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"Must even be more confusing to black people from Latin-American countries. Do I get a double race bonus or should I pick the one that gives me most benefits? If so which one?"

Most US-based forms along these lines ask the Latino question separately from the general race question. "Latino" not fitting cleanly into any particular racial group is specifically why it's a separate question.

So if you're simultaneously black and of Latin-American origin, you'd answer both questions accordingly ("black" for race, and "yes" for whether or not you identify as having a Latin-American ethnic background).
How would the composition of a planet affect how much light it blocked of its star when passing in front? And signal to noise ratios are presumably quite easy to simulate. So not really sure what's so hard about it.
So, the Kepler method of detecting planets only works if the orbital plane (maybe not the right term) of the star we are looking at is such that the planets are between us and the star, right? So if we are looking down at the "top" of the star then no planets will obscure the star, right? Also the planets need to be passing in front of the star at precisely the right time that the planet and star and our telescope are all lined up more or less. Someone looking at our solar system would need to wait quite awhile to see Pluto pass by. If all of that is correct, how are we able to see any exoplanets? My layman's guess would be that it would be incredibly unlikely that everything would line up so that we could see anything. What am I missing in this picture?
What I think is unhelpful is the "I have to go to this college on this timetable and I have to get loans and I have to accept the terms that are offered to me and therefore it's everyone else's fault I'm in debt" mentality that persists despite how long it's been generally known to be a problem. If you think there's a better mentality, let's hear it - otherwise it's a known problem and people keep walking into it voluntarily and then calling it a crisis. Either it's worth it financially and it's not a crisis, or people need to stop taking the loans yesterday. No one owes you a degree that isn't worth the money.
Not at all. I just did that one in my head while driving, though I'm not fast.

The original multiplicands are honestly the hardest to remember. Don't materialize all of the intermediate results, and you can stay within working memory. You'll need to chunk a little, but mostly only 2 digit numbers.

Personally, I use fingers to keep track of the 10s place, and work from left to right. Less overwriting that way, and you start with an underapproximation that you refine gradually, which means you can stop early when estimating.
I think that the Arduino is worth mentioning, even though it fails the "power on to basic" need of the OP. Once setup, it is fairly easy to compile and upload to the board, and there is a lot that you can do with it, if they are not to into making thier own video games.
I think what happens in a real restaurant that doesn't share tips is that if you don't make enough you'll just be let go.
The "not the right fit" one always makes my blood boil especially in these cases.
From a technical point of view, I keep a "master" resume with every job I've ever had. Then I do what top comment recommends, which is break out the parts I want for whatever roles I happen to be applying for.

I also agree that applying for dev roles when you have manager experience is really going to raise questions. I was only a manager for one brief stint and I still had to reassure every single interviewer that "yes, I was interested in a purely technical role".

Age: very late 30s
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The problem is it's the federal government, thus you the taxpayer are responsible for defaults, which is a much larger swath of the population than just homeowners. The student loan crisis is going to be worse than the sub-prime mortgage issue because it won't be easy for our economy to recover from the downturn. The fall out will be both cultural and systemic. The course-corrective measures would be lenders locking out lower-income families from colleges, leading to a faster collapse of our middle class. Colleges will drop tuition rates slightly but tuition is largely sticky, unlike housing prices. This may even lead to some colleges going out of business. Loans will likely be under-written appropriately, but then degrees will be prioritized based on earnings potential, so only a narrow field of study (medical, lawyers, tech, etc) will be eligible for lending. Schools may price degrees differently, and only invest in those degree programs with the largest earnings potential, to the detriment of many other crucial programs. Ultimately college will become an institution to perpetuate a narrow focus of study, and only to those already in positions of wealth, which will further hasten the collapse of our middle class. We may not even be smart enough to realize what hit us until it does.
That actually sounds really useful. I could definitely see using a service like that. I'll take a closer look when I get home later this evening.
Listen to them the way you listen to yourself. That is, there's friction (i.e., their's), how can your brand / product mmitigate it? As well as, what new opportunities might you be able to create?

Then, it's communication. My fave (Frank Luntz) line is "it's not what you say, it's what thry hear." Put another way, clarity and understanding is the responsibility of the sender. For example, if tbe buyer isn't aware of a benefit, that's oon you / your marketing.

Speaking of benefits, features are nice to list - especially if I'm looking for something in particular - but benefits are what move the needle. Doing X is not the same as Saving me Y or allowing me to do Z.

Finally, it's uusually a numbers game. You'll have to kiss frogs. That's how it is. Mitigate that but also listen. Perhaps they have a need as well?
It won't be quadrupling the work load. It will be going from 15 credit hours to 20 credit hours. An increase of 33%, 50% being the upper limit for degrees with the least bit of cross over. This is because each degree will share the same general requirements and will count as each other's electives. Of course this won't work out for every combination nor for every degree program.

It will require a few things. For starters, from the first semester the student will need to know what degrees they are aiming for and plan accordingly with their advisers. It will require sacrificing some of the fun of college for a more practical approach. It will require giving up any hope of having no classes on a Friday. That's not about being talented though, but about discipline.

If the student will be taking out possible $100,000 or more and they can't do this, then they need to evaluate what they are about to do. Are they about to risk life long debt for an education or for a college experience? If they don't know if what they are studying is what they want to do, should they really be paying someone to teach them how to do it?

Also, if following their passion is something that is extremely difficult for them to learn, then perhaps college is not the right path for them to follow that passion. There has to be some realism on focusing on what you are good at.

This is all much easier when high schools adequately prepare people for college. I wonder how much of the increasing problems at the college level are a result of high schools providing educations of lowering adequacy.
Good observations. I'm currently employed in my 50s and starting to worry about my chances should I have to take them.

I'm often challenging my leaders because I believe they work for me, e.g. their job is to make my life easy. I usually get away with it simply because I've been here long enough to know how projects usually unfold.

As our workforce gets younger and younger (we don't generally hire graybeards either) I start wondering how I fit in - I don't want to ever become a manager so I guess I have to fake it with the skinny jeans!
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Yes, but you're only given the opportunity to add a tip to your credit card some of the time even when a service charge isn't added. I guess you're expected to leave some cash in that case.
I'm the same way in that I haven't been using torrents in awhile. But a few legit things they're used for us Linux distros so if you ever feel like helping in that endeavor you can seed out some ISOs.
There are considerable gaps in this information, at least on the uk. Even more difficult when it comes to diesel trucks as so many are international.
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LinkedIn has been completely useless for me. Not a single time has it been acceptable. I'll link it in an email, and people will ask for me to send a PDF instead. Got a few complaints when I used the "Save as PDF" feature, since it was obviously generated from LinkedIn. shrugs
Yes! 60 Hz is pretty darned close to Bb.
Our worst export, surely.
My first computer had cassette storage. I would not want to inflict that on anyone.
That's Fourier transform!
It also has to do with will you hang out and play ping pong all night or if you’re an 8-5er
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I don't think a library has been self-sustaining since they stopped being private and started being public.

Technically libraries should get cheaper to operate, since at least the once around here now don't have staff most of the time, requiring a card to get in.

Honestly, it seems like most of those communities are dying out though.
Discrimination sort seems interesting, though couched in such complex terms that it's hard to follow (admittedly, I read the paper[1] instead of watching the video).

As I understand it, it's a generalized MSD radix sort, and the difference in complexity analysis from traditional pairwise sorts is what the N stands for.

For strings, we know that a fixed-size prefix (say a character) that can take on a known finite set of values is capable of discriminating; that is, being a partial order on strings. From this we can construct a radix sort on strings that never has to revisit a character. So the net running time is approximately O(total number of characters in all strings). In contrast, a naive comparison sort may operate in O(nlogn) comparisons, but each comparison has a cost proportional to the length of the string, since we have to re-compare from scratch, such that this works out closer to O(log n * total number of characters in all strings).

My recollection is that MSD radix sorts are somewhat space-intensive, especially if we want them to be stable. I think O(n) space is required. Nonetheless, this is very interesting.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7e49/0023f84845c750f4a04b7d...
> I might not have checked out a book in the last five years, but I use my local library probably once a month

How do you use a library while not using books it hold?
Just like internet discourse would improve if people refrained from typing what they wouldn't say to someone's face, these tipping issues would be practically nonexistent if the owners tried to force workers to verbally request a tip after handing over a muffin.

To me, these tip requests deserve as much respect as the old inner city window washer routines[1]. They are insulting and show a complete lack of respect for the customer who chose your shop to spend their time and money.

[1] Edit: or any aggressive panhandling.
Have you tried using a headhunter or is that totally unrealistic nowadays? Sounds like there should be a good fit for you in lots of places if you can circumvent the usual hiring process.
Well - that shows that it really was a mistake to promote these loans and build the whole higher education around them.
i have a dark blue hat and a stripy one, but this question is odd enough that I feel like it might be a code or reference which I am not getting.
I too regret staying for 12 years on GW/Visual Basic and never finding my path to C. How to start a programming career slowly...
I’ve been at Google about as long as you, and I’ve heard folks say some variation of this since the day I started. Personally, while there may be political or spiritual changes further up the ladder I’ve noticed no real change in my day-to-day over the last five years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
Deliverability is a moving target, so you can’t really rely on your delivery metrics from last week.

Why? The SPAM Scoring Industry is a kind of monoculture that will impede or cancel delivery of messages. Most big email providers outsource SPAM scoring to a third party like Symantec or Brightworks. And when your email is found offensive by Brightworks with one of their clients, you’re banned on all of their clients. Part of how SPAM scorers gather intel us by hooking into the CFL system so they get a notification when a user hits the junk button to delete an email. Another way is by checking for mass duplication in your emails. Another way is tracking open rates via the email provider’s UI sending metrics to the scorer’s APIs.

And then there’s the CIDR block lists they coordinate and distribute as a courtesy for their customers. So you might be able to deliver to @gmail.com and then @yahoo.com won’t even take a connection from your server’s IP.

Why does all this happen? According to my friend who works for a midrange ISP on their email service, they have about 120PB to store real email. And the amount of SPAM they reject outright (never reaches any box, not even the junk box) is 93% of all their email traffic. They simply can’t afford to store all the SPAM.
The latter is an expression of the former.

To say an object is worth $10 is not a claim of the object's intrinsic value - it is to say that it is worth $10 to someone. That person assesses the worth of the object based on their principles and values (whether held explicitly or implicitly).

Edit: Elsewhere in this thread I've linked to additional resources to expand on the philosophy behind the article. I think they are worth the small investment of time to get a view on a radically different approach to life.
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The fixes as far as I can tell are pretty rudimentary, like if something is null and someone is trying to do something with it put an check for null around it. I would imagine if your used something like this consistently you code would become very much like a biological system -- a hack here a hack there... but hey it works.
Not tipping underpaid staff is a dick move, that's why you have to tip. if you want to change it, lobby your government or write to the business owners. Don't penalize $4/hr staff just to make a stupid point.

The unwritten rule is, tip your less than minimum wage staff that is working for you.
Only because Google decided to go shopping.
Musical notes are a base-7 system denoted with the letters A-F repeating. Given that it is not a numerical system, different A's or B's (ect) are marked with numbers rather then continuing like hex. i.e. A3, E5 (etc) with lower tones being lower numbers.

To answer your question, you won't. Perfect pitch usually develops in people who have had musical training since very young childhood. Just like you can't really remember learning your native language, they can't remember learning this skill. But like everyone, they did learn it at some point.
Not exactly impossible - see Deciem at https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-15/insider-t... , though that requires very unusual circumstances.
Man this one sucks. Being called at 2am to fix something once every couple of months isn't great but I can deal with it. Knowing I can be called at 2am on any day and be expected to fix something and not knowing when that will happen is what kills me. Despite the really good benefits in my current position I'm casually looking for a new job solely because of the on call schedule.
Two resumes? Granted, I'm only 43, but each and every resume I send out is tailored to the role I'm applying to. I make sure to highlight experience relevant to the role. Now that I'm mostly on the management side of things, I emphasize outcomes over languages and skills (they're in there, but not as prominent as they once were).
I can definitely relate to everything you've said, minus FAANG. One thing that helped me a lot is finding a job that allows my schedule to be flexible. Minus oncall, I can come in at 8am or noon, and no one bats an eye as long as work gets done. It removed a lot of anxiety and rushing in the morning.

Maybe not having to be in early might remove some morning anxiety and make it easier for you to sleep in?
This essay is a good allegory for recent politics: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/12/thanks-not...

A lot of us are just the long-loyal, basically decent spouse, listening to our mate scream at us about how everything that's wrong with the world is personally our fault. At some point, you just tune out, and then ultimately walk away.
I'll say the same about my Pixel.
> of one’s [values](sic).

Just a small thing — you either correct it ("[values]") or you note that the error is present in the original ("vales(sic)"). Doing both doesn't quite make sense.
Totally agree on the downside -- when you're down, you're way down.

But I'd argue, that's what separates the winners from the losers. A buddy of mine owns a lucrative landscaping business, but once the winter sets in, his revenue literally drops to zero. His solution has been a combination of part-time plumbing work and reallocating capital equipment from his landscaping business for sanding and snow removal. He probably makes more money now in the winter time than he does in the summer.
We are not hiring right now but I would love to have someone like you on our team!
Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum + Lab in Seattle may want them. Anyone have a contact there to put them in touch?
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As a young professional who's realized the importance of maintaining a network, I'd love to learn how you stay in touch with your former co-workers.

Do you reach out for weekend lunch dates just to chat? Are people open to that (given work, hobbies, kids, etc.)? I'm having a hard time coming with "excuses" and serendipity to stay in touch with people I'm no longer working with.
This was going to be my suggestion. You could also make sure some sort of curses library is installed, e.g. https://bashsimplecurses.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

But really the question is misguided. Kids need to want to do something with a computer, and in order to do that they will learn shell script, basic, javascript, asm typed from magazines, whatever, to get it done. The environment itself is instrumental, not terminal.
I agree--maybe it's because HN skews so heavily towards the other end, that the grass just looks that much greener, but it has a really strange and inaccurate perception of blue collar work. I've worked in a range of blue collar jobs (from landscaping to construction to electrical). Around here at least, the pay ranged from absymal ($8/hr) for unskilled to ($12/hr) for apprentice-level work, less than half of what an untrained, fresh-out-of-college, entry-level position in my current field pays (40-45K), with a much lower ceiling for advancement unless, maybe, if you operate your own business. The hours were terrible (7am-5:30pm Monday-Saturday), and on average required 30-60 minutes commute each way depending on where the job site was, with a "travel allotment" that didn't even cover the fuel costs for my cheap hybrid car, much less depreciation (I was put up in a motel when at sites more than 90-120 minutes away from home). I think people here abhor staring at the same computer screen all day (which I fully admit can be a bummer), and they think a job "working out in the sunshine where you don't have to think hard all day" sounds good. It is absolute hell on your body, and you're working in all kinds of weather in all manner of dirty, dingy environments at all times of the year--some days it's 105 degrees, some days it's 5 degrees. It's loud, stressful, exhausting, repetitive, and often dangerous work, and there's no way I'd go back to it.
I'll accept your apology if you share how you came to that conclusion.
It's pretty damn hard to do a "good" job when a statement like that is twisted so quickly to mean something drastically different. The fact that certain people ate that up like candy is troubling on several levels.
City dwellers dramatically subsidize American suburbs and rural areas. Roads, water, the electric grid, communication networks, hospitals, fire suppression, law enforcement, courts, schools, mail delivery, .... public infrastructure and services get more expensive per capita when people are more spread out. On top of that, the federal government intentionally spends large amounts of money in poorer areas of the country (e.g. on military bases and weapons contractors) as an explicit geographical wealth redistribution scheme. 80 years ago the rural poverty in many parts of America was a story of shocking destitution.

If people want to reduce the tax burden on folks with low incomes just scraping by, the way to accomplish that is by increasing taxes on corporate profits, very large incomes, large inheritances, etc., expand enforcement against tax evasion, and eliminate legal or quasi-legal tax-avoidance loopholes. However, the wealthy in this country have largely succeeded in a 50-year campaign to redistribute wealth upward.
>A very easy, relatively pleasant way to get through life in the US if you're well-off enough that you routinely buy coffee in expensive coffee shops: just always tip. Anywhere there's a tip line. You never have to figure anything out, and sometimes people really appreciate it.

This echoes the sentiment that 'if you can't afford to pay a X% tip, you can't afford to buy the product'. Problem is that it seems to keep going up. It use to be 10, then 15, now it is closing in on 20 and in some areas 22 seems to be the expected. How far does this logic extend? If you can't afford to tip 50% then you can't afford it?

My preferred reaction has been to begin avoiding places where tipping is an option.
It does at least alter the expectations. A jar encourages you to toss your change in, and every little bit can be appreciated. Seeing 15%, 18% and 20% as the available options on an already overpriced coffee can make you even feel like more of a scrooge if you hold up the line manually entering 23 cents.
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By about 30% between 1975 and 2005.

https://www.beefmagazine.com/genetics/0201-increased-beef-co...
> Is anyone else wondering why a tax increase is needed to keep the library open? Does that mean it wasn't sustainable? Could it be due to rising minimum wage? Is it reasonable to blame the voters?

Of course it is reasonable to blame the voters. There was a ballot measure that would have saved the library and they chose to vote against it. It was entirely in their control.
I'm terrible at tipping and this is the one thing I do know. But –

It's next to impossible to get enough small bills to cover all the tipping you need to do on a vacation, between hotels and taxis, and other incidentals. ATMs typically spit out the local equivalent of USD$20s if you're lucky; US$100s if you're not. Who's going to make change for that?

At home this is less of a problem because (a) I don't have as many things to tip for, and (b) I have had time to save up small bills for tipping. But when first thrust into a foreign country you need to be PREPARED.