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Gladly! I'm in the US, so it may be a bit different, but here is my experience.

To start, would I do it again? Yes, in a heartbeat. I was fresh out of undergraduate with a degree in biology, but very little experience in labs. I spent several months applying to jobs and not hearing back at all. I eventually answered a very odd job ad, and they were basically so desperate for bodies that they interview almost everyone who applies with the appropriate degree.

There were two systems for that company at the time, but both were on-site in the pharma company's facility, using their equipment. The first was a core lab that did a bunch of cell culture and other various work and only interacted with people at the pharma company as clients. The second is essentially a contractor embedded in a pharma lab, doing whatever work the lab needed.

I was in the second type of lab. I had some basic computer stuff on my resume, and they decided that matched well with a lab that needed someone to do CT scan analysis. I only saw my boss at the contracting company in the halls or at monthly check-ins; otherwise, all of my daily interactions were from the lab's PI and pharma employees. I eventually was a supervisor to the other contractors in my department, and I was on the management track, but I wanted to stay in the science.

I spent a few years as a contractor. That original PI retired and I moved to another lab that I still work in. Getting hired as a contractor is a pain in the ass, because the job has to be posted internally first, and I wasn't allowed to apply until it was posted externally.

In my mind, the contract company served to hire people with little experience, give them the necessary basic skills (pipetting, weighing, maybe ELISAs, TaqMan, etc) and weed out people who couldn't learn new things, which is of value to the pharma company. As a contractor, I learned all of the practical stuff that hadn't been taught in college, and I got to network with tens of labs. I was somewhat fortunate that I love the lab I was placed in, so I didn't hesitate to apply for a full-time position when it became available, but I also was very aware of a couple of labs I would have been miserable in, which is also more information to have than a true outsider would have.

Lastly, the majority of people at my level (hands-on research) who are hired from outside without knowing someone on the inside are hired for very specific skills, and I had none at the time.

I'm happy to answer more specific questions if it would be helpful. My email is my username @ gmail. Good luck to her!
>> Calling these "burner phones" is a little silly.

I agree, but it's still not as silly as how many people are commenting in here about whether or not its ok to call it a "burner phone" lol
Part of me hopes there's some strange conspiracy theory like the US is sitting on some amazing new battery tech, but won't release it until the trade spat with China is over with. I know I sound like a loon, but a revolutionary new durable battery will be the holy grail of this century.
non competes are incompatible with free Enterprise, and incompatible with social democracy. yeah send them back
And there's absolutely no pressure to tip.
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Sorry but this is nuts. Not only is JSON not capable to capture essential concepts of text documents such as text macros/entities and content models, it's also not a "first-class citizen" compared to HTML which can be styled and edited (via contenteditable) in browsers out of the box.
Some people are interested in having their DNA passed down. I can totally see how this may not be regarded as a waste of medical resource by a lot of individuals.

Adoption has its own place in the world but everything which allows women to give birth (especially in the West, where this is starting to be a problem) should be ok from this perspective. If you want to talk about wasted medical resources, just take a look at the plastic surgery market.
>Someone kidnapped my wife so I stole a car is not a valid legal defense, nor would I argue it is a valid moral defense

Actually it's a very valid legal defense, and if someone stole a car under such situations, and could prove it (that they were blackmailed etc), they would either have been let go, or given a much smaller sentence.

>* As I stated from the get go, I would hold the thief responsible in both situations.*

That's bizarro though. No judge would do that.
>There is a Constitutional right to "keep and bear arms," not to purchase them free from fees and taxes. You have no right to "keep and bear" something you have not yet purchased.

>Additionally, it's not "a" right, it's "the" right. The text of the Constitution recognizes a pre-existing right. "We look to ['the historical background'] because it has always been widely understood that the Second Amendment, like the First and Fourth Amendments, codified a pre-existing right." District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 592 (2008).

I generally agree with this.

>the pre-existing right to keep and bear arms has never in its "historical background" been described as prohibiting purchase-time taxes. You're wholly inventing that aspect of the right; you'd have a stronger argument if we were talking about yearly personal property taxes levied on firearms.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. The $200 NFA stamp that was intentionally supposed to be a hurdle for poor people back in the early 1900s. The $100 fee you need for any gun license in MA (other states have similiar) is a poll tax if there ever was one. Shall issue licensing in any real world implementation almost always passes the duck test for institutionalized discrimination.
My 2007 vehicle does this just fine. And any signal from the fob require a press of the button. These key fobs use rolling codes as well. So you would need to capture a button press while the remote is too far away from the car to receive it. Then replay it to the vehicle. Of course you still need the key to unlock the steering wheel and of you touch the break without inserting the key, the ignition cuts off.

I'm not sure why we are going backwards in the security department here. Seems like a lot to give up just to not have to stick the key in or press the unlock button.
I must mention "D0x3d!", which is also inspired by "Cards Against Humanity", but with a network security theme.

http://d0x3d.com/d0x3d/welcome.html

https://github.com/TableTopSecurity/d0x3d-the-game
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If you lose the root password, you can fix it in Postgres without taking the database down.
If a woman were to say "my ball and chain won't let me go," most sjws today would sympathize with her and help to "empower" her. When a man says it, it's a "shitty thing to say".
Rockets contain both fuel and oxidiser, explosions when they are full are considerably worse than when empty. Compare the video you have linked to clips of Atlas or Soyuz blowing up on the pad.
Lots of purses have clips near the top for this very purpose too.
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Taxes on vehicles and gasoline do not remotely cover the costs of road construction, let alone the costs of urban parking. Private vehicles are intensely subsidized.
It's more complicated than that. "Female-presenting nipples" is a direct quote from the policy: https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensi...
also, the riots in france (and other european nations aswell by now) is mostly about the fact that the economy is doing great, but wages and funding of the social safety net have not been increased.

People are mainly angry because after a decade of austerity, they are not getting the spoils of a good economy.
Yes, that's an obvious move. Binary thinking usually does result in an increase in hyperbolic statements on both sides.

There might be better moves to make, though.
There’s no magical one-asshole-at-a-time rule.
We use the garage or a key code lock.
It’s not really about owning anything. It’s thieving friends of family who will hold it against you if the wealth is not shared on account of your apparently deep social bond, if not trying to wrings it out of your wallet outright.
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> But it also would have been a Pyrrhic victory, because you'd have lost the ability to run any existing Scala code, which would have scads of dependencies on other bits of the JDK as well, on Scala for .NET. At which point, what's the point?

Wouldn't it be in the same boat as scala-js? There are quite a few libraries that support scala-jvm and scala-js.
If you decided you don't want that, you could come up with a XML document format that doesn't allow nested formatting blocks. So your point seems awfully moot.

In fact, even with HTML you could remove all the nesting from formatting blocks on load and either put them back on save or leave it flat (assuming you use CSS and not semantic style tags).
Last time Tumblr broke out the numbers porn was 11% of the biggest blogs. More than 1 out of 10 blogs is a porn blog. That's a huge portion of their user base and will likely cause it to totally crash.
Sounds like a great opportunity to increase the theft premiums for people owning fobbed cars.
"waste of medical resources" - over and above the outcome of the procedure, each preceding failure likely yielded new information about female anatomy, interactions between host and donor immune responses and the impact of those immune responses, and a plethora of other useful information about human reproduction. Yes, adopting would be easier, but procedures like this can yield valuable insight into women's health and the reproductive process, which is still fraught with risk in much of the world.
And this is probably a more common scenario than stealing the car.
How are GCs not compatible with bounded memory use? Though many GCs size allocation arenas proportionally to the live data, there is no fundamental reason why the allocation arenas couldn't be fixed-size (of course, they must be large enough for good performance, etc.).
Uh, no? When you touch a door handle when the car is locked, the car will try to detect a keyfob near the door and then unlock itself when the keyfob is detected. The car won't unlock if a keyfob is not detected.
what a good summary. so true.
This is such an obvious solution that maybe some patents are the reason it's not implemented by every car manufacturer.
Even when I was a contractor, I never quite understood this. The contractor costs Google whatever it costs the contractor to employ them plus some amount of profit for the contract company. It would be cheaper to just employ people at a contractor's wage and internalize those processes, at least where the contractors are doing similar work to their own employees. It might still not make sense to start doing things like maintenance or cooking.

As best I can tell, it is a different pot of money. In my company, contractors are a budgetary decision, while employees require HR and other hurdles. Similarly, when you want to cut costs, you can fire contractors (shrink the contract and let the contract company do whatever they need to) without making the news with a headline like "Google lays off 10% of its workforce".
I got myself in a bad situation where I set my key fob on the top of my car after a run, changed, jumped into the car, and got onto the highway before realizing my mistake. The fob fell onto the road and was run over and destroyed before I could get to it. Thankfully I left my car running during this time and was still able to get home.

The way it works is reasonable. Maybe tighten up the proximity. But honestly, I miss my classic keys.
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I recently watched "Requiem for the American Dream" (the documentary is included with Prime Video, and there is also a book of the same name) [0]. One of the points that Noam Chomsky made near the end was about undermining solidarity (I don't remember the exact phrase, but it had solidarity its name). I found the why in which Chomsky portrayed the accomplishments of unions and how the political elite dealt with unions afterwards (e.g. McCarthyism) both enlightening and depressing. Workers regardless of profession were all united towards better conditions for all. The gradual exaltation of selfishness and self-interest has become a silent but effective tool in pitting people against each other.

I highly encourage others here to watch it should they have 72 minutes to spare.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWD8Wksx_zI
I think you're missing the point of what this specification is about. This has nothing to do with macros or entities.
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I also would not underestimate the significance of the yellow jackets. They symbolize many things beyond the gas tax paid by drivers. They are a thing that the government says you have to carry in your car. They are a thing that can be inspected by a cop that pulls you over. They are also the symbol of someone who actually drives a car. Driving a car is where people are most policed by their governments (see all traffic laws). Anyone who has ever been pulled over by a cop, or saddled with a massive parking ticket, understands what it means to be a driver as opposed to someone like a politician who is driven.

(One of the big dislikes of Hillary Clinton is/was her admission that it had she hadn't driven a vehicle in decades. That means something to everyone on the political spectrum.)
Ex-Facebooker perspective: the only news in this article is that the preferred replacement for the Secret app [0] at Facebook is the Blind app.

A few of the 33,606 people [1] working at Facebook anonymously complaining about their employer and management in the midst of a bad press cycle is remarkably unsurprising.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_(app)
[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
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> Major changes are needed yesterday, and so far neither party in the US has ever proposed anything resembling the scale of change needed.

No, but at least Democrats proposed and passed something.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Clean_Energy_and_Se...
I think your last paragraph is really spot on. Being an expert at excel makes you feel like a wizard, just like how emacs or vi or the bloomberg terminal makes you feel.

Our software didn’t have that feeling, it didn’t make you feel powerful in the same way that excel does (I lobbied hard for us to make a desktop app, no one likes how web apps feel. But nobody listened)
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It is a convenience feature -- you don't have to fish your keys out of your pocket/handbag and press a button to unlock your car doors or to start the car. So long as you have the key somewhere on you (bag/handbag/pocket), you can unlock and start the car.
Actually, I think this is a great point. I think the only thing that will keep us from being "truly and globally fucked" is if we develop economical fusion power in the next 30 years or so.
I have a 2007 BMW. It does have a slot to insert the fob. But it is not required to start or run the car. The slot acts as a charger and holder for the fob. But proximity is all that is actually needed.
Regarding the headline:

I am pretty certain it won't fail, but that it will also take a long time to get rolled out and most likely won't see the usage rate (in applications, not worldwide requests/s) of TCP and HTTP/1.1.

The same already happened with HTTP/2. Even though that one is available already for many years and yields noticeable benefits for some applications, there exists only a pretty low number of compliant implementations. Other applications/services are helping themselves by being behind HTTP/2 capable proxy servers. So I suspect the main areas where we would see HTTP/3 being used is Google services and some CDNs for a while.

Implementing these low level networking protocols is hard, and most organizations won't invest in the time and effort of doing it (or doing it properly). I implemented HTTP/2 for .NET (https://github.com/Matthias247/http2dotnet), and it was for 2 years the only compliant implementation for that ecosystem. Nevertheless it saw not a lot of interest. I suspect something similar will happen for QUIC.

And regarding the IoT section:

The main challenge with constrained IoT devices is memory, and not necessarily computational power. This makes implementing lots of networking protocols which require higher buffer sizes super hard up to impossible. HTTP/2 would actually be a good protocol for IoT devices, since the permanent connection and logical streams e.g. decrease the cost for TLS establishment a lot compared to HTTP/1.1. And it's a lot easier to use for some use-cases than a message-based protocol like MQTT - e.g. for RPC, or large file downloads or uploads. However the memory requirements of HTTP/2 makes it hard to deploy it for those IoT scenarios - e.g. the default stream window size implies one should have 64kB of buffering per stream - which is immense on <= 300kB RAM CPUs. The other challenge is the lack of good libraries for these constrained devices. A normally dynamically allocating like nghttp2 might not work out there, and building a real embedded implementation is again a task that nobody wants to take on.
They keep their facebook account, until they don't. Large numbers of people have opted out of facebook in recent years. Just because it's been around for a few years, doesn't mean it is permanent. Nobody is finding me on MySpace to stay in touch (at least not in the last decade...and even then it took me a year to see the message because I hadn't logged in in longer than that), and while facebook has proven to be longer lasting than MySpace, we don't have enough evidence to say they'll be relevant in ten or twenty more years.

Also, I've had the same cell phone number for approximately 20 years (and I only changed the number then because I wanted one with an area code in the city I was doing business in...which seems like a quaint requirement today). I am legally allowed to take my number with me when I change carriers. I have no legal right, or technical means, to carry my facebook profile URL with me if I move somewhere else. I hate phones, but if we're talking about longevity of connectivity...phones do alright compared to social networks.
I agree. I may have misinterpreted the original comment. Yes, in that way XML is indeed a better way to put it.

I'd still stand by my opinion on not-making formatting information as separate tags and blowing the tree one level deeper. Preserving formatting options as index based properties would make editing APIs simpler and convenient.

Again, this is nothing in regard to the original comment. Just putting it out there.
It doesn't take much for a "darling" social media or dotcom company to become a thing of the past. If my memory serves me correctly, before Google, there was AltaVista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista . Before Facebook, there was MySpace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace . Yahoo is on it's way out especially after the data breach https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/03/technology/business/yahoo-b...
Facebook is NOT the only social media company around and some other company WILL emerge and fill its place in the ecosystem if they don't recover from their mistakes.
Many Worlds is popular for a reason: it's one of the simplest interpretation that fits the facts. The scientist in you might dislike that it came about later than the Copenhagen interpretation without any experiment to distinguish them. The Bayesian in me just applies Occam's razor.

Just realize that a collapse interpretation is the same as a many worlds, with the additional assumption that the blob of amplitude you don't live in is somehow flattened to zero. The "it's just maths" interpretation isn't much better: the maths tell us that we have two worlds worth of amplitudes, yet for some reason the one we don't observe isn't real. This is as ridiculous as believing that stuff you send outside the observable universe ceases to exist once it crosses the boundary.

As for how far it pushes non-determinism… I'd say quite far. Under the MWI, the universe is entirely deterministic. What is not is just our subjective experience. What was originally a Physics problem is now an *anthropic" problem, similar to what you would get if you were to copy & paste humans, or do mind uploading. The more interesting mystery in my opinion is more about why the Born statistics are the way they are, instead whatever else we could imagine them to be.
The gist I linked is extremely basic, just insert and read, really, and it does use WAL by default. It'll still end up with database lock, and from there it's all shallow waters — reverting from a crashed database lock is not trivial and can cause data loss if handled improperly.

Not all writes are couple milliseconds. I regularly have transactions that take 15< seconds, and it's not because the data size that's being input is large, it's just that the SQL is recursive and complex enough to warrant recursion (storing graph data).
No, but only a really special kind of asshole can complain about media reports that happen to be true, while simultaneously acting as the primary vector for spreading and amplifying false, hateful and vile disinformation.
The history-of-psychology content here is fascinating - it's hard to overstate the harm done by Ekman's theory to everything from police investigations to Pysch 101 textbooks. But the attempt to tie AI into all of this is weirdly presumptuous. It assumes that the progress of AI development is predicated on psychology theory without supporting that claim in any way. The rebuttal is painfully obvious: children learn to read emotions without some grand backing theory, so why do we assume AI will need one to reach human levels?

It ought to be telling that this is a piece about AI written by a historian, citing a psychologist, a historian, and a fictional philosopher - but not a single person with an AI or even computing background. The result is a painfully slow and sloppy retreading of existing ideas. First p-zombies and then the Chinese Room question are sketched out without any reference to that original work, ending with a question-begging assertion that perfect imitation of an emotion is meaningfully different from feeling the emotion.

The first article in the series, grandly titled Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions, is even worse. It critiques Ekman and his work with the TSA, then talks about Alexa, but offers no evidence at all that Alexa or any other Valley project involves Ekman's six-emotion model. (Anyone with a cursory knowledge of machine learning will tell you that it almost certainly doesn't. Reducing inputs down to six artificial categories is not the sort of thing that improves training.)

Given all of that, the parting shot of this piece is especially galling. After indicating total unfamiliarity with AI theory, AI ethics, and post-1970 philosophy in general, the author blithely declares: "if I were contemplating a career in philosophy right now, I’d be thinking about making my central field the ethics of emotion AI. There’s much to be done."
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This article is just a reminder that it may be impossible to fix the nightmare that is pythons packaging system. I'll save the python rant but this kind of software just further fragments and damages pythons reputation.