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Cool visualisations, although I wonder how well they’ll work without Javascript or on mobile. Kudos to them for adding ‘Heads up, you’re about to experience some scroll-driven animations. If you’d like to skip that, you can jump ahead to the final state.’
The issue itself is pretty funny. There are some pretty obvious solutions, like buying jeans with bigger pockets. I suspect the reason is relatively simple: pockets are needed less when most women carry a bag with them everywhere they go, while most men don’t.
Probably better not to have too many gender politics posts here tho.
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My wife carries bags mostly because pockets on women’s clothes are ridiculous and because your solution while theoretically sound, fails miserably in practice if you cannot find such clothes.
This issue might be funny to you, but at this point is just frustration for her and to be honest for me too.
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Do you have good tips for women jeans with big pockets?
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Off-topic: At this point the “make x great again” titles are so annoying, it’s like a “x macht frei” or other fash boy stuff.
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I plan to learn about networks, site reliability engineering, and computer systems in general this year. I have a lot of books in my list, so probably it’s gonna take me two years instead of one. In order of priority:
- Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach: I got this for the Stanford course I’ll follow.
- Cloud Native Infrastructure: Looks like a good short read in the subject.
- Site Reliability Engineering: I’ve read some excerpts in the website and it’s aligned with the way many things are done in my company, so I wanna learn more about it.
- Database Reliability Engineering: I follow one of the authors in twitter and the book seems a good introduction to the subject.
- Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud: I’ve read some stuff from the author so I got the book.
- Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective: I got this to follow the related course.
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: I’ve enjoyed a lot Martin Kleppmann’s conference talks so I got the book.
- The Art of Multiprocessor Programming: I don’t know pretty much anything about the subject and this seems a good introduction to it.
Also as reference books, where I plan to read a couple of chapters only and leave the rest when I need to understand better a topic:
- The Linux Programming Interface: There’s a lot I need to learn about the internals.
- The Go Programming Language: A lot of tools are written in Go nowadays, so I wanna learn a little more about the language.
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Urbit still seems entirely ridiculous to me. It sets off every scam/cult alarm in my body, and I’m not the sort of person who dismisses these things out of hand (in fact, I’m generally a very early adopter on weird tech stuff like this).
The only other alternative I can think of is that Urbit is some sort of performance art. I made a similar comment on HN a year or two back and one of the urbit guys politely invited me over for a chat, but unfortunately travel schedules got in the way. On account of that effort to reach out I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s challenging. Just look at the YouTube videos on their website. No explanation of anything, just weird culty videos with weird culty music and a lot of buzzwords.
If someone could concisely and correctly explain why urbit is useful, I would really appreciate it. Right now it seems to me like an ill-conceived and mostly pointless vaporware attempt to (poorly) reinvent the wheel (but with some NRx artistic flare) without any clear justification for doing so.
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It’s a VM running programs in their new, custom language. Networking allows distributed computation, but the entire system is a hierarchy designed to give the creators total power. There’s more the last time Urbit came up.
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That other thread had some good stuff in it–I recall it well, especially the more entertaining revelations about Yarvin’s feudalism in constructing Urbit.
I posted this link mainly because the infamously clunky nomenclature of Urbit now has Ethereum rubbed all over it for good measure.
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designed to give the creators total power
It’s actually designed to be eventually distributed, just like Ethereum or Bitcoin or IPFS. As the network grows, the creators have less power: https://urbit.org/docs/about/objections/#-urbit-isn-t-even-really-decentralized-it-has-a-government
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I have already had this conversation.
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I mean this is basically the ruse that many “communists” pulled. I’ll only be a dictator for a bit but then once things are really moving then we’ll have a government ruled by the public. Once you have power it’s easy to use that power to maintain power, so ceding power at the beginning is a really dumb strategy.
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It seems to be a “dump” of the NRx ideology into a codebase. I think it’s fair to think that is some sort of performance art.
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It’s not a vaporware in that it has working code. Lots of it: deterministic VM, bootstrapped compiler, cryptographic infrastructure, overlay network, and (hopefully cryptographically secure) mechanism to do live update of everything above VM. Whether it’s (or will be) useful is an open question, but in my opinion the current codebase is self-evidently exciting.
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Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral'
TL;DR of the manifesto: “While you were creating diversity initiatives, I studied The Blade”.
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Please try and post here productively and in good faith–cute pith that grossly misrepresents the source material wastes everyone’s time and lowers the quality of discourse.
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An Spanish article about encryption tagged as scala?
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As a native Spanish speaker I can’t see the relationship
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Below is an implementation of the Bubblesort algorithm written in Charly. It is part of the standard library which is also written in Charly.
Heh. Why is a bubble sort part of the standard library?!
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The author is a 16 years old student, maybe they were not aware of / could’t implement a more efficient algorithm.
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I think he should have elaborated more in how the superiority complex of some programmers makes them not to understand jokes and trolling sometimes, because they assume the rest of the people is not as smart as them.
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As a Mexican, I spend quite a bit of time interacting with the local Canadian habits and explaining my names. A lot of Hispanophones will hyphenate their two family names or will just use the primary one, the paternal family name. I’m stubborn and refuse to adapt my name to make it easier for Canadians or US nationals.
In all but the most formal occasions, however, most Hispanophones only use their paternal surname. Did you know that Enrique Iglesias is actually Enrique Iglesias Preysler? That Antonio Banderas is actually Antonio Domínguez Banderas? Yeah, looks like Antonio goes by his maternal family name. Sometimes people will do that when the maternal surname is more unique. My father would go professionally by his maternal family name which I don’t have at all, so you might have gotten the impression that we’re not related if you’re just checking family names.
I’m kind of ridiculous because I wanted my name to be fairly unique across all of the internets in which I’ve plastered it, so I made a decision pretty early on in my life to always give both of my family names. This seems a bit too formal for some occasions.
Oh, and sometimes Hispanophones just can’t make up their mind what to name their kids, so they just give them as many names as they can think of. There’s no limit to the number of given names a Hispanophone can have. My mother has five given names on her birth certificate, although most people don’t know of any of them except one or two.
Oh, oh, oh, and one final complication: these rules actually can vary a little within Hispanophone countries. Argentines, for example, didn’t have any maternal family names at all until very recently.
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More than the usual three names isn’t uniquely hispanophone, either: I’m about as gringo as they come, and I have four (given name, family name, and two middle names from further back in my genealogy lost through marriage). Forms with one character for middle initial annoy me very disproportionately. =/ My understanding is that more than three names is relatively common throughout Europe, as well.
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Varies in Europe a bit. As an example: For legal purposes, Denmark is very rigidly three names, of which the third is the family name. And confusingly, in practice some of the middle names are “really” part of the first name (used socially), while others are treated as a second last name (but not legally a last name). You can only tell by recognizing whether something looks like a first-name or last-name type of name. For example if someone was named Jens Christian Pedersen, their given name would be “Jens Christian” (and this is what people would typically call them) and surname “Pedersen”. But if someone is named Jens Kjærgaard Pedersen, their given name is simply “Jens”, and their unofficial surname is “Kjærgaard Pedersen” (this mostly happens in families that once had farms or estates… one surname is the ancestral land’s location, and the other is the usual patronymic). A confusing bit as a foreigner is that I often have trouble telling whether I should address someone using their first name or first two names— and the same goes in the other direction, with many Danes emailing me with greetings like “Dear Mark Jason”, when as an American I don’t really go by “Mark Jason”, just “Mark”.
The law handles this by just ignoring it and saying that you have one surname and it’s the one you write last; if you want to treat your middle name as a second surname socially you can, but the law won’t. If you really want two names in the surname, you can legally change it to a hyphenated form, like Kjærgaard–Pedersen, but that is uncommon.
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I think it is actually more common in America than most realize. I only have one middle name, but the rest of my siblings all have two.
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In Chile we also use two family names and since a couple of years ago and you can choose the order for your child.
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downvoted :‘( well, when you do the Konami code in the page, it takes you to https://github.com/thcipriani/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc
Do you really carry anything in your pockets? I find it very uncomfortable.
Yes and my wife would like to too.
Of course I do. It may not be very comfortable, but unlike an external bad, it doesn’t restrict your movement, and that’s a big advantage.
The article is aice data collection and visualization effort.
A “mobile” phone in a pocket surely restricts my movements, especially sitting. Personally sometimes I use a briefcase just for my phone and keys. It’s heavier but you may put it on your knees. Also it looks better than stuffed pockets. Article and presentations are very nice indeed.
For the briefcase you need one hand, ot you need to be sitting in order to put it on your lap. I intentionally choose phones that fit in a pocket comfortably, and I’m not happy with that stupid trend of phone size increasing to the point when even men’s pockets are not enough.
I carry my phone, phones, house keys, work keycard and tissues, I wouldn’t survive with women’s pockets.
I usually add a wallet and a small bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer which is really great if you are eating something on the go.
I’d like to add that roughly one in 15 people worldwide has a form of diabetes and that a large portion of them also carries medication and a sugary and a salty snack as treatment.
Not if the pocket is deep enough. I have pants that I can fit my phone in the pocket and it’s no issue because the phone sits lower on my leg.