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I mean this is why you do these projects on two different timelines: The internal timeline and the external timeline.

Externally you communication: Different announcements each month, final notices at T+5M, System will be deleted at T+6M, data will be lost at that point and so on.

Internally (at least at work) such a timeline is more that at T+6M, we cut access to the systems. Afterwards, systems not accessed for 2-4 weeks are removed periodically and the hard removal is planned for T+9M. Customer support and account managers can manage if systems need to be accessed. If a customer needs the system for a longer time, they can, but then they pay for it. Entirely with all necessary infrastructure, not renting a few licenses on the system.

Call it a bit callous, but this allows our customer support to appear nice and in control. And it leaves the customer happy and relieved that we have left some slack and leeway. But they've been shaken and woken up and can get to migrating.

The biggest challenge here is to stay on it and to not allow customers to become complacent again. This can be done by e.g. limiting the reactivation time to a week or so so they have to get on it.
> bottled water

You do understand that that’s worse for you, right?
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Kind of came to say this. I feel like to reasonably chime in on this thread one should have some experience with customer service. There are a lot of times where user errors are because of bad usability, but there's also just a certain percentage of people who will ignore everything you put in front of them and then complain.

Had a user yesterday complaining that we were using deceptive practices because we didn't mention our app is paid. It says so multiple times on our home page, once in large, bright, bold letters, and clicking on download redirects to our license purchase page, which uses even larger, bold letters and virtually nothing else. (The first text is an H1 with "Purchase License".) But of course they installed it without reading any of that, and then wrote to complain.
Of course SVG is slower than Canvas. SVG is fundamentally much more powerful. Canvas is just a pixel buffer. You know what's even faster than Canvas? JPEG.

Of course these tools have different use cases. Handling scaling events and interactivity with Canvas is far, far more laborious.

The great thing about SVG (and to a lesser extent JPEGs) is that you can produce them anywhere, not just in a browser with a JavaScript VM.
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Thank you very much Teilo.

Honestly, I'm short of words to express how grateful I am for your feedback and encouraging others.

I'm glad you found the content useful.

It's Solomon Eseme, the author of the piece.
Link? Also have to prove they used all books and did 0 curation to remove copyrighted material
it's sort of missing the main point, the main obstacle is and always has been: language

in terms of the UK, an order of magnitude more emigrated outside of the EU than exercising freedom of movement within it

(despite having to put up with stuff like visas)
The marketing site says this:

> Our new designs remain sharp and pixel-perfect at any density setting.

Why are you having a go at someone who's just saying that the icons are fuzzy? If it's true it's true.
I guess this applies to TB PR too:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...
People don’t read. Period. They’ll just click anything.

One approach I take is to make the user type something before taking the destructive action. Make them type IRREVERSIBLY DELETE MY ACCOUNT!, in all caps, with punctuation.

Another option is to have a 30 second timer where users have to sit on that screen and wait until you enable the delete button.

I’m sure many here would call these “dark patterns”, but these tricks have saved me so many painful support tickets over the years it’s not even funny.
> I've seen quite a few elegant and within-an-order-of-magnitude-of-semi-optimized-C CL programs throughout the years, but can one make such a statement without benchmarks? What do we mean by high performance?

This is someone's project that is still in development. The person who posted this on HN and the person who created this project are not same. The benchmarks will become available when they will become available.
Impressive considering it is unavailable in the EU
> you are getting at least 8 hours of sleep, right?

Lol. No.
Yes but you still use tap water for cooking I presume. And it's used for agriculture. So you'd still end up ingesting PFAS if the water supply is contaminated, since it does not break down with heat.
It sounds like somebody read that RabitMQ was the hot new thing, and then came up with a design to justify using it.
Maybe he just needed more examples to discuss in his courses?
I have a hypothesis: this pattern is so common for the simple reason that Java doesn’t have first-class functions.
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I would put C++ and PHP in second and third place, and they have the same flaw.

PHP supports first-class functions.
This site takes into account that Americans get there 8 hours of sleep though some quick googling revealed that the average American only gets 7 hours and 13 minutes of sleep. Just want to preach to those not getting there 8 hours, getting enough sleep really gives an enormous boost to mood, creativity, productivity and health. Give it a try :-)
> "state-funded nongovernmental organizations that have largely taken over responding to the people with addiction seem less concerned with treatment than affirming that lifetime drug use should be seen as a human right."

I don't understand why this is a problem. That is very sensible and a reasonable place to put most of your efforts.
(With apologies to any idiots): Idiots cannot be stopped from being idiots.
It's hard to estimate what danger an advanced, almost general AI can be.

What I'm personally afraid is it can be used effectively by organizations like Al-Qa'ida. As a chat bot it can contact millions of people and radicalize them - leading to more terrorist acts and more soldiers on the ground in the Middle East. As a research and engineering tool it can help such organizations acquire powerful weapons - invest a few million dollars in chemical factory equipment and start producing chemical weapons or create a team of biohackers and produce viruses and bacteria that can cause a global pandemic.

Also there's danger that say China can invest a ton of money into AI and come out ahead of the West. If OpenAI has 400 people staff, what will happen if China does a Manhattan project in AI and puts say 500K scientists and engineers on it?
yeah this site has WAY more in common with 4chan's political leanings than say...the comment section of like metafilter or something.
>Not everything that we learn has to be learned in college.

This honestly is the crux of the issue with higher education. In fact, most things we learn outside of STEM in academia can be learned elsewhere - literature, languages, arts, etc.

I'm 100% for the humanities, and majored in them myself. But they shouldn't cost a fortune to study, nor should they really be in a narrow results-focused academic environment. Now, are they worth learning? Of course they are, and I think they make us better human beings. But spending dumb money to learn something niche that can be learned and practiced on one's own time is probably not a great use of time nor money.

I studied multiple languages, and while they are incredibly useful and absolutely worth learning, academia is not the place to do it. While I did do the Middlebury intensive program (which is hard, and the results were great), I improved the most when I actually went and lived in a country that spoke the language I wanted to improve at. Some of the best speakers of a foreign language that I know got so good by having a girlfriend who was native to the language that they wanted to learn. No formal education needed.

If I wanted to learn puppetry, I'd use YouTube to learn the basics, and then perhaps even document my progress through making videos of my own. I'd probably make a few bucks on it too. People do the same thing for learning animation, acting, music production, video production, etc.. why can't puppetry be the same?
On the one hand I agree with you - I don't like Meta's black-hole-like gravity trying to pull everyone into their ecosystem.

On the other hand, I agree with him - the era of having multiple identities is coming to end, or rather, has come to an end. I don't like that he coaches as "having integrity", but rather it is a simple fact that you can no longer hide multiple identities of any significance, so owning up to who you are is probably good. I'd still like our culture(s) to evolve to allow people to keep work and home and whatever else interests separate.

To say it another way, I really like having separate identities, but it is no longer feasible to actually prevent 3rd parties from connecting them.
Is this like a feudalism joke? I don't get it.
> You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

Billionaires live on a completely different planet.

The things I will say, and share with my girlfriend is very different from what I will say and share with my coworkers. And that’s the way it should be.

And that’s the most trivially obvious example of how wrong he is.

Forcing everyone to commit to a single identity would mean forcing them to become the most bland, restricted version of themselves that they could be.

Thank heavens we still have forums outside of the claws of mr Zucc and his ilk. I would rather unalive myself than to live in a world where Meta controls identity fully.

I deleted my Facebook years ago.

I use Instagram a bit. I use WhatsApp a bit. But that’s about it for what I am willing to give to Meta.

And frick Twitter too.

I will rather scroll past a hundred senseless shitposts on some board on 4chan than to become a user of Threads or any other new product from Meta. At least on 4chan you can express yourself freely without these crazy ideas that everyone has to carefully form some kind of unified identity that they will publicly hold for eternity.

In fact, even reading this quote from Zuckerberg makes me strongly want to delete my Instagram and WhatsApp too.
Through the democratic process?
>It's not like you open the Instagram app and you can access Threads

Well, you almost can. My Instagram account that was previously established, and the linkage was immediate and felt automagical. Almost no friction.
Yeah, I'm watching this with great interest.
We need to have something on the order of a fiduciary responsibility of executives for externalities. It’s tough to find a basis for harm in these cases, as so many people were responsible over so long of a time.
If it's meant for Europeans just use 24h time. 00:00 to 8:00.
And before anyone says this is hypothetical: many ISPs have already been caught injecting advertisements, malware and tracking into websites.
I agree that waking up early is annoying - I was a late riser myself preferring to wake up as late as 10/11AM when younger. After taking a job that required me to wake up at 5:30 in the morning I got used to waking early and started to enjoy it. The part that was beneficial was waking up on my own at 6:30-7AM on the weekends without an alarm and witnessing the quiet sun rise with birds chirping - it's very invigorating. Paired with some light morning exercise it has become a natural antidepressant for me. Now If I wake up past 8AM I feel like I wasted quality morning time.
In my opinion you're not really doing object-oriented programming unless each object is also a separate process. This is why the best object-oriented programming uses functional programming languages and the actor model (i.e., Erlang). Just having state and methods, but without having an associated isolated process means you end up in situations in which multiple processes may fiddling with the same objects and all your encapsulation of data just gets you in a twist. It's only when you commit fully to functional programming and have immutable state that you truly unlock the power of object-oriented programming.
Unfortunately, the link does not point to where I intended as it got rid of the #part, here is the target --> https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276#issuecom...
Right, so let's allow them in here and "debate" them, giving them as many chances as possible to make more racists.
I first want to emphasize that I'm sorry you multiple rough experiences, and I'll concede that Arch seems to not meet your needs (especially your hardware needs, apparently).

But, for anyone else reading, I'll say that I ran Arch on my personal laptop from about 2009 to 2020 before I finally stopped using that machine altogether, and I've run Arch on my current personal laptop from about 2015/2016 until now. This current one has an Nvidia GPU, which is a little hit or miss depending on the kernel/driver version.

At various points I've definitely had to spend some time fixing things after updates, but almost all of those were because of packages I had installed from the AUR (a community "repository" of unofficial, untrusted, packages maintained by individual users) that either updated before or after my official Arch packages did, which cause dependency issues. This is certainly no different than any Linux distro where you install a third-party package outside of the official channels that also depends on specific versions of packages being present.

Other times, things broke because I was doing hacky shit, like custom kernel patches.

Certainly there were a few times that breaking changes came from official updates. There was always enough info on the Arch main page and/or forums to either prevent a breakage or to quickly fix it.

This is the price we pay for a rolling release instead of periodic major releases like most popular distros do. I've run Ubuntu on several machines and I've never done a version upgrade without it borking something (often times it was the GRUB config not being updated correctly and failing to boot). Granted, it's been several years since attempting an Ubuntu major version upgrade, so maybe they're awesome and smooth now--I don't know.

I ran Arch on my first laptop for 10 years without ever wiping and reinstalling it. I've run it on my current laptop for going on 7 years (the machine is falling apart, so it probably won't make it to 10, but not because of the OS) without reinstalling. The most fiddling I have to do with my current one is that I sometimes switch between the proprietary Nvidia driver and the free Nouveau driver.

Now, Arch is not for everyone. If you don't want to actually touch config files for all of your underlying system services, and don't want to think about how to partition your disk or what filesystem to use, Arch is no fun. And, to be completely honest, if I weren't already very familiar with Arch, I might not have the energy/time to get into it today. But, I feel lucky that I found Arch when I was young and had not much better to do than tinker around with my computer's OS, because I get pretty frustrated and overwhelmed these days when I have to use something like Ubuntu where I feel like it's a little harder to do anything that's not "standard" (though, I'm not necessarily saying Ubuntu does stuff wrong--just that I like how transparent Arch is).
Sorry, it's a ridiculous argument. Mortgages get bought and sold all the time and clearly the buyers are on the hook for the communications costs and these do not pre-emptively get priced into future products by the sellers. I'm sure that there are situations where your argument has merit but this isn't one of those.
I agree with the post, especially the premise at the start.

My problem though the verbal communication, I think I am way worse at verbal than I am with non-verbal.
Arguably there is huge demand for this sort of research which is a proximate cause of it being concocted fraudulently.

Lots of people working in policy don't have any real ethical or political engagement with the problems they are supposed to be solving. They lack vision and purpose. They choose to believe that irrelevant and trivial interventions can make huge inroads into difficult social problems, because they are like the man looking for his wallet under the lamppost. If making progress on really difficult problems requires deep thought, courageous leadership and persistent hard work, then they aren't going to be able to solve them anyway.
Maybe I'm becoming a Luddite as I get older, but it seems to me we've passed peak social media. All these apps are just a spin on the same core set of features. I can friend/follow someone, I can post text/image/video, I can comment on someone's text/image/video, I can like/share someone's text/image/video, and others can do all of the same to me. On the flipside, all my data gets hoovered up and sold to people who want to show me ads they think I will click.
I have plastic bags that weren't ever advertised as "reusable", from over 2 decades ago, but are indeed very reusable. They made them thicker and stronger back then, but unfortunately that was wasted by so many choosing not to reuse them.
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I’m seeing a lot of comments that seem to point to first line management as the problem here. In my own anecdotal experience, I’ve seen a lot more “fake work” come from listless leadership that lacks a true vision for the product. That rolls down to Product Managers that can’t prioritize features and don’t really understand what they’re building or why. Ultimately this leads to engineers and members of the team working on things they don’t believe in or that don’t actually move the needle and are scrapped.

In places like this the engineers and managers closest to the product and customers tend to have a better feel for what to work on, but in a large enough org it’s impossible to align those priorities across teams to get things done. This leads engineers to either POC ideas that aren’t possible in production yet or to focus on smaller features that don’t have dependencies.

The blame there lies solely in upper level leadership who often care more about org size than output.

I’m tired of the messaging around “lazy workers” pointing the finger where it doesn’t belong. Gut from the top if you want to get rid of the problem. It’s not the
L5 engineer or the first line manager that’s holding any product back. These people tend to be the most invested in building something in my experience.
I think there are people and institutions still trying to maintain ideals and standards. At least this section of Reuters seems to indicate that, or maybe that's just very good marketing and signaling: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/

Either way, I think adversarial systems are always helpful in keeping humans somewhat honest.
Training data quality is hugely important so I very much doubt they don’t curate the text they use.
A trusted friend would be very good at pushing effective advertising - which is why FB is working on something like this. Google and Microsoft are probably not far behind.
> for a good manager, you also need a good organization

False. Being a good manager is aligned with being a good leader, which is 100% down to the person who is the manager. Sure you may not have an "effective team" without a good organization, but as a manager your job is to make the team succeed, and if you're following the laws of leadership, it has nothing to do with your organization.
re: Terrorist

Funny, I say similar about tobacco. That is, if a terrorist said, "I'm going to come to your country,and I'm going to sell an addictive carcinogen..." There would be protests in the streets demanding that terrorist be drone-strike'd to hell and then some.

As it is, the state and federal governments allow the product, *and* profit from it (via taxes). Talk about a page right out of an Orwellian novel.
Not very surprising. There are incentives to publish, especially surprising stuff (so you can call it ground breaking) and no incentives to be right in a sense that your results align with reality.

Imagine spending time to prepare a paper then collecting data just to see it doesn't show what you hoped it shows. Your choices are to bin several weeks/months of you work to the detriment of your career or help a bit so the data behaves. The risk is close to 0, the reward (or lack of punishment) is clear. It's crazy to not expect significant % of individuals facing the choice going with the massaging the data option.

It all flies in social science because most of the stuff they "research" range from interesting but not very useful curiosities to completely pointless.
No devices are being built based on it. No serious investment being made. No policies are going to be affected or if they are then studies are picked for ideological compliance not for describing reality well. You're also not going to face a lawsuit as you might in say medicine. "Your honour, I've read the study , started breaking the rules and got expelled from school" is not going to get you far.
102.13.0 was released a few days ago.

102.x has been out for a while.

When you receive an update to it depends on your distro or whether you have it installed as a Snap or Flatpak, etc.
I'd love to see an example of such an accepted accountability at least once in my life.
We are all standing on the shoulders of giants.
Now I am not a space engineer, but I doubt SpaceX invented a whole new way to reach space.
There's a small increase in cost compared to the cheapest US regions, but the European regions are still significantly cheaper than the expensive Australia/Brazil regions.

https://www.concurrencylabs.com/blog/choose-your-aws-region-...
Actually, Thunderbird was never on XULRunner; it always relied on linking all of its code into libxul. For some strange reason, many of the C++ string APIs are different depending on when you linked into or outside of libxul, which meant it was a lot of chore to maintain a build that worked on XULRunner, and the project was never completed before Mozilla killed XULRunner in favor of embedding stories that never lasted more than a year or two.
16% of the population have an IQ below 85.

I don’t know what possible solutions there are that wouldn’t backfire within a decade or two, unless someone makes a miracle drug.
I feel like loading whilst charging would minimize the impact charging makes quite significantly. Fast charging takes what, 20 minutes? I'm not sure loading a van is much faster.
Skilled trades apprenticeships in states with a sane labor culture are well paid and sought after positions.
ChatGPT Code Interpreter Cannot Replace Data Scientists Yet
For IO epoll is the solution, which he kinda says.

And then userspace IO which it seems will never work.

Or perf cache-misses / tiptop IPC for that matter.