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Do you know that they don't use something graphical? Like GitHub or sepmthing similar for code reviews?

I know of very few organizations that only rely on CLI for reviews.
These complaints against economics are getting ridiculous. It's the same BS that's getting levied against climate science, coming from a place of ignorance. Science is hard.

It feels like, "Physics can't unify QM and gravity, it must be wrong!" Well yeah, there might be parts that will be discovered to be broken, and it can't describe everything yet, but there are parts that are totally valid and incredibly important. Econ is like that, just younger and less mature. Not having all the answers doesn't make it astrology.

Imagine that some poorly understood aspect of physics was incredibly important. Maybe we get devastating earthquakes across the country every 6 years. Physicists can't predict these very well, so physics is astrology? Even without perfect understanding, the government has to make decisions about earthquake relief and planning. I would hope they turn to the scientists to see which areas have the highest risk, even though the predictions will likely still be way off. Earthquake-ology is young and hard, but it's better than letting actualy astrologers drive.

More surprising than anything in this article is the suggestion that the math and stats are a bad influence. I flip a coin, telling you it has a 60% chance of coming up heads. It comes up tails, 'proving me wrong.' Are you going to accuse me of peddling pseudoscience?
> 2) people who are bad at negotiating get unfairly screwed.

I am bad at negotiating, but I always felt like this is a skill like any other.

I feel that saying people who are bad at negotiating get paid less it is like saying people who are not as good at their job get paid less. Well, yes...

Why would it be wrong if you are good negotiator and good worker to be paid more then if you are bad negotiator and good worker, or good negotiator and bad worker, or bad negotiator and bad worker... To me this seems perfectly fair.

I don't go asking for raises as my negotiation skills are awful, I get them offered to me cos I work as much as I can with highest quality I can attain.

Otherwise I totally agree with your comment.
Redefine statistical significance
Agreed. I didn't have a tv in the UK for years and I registered as such. I never had a single letter or knock on my door. I wasn't avoiding the license, I really did not have a TV. It worked.
I'm a female electronics hobbyist. Definitely sarcasm. :)
> Similarly, while on the one hand PC OEMs are concerned about the user experience if a laptop is accidentally charged from a smartphone charger—something made possible by USB Type-C—I feel this concern is misplaced. It's true that the laptop will charge much more slowly from a 5W smartphone charger than a 35 or 60W laptop charger. It may not even be able to charge at all unless sleeping, merely treading water draining its battery as fast as it charges while turned on. But you know what? It'll still charge faster from a 5W smartphone charger than it will from no charger at all because you've left it on your desk at work. A world in which every laptop's charger is compatible, and where you can use a phone charger at a pinch, is a world I want to live in.

It seems to me the greater concern is dimbulbs plugging their phone into their laptop charger.
It was very misleading. I eagerly clicked on the article expecting genetic research... cloning a dinosaur using a common ancestor or something.
I have a Dell XPS 15 (the previous gen, with rounded corners) with a 4K touchscreen. Ignoring the fact that 4K is useless on a Windows machine that's mostly used with external normal-DPI monitors (I mostly run it at 1080p resolution with all DPI scaling stuff turned hard off, imho it's the only way to get Windows to behave), the touchscreen is a gimmick at best - I tried using it productively, but even the rather shitty touchpad is better to use.
Blair made it about ratings precisely to make the BBC an empty shell.

You should not have to compete for viewers. I agree with the other poster - the point is to have a guaranteed revenue stream so you can, frankly, make unpopular content. By definition if it is popular the private sector can fund this via advertising.

The charter is there to neuter the BBC. It has worked.
It's true, although it's still useful in many instances if we take a more general approach. So, let's say that instead of focusing on the effects of discovering oil on the national budget, we could focus on studying the economics of natural resources in a more general sense. Here historical evidence could be perfectly useful.
> Ultimately all life on Earth will die when the sun burns out or otherwise significantly changes its output. The only hope humanity has to outlive this is taking to the stars, and that won't happen without consuming a lot of resources.

There's 500M to 1 billion years left for complex multi-cellular life on earth, due to increased solar output. That's around 100000x to 200000x longer than human recorded history. So clearly, not an imminent problem any rational human needs to worry about.

Trashing the planet in a few decades for such a far away "problem" is absurd. All it does is significantly shorten the time we have here. We could decide that 500M to 1B years is enough, stay here and enjoy all the time left.

If we really want to escape our fate on earth, well we could simply take our time to slowly develop ways go to space. Assuming that it is possible for humans to reach anything beyond the solar system, which may not be the case. There are practical physical and thermodynamic considerations that may prevent us from ever colonizing much in space, even if we were to try hard. In which case, preserving earth would not just be the best thing to do, it would be the only thing we can do.

> If you want to look at it in terms of natural resources, personally I think irrational fear of nuclear power is the biggest problem facing the world. Modern reactors pose almost no risk to the biosphere compared to coal, oil and the like, nor do they contribute to global warming. More people die every year from coal-burning related illness than have ever been killed by nuclear power accidents.

No disagreement here. Though it only addresses some of the issues we face, nuclear fission is probably the only semi-viable alternative to fossil fuels.
German car giants formed cartel to secretly collude on diesel emissions
Donald Trump and the Coming Fall of American Empire
It's very unclear what the way forward is, and that is the problem.
What? Not being in "control" is very different from not existing.
Wanted: Male teachers in U.S. schools
It's not a knee jerk reaction. You have limited view of the problem. I've lived next to a three building being constructed as a kid. The amount of stuff flying is unreal. You aren't accounting for cats, earthquakes, determined birds, malicious intent, gravel under the panel+wind, strong rain that may move the board and angle it.

Your sole argument is, historical wind speeds won't lift it. That is not realistic, naive and outright dangerous thing for which people actually get badly hurt or die.

But, I don't see you slowing down in this thread, so I doubt safety concerns will reach you.
European-style authoritarianism seems extremely popular for some reason.
>> Once we have this content in place, we create targeted advertising campaigns that serve this content directly to people who are searching for information about ISIS and the caliphate, as well as people who are trying to view extremist content online. We serve these ads the same way that businesses have been doing for years—we serve advertising against certain keywords that people tend to use when they’re looking for jihadist content online <<
https://redirectmethod.org/qa/
RAM is like what, $10 per GB? I'm assuming they use the exact same motherboard across all models. This is never about the end user price, just profits.

I really wonder how many low end models some companies actually produce - I've always been sure they're just using them to push people to buy the mid-range one.
That's no concern. I charge my Nexus 6p regularly with the MacBook Pro 2016 Chargers of my colleagues. The Power Delivery Standard is able to downshift.
> The drum stored 288MB.

Where did you get that number? It seems awfully high for 1957.
USB Power Delivery is a negotiating protocol, so plugging a phone to a laptop charger should work just fine.
That is if it is the pixels per unit that lead to cost, vs the size of the display itself.

Obviously it is harder to make a 1 inch x 1 inch display with 1 million pixels vs 1000. But maybe the difference from 600ppi to 200ppi is not enough to matter...
No idea, I just went to visit. I would way rather live in Chicago if I wanted a midwest city with bad weather.

I am just saying that it isn't ALL a barren wasteland. You can live in the Detroit metro area and have an OKish life.
It should be noted that this not an actual redirect. As I understand it, no content is hidden. The "redirect" name is terribly chosen.

All they do is add ads for other videos

From the FAQ
>> Once we have this content in place, we create targeted advertising campaigns that serve this content directly to people who are searching for information about ISIS and the caliphate, as well as people who are trying to view extremist content online. We serve these ads the same way that businesses have been doing for years—we serve advertising against certain keywords that people tend to use when they’re looking for jihadist content online <<
https://redirectmethod.org/qa/
Self driving car technology: How to deal with harsh weather and emergencies
> the male bathroom was constantly occupied

I'm always surprised by this. Why not have unisex bathrooms? In most companies, I have worked the bathrooms are just one toilet and sink. That way anyone can use it.

> What would have really helped was if staff weren't selfishly spending 5-10 minutes sitting on the toilet browsing the internet or playing games on their phones.

I can't agree with that. Without actually knowing for sure (I will guess that you weren't looking at other people while they poo), you are blaming employees for the lack of toilets. But in the rest of your description, it looks like it's clearly the company that failed to offer the most basic needs. Timing your team workers bathroom times doesn't look like a good approach to solve the problem.
A couple things. First, it's best to avoid using `killall`. On Linux it searches the process list, but on Solaris and possibly other nixes, it kills all processes system-wide. Using `pkill` is a better habit, but read the manpage first because it matches a little differently.

Secondly, check out this extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... . It auto-suspends tabs that haven't been opened for a given time period (I think the default is 60 minutes). Can also whitelist domains, etc. I've been using it with great success for a long time now.
Can we get to 350 ppm? Yes we can
> This make negotiation impossible. We rely on vendors like Overdrive, Baker and Taylor, Midwest Tape, Recorded Books, etc, to provide access to digital materials.

But how is that different than your previous interactions with the wholesale/jobber market? You relied on them for rebinding, catalog record import, fulfillment, etc. The only difference I can see is that its harder to become competent in the delivery of e-books than it is in the delivery of physical books because its more new.

> and hold lists can run into the 100s for a popular title

How much of that is just that demand is easier to generate with digital books. I don't need to go to the library to get the book, there is no cost to be on a hold list and it is delivered as soon as it is available?

> It is very challenging and if we exerted influence, it would not be like this

Sure, but if you could exert perfect influence you'd get the books for free ;)

Look, I'm not saying we've reached an optimal system for ebooks and libraries but its fairly easy to understand the publishers position. Too many people get caught up in the physical costs of books, which are not what the publisher is worried about. They are worried about recouping all the pre-production IP costs and marketing dollars they put into the things that don't sell. That they've fallen back onto a model that poorly mimics physical books is probably unfortunate, but completely unsurprising.

> All that said, we are healthy. The library as a physical space and American institution will be OK because people have a strong attachment to the idea and the use case.

Completely and totally agree and can think of few groups of people more likely to adapt to the new information dense world than librarians. I'm much more worried about the publishers...
I'm assuming you're downvoted because it's not relevant. But I agree with the landownership problem, it has caused a lot of trouble not only in the UK, but in multiple countries and it's never going to stop.
while in the "Zone", you lose the ability to reflect on the things you are writing - long trip often results in complete bullshit. Which you can discover only upon waking up. Then you get stunned and paralyzed. Sometimes it's a good idea to just throw away the whole thing and start from scratch. I found experimentally that it's good idea to set time limits for your "productivity periods", and keep them rather short.
> How do you propose we figure out who is doing the illegal stuff?

So if you are saying that it is no my businesses how much I earn but of public interest to battle criminal, how is this different than saying that all cryptography should be banned cos terrorist use it to plan terror attacks?
> "wait. how would that work? seriously"

Answer: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." -US Declaration of Independence

Depending on the specific case, it would be up to people to determine whether these conditions have been met.
Alternatively, cultivate a relationship that ascends beyond money. That's something worth cultivating?
That's partially true but remember that you're generalizing from micro-benchmarks – which did not universally tilt Chrome – to the complex behavior of real sites, where networking, memory usage, and general de-optimization tended to cancel out many of those small wins.

That's not saying that the browser teams haven't made big strides, only that it's not such a simple story. Chrome running a certain JavaScript function 15% faster isn't a game changer if a side is limited by layout or poorly structured DOM interactions.
I'm pretty sure the accident in Fukushima accelerated the development in this niche. Especially in Japan.
I'm not sure if I agree with the demo idea, I doubt the material will look nice after a ton of people touch it on display. Even if the material was specifically made to cover an area that you put your hands on all the time, it just doesn't seem durable.
Another U3415W owner here, it's the best monitor purchase I've made in years. I previously had a 27" and two 24"s and replaced the 24s with the U2415W. I do programming and gaming on it and it's excellent for both.
ETA?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)
YouTube.com/editor and Photo slideshows is going away
Today I made it out of a local thicket of a problem I've been stuck in for a week and once it worked I was like "well, now that works I can do this, and now _that_ works I can do this" and I got so much done today. But yesterday I went to bed having all but given-up on my path, about to accept defeat after days of failure after failure. Anyway, now it works I can be happy for a day, but tomorrow I know I'll realize this solution is shit and I should really do it another way entirely!
How does Eshell handle my Bash aliases & functions ?
That says nothing about whether a particular UI feature is good – and browsers in particular have a long history of good ideas becoming widely implemented by most vendors.
How about "secure against spying by governments and criminals".
One might argue that Yugoslavia, then recently emerged from decades of dictatorship and still a communist Eastern European country, was not part of the ideological West at that time.
Same here.

I've been turning down monitor "upgrades" at work for years because the "upgraded" monitors are 16:9 and would be replacing working 16:10 monitors.
> That seems likely to degrade the fiber, or the signal

Could you go into more detail?
Well it was years ago, so it's old technology now. Also it doesn't matter how bad a product is; if they have a big enough advertising budget, they're impossible to compete with - Nobody will even hear that your product exists and even if they do, they won't trust it.
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It's like you completely forgot that East and West Berlin exist. The Soviets dumped billions into East Berlin and it was still a shithole
I have "management" in my degree title, from a world famous uni. Basically a good taste of an MBA, since an MBA there is a year.

Very little of a management course is about how you treat people. If anything, you are left with Taylorism and the lingering question of how it relates to knowledge workers. Because Taylor was basically measuring factory workers' performance, whose contribution is to do some repeated action over and over. If that sounds like treating someone like a robot, it's because it is.

This is not to say nobody has thought about this. HBR will run an article now and again about HR issues. But there's nothing especially compelling where you'd be able to find a root cause, find a specific solution, and implement it. If it was, management wouldn't be magic, it would be engineering. And the practitioners would not be paid enormous sums for doing the impossible, they'd be paid moderately well for being ordinarily competent.

Most of the things on the course are really not that different from reading the FT regularly. So-and-so company found their product wasn't appealing to young people, so they tried X and it was a massive success. Doesn't tell you what to do if you were to run this firm, but after you've read a few you'll think you know. Case studies are a case study in post-hoc fallacy.

Then there's a bunch of supposedly advanced financial stuff, which if you're an engineer you'll laugh at. Ratios, really? Interest rates? If you do a proper finance course there will be real things to learn (stoch calc doesn't show up much in engineering), but not in the business school.

And there's a few useful things, too, like the history of capitalism, but nothing that develops a proper intuition or method for a field of problems like engineering does.
I use it all the time, when I work without a monitor and keyboard. Mostly for switching apps and starting stuff - the windows task bar is only just above the function keys after all.

I also swipe from the right for quick settings (brightness, network, quiet mode, etc) all the time. Like in phones, it's a super fast way to scroll something exactly to where you want it.

Oh, and scrolling. I ditched sublime for vs code just because it scrolls on touch+drag and sublime selects text.

It's gotten so far that when I find myself on a laptop without a touchscreen I get all confused and keep touching the screen.

I really love touch screens.
It's a loose similarity to be sure. In Korean, syllables are written as a constricted glyph. In dottsies, words are written as a constructed glyph.
Intel recently leaked their upcoming Intel I7-8xxxU Processors. They are going to be available in a real quad-core 8 thread configuration at 15W TDP.

I really hope MS will use one of those to release a Surfacebook with 32GB Ram and atleast one Thunderbolt 3 Port.

That would last me long enough to justify the high pricetag. The current Surfacebooks are just too limited in their lifetime because of the connectors.
I worked for a startup that grew up around me. We started without any project managers and such and they got introduced as the team grew and grew.
I would just make tasks like "figure out how to do X", "look into this framework Y", "write a really good SO post for the bug we came across in library Z" . Worked fine, tho the PM for my project was sound.
> I believe the effect of public salaries, all else equal, would be to move the average a bit up, but also greatly lower the variance.

It might, and that doesn't seem to be problematic, to me. The arguments about individual negotiation and proven value and all that don't change when salaries are public. In fact, the "savvy individual negotiator" argument might even be more applicable in that case: if Alice's market value is really 2x Bob, Fob or Gob then she should be able to demonstrate that quantitatively and be able to use that data to negotiate her appropriate value.

The argument about developers' ability : value relationship is also a bit specious. I'm not convinced there actually is a good way to measure that, and even if there were it's very likely to be context-specific (e.g. some developers are going to exceed at systems programming or low level library development but might be marginal at best when tasked with design and implementation of systems that rise outside of that scope).
My personal laptop has pen-input but it's got the rotation feature that the article complains the Surface doesn't. (It says "360-degree" which makes no sense to me; my screen turns 180 degrees and can then be folded down to clip into the laptop keyboard.)

Getting it all running on Linux was doable but definitely not for the faint of heart. But once I did, Xournal was one of the most useful pieces of software for my physics Master's; if the lecturer provides PDFs of lecture slides in advance you can literally just take notes on the slides themselves; or just file them away in a neat folder structure.

Maybe the biggest difference from paper is you can quickly draw a rectangle around part of the preceding equation, and either drag it or copy-and-paste it.

Touch input was nice for browsing and certain games, but was never a huge part of my work.
My laptop has a touchscreen (Dell XPS 13) and the first thing I did was disable it.
The only problem I see is with diluting the Surface brand, which was strongly associated with touchscreen
God I am old. How does that thing even hook up to laptop?
Salaries are a reflection of your supply and demand. Two people with equal demand but unequal supply (one has financial obligations that make them unavailable below a certain salary level) will result in unequal pay.

The notion that salary is meant to be directly tied to productivity does not and has not ever reflected reality.
Types of machine learning algorithms
Why do software engineers think they are intelligent enough to criticize other professions? The vast majority of the people on this forum are dumb code monkeys with a bachelors degree and an extremely basic understanding of math.
So 'highly secure' would be better than darknet
Go for it, but make sure you have paperwork that states what happens if you break up.
> "We needed person X in January and couldn't wait until march so we promised them more money to come accross."

Yeah but that in itself is useful information. It signifies that demand for those kind of employees is high and that should in turn affect the salaries of both new hires and employees bold enough to renegotiate.

The only reason it's not public, is because an inefficient labour market helps the employers underpay their employees.
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