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What is simplicity? Each micro-service in and of itself is simple, but the network of message passing is complex.
Ok.
So, a monolith is simple, until it’s been maintained for a decade or more and has been patched and re-patched by generations of engineers who didn’t really ever have the ability to maintain the original simplicity in the face of feature creep and practical development issues.
Ok.
Maybe the problem isn’t simple. Or worse, there is a simple and easy to understand general solution that makes “everyone else” think they can do better, but the reality is that the problem is chock full of edge cases and special considerations. Leading to endless criticism and “bike shed”ing.
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An aside about what engineers want. I do feel that the desire for a “simple” or “elegant” solution to problems is as out dated as The Enlightenment itself. We seem to want to force order onto a disorganized world and exalt and marvel at the rare situation where it actually works out that way. But, it seldom does work that way.

I can understand that the article seems to be focused on “unnecessary complexity” introduced by large frameworks for creating seemingly simple websites… but, this sounds a lot like folks complaining that Java code is less efficient and/or larger than assembly. Like, of course you can write “simple” code for your project, but there are many concerns that engineers hold in high regard beyond simplicity: correctness, reproducibility, maintenance, to name a few. And, we cannot be calling ourselves engineers if we don’t adhere to the most basic engineering principles of “standards”. That last one especially rings for me, if ever problem requires a scientific exploration than we’re not doing engineering work, we’re doing research.
So, the use of frameworks, even “bloated” ones, brings us much closer to standardization than one-off boutique, yet (possibly) simple, solutions.
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Anyway, back to complexity: A perfectly fine website may require a 30-second load time… try walking to a store and finding the good you want and standing in the checkout line and missing your bus and having to carry the thing all the way back home and opening the box to find out that it’s broken and hauling it back to the store and then they tell you that that was the only one and then having to wait 4-8 weeks for a new one to be ordered and delivered and repeat the process all over again. Perspective is important on what “complexity” even is.
It just seems like this allows earlier detection of the possibility of getting cancer, which surely means more opportunity to tell the patient to lose weight. By the time you've got stomach cancer, it's a little late.

(Obesity still seems to be the major factor in the new test -- the old one required hip and waist measurements, and the new one does not, which says to me that they've found a bunch of correlates to obesity which don't require taking new measurements.)
>which means listings won't work on real hardware.

They will. LEG is a subset of ARM. What won't work is ARM software on LEG hardware.

I would recommend getting the current edition, which has replaced ARM/LEG with the industry standard RISC-V.
Exams mostly don't assess knowledge and understanding, only snapshot regurgitation of facts and snippets. Additionally, when one takes an exam it's rare to require 100% correct to "pass" (and even when that does happen it's only 100% of the sliver of the total subject matter that was assessed).
I know plenty of people (as I'm sure we all do) that can pass a test and still be functionally useless in a particular field.
Not that I'm against exams (and I'll lump in certifications), I just don't think they're the silver bullet many make them out to be at least in the tech industry.
I’m one of those kids who have been programming since they were 10 years old. My biggest tip is to work on personal projects that you are genuinely passionate about or would use yourself. It’s a great way to experiment with new technologies with practically zero risk. For example, I’m currently working on a web app that started out as a SvelteKit SPA and with two backend “micro services”. I just recently finished rearchitecting the project into a monolith and using Hotwire for the front end. I was able to get experience using both of these technologies risk-free.

As a result of being curious and working on things that interest me, there’s practically no area of software development that I haven’t touched. I’ve written Windows device drivers, firmware for an IoT product, hacked on the LLVM source, wrote a (really basic) hypervisor, and made countless web apps. All with no CS degree.
The point of my comment was to draw attention to the fact that it likely had better waterproofing than previous watches.
I was really skeptical that any of these nerve stimulation devices would work over a decade ago when the hype first started growing around them (among biotech investors, not the public). It just sounded way too good to be true but since then there have been a number of devices treating migraines and seizures that were previously intractable.

Really happy to be proven wrong!
It's true that we don't have the pricing on the main site, and I agree that this should be added.

However, that issue might affect signups — but signups don't seem to be the dealbreaker, as we have, as of this writing, a total of 1,059 fully signed up users (fully signed up == they went to the double opt-in process and verified their mail address).

These users are confronted with pricing as soon as they are required to pay — that is, as soon as they've translated more than 5 minutes of video, and thus need to buy additional translation minutes.

Which precisely 1 (one!) user has done so far...
Which becomes a problem once you try to cash them in.
Correction: the index what they need for the right people.
I was trying to find the schedule for the rover including on ISRO's website[1], but the closest I could find was this[2] and this[3] that suggest the rover will be rolled out in the next few hours or may be tomorrow and it has a life expectancy of one lunar day(14 earth days). Anyone knows if it will be streamed as well?

[1] https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3.html

[2] https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/chandrayaan-3-miss...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/23/science/india-moon-l...
Reporters get murdered and royalties get threats. Did some witness not also get killed?
I think Switzerland and UAE also (with SG) have large notes, with some commitment to continue cash payments.

Strange bedfellows in the fight for freedom, but all welcome to the cause.
mostly its "muh industrial scale illegal drug synthesis"

Firstly its a fucktonne of cahs sloshing around being laundered, which has a bunch of nasty petty crime sideffects. but also the literal tonnes of toxic waste that keeps on popping up everywhere.
Make those anti-eargasm prudes take a back seat for a while!
The war on privacy continues.
4 billion dollars! Supposing he carried a large army rucksack each time, full with 25kg of US $100 bills. That would be 2.5 million dollars a time, and it would still take him 1600 trips.

If he came "every few weeks" at 20 times a year, it would take him 80 years. A billion dollars really is a lot of money.

Perhaps he brought the money by wheelbarrow or car or container truck, or he dealt exclusively in €500 notes, so I suppose it's not completely unbelievable.
Snow and cold vs. sun and heat as the primary environmental issues to deal with, as a quick example.

But also humidity, local ordinances, matching the style of surrounding buildings, the relative value of land favoring single story (texas) or tall (Calgary) houses
Won't this just encourage large transactions to go back to barter of other valuable items?

Eg. "I will swap you this $50k car for this $50k bag of diamonds"
I agree it's bad phrasing, but isn't the only real error here using "with fractions" rather than "with fractional digits"? Perhaps this is an idiomatic difference between different English dialects, such as American vs British? I'm not sure. If you read fractions as meaning fractional digits, the inaccuracy goes away completely, I think.

I would also use "real number" instead of "real", but that may be more of a stylistic choice rather than idiomatic.
Interesting. That's max 100EUR in coins

And I'm glad coins are more popular in Europe than in the US because those $1 notes take too much space
I wasn't even using flash. It was Photoshop. When this bogged down from switching between applications it would just shit the bed.
Note that the current edition of Harris and Harris has replaced the legacy ISA with RISC-V proper.
I think the animosity is geared towards the forced RTO. I would be surprised if anyone here would hold heading to the office against you.

The problem is when someone doesn't want to go into the office, but is being forced.
It's plausible that we could make them regret it. If the US simply entered the war on Ukraine's side, Russia's options are to wait patiently to be curb-stomped, or to escalate... and I don't think they could imagine that the US wouldn't retaliate disproportionately.
The moment of landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dim8elzo5vE

When I look at this, it seems it's a long-range optical feed of the moon surface with lander graphics laid over it. Has anyone found footage of the actual craft touching down? It would be amazing to see.
> Greece has it as low as 500 Euro.

Any source for this?

[EDIT] As pinted by other commenter:

https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/shopping-internet/cas...

They also mention "There is no cash limit for car purchases. However, a change in the law is already being discussed in Greece.".
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Pick a new and hot tool in an unfamiliar language or with technique requirements that are not in your comfort zone. Build something with it!

Try out a new IDE, or workflow.

Read some code in an open source project that you use a lot in your current work.

The purpose of all these is to gain a greater understanding of what is possible! This is something as a self-taught programmer I do often.
If they are coming, it will take about 30mins. Far too quick for a headline to make the rounds.

What you might notice (depending on if your country thinks it useful) will be siren signals and radio/TV broadcasts. But I guess it is even too short a time for those, and you cannot do more than "move into the cellar" anyways.
> low because I didn't care of philosophy or other non CS classes

For all people saying that philosophy is not important for engineering/cs grads - here's the proof it is!
No it isn't, in fact I'd say not believing it plausible is the epitome of naivety, if not outright burying your head in the sand.

I'll use the ongoing writer's strike as an example: The studios outright said[1] they wanted them poor and in apartments so they'd have to take a deal.

[1] https://www.theroot.com/studios-reveal-cruel-plan-to-push-wg...
NL is just crazy with all the rules and all-around money, they have so much control over it that I have never seen that in any other place.
Grains. The rulers of rural farmers group that establish grain production without industrial fertilizer supply becomes the new Habsburgs.
What about permaculture/gardening?

IMO working with nature is a lot like programming. The genetic material (seeds) are like packages, the soil cycle is like memory management, and the water and sun are like your system's resources.

You get the satisfaction of building something beautiful (and eating it).

You are constantly learning about genetics, variants, processes and the language of plants.

There are role models and teachers creating new processes and testing theories (just like programming).

You are involving your entire body, puts you outside, and is amazing on your mind.

If you're looking to make money doing it, you could pick a high-value product like mushrooms, sprouts, or hot sauce and bring it to the farmer's market.
no. these are the files for the book, not the book itself.
the files are useless without the original text
“Everything from daycare to public transportation, toll roads, fuel and fuel taxes, auto purchases and maintenance, dry cleaners, nail spas, restaurants, clothiers, hair stylists, dog walkers, nannies and office leases suffer when people work from home”

That sounds terribly similar to a "you" problem
If a solar flare powerful enough to destroy the entire electronic payment system were to occur I'm sure everyone will be fine with you buying your storable food and colloidal silver with cash.
https://archive.is/dOQ97
PoC for an LLM tool that codes full apps like a human with developer's oversight
As an Xer, gotta say I don't have much of a chimp phobia.
The 10,000 dollar note remains legal tender in Singapore but is being withdrawn from circulation together with the 1,000 note:

"Note: MAS has stopped issuing the following notes as a pre-emptive measure to reduce the potential money laundering and terrorism financing risks associated with large denomination notes:

The $1,000 notes with effect from 1 January 2021.
The $10,000 notes with effect from 1 October 2014.
Existing $10,000 and $1,000 notes in circulation remain legal tender in Singapore and can continue to be used as a means of payment for goods and services."

https://www.mas.gov.sg/currency/circulation-currency/circula....
It's a visualization of the wave function, not an image of entangled photons, so it's meant to convey what the images represent in a form that's human "readable". (Think data visualizations)
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How else would you buy a used car/motorbike from a private party?
Don't the poor rely on cash far more than the wealthy these days?
> Gulf War I was about forcing an invader back from the independent nation he had decided to annex

Yes, that was the story that was told. It's the same story being told now about the Ukraine war. But that's what it is - a story. The invasion is part of the story, but it's not the whole story and it's not the entirety of the reasons we went to war with Iraq and why we're currently aiding the Ukraine.
While I usually withhold personal comments here, I love this article because the Hogfish is the only main species here in Florida that for whatever reason I can't catch (while all my mates have). They even bought me a Hogfish cutting board to remind me each day of my "white whale." I'm so glad to read of their camouflage abilities to use that as an excuse!
But all too often people fail to appreciate a tasks’ inherent, essential complexity that draws a simplicity line.

Sure, in the general case people are way above that line, but we also see the reverse (e.g. claiming that systemd is “bloated”, when much of that complexity is required for that problem space).
Rather than knee-jerk downvoting everyone who gets it wrong, I'd like to point out that, in English, both the Euro symbol and the Dollar symbol go before the number.
Also, "we're going to the moon not because it's easy, but because it's hard"
>Not sure how that could be simpler

I'm not a fan of Chrome, by any means, but you can't be serious here. A Chrome-style built in profile switcher is how it could be simpler.
If memory serves me right, that was one of the big raisons d'etre for Chrome (released in 2008)... so Snow Leopard (2009) was catching up with it more than solving a Mac specific issue. But yes, back then the big big plugin was Flash, and its security and performance left a lot to be desired (in all platforms).
Nice to see that there's no limit where I live which is Norway. Hopefully, there are no plans to introduce one.
Tornado evolved extremely nicely. Gone are the days of needing callbacks or decorators. Now it's just a matter of putting async in front of def and there's your asynchronous handler.
Very true. There's a small segment in the netherlands who are doing just that, with the slogan "betaal bewust contant" (~pay cash consciously/purposefully), e.g. they go out of their way to pay cash at supermarkets even when there is only 1 cash register that allows it and all others are cashless. As I understand a similar movement exists in germany and is much more popular there (I guess due to their history with totalitarianism and persecution).
I would wager it struck a chord with more than "conservative pundits". Not only judging by its popularity, but messaging. It's a song about class struggle, not party politics. There are lots of people on both sides who've been hit hard economically. And even those that are doing fine can relate to not feeling represented by politicians in DC.

Oh, and the guy's voice is awesome.
I wish you were right, but that's simply not the case.
We haven't had capitalism for a long time, markets are much to controlled and regulated to fit any reasonable definition.
Send it via bank? A quick and free bank transfer which also works out as "receipt" of payment.
Okay, why is Good Person (TM) and Bad Guy (R)? Are Good People still waiting for approval?
On the dark side of the moon?
Again, I think it is important to remember WHAT exactly are we comparing.

I am not comparing a) throwing coffee grounds into landfill, to b) using coffee grounds for cement.

I am comparing a) collecting coffee grounds and use them as a fertiliser, vs b) collecting coffee grounds and using them as an ingredient for cement.

Essentially, if you can collect coffee grounds for cement you can also collect them for all sorts of other uses. What I am saying is that, once you went through the trouble of collecting coffee grounds, there are better ways than to use them for cement.
Same way you learn anything, read all about it then use what you read to implement something. When the something you implemented works and solves the problem, you've learned something! Repeat forever with different things (and sometimes with things you haven't done for a while). Each time you learn something new.

Exams are a hacky stand-in for actually using a concept to solve real world problems.
In software development, there is such a thing as "good taste."

There are ways of structuring code, of naming variables, of writing documentation, that simply are better than others even though functionality may be the same.

There is no way of acquiring this good taste except by reading code written by people with good taste.

If you're self taught, the easiest way to do this is by jumping into some code bases that have been written by people with good taste. Look at how they name things. Which private functions they define vs which things are inlined. Which bits of code merit a comment.

The best way to do this is to find some oss libraries that _you_ use, and just looking at the source code for them. You'll quite quickly realize which are easy for an outsider to understand and which are hard. You'll empathize with a 3rd party reader. And you'll learn more about how they work too!
I do, but your common office drone isn't even aware that there are options.
Valid point that I will definitely look into, thanks for pointing it out.

However, it didn't stop more than 1,000 users to sign up (including e-mail verification) — however, over the course of more than two months, only 1 of those signed up users has ever bought additional translation minutes.

No question the whole pre-signup space can be improved — but as of now, it would only bring more users into the product who will then not buy.
I'm willing to bet that this works with nearly any carbon product. Coffee grounds was just a good one for the news headlines because it is something nearly everyone recognises as a non-toxic waste product.

If this happens commercially, it will probably use coal dust, municipal waste dust, sawdust or some other cheap carbon-containing thing.
I'm quite sure they are not enforcing it since i was traveling to and walking with across spain with much more.
I didn't find this credible. It pretends that writing code is what they do when the reality is that most of it is figuring out what people really want - and the way to do that is spending most of your time communicating with the customer; certainly more then one hour a day.
Does “freely enter” have a legal definition? Because you are “free to enter” but need to declare. Just like you are “free to enter” but need to declare if you have an orange you purchased from the States making a return journey back into the States.
There is a Financial Tyranny Index by Vexl Foundation published here:

https://github.com/vexl-it/fti/blob/main/fti.pdf

Among other things, it shows Cash Limits in various countries:

Greece 500 EUR, Spain, Italy, France 1000 EUR, Israel 1500 EUR, ...
it would completely ring true if it weren't for the racist bit.

otherwise great song, tainted
Ugh, it has been a few years since I did any software development directly within MacOS, but when I did I found it really annoying to have SIP fully enabled. At the time, though, disabling it didn’t take away core features of the computer.

The most frustrating thing with SIP was that I’d always butt up against it at the most inopportune moments: deep in a rabbithole of diagnosing some unusual issue, I’d finally have everything running and set up just right to reproduce it, realize I needed to trace a specific process or something, only to have the system tell me I wasn’t allowed to.

Perfect timing to have to restart the computer and wait while it slowly boots into recovery, then remember where I left off and recreate my environment.

The continuing iOS-ification of MacOS really drove me away from using it as my main computer, despite having been a lifelong Mac user. I still have a Macbook Air, but for any real work it’s just a thin client to my Linux desktop.
Not sure I've ever been in a home with two cars indoors.
My personal experience:

- MacOS user experience: Terrible. It feels like Linux did 10 years ago. Bugs and inconsistencies everywhere. But hey, they are competing with W11 so, no need to improve it either. Forced updates and restarts. And, did I mention bugs and inconsistencies everywhere?

- M2 Computational performance: It feels like my laptop 10 years ago.

- M2 Batterly life performance: It is absolutely brilliant, but, I also work 80% of the time at a fixed desk, so, it's mostly only relevant when traveling.

I'm sure a lot of devs use them because they like them. But, your argument that ARM64 is "good architecture" whatever vagueness that entails, is pretty much bollocks.

Compile time performance is ok at best compared to other laptop CPUs (the fastest laptop Mx hardware is about half of the laptop competition, and that's just comparing CPU). The package management coherence is non existent, so everything is slow to start because everything ships a complete stack of libraries that need to be read from disk and copied in memory. I honestly believe that people who are blown away by the Mx hardware have simply lived too long in the walled garden to know what is out there.

In summary: MacBooks are decent hardware, with exceptional battery life. Priced at 50% would make sense. And the OS experience is somewhere between mediocre to garbage.

Ran an identical GPU workload on AMD hardware with dedicated GPU.

- 3 year old desktop AMD hardware: 50 seconds (1x)

- 1.5 year old laptop AMD hardware: 66 seconds. (1.32x)

- Latest M2 Pro 12 core: 142 seconds. (2.84x)

For CPU-only tasks. 1x, 1.9x 1.7x.

So, the M2 Pro 12 core is about 2x slower than a one year older AMD laptop for GPU tasks, and about the same for CPU only tasks. And the latest AMD Laptop CPU is twice as fast as the one I used.
Go to any watch forum and post something about wearing your watch that's rated for 100m to wash your hands and watch the flames come in.

They'll argue (maybe rightfully so) that a water resistance rating is not the same as the pressures of swimming. Just dunking something does not do anything such as swimming strokes that could force water into the watch. I find it a little absurd that people won't wash dishes with a 100m resistant watch, but then again, I'm not sporting a 5 figure watch either.
Do you think the new rule will mainly affect blue color workers?