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Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Judge Declares
On Firefox there's a preferred, minimum and maximum sizes. If you want sites to respect it, you set the minimum, otherwise it's a suggestion.
> ...falling behind on basically every metric... [emphasis mine]

I'm thinking that some of the exceptions - domestic violence, workplace sexual harassment, feeling safe in public places, access to reproductive health care, etc. - are both very serious, and intense emotional button-pushers. Try asking a few good fathers of younger daughters for their own PoV on that kinda stuff?

Bigger picture - both the press and social media seem intent on casting the whole problem as a one-dimensional battle of the sexes. If a problem this complex can't be cast at least as "you want X, Y, and Z; they want U, V, and W" - then I'd figure that the folks controlling the conversation really want an endless angry fight and dystopian future.
The two psychologists I know are definitely in the top decile of people I know who need to see a psychologist, so yes this tracks.
I recently inherited a project that was "late". The team and project were 6 months into execution, and had nothing to show for it. The status on my Day 1 was "estimates were missed -- now what?"

On appearances, everything should have been just fine. The SWEs and product leader were running two-week sprints, with all the ceremonies scheduled on all calendars (well, everything except the end-of-sprint demo.) Every two weeks, a status powerpoint slide deck came from the product leader espousing all the fantastic capabilities that were recently implemented by the team.

I needed to understand what was going on. I chose to observe everything for two sprints (and not interrupt how everyone worked) while I focused on establishing a clear and comprehensive view of The Project.

What I discovered:

- An ambiguous and unclear definition of the project. Key facts, problem statement, overall solution ... did not exist. The product leader could give you some spin of this off the top of his head, which would invariably change from time to time.

- Work stories (we used JIRA) were garbage. I'm an engineer and even I couldn't understand what work was being completed.

- No capacity for the team to build & deploy software in a reasonable manner.

- No agreement or understanding of expectations among stakeholders.

So, what did we do?

1) Defined the project, with stakeholders in agreement.

2) Devised a solution, based on the project definition.

3) Broke down the work necessary to implement and deliver the solution.

4) Determined individual lengths of time to complete the list of work.

5) Reviewed everything, finding areas of risk and potential further problems.

It sounds like BUD (big upfront design) -- but in practice, it was Big Upfront Discovery. We structured work and components to ensure we had plenty of two-way doors (only a few one-way doors, based on requirements from stakeholders.)

And with that, we made our estimate. Another 6 months. The stakeholders did not like the timeline, but agreed "as long as we make that date." We provided weekly status updates, leaving out no details. Our stakeholder meetings went from contentious and confused to understanding and brothers-in-arms. We made the date and we didn't kill the team (morale actually went up.) The stakeholders loved the resulting solution.

****************

No magic here, just a focus on attention to details and honest assessment.
You could have stopped at "means". No need to be condescending or telling me I don't know how stuff works. I know how stuff works.

My point is, and remains, purely non-technical though. And I also know how language works.

If you say "we don't allow X, only Y, because we prioritize security". Then change that to "we do allow X but will perform extra security scrutiny over what we do at Y" then it does not compute. Again: it proves your first statement was a lie (intentional or not). Because a) it was possible to allow for your level of security and you could've allowed both X and Y all along, or b) you are now lowering your security, proving you don't really prioritize security, or c) you are merely frustrating X in a different way now and security was never the reason not to allow X.

I'm convinced it's both a and c. I surely hope not that it's b.
Presuming that “rate as attractive” and “chase” are the same thing for both genders, equally. There are many differences in dating patterns between genders, not just how they rate each other in attractiveness.

If we really want to dig in here, women and men don’t even “chase” at the same rates.
The post is aimed at an audience of software developers. Tool users, in other words. It seems reasonable to me that tool users would view writing as a means to an end, rather than as an end in itself. It might help to realize that their tool use is itself imaginative. The tool users have co-opted a nominally romantic medium so that it may serve a concrete function. That's imaginative in its way: an imaginative use of tools.
This is what shows up for me:
https://www.youtube.com/spacex
I tried Firefly for a month. I had the same experience that I did with Dall-E. At first you think, "wow". But then when you try tro wrangle them into completing a specific task, the "wow" quickly turns to "why?". I spent more time refining prompts than I would have just designing those things I was after myself. And this has nothing to do with polical correctness, these models just don't work very well for production.
Also a slickly executed theme on today’s Puzzmo crossword: https://www.puzzmo.com/today

(Zach Gage’s puzzmo is a great collection of daily puzzles if you’re a Wordle/Connections player who craves more)
Let's genetically profile for it, and if there's a link, screen for embryos that don't have it. This would require a bit more technological advancement of course. But imagine, a world without sociopaths! It would be the biggest generational improvement in the world in history.
Without bounds checking.
When I saw the headline I thought it was from the author of "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight".
the writer of the article is lying, she doesn't have a PhD and is using someone else's name, it's just an ad for another book

https://old.reddit.com/r/askpsychology/comments/jqewhk/does_...
"I think it's sociologically healthy for our species that people with ugly, hateful ideologies face as much resistance as possible, in many forms, all the time."

I really don't think I'm being unfair in saying that comment implies the deplatformed people are vile.

Given the context of the article what other group could be the "people with ugly, hateful ideologies" if not the deplatformed speakers?
C++11 was quite a break, C++14 very minor, C++17 a little bit more, but not as major.

C++2x is doing a lot of changes, but I haven't seen much of it in the embedded world yet. Mostly because C++17 is still considered new-ish in most safety-critical realms.

But say you have some C++<11 experience I think you would need a few weeks to get up to speed max.
Stewart Lee's impression of Ricky Gervais ("the Boris Johnson of stand up") literally saying what cannot be said because of political correctness and the woke brigade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHY5cFXqQk
Donald Cook tried but was silenced. I think around 2013.
Parent but it's more complicated than that. They are friends of my daughter who passed 19 months ago. So there wasn't really that dynamic you describe. I genuinely feel they were able to freely consider and laugh off my idea.
With the added “clout” of displaying a mostly male psychotropy as a female.
Imagine if Google didn't publish the transformers paper, Google does not just do engineering they also do research. If they find something similar today it wont go into the public since OpenAI set a precedent of not saying what they do.
For a best practices introduction I would recommend a course geared toward investment bankers. Some things that should be covered are:

* Avoiding hardcoding numbers, making input cells a certain color, etc.

* Knowing the all powerful F4 key that alternates between A1, $A$1, $A1, and A$1 (and knowing what each of these mean)

* Inserting blank lines above and below a summed range and including those rows inside of the sum formula (prevents formula from breaking if you move rows around)

Other than that you can do a lot of productive things with a combination of index/match and dynamic named ranges via offset formula.
cmd.exe is a terminal emulator and PowerShell is a fully-formed scripting language (that Windows desperately needed). This analogy doesn't work the way you think it does.
Much more? Or slightly more.

If the number of digits in x/y and number in a decimal version are the same, the accuracy is approximately equal
The interesting thing that I discovered within the last year is that AMD also sold a processor very similar to SPARC, the 29000 (AMD 29k).

This was a descendent of the Berkeley RISC, and it had register windows in what might be a more advanced design.

As far as I know, it was used in the AMD K5 x86 CPU as the backend behind an x86 translation layer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000
We used to *burn* a lot more calories too --- without becoming obese.
The best way to fit a hand is not another hand. The best way to fit a hand is a glove.

So when you say "good advice" I say, "it depends"
0. Humans are bad at predicting the future. Make sure you're socializing that fundamental principle, especially to the customer.

1. You also need to model your project in more than one way as a self-validation. PMI-certified PMPs especially love a single, structured approach.

2. Provide estimates in ranges and fight for that to be the organizational norm. Once you win this battle, insure your first few reps are on time/on budget.

3. Don't let anyone pad their estimates. Do the padding at the end. Engineers especially love to pad their estimates since they hate giving answers based on unknown information, so show them that you're padding at the END and that their job is to provide the most accurate estimate.

4. Postmortem ALL THE TIME. At the macro and the micro. Your sales engineers should be sufficiently experienced to balance the hard with the soft skills AND have previous projects to draw on experience-wise.
Show HN: Propertime – an attempt at proper time management in Python
Hi HN,

this is my personal take about how time should be "properly" handled, in Python.

It condensates all the lessons I learned the hard way about time management over the past 10 years.

I definitely don't expect everyone to like it, but at least for me, it kind of ended several headaches, in particular with respect to that damn DST switch thing :)

Feedback welcome!
“Well actually, Mr. Comedian
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Because it's simply not enough time for a proper meal, even more for children. Eating pre-digested, transformed food it might be doable to finish in this time, but you might as well give them Soylent. Seating at one's desk is even worse, it removes the social part of these moments.
When you make speech comparable to violence, people still gets surprised when people reacts with more violence.
I believe these refer to the pre-Soviet state of affairs when the yard keeper (дворник) of an apartment block was basically subordinate to the city police - at least in the capital of St. Petersburg.
It doesn't directly access memory. The addresses in your userspace program are not the actual addresses of memory in the ram sticks - there is a table of mappings that the kernel sets up. When your process asks the kernel for memory, it says "i need 5KB, please put that at address XYZ". The kerenel goes and finds 5KB unused, probably at some other address ABC, and creates a mapping in the table that says XYZ translates to ABC. Then the kernel sets the MMU of the CPU to use the table for your process, and switches back to unpriveleged mode, letting your process run again. Your process in unpriveleged mode sends an instruction to write to the memory at XYZ, but the cpu will translate that instruction to ABC and write there instead.

VMs (well not emulated vms, but if you're doing an x86 vm on x86 or an arm vm on arm) do something similar - an inaccurate (but useful for the concept) way to think of it is that the cpu does 2 layers of MMU for user processes in a vm.

The kernel code isn't running directly when your program accesses memory, but it sets up the cpu so that the kernel still has control over your memory, and you only have access to what the kernel allows - its mediated by the kernel.
moovweb mafia strikes again
I did the math. So, the minimal orbit at 180 km, the one that grazes the earth's surface at its perigee, is about 7.75 km/s or 27,900 kph. The other commenters are right: it was never technically orbital.

edit:

(let* ((μ 398600.0) ;; km^3/s^2
(r 6371.0) ;; km
(peri (+ r 0.0))
(apo (+ r 180.0))
(a (* 0.5 (+ peri apo))))
(sqrt (* μ
(- (/ 2.0 apo)
(/ 1.0 a)))))
;; 7.745844595118488
Kinopio have already implemented this for import/export and according to the dev "not all apps support every feature, so the core content and it's placement is what you'll carry over" [1]. Great tool by the way its so whimsical and fun to play with you can explore what other people share once in a while you find something they obviously put a lot of time and care into.

[1] https://twitter.com/KinopioClub/status/1768037179400331692?t...
It's also the birthday of Albert Einstein (1879).
Not really to be honest. Rational person would know that you can't force someone to like you. Forcing 'friendship' looks more like something an autistic would do.
In germany, they just go home most days, school ends before lunch.
Wow, what? How is my favorite novel the top result on HN right now.
I'm confident people understood the causality relations early on. But as time passes, the knowledge was progressively lost, and people were stuck with mis-understood habits: it's the "5 monkeys experiment"[0].

A Chinese friend once told me about the evolution of Confucius's interpretations: in the early days, a woman married to a poor excuse for a husband could be expected to leave him, for example so as to avoid her kids to imitate their father. Centuries later, breakups were strictly "haram".

The Muslims aversion for pork is another example.

The precise knowledge we have about poop's dirtiness is recent (e.g. first bacteria observed in 1676[1]; first virus in 1892[2]). Strictly speaking, we don't need divine books, but at some point, it probably was the only widespread, battle-tested option. Remember also that it was at a time with no Internet, and low literacy levels; people were different.

(I'm not intimate with the Bible's relationship with sodomy).

There's also the fact that the vast majority of people aren't receptive to rational arguments. Well-known, ubiquitous example: advertisement.

The fact that the Bible and others don't (always) give a why, do you think it's really a bad thing? There are valuable side-effects (let me leave this as an exercice).

[0]: https://intersol.ca/news/organizational-culture-and-the-5-mo...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria#History_of_bacteriolo...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virology
This varies a lot by socioeconomic class: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/health/
My experience with management is that they want a single number, and expect it to be done within 10% of that estimate, when the reality is that an estimate can often be a wide range like "1-3 weeks" depending on how many yaks we have to shave along the way.

Precise estimates only work for tasks we've done many times before in an almost identical manner. I think that is pretty unique to creative (in some sense) fields like ours. Please be more specific, which fields are you comparing us against?
This is a very nice blog template/theme…can you share what it is?
I am at the intersection of rarity and interesting!

No you're not, I am!

We all are ... unique snowflakes.

Or at least snowflakes.
"Victor has declared that the history shows that they were just"
Actually that text is a leftover and it supposed to be updated. Thank you for pointing out!
You're completely right, the point of subscription-based model is that you don't worry about the clock but just get your feature requests done for a fixed monthly fee. There's no contracts in this model and the subscription can be paused, for example, when there's operational pause or no dev work to do, or cancelled anytime for any reason.
This was 20 years ago.

So, adjusting for inflation, that meal would be around $8.75 today. And with todays food prices, and today's higher minimum wage, it is still profitable.

NO ONE would pay $9 for this meal today, but we were paying $2.50 for it 2 decades ago.

A microwave hamburger patty is $0.90, a bun is $0.18, a gala apple is $0.65 - these are grocery store prices, not bulk orders from suppliers. But that comes out to $1.73 vs $1.75 ($0.50 adjusted for 20 years of inflation).

EDIT: As others have stated my inflation calculation is off by about 2x, but the point still stands, I can remake the same meal today at grocery store prices for less than the school meal cost 20 years ago when they were buying for 2000-3000 meals per day. There was definitely a profit being made on those meals. Along with all the other fees we were required to pay to attend our public school.
I spent part of my childhood in France/Switzerland, and one thing I'll never forget is a scene of street construction in a French town. It's about 11:30am, and three guys all get done with the excavator and jackhammers. One guy goes and grabs something long from the bed of a truck, another heads to the cab and reaches for a brightly colored bundle, and the third guy grabs some chairs from the other side.

Right in the middle of the cordoned-off construction zone, the first guy sets up a folding table, the second guy neatly places a tablecloth on top along with a baguette and bottle of wine and some cheese etc., and the third guy brings up the chairs. These guys sat down for a nice meal for 90 minutes, at least, before getting back to work.

I think my American parents thought, "Wow, how in the hell does anything ever get built in this country?" while my thought was mostly, "that seems really nice, they look so relaxed!"
> The fact that it doubled everyone's risk of dying disproves that.

It really doesn't.

> It would be pretty bold to make that claim. Do you have any reliable source to indicate that it was?

"Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via disruption.

He was making the case for caution amidst strong public demand for lockdown, stressing the tradeoffs.

While Covid deaths were counted daily, the longer-term effects would take years to come through. The only real way of counting this would be to look at ‘excess deaths’, i.e. how many more people die every month (or year) compared to normal.

That data is now coming through."[0]

EDIT - adding:

"COVID-19 lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions,” according to this peer-reviewed new academic study. The draconian policy failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing substantial social, cultural, and economic costs.

“This study is the first all-encompassing evaluation of the research on the effectiveness of mandatory restrictions on mortality,” according to one of the study’s co-authors, Dr. Lars Jonung, professor emeritus at the Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies at Sweden’s Lund University, “It demonstrates that lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times.” "

and

"The Herby-Jonung-Hanke meta-analysis found that lockdowns, as reported in studies based on stringency indices in the spring of 2020, reduced mortality by 3.2 per cent when compared to less strict lockdown policies adopted by the likes of Sweden

This means lockdowns prevented 1,700 deaths in England and Wales, 6,000 deaths across Europe, and 4,000 deaths in the United States."

and

"The research concludes that, unless substantial alternative evidence emerges, lockdowns should be ‘rejected out of hand’ to control future pandemics."

[0] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-covid-and-excess-...
[1] https://iea.org.uk/media/lockdowns-were-a-costly-failure-fin...
Don't underestimate the value of having lots of social time with classmates.
Estimating in the "second type of environment" is also bogus. The existence of some legal or regulatory liability doesn't really make estimations in that environment that much better.

The shining example of this is Big Dig in Boston, MA: years late and 7-fold over budget. On the software side, the initial launch of Obamacare web site was a disaster. Technically not late, but severely badly designed and deployed. I know first hand that many government research (NSF, SBIR, ...) grants are chronically late or under-delivered.

So I don't buy the assertion that some environments somehow make estimating any better. Humans are routinely bad at estimating, but mostly because of social and cultural reasons rather than technical or engineering reasons.
Uncle Bob said that you know your project's estimation only once you finish it.
Teenagers are also experimenting with many philosophies and personas that don’t strictly align with personality disorders… unless you just want to call all of adolescence a personality disorder, which might not be far off…
>I can imagine all the birds in the dinosaur times felt wrong because they weren't t-rexes. Well, that's what saved them in the end

It's not about birds in dinosaur times though - as an analogy I mean.

It's more about a particular bird being different from others of its species of bird.

This could be an advantage to their life and acceptance (e.g. they might be too pretty or stronger) or usually a big detriment to their life and the acceptance they get from their peers.

And given that "wrong" is basically socially defined as "the opposite on the majority is like and agrees to", being different in that sense is as good as being wrong.
It's either more sprawl or a new high density city from scratch.
some of the biggest names in history were almost certainly sociopaths. And they were sometimes quite a positive net force. Just about everyone can be put to productive use in the right place, i'm not sure we need to isolate (?) anyone.