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> One should certainly avoid English speaking landlords in Berlin though.

Would you care to elaborate on that?
independent.co.uk article is a reblog (+ video/ad junk) of https://www.joe.co.uk/news/sleeping-tricks-197402 (who copied it from a book)

Mods might change the link, for better reader experience and respect for the more-original bloggers.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Relax_and_Win.html?id=Y...
No, that's not what I said at all. My argument was more along the lines of "it's hard to get a man to understand what his salary requires him not to understand".

I'm saying that even though climate change is disastrous collectively, it's currently generally in an individual's interest to burn carbon. And so a fair chunk of people will have great difficulty even understanding that this burning is terribly bad for the planet and for us collectively.

Even absent propaganda we would have this problem. Now, if society were all united in sending a message I'm sure more people would be in favour of emissions reduction. But you're treating the issue as only caused by propaganda.
Flat, flexible hierarchies can mask hidden power structures where responsibilities and accountabilities are vague / closed to outsiders. Not always, but something to be aware of...
Swift and Objective-C API with C++14 shaders vs plain old C API and manually compilation of shaders?

Obvious choice, plus all engines that matter already support Metal.

Same situation on PS4, XBox and UWP.
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TLDR: the military goggles switch much faster, are more transparent in the "open" state, and fail to a safe state if they lose power.

Auto-darkening welding helmets just use an LCD panel + polarizing filter in their window, versus the PLZT + polarizer in the bomber eye-protection. As gumby mentioned in their reply, the speed of transition is very different - 1/20,000 second for the LCD panel versus "a ten-millionth of a second" for the military helmets.

The welding helmets that I've looked at sandwich it with a pane of what looks like Schott BG38 or BG39 glass in order to also filter out UV and NIR, because most polarizing filters are transparent in those wavelengths.[1] The military equivalent seems to use something similar ("sandwiched with a near infrared blocking material"), but the article doesn't describe it in detail.

The military goggles fail to a safe state.[2] I believe that welding helmets fail to an unsafe state (they are transparent if they lose power), but it would be nice to have someone else confirm that.

The military goggles also have 20% transmittance in the "open" state, according to the article. The Harbor Freight helmet has a "resting" state equivalent to a #4 welding shade, which is about 6.25% transmittance.[3]

[1] This is part of the ANSI Z87.1 spec that good auto-darkening helmets meet.

[2] "When linked to an electric current, the lenses are clear. But any dangerous flash of light, such as lightning or a nuclear blast, instantaneously breaks the circuit. This causes the lenses to go black, protecting the vision of anyone wearing the helmet."

[3] https://i.stack.imgur.com/u8yzV.jpg
It's hard to completely generalize, because modernity is a pretty short timeframe and things are moving very quickly relative to the rest of history, but Pinker's premise (which is well defended) is that human progress is inexorably toward less violence, both in terms of warfare and criminal/interpersonal violence. That's in large part because violence is becoming a less effective means of social advancement.

Having effective, more or less trustworthy police and courts goes a long way toward both making violent behavior risky, and reducing the need for vigilante justice/vengeance violence. And civil courts help resolve disputes without resorting to violence.

Likewise, trade and economic stability have become so effective that it makes little sense for nations to engage in war with their neighbors anymore. War is bad for business!
Yeah. I reading about these back in college and thinking it was utterly terrifying. Theses loans feel very akin to opening another Kimberley mine
WTF. That might be in your country but in Europe this is pretty normal question. If you are going to be hired you have the right to know these.

You seem like an exploiter.
free software, free science, free the labor force with software and science.
There is nothing wrong with saying something new could be better but is Metal actually so much better than Vulkan to be the only supported API?
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> I'd be curious to know more about how you got there, and what you do to adapt.

1. I got here in a terrible accident pushing a load of small children under a bus. (Or was it the other way round, I can never remember?)*

2. Think analytically, have an amazing wife's, failure isn't really failure is just a data point and heroic quantities of coffee.

* Because this is the Internet I will have to state that that was a joke covering the fact that I would really rather not talk about it. :-)
Really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1heXNiwAB0s
Would OP be envious of someone's leave while they were battling cancer? Benefits exist because we have collectively decided they increase quality of life.

Not everyone will have children, but that are necessary for a vibrant, healthy economy (in the long term) and to provide societal continuance. Therefore, the benefit provided to parents is valuable, both to the parents and to society.
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The example 'pjc50 gave isn't one of just different hardware, it's one of a different class of hardware. I don't think letting people make hardware cheaper is going to help much now (you can make hardware prototypes cheap enough these days).

Not to mention, bloat finds a way. See e.g. smartwatches. There was Pebble that managed to create a good, bloat-free piece of equipment. But the market was soon flooded by watches running... Android. Even navigations, biking computers and other sports devices run Android now.
For controllers or processors not established in the Union, GDPR only applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union. See Article 3 [1].

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
Basic understanding of programming might be useful. But perhaps critical thinking/reasoning would be even more so. Not sure how this could be developed. Maybe subjects such as philosophy, history, logic, classical literature, etc...
Okay, here's an oddball answer: https://github.com/servo/skia/blob/master/forth/

Skia used to include a really simple Forth implementation written in C++. According to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/skia-discuss/joAyAl1... it was intended for straightforward/simple scripting, and for some reason promptly got deleted shortly after being brought up.

[In case you haven't noticed yet, the official Skia repo is at /google/; I've linked to /servo/'s obviously-old copy above, but there are more than enough forks and clones for the code to be findable elsewhere too.]

I kind of like this implementation because it's both incredibly context-specific and generalized all at the same time, and it isn't Bare Metal Implementation #79,513. And it's C++, too, although this is not (overly) abused.
Chrysler has had similar issue[0] this last year, their Pacifica Minivan had a software crash that would cause the engine management computer to crash and the vehicle to completely lose power while operating (inc. at highway speed). In effect you'd have complete loss of electrical power and even power steering, brake assist, and hazard warning lights(!) would be lost.

Took them six or more months to fix it as they weren't able to reproduce the software glitch.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/business/chrysler-pacific...
That seems quite at odds with how nostrils work. Your nostrils alternate opening and closing autonomically.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30363/why-does-your-nose-get-...

" Throughout the day, they each take breaks in a process of alternating congestion and decongestion called the nasal cycle. At a given moment, if you're breathing through your nose, the lion’s share of the air is going in and out of one nostril, with a much smaller amount passing through the other. Every few hours, your autonomic nervous system, which takes care of your heart rate, digestion and other things you don’t consciously control, switches things up and your other nostril does all the heavy lifting for a little while. The opening and closing of the two passages is done by swelling and deflating erectile tissue - the same stuff that’s at work when your reproductive organs are aroused - up in your nose."
Tesla really scares me.

They released an OTA update to the brakes with less than 2 weeks from first reports to code being pushed to the entire fleet of cars on public roads.
The Expanse sci-fi novel series goes into this subject quite a lot.

The people who live on and around the outer planets ("belters") are all said to have an extreme fixation on ship maintenance, those who didn't having been "weeded out" of the gene pool by their negligence.
Couldn't disagree more. The fact that the company doesn't like those questions would be a massive red flag to me that they indeed expect me to work weekends.

Times are great to be a software engineer. Don't squander that opportunity working for a place that won't respect you especially when there are so many wonderful places to work at where you will be respected.
You really should not be using basic questions concerning things like work life balance as a hiring heuristic for candidates. If nothing else, from a purely pragmatic standpoint you do not receive any new information from a question about work life balance other than, "This candidate has a question about work life balance."

Your interpretation of that question is going to be noisy, subjective, unreliable and intrinsically incomplete. That makes it an exceptionally poor hiring signal. The idea that you can divine interesting insights about a candidate's employability or character based on mundane interview questions is fundamentally flawed.
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They are wrong. The law in some (all?) EU countries fortunately mandates lighting.

I have seen bike lanes where it's expected that cars will at least partially drive onto the lane because the road is too narrow.

And it's kinda ironic: pedestrians will likely blunder into the bike lane without looking, just like bikers sometimes suddenly pop before cars without the slightest care in the world.
It is cheaper.
> Money definitely does not make people any happier.

It would be a struggle to write something more patently ridiculous.
Where I live, there are laws mandating the minimum distance a vehicle has to be from a cyclist when passing (1.5m) - this distance is not covered by the available clearance in the cycling lane.

If you can't see a cyclist is in the lane, it's difficult to give them safe clearance, and driving as though you are always giving clearance to cyclists means driving closer to the other traffic lane, increasing risk of vehicular collision.
Modern electronic cars use a single bus (CAN bus) that connect all electrical systems. The brakes, the engine, the wipers, the stereo...

Luckily it is a very well-tested system, it was one the first commercial use cases for QuickCheck [1], but still...

One of the bugs that John Hughes found was an integer overflow that transformed a lowest-priority message into a highest-priority message.
[1] https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/john-hughes/quviq...
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Some devs are so obsessed complaining about Metal that most aren't aware that UWP and Windows Store are DirectX only.

An advantage of all proprietary 3D APIs is the amount of out-of-box infrastructure code, debugging tools and having progressed beyond C, while Khronos APIs are still mostly C, and requiring creating mini-engine from scratch after fishing for libs.
> a story about a bug in a missile that was on the verge of delaying its deployment due to tests failing.

A Patriot Missile in Saudi Arabia wasn't launched to intercept a SCUD, which then killed 28 soldiers. The reason was poor handling of rounding errors [1]

The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 rocket resulted in a RUD due to an integer overflow [2]

[1] http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

[2] http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html
If an airline crashed because of a Linux bug, that still counts.
Tesla pushed out a software update to AutoPilot (Lane Centering) that caused a fatality[0], I hardly think they should be held up as an example of good software hygiene.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/29/tesla-crash-victims-f...
There is no method. The blog and videos are public and free. Might be hard to understand for those earning billions of revenue from lenses and frames. Requires time investment to learn basic eye health principles which are well known to vision therapists.
I am looking for something to recommend to a new dev, and your link is definitely preferable. While the story in the opening post is cute, I just don't care about said story.
Holodomor is literally Nazi propaganda.
If asking working hours means being flagged as not committed, I would seriously question the quality of the interviewee and subsequently the company.
Joe Rohan Experience has an amazing podcast that talks about this.

Here is the clip: https://youtu.be/Nk3xdMkwMsE
How is this radical. People who have invested in knowledge (e.g. via taxes) should be able to access that knowledge, i.e. reap the benefits of their investment. There is nothing radical here.

Sure, I get that this is radical in the sense that some leeches' industry will dry up. That's a good thing but it puzzles me how we got in this situation in the first place.
You likely did not read the article... there is nothing in it that would imply he loved his job. He stayed at his job because of complacency and security. Not because he loved bussing tables.
From my understanding, HSB is the industry arm of Munich Re. For insuring industrial facilities, expertise in auditing those is needed, and they also sell that expertise. IoT fits in there as a way of collecting more data, improving the quality of their risk assessment, selling monitoring equipment also means being able to avoid insurance cases, monitoring of SLAs that are insured, ...
I look at it the other way. People keep comparing Amazon and Facebook to YouTube, But I don't understand why. YouTube is a single channel and is very different from others because they serve video ads.

Google (search) on the other hand, seems to be a much closer competitor to Amazon because lots of people search for products there and then use Google's product search to find the product they want from many different retailers. It's sort of Amazon vs. the field. Do you want to limit your search to Amazon and its platform or expand your search to every online retailer who doesn't sell on Amazon? I've found Google product search to be extremely useful in finding the right combination of trusted retailer and lowest price (including sales tax and shipping). Add to this a list of highly-ranked reviews or sites related to the product I'm searching for directly beneath the list of products, and I usually find Google a better shopping experience.
Always buy in to 64. What was our ancestors' problem?[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
A couple of decades ago, not being a peasant was a rarity outside of developed countries. According to Wikipedia, China's rural population was 97% in 1950. Now it's 50% or so.

I mean no offense, I was born in a Warsaw Pact country.
What is a team? I know we're on HN but there are many different types of teams.

I work in sort of devops teams and I've helped conduct the technical part of a few interviews so I made some questions for that reason.

1. Some technical questions but they're not that important.

2. More important is what they do in their off time. I always try to figure out how nerdy they are.

One person when asked the 2nd type of question brought out their mobile phone and showed us how they could control their entire home with an open source automation system and a homemade app they made themselves.

They were hired and they were very good.
Very true, but there’s evidence that switching from hunting to farming actually changed us because of nutritional deficiencies, not just exercise changes.

Example: hunter gatherers were not only stronger, they were taller and had wider jaws that fit all their teeth better. They also had fewer cavities than both farmers and modern humans. I personally think humans have lower tolerance for carbohydrates than most realize, and that we’re missing out on a lot of fat soluable compounds in our diets, such as K2.

They also typically lived healthier, although not always longer. Obviously war, predation, and disease cut the life expectancy of hunter gatherers a lot. But if you exclude the unlucky, they actually remained active into remarkably old ages, seeing skeletons who showed signs of hunting into their 80s is not unheard of at all. Our aging might make it to their 80s much more regularly, killing off the sabertooths helped, but they’re hobled by mental and physical degeneration at distressingly high rates.
> We are issuing this AD to prevent loss of all AC electrical power, which could result in loss of control of the airplane

So the 787 doesn't have a mechanical backup for the flight controls? So much for the Boeing fanboys talking about their mechanical yokes. Through realistically that says very little about actual reliability and safety, just look at the 737 rudder issues.
"I HAVE tried to sell my MBP even at a significant discount over the purchase price. (bought for $4300, I'm asking $3000 and even lowered to $2500) NO BITES. The machine is in immaculate condition, too."

I think that your problem is that the secondary market doesn't care about specs. They care about the Apple logo on the back, for the most part. So your extra RAM and bigger SSD aren't features to them. They just see the cost is $1000-$1500 more than they could buy a new one for.
The specific functionality you describe is available in mainframes, although they are designed to always run a hypervisor. You can't practically do it in the PC world because the operating systems either expect to use a virtualisation interface, or they expect direct control over the hardware. The latter will also give better performance.

Some virtualisation environments do have hardware passthrough. A good example would be having a high performance PCIE video card which is passed through to to a guest for gaming. You can also use real storage instead of files pretending to be storage, although this is less flexible (eg no snapshots).

My recommendation is to use Ubuntu as your host OS and run Windows as a VM guest.
even with tips, hes not making 14/hr. it says he could retire, i highly doubt that.

hes uneducated, it says so in the article. why is there an article about an uneducated busser (and his busser family and friends) on here? wtf is going on... is this a pity article? i dont get it.
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The fact that Vulkan is a C API and requires searching for extensions even for a plain 3D Hello World, makes Metal a better option on the Mac.
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This Julia Evans blog post lists many questions to ask before accepting a new role : https://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-inter...
I wonder if he goes deep into the mistreatment of employees during the Steve Jobs era. He was a great innovator but his proven attitudes toward those working to create his next piece of magic was less than stellar.
If Go gets generics, maybe they’ll actually add an ‘implements’ keyword for interfaces and no more of this:

var _ SomeIface = SomeConcrete{}
var _ AnotherIface = SomeConcrete{}

Just to see if you actually implemented all the signatures on the interface correctly.
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I personally love pfSense and there’s tons of hardware for $100-250 that supports it.
C/C++ __LINE__ is unique to a line.
Just an aside... One thing I've been wondering for ages - How is WebAssembly any different to/better than the clusterfuck that Flash became? The security model/ sandboxed isolation?
Remember the Ariane rocket - also a piece of verified code running in verified OS, running on verified MCU, made in verified silicon, but the obvious flaw was still missed.

The problem with formal verification that for a complex system, the amount of constraints goes over the roof, and it is no longer possible to humanly understand if one of them makes sense in complex.

It might very well be possible that something "register A should never overflow when input B is below value C" was put in validation rules, but nobody gave importance to understanding what it was. Or worse, somebody was simply lazy to change it, fearing it will upset 20 some even more obscure validation constrains.