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From one of the emails:

I care not one whit about the reason for them. In fact, if the reason
is stated as "it makes debugging easiler", then I fart in your general
direction and call your mother a hamster.

And when confronted about it:

> That is plain harassment. I ask to stop it!

The correct reply is

"Is there someone else up there we can talk to?"

just google for it if you haven't seen the Holy Grail.

(And I got the quote wrong too. I forgot about how your father smelt
of elderberries)

Disagreeing about a piece of code is one thing, abusing the person you disagree with is another. Such language doesn't belong in an open source forum.
> 2 months worth of oxy for getting wisdom teeth pulled kind of thing

Surely this is not the norm? My son had his wisdom teeth out a few years ago, they gave him about a day's worth of hydrocodone and told him to take Tylenol after that. And all the doctors my family has seen for the past couple of decades have been pretty conservative about prescribing anything narcotic for pain.
The idea is that any one who masters some obscenely difficult area can easily be taught anything they are missing. Hell, you can tell them to pick up whatever you need them to know on the weekends. The book and the subject matter I suggested so happen to be brutally difficult. Anything they have to learn at your org will likely be trivial by comparison. Any one who learned this book on their own can easily walk in and out of any math PhD program (let alone other subjects).
I really strongly believe that each state legislature should have a structure similar to the federal legislature in order to address this: state representatives should be apportioned by population and state senators should be apportioned by counties. This way the geographic regions of states would have a say, and you wouldn't have places like Boston, New York City or Denver running roughshod over the rest of their respective states.
That is a totally different issue. This is about ISPs and governments snooping on your browsing, not taking sites down or removing them from search results.
Call it Pravda.

Musk is game for it.
Yeah just boring. Benthos is mostly a collection of standard processors for doing boring stuff.
I find the comparison between China and Napolean/Nazi Germany, as a system of looting weaker economies, to be weak. If anything it would have been more relevant to consider French/British/Spanish/Dutch/Portugese colonnial empires, or even going further back the Roman empire.
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How is the GPU 3D performance? Are you able to play Steam games on that machine?
Your hypothesis is entirely wrong. Overdoses happen because desperate people get their drugs from the black market where purity fluctuates. Read the article again. Fentanyl getting mixed into heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. This is what kills people, not some mystical property of "opioids" that makes people consume more and more.

The US has a well-documented, multi-year history of legalized Opium (and later) heroin usage. Bored housewives would order heroin kits from Sears mail-order catalogues. There were no mass deaths due to overdoses. Political propaganda that was aimed against the Chinese immigrants of the time was used to vilify Opium and led to the passing of the very strict drug laws that continue on today.

The solution is simple: Legalize Opium and let people smoke it as they see fit. It's addictive, yes, but no more than alcohol or tobacco and much less destructive than street heroin or synthetics. Another point: Functioning heroin addicts that keep down a job are not exactly unheard of, today. Most of them have good enough salaries to afford premium heroin and they manage to blend in.
I have a few thoughts that come to mind.

One mistake we make frequently as tech people is trying to solve human relationship problems with a technology fixes. Censorship has existed for 10,000+ years; encrypted s night isn't going to magically fix it. There isn't an easy answer, just the hard path educate everyone.

Requiring encrypted sni will only mean the little influence thought leaders have in censored countries will be blotted our and replaced with state-run companies.

MITM proxies are a necessary evil, unfortunately, but the internet giants aren't doing a good job letting clients know when their TLS is being intercepted, so we're failing hard on education right now.

Also the makers of the commercial MITM proxies do a terrible job of staying current on TLS specs. This is likely in part due to customers being unwilling to install patches that cause a service interruption, so that should be taken into the design of said devices.
The easy answer is to have autonomous driving be region-locked. To only work in regions that are tested, and to have those regions slowly grow as automakers slowly gather data from people driving around.

I think this has unethical implications at the system level - it would create an even more unequal distribution of the future, to paraphrase Gibson, and an unequal expectation or burden on labor.
Money. YouTube revenue is via advertising, they want to keep your eyeballs on their videos. They probably have search/google history of you going to CNN or something and then present suggested videos from "there". They don't care what the content is, just that you are watching ads before the videos and stay on their site.

You can probably read faster than watching a video stream. Go to places like BBC news to get a feel for what is happening on our planet. Or buy a major city newspaper and read it. Video hardly will have the depth of a properly written piece of journalism. If you think major papers are biased, read a few different ones about the same topic to get a sense of what you think is going on. A lot of the bias in TV news is what stories they decide to run or not run, not necessarily the 30-60 second content.
Why would anybody think that Amazon, Google, or Microsoft are against censorship? Recent events have demonstrated that they love them some censorship, when they do it. Witness the case of gab.ai - Google was happy to pull their app from the Play store. Microsoft didn't mind at all threatening to shut down their Azure account unless they censored a post. The Azure case is particularly amazing. I can't believe the tech press isn't picking up on a supposed cloud provider threatening to shut down someone's account unless they make their website behave in a particular way.

I will say I haven't heard of Amazon censoring anything yet, at least not at a level I would consider massively inappropriate for a cloud services provider. Not selling something on their normal store is one thing, but pulling the plug on an AWS account for website behavior would be something entirely different.
why would you do buybacks when the price is overvalued? if anything, its going to drive up the price even more '
No just remove barriers to entry so everyone has an equal opportunity. Positive discrimination not needed.
> Just stop requiring growth at all costs, chalk up the China (and military) market as a loss, and continue operating at your massively profitable status quo.

It could be that it's not just about profit or growth, but about preventing Chinese companies from developing competing technology.
How do I use this on arch linux?
I think I left a comment on the Lobsters thread about wondering what this would look like on Wayland. Pretty cool.
> So far they are just doing a super inefficient mini-subway.

The term you're looking for (and that Boring Company is avoiding) is "personal rapid transit."
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There is considerable shortage of available three-letter file extensions that don't sound like robots from star wars, so unfortunately a sacrifice had to be made there :)
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I haven't really followed Wayland very closely but as a huge fan of tiling WMs (I've used StumpWM for more than a decade, although I switched to dwm lately) I've been a bit worried by the claims that Wayland doesn't have a window manager per se etc... Although I admit that's mainly because I haven't taken the time to understand what Wayland is exactly.

Just in order to aleviate my fears, can somebody tell me if in this brave new world it'll still be possible to effectively implement something like DWM or some other tiling WM "within" Wayland? Are there pitfalls I should be aware of?

I suppose there's got to be a way to do custom tiling, but I worry that there might be other less obvious limitations. For instance every time I attempted to use custom "window manager" on Windows (to add virtual workspaces for instance) I quickly noticed that it didn't work very well. One problem was that the window management was cooperative instead of preemptive: when the "window manager" attempted to hide a window it'd basically send a message to the application requesting that the window be minimized. If the app was frozen or simply uncooperative it'd remain where it was. Could that happen in Wayland?
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What do you mean by "semantic" markup? The markup in the file upload widget you describe is rather generic (label, button, p or span, presumably div) but almost completely meaningful (caption, button text, file name, widget/drag and drop target), not a div soup; I don't see how you could improve it.
There are instructions in the comments at the top of the C file, should work fine on Arch Linux.
Interesting application as the Space radiator material as opposed to an infrared invasibility jacket.
The reference is to the bias-variance tradeoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias–variance_tradeoff
Okay, but it's actually cheaper to just not worry too much about what people are putting into their bodies and offer treatment/assistance to people that want help stopping using some drug.
I was going to ask the question "What makes Paris smell like Paris" but nobody wants to know that answer.
I don't get it. You can just browse to someone's profile without needing to log in. No trickery required. Twitter is public.
While I whole heatedly applaud your efforts; reducing this down to carbon emissions alone is so completely ridiculous as far as logical arguments go.

There are a whole host of negative externalities involved in driving a car that riding a bike (or 4) just don't even come close to.
Basically, I decided that it was okay to be just a developer.

I realized that I didn't have to be promoted into management. In fact, I think I wouldn't be as happy in my job if I had to do management instead of coding.

I also read a lot about stoicism at the time. I think a lot of young people think success is measured by how much money they have, but I came to the conclusion that I'm happy at this moment.

Burning yourself out at work to earn money has diminishing returns; I'll need to earn a lot more money to be a fraction happier than I am at the moment.

I'm now working at a smaller company. We still have corporate clients, but there is not a lot of politics going on.
It looks like you should just be able to run make so long as you have all the dev packages for wayland, wlroot, and xdg-shell installed for your given distribution.
can i just say that i love sway :D
Where are there viable routes for high-speed rail in the US?

And did you forget about the CAHSR project?
"the purity of heroin varies wildly, anywhere from 10-60% strength on the street"

That's a sixfold increase. This is the key to understand overdoses. Keep in mind the last time you went a little overboard with alcohol, coffee, or even sugar. What would have happened if, unknown to you, you had actually taken six times as much?
He really is quite abusive. It's remarkable to me that the Linux kernel ecosystem is thriving with this kind of leader.
Correct me if I’m misreading, but the link is to a blog post entitled “...an Opportunity ... to End Censorship”. ISPs and governments snooping on your browsing is surveillance, not censorship. Taking down sites and removing them from search results certainly is censorship.
Pretty cool, I remember coming across it during research for eno actually! small internet :)
I certainly think that removing the funds from the gangs should be among the primary motivations for trying other policies in the US.
Calling "I fart in your general direction" abusive feels like a pretty big stretch to me.

It's rude or immature at worst.
Because a future Google that is susceptible to blackmail by the CCP is dangerous in a way that most other companies just can't be.

Gap, at worst, can be ordered to change their t-shirt designs[1]. But nobody considers crappy t-shirts a source of truth, unlike Google Maps or Google Search. What if (when) China asks Google to apply censorship outside of China in order to stay in the Chinese market?

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/15/news/companies/gap-tshirt-m...
Here's a discussion from 7 months ago about exactly that. US patient came to another country and was faced with a mindset change and subsequently wrote an article about it in the nyt titled "After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea" [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372
Is this the tone developers have to adopt in order to contribute?

F that then.
The firing of the receiving managers and other positions were system-wide. Didn't matter what the store sales were, they lost these positions. At the store near where I live, they often have only 4 employees working at a time, for a very busy location. One at the register, one at the Cafe, one manager, and one bookseller. So good luck if you get a large group of customers who don't want to wait 30 minutes to purchase their books, much less find them on the shelves. It's a death spiral...
Density is at max. Transportation facilities and traffic are already totally insufficient. You might be able to stuck more people with big building but you won't be able to allow them to move.

EVERY morning Parisians have at least one colleague complaining about transportation. All Parisians are secretly malthusianists.

What makes Paris for me ? Money, smell of piss, latent violence.
I don't like Google as a whole.

But I don't think Google is evil, in the sense of doing bad things because they're bad. At a low resolution, I think it responds to incentives and tries to make as much money as it can get away with. At a higher resolution, it's made up of a lot of people and smaller groups that each have their own incentives to follow, and whose goals don't exactly line up with Google's.

Fighting censorship is nice for PR, supporting censorship is bad for PR. Some (not all!) ways of supporting censorship might help make more money, but good PR also helps make more money, so it's a trade-off. Drawing attention to Google's ability to fight censorship slightly shifts that trade-off.

But not all of Google's decisions are made centrally. Many (almost all, I would guess) people in Google are well-meaning, and I expect they can get away with making good decisions a lot of the time. The people working on TLS probably aren't individually pro-censorship just because they work for Google, which means they may not make pro-censorship decisions unless specifically pressured to.
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I meant on one port. I plug three monitors in now :)
>What do you need a weapon of killing for?

Are you denying that there are situations in which a gun will incapacitate a deadly threat but pepper spray will not?
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It's a bit more complicated than that. These train cars will be going somewhat faster, and accelerating and decelerating a lot more than a typical long distance highway journey. Of course I'm sure they'll employ regenerative breaking, but even so, it's a lot of energy to load and unload from the battery over and over again.
>>But have they really had much success elsewhere?

The word 'e-commerce' might look as one word here, but if you see what it takes to make it run, there are several big constituent parts of it, each of which could be a big business in its own right.

I imagine at some point, Amazon could likely offer shipping-as-a-service like Fedex or UPS. Or its supply chain or warehouse management expertise.

In fact aws was born when they realized they could rent out servers and infrastructure service they were using in Amazon.
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I guess this varies a lot depending on the person.

I find long but well written texts addictive, and Twitter anything but engaging.

I read one tweet, and may be three answers at most. And only because the tweet was linked from somewhere else.
I don't think the developers are required to adopt any kind of tone.
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> 15% global market share

Maybe that's true globally, but it's not true of first world countries.

iPhone's market-share is over 40% in the USA, for instance. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/
Your theory does not fit my facts, and I can't relate to your "clown-nose" metaphor. I respect the fact that you've been working in the industry almost twice as long as I have; but if the environment you describe were as universal as you are making it out to be, I would expect to have encountered it by now (and I have interviewed at both Google and Facebook, as per the original question, along with plenty of others).

With regard to your point #1, it's not that the questions themselves must necessarily be related to the specific job one is interviewing for; it is that the process of communicating about problems and collaborating in the investigation of potential solutions represents the core of the profession. I have no idea what you mean by "no known relation" in point #3; there certainly are niches in which someone capable of nothing more than writing code might be able to eke out a living, but for the most part software engineering consists of interpreting user needs and definitions of problems, investigating those problems sufficiently to derive specifics, designing solutions which make appropriately balanced trade-offs, and communicating plans and progress in order to ensure that the proposed solutions satisfy customer needs. Sure, there's also a little typing of code every now and then, but if that's all someone brings to the table their potential contribution is very limited.

I am not aware of any studies which provide any meaningful data about software interviewing practices; we are all guessing. I would take the complaints about the use of whiteboards and toy problems in technical interviews more seriously if the people making such arguments were able to present a superior alternative, but the proposals I've heard sound even more like your "clown-nose" concept than the system we're used to.
> but then Go has this promise that the author of a struct can add new fields without breaking users of the free-form constructor, as long as they are using the key-value variant instead of the positional varian

This is the bit that would need to change. And actually, doing so would provide the same benefits that non-nullable types do in other contexts.

Say a Go library user is using a struct in 5 places, and the library author adds a new field. The user updates the free-form constructor to properly initialise the new field in 4 of those 5 places, but overlooks the 5th. As it stands, that will fail silently if the program is relying on using a non-null value somewhere else in the code. If upgrading the library caused a compile time error then that bug would have been caught.

Rust also has "free-form constructors" like Go, and this is the approach it takes: you must provide a value for all fields.
So many great lessons in that story, from "too many lawyers in Boston" to "debased currency" to "moral arguments that both sides felt strongly about." It's all there, same as right now. It is also striking how the opportunists came out after the war ended to fill the power void and steal as much as they could from everyone else. Nothing ever changes with human nature. I will say, however, that everyone who participated in the Revolution knew what they were signing up for--big boys, some of whom later whined about their plight. It's hard to make sense of it all.

Another matter I find most striking about the article is how pretty much everyone was pardoned for serious crimes except for a few token examples. That is much like the soft-glove approach localities are taking with the Antifa communists today, although I'm not sure we should be handling violent communists in quite the same manner even though they are the same sort of lower class people as back then.

I very much appreciate how people back then would take to the streets at seemingly a moment's notice and at least try to shove it back up the asses of the people who sought to destroy them, unlike today where regular people are just kicked around by bullies who are completely untouchable. Today, people who are poor believe it's their own fault when in fact it is a combination of factors, not just their own lousy behavior.

The article hints at how Shays' rebels were paid, much like the rent a mobs in action around the US today.

People do need to stand up for themselves because elections are rigged and leaders will never have anything but the interests of corporate and power centers in their minds. It is what it is in some ways, but the spirit of revolution is the spirit of pushing back against those overwhelmingly corrupt forces.
>How many people (non-Bostonian Massachusetts) are we talking about here?

The Boston statistical area also covers Nashua and Portsmouth which while not as heavily populated is not even part of Massachusetts and NH prides itself on having much different culture and politics than it southern neighbor, just worth pointing that out.

A huge chunk of the population across the entire state is gonna be apathetic on any/every issue. If you cut those out of your counting (which probably cuts the state population in half or so) I'd say 45%+/-10% really resent Boston's control over the rest of the state, particularly in the second tier cities that get pushed around at the state level when it comes to funding.

There's a pretty steep drop off to approval of state government once you're outside I495.

Also, the preferred pronoun for people from MA is "Masshole" ;)

Edit: By Boston area I do NOT mean [1] which includes a lot of the Fall River/New Bedford area, the Lowell area and places more under the effect of Worcester in addition to parts of NH and ME. I mean the area in MA where Boston is the major city that has the most effect on day to day life (not to be confused with "daily effect on life") of most people. The area covered by Boston Craigslist is a pretty good proxy for this.

[1] https://statisticalatlas.com/metro-area/Massachusetts/Boston...
Not the parent poster but it's queries like these:

Select user.id, user.name, sum(tx.amount) from user inner join txn on (user.id = txn.uid) group by user.id

User.name is not in the group by list so it is picked arbitrarily from the rows in the group. It's harmless here but not in all cases.
> first of all, struct creation is supposed to be light-weight.

Non-nullable pointers don't make struct creation any more expensive.

> You can provide a "function constructor", which is simply a function that returns SomeStruct or * SomeStruct, but it is not required, nor can you forbid the free-form constructor.

You can have an exported function returning a non-exported type. This restricts the "freeform" constructor to the package's internal's. It severely limits the caller's ability to use it (unless you also provide an interface to work with), but it's there.
Yes, but that technology existed before the 1900s. Banham has a great graph that illustrates the sudden mass adoption of lightbulbs/refrigerators/air conditioning within the span of 10-20 years from 1910-1930.
Host your own git server! It's not super hard on a vps, you could also maybe look into gitlab, iirc it's open source and can be self hosted
I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure tiling functionality can be plugged in (i.e. some special snap app like gnome-snap, or something similar)