Actively reducing the population of the planet is tricky, if you don't want to wait for it to flatten / fall off naturally.

And stuff like Chinas one child policy is both hard to enforce and takes time to take effect. So you might still peak over your target population.

It's also questionable if such a policy is moral in itself.

I've written some (bad) poems and asked people to tell me what it means for them and got some answers that are wildly different from my own. For example: I once described the sunrise as a "bleeding ceiling of the world", mainly because I needed a dramatic phrasing. But many people I asked thought it was about suicidial thoughts or death. Rather, I just wanted to emphasize the importance of (reaching) the sunrise while keeping the overall somber / grim tone I established in the first and second verse.

Which leads me to 'death of the author' vs. 'authorial intent'. What is the objective meaning of my metaphor? The readers or mine? And is my psychologists guess more valuable than that of a childhood friend of mine?

> Dissecting meaning like this is also where you get into the whole death of the author vs. authorial intent rabbit hole. And you can write whole books about that topic and which is also a quite subjective topic (I'm leaning more towards death of the author, as you might guess).

That is also just another interpretation of the metaphor. A kid on a small island country might not associate trains with a fixed daily schedule at all, because they only know about trains from other media. Your answer only is "objective" within cultures that can make that association between trains and schedules. In duringearly industrialization, the SAT answer might be that the train stands for the unrelenting progress of technology and how it sucks all live out of factory workers (see charlie chaplins 'modern times').

We ask them about their experience with the tech we use / plan to use and test what they tell us with specific questions. If you tell us you know ASP.NET, I might ask you to describe the default routing or some specifics about razor views. If you tell me you are a git expert, I might ask you about interactive rebases and cherry-picking to find out when and how you'd use them.

General know-how is usually more viable than the ability to write working code in a pinch. The closest thing to a whiteboard test we have is giving you a page of code to ask you what's wrong with it (although, we don't do that often).

I think the aldi nearest to my home does not even sell pre-processed meals outside of frozen stuff (like Pizza) and canned soups.

In germany, they also have a rotating selection of cheap random stuff, ranging from laptops over garden chairs and tools to rugs and sheets. It's usually a very limited supply and most of the time not that bad for the pricetag (even the laptops).

That said, I prefer the competitor "Penny", because I know the layout better and they are a bit nicer, at least in my town.

If I want to use äöüßÄÖÜẞ because I'm confident that I can properly type them on all devices I'll need to type then, then let me. It's not your concern what method of input I'm using.

And maybe, just maybe, using latin characters is actually more of a hassle for a user anyway. (I think the risk of that occoring is low, but still. At the moment, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that all users have proper method to input atin script available. We simply force them to have one.)

Edit: And the confusion is also possible with just latin characters. U+0430 looks exactly like "a", but has a different code point and thus ruins the hash.

Aside from that: Does serverless support proper staging, documentation of all deployments, role management (who is allowed to deploy to what stage)?

Because that would be actually useful for us.

Here's the german conjugation of "mailen" (writing an e-mail), borrowed from "to mail":

Ich maile, du mailst, er/sie/es mailt, wir mailen, sie mailen.

I don't know any loanwords that break english pluralization rules in german, but for the reverse: The correct plural for "Kindergarten" would be "Kindergärten" (not "kindergartens"), which I imagine some english speakers would have problems with. And "Autobahnen" is rather unintuitive compared to "autobahns".

Arch isn't really meant to be that one distro you can stick on a PC from the early nineties anyway. There are much more suitable distros for legacy hardware.

And about the downsides of 64bit: I think the vastly improved address space offsets the improved memory use by orders of magnitues. My Desktop has 8 times as much useable RAM as it could have with 32bit - but 32bit datatypes are only double in size.

> Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around the clock, because the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone. Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There's a team at a Google office that hasn't slept in three days. Somewhere there's a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she's dead. And if these people stop, the world burns.

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

And if you think that paragraphs does not apply to your applications / company, ask yourself if that's really true. My company sends around incident statistics and there's always some shit that broke. Always.

But, an artificial intelligence probably has different black swans than humans, as their perception is inherently different. A tweet from Trump might not surprise us (anymore) but to an AI player, it might not be evident that a small amount of text from one Human can cause an uproar on the market. And it might not even have access to the relevant data (Twitter) at all.