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I am thrilled beyond belief for this. This is the ideal way forward.

I'm bummed they chose ActivityPub for it, as it's not a great system. That aside, I'm just happy it exists.
What the person was referring to is the fact that you will have an incremental increase in production with wind. With nuclear you will have to wait until the reactor is done.

Looking at my country there will most certainly be no nuclear reactors in place before 2035, whereas there is almost 70TWh/yr of sea based wind power waiting for permission to start building (expected to be operational in 5 years), and another 300TWh/yr on track to submit proposals for consideration.

It is hard to feel positive about nuclear power when everybody talks a lot, but nothing seems to happen. SMRs are mentioned everywhere but the economics make them seem like a crazy bet currently.
>Anyway, management will of course argue that developers under them are incapable of seeing everything management does.

What a coincidence! Thats one of the first thoughts that crept into my head when code metrics started being used on me.

This "voyage of discovery" you've alluded to is exactly what I meant by no downsides.

If managers feels threatened by being measured by their employees after their employees start measuring them, well, that's also an interesting reflection is it not?
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding how TouchID or FaceID work.

The biometrics authenticate you with the Secure Enclave in your phone. The enrolled biometric data is stored within the Secure Enclave and practically unrecoverable. Authentication is done directly within the Secure Enclave. The connection between the sensor (fingerprint, camera) and Secure Enclave is direct and encrypted.

Conceptually, this is identical to using a passcode or password to unlock your device.

Once the Secure Enclave is unlocked, your phone can use it to sign requests, decrypt data (e.g., stored passwords), etc. The signed request or decrypted password is what’s transmitted to the app, website, or whatever else you’re authenticating against.

Your biometric data never leaves a secure encrypted channel between the sensor and Secure Enclave, and within the Secure Enclave’s own storage.

It’s some seriously cool hardware and the lengths it goes to to mitigate a lot of common and uncommon attacks is impressive. (It has a separate built in voltage and clock monitor with a wider operating envelope so if you try and voltage glitch it, it can lock and disable itself and require a reset. Bet Nintendo wishes they had thought of that.)

There are a _lot_ of details published about this.

Secure Enclave: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sec59b0b31ff/...

Overall platform security: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/welcome/web
What’s the surface area of our planet divided by the population? I think it’s about 1 square km per person. Naturally much of that space is not inhabitable[0], and naturally people want to live near to other people.

But that’s a problem with tiny houses: sometimes they’re appropriate but in many intelligent scenarios they are foolish

Edit- I meant that tiny houses may be foolish because there’s better ways to live

[0] probably I’m wrong, correct information is welcome
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/837461

$35 USD per year to just have the privilege of being able to turn on service, then when you turn it on it's anywhere between $15 - $65 USD per month, depending on the plan you get, plus extra billings to fetch weather. Usually when I'm using it I fetch premium weather every 2 days or so, and I usually go out for 5-10 days so it's another $5-10 USD on top of the fee. And I always get the unlimited text package (mainly for my spouse), which is the most expensive $65 plan. So a grand total of ~$110 per year since I usually average about one trip per year where I need it.

I do really like the product itself outside of the pricing. And if you're a high income earner it's not that bad for what it gives you - the actual device itself is also priced a little high, but not unobtainably so (~$250-400 USD). It strikes a really good balance between giving you the features you need to feel like you won't die if you break a leg and also able to communicate with your spouse and get weather info, while also not so high-tech that you can still feel like you're getting away from your normal device and escaping into the world.
> Management can't, at scale, consider such factors.

Why not? Peer feedback is a prime component of most performance/rewards discussions at companies. Work outside of points is certainly not a new concept. A manager's job is to distill this information amongst others to their own management chain at the right time.

> We don't have the counterfactual where Bob didn't ask the questions, and Alice did great anyways.

Bob's time isn't unlimited. There are surely instances where he was helping out Joe, Suzie, Darren, and James and had no time for Alice.

Based on your other comment, you seem to think someone being an unblocker/idea generator/dev lead is a "low performer" who weighs the team down. That's just fundamentally wrong.
Smells fishy.

Senior engineers in my knowledge and experience are all delivering on something relatively high impact while contributing massively to the team by occasional/often "pairing".

I've seen rare examples who don't "pair" but just deliver by themselves.

I've never seen an example where they don't deliver on anything (planning, design, architectures included) but only "pair" as their job every day.
This was great. I too go on these ridiculous local history research binges, but I've never had a good model of how to write one up. So thanks for the interesting story, and the template.
I'm this kind of person most of the time and it really sucks come review time. I'm also a mentor type and that is also very hard to account for in most systems. It means I do an essential role that is seldom rewarded because there's no number associated with my meddling.
This is a difficult question I think independent of the restrictions that OpenAI imposes on GPT-4.

The model does not know what it knows, that’s why it sometimes hallucinates instead of saying it doesn’t know. But to answer the latest event it knows, it has to know which events it knows.
Therein lies the problem with Trust the Science (TM):

All the awe, worship, and adherence to priests with none of the moral precepts.
Strapping waste to enormous canisters of fuel and shooting it up through the atmosphere. What could go wrong?
Jobs clearly wasn't resistant to app stores. He literally had one in the works when the product shipped. It just wasn't ready, so he spun a yarn about web apps (and yes: he was ahead of his time, and these days you can totally do that, but now that Apple owns that 30% fee, they're decidedly anti web apps).
I'm pretty sure at least one of those is on an autoban list of some sort and probably both are. HN is what it is and I can't say I disagree with that particular decision. There are certainly other forums where those types of sites are more welcome.
I think it would be pretty hard for an attacker to do damage merely by sending keyboard input, particularly without the user noticing. Not impossible, but also not worth worrying about if you're not POTUS-level.
Where is that data though? It is not substantiated.
These types of "tech reporters" are appropriately and brilliantly mocked in SNL's "iPhone workers" skit: https://youtu.be/AJJ353epH3o.

Point being, it's fine to say "sure, it's missing cut-and-paste, but not hard to see how that's a really insignificant nit for most people that will easily be addressed in a subsequent software update," but all too often I see tech reporters latch on to some relatively small detail that they try to make a huge brouhaha over because they have nothing better to say.
It's been great as I've been trying out Nix, exactly because I'm not familiar with Nix. It doesn't just magically solve all my problems, but it's been super helpful in showing me general aporoaches that I wasn't aware of, and also gets the answer right most of the time.

You're being facetious, but I agree unironically.
Any prolonged pattern of distracted behavior will get you an ADHD diagnosis, provided you say it's (1) part of a pattern dating back to childhood and (2) affects multiple areas of your life. That in turn will get you a prescription for powerful stimulants, and it's up to you to decide whether the artificial focus those provide is a solution to your problem, or a cop-out from it. (I personally don't believe there's such a thing as 'ADHD', though I don't doubt the existence of the constellation of feelings and behaviors that cause people to seek out that label.)

Have you considered taking a vacation, maybe one without any use of computers or cell phones? It's not a cure-all, but stepping away like that will give you a fresh perspective once you get back to your day to day, and that in turn might bring insight into what has gone wrong. And if the real issue you're facing is burnout, then it will go a long way to fixing the problem.
> What’s the surface area of our planet divided by the population? I think it’s about 1 square km per person.

some don't want to live in the middle of the ocean
This is spot on. Of all the Numberphile videos I've seen, the interviews with Conway, Graham, and Ribet stand out - as much for the non-mathematical undercurrent as the math itself. Haran built up the credibility to get access to those guys and that's no mean feat.

I've also learned a lot about specific math topics from 3b1b. It takes me a few tries to get through any video since the soundtrack causes me to doze off. Would love it if he would release versions with just his narration.
So we agree: this appication/UI has nothing to do with "Windows XP".
New battery charged by tears will power smart contact lenses
There's a song in my playlist where they play a recording of someone calling a hotel and asking them to page "Haile Selassie". I never understood the reference until now!
If you really want to get a diagnosis from a professional, you don’t need to wait two years. That’s absurd. I just had a call with a licensed professional in Portugal for a €90 fee out of pocket. It took one hour session over Zoom to get an answer. I’m not a Portuguese resident. Just a country I was in at the moment.
That's bullshit.

Higher speed generally means less margin for error in unexpected circumstances and more serious consequences when an accident does happen.

And if you frequently have to brake hard that's a pretty good indication that you're driving recklessly - following too close, driving too fast, not being ready for predictable events such as a pedestrian crossing the road etc.

Some times it's necessary. But if it's necessary every time you get in your car you're not a safe driver - practically every one of those hard decelerations occur because you are trying to avoid an accident. It follows that if you were to have a small lapse of attention or judgement, you wouldn't have been able to avoid the accident.

If you give yourself more margin for error you rarely have to brake hard. Keep a good distance to cars in front, slow down in unpredictable situations, respect the speed limit because it was set for a reason.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed
I guess maybe in 10 years I'll be working with 30 year olds who understand and value of that approach as I do today.

My current reality is that I'm a 33 year old working with 20 year olds who think they're geniuses who are going to take over the world in 5 years; from that viewpoint, I'm essentially a failed engineer because I didn't build a Facebook, Uber or AirBnB even though I had 10 years to do it.
Deep Python technical issues soon fixed through the HPy project?
India’s Aditya-L1 solar probe successfully lifts off toward the sun
> It's hard to overstate just how big of a leap the iPhone was.

To date, the biggest single advancement in the mobile web has been Apple porting their open-source WebKit to iPhoneOS (as Jobs put it: “a desktop-class browser”). Nothing else even comes close. Before the iPhone came out, the mobile web was virtually synonymous with shitty m.example.com WAP sites nobody wanted. In the space of about a year, everybody commissioning a website was asking for real, responsive mobile websites that worked on an iPhone.

> Critics only focused on the shortcomings but neglected to see what it really was.

Critics were sure the iPhone wouldn’t be a success until Mobile Safari supported Flash. They were certain Jobs would back down. About five years later, Adobe gave up on Flash on mobile.
Coherence is unfortunately a subjective matter, as in the phrase “too.much.butter” which is syntactically valid but has no comprehensible meaning.
Can you elaborate on iCloud’s privacy situation?
> I tend to think that the dev who can churn out thousands of lines isn't thinking deeply enough about the long term direction of the project; all the code they're writing is essentially throwaway code.

This is a strong statement. There are both people who are writing throwaway code and people who are writing essential code that match the description.

And one will never get to be the latter part without going through a phase where they are doing the first.
Fun fact: Unreal was the first real, major piece of software that got ported to run in the browser, in a collaboration between Epic and Mozilla... almost a decade ago

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-and-epic-preview...
I’m sort of aligned on your ADHD view and would love to hear more from your point of view. Any book rec’s? Blogs? Podcasts?
Which is another reason right to repair is so important, because carmakers can go out of business without all their cars ceasing to to exist. Someone finds an exploitable bug in a million cars after the only systems with the documentation and signing keys have been wiped and sold at auction, and what then?
It's not what you know it's who you know. Upgrade your wardrobe. Learn to schmooze. Join a golf club, a yacht club, an underground sex club, or a country club. Get a sinecure job as an executive vice president. Profit.
> Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

According to Microsoft: "Your privacy is very important for us". So the answer is yes.
True! Thank you

Though seasteaders may argue.

But what is the habitable land area available for our current population? Any ideas?

[I don’t know]
DORA seems ok as a big company framework, where different teams of similar sizes can be roughly compared using the scores, and the CIO or CFO can have some satisfaction about being able to avoid spending money on non-producers, without engineers feeling like they're being individually spied upon. Without this accountability, engineering managers may let non-performers coast for a variety of reasons.

For small companies, engineering managers & direngs should be aware enough through working with the team members individually & through PR review who is performing and who isn't, and not need to deploy metrics.
> backed by $3 million in seed funding.

> So how will the app monetize? we wondered. That’s a question the founder plans to figure out later on - after he determines if this model even works.

gee what an interesting question i never even considered it before
>Not if I consciously think it's worthwhile, but if I know deep down that it's pretty much pointless.

This could be true, or it could be a self-serving bias. It's something to think about. Presumably, there was a point in time when you thought that the thing that you now think isn't worthwhile felt very much so.
ActivityPub does have a big advantage over the other options - it's proven to work, at scale, for a variety of systems. It looks bad compared to some other options partly because it's had much more battletesting to find those weaknesses.

Identities independent of account is an important concept, spearheaded by the At Protocol but their design is quite complicated and requires users to own a domain and I'm not convinced (yet) that it'll work in practice.
why? most code is not some complex algorithm where 100 lines of code can take years of genius work to figure out. Unit tests, for example, have near linear proportionality between LOC and utility. Same for comments, same for standard business logic.
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> You'll implement it, get on with your day, and not at all think about why the answer is what it is.

this is an incorrect assumption. some people (like me) have an analytical mind. if I am given an answer, I will usually reverse it back to the question, so that I understand how it came about. or I will ask follow up questions until I have that understanding.

all this method is doing is forcing multiple people to go through the discovery process, when all that should be needed is for one person to do so. its a waste of business resources. person A can share with person B, then person B can go on to make their own discoveries. we dont need to force every employee to discover EVERYTHING on their own. thats just a huge waste of time. it would be like forcing everyone to discover Pythagorean theorem on their own, instead of giving them that tool and letting them use it to create other stuff.
Can we just filter Vox and their uninformed drivel? I cannot recall an article by them not full of errors and bias. Its hard to call them a 'news source' with a straight face, no matter your political leanings.
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All data/responses will be open sourced for everyone to look at (after cleaning PII)
Sabrent has a 8TB M.2 as well. It's expensive.

Enterprise space can be reasonable to look at.

7.68TB $400, similar to the QVO but much better quality flash and interface.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/solid-state-drives/p...

It is U.2, so you'll need an adapter.
One more file signature to add to my blacklist of adwares..
Exact figures : https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1419

It’s progressive, from 0% to 45%.
A rule of thumb is “a month of salary”
Just to mention if you're in the UK (I'm assuming so) you can exercise the Right To Choose to ask for a referral to an external organisation like Psychiatry UK. RTC is still "free at the point of use", you're just making the elective choice to be referred there.

https://psychiatry-uk.com/right-to-choose/

(It can be easy to misread because you can also approach PUK and pay for assessment. However, that doesn't affect where you'd end up in "the queue" - just how you enter it.)

Full disclosure: I used their service, but am otherwise unaffiliated.

Unfortunately it appears they've stopped accepting new ones for now, but the information is still valid.
The point was to punish Russia and harm its economy. It’s working.
https://imgur.com/a/MyeHnnY

And I dunno about GP but I would prefer what the websites would be usable without an adblocker, hazmat suit and poison testers.
I wish I could pair program more. I have so much knowledge to give other members of my team. Domain knowledge, programming knowledge, common pitfalls, etc. You get a code review pass at the time of writing the code, and it means you have more opportunity to change things for the better. Once it's written there's not much appetite for drastically changing working code during code review unless there's a really good reason.

But it's usually contained to someone like a junior calling me up and saying "can you help me?". The answer is always "yes of course!" and I share as much as I possibly can. But it ends there.

I just want to sit down and show them things. Teach them in a way that makes things "click" the way I found they clicked with me. But I don't think management really values this approach. We get siloes of knowledge and then when someone leaves it's all hands on deck to transfer that knowledge.

I'm often brought onto projects as a firefighter because I'm seen as productive. But I think the more important thing for the team would be to have me upskill everyone else below me. But for whatever reason, it's hard to get that point across to management. I can see myself in a few people and that they have potential, they just need encouragement.
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> Science is, by definition, based on observation and proving hypotheses through that observation. That's literally what the scientific method is all about and how a hypothesis, supported by evidence, becomes a theory, and thereafter a law, based on observable and measurable phenomena

And yet these laws, for all of their increasing accuracy at labeling and predicting phenomena, emerge from subjective human understanding, which itself we have no ability to explain. The maps we build are ever more intricate, but I think we tend to overestimate the role of those maps in getting closer to truly understanding what’s going on.

This is not in any way an endorsement of metaphysical beliefs, but points at why “spirituality” (not the religious or woo woo kind) emerges from and drives science forward. I think of it as a kind of humility and willingness to embrace awe and wonder, and a recognition that science is only one pillar of understanding, and is ultimately just an increasingly intricate map of the territory. This isn’t to say that we won’t eventually find bigger answers, but we’re certainly not close.

> In what way would you live your life differently if you believed the opposite of what you believe right now?

I do think this is an interesting thought experiment, but I don’t think there needs to be any opposition here. Believing in science has sometimes become synonymous with believing that science somehow is the stuff of base reality. While it’s certainly closer than older beliefs about spirits and gods, there is still underneath it all a primordial and mysterious quality to everything that science has no answers for.

To me, this points not at the need to adopt a specific belief, but to hold space for the fact that we still understand so little.

> Anything beyond that…is, by definition, less about science and more about philosophy or even religion.

Philosophy and religion are just other language games that explore other aspects of the same territory. Over time, religion has proven to be less useful, and certainly isn’t backed by empirical evidence. Philosophy points to the unknowability of things, but even a scientific stance is in some sense a philosophical stance.

Often these approaches are pitted against each other, but with the exception of religion, I think they are all necessary pillars of a broader understanding.

Science without a philosophical understanding of science is arguably just another form of religion. This is not to say that science is invalid or not useful, but rather that it is not sufficient. Maybe that will change as our scientific knowledge grows.
> FWIW, I also like 3blue1brown, although now I'm wondering if that was commissioned by Google too...

No, but Grant Sanderson started his YouTube video career at Khan Academy before focusing completely on his own channel, so he did have the right connections to help him.

Either way, it's not like either of these channels represent mediocre content being shoved down our throats against our will. Being endored by YouTube should not change any of that.
Is this part of bankruptcy or the criminal trial? It was the US marshals that sold it that sounds more like criminal asset forfeiture. I did not dig too deep but not immediately clear.
Is this true? I have never seen it.
People run out of gas and cause chaos on their local roads all of the time. Nothing to see here.
That's exactly my point. Managers who protested the use of metrics on them would inadvertently undermine the argument for using them on developers.

Measuring is an aggressive act intended to invoke control that has a veneer of innocence.

That said I'm now wondering if there wouldn't be some metrics which might prove useful to workers either way.
I just have a worker read the email body, do some matching to grab the link and make a request