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Certified Repair/Mechanic/HVAC isn't what it used to be. After my landlord paid $3500 to replace an in wall heater, a 20min operation I easily knew how to do, I honestly considered switching jobs. Do something with my hands be outside, not stuck in an office...

Then I looked it up. The test is intense failing on your first try is pretty common. You have to do 4 years full time of apprenticeship under a licensed contractor who unless they are family (nepotism) will pay you the minimum they can get away with. (This is why you tend to see the kids take over the parents Pumbling/HVAC/Electricians businesses)

Only after all that can you finally go on your own. From then on you owe $3k/yr to the state for insurance in case you screw up and kill someone and the state fund has to pay out. You have to pay this every year along with a $350/yr license renewal and show you are active in the trade, otherwise you can have your license revoked. Take at least 8 credits of continuing education each year as it relates to your license, which you must pass for credit (to keep up with a changing field). Take out your own insurance in case you screw up kill or injure someone and they sue you. Your tax rate is significantly higher as a contractor as will be your health insurance because you no longer have a large collective bargaining power.

Doing the math I'm surprised new people join in the bay area. The only way it makes sense is if you were already here with family or have rent control. Or you do your apprenticeship somewhere cheap like Bakersfield then move to the Bay assuming you can afford rent till you build a solid list of clients.
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Kotlin is indeed great, but there's gotta be something better than Spring Boot out there...
It's a tautological statement isn't it? "overidentifying" presupposes the effort has gone too far, so he's basically saying "what I deem as too much I believe is too much".

No one would disagree with that, how could you? The real statement is, "It's possible to go too far when defending an identity."

And, honestly, how could you also not agree with that?
> If I type the next letter of the top match, it should remain the top match.

How would this not always be the case anyway given the other rules in place?
When the results change, they ability to use things that took over a position should be disabled for 100ms.
The first version I can remember was amazingly bad.

I remember the file menu operations being hidden behind the round logo in the upper left corner.
Great share, thank you! Read this (part 2) along with the earlier post (part 1) which has been informative!
Yep, you're absolutely right. I'd heard about the other two, I just assumed the third even though it’s listed in my link X_x
> Is it, though? I feel like the nuts and bolts of cloud services are super commoditized and I can pick up and leave whenever I want. Kubernetes on Amazon (where I am) is going to be close enough to Kubernetes on GCP

Sure Kubernetes is an open GCP product, but what about datastore, Spanner, Cloud SQL, their memory cache, urlfetch, and a host of other closed source and private services. Kubernetes seems to be the exception to the rule.
> Why China cant pursue something similar

China plans to push 100% ethanol fuel at the end of 2020.
Why should I even care about the opinions of privileged Yale students and faculty who love the smell of their own farts? Give me trailer park trash and gang bangers from the hood over woke intellectuals and anti-SJW crusaders any day. I generally think “both sides” arguments are a cop-out, but my approach to this pointless culture war has been to take the stance of an anarchist; laugh at any one who even bothers to participate. Regardless of where you stand, we’re all probably going to die in a nuclear hellfire at some point in the coming decades. If you’re like me and don’t give a fuck, skip this article. The New York Times does a lot of great, important journalism but this piece is the epitome of unimportance.
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It is interesting to consider the effect of authoritarian power systems and collective land ownership on that kind of initiative. Just after I posted my reply I started to wonder if the Japanese miracle would have succeeded if illegal wood usage didn't result in execution. As you say, social systems are complex and it's important to take that into consideration when implementing any large scale project.
China clones 'Sherlock Holmes' police dog to cut training times
Not all that surprising when you consider the utilization % of any typical bus versus car. Given a bus may be driving on at least 1 maybe two shifts, means it is driving around 12-16 hours typically per day. (50-75% utilization).

Most cars as personal vehicles(unless they are in a ride hailing service or taxis) will have a typical utilization closer to 2-8% of the time as they drive for maybe 1 or 2 hours a day.

I have similarly found many oil "demand models" not using "electric miles traveled" as a key metric and rather using something more simple like "# of vehicles replaced". Utilization is important, but often ignored or not thought about.
Apple Drops Prices on MacBook Air and Mac Mini SSD Upgrades and Mac Pro RAM
If apple don't stand to make a profit then why not allow competition. Dominant position or not there are millions of user who don't have a choice. The android case seems more to punish google for their abuses rather then something which would help consumers.
Please add to the list: Auto detect language! It’s super frustrating when you try to write to your German friend and autocorrect just keeps mutilating perfectly good German words into gibberish (e.g. it’s trying to autocorrect to English etc. default language).
> The trades are hard on the body. Some trades are hazardous. An injury or medical problem that would be a hassle for someone with an office job can be career-ending for people in the trades.

This is definitely true and I know a few people who this has been a huge issue for but I'm not so convinced it can be applied to the future. There is a lot more "automation" now than when the currently burnt out entered the industry, tools from nail guns to scissor lifts are now a lot more affordable and even mandated. There's also been a lot of improvements improvements to OHS and medicine in general, kids seem to be a lot more fitness obsessed too. They'll always be harder on the body, but I would expect the 50 year old tradesmen in 30 years time to be in much better condition than the 50 year old tradesmen today.

On the other hand, they keep lifting the retirement age so if this doesn't pan out they'll be even worse off.

> The trades also get hit very hard in recessions as people build fewer things

Is this objectively true? It seems to be common wisdom but I've never seen data to back it up. A lot of trades are more maintenance than new builds and can't be cut. I understand construction can take a big hit, but we still need almost as many plumbers and mechanics during a recession.
On a local enough scale, it’s always about the money. If SF offered $1 million a year plus a $1 million relocation bonus to escalator mechanics, they’d fill those jobs by next week. You may say, rightly, that it’s ridiculous to pay that much - but at that point we’ve stopped talking about availability and started talking about price. So start from there and move the price as appropriate.

Now, if every municipality in the US tried to do this, there would be a legitimate shortage. The highest bidders would get their mechanics. The rest would have to wait, possibly hiring from the inevitable influx of new escalator mechanics a few years later.
There was an article that I can't find right now about European union practices. Create a union for an entire industry and then leverage union scale to push for government regulation that impacts the entire industry. I'm sure it would be imperfect, but you have to do a solution like that because if you don't, companies will see unions as a competitive disadvantage and prevent them.

The biggest problem is that I and many others see unions as short-sightedly protecting workers while their companies and industries die around them. The last real bastion of union workers in the US is the government and no one is calling their employment model effective.
How many days was Kuwait over 130F last year?
awrite I couldn't stop thinking about this, have some more ranting:

From a purely business standpoint, if we stop exposing kids to classes that say "hey this creative thing is something you could do" we lose a bunch of people deciding to try and make that their career, which means we lose a significant portion of the entertainment industry - have fun with a significantly reduced selection of books/movies/games/music/etc to entertain you when you're taking a break from creating shareholder value, I guess there's always masturbating to the thought of how much shareholder value you're creating? Some quick searching suggests that Hollywood alone is from 3-6% of America's GDP, plus whatever value you may put on its use as global propaganda for American social values.

Also liberal arts majors end up in advertising, which I'm seeing values of anywhere from 1-19% of the US GDP. Plus whatever amount of value an ad campaign ads by getting people to buy whatever it's selling, how much junk have you bought that you never ended up using, or was way overpriced for what it did, because of ads? Arguably the world might be better off if every single one of those people quit using their skills to help sell cheap disposable junk made halfway across the world by people paid pennies a day but that's another matter.

But nah. Let's all just look for work that's gonna pay us the most cold hard cash, which judging by the top sector of the GDP is real estate and finance. Let's just learn that shit. Nothing else. I'm sure that'll be a fun way to live.

The US education system is fucked up. I can agree with this guy on that. But I don't think eliminating everything but "what will get you a job" is gonna help. Education funding has been cut, and cut, and cut some more, wealth's been concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Tax those ultra-rich assholes, spread that money around into education, maybe reverse decades of cuts to stuff like the NEA as well (and give a huge grant to my project to dig up Jesse Helms' rotting corpse and fuck it in the face with a jackhammer in revenge for his role in that), give teachers more power to actually engage their students instead of focusing entirely on being able to regurgitate the answers to the standardized tests that determine which schools get their funding cut the least next year. Oh and also raise the goddamn minimum wage so that someone trying to turn their passion for art into a full-time career has time to do that instead of having to work three shitty part-time jobs just to keep a roof over their head.

In summary, this guy is next in line for my proposal for a performance art project in which I dig up dead jerkwads who think the arts are useless, and fuck them in the face with a jackhammer. He's not dead yet? I'll wait. I got time.
> The Indonesia safety committee report said the plane had had multiple failures on previous flights and hadn’t been properly repaired.

It probably wouldn’t have mattered. Lion Air couldn’t even maintain their planes properly; assuming an extra indicator would help would be charitable at best.
Let's not forget Cisco actually built the early generation of the Great Firewall

https://www.wired.com/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/
Agreed.

Even then its hard to even define the next letter. With sub-sequence matching something like "gsl" might be displayed as "[g]et[D]isplay[L]ist" with items in brackets highlighted. No real next letter in this case.
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> Give me trailer park trash and gang bangers from the hood over woke intellectuals and anti-SJW crusaders any day.

Why would you choose to trust someone who is not exposed to a topic and hasn't put much thought into it over those who have?
The hard part will be getting enough such mobiles out in the market for the mesh to ever work and getting the price down low enough for people who are not ever so interested to buy it.

Presumably this is using something like Wimax so it shouldn't be difficult for other players to introduce compatible devices. In fact it should be possible to make a Wimax version of the portable Mifi routers that connect to mobile networks then you could use your existing devices and some kind of VOIP solution.
Skies Aren’t Clogged with Drones Yet, but Don’t Rule Them Out
Beating a dead horse here - but Streams and Generics are now what I personally consider vital features. Code is much more compact and elegant with the proper application of these two features.
>The fact that college graduates get paid more seems adequately explained by the signalling model he presents. How else do you explain the big pay differences for college graduates vs people who dropped out early? They are bigger than you'd expect from just skill/knowledge gain.

Well, one thing to consider is that you can structure things so that you avoid all the hard classes until the end, and then leave without taking them. I found myself in this situation and had to 'boss rush' all the hard STEM classes at once, which wasn't fun and probably usually results in someone just dropping out.

Confirming this isn't what's happening might be one explanation for the sheepskin effect. (Of course, just because it might be doesn't mean it is, I think Occam's Razor favors Caplan here).
This is talking about search auto-completion and not spelling auto-correct.
There are some small things that are problems only because they are consistently happening to just a subpopulation: if only one ethnic group is consistently asked whether they are janitorial staff for instance. It is funny the first time, but it sends a message of "you do not belong" on the tenth time.

And then there are big things that thankfully happen less and less often, are dealt with more swiftly, and are less ambiguous (like some more ancient professors making disturbing comments).

And then when you get a complete dismissal of your initially polite and well-worded informal complaint... Of course you will get angry, even if anger is unproductive.
Yeah sure, you can make that after you are in the business for years, own your own truck, have a flawless record, and all that. What they don't mention is you not going home at the end of the day, or the hours you don't get paid waiting for other people to unload your or load your truck, or the social isolation, or the fact that a small misstep could cost you your entire career with your CDL and driving experience becoming useless.

The reason we lack truck drivers is because of pay, it costs a lot of money to get people to forgo a family, or a home, or sleeping in their own bed, waiting around in the middle of nowhere not getting paid just waiting, plus the costs of road food, the cost of maintaining and insuring your own truck, ect.
I posted this review of a novelist I had never heard of (who had?) because it gets increasingly interesting as it goes along.
TPP was an anti-China policy
"For comparison, the team asked more than 1,200 healthy individuals from across the same areas about their cannabis use. The strength of cannabis was estimated from the name individuals gave to the drug."

Oh yeah, that sounds solid. My dealer gave me "aghani super haze skunkworks MEGA-THCBOMB", therefore it has 13% THC.

As an avid cannabis user, the idea that you can link the "name" of what you bought to any chemical attributes of the substance is laughable. They will tell you whatever they think will sell it best. Weed "names" are entirely marketing.
The article mentions this being on some activation like tab or similar like bash uses. Automatic completion could work with two levels of highlighting. Example with []/{} showing active/suggestive:

"[G]" <- Typed
"[G]{oo}" <- Displayed in input, with Google/GoodReads as options
"[Goo]" <- Tab Pressed
"[GoodReads"] <- R Pressed
"[Google"] <- g pressed
"[Gx]" <- Any other character x

Then things like Chrome's url bar will fill in the complete first suggestion with a way to clear it which gives UX like:

"[G]" <- Typed
"[G]{oogle}" <- Displayed
"[G]" <- Backspace pressed
It is absolutely possible to disagree with that letter and the quoted sentence in good faith.
If escalator mechanics are not very important people then how is there a crisis when they are missing?

Do I declare a labor crisis because I can't find senior developers to work on my website for $10 per hour?

The buyer doesn't get to decide that a job is not important so someone else is expected to do it cheaply. Either the job is not important so its no problem if no one takes it or it is important so you will pay whatever it takes to get it done.
"Complex societies are possible and durable only when people are emotionally invested in, and help, one another; we’d be living in smaller units and more solitary fashions if we weren’t equipped for such collaboration"

Has this person lived in a city? I don't see how you could be more solitary or isolated. Big, complex societies are almost entirely dependent on collaboration with small groups in compartmentalized ways. Usually you're very far removed from the things and people that actually support your life, and emotional investment is zero. It's really the smaller, more rural areas where combining collaboration with emotional investment is necessary.
Education Can (and Should) Involve Both Music and Sports
It's hard work but 'back breaking' would be a misconception. These guys are encouraged to work safely and smart and as a result often have careers that span 20 to 30 years.
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How can it be the 'straw that broke the camel's back' if it's not a straw and has no mass?

You honestly think there is popular legitimacy in student's demand for authoritative policing of Halloween costumes?

(Edit: literally putting Yale students, the nations 'best and brightest' under more policing literally than children, high schoolers or other adults who for some crazy reason don't need to have their halloween costumes regulated)

This is not a 'yes, but' situation.

There are no 'butts'.

I'm actually quite shocked to read your comment as I had hoped that most Yale students had common sense and thought of the whole episode as pedantic rubbish.
I work on this project.

We needed to pull in a few ways of running the backend game and communicating with it that weren't quite convenient on Windows. A number of integrated third-party components related to generating and running IF games are either linux-only or behave differently in windows and linux. In addition, the target audience is reinforcement learning researchers, who overwhelmingly use Python on Linux, so that focus was prioritized.

Ubuntu on WSL actually is a test platform, and guided a few technical decisions (in part, WSL issues #902 and #162 narrowed what we could do). Honestly, that comment is not too far from the mark. :)
Startups that target mass scale operate like this.

Smaller startups are doomed.
With 28 days change their made users spend more money instead of 12 months it was 13 months. I am not defending jio you are the one defending airtel abuses. Don't use cheap to side step airtel user hostile policies.
Whoopsie. Caught cold turkey I admit. But for what it’s worth, for text editor and text message spelling autocorrect, auto detect would be nice, even if off-topic.
Actually the implication is he has seen delusion at Yale, which I think is easy to disagree with, especially if you're one of the "deluded".
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The greatest risk to free society in my opinion is the overwhelming response of the Outrage Army, and the accompanying chilling effects on free speech and civility.

Consider for a moment that the rise of the right wing political movements are in my opinion, an irrational response to the growth of tribalism and outrage culture on the left.
What's the advantage compared to a tram or trolley bus? I don't get it.
One data point may lead you to bad conclusions, like in this case "one third of pilots don't know how to disengage the MCAS" -- the fact is we don't know what ratio. It might be higher, it might be lower, but one data point isn't valuable or thorough. In the preliminary report they mentioned someone else disabled it. In their final, I'm sure we'll get the details.
I would agree if we were talking about hard facts like science or mathematics. When it comes to matters of society and culture, the salt of the Earth rules the Earth. How much great music, art, fashion, food, etc. comes from rich pricks at Yale, Harvard, etc? Virtually none. I find these people and their debates to be stuffy and boring.
somehow the pilots were able to bring the nose back up... it was only (apparently) after multiple nose downs that they eventually failed to recover the plane. What was going on there?

The MCAS activated several times, each time ratcheting the stabilizer down by 2.5 degrees. Every time the pilots tried to correct for it, it would engage again. That is what caused the characteristic up/down flight pattern.

There are a lot of details in this story:
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
I'm finding library support quite good for .NET Core tbh. Not perfect, but it's not at all a barrier to adoption.
Sorry to hear that! It shouldn't have any issue w/back button so if it did it's definitely a bug. It's a very new project and hasn't been tested on a track-pad yet but thanks for reporting!
> 66 billion trees planted so far

News in 10-20 years: massive wildfires decimate Africa. It's pointless and dangerous to have more trees than the waterbed can support. California re-learns this lesson nearly every year.
Going after someone's career for a perfectly legitimate voiced opinion is not good faith regardless of disagreement. Also in general this whole idea of empowerment through silencing is what nasty religions have done in the past, shunning people for speaking their truth. It's a disgusting tactic and people using it to silence legitimate discourse should instead be shunned.
> If an option is highlighted, never change it, even if new data is loaded.

I'd change this to "never change the positions of already visible elements when the person is not typing". Typing something, then trying to click/tap on a result that disappears and gets replaced by something else is infuriating.
> The Indonesia safety committee report said the plane had had multiple failures on previous flights and hadn’t been properly repaired.

Lots of blame for Boeing, but the real criminals are Lion Air who apparently don’t know how to maintain airplanes. Compare their safety record with Southwest Airlines. Lion Air shouldn’t be allowed to fly.
So most people go into trades and yet it’s still incredibly expensive to hire a tradesperson? Sounds like the market is failing.
I think jokes should be told on the appropriate place, and maybe conferences aren't the place for them.

However I am fully against political correctness and censorship of jokes.

I don't miss what my parents generation had to endure.
I've always wondered about this as well. Get independent hobbyists to setup micro wifi networks. Run all traffic through a vpn or some sort so the operator doesn't risk their IP/ISP banning their service. Monetize the whole thing on a pay as you go service. $1/gb and give 70 cents of that to the independent operators. The big telecoms already have these little mini-wifi networks in bigger cities that you can get access to but only if you are a subscriber to their services.

For me personally I would definitely pay the $1/gb to get access to such a network. Right now, I only use my cell data for e-mail and light web browsing. The cost of 3g/4g data is simply too expensive for me.
Ah, this guy! I found him through his stack overflow maybe a year ago, definitely cool.