as the price that consumers will bear has to assume the risk of lemons, but only lemons can be profitability sold at low prices.

The assumption here is that Amazon reviews are the only means for people to evaluate quality. There are retailers that don't even have review systems and still don't become lemon markets because people can rely on third party reviews or brand reputation. And those systems are typically better because they're not tied to a retailer with a dominant market position, which improves competition in retail and routes around the perverse incentive of the retailer to host dishonest reviews.
What's the initial payment size? If it's really low then you are being used by card testers. If so, increase the initial payment amount.

Your goal here should be to make the friction on the card tester/fraudster enough that they move on to someone else while not derailing your actual prospective customers. Obviously, block all temp email providers. Maybe temporarily add an extra step for @gmail subscribers, like a phone confirmation. Introduce delays that wouldn't bother a normal customer but would bother a card tester.
I have none. I assume it works similarly, since it's inspired by (based on?) BeOS. It would be foolish to give up that responsiveness.
I'm not sure there's a conflict here. A lot of my GPT4 usage is pasting in old crap and saying for example,

"please rewrite this in modern React".

it generally works.
You are the one making argument for hydrogen powered cars and that's totally detached from actual reality.

> Cargo ships do not travel short routes

With short I mean not crossing major oceans. Battery powered ships can do a lot of routes.

> MOE has not actually been invented yet, and there is no evidence it will be either cheap nor scalable. It's currently very expensive and requires plenty of exotic materials to work even as a concept.

Both of these claims are just plain false.

> The fact is, a hydrogen infrastructure is cheaper than a battery infrastructure. That is simply due to the nature of pipelines versus wire.

That is such a terrible and utterly idiotic oversimplification.

The reality is, one of these exists and we can make realistic estimate, hydrogen infrastructure simply doesn't exist.

> So it is 5-10x cheaper to make and move hydrogen around compared to electricity: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-hydrogen-offshore-wind

A bunch of small trial projects supported by governments, that make grand claims.

You like to talk about reality, in reality of the 100s of GW of wind turbines, basically non use hydrogen as an energy transport. And the waste majority of announced new wind projects do not plan to produce hydrogen in the future.

> Reality doesn't not favor batteries or excessive electrification.

And yet in actual reality, you know the one we actually live in, electrification is happening with ever increasing speed and the hydrogen industry barley exists and as far as it does it is almost completely driven by state investments.

Its pretty fucking rich to claim 'in reality' when actual reality is suggesting the exact opposite.
Copying my comment from a couple of days ago as that is simply not practically true:

>All my university systems run on Microsoft. All my future employers' systems will probably run on Microsoft. All public transport in my country effectively requires an app which is tied to either Google or Apple operating systems to buy tickets. Schools require students as young as 6 years old to have an iPad or chromebook tied to Google or Apple.

>There is no real choice in our modern society to "not give your personal data" to these megacorps.

You'd have to be homeless, unemployed, unbanked and practically a hermit to even approach "opting out" from this private law. That's not a real choice.
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The .backup command is better than than the .dump command suggested in siblings, as it doesn’t block all writes until it completes. You can then do anything with the backup. (Do keep in mind there’s the .backup never finishing problem on a db with non-stop writes.)
Never had that same problem with keep, its almost instantaneous updating for me.
It's SQLite's locking implementation. In real code it includes some backoff but on long timeouts it reaches 3s. Jitter doesn't help BTW it's still unfair. On high contention each worker only has a slim chance to get a lock.
I should work on doing so more often, but occasionally post to https://fractaldragon.net/.

Really, it should be one of those things, like journalling I suppose, that most people should try and do now and then. Get some thoughts down, for themselves and maybe others. Writing is a tool for thinking, after all.
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Sometimes hacker stuff, sometimes in Flemish, really succinct book reviews, a bit Lego, a bit Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Some rants with little thought since 2005 :-/
It seems like a lot of energy could be saved by, instead of building tall skyscrapers that need cooling, building deep tower-like structures underground. If these "silos" are over 100 stories deep, they would naturally be cool, just like caves are.
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Classic theo, being toxic and stuff.
> > like medical transcription

> There’s no way this is remotely legal, right? Unless it’s some sort of on-prem product?

It's definitely legal, not sure why one would think it wouldn't be. There are dedicated, HIPAA-compliant medical transcription services that use voice-to-text tech that have been around for decades. I would say in the past 10 years or so the tech has gotten to the point where it's very good, and I know companies that have laid off transcriptionists because the tech is considerably cheaper.
I think all centralized and practically unavoidable to use services should be run by non profit organizations controlled and subsidized by democratically voted governments. That way they would serve people instead of the other way around. You see the same kind of thing with unavoidable things like infrastructure; people and countries thrive if they take care of it instead of trying to compete or worse, monopolizing it.

Or at least regulate to that end. Perhaps the EU could simply require all large companies like meta to support ActivityPub for services like this.
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Holy shit, this is a provocation and a half - are they trying to test whether we’re so tied up in other contests that we’d let them get away with it?

Somebody’s about to be in a lot of trouble regardless. My guess is that Iran basically denies any involvement, paints it as a faction of the military gone rogue / playing pirate, and basically throws the ships crews under the bus. Maybe a commander gets imprisoned or something.
Sort of a meta-feed, for those with feeds of their own?
Our front is software but on the backend we’ve built a mobile proxy pool and continue to work with hardware to improve it. More details on our blog: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...
Their fuse-based filesystem driver even supported CACHED block access ie you would download, cache and read the blocks you needed locally instead of sending every read over the wire. Close to local fs performance for little space
Is it really now? I have heavily preferred SQLite to postgres after having nightmares with it many years ago.
I preferred SQLite because I often needed a single 1TB file to hand someone to get started on a project with the DB, which seemed far more complex with postgres.
There were a ton of steps required to get things set up, just with the installation and authentication alone. I recall needing to make a few users and passwords and specify which tables were allowed for different users, etc.
It was far, far too complex for just storing data. Multiple users are extremely uncommon for data analysis, and hiding certain tables isn't really needed most of the time.

I know it does have it's use cases, but if you don't need access control and more complexities, postgres (at least then) seems like so much hassle.

If it's better now perhaps I may try it, but I can't say I have high hopes.
If the superintelligence can increase the value more than a human, I suppose the owner don't care if the position is held by a human or an AI. Especially if the competitor is already run that way, and doing really well.
Colder climate is exactly where you want to use heat pumps. The numbers for Norway in 2022 (https://www.novap.no/om-varmepumper) is 58% of Norwegian homes (houses) have a heat pump installed, 34% in service industries, 8% in other industries. For homes air-to-air dominates (more than 90%). And since then this has just increased even more (and older heat pumps are being replaced with newer and better ones as well).

As an aside, many have commented on the claim that heat pumps make more sense with a well insulated building, arguing that it should be the other way around. The reason that you do want a well insulated building is simply that air-to-air heat pumps are limited to typically less than around 8kW heating capacity, and with a well insulated house you can heat a large area with that, with bad insulation you can't, and you would need a much more expensive type - typically not those sold to home owners (or buy several pumps, exploding the costs). In addition to that, a heat pump is more efficient when it doesn't have to run at maximum capacity. The heat pumps sold in the Nordic countries are typically around $3000 including installation. And they're highly efficient.
And different gas/liquid allowing operation in much colder environments.
I tried obsidian but didn’t feel it was much better than opening a folder in VSCode, and as I am already used to VSCode, that is easier for me.
I've never actually seen one of these external trackpads, but are they thin enough to just put inside your laptop before you close the lid?

If not, that's the part I don't understand: if I have to carry around, and plug in, some external pointing device, I'd just bring a small mouse. But if a trackpad can fit inside the laptop, that would take less space than the mouse, and be easier to keep track of inside a backpack.
Not realistic (for me) the way the advisor relationship is portrayed, and not enough academic politics. I wrote about my own experiences here https://yousefamar.com/memo/notes/my/views/phds/
I think you’re both right because the original poster left out competition. It’s one thing to take free back, it’s another thing to do it when people can easily replace your product without paying.

Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use. At least as far as I know. You can get your disk space in a lot of ways, some bundled with other products you may use making it appear “free” but even if you host your own cloud storage you’re going to pay something for it.

Even if Evernote is better than notes on your iPhone, is it $10 a month better? Probably not.
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A little shuttered over the years, but I'm hoping to revive it this year.
Is there a way to get vscode to this level.
I always have one big note where I add a lot. When using that in both desktop and phone kept overwriting my entries
Salary, I suppose?
I still can't figure out how to use note,I have tried different approach but having to jump different application and rewrite everything 2 or 3 times, just don't compute in my brain.
That’s not how working class is defined
One “naughty” thing you can do is write invisible data into the last block of a file…

- truncate the file to extend it to the end of the last block

- write data to that area

- truncate the file back to its original size

An edit of that file will likely lose you data though.
How does that handle concurrent writes to the same block? How is the cache invalidated?
> It was really was a disaster for whip companies, carriage companies and saddle makers, though, disruption didn’t proliferate as quickly then as it does today.

I'm not contending that.

I'm saying (as far as I can determine) that cars sales alone in the US today is around 4% of the GDP. That doesn't count all the businesses employed in car manufacturing, all the businesses employed by the distribution network, by auto maintenance, ancilliary auto services (insurance, car washes, cosmetic finishing, upgrades, motorsport, etc).

My argument is that the demise of buggy whip manufacturers was accompanied by a significant expansion of employment. The replacement required much more labour than the thing it replaced.

If, at the time, buggy whip/saddlery/etc sales, distribution and manufacture collectively were the largest employers of labour, then the buggy whip argument makes sense.

I don't think it was.
Bit of an interesting thought experiment there, could a corporation maximize profit without customers? I wonder if we can find any examples of this type of behavior...
Sounds like I'd better migrate my Evernote to somewhere else.

What's a good alternative that plays well with my existing Evernote data?
Work in the sense of energy per unit time, too.

Most raw material processing involves some separation process which requires energy. First, there's gathering something that contains some of what you want. Then there's a phase that often involves breaking big stuff into little stuff and some mechanical separation of easily removed crud. Then there's some chemical step, such as smelting, leaching or distillation, which takes energy and feedstocks to pull the good stuff out of the bad stuff. Then there's getting rid of the bad stuff, which is the source of most industrial pollution. Now you finally have something that's mostly what you want, and go on from there. From desalinization to iron making to fertilizer to oil production, the front end looks like that.

All of those processes are energetically uphill, and all are routinely done on huge scales.
I've been using Stack for a few years and like it a lot. Downside is that it might go to the Google Graveyard someday. Partially mitigated because the app mirrors PDFs of all my uploads to Google Drive, but not sure how much metadata that includes.
Honestly other than GPUs requiring a child sacrifice to moloch to access for most people - it’s been great being a computer gamer this whole time.
A SQLite VFS module isn't a cloud SQL product, my comment refers to companies like fly.io and MotherDuck that are actually selling "embedded database in the cloud"

It's entirely predicated on developer experience, otherwise there's no reason to specifically reach for an embedded database (in-process doesn't mean anything when the only thing the process is doing is running your DB)
Behind the scenes, EBS Snapshots are stored in S3. When you first create an EBS volume from a snapshot, it pulls blocks from S3 on-demand.
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Great, I'll give it a try :)
Of course I mean LLMs fine-tuned by the hedge funds, not something off-the-shelf. My reasoning is that sentiment analysis and similar techniques have been used for a while, and LLMs raise them to the next level, so they are bound to be beneficial.
It is one of those things where one can exist in a simultaneous state of being involved with the works of the world and planning for the future and realizing that it is all but an act and that on the grand scheme we are but dust.
If badges motivated learners to do things that benefited them, but now (they feel) badges motivate behavior that benefits the app maker more instead … that would be a clear example of enshittification.

Rule 34 needs a twin:

Anything can be useful.

Therefore, anything can be enshittified. And will be.

Period dot period. QED. I have spoken.
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What makes you so sure that evolution is a mindless process? No doubt you were told that in high school, but examine your priors. How do minds arise from mindlessness?
Also a fan of structural regular expressions in the exact same shoes that every time when I try to use it it's an unpleasant experience. Maybe I'm just not good enough at it.

That being said, I've been recently employing comby (https://comby.dev/) in my workflow, which solves similar problem, but understands certain languages to simplify the usage.
Looks impressive :) Just add some cat memes and we are back in the good old days.

On a more serious note, are there any lemmy instances that host the non-meme part of reddit (like askelectronics or functionalprint)?
I read this title as Lees Valley[0] and thought, wow, their beef and/or wool must be next level. Presumed it was the beef, as they're not even running merinos.

[0]: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/...
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Okay, to be honest, not weekly, but giving my best
Yeah, that's going to end well.
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If I look at the top 10 CPU used time items for me, with an uptime of 14 days, it's 6 vscode processes and 4 macos processes (I count 15 other vscode processes in the whole list which seems insane!)

Calculating battery usage is pretty hard, I can only go by the observation that I have 2 vscode projects. One is a rails app and vscode doesn't do a heap of stuff for ruby code, battery drops very slowly. The other is a typescript project and when I work on that my laptop steams through the battery, and I know its vscode because I see its usage go up as I edit files. It's not insignificant.

As I said, vscode gives me a lot in return for this. It has 2 windows open. I've got 10 terminal windows open and kitty has 1 process. That is a program with actually negligible impact on battery life, lag, memory usage etc. If every program is electron then the problem compounds.
It’s bad enough you have cancer, but bacteria-infested cancer? God!
I got that one on JustDo.com ; it is more of a tasks/teams management tool. But might fit your usecase.
Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?
I am trying to find a Jay Leno Headlines item of my cousin's name and picture appearing in the Regina Leader Post as the Paperboy of the week/month. I have watched many videos but there are hundreds of hours and many duplicates.

I was hoping that the closed captions for videos were indexed by google but I am not sure if they are and if there is a certain syntax to use for searching captions.

I tried googling this but have only found searching within a specific video rather than across the library.

To be more specific, his name is Rick Lee and the Headline appeared on the show sometime around Y2K.

Any help and or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
The need to have a for profit platform leads to perverse incentives.

This seems to be universally true, and when it becomes apparent that advertising doesn't work and isn't profitable, dark patterns are the best that you can hope for.

Short of a company having the internal need for a generally useful distributed communications platform, as well as a willingness to release it relatively freely, I struggle to see how this gets resolved.
3DS to me is still a Nintendo handheld game platform. I've never been asked to use anything other than 2FA — usually pretend 2FA in the form of a text to a mobile number. My hardware 2FA mostly sits unused, because almost nobody asks for it.
Joplin is great; unlike similar apps, it’s very fast. Even with gigs of pics in a doc, it still scrolls fast. Others I tried don’t even open or crash/corrupt.
Didn't expect this comment to get downvoted. This is just a comparable number that is closest to the definition in title we can get. There is no information on the "first two hours signup" in a social network app launched by a large technology company that has the means to push their existing user to signup the new service. There is nothing implied.