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Still flabbergasted how effective the lobbying circles around Thorn have been in recent years. I wish no less than this law getting sent to Spam and Ylva Johansson, the accountable EU commissioner, to be forced to step back.

The EU legislator Martin Sonneborn, member of the German satirist party "Die Partei", is proven he was right when in beginning of the legislature he just enumerated all the criminal and semi-criminal acts of several members of the current EU commission. Led by von der Leyen who also has a horrible track record in German politics. "Europa nicht den Laien überlassen"

It's actually not funny anymore because those people are destroying everything.
To be frank, I'm more than willing to take that risk.
ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to a 30-year low
Better data is fine with me.
Military households and the dependas that inhabit them aren't the stable footing you are imagining. The worst marriage stories I've heard happen under those circumstances.
See my sibling comment, can recommend this: https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
Indeed. Wanting things to be dead simple and not need to be fiddled with constantly and take months to learn how to set up is the big brained move. Same reason I switched to an iPhone. I don't have time to nerd out and customize Android till it's usable.
Good. Now, where can I find Linus Torvald's tutorial for installing Ms Windows ?
I took an archery discovery class a couple weeks ago and fell in love. I'm going back for a three hour class next weekend. I love that stillness before firing off an arrow and the control over my body it requires.

Last year I started roller skating. It's way more fun as an adult than as an awkward kid.
The unlimited potential for creativity and collaborative story telling is what sets TTRPGs apart from video games. The mechanical side of D&D combat is fun, but I don't think going all in on encounters is what makes D&D shine. A good combo of game mechanics and creativity is the sweet spot in my opinion.

I often prefer "theater of the mind" over maps as that can be much more open-ended and encourage creativity. Many of the D&D podcasts use "theater of the mind", and they are great (special shout out to naddpod.com)
>What about upkeep? Sure, installing PopOS is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial, but what happens if you try to install Steam one day and it breaks your desktop environment?

Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about here.

>Or maybe your sd card accumulates too much writes and corrupts your OS, and you have to diagnose the root cause?

Get a new sd card and reload from the last backup.
> regular exercise will very likely be a bit unpleasant for most people, and that's not really a reason to avoid it.

My point is that there is a group of people for whom that is practically reason to avoid it. The unpleasure is large enough that it doesn't happen.

Some people can force themselves by just "listening to themselves" whereas others get more mileage out of first listening to themselves, and then setting up a commitment scheme.
> Now you're getting away from the spirit of 12factor

The entire point here is that 12-factor isn't the be-all, end-all, so this is irrelevant.

> The intent is for the app to consume the secrets but have no knowledge or care where they came from.

This doesn't really make sense, and is an impossible requirement. The app will always have to know where configuration or secrets come from. Environment variables is just one option of "knowing where they come from". Choosing file storage is just as valid.
No, it doesn't. People having money is Good under utilitarianism because they can utilize it no matter which person it is.

Utilitarianism does not benefit from covert insertions of specific moral carve-outs. Surmisal does not impact outcomes only predictions of outcomes. It is not appropriate to make judgments based on surmisal because utilitarianism can only ever look backward at effects to justify actions post-hoc. This is the primary flaw with utilitarianism as a moral philosophy.
There is also a huge portion of programmers who want to be on an assembly line. They don't care about their profession, they don't strive to improve at their craft, they don't read stuff on HN. They're simply there for the money. Since quality requires active effort in software, I think this group has an oversized responsibility for tech debt.

Case in point: frontend and the shit show that's become.
Forth and Lisp? :)

I'll admit that I'm not an expert here but to my eye it's a combination of bare words and cases where the position might be amgiuous, combined with the range of dialects where your reserved words could even change in the future. `select distinct` could be `select [distinct]` or just `select distinct`. Compare to say C where `sometype somebareword` isn't ambiguous because `sometype` is always a language keyword. But wait you say, with typedefs sometype could well be a `typedef stuct somebareword! Yep, it's a problem here too and I've been lying all along.

So that's some rambling but I think you're right, it's just a problem in SQL because of the range of dialects and the fact that they can change out from under you.
What user data?
User data... idk how else to put it.

Account data. Usernames, emails, pictures, group memberships, roles.
User data.
Seems like maybe the US Department of Defense is better at socialism than the rest of the country.
This piece just seems like clickbait. In the real world of corporate software every decision involves triage. A sane developer asks themselves if the value added by doing it perfectly vs just good enough is worth the hassle and extra time, and often it isn't. Do those "CBF" decisions sometimes come back to haunt us? Of course, but the solution isn't to try to be a "perfect" developer that never releases anything to production b/c they're constantly optimizing.
I don’t know what fictional carpenters Jobs was talking about. Real carpenters need to be pragmatic and cost effective to stay competitive in the market.

Using expensive wood or spending time doing things nobody will see will lower your throughout and raise your costs unnecessarily for the customer.

Even a master carpenter has finite time and money. Every morcel of time spent doing things nobody can see is time not spent doing other things with more visibility. The masters are still competing with other masters in a globally competitive market.

So Job’s fictional carpenter would get outcompeted by the hypothetical free market where carpenters of equal skill are producing more at lower cost.
Just dropping this gem of a talk[1], for the uninitiated. There is a place for this, even if people in the thread have never seen it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs
The parents. Offloading the responsibility of raising children is a large part of the problem.
Proving arguments using logic is a key concept in discrete math and computer science.
https://invitivo.com

A website to create digital invitations. Similar purpose as WhatsApp groups for invites, but taking away the noise and adding way more personalized design to the invite.

The UI still has lots of issues and I need to i18n the landing page, but it works and a couple of people use it every day already. I‘m spending 2€ per day on google ads to see how my changes to product alter user behavior.

It’s a side project and I‘m not planning to squeeze money out of it. Just want the world to celebrate more and I want to experience building a product from zero to „actively used by many people“.

Appreciate all feedback and input!
It's adorable to see how many intro writings on the subject throw up the famous "Attention Is All You Need" diagram as if that explains anything whatsoever.
I disclosed this personally 4 years ago via hacker one. The larger issue, imo, is that it indexes the content and allows an attacker to craft search terms which reveal the full contents of the document sort of like a blind SQLi. I was told it was working as intended and my report was black-holed on h1 and was told via email that it was "informational" and not a vulnerability.

It's lame to come on here and act like people reporting this are acting in bad faith. I asked for permission to talk about it and was granted it, so I don't see why the author of this post shouldn't be able to do the same considering he doesn't even get into the search indexing aspect. The company is in a vulnerable state due to negligence in addressing the issue, not because it was publicly disclosed.
> The AfD is not particularly extreme though, and its policies aren't so different to the Republicans in many ways.

One of these two subclauses has to be false, lol.

(It's the first one. The first one is false.)
> "Charter contended the $600 figure was inaccurate, arguing that its Spectrum TV Select service in Los Angeles only cost around $219 a year more than Google's YouTube TV service," according to a MediaPost article in August.

Google should have just agreed to do a find and replace in their ad copy.
How is deterministic bad in this scenario? What specifically is bad about Loom in your experience?
The #1 important thing I've found for collaborative online gaming (and collaborative online work in general) is *have a good mic*. Having three people in a room around one mic doing the THIS SPEAKER IS SMALL SO YOU SOUND FAR AWAY AND I'M GOING TO TALK LOUD SO YOU CAN HEAR just kills any momentum, as does "What? I...........hear.......run the........18" connection interruptions. Video, maps, everything else is pretty much optional, but audio is critical.
Even leaving aside the cable-only stations (both premium and non-premium), even getting the basic networks and maybe some UHF channels was marginal for a lot of people involving a lot of fiddling to get a usable signal.

And pre-DirectTV, the alternatives were pretty much geeking out with a big Satellite dish which only worked out on your big country property and were willing to spend the money.
From my comment,

>> don't take it seriously enough.

A serious comparison would be to schools in fairly well off neighbourhoods in the suburbs. But they don't do that.
The fastest way to turn a YouTube video Into an Educational PDF document
Out of curiosity, where is "here" in this case. I've never heard of someone transferring a mortgage here (in the US). I'd _love_ to transfer my low-interest loan considering the current rates.
I set one up to play "Christmas everyday" when I say "Hey google, it's Christmas"

The only problem is it still announcing "playing Christmas everyday on YouTube music by..." I wanted it to just start playing.
Way back in the late 90s, the place I was working had a subscription to a trade rag called TV Broadcasting News (or something like that). I remember reading an article on how Congress was upset at the networks for splitting the bandwidth. But being feckless like Congress is, they did nothing about it and just shrugged their shoulders.

Fox was famous for choosing 720p as its broadcast format specifically to get 60fps for its sports programming while the other networks chose 1080i5994.
Pit Bulls should be illegal in the first place, and the people who attach themselves to specifically this breed of dog have a form of mental illness, and are allergic to facts and statistics (or rather, base their entire identity around trying to prove those statistics wrong).
I am willing to concede, but also willing to argue that vector and data frame manipulations in R are calls to optimized code.

Like, R is “what if we made a lisp inspired version of Python built around numpy and pandas and then reversed timed”
Anecdote: It's so well hidden or underpromoted that exactly 1 colleague has sent me a video recorded via Slack in its feature's existence. (employee count: mid 000's)
thanks. Indeed, lparallel is maintained on the sharplispers' fork: https://github.com/sharplispers/lparallel I updated the awesome-cl and Cookbook links.

FiveAM is still a very good solution, difficult to replace. We didn't replace it with another test framework, and we looked at a few of them. Rove doesn't live on its promise to run `rove <system>` on the command line for example.

Your last sentence is very true!
Incidentally,

The German Democratic Republic had a plural multi-party system. The largest by members and parliament seats were the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), followed by Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD).

(The was also National-Democratic Party [1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_G...
I beg to differ. JSON only provides a subset of commonly available data types (quick example: show me a proper 64 bit int, a proper date type or a proper money type). And "everything is a map" is pretty much how python works, but they prefer to call it dicts.
I could go on and explain how JSON is evolving to have exactly all the problems of xml without any of the advantages, and how people keep reinventing the wheel (pun intended for python fans) ignoring why xml is the way it is (and it is quite more robust than anything json). Xml biggest defect was verbosity, specially in a http 1.0 context. With http 1.1 (so nowadays, legacy tech) , most of these problems disappear. I know, parsing of json is quite simple - the reason is the format is lacking.
The major flaw of metric is that half of 10 is 5 and half of 5 is 2 and 1/2 . A good measuring system should not yield fractions when dividing by 2 until you reach 1. I will fully support the octal system. Long live Octal. Off with the pinky fingers.
Starting to think the whole "put my ex girlfriend in charge of the business where I am committing massive financial fraud" plan had some flaws but I'm a boy genius on magazine covers so that can't be right
This is fantastic! So easy to move, zoom and rotate the graph with exactly the mouse buttons you'd expect. In most even commercial math packages this is always super clunky
It wouldn't be subliminal. It would be a blatant advertisement.

Are you suggesting the NYT and/or military school system are fabricating achievement results?
Those jobs has been on the rise for over a decade now, it was the majority of people talking a few years ago as well, but at least there was more awareness of the different kinds of jobs out there.
> New Clues Suggest Stolen FTX Funds Went to Russia-Linked Money Launderers

They forgot China. Quick, correct it. /s
Basically, they reversed the order of the rankings of the interview scores by screwing up a VLOOKUP in Excel.

Always have a human double check the output of every Excel formula.
Sure that's their stated reasoning. But in terms of seeking short term gain and ignoring long term costs, I don't think there's much, if an difference between activist investors and private equity
Nah mate. Following discussion of the above, we are now going with an iNothingAtAll for the time being ;-)
Most if not all of our decisions are actually subconscious. When you just can't be f*****, it means that some circuit in your brain just doesn't think it's worthwhile to do the refactoring or tests or whatever it is.

That circuit could be right in that the payoff is often not actually worth the effort, when viewed objectively and holistically. For example, if you literally spend two months working on end-to-end tests and it in fact does save you three whole weeks of work in terms of debugging or whatever over the course of the next six months, that doesn't add up.

I think there are some common extremes. On one hand, the business side often forces engineers to take on tech debt that really is the wrong tradeoff. On the other hand, many engineers may spend time creating a sort of idealized factorization and large test suite that in the end really isn't going to pay off. And part of that is actually just because they are worried someone else will find a nicer code organization or another test to write and judge them for not doing it.
It's like unit testing. The idea of writing code to test your code was so blindingly obvious to me from the time I started programming that I was shocked that it took so long for other people to pick up on it, but the concept of "unit testing" started to gain some traction around the late 90's and I was relieved that somebody with some authority was advocating it.

But the reason I didn't just do it myself before Kent Beck published JUnit was because the code I worked on didn't lend itself well to being controlled by other code. Global variables everywhere, widely distributed state, dependence on external systems and specific file system layouts and general disregard for modularity made it impossible to run anything outside of the context it was designed in. All of this was "bad design", but it met deadlines, so everybody did it anyway. I was _hoping_ that if unit testing gained some traction, programmers would get away from monolithic design.

After 25 years of observing unit tests for getters and setters and then one big unit test that creates an in-memory database because every function in the app needs a live database just to run and then gets commented out because it fails, I've lost any faith that unit testing will ever be more than a meaningless checkmark that everybody fills out because it's a "best practice" but nobody actually stops to think why.
https://github.com/vortext/esther

Esther is my personal project to develop a diary app that talks back. Basically. Along the way I learned how to htmx, llama.cpp via JNA and practical experience with LLMs. I suffer from type-1 bipolar disorder with psychoses and normal life just ain't gonna happen. So unemployed, single, #nolife ... I decided to build a chat bot for myself. It's not finished the RAG stuff still needs implementing, but oh well. It's written in Clojure on GraalVM (because I wanted to try polyglot) other than that it's nothing /too/ fancy ... but it feels great having an LLM + UI you can just build the way you like it
ohhh I see it now, that looks like a recipe for... issues.
> Well the whole point of the Arine [sic] 6 was to compete with SpaceX. Ariane 6 would never have been approved if not for...

Cynical rejoinder: The point of Ariane 6 was to give the credible impression of competing with SpaceX. For 5-or-so years. While keeping the government-funding gravy flowing, bureaucratic careers moving forward, and politicians winning elections.
You can still buy non-ad services and the amount of content you can get at one time has increased incredibly. I would also say the new format has increased the quality of content. In my personal opinion, tech has really changed the industry and how we watch tv.
> Agile done right solves these problems

It's funny that Agile is always something else. It cannot be criticized because then your are doing it wrong. It's like a theory which is not falsifiable.
Here is the problem with that. A dev pushes a change that requires a change to the env file. Another dev pulls down the code, but doesn't change the env file. Everything breaks. At really bad companies, DevOps sets env vars from somewhere other than that file passed around by devs - another failure point.

My proposal:

1. Key Vault | HashiCorp Vault | whatever is the source of truth for secrets.

2. When a developer adds a key, they add it to Key Vault and update code to use it.

3. On app startup, code checks the dev's local for 2 env vars ONLY, which allow access to key vault.

4. The app then tries to pull in all the env vars it needs by secret name.

5. If any are missing, it fails.

This keeps devs from having to pass around .env files outside of source control. Btw, Azure (and all other cloud) builds can be configured to pull env vars directly from Key Vault, so there's that benefit too.
What isn't modern about neovim or emacs 29? Does a tool have to be graphical to be modern?
Do you have a tracking bug for this? I could see PCIe pcb edge on the top and left with female straddle mount recepticles on the bottom and right. Another option would be something like pmod, fewer pins available but cheap and easy.
Anesthesiologists kill a lot of patients.

I would not let an anaesthesiologist from the bottom half of their class in their first year of practice put me under.
Seximal is actually great for hand counting. You can use fingers the classical way for one digit per hand or base 6² compression for two digits per hand, allowing you to count up to 1296 with two hands.
People who behead babies are monsters. Monster, terrorist, or war criminal this is really just a semantic argument, and most people don't care deeply about the difference. I understand that the BBC wants to use words precisely, because journalists really care about words.

The reason why people find this article deeply offensive is because by writing an article about how Hamas militants are not "terrorists" and comparing them with the IRA, you are in essence defending absolute monster engaging in pure evil and the argument that they might be righteous in their activities is hyper offensive to many people.

I feel BBC should simply not call them terrorists, but not engage in a debate about the definition of what they are and make compare them to other organizations as though they are equal to those organizations. Did the IRA behead a bunch of children?
Thanks. You got me thinking back to when I started programming. Realised it wasn't until 9 or so. There's no rush is there.
There are many schools where over 70% of kids live in single parents households. I'm sure you have bad stories, but it's not comparable overall.
Have you ever heard of climate change?
Short trip flights are just a huge waste of the carbon dioxide emissions we can still burn safely
Hell, we don't even have a true two party system.

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."
- Julius Nyerere
So not a ton that's that surprising as someone who's been following this, but this was something special:

> Ellison testified how colleagues at Alameda set up accounts on the Chinese exchange tied to the identities of Thai prostitutes, hoping they could somehow use those accounts to siphon the money away from the frozen account.
I'm American and it may be selection bias about whom i've known but i've never heard that in over 50 years now.

(I'm also like a generation or two removed from immigrants (northwest and eastern europe mostly) so maybe that influences what i've heard.)
> I agree. I see it all the time. Huge amounts of hours being wasted "working hard", and running away from answering the real questions which would double the (positive) output in half the time.

I think a lot of times we are put in boxes, and our roles are pretty heavily constrained, such that we do not have the power to "answer the real questions." Raise your hand anyone who's had this conversation with their manager:

Manager: "Dev, I'd like you to take more responsibility, be transformational, be a 'force multiplier' for the team!"

Dev: "OK, let me make major architectural decisions without having to get approval from three levels of managers."

Manager: "Uh, wait..."

Dev: "Let me hire and fire, and build up a team of direct reports."

Manager: "Hold up..."

Dev: "Give me a budget to spend on tools, training, contractors, and so on."

Manager: "Whoa, whoa, whoa.. I didn't mean that transformational..."
> doing more of that is insanity.

It is insanity because it’s being sprawled by the same developers and same regulations. Sure, fixing existing cities is better option but it’s unrealistic to do so, because you will need an authoritarian set of decisions that will never happen in a democratic government when 2/3 of your voters are home owners and already paid their life savings in that house and want the returns now, yeah, that fix will never happen, the realistic option is to use the already vacant land -that surprise surprise it’s actually owned by the crown!- with new sets of regulations to ease the crisis, or absolutely nothing will substantially change.
First, you need a licence ... /s