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> Java simply feels good to write. A lot of this is due to the craftsmanship JetBrains puts into IntelliJ IDEA.

You can put it another way and say it doesn't feel good to write Java without JetBrains.

It really bothers me that I can't lock mic gain on macOS. You can adjust it, but then it will self adjust itself automatically. Somehow some background noises in my room trigger it to increase the mic sensitive to 100% after a few minutes. It's much worse with iPhone EarPods.

That's more about podcasting setup though. Conferencing setup is different because you also have to listen to others.

There are some medical and research use cases, but I have no idea if Iran is advance enough to need that.

> The only enemy Iran ever had in the ME was Iraq

That's false.

Iran was neutral on both WWI and WWII, and yet it was invaded multiple time because their natural resources were needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran

Both the US and the UK have manipulated power in Iran in the past multiple times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

Even the Ayatollahs themselves are in power now because we thought regime change is necessary in Iran, hence we did aid their revolution.

Saddam Hussein had direct support from the west for the Iraq invasion of Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War

And there are just so many other incidents in between that explains why their relationship with the west is so f...up and the most recent one is JCPOA and the killing of their general and scientists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Of course they will focus on their defense capabilities and military strength knowing that their entire history was manipulated by others. What gives them a reason to trust anyone now?

> You might be shocked at just how few Iranian citizens consider Israel to be an enemy.

Yes, I read they were ally until the revolution in Iran. I think Israel is the enemy Iran needs to increase their political influence in the region. The same way the Iran is the enemy that the US needs to sell arms in the Middle East. The rest is BS.

Iranians are living a misery between a regime that doesn't give them freedom, and sanctions that don't allow them to live. All because we have God knows how much arms sell in the Middle East, and we want to control oil. It's all sad.

Make sure agreements and cooperation with the west is successful and help the vast majority of the public in Iran realize that working with the west is in their interest. Over time it will help the left parties in Iran to gain more power and influence than the conservative and anti-west figures. Once you have the public support, slowly and surely push them to have peace with Israel. They used to be allies together. So it shouldn't be impossible.

But, we just did the opposite. The anti-west parties now have an easy story to tell: "We tried, they lied, we shouldn't work with them.". We added sanctions too. An economy under sanction runs by military and gives more power to the military, because only they have the tools to interact with the black market and bypass sanctions. Not the liberal, open-minded Businessman which is more likely to support more interactions with the world.

> Iran recently attacked an Israeli ship

I think you already tried to say it, but remember Iran attacked an Israeli ship after 12 attacks to Iranians ships in 2020 by Israel. And 4 other Iranian ships were attacked in 2021 which two of them happened after Iran tried to retaliate by attacking an Israeli ship.

Israel clearly believes that the best defense is a good offense, but that strategy makes it harder to have any dialogue or peace.

Monitoring some military sites wasn't part of it, unlike their nuclear facilities which were monitored 24/7 by IAEA. However, the IAEA inspectors could still request access to military locations. So it was kind of on-demand, but Iran had the right to refuse.

I'm not an expert, but most of the experts said it was the most comprehensive inspections regime on their supply chain, and any location in Iran except a few military sites which they could still request access.

The goal was to start cooperation and also the idea was to help an already weakened political party in Iran which is in favor of partnership with the west to gain more success, popularity, and public support, so over time the more conservative and anti-west parties and figures would lose their power and influence.

But we just gave their conservative parties the easiest propaganda excuse ("They don't honor their own agreement.").

Iran is actually quite reactive if you read their history. Iran is the devil we made, so everyone can make money out of it. Can you even count how much worth of arms sells are going to the Middle East every year? Not to mention oil market is on the table too. And those that are making big money will lobby everywhere to make sure that Iran remains "the threat". Peace with Iran isn't financially clever.

If you follow the cyberwarfare space, most of the powerful attacks are actually infowar, and social engineering, and human intelligence. It's not always as technical as Stuxnet (even Stuxnet wasn't possible without information operations and human intelligence). Intelligence Gathering and Cyber Intelligence are the most effective and powerful divisions.

Iran has been both victim and predator of several cyberwarfare operations. They clearly have the experience and they are spending a lot of resources for a long time.

A quick search about their operations:

- Shamoon malware was categorized as cyberwarfare and it was used against Saudi Aramco, allegedly by Iran.

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

- A blackout in Turkey was also linked to Iran

https://observer.com/2015/04/iran-flexes-its-power-by-transp...

- Iran is also (allegedly) active in Information Warfare, which is much more complicated than technical cyber attacks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/russia-and-iran-tried-to-int...

- Israel and Iran are actively attacking each others infrastructure for a while.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/05/israel-and-iran-just-sh...

- Operation Newscaster. Cyber espionage and social engineering targeted senior U.S. military and diplomatic personnel, congresspeople, journalists, lobbyists, think tankers and defense contractors.

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

- Operation Cleaver. targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries organizations worldwide.

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

"Israeli media have suggested that the malfunction was a result of an Israeli cyber attack."

"Last July, sabotage was blamed for a fire at the Natanz site which hit a central centrifuge assembly workshop."

The same facility was targeted by Stuxnet in 2010.

"Israeli media have suggested that the malfunction was a result of an Israeli cyber attack."

"Last July, sabotage was blamed for a fire at the Natanz site which hit a central centrifuge assembly workshop."

The same facility was targeted by Stuxnet in 2010.

Use a time-sheet to record your activities for the next two weeks. It will help you to find the space you need to read regularly.

I drink moderately and I think it's a personal choice. I also think alcoholism is completely different subject.

What I don't like however is all the smart product placements that push people that don't otherwise enjoy drinking into it.

The difficult thing about talking about project management is that it is so inconsistent at different organizations that makes it impossible to talk about it without having a lot of context.

I worked at companies where project managers had very strong technical background and experience, but I also worked at a company where project managers were only a little technical, but had very strong project management skills. Then there is the other end of the spectrum, where project managers are simply incompetence. They got promoted to become a project manager with almost no knowledge about it and also no willingness to learn it properly and become good at it.

The latter (incompetence PM) is awful for any type of engineering work. And some companies make it even worse by making engineers report directly to those project managers.

The first type (technical project manager) is obviously harder to build, because not many engineers want to become project managers, and not many engineering teams are able to navigate without a good product team in organizations that don't have a solid engineering culture (e.g. traditional companies). So you often find companies with the second type. And even then I think it’s best if there is a clear separation of concerns between product and development teams. A product manager/team that takes care of product concerns but not engineers themselves. While they work with each other, engineers should report directly to a technical lead that understands their efforts and needs.

Interview with some real users. Ask them to open the product and tell you everything about how they feel and what they miss and what they think and what they want. You mentioned that you already knew HN users aren't the audience. But, do you know where you can find at least 5 of them to do usability testing?

China's population is well over 1.4 billion. They need to create new jobs every year with the same rate that some countries do in a decade. I think it's pretty significant that they are able to run a country with that demographics most of whom were not even educated.

China still benefits from its US relationship overall. The US does benefit too, but the US also wants to slow down their growth because it's a big threat to its power. I think everything else like human rights issues are just BS. We're partner with most of Arabian countries in the Middle East and we have active arms sell to them including Saudis which are far worst than China in terms of democracy and human rights.

Not even criticism. Just a list of his promises without any interpretations.

It's hard if not impossible to name a resourceful tech giant with best paid non-volunteer talents that was never breached or hacked. With and without extremely modern tech stacks.

Totally not insane if you ask me. Security incidents can happen to anyone. The incident response matters and I think in this case those unpaid volunteers did an excellent job.

Saving commute time is the only reason I don't want to go back to an office unless it's less than 20mins away from my home.

There were at least 3 attacks to Iranians ships in March before that mine explosion. So 5 known attacks in total in 2021, and at least a dozen in 2020.

I don't think this was a response to that mine explosion, but rather just a new event in a series of on going attacks to Iranian ships. That mine explosion however was likely a response from Iran.

"A third maritime security source told Reuters that three other Iranian ships had been damaged in recent weeks by unknown causes when sailing through the Red Sea."

"Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal reported that Israel has targeted at least a dozen vessels bound for Syria and mostly carrying Iranian oil"

https://www.reuters.com/article/iran-ship-int-idUSKBN2B41SC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/israel-bombed-...

> Now I'm curious what a good website for vaccine news is ...

Health science journals or communities perhaps.

I was triggered by seeing multiple posts about AstraZeneca blood clot all from major news websites. But somehow I ended up leaving comment on this post unintentionally.

For that (COVID-19 vaccine updates) I like NYT vaccine tracker[1] and Our World in Data[2] but I don't really check them regularly since it's impossible to miss any COVID-19 related update these days anyway.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Don't believe everything you read on the news.

Occurrence of war based on fake allegations isn't rare in our history. We now have enough motivation to have a war against China and human rights isn't one of them. It's all about power and that's why there is so much focus on media about it.

Why nobody talks about KSA/Saudis? We have strong proof for all the terrible things they have done and they are still our dear partner. It's all BS if you ask me. Everything is about power and interest.

Travel to China and see what they are doing. China isn't an utopia, but most of the Chinese are happy about their progress. They complain about lack of freedom of speech but they also celebrate their victory in ending extreme poverty. They also have a lot of respect for western values unlike what politicians are trying to make you believe. It's pretty significant that they have order with a population of over 1.4 billion, most of whom were not educated.

I think companies should let employees to choose. People should work where they feel more productive. For some people it's in the office, and others is home.

The big exec that was behind building office space needs to show how successful their initiatives are. And they have enough leverage and influence to move you back on site.

But who said the only way to improve productivity is asking people to go back to the office? Maybe they're dumb if they can't find a different solution.

Some info from the PHP core team https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838

"We don't yet know how exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the git.php.net server (rather than a compromise of an individual git account)."

"While investigation is still underway, we have decided that maintaining our own git infrastructure is an unnecessary security risk, and that we will discontinue the git.php.net server. Instead, the repositories on GitHub, which were previously only mirrors, will become canonical."

I would say look at low code and no code solutions first. And if they don't suit your needs, then first check your team's skills set.

I actually had a little investigation within a team to choose a web stack for a similar situation recently. The team's skills set included Java, Golang, PHP, NodeJS, and TypeScript. And we were convinced that the quickest and cheapest would be building on top of Laravel framework with a few packages (Nova: Admin panels, Spark: SaaS app scaffolding, Jetstream: Auth scaffolding with 2FA and OAuth, Horizon: Queue monitoring, Forge & Envoyer: Server Management and Deployment). Building on Laravel is easy alone but for us the main reason to choose that stack was really those packages. They will save you lots of development time at almost no cost.

Virus coming from a lab is just an effort to not invest against the next pandemic. This wasn't the first pandemic, and it isn't going to be the last one.

This isn't the first time, right? Last one was a stopped truck somewhere in Europe.

We built a fancy computer vision model to detect and track football and it turns out a bald referee in a sunny weather can trick our model to think his head is the ball. So I wouldn't be surprised to know there are some flaws in their models too.

It's way safer to have other sensors and don't rely only on cameras if the purpose is engaged autopilot that takes control from the driver away.