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On the one hand, yes.

On the other, please don't over-estimate the competence of the people in charge of Europe (states or EU) — we're still just a bunch of independent sovereign states pootling along quietly doing our own thing with no real hard stressors to force us to select the best of the best as leaders, certainly not a unified cohesive whole.

When it gets to sink-or-swim time, I don't know which way we're going to go. I hope swim, but the US isn't the only one who can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory — that's something every civilisation in history has suffered from, one time or another.
I'm referring to embedded, not web dev.

When times get tight the new projects get shitcanned and the 10 year-old cash cow design gets the promised new features.

One crusty project I worked on was a legacy control board for a piece of restaurant equipment. The customer, the company that built the actual machine, had been building this product for 40 years. It had been through two PCB redesigns and two different microcontrollers, but the logic was tried and true and had to survive. A port of the project from 6800 assembly to C had completely gone off the rails and the contractor was dumped. All it took was a 20-opcode fix to a routine that the contractor just couldn't grok.
But you can implement transactions without any recourse trivially using existing technology today...

> Web3 can prevent a whole class of problems that normally would require after-the-fact arbitration to fix.

Such as?

> This is the massive improvement over code that runs inside some server farm and can be switched up anytime.

Massive theoretical improvement. No debate there. The question is about applicability, which I notice you've still not made concrete.

> It's weird arguing that no, we would rather have databases where certain people have the key to subtly corrupt the entire database

I don't know, it basically seems to work and as far as I can tell, you're about a billion times more likely to have your shit stolen from you in the web3/cryptoverse than using the traditional financial system... except of course if you're a criminal and/or a more grey-area "unsavory character" to some of the main stakeholders. Which that is a good usecase for this tech, of course.
there are 7 billion people who want to live in free tiny private flat in San Francisco and US in general. More lanes - more traffic - more traffic jams.
I've run into a few engineers, very capable people and I'd be happy to work with them, but their experience was limited to very structured environments. It sounded like they were in well organized organizations.

One in particular worked for a sort of "side ways competitor". They were horrified to hear about my deploying a fix all by myself, no review, for a legacy product that really didn't have a good testing environment. It was inconceivable to them.

On the other hand, not long after, our organization of 4 coders put out a better product in 3 months than their massive organization did in 18 ... and using that some "inferior" legacy systems that just so happened to be better suited to the job than some fancy new framework.
Right. A significant part of the reason open source wins so handily isn't that the money for a proprietary solution is always more than it's worth, it's that you can just pull open source dependencies without going through purchasing.
The Windows epoch is January 1st, 1601. The rationale is:

"The Gregorian calendar operates on a 400-year cycle, and 1601 is the first year of the cycle that was active at the time Windows NT was being designed. In other words, it was chosen to make the math come out nicely."
Any project that has been successful for long enough will eventually become a legacy project. So I guess it's not wrong.
Looks interesting. Can you use it like a jailbroken device (ie, install whatever you want from the terminal on it)? Or is it locked down too?
Look at gravel or mountain biking! If you live near some farmland, ranches or a national forest, there are likely miles of public dirt roads that hardly get any car traffic. trailforks.com is a good place to start to see what's near you.
I have some out-of-print books that I want to convert into nice pdf's/epubs (like, reference-quality)

1) I don't mind destroying the binding to get the best quality. Any idea how I do so?

2) I have a multipage double-sided scanner (fujitsu scansnap). would this be sufficient to do the scan portion?

3) Is there anything that determines the font of the book text and reproduces that somehow? and that deals with things like bold and italic and applies that either as markdown output or what have you?

4) how do you de-paginate the raw text to reflow into (say) an epub or pdf format that will paginate based on the output device (page size/layout) specification?
It’s propped up by media companies, who have become addicted to the quick quote that a tweet provides. Any topic distilled down into 140 characters is always going to have multiple ways to interpret it, thus feeding the click bait pipeline with sufficient reactionary data.

It is a monument in the race to the bottom of “digestible/summarized content”.
Yes France has been caught short on modular reactors (or doesn't believe in them). Their industry is driven by large, state-owned companies geared towards building large nuclear power plants and so obviously there is huge inertia.
These are all so fun and exciting to me. The kinds of things I dreamed of back in the late 1990s world of extensive browser plugins.

There is a port of PHP to WebAssembly a lot of tools are using for interactive playgrounds.

I myself compiled a JavaScript ES5 runtime to WASM just for fun a couple of years ago.
I would have loved more detail in the "The limited role of developers" (or maybe merits a separate follow up). On the one hand, this section feels so obviously right. On the other, roles like ops and QA evolved for reasons so curious in wrangling with this legacy product how that could've been better / different beyond just consolidating work / roles.

"The only thing left was to deploy it so that we could test it. This was a problem, of course – in this case, we were not the ones deploying it or testing it. Deploying had to be done by the ops team, and testing by the test team. Why couldn’t we, as developers, manage the whole feature from start to production instead of opening tickets and waiting for other teams before we could close our task?

Firstly, we couldn’t avoid manual testing since much of the code wasn’t covered with tests. We also couldn’t deploy the application ourselves since the infrastructure didn’t allow us to.

This had us thinking about the reasons behind the separation of duties and how our current approach is better. Seeing that our lead and cycle time on this project was significantly higher than usual (it took us weeks to deliver something we usually deliver in several days), the evidence was strongly in favor of that."
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Yes, I also tried it on Android to see if it's worth jailbreaking my kindle and honestly the UI is a bit of a mess. It takes a lot of tweaks to get a nice looking layout to start with, out of the box it's just tiny text filling the screen with no margin.
Some would say legacy code is code without unit or functional tests. I wouldn’t classify that as senior engineer worthy. Maybe masochism
> The city surely understands the long-term costs of its policies, and it’s run by highly pragmatic people with limited budgets.

Is that the case? maybe there are highly pragmatic people in the org, but i dont think they are "running" things. and the city's budget for homelessness is astoundingly high (look it up)
Yeah I care a lot less about the big bad boogie man government getting my data then I do about meta or x.

Meta and x, along with other corps, have shown they'll abuse my data. The government has never willfully abused that, at least for me.

Americans are so weird about "the government" while corporations get away with much worse.
Do you think that software becomes poorly understood and maintained because the company treats it as a prestigious job and rewards people for working on it?
> it also builds self-esteem.

Well crafted dig.
I think this is what people call the Mandela Effect. Below is an actual video in a presidential debate of Trump saying he had nothing to do with Project 2025, and yet you claim he never said that:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-i-have-nothing-t...

Please try and find some facts to argue with.
> We could "solve" the problem like Singapore or China (some of these 'many countries'), and simply throw everyone in jail for petty crimes.

This clearly isn’t true, as the US has a per capita prison population four to five times that of China & Singapore! We jail far, far more people than they do.
I have a love / hate relationship with legacy projects. They're a fun puzzle, but often times the client has suddenly realized it's not possible to reach X and then I'm called in to make X possible. It can burn me out a bit.
> the total fraud of academics with their names on 20+ papers a year

What fraud? It’s normal for academic advisors to at least be last author, and everyone knows that. And why shouldn’t they, if they helped fund the research, guided the topic, pointed at references, contributed to the research, edited the paper and presentation, etc., etc.? I was more than happy to put my advisor on my first paper after only the first couple of hours of his work, as he did more to make it acceptable for publication than I did in a month. And he did a lot more than that.

Also, some people are legitimately prolific enough to write a paper every 2-3 weeks. Not me, but I’ve seen it.

Publication rate alone doesn’t reflect on quality nor suggest fraud.
Check back in a couple years ;)
To paraphrase Churchill, "democracy is the worst system, except for all the others".

There's a lot you don't know about how things actually work in China. The levels of autocracy, corruption and lack of true legal framework, make the US look like a democratic haven.
Taking at look at how games and engines render refractive surfaces
I vaguely remember once browsing the depths of Verizon settings pages and found something under privacy section, and immediately switched it to ‘Do not agree’.

I don’t think I had any issues because of it, but it’s really infuriating that the default is of course “Agree to give my data to everyone for all purposes”.

Setting name was:

> With your authorization, Verizon provides certain account, device, and profile data related to your Verizon account to third parties for the purpose of helping companies you do business with verify your identity and help protect you against identity theft and account takeover.

If you use Verizon, setting is here:

https://www.verizon.com/digital/nsa/secure/ui/acct/profile/p...
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While I understand your valid criticism with the overhead of using an interpreted language here, I must point out that using multiple versions in the same repository is quite an antipattern that comes with various complications. Maybe you should consider switching to a version manager of[0] your[1] choice[2].

[0]: https://github.com/jdx/mise

[1]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

[2]: https://github.com/version-fox/vfox
Why a one-size-fit-all solution like Vanta is not ideal
I didn’t take me long to find this:

https://www.ultimatespecs.com/car-specs/BMW/119385/BMW-G20-3...

> Curb Weight : 4206 lbs / 1908 kg

I suspect if I looked through every model I’d find heavier ICE only but close enough I’d say.
The trick is that while this is a database in Social Security, it is not the database of social security recipients.
Zio is the slur. Obviously David Duke did not coin the term Zionist.
thanks! and good luck to you as well, looks good
relax I live in a 'banana republic' as well
You are mentally on a wrong track there. If imprisonment solved your problem, it would already be solved. The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world (see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce...). Fifth place versus Singapore on 105th. The US incarcerates 3.5 times more of it's population than Singapore.

If you have the money to imprison the homeless you could use that very same money to just build more affordable housing and that would give you more in terms of results per dollar spent.

But that doesn't jive well with the American idea of having to morally punish unwanted behavior, instead of just helping people.

Jailing homeless people is like jailing people who break a leg: Nobody plans to break a leg, so jailing people who do won't reduce the number of people who do. The only thing criminalization of such involuntary traits achieves is to reduce visibility and pushing people to hide it.
I have hobbies.

The most interesting work is going to be 10% interesting and 90% not interesting. In most cases it will be less interesting than that.

Prioritizing "interesting" work means you'll always be exploited by the companies that can sell you on less pay, less benefits, less time off, less respect in exchange for some pittance of perceived novelty. Don't fall for this trap.
It takes 3-6 weeks to exert its effect on mood, so how long does it take to act upon IL-10?
Many of these things have been happening in the US for the better part of a decade (or longer).

Did the USSR have an entire administration rapidly and deliberately tearing down their government, or was it more of the cracks in the foundation finally giving out?

Just because the former took a decade doesn't mean that this will require the same amount of time.
The ROI to USA that it has been the dominant military power for the last decades, combined with the cooling effect of NATO across the globe – i think you can imagine the instability and increase risk of nuclear war without NATO (Japan, South Korea, Europe, etc would acquire nukes without USA guarantees)

It has enabled a very stable and predictable world. This has benefited USA immensely. It it not clear to me, that rewinding and dismantling this system will have net positive effects in the next 50 years for USA.
It's easily "higher resolution" than HL2, but some things just aren't very well done. Some of the sound effects are weak and enemy behavior is less fun to play against across the board.
Canada is the source of more than 80% of the US's potash, the source of fertilizer. Without that, the entire farming industry and its crops withers and dies. It is not something easily sourced and not something easily replaced, and the crops all die long before it can be sourced or replaced. Your suggestion to close the border is absurd, jingoistic, empty, and meaningless.
What's the value of a hacked google account?

I always wonder what these are used for. Most of what I can imagine seem like sort of low value activities like spam.
You think the US is bankrupting you by stealing your money? Specifically: USAID, FAA, Government Watchdog agencies, and whatever other group that has been dismantled by now? Those are the high priority agencies stealing our hard earned money?

Not the guys who all of a sudden have a 100 billion dollars since 2010?
You don’t have to even go to more authoritarian places to see the “solved” phenomenon. Many conservative states have harsher sentences or are more proactive in enforcement of petty crimes to “solve” undesirable/nonconformist behavior. Also solve is a funny word to describe dealing with people who ultimately dont want to conform to arbitrary restrictions on behavior.

Humans naturally evolved in a hunter gathering setting, yet certain governing “civilizing” forces had the audacity to eliminate that as possible lifestyle, and then label people who defy that restriction on lifestyle choice as problemmatic.
Tariff the world, devalue the dollar
Not exactly related to Ruby on Rails, but why doesn’t there exist a way to run a Python TKinter app in the browser using WASM?

I have a medium sized dependency-free TKinter program written in Python, and AFAIK there is no way to run it in the browser.
Operately KPIs
https://kpiexamples.operately.com/

Pre-defined list of biz metrics for a variety of industries.
Why is there an expectation that a bug you filed against an open source project should get resolved? If you expect a solution there usually requires that you take some effort and contribute. In larger projects there may be more interested parties that are simply looking for work (eg college students trying to build a resume), but maintainers themselves are not necessarily obligated to fix your problems. I very much hope it becomes the norm that all filed bugs should have bounties associated with fixing them.
So depends on their mood, corruption, and whether they want to get you.
I really like turning legacy code into non-legacy code. It feels like getting to solve a mystery.

For example, maybe there's really crazy hard to follow code and the person who wrote it left a decade ago and there's no tests so it's too risky to refactor it but you can write new tests, really delve into the use case of the code and then refactor the original code.

Or, maybe the code is using a version of a framework that's 9 years out of date but you can incrementally upgrade it after gaining confidence in any way you can.
Certainly the most secure code. Not sure about best.
I'm hoping this accurate information gets as much attention as the DOGE hysteria and rampant speculation that happened elsewhere, but I'm not holding my breath.
I don't buy the static linking part - we already generate a single function in the linked binary that calls all static constructors from all translation units, the same thing can be done for TLS constructors (what I called construct_thread_locals() in parent), and force the user to call that manually on thread creation, or call it as part of std::thread.

Dynamic linking is a whole other beast, and maybe for thread_local's in a DLL it's acceptable (or the only possible way?) to do construct them lazily - if you're using DLL+TLS+global constructors you deserve the pain.
But you added that framing - this article is about South Korea.

And if you don't understand why South Korea might have concerns about it's big neighbour China and consider them a bad actor, well .... maybe your simplistic view of good and bad countries is a representation of your own world view.
How does that in any way answer the question of how Jan 6 was supposedly a coup?

Also there were massive problems with Georgia's election process in 2020, nobody denies that today so why should we keep using the least charitable interpetation possible of Trump's words?
Mao: Power and the Gun.
I job hop a bunch and a common theme that I have had in my jobs is to go in and understand the legacy, and bring it up to a more reasonable state. It's been interesting having to be the one dealing with someone else's consequences.

I'll sometimes chat with the people who have had to maintain whatever ground work I had laid, and each time around, I get a little bit better at laying down a framework of infrastructure and operations that's better and better at staying sustainable
"The purpose of a system is what it does."

This is only true for systems that works perfectly. If the implementation if flawed, the system can do something different from its purpose.

Claiming "The purpose of a system is what it does." is like claiming that software bugs do not exist.
>>doesn't look like "walking through" the building to me.

Well we can certainly trust Pro Publica to pick the most peaceful examples, but we don't really need the videos of what happened outside. The White House finally, after being forced, released the internal camera footage. I don't think that shows any coup attempts.

There is also the "pipe bomb" that got memory-holed, and the role of FBI provocateurs that isn't fully explored yet.
I think you should have some "about us" section on your webpage if you want people to give their email addresses. I already get loads of spam that knows my email address belongs to someone with a PhD (though they are often shaky on the details). I looked at your site and there's no information about who is doing it and why.
For readers, programmers, and engineers stopping in here asking "ok what can I do to better myself here?"

I really recommend "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" By Michael C. Feathers. It is a top notch read, and helps newcomers (and vets alike) approach these legacy systems.
I feel like businesses aren't actively trying to dismantle themselves, but rather the decay, due to neglect/hubris/greed/..., builds to a critical mass over time. This administration is actively trying to dismantle as much of the government as fast as possible. I think the fall could happen much faster than people expect.
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I fully agree with the comments in that post. I started studying them because, well, they sound really cool, but my first impression was definitely that this sounded like a lot of effort (computationally) to solve a single equation.
But then I only tested on simple equations where traditional solvers have no difficulties.

In my previous position, we studied the behaviour of black holes with exotic geometries, and we never could make our solvers work with the added time dependence. I would be very curious to see how a PINN would have fared on this (given enough compute time of course).
You are making an important and fatal mistake: you are confusing law and power.

Caesar's civil war was illegal under the laws of the Roman Republic. Caesar successfully took power, so there was no one to enforce those laws, but he did break them, and ultimately, the Republic. As far as I know Caesar never even bothered legitimizing his war or self-pardoning - he didn't need to, he won and the Senate made him dictator for life.

> So while the exact details of "Title 10" and "Posse Comitatus" are very important to an army before they cross the Rubicon - if they do cross the Rubicon the law will suddenly turn out to be far more flexible than anyone expected, and it'll turn out their actions were legal after all.

This is very important: only if they win will their illegal actions go without punishment, and winning is not guaranteed.

There is a reason we generally prefer the rule of law to the rule of power.
> The military isn't trained to carry out appropriate law enforcement.

On the other hand, nor are the police.
"Left/right" is always at best an approximation, because the space of political ideology is multidimensional, and because differences in praxis (how to achieve the goals set by ideology) will often be as signficant in people's support for or opposition to concrete regimes as differences in ideology, but the Trump regime definitely is suppported much more on the right and opposed much more on the left.
CRA also does not include router, and is not extensible. If the goal was to replace CRA with equally bad tool then next might be considered a viable alternative.

The goal however is to create a minimal setup to get started with React SPA. And vite's starter template does better
Probably distro-specific, so up to package maintainers.
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