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Thank you.

I'm the author of this post, I assumed Apple still has support for these protocols because of legacy business systems.

I hope that the support for interoperable protocols continue to remain in future versions of Apple Operating Systems.
Extinguishing livelihoods with technology?
"public weights"?
> people who see open source and take it to mean they shouldn’t pay

This is the primary appeal of open source software to most businesses - free software and free labor.
Many competent developers are horrible at these live coding challenges. I suspect at least some people just "failed" out of anxiousness.

That said, it's certainly true there's lots of spam in job applications.
Suddenly? Who first said money was the root of all evil?
Will the compiler infer that a lambda or a method ref implements Func with its exception type param, or do you have to rewrite call sites?
What if we mined deeper? Earth has relatively small surface but vast volume.
I don't think anyone can get numbers, but partial ordering is much easier.

If Steve and Susan are in different part of organization, the answer is "cannot compare". If they are doing different job, the answer is the same.

But every once in a while there is a scenarios when you can compare people easily.

There has a weekly rotation to be an support person for other team. During his week, John always answers questions quickly and to the team's satisfaction. Meanwhile James struggles to answer them and cannot troubleshoot product his team is writing. This has been going on for multiple months and hundreds of questions for each, so it's not "bad week" unlucky or fluke. We now know who is better at answering questions about product.

John and James are doing DB migrations, they did many dozens of them. The migrations are assigned randomly. But John is usually finishing his migrations with no problems, while James often caused outages or missing data. A few times James took over two months to migrate, so the task was taken from him and given to John. John had to discard everything James did and migrate everything from scratch. Now there is a migration for a very important client and CEO is fed up with random assignment.. who is he going to choose?
A new class of phishing: Verification phishing and cross-IdP impersonation
Yes, but people lose sight of this.

I suppose in the context of this thread, we can look at the productivity of a system that includes money or does not.

A small system, like a tire production line, can measure its productivity in terms of money, which is outside the system. But a large system, like society, includes money, and cannot measure its own productivity using internal things.
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> Someone that wants to do some good in the world can have a bigger and better impact by getting paid much more and donating half the difference to charity. [Citation needed]
Working for a company that launches satellites that examine climate change is far less impactful. [Citation needed] It's not worth a big pay cut even when you're focusing on altruistic motives. [Citation unavailable as its purely subjective]
My sentiments exactly. The visa is highly exploitative by design, so it selects cheap labor from abroad at the expense of workers at home. Any posturing by employers claiming they can’t find qualified domestic applicants or governments claiming they’re protecting workers is hogwash.

If we really valued this foreign labor, we’d make permanent residency a requirement of the visa rather than block it. Of course, if we offered immigrants permanent residency status then companies would have to pay them substantially more, which is the whole point of the H1B.
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If you are IC, it's pretty easy to see if your teammates are "looking productive" vs "are really productive", as you know all the code and how it works.

For other teams yeah, it's harder, or maybe even impossible if the teams are isolated.
Do the users care about that? Or just the management? And mouse drivers aren't typically cross platform anyway, right?
> The RAM myth is a belief that modern computer memory resembles perfect random-access memory. Cache is seen as an optimization for small data

The post doesn't seem to answer what the memory actually resembles. If it's not resembling a random access memory, then what is it resembling?
I'm pretty sure "superstition" was meant more weakly and "sometimes they are right" was meant more strongly than you're interpreting it.

It's irrational to think the awkward phrasing is actually better, but when you're being judged by other people sometimes they're going to enforce the bias.
Your first link says that in 400 years, we’ll need a second location to continue growing.

And…?

I think that actually supports the other person’s view: if your entire argument amounts to “in 400 years, we’ll need to have space stations or settle Mars with nuclear!” that isn’t really an argument against growth now.
In an economic sense there is absolutely software productivity, when it results in more outputs from the same economic inputs.
I've had to maintain a couple Spring Boot apps and I absolutely cannot stand them: they pull in a whole pile of random dependencies and do weird things to your build with little explanation. Then, all the functionality involves a ton of classpath scanning and annotation-based DI that makes it hard to figure out how all the things fit together.
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Not the word I'd have used. Weird take.

I doubt anyone criticizing is doing so because of "How dare they want money?"

Which just begs the question, why did you think that? That take just exposes a complete missing of the point of open source software and why (honest) people invest their time in it.

There are others who just want the caché and benefits that come with producing open source, but without the annoying actually being open source parts.

If you want to get paid for renting out copies of software, just do that honestly. If you want to make the world a better place and pay it forward for all the free stuff you were given, then do that honestly.

But wanting the benefits of sainthood without having to volunteer at the soup kitchen, no, audacity is not the word for that.

And merely wanting a comfortable living is not audacious, and no one who's not an idiot thinks it is, and is actuall othogonal to whether you have any integrity wrt open source licenses.

You can want, and have, that comfortable living either way.
See also the Mark 14 torpedo, the primary American torpedo in WWII, which didn't actually work for the first 2 years of the war because they had never bothered to actually test it because it would be too expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo
At my university, the quickest you would be able to take it was the second year because Calc 1 and Calc 2 were considered pre-reqs. Assuming you're a normal student doing only Fall/Spring semester, you can't take Calc 1 and 2 simultaneously.

Unless you had AP Calc in high school and managed to get the university to accept it. I think quiet a few ABET schools don't accept AP Calc as a full replacement for Calc 1 if your an engineering major.
Soon kubernetes will be running on a Toyota Prius near you
Rust is full of these, I’ve found the community simply falls back on user error to understand rust when vexed by in my opinion basic software operations.

As someone who works extensively in cpp/java/python. I want so much to love rust, but unfortunately I haven’t found it to be productive after 6+ side projects.
the average defense job is the exact opposite of fulfilling and meaningful
That looks cool!
I think it's more that Catholics were sensitive to the accusations of idolatry.

So they reduced the use of statues of Jesus, Mary and more. And iconography.
I didn’t say anything about pot. I said drug. That’s any illicit drug or controlled substance including prescription misuse. The look back for declaration is 7 years, not 2, and generally you are auto denied if use was within the last 12 months, college or not.
As the story reads this isn't really a mass delusion - people read about pits in windshields, people examined their windshields, people saw pits in their windshields. If it was about the "Jersey Devil" and people started claiming to have spotted the "Jersey Devil", now that would be a delusion.

The only possibly deluded people, as the story is told, are reporters, policemen and politicians - but as the adage goes, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it”.
Title seems to be inaccurate with the content. Some good points but overall generic SEO stuff.
This was featured in This American Life 581, which is a nice episode

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/582/when-the-beasts-come-ma...
Yeah, the comments on the post already said it all. First Isaac says

> You seem to be playing a definition word game. [...] Obviously productivity does approximate business value in a very meaningful way when it is defined in terms of delivered business value.

Then the author responds

> Martin asserts "any true measure of software development productivity must be based on delivered business value". I agree, and I propose there is no such thing. We're better off dropping metaphors altogether and just talking about what programmers do: Solve problems.

So I guess the author wants to replace the term "software productivity" with something like "problem-solving productivity, measured in terms of business value"...? Kind of silly IMO, but to each his own.
This is just like the majority of communities moving to Discord over Forums. The barrier to entry might be a lot lower than getting a VPS and hosting phpBB or whatever, but the discoverability and searchabilty has gone towards 0. Everything is just moving into opaque black boxes.
Based on my experience, it's very risky. A lot of times, it connects similar but very different things that should be seperate and changes the meaning of the message/discussion
Original source: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/12/proton-batteri...
What's mandated to be a single character? I'm not sure what the popular style is today.
Can those weights be interpreted by anyone viewing them? If not, it seems like publicly available, obfuscated code at best.
The article contains this sentence, yes, but the rest of the text does not support it.

The article argues that lines-of-code is bad metric, and no one argues about this.

thuanao proposes measuring "number of completed projects", and I think it's a pretty good metric in some situations which don't involve long-term maintenance.

One example I can come up with is data science: two engineers are given identical requirements to ingest the data (once) and calculate certain metrics. If the assignments are identical, we can calculate and compare their productivity, in "projects/month"
> One fifth as much as the lowest-paid American??

Americans are often blown away and kind of ignorant of how, relative to the rest of the world, they are really wealthy and well paid. Like, people have way less disposable incomes in other parts of the world, even developed countries. The purchase power of the USD and the power of the US economy is absolutely insane.
> Where did I say it wasn't? That's a straw man.

This isn't a straw man - I'm not claiming you think life is all about movie optimization. I'm making the point that the effort of optimization might not be worth it in the broader context.

> Straw man again. And again -- why not choose quality instead of choosing ignorance and rolling the dice?

Also not a straw man. I'm illustrating that the downside of a bad movie is so minimal that extensive optimization might not be justified. This directly addresses your argument about opportunity cost by suggesting the cost is actually quite small.

> Again, straw man. Nobody's talking about ruining your life. But why intentionally choose a bad movie...?

Again, not a straw man. I'm making a proportionality argument about how much a sub-optimal movie experience actually matters in practice.

> To the contrary. For a lot of busy people, the plane is one of the few moments they have time to watch a movie. So it sure does apply.

Even on a plane, the stakes just aren't that high. A less-than-perfect movie isn't going to meaningfully impact your life regardless of how busy you are.

> You're arguing in favor of choosing bad things, because it's not going to ruin your life. Huh?

You're interpreting my position as "arguing in favor of choosing bad things," but that's just not accurate. I'm suggesting that the effort of optimization might outweigh the minimal downside of occasionally watching something mediocre. There's a middle ground between actively choosing bad things and obsessing over choosing only the very best.
Solaar works on Mac with some tries, at least for me the best approach was to get the repo and run the binary directly instead of trying to install it
Again, this would only be true if the platform had a laissez-faire attitude toward content, which it clearly does not. What can and can not be shown on the platform is heavily moderated, therefore there is _some_ mandate being fulfilled.

Now we've already agreed that it's not the US's mandate, and I suppose you could argue that it is not the mandate of any of the US's opponents ether. Whether there are any geopolitical entities who don't seem to have the same balance of criticism vs. praise as the others, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
As a non-native English speaker and not very familiar with vector database, the title seems very ambiguous to me. I understand it as Postgres as a GUI for some VectorDB. Upon closer inspection, I realized that "Postgres as a VectorDB" is a full name. Maybe shorten that thing to something else. Just my 2 cents.
If you know how to do serious software without spilling any memory then you should write it up and collect the most significant Turing Award ever.

Hackers would be immediately bifurcated into those who followed that practice and those who are helpless.
Only with the willing cooperation of the executive branch, or a veto proof majority in both houses. Otherwise the very executive they are trying to reign in could just veto the bill to allow the agencies to continue overstepping their authority.

But that's beside the point anyway, because it shouldn't have to be the legislature's job to be constantly weighing in on whether an agency is following the law as written. That's literally what the courts are for; to interpret nuances of the law.
Working for a company that sometimes makes satellites that make measurements of climate change is so indirect at helping people if at all. Donating to that company (by being paid less) is not a good use of money, in terms of charitable benefit. I don't think any of this is wild enough to need citation in a discussion where the median comment is not expected to have citations.

How many people honestly think it's a good idea to donate to a for-profit company?

> It's not worth a big pay cut even when you're focusing on altruistic motives. [Citation unavailable as its purely subjective]

I'm talking about level of benefit, which is not subjective.

Edit: Also I just reread the original comment and realized the climate change measurement was listed as a negative, so for the two citation neededs I point back at the original post about the company. Donating a single dollar beats a negative.
That's why when referring to the price people generally don't talk about sales, but about the "floor price", that is, actual committed listings that someone is willing to sell for.

The floor price can be a dubious measure of value for many NFTs, since there are few buyers, but for highly liquid collections like the Penguins, there are corresponding standing "offers" that owners can sell into any time they want, therefore creating a spread between listings and bids.

The price is (was) real.
Yeah, I don't think the reports about her after her death were kind to the Church's claims of her having had a loving nature.

It's possible my father was an Altar Boy in Pennsylvania. Some real monsters found a place to stay in those Parishes. My theory is that that's why PA is the home of some of the best wrestlers in the world. PA's report on CC sexual abuse of children was, IIUC, 800 pages long. And, to keep those collection baskets full, they covered it all up.

I like how Robin Wiliams said it, "It's not just a sin, it's a felony!"

We must treasure all children, and protect them with the most stringent consequences for the monsters of this world.
Manichaeism? the religion?
I’m into lisp and vim.

I did one small project with Perl but wasn’t excited. I was hoping for bash 2.0 but the shell integration wasn’t great. Seems like python is a similar feature set, less exotic, and has great libraries.

Anyway? What did I miss? anything I should take a second look at?
I honestly view this point - that there were prior waves of immigration from various European nations, and before that concurrent waves of forced migration from Africa and elsewhere (though this is left unsaid) - as a bit of a non-sequitur, bordering on bait, largely because it happened over a very long timescale into an essentially empty nation. Suppose I answered in the negative (that I don't think there was anything wrong with it). That wouldn't change anything at all about the current debate. It isn't some kind of gotcha, that if I don't have a problem with British/Italian/Irish/German/French/whoever coming during various migration waves it somehow neuters any particular point about how any immigration regime should, in my view, be structured such that there are clear and defined benefits to the people already living in the country. Enumerated elsewhere in the thread, but the H-1B system in particular is for the benefit of industry (POSIWID etc etc). Not people already here.

It is worth noting, though, that after the peak of immigration in the late 19th century and ending in the 1910s, the United States very intentionally shut off immigration to allow time for assimilation to do its work.
So the real solution is tracking all of your data.

There should be a product, something that you install to capture your own data, and then pseudo-anonymize it and sell it back to databurgers (I meant to write data brokers but I kept this misspelling for lolz).

Is there?

Assistant LLMs like Limitless.AI merged with their older desktop scraper app could be repackaged to do that...

New industry? Or old?
Dupe (29 points, 22 days ago, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249474
Just be careful that “prosperous” is actually the metric you care about and that you have some sane way of measuring said prosperity as it applies to everyone.

For myself as a Canadian, I can see that America is more “prosperous” in the sense that the averages on wealth and income look good, but I’ll take my socialized medicine and higher education thank you very much, not to mention median standard of living numbers.
Apple Watch cellular uses eSIM, so once I pair with iPhone with physical SIM the eSIM gets setup in the watch. You can then put the physical SIM in any device, Apple Watch's cellular is independent.

Apple Watch as AFib alerts, I've linked the health features in my blog.
Starlite rebranded to Litestar btw, to avoid confusion with Starlette. It’s really nice too.
What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?
By your logic humans are migrant therefore no borders for all....
> which was not connected to the phone, or even logged into a Google account
Your router is a computer much like any other in your dwelling. It's probably running GNU/Linux.

Just like any other computer, it can be exploited if vulnerabilities are found and in 10 years it's likely some have been found.

Unfortunately, it's likely that dlink stopped providing updates for your product which leaves you with three options:

1. Ignore the problem

2. Install something like OpenWRT if your hardware is supported

3. Purchase new hardware
Raku is basically perl 6 and has some features that blew my mind when I tried it a few years back.

Never really did much with it, but it was enjoyable to learn.
Per-country caps remains an absolutely good idea. The goal of immigrants should be to integrate into the society they are joining. Without per country caps you can start creating strange enclaves and you get some of the issues Canada is having.
It's not the wavelengths that are the problem but the exposure times; even with our best sensors we still need long exposures to capture compelling images of galaxies and nebulae. I don't think it will ever be possible in real time.
No, this is what I was told verbatim by her. Her next stop had marketing soliciting her to write BLM articles for the corporate blog! Please keep trying to gaslight me and all my fellow colleagues who have to commit fraud and claim their wives own 51% of their business entity that we're the racists though.
You're missing several. Montenegro and Macedonia are definitely available, and I think also Panama.

> Might as well apply for an EBx at the outset instead of fiddling with an E-2 visa.

EB-5 has pre-country quotas, and for some countries the wait can be quite long (for China it's around 10 years). It also is veeerrrryyyyyy slow, even with the initial form processing taking _years_.
yeah, people definitely don't want to switch to use another app to chat. Is that too hard to understand?
Imagine developing the atomic bomb with just US born scientists.
I'm half convinced the right company could make a decent hybrid small or tiny vehicle (like Fiat 500 size or Mini size at most) for under $15k given Ford apparently was or is fine making hybrid Mavericks for like $26k and only raised the price because dealers and lack of competitive forces. Though the prices of three wheelers (often more than a Maverick) suggest maybe I'm wrong.
Elon Musk is in fact incredibly popular, even if he is highly polarizing. His poll numbers are similar to Trumps and Trump won the national election.
In France, around 1985, an old man said to me that just after WW2 he was, as a French soldier, working in Germany in some airfield or military site which was then used to host Allied soldiers of various nationalities.

They had a problem with Soviet soldiers dying due to some poisonous/toxic substance they consumed.

It lasted for days, maybe weeks. Nobody had a clue.

Then they realized that some/many Soviet soldiers had discovered a tank containing jet fuel and secretly drank from it. Those who drank too much or were too weak just died, but other ones weren't deterred.
It's more the grand American tradition of not listening to self-appointed experts.
Just curious, what does Perl give you over Ruby if anything? I learned Ruby first, always heard it was strongly inspired by Perl (as well as Smalltalk), and it provides all the benefits you mentioned, I think.
Biological computers could use less energy than current technology
Voltage-gated sodium channel in grasshopper mice defends against scorpion toxin
Rethinking Minibuffer Movement in Emacs
I'll be frank: I think this idea that ${faveLang} is for misunderstood geniuses who truly understand computers where mainstream languages like Python are for dunces who only know how to glue together APIs is a large part of why such languages as Perl are nearing extinction. It turns out that there are people working on challenging problems in domains you've never heard of in Python -- and pretty much every other language. Give it a rest

In the real world, the ability of a lone genius to cobble together a script in an hour is actually not that much of an edge -- it is more important for people to write something that others can understand and maintain. If you can do that in Perl, great, and if writing Perl makes you happy: also great. But beware that smug elitism turns people off, it kills communities and also tends to signal a pathological inversion of priorities. All this should be in service to people, after all