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Entirely my opinion, but I believe that there are breakpoints at multiples of 1,2,5. So, changes in org structure are needed to adapt at 10,20,50 (and further at 100,200,500) counts. More formality, more processes, more tools, more variety of roles.

If someone is doing a task which takes 4 hours a week, in a team of 10, on scaling to 50 it likely becomes a half FTE level work. Not everything scales that way, obviously, but it's a good way to model new roles needed.

Same issue. Getting an "internal server error" message

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dBase was the gold standard for this back in the 80s, early 90s. Great tool. Both the "dev" part and how it could be made available to non developers. The freedom of spreadsheets when developing and the constraints of a TUI (or just UI in those days) for users.

I find that, when I lie down, my glasses slip back closer to my eyes just enough to make things go out of focus at reading distance. The weight of the prisms could make it worse. Have you figured out some solution for this? If you have, it could be a game changer for me!

Nostalgic! Turbo C was my preferred IDE over many years in the late 80s to mid 90s. What an amazing tool! Those key bindings, used in so many other IDEs since, are burned into muscle memory. Even after decades of not using them, they bring a smile back. CodeWarrior, the debugger, helped me understand what happens when you run a program more than literally anything else I read or was taught.

We have a server which uses Lua based script plugins. They are usually a few hundred to a few thousand lines and get invoked via APIs. I was trying to figure out how Bolt will behave in such a context and whether we could replace the Lua based plugin engine with this.

This looks awesome. Would you have any data on the performance of large number of invocations of small scripts? I am wondering at startup overhead for every script run. which the 500kloc/s may not capture well.

You can absolutely do this in India. Every card based subscription requires an explicit authorization to set up. And every such authorized subscription can be seen in the bank app/site. You can choose to cancel those subscriptions at the bank end and the subscribed services will fail their next renewal. This is not just a service specific thing and is required by regulation for all recurring payments, incl utility bills, insurance premia, entertainment service, cloud services.

Anecdotal, I have been using 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500,... as the 'break points' where organizational structures need a rethink. So far, it has worked for me. These also match the lines on a log graph.

I used to think of building something related to let a mic pick up a single person to handle questions from the audience, during presentations. Will save the hassle of passing around mics.

This looks like it could do just that with the headphones feeding directly into the mixer and behaving like a focused mic.

Take a look at ONDC. They do exactly this in India. Early days, but seemingly successful with very low fees.

https://ondc.org/

It would be so much fun if it's revealed that chatgpt is just a front for mechanical turk

I use WP all the time for a variety of nearly static sites that I can let someone else non-technical continue to add content. It works great for this purpose. There is nothing close to WP for this purpose.

It does need careful curating of plugins that one uses, set up suitable cloudflare frontends and preventing users from doing something seemingly simple but dangerous.

I get the feeling that a good chunk of the hate comes from people who tried it many years ago; or had needs which don't get met by WP; or received it as a legacy.

Indeed.

There will be a significant drop in reported research spending. This will seem like China is doing more research than the US. There will be a hueb and cry. Congess will incentivise research spending. Back to where we were.

I have seen several situations where this would be desirable - notably bleeding startups with vc money. There is plenty of window dressing to capitalise expenses and show a better EBITDA.

What this will do is immediately reclassify large chunks of people out of "R&D" into operational resources. Just enough to balance between nice looking EBITDA and low real profit (= low tax)

I would argue that it really is the other way around - online is just offline with instant synchronisation

I keep thinking of this space but don't know where to start. Any pointers for good resources? - books that are accessible to software engineers with no background in genomics, open source projects which are widely used, etc.... in short a good place to start in exploratory/hobby/learning mode.

When the G20 looks like it will (in a decade?) have 15 countries who were not part of the original lot, naturally GDP as a metric will lose favor /s

Till I visited Dakar in Senegal, I did not realize that it lies further West than UK and Ireland. Wordle[0] has been a great game to set right some of these notions.

[0] https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

EVs = Tesla is probably the biggest misunderstanding many people have. EVs are about the energy source for propulsion and not about the smarts (real or claimed). A car with10 year old features powered by electricity is a perfectly usable vehicle without needing any of the glamorous things that tesla adds.

Been a while, but an example would be the ability to work with rawsockets. You can't use this in most higher-than-C languages as this was not, perhaps wisely, considered useful for most people and hence there is no mechanism provided.

An additional aspect of C that I really appreciate is that if something can be conceptually realized, it can be implemented in C. This is not the case with many other languages where you are often constrained by them - either accidentally or intentionally, for safety or other reasons. In most cases you will end up having to write a C shim to do the deed and make available libraries to the other language. C toys the rescue, again!

It's been decades since I heard of Harvard Graphics. Was part of my toolkit with WordStar, Lotus 123, FoxPro and NC. MS C6.0, MASM, CodeWarrior, an editor called Brief on the dev side. Good times.

I think you have are ahead of a lot of, possibly most, others who are similarly graduating in that you are aware of what your strengths are (or not). Learning or completing those gaps, whether real or perceived, is far easier than realizing that the gaps exist. Kudos for your awareness and willingness to put in effort to bridge them.

A colleague of mine had set up an audio alarm which would go off every time a build failed. It made everyone a lot more cautious when they checked in their code.

Mixing plastics with asphalt has been tried for roads in India for many years now. There is one stretch near where I live which was done 10+ years ago. There is an official policy on trying this, as a pilot, for any agency that wishes to use it. See: https://www.prakati.in/use-of-plastic-for-road-construction-...

The road which I use occasionally seems reasonably good as roads go. Unless you see the boards informing users about the mixing of plastic you wouldn't know.

Creative use of CSS, with some excellent story telling skills!

Looks very interesting. Any chance that it can be made to work with Remarkable?