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> When I lock the screen it doesn't turn black as it's expected, it stays half awake. At night I have to unplug the external monitors to avoid having them on all night.

Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.

> Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces

Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.

> - The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something

Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.
Rich people have the power to fight. Poorer people get the precedent for free.

I do believe that rich parties should pay for their use of precious court time,
100% agree, however the difference between one EC2 instance that was launched manually vs. all of the IAM role mess and configuration needed for a lambda... well let's just say I'd rather have an undocumented EC2 instance.
1. not your offspring unless it infects the germline.

2. citation needed. and dredging through that dumpster fire of an article OP posted, I see nothing besides some claims made by some biotechie who seems to angrily tweet about vaccine conspiracies. no journal articles, no PubMed links, not even a BioRxiv preprint. no evidence whatsoever that the vaccines actually contain plasmids, just someone saying so on Twitter.

put up or shut up.
The main issue I have with all that is that one could have had/home-built most of that in the 80s already (except for the resins).

So in a way this all is more about online orders as well as global access and visibility than about the actual tech.

Wasted decades in a way. Guess we needed to build the interwebs first.
The English countryside equivalent of death-by-falling-coconut, I guess - despite the danger, it's just not something people think about.
It does seem to create a pay inequity for the job at the lower level whereby the man in this story is being paid more than the typical woman who is at that same job level as him.
I literally haven't talked to anyone this month who has as materially successful a life as her. Probably this year. Maybe longer. Yeah I'm OK if she feels hard done by, although I'm also OK with her feeling good.

I've not read the specifics of the case, but based on her complaint? I'm completely OK with her losing a HR struggle for stupid reasons [0]. Judges don't need to be involved. I just wish we could all be mistreated with that sort of compensation and power.

> So you want to detract from a case about bias (that was won), because you have another bias about this male having been better because of their lack of correct qualifications?

I'm happy to admit to being biased in favour of basic statistics. Berkson's paradox isn't some weird edge case, it turns up all the time. If you don't like it there isn't much you can do, even moving to a different universe isn't enough to escape math.

Based purely on her complaint, Google could quite reasonably have been chosing someone with a signal of higher quality. In the same paragraph she complains about 19 vs 22 years of experience as though that matters too, which keeps undermining my outrage.

[0] I'm not even taking a position on whether the reasons are gender related. I've seen this sort of thing play out among male executives based on height, tone of voice, random luck, coincidence, nepotism and all sorts of silly factors. It could even be legitimately good reasons. I don't see why, especially legally speaking, anyone needs to care. Nobody has a solid metric to measure executive quality, or we'd just use that.
>What needs to go into space every 2.5 days?

Humans. It's an absolute requirement.
Lol all these people salty at you.

I think you're right that the world of executives is less like "employment" and it's kind of insulting to pretend it is.

But I also think it's fine for executives to sue the companies they represent. I think the government should have a role in corporate governance. I would even support having a government appointed representative like the Federal Reserve has.

But I'm just a communist :p
Haha, I couldn’t agree more. Up is the obvious solution and it’s proposed on a regular basis, but yeah, the NIMBY powers are strong here.
Can we change the title to "can be used to treat" instead of "can heal"? The current headline sounds almost like its happening in nature.
They sure had less light pollution!
quiche may be great - I haven't tried it - but it definitely isn't memory safe. It uses unsafe constructs liberally.
I miss any humor in her appealing, in full republican regalia, to "my fellow Chinese Americans for Trump, and people of color for Trump, to vote for Trump on Wednesday, November 9th."

Is the humor that "wink wink, these idiot C-A Trump voters are so off-the-boat clueless that they might just believe this misinformation. ha, ha. After all if they're so brainless as to vote for that guy, they'll believe anything, yuck, yuck, what dummies!" ?

Or is it, "See, clever me, what I'm doing here -- in my gd brilliant postmodern manner -- is to simultaneously convey election disinformation while hiding behind a fig leaf defense of cutting edge parody of a clueless Trump voter, yuck yuck, they'll never be able to say a word, cause I have poc privilege and everyone knows it, jokes on them, aren't I just so cool" ?

Or...? I'm really struggling to see the comedy, so do let me know.
Most companies do not have WhatsApp scaling problems to solve. Having said that, I’d love to work on an Elixir project.
Our winters here in Victoria are great. A decent amount of clear skies, never too cold, not as much rain as people think, heaps of stuff to do nearby or a day trip away. It’s hard to beat.
* Structured logging is far more powerful than plain text, but we lack tools to convert plain text logging code to structured, and lack tools to convert plain text logs to structured

* Logging in a large system is a tragedy of the commons. A few players spam the logs like crazy, and the rest often don't log enough. Logs, logs, everywhere, but not a line to debug.

* Logging tools do a very bad job revealing discrepancies in timing. i.e. did the gap between two events change?

* Very few tools are able to continuously ingest logs and then highlight discrepancies or differences in a log of interest. That could be lines that are different, have increased in frequency, or are absent. I have sed scripts to be able to compare good and bad logs in this way, but this is a last resort when nothing else helps.

*
> and actually verifying fingerprints OOB is a must, and that's true for all E2EE methods AFAIK?

most E2EE messaging services (e.g. Matrix, Signal, WhatsApp) enable verifying other people instead of devices, reducing the required verifications for one person to 1 instead of 1 per session
>I don't think it is reasonable for executives - male or female - to sue their employers over promotion decisions

Why? We have all kinds of rules about discrimination, they can and do include promotion decisions.

>We know from Berkson's Paradox in statistics that people without formal qualifications who get a job anyway tend to be good at what they are doing.

This would only be true if you assume that interviews are consistently perfect judges of job performance, which is well-known to not be the case.

>Maybe some people want to pretend that Google executives are delicate daisies that need special legal protections but it just isn't true.

It isn't special legal protection. It's very regular legal protection. It's the kind of legal protection which should be provided to everybody (and in practice is provided to everybody who can afford a lawyer).
I think the main fuel additive used in Europe is (or was until recently) ETBE, or ethyl tertiary-butyl ether. This additive is similar to MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether), which was the most popular in the world after lead was outlawed, and continues to be used today in a few countries, like Mexico and Venezuela, but which is very toxic. ETBE appears to not be as toxic, but it is derived from ethanol. In the end it's not clear if it's worth the extra chemical processing step to convert ethanol to ETBE, or to just use ethanol directly. The US chose to use ethanol, and it looks like Europe is moving to ethanol too.

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/ci/products/ga...
If you are comfortable with C++ already then look at Thrust. It's nvidia's analogue to the standard library arrived at GPU computing.

Writing and launching raw cuda kernels is too low level for me, but writing with Thrust makes it feel pretty similar to writing regular C++ code. You still need to deal with moving data from host to device and back, but that's as simple as assigning a `thrust::device_vector` to a `thrust::host_vector`
Frédérick's career started even earlier, with 8088 PC and CGA: He is also behind PopCorn, the very best CGA bricks-breaker. All done with his friend Christophe Lacaze in assembly with great graphics, transitions, smoothness, gameplay... A great fun with the mouse.

Worth a try if you still have a DOS machine (the original version has proper speed on XT 4.77 MHz; a later version - very similar - can run on any DOS machine at the original speed).
AFAIK, macOS is the only OS to come with this sort of things out of the box (and that is supposed to work consistently across all applications; good luck with that on Linux).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(macOS)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
Can we stop pretending we all have Google-scale problems? That’s how we got into the current K8s mess we’re in.
>Couldn't you easily (try to) argue this for essentially any industry?

How so? Are you saying you could easily argue that the US owns the work force? Or the private land?

Very few other industries take place on public land, the only other one I can think of is cattle grazing and they make a huge deal out of charging them for the use.
I think I agree but was hard to parse the message. My summary would be to always lock A and B in the same order (e.g. smallest account number first) regardless of which is being reduced or increased. In addition, an UPDATE statement counts as lock so doesn't need a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE if it's the 2nd one that you want to do.
No never dishwasher, never even soak them. Are they hardwood or bamboo? What brand. Bamboo held up fyi. It’s just not wood.
It's still around

https://sourceforge.net/projects/naviserver/files/naviserver...

Latest release is last month
The "debt" metaphor is a good one already though, and one that senior leaders should well understand.
Tell me, on which mention of “brother from another mother” did you stop rolling your eyes?
Canada is captured by real estate investors, bureaucrats, and the Century Initiative [0]. So rather than developing national infrastructure and tier 2/3 markets across this giant landmass (like China) to create affordable places to incubate entrepreneurship, they ramp up immigration into "mega-regions" driving up living costs, making everyone risk averse and entrepreneurship untenable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Initiative
13 tweets that tell the story of Musk's turbulent first year at Twitter (or X)
Hmmm... only read the abstract, but the idea that indigenous australians _in general_ were starving pre-colonisation is demonstrably false, just consider the eel farms and factories in Victoria
The US Government would get a small NSR (Net Smelter Return) from the Canadian company listed on the Toronto TSX mineral exchange.

The bulk of the extracted material (and it's monetary value) need not go to the US Government or benefit in any way other US citizens (save those that work there).

With a modern mine, it could conceivably be largely tele-remote .. such as the proposed plans by Rio Tinto for the $64 billion Resolution Copper project.

Very few workers on site, potentially a fully FiFo operation (Fly in | Fly out) etc.
> In the end of the day people shouldn't punish people for their political opinions in unrelated domains like their jobs. In fact, in the end of the day, diverting political opinions should be tolerated and cherished.

Sounds lovely; I would happily and eagerly support any politician who proposed ensconcing such protections in law. Until then, game theory dictates that choosing not to push your own views via "cancel culture" is a losing proposition.
Lunar bugs to ocean moons: seven things science has revealed about aliens so far
For complete/correctness:

select balance from accounts where name = 'A' for update;

> Now, other transactions won’t be able to read this row until our transaction is committed or rolled back (for update can only be used inside a transaction).

This is true for SERIALIZABLE isolation. Depending on the configured isolation level (e.g. READ COMMITTED aka snapshot) other concurrent transactions can read (but not update) the locked row, which can lead to write skew.
In the United States, the law says that employers can't discriminate against any individual on the basis of sex. It doesn't matter what the sex of the person is.

1. https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-196...
> I did some Tcl and that went fine, but I never did enough to really have an informed opinion. I know some people really hate it though.

As someone in the opposite direction, having done lots of Tcl, I love it. It is one of my favorite languages to use. I use it for simple little things on a regular basis.
The anti-mining rhetoric really needs to stop. Yes, 100 years ago miners took what they wanted and left a mess. Today, the process is much different. The mining companies rebuild everything and plant trees - you wouldn't even know there was a mine there. We need more mining in the US.
> Spotify moved fast and broke a lot of things and did more goddamned damage to the sector than "piracy" by adopting the fundamental business model with a bit of convenience and veneer of legitimacy.

For broadcast radio, songwriters received royalties and record companies got nothing.

This changed for satellite and internet radio, and I don't think Spotify is to blame.
Wow, had no idea. Is there a rich ecosystem for this?

Is this on the level of R/tidyverse/ggplot?
I think the previous comment is saying that Tax itself is the "royalty" or cut that the government (people) get from the mining operations. If they build a successful operation they will have to pay taxes and will generate local jobs as well, all benefiting the local people and their government. I tend to agree with this, and any added "royalty" is essentially another tax or fee that will discourage investment in that local area.
I wonder if they read the paper either, it talks of many things, diet, work levels, nutritional levels, etc.

It does include the extract:

It is the accepted view that huntergatherers in general and Australian Aborigines in particular were neither undernourished nor overworked.

But it is necessary to know more of the balance between work expenditure and nourishment, and the particular qualities of the diet that may have some bearing on fertility.

(Robson, 1975:51)
If the theory of evolution is valid and it is also true that animals have been eating stuff from plants - like caterpillars eating leaves(painful) and bees pollinating(pleasurable?) - wouldn’t there be selective pressure to develop vocalisation to convey sentiment?

So, maybe trees haven’t developed these abilities to speak because they’re sturdier and feel/sense less (or the ToE is incorrect/incomplete).
There is https://hnrss.github.io that does a pretty good job.
A user's RSS feed is https://hnrss.org/user?id=sarcher
If You Don't Thank People Online, Things Can Go Crazy – Here's an Example
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Expressing gratitude for online comments is a small thing that one can easily forget. However, I think this example suggests that it can completely change the tone of one’s online interactions."
No argument there. AMD really shat the bed. But if you go with a single supplier, it’s pretty weird to make the pricing agreement “we’ll pay whatever you charge”.
But surely she had the tools to do that in excel itself, no? This is something I see a lot in software, where people devalue and trivialize the skills and abilities needed to make software simply because they know something is possible to do in software and because, as a software worker, they most likely had a natural predilection towards the kind of thought processes that led them toward pursuing software work.

I think it's fallacious to think everybody has the natural disposition and curiosity to want to write software. Writing has been around forever, and most people don't want to do it beyond purely functional communication, and even those who do want to go beyond that are mostly terrible at it. That lady could have automated her job if she really wanted to and was motivated enough to do it; she simply preferred to be a ditch digger than to design a ditch digging machine.

It doesn't help that "designing ditch digging machines" is in such high demand that most companies are really only able to hire mediocre people to fill those roles. Leonardo da Vinci is not working on sox compliance at a fucking bank.

There's a good chance that the payoff for that bank automating "take a set of dates in an Excel file, search each one individually into an internal search tool, then Ctrl+f the result report and verify that every code listed in the original document exists in the report" is not even there, because the first attempt will have insufficient monitoring or verifications to catch silent failures and introduce an expensive issue caught months after the fact that leads to a huge remediation scramble and requires more development than initially expected to address, not to mention the constant need for maintenance in updating the software and making sure it continues to run (which also involves a rotating cast of programmers joining, needing to learn the software, and leaving). Leonardo might do it right the first time, but he's not doing it for cheap and not going to make it his life's work. Joe Schmoe can do it cheaper but it's going to take a while, have an ongoing maintenace burden, and probably some mistakes made along the way. That lady can do it for even cheaper than Joe Schmoe can without many headaches.
Google has stopped treating double-quotes as an "exact match", which threatens their own business. Because now only a simple queries are possible with some random results.

It's similar to google map: search for reataurant and get bike repair shop. Nice job.
Please elucidate. Concretely, what tools and testing methods are you referring to?
Maybe try adding spaces between the letters and then mechanically remove those spaces when rendering.
Normally they would need to buy the land, something that would cost far more than $~100 a year. Currently it seems like a subsidy for a profitable industry with a rather exploitative history.
It’s not even a seperate PC per lane, you only get that per block — lane level execution goes to an execution mask lut per insn. Branchy code that’s not branchy uniformly in the block executes a lot of noops.
> "Don't ever optimize based on UB assumptions" doesn't work

Why not? Why is that somehow worse than code that breaks everywhere, all the time?

Correctness should always come first. Sometimes performance is part of correctness (real-time), but it is not most of the time.

When performance is not a part of correctness, why would optimizing for performance even be a possibility?

And having done real-time work, I can tell you that the output of the compiler is scrutinized heavily in that domain. If the compiler is optimizing according to UB, changes would be made.

But to answer your question, this is what I would do: If a programmer did not opt-in to the UB, don't optimize according to the assumption of lack of that particular UB.

Programmers do not opt-in to signed overflow as UB, so it should never be used as an optimizing assumption.

Programmers do opt-in to UB for data races by sharing memory across threads or signal handlers, so compilers can optimize against that.

Programmers do not opt-in to non-terminating loops as UB, so compilers should not optimize to that.

Programmers do opt-in to strict aliasing by using pointers to different types, or by using the `restrict` keyword, so the compiler can optimize on that.

You may complain that if I use signed types, I'm opting-in to that UB. I disagree, but even if you are right, I'm explicitly opting-out by using unsigned types.

And yet, you'll still complain about that; you started this discussion by complaining about developers using unsigned types because it would be slower, even though you acknowledged that the bugs wouldn't be as bad.

In other words, you want performance at any cost, so much so that you'll complain when people use mitigations against compiler optimizations that can raze code like Rome razed Carthage.

So you and I will never see eye-to-eye because you firmly believe that performance is everything, and I firmly believe that correctness is everything.

I usually try to be diplomatic on HN (and often fail), but this is one time I can confidently say: you are dead wrong.

By the way, I have public code that uses unsigned types as much as possible, and it still holds its own against an implementation that uses a heavily optimized library. So you are also wrong that unsigned types make it noticeably slower.
"you wouldn't even know there was a mine there"

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3U7pKb2oUPRnp4Qr5
The World of Playing Cards (Timeline)
A timeline of playing cards from the 1300's up to now.
Anything can be desirable. Less much is possible.

Global peace is not very possible until there're more than one human on the planet.
Engineering simulation software. So being hesitant to change code is probably fair, in case you introduce new bugs. However that view ties your hands when improving the software and at some point becomes counter-productive.
CA Airbnb host faces $300K in losses, damages after guests clog toilet
In short, high density housing, apartments. Not everyone wants to rent a little apartment the rest of their lives, particularly with the incredible limitations they bring with what you can do at home. There's a whole world out there that apartment dwellers can't participate in, and most people would prefer not to live in an apartment if given the choice and the financial means.
The article states that there’s no environmental oversight during exploration because of that law.
> he is etching wafers on his desktop CNC

Wait do you mean etching wafers, or milling PCBs? One of those things you listed is not like the others.
Meh, it's not as plausible as the "Jar-Jar is a high-level Sith" theory, to which I personally subscribe.
> Does he have grounds to sue?

I imagine the women who were promoted above him, but are nevertheless earning the same amount of money as someone below them on the org chart (and presumably, less than some of their peers) might have a more compelling case in court.

An "I'm being overpaid for my job title" situation is going to require a pretty nuanced approach when it comes to showing damages, compared to a lot of other job discrimination lawsuits, I would think.

(this seems like something where a lawyer would say "you want to do what?")