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Hi! Developer working in C here. I'm neither a kernel dev nor an embedded dev.

My current job is network programming on the core product of my employer. It's "legacy" in the sense that it's been around a long time but it's actively developed and continually extended to meet rapidly evolving customer needs.

I also wrote C in my previous job doing non-flight software for a space mission, analyzing telemetry, processing image data, automated planning of camera targeting, etc. Much other work was done in scripting languages, and when those weren't performant enough for the task then I wrote C libraries to do the heavy lifting for them to interface with.

You don't live in a bubble. There are whole segments of the software industry where you'll never see C developers, and there are many companies where you C could (should?) be used but isn't because it's unhip and old. Software development these days is pretty fragmented and there's a tendency for people to think that their experience describes everything, but it's not the case.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741031
> Imagine wiping Hawaii off the US vacation list for a century.

Yeah, and the last time we suffered an attack at Hawaii, we beat their door down. I'm 49 years old but I would re-enlist to help with that kind of revenge.
Red Hat's westford office has proper cubicles.
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Yep, any emerging physical technology most likely had low level developers behind it. The low level guys are the ons who make it compatible with the high level stuff too.
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It would make sense to have an option to prevent a website from running any auto-play video just like you can mute a whole website.
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I'm not talking about dating prospects though.
I’ve been blocking third party cookies for as long as Safari has had that option, and I’ve never noticed an issue. I only get Google’s annoying recaptchas when my search string is too specific for their tastes.
Here at Kensho we try to accommodate everyone's preferences. We've got single offices, 2-3 person offices, and open floor areas for whose who prefer that.
While this does make sense, as a junior developer what I'm trying to grapple with is how fast our tools (specifically the "standard" languages) change. I can become a master in Laravel and PHP after years of work, but by the time I'm at that point the world will have moved on. My capabilities within my skillset will be impressive yes, but will it help me in the new industry environment?

I think it's that fast-paced nature (and partially scaring newer devs into trying to keep up) that causes many of us to try and learn broadly rather than deeply. For an analogy, it's like investing in an index fund and being diversified (and thus having more overall potential for gains and less risk of loss) than a single stock.

Disclaimer: I'm still fairly new to the industry for all intents and purposes so I welcome opinions on this.
I often quote this as well:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-06-10
Living in Spain, the ham does taste a lot better from black Iberian pigs.
What sites are broken by Safari because of its default cookie options? I haven't encountered any.
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Step one: Get rich.
Especially if you can compile the language to an executable or something distributable.
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You are correct VTA is 30 years old, not really efficient The cost to carry one passenger round trip, $11.74, is 83 percent more than the U.S. average.
Speed in San Jose 10mph and an utterly disappointment for the creators.
I was thinking more about BART that have a speed of 55mph, and have questionable trains.
I really think the infrastructure is an issue, it takes a bit more than a decade to build an exit at the Oakland bridge, roads are packed traffic is getting worst, roads are aged, most concrete (very noisy) not asphalt.
Some interesting metrics on bpfilter, especially when combined with smart network card offloading

https://www.netronome.com/blog/bpf-ebpf-xdp-and-bpfilter-wha...
Because you're in the 99% of the population who don't care?

GCHQ are already spying on me, along with every bank, social media company, large business, ... China can know about my inane existence too.

Chinese companies probably made all the network infrastructure already. My ISP uses Chinese made routers.
Want to see this applied to Warren Buffet who lives in a reasonably modest house, in a modest city, and shuns computers.
Legislators and lobbyists are mainly lawyers
Alternatively, depending on the situation, see if you have a personal conversation with them online, or whether you can get saucy stuff off their facebook.
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More accurately, "Fruiting bodies".
Kevlar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPcFGV9vPg
I’ve already addressed which of those I think are legitimate criticism and which miss the point.

It’s increasingly clear that you are not willing to understand why intelligent, moral people are willing to defend (and criticise) Facebook. Whether you are wrong on part or the whole, you fiercely refuse to see a contradicting argument. You openly prefer to demonise: the only way someone could disagree with you is if they are either delusional, stupid of deprived of ethics. That’s also why you won’t acknowledge that I did agree with you on several points.

You are welcome to think that I’m morally repugnant.

We both know that insulting people is a bad way to convince them, so you won’t be surprised that --sledgehammer of opinion pieces from the Guardian or not-- you have not really told me anything to move me. Most critics are like you, actually.

My take is that, if you write the way you did, you will come of as dangerous and misinformed to anyone who is able to and trying to address the problem. A majority of them work for or used to work for the company; few people are in academia; I can name a couple of elected officials but not many more. I regret that it’s so unbalanced.

I believe that you are making your cause seem worst off, because you can’t separate your prejudice from issues that have a solution. I’m very sorry that I couldn’t help you.

What will happen (what has already started) is that Facebook will leverage some of that anger to actually consolidate its power. One examples: with the CA scandal, the first reaction from the company was “Partner apps could abuse our users’ data, we have not exerted enough control -- very sorry.” justifying invasive audits. Good if it prevents another CA scandal, but that doesn’t make Facebook any less influential.

The more you go after Facebook for making the wrong political decisions, the more the company will gain legitimacy in making those calls, against empowering democratic or international institutions. Facebook might lend that legitimacy to some democratic or civil groups, like they did with Snopes, Wikipedia and CJI on false news, but, with every additional complaint, they will keep the authority to pick and choose it and only ever let it go for so long.

If you think the people at the helm are morally bankrupt, that should terrify you; I hope that you see how this is judo-ing your own anger. I think that Mark & his team are trying to do well, but that they are increasingly in over their heads and need informed support and more intelligent control -- neither of which they are getting in enough supply, so they learn as they go. I think they are doing well, not repeating many mistakes, acting fast, being increasingly careful and considerate. But the end result is scary in a different way.
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Firemen haven't worn leather as primary protection for a very long time. In fact, I wear a fireman's Kevlar turnout when I weld.

I wear leather gloves, but wouldn't hesitate to use a knitted Kevlar alternative, especially since it would insulate much better.
That's incredibly naive. That completely devalues the hard work and genius of Bill Gates. Being rich had nothing to do with him spending the better part of his teens at the local university, working on their computer. Being rich had nothing to do with him selling his BASIC to MITS (Remember, he was hiding the fact that he was a student). Being rich had nothing to do with him selling an OS to IBM.

Your comment comes off as petty, and an excuse that unsuccessful people use to explain why they too aren't billionaires.
'generate' and 'permutate' are more semantically general words. To convey what you mean you have to add "on feedback with no additional input". 'imagine' or 'dream' fully includes this specific meaning: it is more accurate. The only difficulty is that we are not used to applying these verbs to non-animal subjects. It is just like going out of your way to say "the submarine propelled itself through the water" or "the plane propelled itself through the air" because you don't want to use the verbs swim or fly with inanimate subjects. Why the distinction in those two particular cases; I have no idea. Maybe we're used to seeing birds glide without moving while you don't really see fish swimming without that distinctive wriggling-flapping motion.
> A State Council document, issued in July last year, resolved to position China as the world’s pre-eminent practitioner of artificial intelligence (AI) in both research and application within the next 12 years.

The language sounds just like Japan's MITI-run 5th generation project in the late 1980's, where they planned large-scale use of Prolog to replace their country's "antiquated" IT systems written in languages like Cobol and C. Using Prolog didn't quite work out the way the Japanese expected. Perhaps the Chinese have similarly overestimated the true potential of AI.
Ask them if they've read 1984 and would be comfortable with having one of those bidirectional TV's in their house.

...actually that probably doesn't work anymore, given how there's smart TV's, home assistants and smartphones with always-on cameras and microphones.
For all we know Apple complied, and the relevant TLA created a media storm about how they didn't in order to convince people, who they wanted to watch, to use Apple.
Perhaps a silly question, but what does it smell like?
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> To prove it, lock your handlebars

It's impossible to start going straight even. The point was that leaning will initiate the turn (no limits on method).
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Bear in mind that Google might be correctly identifying your IP address as a botnet source. If you start seeing lots of CAPTCHAs, it's worth it to take a look around your network for open ports or weak ssh passwords etc., or just look at a traffic monitor to see if there's a lot of egress from your net.
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You're not even pretending to be anything other than a troll any more. Believe what you like.
"Never attribute to corporate lawyers what you can attribute to Oracle"? Good point.
It even has Cherry ML keys! That's pretty cool.

I also like how you avoid the whole Wi-Fi/OSS mess by just offering a mPCI slot so people can add proprietary hardware if they chose.
Thank you for your anecdotal evidence and the obvious truism that wealth opens doors.

Black people make 57.50 to every 100 dollars a White person makes. The majority of wealthy people in America are white. 90% of all people lose their wealth by the 3rd generation. Therefore the slim ratio of wealthy black families are going to lose their wealth and it’s going to affect them much more.

The majority Black people have only just started to be able build wealth after Jim Crow, where white people have had hundreds of years.

People enjoy helping people that look like or remind them of themselves phenotypically, therefor even people that became new money, science would suggest will receive more help from the more numerous amount of wealthy white people.
And that is why a proposed Muslim registry is chilling.

I don't know for sure, but were census records used to put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps in the US in WW2? Or was that based purely on looks?
I don't mind ads like that so much because they don't hijack my thought process.

If I'm researching about food, ads about where to buy ingredients or kitchen tools will be integrated into my thinking lines without problems, and that's fine. I might even click them if they seem legit and honest and fit to what I'm trying to do.

If you start showing me, say, ads about the newest movie or holiday destinations, if I allow them, they will derail my thoughts into different areas. I hate that, and that is a large part of why I block ads too.

edit: There is even a place where I like advertisements. In the work area, please do inform me what new developments your company has made that can help me with my developments, and do inform me what your company sells, roughly, so I can get back to you when I do need that UV CCD.
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The reality, however, is that this ever-evolving aspect of content creation is not only still alive, but it is now more complex and calculated than ever.

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Then maybe the business model for these genericas should be toast. No entity has to have the ability to be able to know me in such a fine grained way as to be able to even target me out of context and influence me for consumerist (or even political) reasons.

If I am in the mood of car prOn - show me porsche or stuff. If I ready about python - show me current books on the topic. Or Udemy courses. Or what not.

If I currently read about how to get rid of pimples - show me beauty products.

But don't try to influence me into buying the latest camera gear, when I am interaction with my animal protection buddies over facebook.
>Venezuela has suffered notably worse effects in response to oil price downturns to every other oil-dependent country

Largely because there are few countries that are quite that oil dependent. Russia's a screw up but even they aren't as oil dominated as Venezuela, for instance.

I suppose there's Iraq...

>the government's extreme antagonism to non-oil businesses

This antagonism dates back to the 2001 coup in which the leaders of those non-oil businesses banded together in an attempt to unseat Chavez and replace the democratically elected government with tanks.

Generally this kind of behavior is strongly frowned upon, when it's done against a government that is friendly to the US. But, when it is done against a government that nationalized US oil interests, the propaganda wheel spins the other way: as you said, "it's not them that were hostile to him, it's him that is too hostile to them".

Anyways, can point fingers all you like in that conflict (and all sides do), but the fact remains that the conflict simply would not have happened without the spoils of the oil resources to fight over.

Corruption was similarly driven by the vast natural resources, just as happens in Africa, in the Middle East, in Russia... in every country in the world with vast economy-dominating natural resources except that sole unafflicted country - Norway.
That's not how statistics works. They're classifying groups, not individuals.
So where does all that supposed extra productivity come from? How does something get done, without any individual having done it?
And the goal is practically reached. Almost every office without a window has one person unless otherwise requested.
I generally love this blog but complaining about how irresponsible your valets are is just the most tonedeaf privileged nonsense I've ever heard.

I didn't own a car until I was in my 30s, I was ecstacic when I got that junker because it meant I could now sleep in the back of it instead of outside the library. I can't imagine most white people even believing that statement, I guess they got deleted dash cams to upload.
I could not get leiningen to install under Win10 a week ago, was quite a sobering experience. Some site that was linked to download from got a 404, then I got directed towards some bat script, which complained about HTTPS certification issues (lol)?

Took less than 5 minutes under a linux server though, so thats something, I guess. But still, its kinda mind-blowing how much Win users are ignored.
and non-nuclear-powers (companies w/o a large portfolio of patents) just get arbitrarily fucked? what a system!
Whoah great library!! Thank you!
Javacript running automatically is a decision made at the user agent level, it isn't really part of the "internet" security model. If browsers didn't run scripts automatically I think that would be the #1 support question, "How do I turn off those prompts!?".
Can someone explain to me why the authors neglect to mention nutation and precession on a vehicle that consists of non-negligible spinning masses? I don't get it.
We are on your flipside. If you are selling on any channel then we provide 3pl warehouses based on your inventory. Our AI let's you know where to stock and how much. The link is http://www.aihello.com

We have a mutual match, can you link me your startup?
I wear Kevlar, but I'll note one great advantage to leather: it abrades and tears somewhat like skin and doesn't really catch like woven Kevlar can. If you're welding, you're likely also in the vicinity of spinning things, like cutting and grinding disks.

Obviously, it all comes down to balancing needs and risks. I just thought I'd point out how you can meet or exceed one requirement (flameproofing) but potentially create a new risk in the process.
Good genes!
Yes, SpaceX and Tesla.
Any site which iframes in another site where you're expected to be logged in. For example, Disqus comments, Facebook like buttons, Youtube embeds (which work, but show ads even if you've paid for no ads).

There are also lots of one-off cases where developers split functionality across multiple domains in ways that were fine at the time but now get blocked. These are all fixable, unlike the iframing case, but it's still a lot of sites.
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China is in the middle.
We ran a breakage study near the end of last year.

First-Party Isolation (FPI) did have the highest breakage scores: ~18-19% of users reported problems with it, and 9-10% of FPI users disabled the study.

Those are low relative numbers, but at entire-market scale, they are big absolute numbers. :/

https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2018/01/26/improving-privacy-w...
IQ is far from comprehensive, the aspects of the mind it measures are discrete and relatively low level, this is why two people with the same IQ can have different intelligence as perceived by others. As you traverse the higher level of abstractions it becomes impossible to compare, some just don't exist in other peoples minds, they are not a fundamental part of the biological structure (subjectivity starts to define the quanta, not biology, so how do you compare something that does not exist in all individuals, not to mention the number of possible abstractions multiply as the level of abstraction increases).

As I said before IQ is an indicator of potential at best (the potential for the abstractions built on top of it), even of the low level abilities it does not include all of them, we cannot externally measure all of them.

Here's another way of looking at it: if IQ _was_ comprehensive, the number of individual questions would be astronomical, it would be impossible to construct or take such a test because it tries to enumerate and quantify all of the different learned abstraction above the inherently low level ones across all of humanity.

Taking that fictitious test a bit further, note that if we imagine all humans actually taking it, their score will be extremely low, because it's impossible to have 100% (you would need a massive brain that could simultaneously learn all of the _different_ ways of thinking).

> GI is hard to define (true) and measure (not true?)

Doesn't this seem like a contradiction to you? how do you empirically measure something that you cannot define?
In my experience with Brave browser I had to enable third-party cookies only for very few sites. In most cases that was to support some external login mechanism that the site used, not to access the site after a login. So I doubt the claim about breakage on most sites.
The best way to circumvent this feeling is to learn how programming works rather than how PHP and Laravel work. If you know what a web server is, how to scale it, know a little about web security, and how to write OOP well you're in very good shape. Don't learn the intricacies of Laravel, you can pick those up on the job. Learn enough about PHP to be able to identify what goes into a programming language and to be able to look at other languages and tell how they are different and the same past one using the word "const" instead of "let".
If race “doesn’t matter” to rich people, but is rather used as a tool by the rich to cause in fighting amongst the powerless (which is true and seems to be what you’re implying), then in fact race does matter as it affects how the powerless relates to each other. So racism matters, so you’ve contradicted yourself.
Wow that sounds like a waking nightmare.

If I had to sit on bench seating all day I'd probably quit after a week.
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Proper modern cubicles, which are sort of a hybrid between more traditional cubicles (i.e. ones with about 5 ft. high walls with about a 3 ft. opening) and an open office plan. So short walls on mostly 3 sides. It definitely gives you better isolation than a full open office plan but, for better or worse, it's not the clear delineation of Dilbert-style cubicles. (I guess it says something that cubicles like this are now something that people miss.)
Source: Have ever shipped something via the USPS.

Or https://www.usps.com/ship/mail-shipping-services.htm
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The 'headphones on' as if this should be standard behavior does not make sense to me when a simple dividor or wall would do. Especially when unless you listen to loud music or have special noise canceling ones you can still hear people. If you work with a Jackhammer you cannot avoid having to cover your ears, it's very loud, but why does someone in an office have to do this, especially for the entire day, the Jackhammer person doesn't do it all day long. Also if everyone spoke to themselves at the same time, you couldn't hear yourself either. I did not down vote you btw, just replying because I see how you're offering a solution but I don't think it is good enough.
Exactly. This is the truth about entrepreneurship--every SV titan came from money. Maybe not big money, but nothing bad was going to happen to them if they failed. They would move back in with Mom & Dad for awhile. Big deal.

The stakes for most regular people are so much higher, especially now with more inflation, higher taxes, way higher healthcare costs, and so on. It's certainly possible, but it's a lot easier when the deck isn't stacked against you.