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You will be building a fast-growing product suite of intelligent content authoring tools, analytics and visualisation software, cloud-hosted, scalable and using a bleeding-edge machine learning stack. You will working closely with the rest of the technology team, our data science and psychology R&D team, and the rest of the company up to and including the CEO.

We are a diverse and friendly team and particularly welcome applications from groups often underrepresented in the tech industry. This is an exciting opportunity to join a successful startup as it reaches an inflection point - if this sounds appealing then please get in touch.

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If anybody here is using gnome instead of KDE, there is "GSConnect" that allows you to use your current desktop environment with KDEConnect on your android mobile phone.

https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...
Actually, you've reminded me that some of the best puns are the ones that don't quite work anyway. Part of the reason "surely you can't be serious..." is so funny is that it's tortuous to the point of absurdity!
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I haven't looked at ripple in awhile, but I thought the idea was that if Alice agrees that she can float Bob $5 and Bob agrees that he can float Charles $5 then as long as you trust Alice with a $5 debt, you can trust Charles with a $5 debt, even though you don't know Charles.

And in practice it's usually that Alice and Bob are banks, and Charles is just a customer of Bob's bank. So, Bob can freeze Charles' money.

What you're talking about sounds more like EOS, Cardano, Ethereum Proof of Stake, etc.
Hi! Recorded meetups will be added eventually, that's the plan. I'd love to work on that, but just don't have the capacity at the moment.

If you spot an Elixir meetup on YouTube, please open an issue so it's not lost, and I will add it – https://github.com/gmile/everyelixirvideo.page/issues/new.

Thanks!
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Swearing can be very impactful when sparingly and appropriately applied. Using "fucking" as a universal adjective and "shit" as a universal noun not only lacks class, it is a complete absence of eloquence.
I think the idea is that your culture can enslave you in an idea of who you want to be, which isn't really yours, but rather your culture's. The idea seems to be that this identity has been forced on you, and isn't really yours.

This brings up all kinds of nature-vs-nurture questions. It also has a nice recursive issue: Those who hold this view (that you should be free to choose your identity, without your culture imprinting one on you): Did their culture imprint that view on them? (Before you say "no", remember that "their culture" may be the university rather than the town they grew up in.)
Communication over the internet is hard and I’m not sure if I can convey the idea briefly in a HN post, but the idea is simple. The assumption that free will and determinism are at odds with each other is ungrounded when you actually look into it.

“Non-determinism” implies randomness which is NOT what we are talking about when we say something like “Susie made a decision.” She makes a decision for reasons, and those reasons are the determinant (cause) of her choice. When you look into what decision making actually is, I.e. the procedures that underlying it, you find that it MUST be the case that our thinking is mostly if not all deterministic for free will to be of any meaning at all.

So really, the question is “why wouldn’t they be compatible?” And it says a lot about our introspective blind spots that we have for so long thought that free will and determinism were at odds with each other.
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Yeah, it didn't come out in my comment, but I didn't mean it to be "anyone can do it". Just that the doggedness and determination is a big part. The person making it to be a SEAL might never be able to buff up to Arnold levels and vice versa. The motivation might not be there. The physical stamina might not be there.
Especially, even if this is programmable, this chip is probably not programmable from the point of view of the motherboard...

And if an attacker is able to connect a chip programmer on your motherboard, you have a totally different threat model and bigger problems to worry about.
Now I want to eat cheese, it's really not nice to post food-related content. I don't thank you.
For the people that are still against Microsoft's involvement in mainstream technology, I don't think there will ever be a time where they'll accept Microsoft.

That's not to say that their criticisms are unfounded. The main criticism today is around advertising and telemetry in Windows 10, and that's absolutely a problem for a professional device. There are many scummy practices still going on at Microsoft, and the disjointed nature between their divisions is plain to see.

I don't mind it, because I think criticism is required to keep people/companies honest, and to drive improvement, but at this point I think a lot of people in tech will always find something to complain about in regards to Microsoft.
You seem to be having some grave misconceptions about

1. How open source projects work,
2. How polished and stable KDE already is, and
3. How useful piece of software KDE Connect is.
I just saw the street outside and all the cars are German, although there is a Renault Zoe looking good without the tailpipe - had to check that. But yes, you are right, German cars are what everyone wants to buy in the UK.

Opel and Vauxhall were owned by GM until a year ago, they are now owned by Peugeot/Citroen - 'PSA group'. When the Astra gets to the end of its life expect Ellesmere Port to close. Regarding Luton there will be vans made there on the PSA platform, this will be badge engineering with the same vans having many different inprints, possibly for other non PSA brands as that already goes on a lot in the sector.

PSA also bought Chrysler Europe many aeons ago and only kept the Ryton plant going in the UK, the Peugeot 309 was supposed to by a Chrysler originally. That really was decades ago and it kind of vanished, much like how GM/Ford dropped a few brands after 2008, closing production here and there.

Bentley do have some British badge on them but they make the Bentayga alongside the Porsche and Audi SUVs somewhere in the Czech Republic or Slovakia, I would have to fact check there, but you get the idea. They might send them off to England to have the badges slapped on but the point is that it is an integrated supply chain.

Rolls Royce have invested in plant in the UK but that again is part of a complicated supply network, the engine is German in a Rolls, originally - a century ago - Rolls did the engine and chassis, you were having to shop elsewhere for the 'coachwork', in 2018 they do just the 'coachwork'. Rolls Royce is ultimately a halo brand, bespoke but very much made possible by BMW 7 series type of platforms.

MINI production is in the UK however there is also a lot of MINI cars made by Magna in Austria (the MINI Clubman things) as well as in the former DAF factory in the Netherlands. MINI are well placed to shut up shop completely, for good in the UK. Notionally they are changing the UK production facilities for the EV models promised.

Getting back to Vauxhall, they were not just Opel with a different badge, in the days before the common market GM had lots of different subsidiaries with their own design and engineering. Same with Ford, British Fords were different to German Fords.

In that era there was a cross licensing deal with components so Lucas/Girling in the UK did not compete in the same markets as Bosch in Germany. With things like disc brakes, lighting and much else that was how it worked, Lucas could make the whole range for the UK and Bosch could for their markets, sharing patents and IP. Lucas got merged, acquired, split up and sold, so some bits of it are owned by companies in Germany like ZF. These companies know no borders though.
Ara Güler is also famous for insisting he's neither an artist, nor a photographer, but a journalist. Translated below:

"I don't think photography is art. I'm a journalist, not a photographer. When a bomb explodes, a photographer runs away, but the journalist chases after it and tries to capture the story. That's the difference between a photographer and a journalist and it's how I have worked all my life."
You made a pretty bold statement saying that no Proof of Stake systems are not immune to grinding, although they're are some currently major ones in existence, EOS, Carsano, etc. If you can grind away at these systems, why don't you do that and make a trillion dollars yourself?
To put it shortly but slightly inaccurately, compatibilism basically comes from the idea that "free will" is implied by "moral responsibility", and then it is noted that moral responsibility and determinism are compatible.

For more detail, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/#FreWil.
The English Wikipedia article was not very enlightening, so I went over to the German Wikipedia which includes this helpful example:

> According to [David] Hume, free will is not the ability to choose otherwise given the exact same inner and outer condition. He considers it the hypothetical ability to choose otherwise, had the actor been in a psychologically different state because of different wishes or beliefs.

(Sorry for the rough translation, but I think it brings the point across.)

In general, the debate seems to be on what you take "free will" to mean. Philosopher/neuroscientist Joscha Bach [1] defines it as "the ability to do what one has recognized as right", contrasting it e.g. with compulsory behavior.

[1] https://bach.ai, although the source of the quote is the German podcast https://alternativlos.org/42/
What intentional misspelling? "Pertistent" in the 1879 printing is a printer's error, and it's very clear if you look at the passage that it can't be intentional, because the same character uses the word 5 times in quick succession.

The transcriber's error is unwitting; he specifically comments on the fact that he didn't want to make it.
For you, they now are your tastes, but if those tastes were acquired by nurture, they don't have to be your children's tastes.

Given some tastes lead to less power and riches in our current societal environment. If they are nurtured, it is logical for parents to want to nurture them to more lucrative alternatives.

If they are innate though, it's a waste of time to try and change them. So I feel it is definitly somewhat relevant to know.
yeah, for example 100+ years ago (or today in conservative environment) there were/are probably a lot of gay people who genuinely believe they are not and suffer their whole live, not even cause they are afraid to "come out" but cause they don't even accept themselves.
How is that action even remotely comparable to MS security telemetry?
> The reason I am a sceptic is because as a Scandinavian I notice easily how much more macho men are in less gender equal societies and how much more feminine the women are.

I think it depends on what you're looking at. It is indeed true what you say. But if you look at % of women in tech, less gender equal societies will have relative more female programmers.

This is from my own experience as a Belgian married to a Slovakian, and working in tech with externals in Ukraine and other countries.

It is true that middle and eastern Europe have a more traditional gender division, and I found this article that shows my point: http://blog.honeypot.io/women-in-tech-germany/. Netherlands has the least % of women in tech, but I can tell you they don't have a traditional gender role division (just as in Belgium).

So to get back to your first point, I think feminine women don't necessarily avoid working in tech, while more emancipated women do. It seems counter intuitive, but it definitely points in that direction.
That's correct. On the other hand, I see many people sheepishly accepting slow page loads and overall unresponsiveness of today's web apps because - apart from a few slim ones - the majority seems to be equally sluggish, loading tons of JS, webfonts (before the page gets loaded!) and what have you. Many people somehow got convinced that it has to be that way.
You mean the type of people that rule the world?

I'm joking (sort of) but this is half the job description for leadership jobs, politicians, executives and such.

The differences are of quality, not type. Jobs' thinkering was good, for the most part, for example.
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I find it sad that we eat so many intelligent creatures, including octopus. Alas, B12 and certain other nutrients are only gotten from meat.

I find it reasonable to limit meat consumption to animals that were bred for that purpose, and I am satisfied with few types of meat and have no need for the more capricious varieties (eating things like horse is unnecessary. I'll stick with chicken).

This video is what triggered this thought process for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqAmR1lEN0I (EDIT: I'd linked the wrong video)

I will certainly never eat octopus.
Sure, give someone a problem slightly harder than fizz buzz just to make sure they aren't a complete fraud.

But the difference between someone who can solve an easy whiteboarding problem and a hard one is merely the fact that they practiced for months doing it. It is unlikely that solving the hard problem is much of a signal other then that.
>The reason I am a sceptic is because as a Scandinavian I notice easily how much more macho men are in less gender equal societies and how much more feminine the women are.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you're making an argument against a study that ranged over 80,000 individuals and 76 countries by using your own personal anecdotes of people you've met. Can we agree that the study takes into account far more people and controls for far more variables than what you've personally experienced?
Ex Amazon here. If you think you would be offered a junior role just because you don't have a degree, think again. Degrees are treated as a plus; the answers to technical questions is what really matter, including the ones or past projects.
That might work, but it's not what this is; this is just a distillation of (gamed) Amazon reviews.
I like it. I like that it encourages human-to-human meetings through technology. I like the simplicity of it.

Given LinkedIn screw us with permissions to access contacts, I always cringe when an app requires access to contacts.
Describing the scientific method, not creating it.
I read Revelation Space many years ago and it made no impression whatsoever; can't remember a single thing about it. I do like the (early) Culture novels, although their most striking novelties (like the the interesting temporal structure in Use of Weapons) aren't always SFnal ideas.
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For me the Wifi issues in Linux are not 20 year old. They happen to me almost once every week randomly.

It depends a lot on your modem manufacturer though.
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IMHO, KDE Connect is currently one of the best parts of KDE (together with Dolphin and the Nextcloud integration). I use it for a few years now and while my there are only a few use-cases I use regularly, I am always delighted to have it when something unexpected happens.

For example, my phone has its own place on my desk and there are just a few places where I put it when it isn't there. A few weeks ago it wasn't on the desk and not in the other places where I searched for it. Calling it from another phone didn't help because it was late in the night and my phone switches to silent mode for the night automatically. But KDE Connect was the hero of the day, as the 'ping' feature works even if the phone is in silent mode :-)

Looking forward to more awesome KDE Connect versions.
Sounds good, but count me out if there's no way to access it from desktop. I wouldn't use Facebook, Twitter, etc. if I couldn't access it from a normal browser too.
After I discovered F-Droid [1], I've found myself installing practically nothing from the Play Store, especially such neat little utility tools. F-Droid has a lot of half-done or unpolished stuff, but it also has tons of simple, elegant tools that do their job, as well as minor works of passion that have their own niche. I use the main repo, the Guardian one and one from IzzyOnDroid [2].

[1] https://f-droid.org/
[2] https://android.izzysoft.de/repo
Here's my question off the bat: Facebook is known for using Onavo to find networks that take off and then buying them (I forget names - tbh was it?). I know of course this early in the process you don't know what the future holds, but are you open to acquisition by Facebook? I place a very high value on using the product depending on that answer.
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I did not mean to imply that no American women swear. But, I never expected that swearing would be man-repellent nor was told anything of the sort.

> Also, everything I have read and experienced suggests that other women are a huge source of social pressure on female behavior, possibly far more than male sexual predilections.

It is kind of interesting that whenever general "society expects women x" many many people translate it into "men expects women x". My observation is that men are bigger on putting social pressure on other men and women on other women. Or more generally, people tend to be much bigger on being upset about breaking rules they consider themselves being bound up to.
I agree that the Android APIs are not good.

Have you looked at JDK itself?
That's two rivers merging, not splitting.
People? I?

Well, yes, people DO in fact want candy crush.
Plenty cities are located where rivers meet, however I'm struggling to think of any where a major river splits?
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You are misinformed. Cryonics is largely paid through life insurance.
> The core issue is that people aren't willing to install any more apps.

Is there any source for this? Are app installations declining?
I did not hear about KDE connect (maybe because I do not use KDE), but had the exactly same need (control mpv from my couch). I have found this: https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb - I only have one use case so I only run it - using a simple shell script wrapper - together with mpv.

It working fine for me, and it does not need a client on the mobile (except a browser), also it is not connected to the KDE ecosystem - if anyone else needs some lightweight solution for the same problem...
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1) Of course you can't force contributors to do anything but there are ways: tell them repeatedly there are bugs that need fixing, refuse to give them infrastructure to host their pet projects and make it clear they are not official and can't bear the KDE trademark, etc.

2) Don't make me laugh.

3) I don't even own an Android so I could never know. And that's not the point.

I know this is just some ranting and nothing will change. KDE went down a hole a long time ago when they lost their funding. But I'm sad to see the things that are happening to it. KDE does not deserve to die like this.
in the Languages of the Night, a collection of Ursula K. LeGuin's essays on writing, there is a section(IIRC I read it more than 20 years ago) where a famous fantasy magazine editor had asked her to go into how she mapped out her world and created all the documentation beforehand so she could refer to it when needed, her process as it were, and she replied something to the effect of this is not how I do it.

The description of how she did it was that when it became time to have that information, she looked it up in her mind and it came to her, what we might describe as making it up as she went along but which was more like querying her unconscious knowledge of the places and people she was describing.
The reason you can "download a package and its dependencies" with other package management systems, is not because they are technically superior, but because they've had countless man-hours of contributors making sure that their central repository contains packages which work well together.

As soon as any assumption changes, like for example, adding a third-party application repository, then you need to concern yourself with all of the issues mentioned above, or you'll end up wasting your days on manually building and installing packages locally.

The point of Nix is to do this once only. If you build and it runs, it should do the same for everyone, regardless of what other repositories they use. Package management becomes completely modular and does not depend on some centralized state like a central software repository, or the state of your machine at time of install.

Nix isn't trying to do too many things. It's actually much, much simpler than using a bunch of semi-compatible tools which all attempt to do similar things in ad-hoc ways. Nix is just a dependency management system where dependencies are specified by their content hash. Your machine contains a content-addressable store of objects which can be precisely referenced by any other object. It takes the guesswork out of dependency management. Other dependency managers effectively run a search engine to try and find an appropriate dependency from some search terms.
I find the pitch story compelling and the idea intriguing, but having people download an app for it strikes me as frictional and a bit invasive.

Essentially you are asking me to volunteer relationships that are usually in a somewhat fragile state (i.e. valued but undermaintained) to some impersonal external system that's going to send growth-hack-like e-mails to them and ask them to download apps.

How about something more akin to a personal CRM app where I could unilaterally enter some of my friends and it could help me maintain engagement through reminders or scheduling assistance (or say, location awareness?). I would have downloaded that in a second, and I would posit that a lot of others would as well since most people strongly identify with the "people I wish I had kept in touch more" message.

Monetization might later come in from the business angle to the same idea (maintain engagement with valuable contacts, using only an app).