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Congratulations on growing your business. Though I enjoyed the article, I wish you had gone more into what's the culture you are building? What makes good culture? What were some of your goals that have been achieved? Or what were some of the ideas that worked and some that didn't. What are your values? how do you empower your employees?
The winner of 3SF is determined by the fewest goals conceded. Game theory will prevent any long term 2v1s.
The chief problem with smartphone screens these days is not them getting scratched, but with them cracking.

Diamonds, despite being very hard, are also very brittle. They'll likely crack much more easily than Gorilla Glass (another hard material that is hard to scratch).
PSA: GNOME Software is a frontend to flatpak repositories. It's not a frontend for your package manager.

Since flatpak provides security benefits, instead of removing Gnome software, he should have been removing duplicate packages from his package manager.
This is for their employees, not all people. Also, they are not doing this to be nice to their employees, they need to maintain their management pipeline. They are using this to grow the management ranks internally. I work for an engineering company that has good college benefits, but they only pay for STEM and Business degrees. Those are the only degrees that benefit the business.
That is a self-respect that I am highly suspicious of. Per the dosing guidelines[1] one vial should be enough for one infusion for just about anyone. Per GoodRX linked from the page you linked[2], the inflated cash price is $3500/vial. This, I don't see how $19,000 for one infusion is remotely accurate.

Regardless, since the treatment course is one vial per 8 weeks even if it were it is still not $19,000/month, it would be half that.

Edit: I fail at math. One vial per infusion was based on 1mg per kg. The usage is 5, so a typical infusion would need 4 - 5 vials. Still less than $19,000/month using the cash price, and far less using the GoodRX discount.

[1] https://www.drugs.com/dosage/remicade.html

[2] https://m.goodrx.com/remicade
They were never known as the worst among the kind of people who would consider working there. It sure beats being treated just as badly at somewhere else where the employee discount is far less useful.
Switching to AMD GPU will generally improve your desktop experience further (because of upstreamed driver and better integration).
Good perspective. But some examples, like Coca Cola, didn't adapt that much. The logo pretty much stayed the same since early times.
If there's unknown byte order, then bytes might go 21436587 and you won't know if you're actually reading the byte that has the header.

If we could go back in time, the important thing would be killing UCS-2, and the false idea of all code points fitting into 16 bits. The encodings with 8 bit and 32 bit code units are just fine, and don't encourage terrible assumptions.

I'd definitely suggest a variable-width header, though. If you remove the extra bits that UTF-8 uses to be self-synchronizing, then your header is a fixed 1/8 overhead, which means you can fit 28-bit code points into four bytes while also fitting ASCII characters into one byte.
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But wouldn't the promotion come with increased responsibility, thus keeping you too busy to interview?
If the official source has a habit of lying about similar issues to the media then I'd agree. Generally when the police say that somebody has been murdered then they've been murdered. Treating such a claim by the police skeptically would be generally ridiculous unless they have a reason to do so.
> Human beings are not hyper-efficient savings maximization engines.

Yes, but that doesn't mean we have to actively make the situation worse.
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I just did some back of the envelope math and I believe dissolving all of the atmospheric co2 into the oceans would lead to a concentration of about 2g/m^3. Not sure what the effect of that on pH would be, but sure sounds like it wouldn't be a lot.
I want C to not grow any more. The problem with having groups to oversee things is that they usually feel the need to change or grow the thing they're supposed to be watching. Sometimes this is good, but often it's not. C is the foundation of a lot of stuff, and it'd be better to rewrite that stuff in a better language than to try and turn C into something it's not - that's what C++ was for.
convert your room into a camera obscura

http://flakphoto.com/photo/abelardo-morell-camera-obscura-ea...

https://www.abelardomorell.net/project/camera-obscura/
oh, right... thank you! (edited)
You say that, but you'd be upset about not getting the pay bump that you know your fellow senior devs did, and you'd be gone in 3 months.
Absolutely agree. We really built our network out to be independent of our file transfer tool. It creates routes across any cloud provider and can integrate into any cloud storage provider. It also uses machine learning to determine which routes are optimal based on previous performance and time of day. I see a future where you could use our network for many different products such as an accelerated VPN, streaming live content, or as you pointed out as a pass through network for a P2P connection if both endpoints are available but it would route across our network to avoid congestion. Potentially even being able to make a copy of the transfer in the cloud for archive. Even P2P relies on routing across the public internet which is prone to congestion and is set up to do least-cost routing for the ISP's. Usually it's less of an issue though because the protocols help ensure it pushes through that congestion. Lot's of cool possibilities for this in the future and nowhere near enough time!
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That link is about brake performance on a race track at speeds greater than 100mph. I'm not sure what "expected" is in that context, and I doubt the results generalize to more normal usage.
Then that's maybe a long-term way you can fix it. Your team needs to visibly out-perform other teams. Then you can go over the heads of the other team managers to impose better hiring practices.

Note that this is primarily a political problem, not a technical one. Truly fixing it may not happen when the other team managers are still in their positions.
I go one step further: Get guesses from everyone, then use the average multiplied by 3. That lets management talk me down by 1/3rd so they feel they've won something, and I still end up with a little wiggle room.
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> If I were to speculate, could it be because this setting would cause high brake wear on the long run?

No idea why it wasn't this way in the first place. That said on an EV you'll almost never replace the brakes. On our Model S I only touch the brakes in panic situations or < 2mph to come to a stop. Regen braking cover all other cases sufficiently.
Because Gnome is in a league of its own in the UI tastefulness and general UX department.

I like that they are a little opinionated regarding how you use it, in practise that leaves you with a visually tidy and tight desktop environment.

KDE just does not look nice (in my opinion at least), the proportions are weird, menus are too cluttered, it feels like somebody has been throwing widgets at the wall to see what sticks.
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>"The next time the Kremlin orders someone's ticket punched they're going to claim they're not really dead."

Right, like Kremlin never made claims like this before. i.e.,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russian...
16GB DDR4 memory is slowly creeping up to the $200 mark. While prices for CPUs and other components are falling steadily or at least are staying stable, the overall cost of PCs is increasing just because memory is so damn expensive nowadays.
95% false positive rate is extremely good for surveillance, as the cost of false positive is low (wasted efforts by the police). That means for every 20 people the police investigate, one is a target.
Do you have any evidence for these simplistic Econ101 theories?

The funny thing is that if an any economist did prove a link between tax cuts and long term economic growth he wouldn't just win a Nobel, they'd knock down the Statue of Liberty and replace it with a statue of him. Alas, the evidence eludes all comers.

> And economic growth is not a matter of distribution and certainly related to deadweight losses.

Unfortunately this is exactly wrong. Economic growth is probably only a matter of distribution. No matter how hard the supply siders wish it, aggregate demand and a strong consumer base are all that really matters. As they say, show me a growing middle class and I'll show you economic growth.
Proving the point that, indeed, it is possible to achieve timeless design. At least, regarding graphic design.
I doubt it was intentional. It seems that the anti-lock brake system was miscalibrated.
I'd like to think they have some kind of automated CI with a huge warehouse full of cars that automatically drives around and tests everything with each Git push.
There are many people crafting software with category theory, refactoring it 10 times a week, using whatever latest JS framework is the trend, then asking for a price.

Most of it might mean absolutely nothing to a customer. But you think the price you charge is fair.

Don't conflate the efforts you put, with that actual value of your product.

Many software might have the same utility as of a diamond and may have the same price as a diamond.
Sure, I'm not arguing against them doing it at all, I'm concerned at the effect if it becomes commonplace across companies. It absolutely makes sense given the state of education/ higher education in the US, but that suggests maybe we should be fixing these issues in an overall way.
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Lest people think "ooh, this is great!" -- it's not, at least not beyond "having a better understanding of the world is good".

The following might be reasonable (if not necessarily feasible) carbon sinks:

- Conversion to other materials (plastic, graphite, fuel (sort of))
- Injection into salt domes

The following are bad carbon sinks:

- Your lungs
- The ocean

CO2 dissolving in the ocean produces carbonic acid, and ocean acidification is a huge problem -- it dissolves the shells of a number of creatures, and fucks up the entire biochemistry of the ecosystem. Remember, a lot of bacteria (including ones right at the bottom of the food web) use the ocean water as a sort of communal extracellular medium for nutrient exchange, and pH affects nutrient availability differently for different nutrients. Changing the pH throws everything out of whack, just like making your blood more acidic or basic would hurt or kill you.
Most servers run on millions of lines of perl, python, or bash. The same things said about JS can be said there, but most of those things are at least as bad with the added problem that they probably run with sudo privileges. JS is at least as good as these languages while being much, much faster.

True dynamically typed code does type checks at runtime which means that performance may suffer, but you are guaranteed to never have critical type failures (the type errors will occur and throw before something actually unsafe happens). This is a huge step up from C which is weakly typed and even untyped via void pointers.

Dynamically typed code is still typed. JS is not an unsafe language from a type perspective and from a security perspective, it may actually have the safest language implementations ever created.

If we're leaving the dynamic scripting language zone, options are very few without becoming tightly bound to Oracle, Microsoft, Google, etc. There are other great open alternatives (for example, SML would be faster with a great type system), but most of those have small communities (which can mean death to open-source projects).
I would LOVE that..
Not that any apps require it, but I could host an entire virtualized stack locally. Big Win in my book.
> Ground source scales well if you have a large building and a large body of water near by then the payback time is short. But at single family home level it's just not that useful.

There is a way: open-loop systems.

A few years ago we installed an open-loop ground source heat pump (ClimateMaster brand) for under $6k. Water at 50F is drawn from a preexisting 15 gpm/50 foot well, through the heat pump unit, then dumped in a dry well at around 40F. It uses half a million gallons of water a year (costing <$30 in electricity), but of course there's no aquifer depletion, and closed-loop systems also use energy to pump water. This unit also pre-warms hot water at its coefficient of performance (about "600%"), reducing electric DHW costs.

We homeowner installed, so we weren't eligible for NYS incentives. But it cut our annual bill in half vs. the previous heating oil furnace, with a payback period of 5-8 years.
Maybe in ten years I’ll be able to buy a MacBook with 32gb RAM!
When I looked, most parts-house available sensors are small and even a 1" format sensors are pretty dear. MFT, APS-C, etc. were a multiple of a complete entry level interchangeable lens camera. For a pinhole camera with a small sensor, it's going to be hard to frame a specific subject because the sensor's field of view is tiny. Even a wire viewfinder will probably struggle with framing due to parallax. Basically the low cost sensor for pinhole photography is photo-chemical film.

A hacky alternative for a might be modifying a flatbed scanner. Just step the photo array slowly enough that there's reasonable exposure at each point. The good part is that a flatbed scanner is a stupid big sensor and there is some literature for hacking them. But for a pinhole, I'd expect the exposures to be rather long even for pinhole photography.
> if you look ahead and make a concrete plan you can do great things with a History degree (especially if you go to a highly regarded school)

I realize that history-related careers are not something I am well-versed in. Can you elaborate on this point? What kind of career is best prepared for by taking a History degree? (We'll assume that any kind of professorship role in history is a no-go, given how bad the adjunct professor path is.) I might imagine someone using History as a stepping-stone to a Law degree, but cannot think of much else. Museum curator?

I am having a hard time thinking of things that would provide a labor pool large enough to have a reasonable chance of making a career of. It's very likely that I'm not thinking deeply enough about it, so I'd appreciate your insight.
Only if I could get that higher paying job sooner. Either way it would be a win for me. I'm not sure if it would be one for the company, though.
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Shippable quality to me is a full regression test. That's awful hard to do in the few days a 2 week sprint allows.
Except in the case of co-workers, that logic is pretty dubious, and isn't true except in certain situations (stack ranking, for example). In the case of executives, it's been proven to be completely true over the past 50 years.
> Unless my doctor is exactly average

Just to get back to this point: what if the vision system of your doctor is below average and you augment her by giving her a statistically better vision system, while allowing her to use the additional sources as she sees fit. Wouldn't be that an improvement? We are talking about vision subsystem here, not the whole "reasoning package" human doctors posses.
Business school has weeder courses? Maybe algebra? I thought that was strictly engineering.
This reminds me of the story about how Coke launched an intentionally bad competitor to "Crystal Pepsi" in order to confuse the marketplace.

http://11points.com/coke-made-intentionally-terrible-clear-c...

The strategy is called Kamikaze marketing... and can result in fantastic stories like this, but it is almost never successful. Unfortunately I think DeBeers might have the ability to pull it off.
Because a simple kanban doesn't have any scope/goal, it's just a disorganized TODO list. A sprint/milestone is a way to set goals for the next 2-4 weeks. At the end of the iteration, you redefine new goals according to what would bring the most values to the clients at this new moment T.

If the sprint is not finished, well it's not a big deal. You move the tasks back to the backlog, or in the next sprint, or delete them if it doesn't make sense anymore. And you decrease the number of tasks in the next sprint. You shouldn't feel a constant pressure to finish sprints if the velocity of your team is taken in account correctly.
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Looks like 8GB was introduced in 2011 and 16GB in 2015 so any bets on when we see 64GB SO-DIMM?
I'm not sure they're entirely distinct. For example, if the SSL library exports a constant containing a version number, you could write a test asserting that it's not the bad version.

It's not as good as testing for the vulnerability, but then again no form of version number checking does that. (This is similar to the principle in web development that feature detection is better than version string checking. But sometimes version-checking is the best you can do.)

Checking version numbers in the package system allows for much faster backtracking, making it feasible to try many versions and select a combination that (hopefully) works. But verification can be done using testing.
Because both of those sides are not on a level playing field. Even for some of the best of engineers, the power imbalance is very real.
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Beautiful illustration of how "for now" becomes "forever" as "now" moves forward.
"periodically fire one laden [rock] with electronics/optics/quantumics at the target star at near light speed and receive its transmissions for recon"

These would act as space weather beacons, forming some kind of illuminated space (high)way. An interesting idea!

As for the rogue planets, although I envision humans having some use for them, I doubt it will be for interstellar travel the way you describe.
He rebuilds cars. He has no interest in learning how to code. That said, he does really good work rebuilding and restoring old cars for people. I have seen him contribute to society in other ways, including standing up for a small business owner that was being bullied by a local thug that is the son of a Sheriff.
Relevant wiki article for those wondering wtf a “digital twin” is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin
> the owner of the backlog becomes the controller of how much time gets spent on what.

Then it's no longer Scrum, correct?
Something so obvious I guess I never realized. So when electricity moves, the nucleus stays still, and the electrons are what move?
So, Model 3 has regenerative brake (uses magnetic resistance to slow car) and regular brakes that every other car has. I believe the tradeoff / timing about when to switch between the two braking systems was slightly off, favoring more energy efficiency rather than the best stopping distance. When this was pointed out they simply adjusted their algorithm for a better overall tradeoff.
Why the higher cost back then?

"A reversible electric motor, a flyball governor, and associated electrical gadgetry."

Making that kind of precision mechanical stuff isn't cheap. Making the "gadgetry" from discrete components isn't cheap. Making it in low volume isn't cheap. Making it keep working when splashed with wet road salt and then frozen isn't cheap.

Plus, it was a premium feature and probably was priced accordingly.

Electronic stuff is cheaper and works better. Even though a flyball governor is a cool mechanism.
My understanding is that a lot of undefinedness in the original c89 standard came from a desire to support non 2 complement machines like Burroughs. Of course in hindsight that was a total mistake. Yes would be a great idea to come up with an modern update to the c standard that is specified on let's say the level of java.
One example which I actually used to great effect in a previous team was that the team decides the relative allocation of backlog items between new features, fundamental research, maintenance, and refactoring / architectural design. The product owner, no matter how upper management is breathing down their neck, is not allowed to supersede that allocation.

Once we got approval for this, it meant that product owner had to focus on communicating to us why the business had certain priorities and desired certain pivots, instead of just nuking our desired plan of work and superseding it "from on high."

It meant everyone had to trust us as the team that we wanted the business to succeed! (Who'd have thought!) And we weren't going to act childish and just demand backlog items and sprint work that satisfied our preferences for some fun project or some back-burner idea. That, as grownups, we would actually consider when business priorities made sense to supersede our intended plans, and act accordingly.

After a while, we exercised our privilege a few times to ignore or decline "urgent" work that the product owner relayed to us. Instead we invested in much needed refactoring stories, fleshed out more serious design documentations, researched detailed trade-offs between approaches or third party tools we would need in the near future.

Over about a year's time span, this worked incredibly well. The team felt happier and more productive. There was less tension with the product owner since he would not circumvent our plans and dictate new priorities all the time. And people learned they could trust us to understand the underlying business considerations and deploy our team accordingly.

In our company, this was very much as "un-Agile" as it gets. It was the farthest thing from what "Agile" methods meant in the company as there could be, and in large part we only got permission to work this way because our output was in a very specialized domain area that had really critical requirements for some large business initiatives. Most teams could not have possibly negotiated this arrangement.

Like clockwork though, the director of our business unit was surprisingly fired and replaced with no explanation or warning, and the new director stopped us from doing this at that point. It reverted to the usual thing where sprint planning is just a Wheel of Fortune gameshow where you learn the radically new and unplanned pivots you'll be forced to make for the next two weeks. Like trying to win a 100m race by dancing on a DDR mat at the starting line.

Anyway, long story short, the barrier to anti-quality principle was that it's totally the team's discretion as to what work is admitted into the backlog. If the team ignores legit business considerations at their own peril, to goof around with fun stuff, then the team owns that failure. But no matter what, they are not told by the product owner what goes in the backlog, and it must be a sacred right for the team to tell the product owner "no" when management proposes to add work or change direction in a clearly stupid way.
I just feel this will pump more money into the schools that are administration-heavy (most of them) whilst not allowing the market to thin the herd.