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IMHO experienced devs should leave places like this or demand change - others might not be able to move so easily and companies cannot afford working only with unexperienced staff.

Most accidents happen in the own households. I won't be more specific to give any suggestions but this approach makes the likely root cause - hardship in the pandemic - even worse.

> This is a fine measure, assuming that it's followed by investment into mental health.

More recreational opportunities and less pressure during studies are probably more helpful. From a documentary I've seen recently stress at India's universities must be extreme in some cases.

Actually some well-known logging solutions work exactly like this. There's a local agent running, listens to file changes and forwards them. Next more complex solution would be syslog with TLS, even supports log routing and is packaged with practically every Linux distribution.

After all I think Java isn't that bad but all this legacy stuff needs to be dropped.

Not sure about that, I've been member of the German Green youth organization and at least when I was younger identified as Green. During that time I had a lot of vivid discussions with people from far left over neo-liberal to right conservative. The discussions were actually often heated but without exception respectful.

Nowadays I rather observe something different which leaves a rather chilling sensation. Discussions don't happen or happen just passive-aggressively. People hide their political beliefs and best you get an indication from cynical remarks that often become personal.

It's not fun to discuss politics anymore and I usually rather prefer not to.

> e.g. incels, preppers, anti-vaxers, jihadists, etc

If you take the argument to the extreme, hot heads are not the people who run amok. But rather people who never speak up outside of their peers, hide anonymously and are not properly organized with open meetings, regular sessions and all that...

> On the other hand, you might define a function as a triple (D, R, f)

That's also the approach in Functional Analysis. Depending on how you choose D and R, some fundamental properties of the function change, e.g. bijectivity. Therefore specifying the sets is strictly speaking not optional.

The proper function definition in the other formalism would be rather:

f: D -> R: ...

I think in general Facebook has a bias towards inflammatory posts - and other platforms for that matter as well including HN actually. Also it's easy to blame the village idiot for everything, but I don't think Donald Trump or Alex Jones are village idiots. They are surely idiots but left the village quite some time ago and gained popularity before Facebook (InfoWars was founded 1999) - although FB surely was an accelerator stage.

That said, the village idiot is harmless and I think aristocracy (rule of the elite) is definitely not the solution. But what is true that the normal filters in an offline community haven't been translated online yet.

Same, they really cover most of the topics mentioned.

This matches my experience. Ages ago I was successful with the Borland tools to produce anything non-trivial. Eventually I worked a few months on a project with C# which included an installer. Somehow this seems very standardized but I was surprised to see that you had to register every single file in an xml file. On the upside, this would result in a really clean uninstall. So maybe part of this is also to prevent brittle software like in the past.

It's also a trade-off between length of presentation or article in that case and amount of interesting content. Also I think Dynamical Systems are quite a mixture of theory and practical applications, so it makes sense to mix that.

I also don't understand its security model, at this point also speaking about automatic message deletion it seems to me they have been over-optimizing something. XMPP messengers have encryption, can even support forward secrecy and don't keep messages among other features. Since Smartphones are anyway not the most secure platform, it makes little sense to provide a completely sealed off messenger on top of that.

I also have 2 servers there, one virtual with FreeBSD and one root server as Linux hypervisor. I run the guests from a tmux session because I was too lazy to create any systemd job for this. The guest works like this already more reliably than an instance from more well-known providers.

Of course for larger deployments you'd have to take care of fail-over and all this, so it's not really an option unless you are up for setting this up all by yourself.

It's possible to be really clear without going ad hominem. Reality is usually already harsh enough. I'd prefer the first with a clear indication that the company will probably not be able to continue keeping to employee since they need to save a lot of costs. So the person can get a new job in time. IMHO it should be the minimum standard for anyone working in management to maintain a respectful and clear communication.

> Linus is right in this regard, there is waaay to go, linux distros are not yet plug and play for normies.

Really depends on the hardware and the use case. When using completely standard hardware for Web and a bit Office the installation is very easy. Seen it myself how someone who never used Linux and is just average with Computers installed Ubuntu and it just worked. But yes, something as simple as a Webcam can make things very difficult.

It's like when years ago it was speculated that web 3.0 might be a semantic web or some IoT web. I guess both technologies have some strong niches now but what drives everything is still web 2.0 and native apps that wrap any extra features. But I'm sure the crypto-everything hype will still be there for some time.

This is the most megalomanic thing I've ever heard of. ARM has high chances to be both the next x86 and the most common embedded architecture. While at the same time Nvidia GPUs are already the de facto standard for GPU computing. So Nvidia would have monopolies in 2 verticals. No reasonable and competent antitrust commission could ever allow that - although probably everyone was betting the latter wasn't the case...

I think similarly and also see with interest when someone writes "<insert FAANG>er here". Personally I'm happy to write what I think without having to worry what employers might think. (Probably it's different when you have a lot of public exposure anyway)

That said, probably most people are aware that most companies are ambivalent - in fact even some NGOs. The more you find out the worse it gets. But still most people continue using those companies products or open source creations. Speaking of React, Angular etc. etc. Although in theory it would be possible to slalom around that.

In some sense this is how particle collisions works. You collide something and with certain probability you get something else at the other end under the physical constraints. Probably you want to use bigger particles and lower energy though to go from subatomic to atomic/molecular scale. The laser ignition fusion experiments would be closer to that. (Mind the costs though :))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis

Same, and I often wonder if people want to start some kind of scam. I mean the reality is probably that investing in crypto is much riskier, has probably a much lower expected yield than say trading with (covered) derivatives. But I also think it has to do with some kind of FOMO. Everybody knows someone who knows someone that got a ridiculously high return on investment because they bought the stuff 10 years ago. On the other hand it's possible to buy very well-understood derivates today with equal chances on public companies.

> It’s the same people who go spend too much at casinos

YMMV but my experience is actually the opposite. I.e. rather the gambling types actually buy derivates and everybody else considers buying crypto or has already done so.

Yes exactly, thanks!

I really wonder about the whole battery thing and if it's somehow deterministic. Has there been any mechanical shock, deep discharge or unusual temperature exposure? FWIW, there are special battery bags.

"Chickens actually evolved as a jungle species"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tree-range-c...

I think I once saw something similar about cattle but I cannot find any reference.

That's at least the 2nd funny thing happening with GoDaddy. I stopped using them years ago.

That's true, it's mostly a feeling. On the other hand if looking at Qanon for instance. There are established politicians who kind of support it. I don't think they actually believe there are reptile people below the ground. I would assume it's rather a generic criticism of how things are going.

I think distrust in governments has already peaked, at least in Europe. The right conservatives have lost votes in the last elections. Also paradoxically Covid has proven conspiracy theorists wrong and further will since more anti-vaccination people will get seriously sick.

On the other hand disillusionment in governments will be greater especially from the progressives because of Climate Change. The latter will probably be pivotal and if both governments and economies fail to deliver, this will lead to disrupting changes in the way politics is done. In France there are already citizen councils since the Yellow vest protests (sparked by increased fuel taxes) and in Germany they are also being evaluated. I expect those to grow much stronger already in the upcoming year.

> There’s a lot of subjects and activities that I’m really interested of getting into but I can’t just dive into it.

I mean you could pick one of these and try to get in. If it's about SW dev, it would probably make things easier if it's backend related or at least including backend like fullstack. Actually backend stacks are also evolving quite slowly. What usually impresses people is something that you built with technology that you really like. E.g. once at an interview there was someone presenting I think a web based managing tool for music albums. Like end-to-end working, not many feature but just worked. This kind of software exists hundreds of times, it's not about the idea but the execution. Or like one time I applied for a job and showed them my self-hosting stack (Email, Web server, Wiki) written entirely in Ansible. You could pick a stack that is both in demand and that you like, pick a possible idea and realize it. I guess learning by doing is anyway easier. You could then host it on Azure or Heroku for free. (Or EC2 or EKS if you want to include DevOps) Also basic design can be realized with Bootstrap or whatever is the current go-to-framework for that. And then perhaps put it on Github in a single commit once you're done. Most devs don't involve in Opensource activity and get fine very well anyways. FWIW I appreciate working with fullstack+devops because of the changing tasks but don't expect any badges because of the broader knowledge which is then not necessarily very deep. Also it's just work after all :-) But I admit it's easier to find new jobs.

So yeah, learning by doing and there are blogs posts/Stackoverflow/YouTube videos/forums/Discord chats for everything if you're stuck.

> In any case, given the huge upfront investment required for a quality platform this doesn't seem like something an edtech startup can bootstrap.

Exactly, especially if it's supposed to be really generic. I've co-founded 2 ed-tech startups targeting niche areas. In both cases there were dozens of competitors in these niches and some specializing in some sub niches. Those niches are most of the time good enough, usually you can find a mobile or web app for anything.

But as mentioned, working with public or private education orgs brings its own challenges. I expect getting any leads there to take years. It's much easier to target consumers directly.

That said, if anyone came up with a generic open-source LMS, on the long-term it could be quite disruptive because everyone in that area is just constantly reinventing the wheel. It's just a ton of incompatible solutions.

> The biggest issue of all of the foreign aid is corruption.

The biggest problem is the concept of aid because it is not resilient to corruption. The economy needs to factor in the outside environment, otherwise we're doomed. CO2 certificates are a good start but they need to be correctly priced and more is needed. Probably something like negatively priced Forest certificates that the country and the people can profit from by keeping the forest every year in a good state. The same problem but with a richer country exists in Brazil.

Actually part of the LHC collider is programmed in LabView.

https://www.apexwaves.com/blog/using-nis-pxi-hardware-to-con...

> further regulation ... moves more polluting production overseas where we have no control over its impact on the world.

Large corporations and not governments offshore production. Arguably this hasn't much to do with regulations but wholly different economies such that the comparative cost advantage is 10x or more. And of course it's possible to check under what conditions suppliers produce things.

I cannot recall anything concrete but from HN and other tech news platforms I heard only bad things about the platform.