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You should check out this cool facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/remotework.digitalnomads/
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FFS. Please, please actually think about what you're saying and about the implications it carries if you game theory it out a bit, that's absolutely critical when dealing with proposed solutions for wider issues of society. "The technocracy" is not in fact responsible for creating law, at least not yet. They are subjects to the law, and while of course they have an input both in the way any other group does and extra in the way more resources and education can enhance that, they're not even a dominant player amongst political powers. They cannot overrule law, nor should they be expected to, and really is that what you, amorphid, would actually want to see? Responsibility is tied to power, if you want them to be responsible then you're necessarily suggesting they have the power too. And that takes us straight to a world where corporations really are governing powers also, as in they can legitimately wield physical force against opponents.

If this is due to FOSTA/SESTA, then regardless of Cloudflare's personal views they need to follow it. The fault lies somewhat in Congress but ultimately in the American People for repeatedly failing to appropriately carry out our duties in maintaining our democracy. If you argue that the people simply aren't up for that at all, then you're arguing democracy should be dumped or at least toned down in a further hybridization, and that gets into very, very deep waters. There is no contradiction whatsoever between Cloudflare and other tech companies promoting/lobbying heavily for Free Speech protections, which again are protections against government action, while still acceding to the supremacy of government if it passes laws to the contrary and those laws are still in force (during a legal challenge with no injunction for example, or following a failed legal challenge).

There's nothing wrong in parallel with all this either in all of us working to try to eliminate centralized pressure points and decentralized malicious actor capabilities so on as well, far from it. But that doesn't mean you are justified in your accusations against some specific actor under the control of a jurisdiction that acts contrary to our preferences.
It’s amazing how much more useful hardware could be if software were properly designed and flexible.

I don’t know why screens still care about optimizing video...I can’t remember the last time I watched something full screen when there’s picture-in-picture. As with other software, I want to do multiple things and not necessarily just sit and watch something.

For decades software has had a weird laziness when it comes to making things simply resizable. Ever seen a program pop up a list of 1000 choices that only shows about 4 of them, truncating half the names, with a useless miniature scrollbar and no ability to resize, on a gigantic screen?

The day I got the iPad 1, it was the coolest thing ever. It took just weeks for that to be gradually ruined by ridiculous decisions made in software (web sites that could no longer be pinch-zoomed trying to “help” me with a “mobile-optimized” interface, apps lazily zooming up from phone sizes and making terrible use of space, etc.). To this day I would never opt into a “pro” version of that experience; I simply can’t stand software that constantly wants to tell me how much space I have been rationed for each thing.
Perhaps this is different outside the US, but this is not really a big problem inside the US from my experience. If you're doing "contract-to-hire" you do need to be somewhat careful that you don't treat them as employees before they are, e.g. don't give them equipment (laptop etc), don't require them to arrive at a certain time, probably don't buy them lunch, etc. IANAL (this is not legal advice), but it seems quite easy to keep a software engineer correctly classified.

It's not like the job "Uber driver" where the fundamental nature of the job means you can't be a contractor.
In case someone asks "childish question" why airplanes do not have parachutes, of course they could have those, but the cost of design and implementation on such large scale of tens of thousands of planes, outweighs any outcry caused by few crashes that occur per year. Hence no law that would force airlines/airplanes to implement those and airlines/airplanes are last when it comes to lavishly spending money out of their free will, even if it means saving one extra life.
> Road deaths are double the OECD average.

I think you overstate that.

Consider fatalities per billion vehicle kilometers -- Americans drive more than the OECD average. The Czech Republic and Korea have rates triple those of the next closest OECD country, and the US fares better than Japan and Belgium.

Not only is it not Mad Max, it's basically within the norms of the OECD.

https://asset.keepeek-cache.com/medias/domain21/_pdf/media26...
You don't want to log access requests to your web servers based on IP? I disagree with you at pretty much the lowest, most fundamental level.
Can you expand on this? I'm not well-versed in the geopolitics of aircraft maintenance.
Really you just leave yours anywhere even though you own it?
No because children are distinguishable.

If you flip two coins, you get HH, HT, TH, and TT with equal probability. Try it.
I live in a parliamentary democracy (Canada). The ability to elect a minority government is actually a super useful protection mechanism because it creates 4 or or more options.

1. Majority for Liberal government
2. Majority for Conservative government
3. Minority for Liberal government
4. Minority for Conservative government
5+ Majority/minority for any of the various other parties (NDP, Green, etc.) <- doesn't really happen federally, but provincially it's definitely possible

The downside in Canada is that our appointed Senate is weak compared to an elected one, and you can whip your party to vote along certain lines.
I'm very comfortable with never hiring a backend programmer for whom this is an insurmountable obstacle.
The story of Angry Birds could be valuable
AWS Redshift is their data warehouse database. It uses Postgres syntax. DynamoDB is their NoSQL offering.
I think the GP is suggesting AMD port TensorFlow to OpenCL to break up the CUDA monopoly.
> it doesn't make a difference to the vast majority of people one way or the other

Probably true. But for some people it _does_ make a big difference, and those are the people who will use and support Bitcoin as an alternative medium of payment. Again, if there was no demand for Bitcoin, it wouldn't exist.

> Just simply existing isn't a counterargument to criticism of waste.

It is though, because unless you're arguing the "waste" in this case is an externality (which it's not; miners are paying these costs out of their own pockets), Bitcoin's continued existence proves that it's generating enough value to sustain itself; even despite it having to compete with traditional banking systems.

Using your own analogy, what you're doing is akin to arguing that Tesla is a waste because cheaper electric cars exist that can get you from point a to point b just as well. (Those cars take less resources to create, therefore the more expensive Teslas are "a waste of resources".) That argument would be flawed for the same reason: you don't get to impose your definition of value on everyone else. The people buying Tesla cars obviously see some value in them beyond their competitors. If they didn't, Tesla would cease to exist. Tesla's continued existence proves their cars generate enough value for enough people to be worth the additional cost. In other words, it's not a waste.
Why do you think a free home must come with some restrictions? It’s very simple. It’s yours, free and clear.

Do whatever you want with it, even destroy it. But you’re not getting another one. And if it’s damaged you need to repair it. Buy insurance if you can. If you can’t deal with it get a free condo or apartment instead not a SFH. If theres a big natural disaster and your home is affected apply for aid or perhaps a new home for these special cases.
> maybe you're saying the 5 hasnt changed in ages

Well, how could it be anything else? You have a major version that has been maintained since 2005 [0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Release_history
Possibly the more important trait these days
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Former MySQL Product Manager here (no longer affiliated).

I've been to a Monty talk about this subject, and let me say it was interesting...

Monty starts by saying that he does not acknowledge MySQL 5.6's existence since some new features are an abomination (usually citing GTIDs).

He then compares MySQL 5.5 to MariaDB (of which MariaDB is based on MySQL 5.5; so it contains the superset of features).

MySQL 5.5 was released in 2010. Support for it will end at the end of this year.

Development has diverged a lot since 2010. For a more balanced comparison, I recommend this one:
https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/02/mysql-vs-mariadb-rea...
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Given that there is an entire continent whose people speak mostly Spanish (and with the remaining Portuguese speakers vastly outnumbering the ones in Portugal, too), I don't believe that providing a service in Spanish will go far as evidence that you're targeting EU citizens specifically.
The “certain angle” applies mostly to TN monitors. VA monitors are much better at this, and IPS monitors can be viewed from almost any angly (the specs say 178° or something like that). IPS monitors are often more expensive, but I’m willing to pay.
Do others do this? I've always found the right side to be the better alternative since the bottom and right sides would be the natural "ends" of the screen.
My favorite laptop that I've ever owned was an unusual 21:9 ultrabook about 5 years ago [0]. The author does acknowledge in the second to last paragraph that ultra widescreen can be helpful, and boy was it. I could fit my terminal side by side with my text editor split into two 80-char tabs, or fit my terminal, text editor, and chrome all together. It was the closest thing to having dual monitors on a laptop without having too strange or annoying of a shape.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062470/toshiba-21-9-ultra...
Not just ethically irresponsible, it is probably illegal. Unpaid work that a company has someone do must be of no value to the company.

It would be legal (though the ethics are still questionable) to give someone work after the client has decided not to give you a contract, as then there is no value in doing that work.

This is why most big companies prefer to to hire contractors. You get someone for 6 months, if you like them you hire them, if you don't you let the contract expire.
Alternatively, it's someone that wrote a solution, re-validated it against the spec, realized it was not fully correct, and was able to correct it within the deadline given. Hiring isn't yet a science.
The difference is that one's own behavior behind the wheel is the primary driver of motor vehicle safety, while one's own behavior typically affects aircraft safety not one bit.
>But some people see that as rude or as being overly picky. But when I'm learning a foreign language I want people to point out my mistakes.

As a Dutchman and non-native speaker of English who learned most of it online I can tell you that I've always welcomed 'grammer nazis'. Especially before mobile phones made spellcheck a constant, online posts would engrave words in your brain with the wrong spelling.

I wished every board had a 'pull request' feature to privately let posters know about typos, like StackOverflow.

We still need to fix pronounciation though. When I was 14 I always thought Windows was telling me my copy was Genuine (Guh-nine) in stead of Genuine (Gen-you-in). But when do you ever hear that word on TV? Took me years before I stopped saying 'Guh-nine' in my head.

p.s. there is one in here for ya.
Redshift is a columnar SQL database, based on an old version of PostgreSQL.
>That's no different for the pilot at that moment, you fly the airplane exactly the same.

Disagree — I find it hard to believe the flight characteristics wouldn't change with this level of leading edge damage: https://i.imgur.com/aEWw6UG.png

(On the other hand, compensating with more right rudder! won't feel too unusual!)

>Loss of pressure is trained for too - a lot.

Agreed. But the two together compounds the problem and makes it a more dangerous situation that's trained for less.

>What happened here is remarkable but that does not play a role for flying, more for what happens after landing (for example, the whole world covering the incident...).

Well, not exactly. Loss of pressure would prompt the pilot to dive to breathable altitudes, the rate of which might really matter given what we've seen of passengers wearing oxygen masks improperly. A slower rate of dive might have resulted in some real injuries from hypoxia. (That said, it seems like a higher rate than the performed 3000 fpm might have been justified.)

>I'm a measly PP-ASEL and while I applaud the captain all the "hero" and especially the "only a fighter jet pilot could do this" articles are ridiculous.

Same, and agreed. Did the pilot do her job as described? Yes. Could a lot of people have died if she hadn't properly followed procedure? Definitely. Did she go above and beyond and pull off a near-impossible feat like US1549? Probably not, but there probably wasn't anything above and beyond that could be done — following procedure and training was the right move.

Does that make you a hero? That just depends on your definition. Certainly she's as much of a 'hero' as the fireman who saves people from a burning building, as his job specifies.
I would love to know how to deal with all the various electronic invoices I receive from different services (periodically and one-off, but especially the periodic).

When trying to keep up with a dozen active domains/companies and associated services, I end up spending half of my time managing logins, searching for invoices (at quarterly tax time), etc. It's really at the point where I'd have better quality of life making less money and doing less paid work.
On AI, yes. On graphics cards? Intel graphics have basically eaten the entire bottom half of the market. nVidia doesn't even bother to make anything slower than a xx50 card because it would be slower than the integrated graphics.

nVidia had to diversify to avoid being shoved into a shrinking niche market.
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7 is used for MySQL Cluster, see also https://mysqlrelease.com/2018/03/mysql-8-0-it-goes-to-11/ Geir
Why you should create your own UI kit
Came here to say almost exactly this. I can't speak to the bias issue. I do know that spending three days doing a little chat app last time around landed me one of the best gigs I've had. The process was painless, I would have spent that time coding and refreshing skills anyway, and the project was actually fun. I also know 100% that if the company I work for encountered a candidate who needed more time to work on the project due to child care or other responsibilities that would be quickly and happily accommodated. I wouldn't invest this kind of time as a first step, obviously, and would be turned off by any company that expected me to. I undertook this project after two 30 minute conversations had convinced both parties that there was a fit, and the project was a next step.
Would it help if there is a dedicated mail alias for patches? As in <project-patches@example.com>.

Niceties are off-topic there by definition so you don't have to worry.

Git writes e-mails out of commits: see the "git format-patch" command. You can practically send that straight to the mail command.
I'm not sure what a good percentage is but I know the majority of the population is self-motivated. What that motivation is can very greatly and is affected by resources. I've sat on my ass plenty of times and watched TV simply because I didn't have the money to go anywhere.

Will there people who abuse that goodwill? There is in almost every system. Just like you can't design the perfect lock to keep all thieves out and still be useful you can't design a UBI where everyone is going to use the money as we judge best.

A new New Deal I think should cover more than just infrastructure. There are public works of art that we have now that would not exist if not for the fact that some administrator in the New Deal era thought having artwork was also important.
"Also, is there anyway to prevent website from scraping content?"

You can implement a cloudflare dns so that people(or bots) are not able to scrape your content. even you can have robot authentication checking methods like google recaptcha to prevent scraping of content.
What we have done is hired people as contractors when we have overflow work. We'll pay you a high overly rate to do extra work for us each week. They usually already have gigs and want some extra cash. Others might be doing contract work full time. But if we really like working together, we chat about making the arrangement permanent.

But I wouldn't just do this. I think any company of any size needs a strong internship program to build their own pipeline. I also feel that you should be able to hire people without them doing contract work for you or other kinds of assignments. Talking with someone, going over code and APIs, etc. is usually good enough to gauge someone. If someone has years of experience, has stuff on Git and can talk coherently about what they are doing and why, they probably can program.

What I was saying is that if you insist on seeing code first, pay them as a contractor, don't ask them to do a bogus assignment for free.
AMD does. https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/tensorflow
What do you mean by "red team"?
Seven laws of sane personal computing
You might want to look at your website before trying to get the word out about your UI framework:

This is how http://clientkit.io/ looks for me:

https://i.imgur.com/H3wYjba.png
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Souls on board is a way of asking number of living humans on board — so there’s no confusion when asked how many are alive on the flight whether we should be including dogs, cats, parakeets or the dead guy in a cargo casket being transported.
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If someone is experienced, you can talk through code and APIs and get a good sense for them.

But if you can work with someone before you hire them full-time, you'll greatly increase your hit rate. This may not always work, and it may not even work 50% of the time, but the more people you can hire that you have worked with either through internships or contract work or from previous jobs, the better.
Ok then how can you say that Bitcoin mining is wasteful? How can you be certain that it will not lead to massive productivity gains? What is the standard you are comparing Bitcoin to for resources required to enable censorship free payments? And how do you know precisely how much censorship free payments is worth now or at any time in the future?
>Most people are not contractors with an established company/legal status as contractors, so you want to hire them.

At least in the US, this isn't a problem. You just make out the check to the individual, and then send them a 1099 at the end of the year. No need to have any kind of established company/status, because by default anyone running a business without incorporating or organizing is operating a sole proprietorship--it's basically 1 extra form at tax time.

As long as the person you're paying is doing business under their name, they generally won't even need to open a second bank account (they might want to if they do this more than occasionally).
Because you have to tip your hand and reveal to your former employer that you're leaving without any real guarantee from your next employer.

Until we can get useful credentialing in place, my vote is still with white-boarding, with a preliminary remote coding interview over online tools.
Work sample tests have been researched extensively in applied psychology [1]. There is a healthy debate on how effective they are.

For me personally, I am not so much for or against 'homework', as would rather see it used correctly. For example, I want to know how it will be evaluated, no tricks. I also think there is a quickly diminishing return on the length of the assignment. Up to ~10 hours may be OK, beyond that seems like a waste.

On the other hand, it's also a way to see who's serious. If you are serious about getting a job, it may take some investment. Also, the most glamorous companies can always demand a higher investment from applicants.

1. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=work...
Or in some common cases it fails to inform the design of tab bars and other user interfaces, since you can stack many more tabs along the left and right edges than along the top or bottom edges, and you can allocate enough room to distinguish their labels.

Emacs with tabbed windows:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/HyperTIESAuth...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmU2B79EDU

It sucks that "standard" tabs are always along the top edge: you can only fit a few of them, and their labels are clipped so you can't distinguish them, and you can't do anything about that. You should be able to move them to any edge and adjust them according to the task, tab count, label size, screen dimensions, and personal preferences.

Ideally, users should be able to choose which edge and how far along each edge to place the tab, adjust the tab's size and rotate its orientation, iconify and expand windows to and from their tabs, and easily group windows together by their tabs in rows or columns as desired (including docking inside other windows, or nesting tabs in 2D tree outlines using different edges and orientations at each level).

"Direct Manipulation" PostScript stack editing with tabbed windows:

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97

Dragging tabs between different window edges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4
The proposal is to split the LSP implementation into a transport layer and a logical layer. The current LSP implementation is directly tied to JSON-RPC.

Apple's end goal is, as you say, to get clangd to work with Xcode. However, having a replaceable transport layer for LSP could benefit lots of people other than Apple.
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Right. Doing it in the simulator and doing it in real life when the engine has exploded and the cabin has depressurized and you've got serious injuries and panic onboard are not the same thing.

Practicing in the simulator is routine, landing a plane that's had an explosion is not.

Nothing wrong with celebrating a job well done.
Has anyone tried offering to pay but permitting candidates to decline payment? (My current and previous jobs have these restrictions, but they also pay well enough that I care quite a bit less than I did when I was a college student / funemployed / etc.)

It seems like it's likely to work similarly to bug bounties: it's not like you stop getting security reports from people who can't accept the bounties, you just don't get the benefit of the incentive, and maybe the money gets donated to a charity of their choice instead.
In fairness, the article was not arguing that some particular aspect ratio (e.g., 3:2) was _optimal_. It's main point was that 16:9 is not optimal, especially on small laptop screens, and that something wider would work better.
We don't do this, but we do have people work for us on a contract basis for a period of time while they still have another job. We have a lot of people who are looking for extra cash or maybe they like to just do a bunch of contract projects. But one thing can lead to another and then you decide you both want to work full time with each other.
Space elevators?