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I don't disagree with your points around the public policy goals of currency, but suggesting that minimal balance / monthly fee requirements come from AML/KYC regulations is quite the stretch. I'd wager those come from greed, pure and simple.

The banks charge those fees because they can. If we got rid of AML/KYC regulations and reduced the banks' costs around regulatory compliance, do you think the banks will pass the savings onto customers or pocket the difference? I know where I'm putting my bet.
1) "crash" a flying saucer in Roswell, New Mexico

2) secretly cultivate a pop cultural mythology around aliens and alien contact. Buzz around their aircraft and flash lights at them now and then just to keep them interested, but not too interested because you know how humans can get when they're too interested.

3) infiltrate human society with shapeshifting reptoids and own the rights to numerous sci-fi properties like Star Wars, Star Trek and Men in Black, to condition humans to be comfortable with the premise of alien contact and to build brand identity and loyalty.

4) build some Star Wars and Star Trek themed casinos out in deep space.

5) show up one day and offer to loan them a warp drive, but the warp drive just happens to always fail near a casino planet.

?) PROFIT.
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I've done many startups and I have to say I love it, but the struggle to fund it properly (to it right) is what turns me off. I'd rather bootstrap myself (these days) and go the "indie hacker" route and not have to deal with fundraising -- build a product myself, sell it and roll it all on my own. That wasn't possible 20 years ago, it is now.

So yeah, I've focused on the executive level, CTO, VP, etc, But with that, you have to either give up coding and just manage or go to a tiny company to be the "key player", but then you're typically at a smallish company with little to no funding. I've been doing that lately, I'm at a small start up running engineering, but I'm an "employee", not a founder.

There seems to be a clear bias with VC companies against someone my age and background. Not to say I don't have a network I could probably work and get funding, I could. But I also wanted to get back to square one and work with people again and NOT have to deal with things like Healthcare, stock options and "hey, that person needs a week off because their cats sick." -- I'd rather just CODE and learn more, enjoy the art of buildings things without the pressure of an investor looming over you.

I've made enough money to be comfortable, but I still need to earn a living -- I haven't made that "FU" money and my wife laughs and jokes that for as much success we've had, even if I did get the "FU" money, I'd still want to work 70 hours a week and write code... ;-)

About your Skype coding comment. Yeah, new trend is to "pair" with someone online in an interview process and go through programming challenges. I'm OK with that, but I don't work well that way. I work better in a situation where I can think and spend the time myself on the problem. My brain isn't wired for "fast and rapid", it's more of a "trial and error" until I get it working, then later on optimize and make it better. I do terrible at that first pass, always been more of an interactive developer who starts with something that works and then over time perfects it. That style SUCKS on a pair programming exercise.
Indeed, the article doesn't address the question of forgetting. And generally, it over-complicates things.

Let's say that you don't know the password, and never did, because it's not your device. If ordered to decrypt, you just say: "I don't know the password." You don't plead the Fifth. Because you simply don't know the password, and the thought of self-incrimination would never occur to you.

Now let's say that it's your device, and that you did know the password, at one time. But maybe only for a few seconds after you set it, and then forgot to write it down. Or maybe you did that intentionally, to nuke a device before resale. Or maybe you have honestly just forgotten it. I have one or two old drives around like that, so hey ;) Anyway, in that situation, you'd just say: "I've forgotten the password."

But now, let's say that it's your device, and that you do in fact know the password. What do you say? If you plead the Fifth, that's basically an admission that you know the password. Because, as I've said, the thought of self-incrimination would have never occurred to you, if you didn't know it. So you don't do that. You just say that you've forgotten it.

There are, I admit, some concerns with that approach. First, you're lying to an agent, and penalties for that can be extremely severe. So it's your call to make. Also, if an agent testifies that you were using the device when swatted, that claim may seem iffy.

But if pleading the Fifth is no longer an option, what are the alternatives? You can at least claim trauma. And if you're old like me, a ministroke.
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One liter of ordinary seawater would still produce as much energy in a fusion reaction as 500 liters of fossil fuels in a chemical reaction.

— random guy on Quora

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-limited-amount-of-fuel-for-...
What are the differences you consider when making a distinction between application development and software engineering? It seems to me that application development is a subset of SE.
Well, maybe. Biggest problem is using database from 80s, which is used in a way that sometimes it acts like database, sometimes it is used by copying files (one file per table) around random directories with custom locking mechanism.

App consist of maybe 20 different codebases that generate around 30 executables, kind of randomly, fetching source files from different codebases as programmer find a fit + random "fixes" of system modules/component make it all very very hard to do much groundbreaking work.
Is money more limiting than time though? Nine woman and a child analogy comes to mind.
That's the justification for indigenous genocide everywhere.
Well, there is almost certainly somebody that read the number and thought about Fahrenheit.
Develop instincts actually need thinking... At least for develop good instincts without being hurt and without have to rediscover the wheel a generation after another.

In my homecountry, Italy, there was an ancient theathral novel named "Re Travicello" (King little beam, literally) that say having thinking subjects it's a big problem: they contest, protest, convince other, they develop working solutions against throne interest etc. So he invented two concept: "trust the system" and "use your instinct" to stop people thinking...
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If you wish to see that "one of the all-time great shots" from Djokovic, here it is on YouTube in HD.

[1] https://youtu.be/EjvSx0ipO0k?t=10181
The number is cool.
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> Waymo is launching a commercial driverless car service, just as the headline says.

When this launches, will the cars have drivers in them?

That’s how you can tell if it’s a driverless car.
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>Humans definitely do calculate "complex" differential equations to estimate the trajectory of a ball.

That's not at all how the brain works. It's a pattern matching neural net, so it trains a set of neurons to estimate the trajectory through trial and error, based on continually updating visual input, but the equations are nowhere in that implementation.
If you follow this stuff, arguably yes.
There are ways of catering to people with special needs without enabling everyone to collectively destroy the environment.
And what is the case for home cooking over delivery food, in your opinion? (I may agree with you, but I don't think everyone is on the same page here.)
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Great design. I have a friend who took it a bit further, and build the Fusor with Lego bricks. Never since any worries about energy bills, he went completely off the grid!
So how much do you earn there?
Literally every person I know who uses these sorts of services are middle class families with small kids where both parents work.
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It's a good exercise to imagine how the job would be sold. Things like this would definitely not come up in the interview process, instead they would sell you on "you get to work on a cutting-edge db kernel that is running most of the Fortune 100s" or sth like that, which is true (!), but doesn't describe the day to day.

The best way to guess this is to extrapolate from the interview questions. If they ask you a lot of low-level debugging/macro/etc questions..
Related to yours: the other day my wife told me she saw mandarin oranges peeled and individually wrapped in plastic. Mandarin oranges come with their own goddamn natural packaging. Why on Earth would you replace it with plastic?
Curiously, neither of these is listed:

https://illumos.org/books/wdd/eqbqn.html

https://www.amazon.com/Solaris-Internals-OpenSolaris-Archite...
In Germany - and I assume in the States as well - being a witness will place much more legal duties on you than being a suspect. A witness for example can be obligated to give testimony. Which is why police sometimes intentionally declares a suspect a witness.
You described the early part of my career in software to a T.

I worked for a mini-computer company in the 1980's that ported Oracle (I'm thinking the version stamp was 22.1 when I was there from 1986-1990). It was one GIANT mess of standard "C" with makefiles that were in some ways larger and more complex than some of the actual kernel code it was building!

Took 24 hours to build the product... lol
Given this downward trend with the rising trend of "luxury" apartments including more and more amenities, I wonder if the next new thing will be building-exclusive, fully-managed micro-farms with produce delivery directly to your fridge.
Mechanical things allow a surprising amount of modularity, compared to software, and therefore make it easy to get test coverage.

E.g. your cable is rated for 10,000 kg and 6-month inspections, your driveshaft can go 5 million revolutions or 9 months before it needs to be greased...test all those things separately, put them together and you have a stateless system that if it works today will work tomorrow.
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> I always wonder if it's like this for other branches of engineering too?

EE here. It's not. The entry bar is much higher: most of the time difficult projects are given to senior engineers. It takes a degree and many years of work to get there.

> Or chemical engineers synthesize medicines in way nobody but a rockstar guru understands

Been there. Not at all.

> cellphone is made by machines designed in early 1990s because nobody was able to figure out what that one cog is doing

Same. Part of the reason is that any physical component adds cost, weight, and so on to a project.

In software you can throw code and random libraries at a problem and nobody will notice until vulnerabilities start to pop later on.
> Most of them have mild to strong disagreement with the memo

A scientific disagreement?

I’m not seeing any links to any recent meta analysis etc.

Nor even any strong claims like “there are no major biological sex differences in personality”.

The only strong assertion is that a paper Damore used about intelligence differences has major flaws. But then if you have read the memo you know that that was hardly the main thrust.

The scientists who were quoted were being deliberately content-free.
If B happened as a result of A, then every node should observe A BEFORE B. For instance, "Deleting an ex (A) and posting a relationship with a new SO (B)". If this social network wasn't causally consistent then -

Your ex may see your life update (and then be deleted).

I may be wrong, so other experts feel free to correct me.
At 29 years old you grew up with the fact that the Internet is like electricity. It’s everywhere and part of our life. Same goes for mobile phones and Amazon Prime for 15-20 years old kids. At 50 years old you can’t seem to imagine life without a personal computer. New born babies may not have to work a day in their life thanks to AI and will never learn how to drive a vehicle ever. The list goes on and on.

If you want to be a successful “entrepreneur” you need to ask yourself this kind of questions. How can I make the world a better place? How can I improve our lives? What will we be doing in the next 50 years that we’re not doing at the moment?

Orherwise you’ll quickly fall into a world of sheep. People who take everything for granted and keep consuming until there’s nothing left. Then wait for producers to produce so they can consume everything. It’s been this way since the begining of our human race. If you simply create value, you’ll be fine.
I don't see any connection to Time Division Duplexing here.

(just another comment pointing out development vs. computer sciences)
Why call it causal though? It seems like temporal consistency to me. What's the causation aspect?
I'd imagine that's true on both counts, but with these things it's notoriously difficult to prove. You'd have to prove that the contractor knew about the damage, didn't do anything to mitigate it and then knowingly attempted to hide it. All of that is pretty tricky to pull off, given that a home damaged in this way might not show signs of the damage for a good while.

It's why bad actors (such as the ones described above) keep getting away with what they do.
With regards to the scene from "Snowden" where he places the phones in a micro wave oven. I was surprised to find that this doesn't work - at least not with my grandma's oven.
Yeah. To me "test driven" really means that I write code under the constraints that it has to make writing my tests sensible and easy. This turns out to improve design in a large number of cases. There are lots of other constraints you can use that tend to improve design as well (method size, parameter list size, number of object attributes, etc are other well known ones). But "test driven" is a nice catch phrase.
Thank you for (re)posting that video, it's an excellent introduction/overview.
I googled kalman filter https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...

Looks interesting!
I find designing for different consistency (trade offs with scale etc.) models super interesting. Where can I find work like this ? I am assuming at big companies this work is already done. Any distributed systems experts here that can point me to some companies and / or small projects I ca build on the side.
You were "given the opportunity" huh? :)

How long did you work on that before you threw in the towel?
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On the contrary, the interview was an ordinary one. The screening round consisted of very basic fizzbuzz type coding ability checks: Reversing a linked list, finding duplicates in a list, etc.

Further rounds of interviews covered data structure problems (trees, hashtables, etc.), design problems, scalability problems, etc. It was just like any other interview for software engineering role.
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Read this paper[1], it explains various consistency in distributed system by using baseball scores updated over different medium.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/replica...
Likely anhydrous calcium chloride.

The problem is, once the calcium chloride has absorbed the moisture from the air and is saturated, you have to take it out and dry it to make it effective again. That might be cheaper (in terms of energy) than refrigerant phase-change dehumidification, but it's a lot more labor intensive.
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No, ITER doesn't have any planned way to make electricity, the power it outputs will be largely thermal and radiative. Engineers will likely put up a cooling system to measure the thermal output, especially after putting up the various ways to turn the major neutron radiation into heat (which is a fun way to produce energy with rare materials as a byproduct).

DEMO, to my knowledge, will then include an actual electric generator to be hooked up to the fusion core.
That would have been fun but in reality there was no downtime. Developers like me were expected to work on two to three bugs/features at a time and context switch between them.

If I submit my test jobs today to the farm, the results would come one or two days later, so I work on another bug tomorrow, and submit that. Day after tomorrow, I return to the first bug, and so on.
The obvious answer is "to accommodate people with arthritis or other manual dexterity limiting condition."
Literally just pushed this up yesterday https://github.com/pmarreck/mega_xml This is the first time I've been able to convert one tree data structure encoded as a binary string into another form native to the language at hand, in a functional language. One of the hardest things I've ever done as a developer lately, having no CS degree (I did take some electives, though) and just learning-by-doing.
Wikipedia agrees with you that the primary source of this steel is from old ships. It is used for Geiger counters, aerospace sensor etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
1000 is a very low number for PBKDF2 iterations. OWASP recommends 10 000, and also recommends using Argon2 instead. Apple does 10 million.
I'm in Bridport at least twice a year and I still haven't paid a visit yet. Will have to rectify that next time and get myself a string of sausages - and possibly a dog to run off with them down the street.
You are right about that, but having code that passes a given test suite doesn't say anything about its secondary qualities, such as whether it can be understood. In theory, a failing test could improve your understanding of the situation, allowing you to refactor your initial pass at a solution, but I would bet that on this particular code base, the comprehension-raising doesn't go far enough, in most cases, for this to be feasible.
To me it's unsatisfying that you have to offload the work to some part of the brain that you have no strong conscious connection with. It's like letting someone else do the work.

In my view, you really master something if you have conscious control over it. Perhaps that is what Federer was trying to do.
Of course, but DoreenMichele was talking about niche selective eaters
How much code is in Windows?
I'm responding to DoreenMichele talking about niche selective eaters
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No, you dont need to trust the software per say; there is a need to understand how software works in order to participate. That knowledge gap for most people will result in them trusting a 3rd party auditing of the software. You do much the same when you allowed your bank to share information with equifax... what happened there? One of many issues with trusting corps to do the right thing [EDIT: spelling]
Hell yeah! Like the Golden Raspberry Awards or the Bad Sex Awards, but, you know, for code!
Really getting sick of using the internet with all these cookie, gdpr, paywall, newsletter, and ad popups. Starting to feel much more drawn to getting most of my knowledge from (pop-up free) books.
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> Tests that run for 30 hours is an indication that nobody bothered writing unittests.

Yes, they were not unit tests. There was no culture of unit tests in the Oracle Database development team. A few people called it "unit tests" but they either said it loosely or they were mistaken.

Unit test would not have been effective because every area of the code was deeply entangled with everything else. They did have the concept of layered code (like a virtual operting system layer at the bottom, a memory management layer on top of that, a querying engine on top of that, and so on) but over the years, people violated layers and wrote code that called an upper layer from lower layer leading to a big spaghetti mess. A change in one module could cause a very unrelated module to fail in mysterious ways.

Every test was almost always an integration test. Every test case restarted the database, connected to the database, created tables in it, inserted test data into it, ran queries, and compared the results to ensure that the observed results match the expected results. They tried to exercise every function and every branch condition in this manner with different test cases. The code coverage was remarkable though. Some areas of the code had more than 95% test coverage while some other areas had 80% or so coverage. But the work was not fun.
OK, then, does telling the Apple Store that you lost your phone, when it was in fact impounded by police, constitute evidence destruction? I can see how it might.
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Cool! You could use a smart plug and a fine dust (PM10 and PM2.5) sensor to start the fan only if the air is bad.
A corrupted installation requires a new install, but not a reformat.
To quote a description of the Joker; "Some people just want to see the world burn."

They do it for "the lulz", for fame, for glory, for breaking in their new botnet, for the brief chance of taking down someone's website... etc.

You sorta have to live with this when you host on the internet.
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It is not be a good analogy for TDD as properly practiced, but it seems to be very fitting for the situation described at the top of this thread, and that is far from being a unique case.
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> A Chernobyl accident can't happen in a western reactor, and it wasn't what happened in Fukushima either, so the lecturers weren't wrong.

He was referring to the core meltdown, not the very specific fault mechanism. I should have made it clear. Otherwise, it would be an uninteresting technicality.

The entire Fukushima incident makes me suspect it's a result of defining an exact fault model and then optimizing to the model. This way, if the fault slightly exceeds the model, the result is not graceful degradation, but catastrophic failure.

Can we put the generators below sea level? sure, the sea wall is high enough, no need to worry about that at all.

> "Build better walls" seems like a trivial problem to solve, don't you think?

Yes, but is it a robust solution?
You just need that one person who thinks they are an “advanced user” to tell everyone else the secret trick and it spreads like a virus. About like all of the iOS users that aggressively quit apps because they think it increases battery life.

Or an app like Fortnite....
Safety advice: If you decide to try this at home, please keep in mind that mixing chloride based cleaning agents with an acid will release chlorine, which is toxic enough to have been used as a WW1 weapon.
>If I want to use money to pay for some goods, I need trust that I can get that money back if the goods won't arrive. Math alone can't provide that, it needs something extra, e.g. a trusted escrow service in the case of crypto.

No need for extras, you can do this today on Ethereum with Hashed Time Lock Contracts