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> Simply, if you are seeking to optimize an entire organization for the best possible results in working towards your objectives, culture fit is relevant.

My opinion, hinted at in another post in this discussion, is that this optimization is a fool's errand, particularly for a larger team. If the decision is between a New York startup hiring a technically-competent Midwesterner or waiting six months to find that optimal East Coast fit, it makes no sense to choose the latter.
Sounds like it might work for 433Mhz transceivers as well.
Lithium iron phosphate already costs less than lithium-ion and has 3x real-life cycle life than claimed theoretical for this battery. (LiFePO4 typically has 3000 cycles to 80%)
When the tracked vehicles get old, will they be selling them at the city auction?

I'm looking for a daily driver for Midwest winters.
Your last paragraph is spot on. Community Colleges (supported by MOOCs) and apprenticeship and trade school programs are the way to go.

3rd tier colleges with Ivy League prices aren't, and are only done based on misleading financial aid. I've seen a lot of resumes of people from for-profit schools. The graduates fall in 2 camps: Those who regret the decision, and those who don't realize how badly they were scammed.

90% of the time I see a title attached to someone's name ("Jane Smith, Phd" or "John Doe, MBA") it's from one of these overpriced degree factories, and it's a terribly negative signal.
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As with most native A/B tests, the binary probably ships with code for both functionalities. When the browser launches for the first time they generate a random number, and if it's below a certain threshold you get variant A, above you get variant B. The information gets persisted on disk so it remains unchanged across sessions.
Why? Except because of memory allocation serialization impact, there is no reason for a multithreaded process being slower than multiprocess. And if that's the cause, it could be solved using multiple heaps.
Columbus's success wasn't based on any of his own maps or projections, he basically stumbled upon success out of sheer luck.

This is like winning the lottery and thinking you're a visionary businessman.
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In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation there is:

"Santos-Dumont later added ailerons, between the wings in an effort to gain more lateral stability. His final design, first flown in 1907, was the series of Demoiselle monoplanes (Nos. 19 to 22). The Demoiselle No 19 could be constructed in only 15 days and became the world's first series production aircraft."

So it looks like the Wright Model A was not the first production aircraft.
This should come as no surprise. It has always been an epic architectural mistake to use the same single non-reentrant Javascript engine to both render the UI and run JS for webpages in Firefox. This change will finally undo that huge mistake made so very long ago.
>Nearly three-quarters of patients who were treated for depression were treated exclusively by general medical professionals, and those patients were less likely than patients treated by psychiatrists or other mental health professionals to have screened positive for depression or serious psychological distress.

I tend to see this kind of anecdote (data inference?) as a strong rebuttal to those who claim "Oh in the US it's not just like here, have a pill and you'll feel better!" when the people handing out the pills aren't specialists in the field where they're dealing out psychoactive substances. Would clamping down on the ability for 'general practitioners' to write scripts for stuff like this maybe help move the needle back into more rigorous treatment plans? Would it just cut off access to the drugs that otherwise help? Lots of implications to untangle, and I'm sure the pill industry wouldn't be really game to start making things more difficult...
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What was the eggplant issue...?
I don't have a good answer for you, because what you said sounds rational, but their tactics were slimy and their immediate shuttering signals, in my opinion, that they had no legitimate shot without a seat in the government trough.
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I had high cholesterol (250 or something). With low HDL (the "good" cholesterol) and very high LDL. My doctor prescribed a statin, appropriate, and encouraged me to exercise and eat better.

I took the drugs, but didn't (for a couple years) do much about the exercise, and continued to overeat (to my credit, I ate healthy things, just too much of them). My cholesterol dropped, but I had to stay on the meds. Eventually I started exercising, cut my calorie intake, and lost 40 pounds. My doctor took me off the meds, cholesterol stayed low.

The point is this exchange with him: He was impressed that I'd lost the weight. Happy that I could go off the meds. But said, he prescribes the meds because almost none of his patients will bother to take his advice on diet and exercise. He has to help them somehow, but he's stuck in a situation where what they need is beyond his control to actually prescribe, but most of them will at least take a pill a day.

Depression (and anxiety and other conditions) are all, for the majority of sufferers, treatable with lifestyle changes. Buying a dayplanner and scheduling your work instead of running from fire to fire. Going out with people and having real, physical social interactions. Possibly moving to a healthier climate or changing jobs.

But most people won't do those things, so doctors are stuck prescribing a drug that will help their patients, but won't solve their problems.
Several years ago De Anza College in Cupertino had an excellent array of in person classes (by CC standards). Too bad they are making a lot of those online, from what I remember seeing a few years ago (that also has issues with Gi Bill requirements that classes be in person).
This is the difficult thing about clinical depression, how do you know if it's truly a chemical imbalance or just the normal reaction to your situation? Sure, there are these screenings, but in my non-professional opinion they are pretty bad. Maybe it's an epidemic of false positives on depression screenings.
Unfortunately, ITT is just the visible tip of the iceberg. There are MANY more for-profit schools of the same ilk as ITT that will fleece the same archetype of education-seeker. This isn't over by a long-shot. These schools are everywhere and they are probably chomping-at-the-bit to get their mits on displaced ITT students and all others that are susceptible to the type of manipulative and deceptive marketing practices that ITT, and many other for-profit schools, use.
>> Secondly, the GameCube only has 24MB (and some specialized areas) of RAM across a 4GB address space, meaning most memory addresses have no RAM backing them!

Is this common with consoles or anywhere else? I knew that there's very little RAM on consoles, but is there a reason for having the large address space available? (possibly convenience?)
How are students able to determine if the education they are paying for is valid or not? How are students that are in at-risk populations able to differentiate between valid accredited solutions and predatory schemes?

It's very easy to take advantage of certain people. I'm glad the government is doing its job protecting people from unfair practices.

If information asymmetry wasn't so exceedingly common maybe we wouldn't have to deal with consumers making poor mistakes because they "should have known better."
But that's what companies do already. They hire women and men in different roles.
I agree that currently it may not be the same as brute forcing something like an AES-GCM, but that isn't my point.

My point is just that, if you have a blockchain with sufficiently high (and distributed) hash power (relative to the amount of computing power any individual actor/group can obtain), then in theory, you start being able to make strong guarantees about consensus.
I'd guess that it wasn't the effect of switching from threads to processes that made the difference. It might come from code clean up and fixing some of the IPC that was going on. This would have probably seen many eyes in the firefox dev community so they might have made some efforts to clean up the code under the hood before closing the lid on it.

But I might be wrong as I have no ties to the development process of this.
I've found Firefox performance to be absolutely awful at work on OS X. I have no issues at all with it at home on Linux, and didn't have any issues in my previous job on OS X either. I'm not sure if it's OS X specific, a change in recent versions, this laptop being underpowered, or the nature of the work I do (a lot of video stuff), but anything JS heavy severely slows down or locks up the browser. And if anything, it's gotten worse over the last few months.

I have to use Chrome for anything video related or JS heavy (monitoring/graphing stuff for the most part), but I'd hate to switch to it for everything. There are too many addons that I rely on in Firefox, on top of my general dislike for Chrome's minimalist UI and standard Google privacy concerns.

I've tried turning on the config option for electrolysis, but it breaks some addons, so that's still a no go for me for now.
Because income is still over 60% of GDP, GDP growing while income falls would mean a really dramatic growth of all other components. I can't see how it may be true.
One of the few perks of not finishing your degree until much later is the fact that you can put that date on your resume and people assume you're younger. It's expensive, though, considering how much and how fast college tuition has been shooting up in price the past 15 years.
> CAA (that little-known standard for enforcing which CAs can issue certs for your domain)

I'm sure the CA's absolutely LOVE this - customers are signaling that they will stay with CA 'X'.

Given 'vendor lockin' or 'guaranteed recurring revenue', cert prices would drop thru the floor for 1st year only for renewals to increase.
I've been working remote for a number of years (both as an engineer and a manager) and it can be a challenge for everyone involved because the lack of norms around remote work.

We are taught early in our careers to show up early, leave late and look as if you are working hard. However, when it comes to remote work the look of working hard cannot be achieved so easily -- so instead of appearances you must focus on results above all else.

This mental shift takes time to achieve and is more easily said than done.
Very similar issue! My gf walked into it recently on ArchLinux, she had the same problem, for her e10 was enabled by default. When she visisted pons.com the whole browser was frozen for at least 10seconds, and if it didn't unfreeze itself after that time, it was just consuming memory and freezing whole OS until Linux killed Firefox process. My issue was solved by disabling e10s, for her it didn't help so she switched to Opera already.
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> "Well, ITT technically hasn't done anything illegal. [...]"

The DOE action is based on a risk of business failure produced by fraud lawsuits by the SEC (for securities fraud) and CFPB (for consumer fraud) against ITT, both directly and because the costs and potential fundamental issues with ITTs then-existing business model revealed by those lawsuits also led to the risk of losing the accreditation from its accreditor.

(Incidentally, that's an accreditor whose notorious laxness in enforcing standards on private universities has led to the recommendation that it be no longer accepted as an accreditor by the Department of Education, a recommendation which may result in action this month removing it as an accreditor.)
I can't speak for them, but I've worked with exit survey data that has either confirmed what we knew about some market segments we weren't going after, or highlighted some unforeseen pain points in the product that we later scheduled to fix.

And you're right - the longer the customer survey, the less genuine the company is in actually hearing what you have to say.
Firebug is quite often the culprit in these kinds of things in my experience. I can't live without it so I put up with it; if you're switching from Chrome however, it seems that you'd be better off just using the built-in inspection.
Compare the failure rate of SpaceX, or indeed the launch industry in general, to the failure rate of large IT projects. Any large IT organization should be jealous of SpaceX's incredible reliability!
I hear this is also true between Seattle <-> Portland.
It's also noteworthy that "sounding similar to a cult" and "sounding similar to a tech startup" can both be applied...
“We can learn from the competition,” said Dotzler. “The way they implemented multi-process is RAM-intensive, it can get out of hand. We are learning from them and building an architecture that doesn’t eat all your RAM.”

That's the money quote here. I've been waiting for this for a long time actually. Every browser I've tried except Firefox just basically eats all my RAM and other app performance (e.g. compiling stuff) goes down the toilet.

Then on the other hand FF has not been so snappy and responsive traditionally. So responsive + soft on RAM is the combination I've really been waiting for. Let's hope they can deliver.
That's something really interesting, and it comes handy for a side project I have, but I don't think it fixes the problem with people hijacking the docker repo - they will just change the Dockerfile itself, right?
In Poland, it's free (i.e. covered by your taxes) as long as you have a taxable income. If you don't pay any taxes, you can opt-in for around $90 a month.
Judging by history, this would be seen as a license to artificially inflate costs, such that the university system would become a machine for extracting money from the public treasury and placing it into private hands.

You must have some feedback control, wherein the amount of public funding is dependent upon some objective criterion that measures the extent to which the public college provides a useful service to the public.

For instance, give the college a percentage (that decays exponentially) of the income taxes collected from their alumni. Schools that focus on teaching the knowledge and skills that actually make students employable would then be able to more freely provide tuition discounts to students, expecting that the recurring revenue stream after graduation would make up for the lesser amount collected up front.

They all hound their alumni for money all the time, anyway.
You're right, which is why I named "immutable" in parens, to go along with "mathematical" for functions. Values are just values, but because they are uncommon in mainstream languages, except for primitives and strings maybe, I personally feel the need to mention immutability in order to be precise and not have people confuse them with objects that have identity.
There's not much credential setting. I was getting proposals for reviewing papers shortly after my first one published, and honestly, it wasn't an incredibly nice one that could make me a name.

Publishers just coast on their current name, and are in a winner takes all market where the best authors will try to publish at the most famous journals. They are purely rent seekers, and won't go out without some external intervention.
Totally agree. I literally just spent 9 months getting this integrated at work - now everyone sees it as magic. For people with tech and marketing in their arsenal it should be one of the first steps if you're working with standard tracking link variables. Obviously (with our set up) we're dealing with last touch attribution, but it's still infinitely more worthwhile than not having it.
Do either you @doozy know of a shared/multiparty merge tool? One thing I like to do is merge into a new clean branch rather than rebase, then merge that into trunk with zero changes.
Pittsburgh 2006 and I had about 40k in loans. Paid off my loans and have about 20k left to pay on my moms parent plus loan.

As for the employment situation. I think I might get filtered out simply for not having a BS sometimes. Sometimes I leave education off my resume and then I can discuss it when the recruiter calls and explain WHY I went there.

Other than that I just climbed the industry ladder over the last 10 years to put me into a decent position (six figures). At this point I do think the experience is way more valuable than the degree but I do lack some basic CompSci knowledge. I can't justify going back to school since the credits don't transfer and I make too much to justify additional debt. The ROI just isn't there.

The classes at ITT Greentree were laughable. I learned more just tinkering on my own. They were so easy to pass and you could tell the instructors were used to underachievers. I don't think they were allowed to fail anyone, even for lack of attendance. There seemed to be a large presence of ex-military spending their grants on the school too.

I had 1 instructor that was really good but all the students hated him. Another was fired for doing lines in the bathroom after I graduated. He would always stop class and send people to get little ceasar's cheesy bread. I knew he was on something. One day he went into a rant about how beautiful our hardback RDBMS book was. He never had us actually open the books but told us how gorgeous they were. That guy was so high.

I'm highly interested in seeing if there will be any forgiveness of debt for fraudulent practices.
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I find it very ironic that a company in NYC full of 20-something (who probably identify strongly with diversity and Dems rather than GOP) insist on hiring people like themselves...
"The point remains that an attacker can win by spending only slightly more money than the defender."

It's actually only slightly more than the sum of the defenders (assuming as we are for the sake of argument that everyone is buying efficiently). If what you said was true BitCoin wouldn't even have gotten to where it is now.
This seems atypical. Given that you don't use any add-ons, consider resetting your profile. Alternatively, you may wish to disable multi-process for the time being if it's enabled for you (I'm sure there's a flag you can set for that if you Google for it), or upgrade to the beta or alpha builds. In my experience, the beta/alpha builds are usually plenty stable to be a daily driver.
Community colleges have an inverse relationship with the economy - when the economy is in a slump they do well, when the economy is on the rebound their admissions go down. There's a bunch of reasons for this - people go to school when they're out of work, people who are going to school anyway may not think they can afford a "real" university when the economy looks ill.

Once the economy picks up people have jobs so they stop going, those who want to go to school feel good about their odds of taking on a ton of debt and go to a larger school.

(source: father was a professor at a vey large community college for ~40 years, mother is a prof at a university)
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http://arewee10syet.com/ has a list of addons and their compatibility.

I tried turning on the about:config option and the URL bar broke, so obviously something I have is incompatible - I suspect it's Classic Theme Restorer, although that site does list it as compatible.
8.8% fewer clicks in GA than what you paid on FB isn't bad, IME.

I'm running a campaign where FB charged me for > 800 clicks. My GA system recorded about 300 clicks.

Slightly under half is about expected whenever i look at numbers. I'm doing remarketing to people who visited my site in the past 7 days, so I'm not sure if that has something to do with it.
|| I'm also a little surprised there hasn't been an attempt to launch a completely new Firefox from the ground up.

I (hopefully) think this is what Servo is and will end up being.
Has no legacy code, and is tiny in comparison to Gecko. It's OS support is fairly modern, and has no interest in supporting Windows XP.
It's also written in such a way that allows them to be more multi-threaded and more concurrent than traditional rendering engines.

At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and start again, and I hope Servo is that.

You can check out https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml which is servo running standalone
A few years ago if you'd told me FF would be the RAM-sensitive browser, I'd have laughed you off the internet.
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I think their point still stands - sure there's regulations, but that's just added bureaucracy and history on top of an arbitrary system. I won't pretend like it doesn't work - clearly it does - but something like the USD is extremely vulnerable as well if "the system" goes down - hyper inflation, hyper deflation, currency rejection (people want chickens not dollars), etc.
The classical comparison that comes to mind is this:

LSD is like walking through the doors of perception.

DMT (as in ayahuasca) is like being shot out of a cannon.

I wonder if it has dawned on any of these "shamans" that a fistful of risperidone might be useful for the freakouts? Antipsychotics exist for a reason. Also, anyone on MAOIs is likely to have a very bad time, and people on SSRIs may not notice a thing (other than barfing).

The whole enterprise seems very poorly thought out.
> I'm also a little surprised there hasn't been an attempt to launch a completely new Firefox from the ground up.

Check out Servo: https://servo.org/
I'm surprised by the responsiveness claims because my ancient Windows PC runs FF superbly. I think Win10+FF is already more responsive now than it has ever been.

I am also using Ghostery, however, with virtually everything blocked. It wasn't my intent to block ads, but that's mostly how it works out.
Still unclear to me why some of these smaller coins exist, except perhaps for rampant speculation.

I don't play in this space, but I bet it is because some traders have methods of using differential exchange rates between exchanges to make money. The values may be large(ish), but they are probably hedged by bets the other way on other alt-coins.

There is a strategy in betting called Dutching[1], and I suspect that people are doing similar things trading between alt-coins.

Of course, there are also fools who put their life savings into some random coin. Good luck to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutching
Sure, but why would one remember that if they could just do :q! regardless if there's new unsaved content or not.

Relatedly, why would one remember to do :q! or :cq depending on if there's pre-existing content if they can just cancel in Komet and have it do the right thing ;)
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For me, disabling JS by default was the culprit. I only turn it on for sites that actually need it, and it seems to work much better. YMMV of course
This is why I don't implement crypto myself.
> Verifying checkmate is essentially doing a 2-ply search: for all moves i can make, the opponent has a reply that captures my king. This is more work than verifying normal moves, where a 1-ply search suffices to check that kings are not left in check.

I was going to make a counter-argument but then I realized that this system doesn't normally enumerate legal moves, simply verify legality of moves that are actually played, which is a crucial distinction here.

Thanks for making this observation; I found it a pretty subtle point!
> but it seems most cases aren't that

I like to think this also, but is it actually true? Has anyone done that survey?