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I agree there has to be a counterforce to protect workers from the early days of the industrial revolution where factory workers died and/or were mistreated because of no regulations, no safety and there was little if any oversight to give workers a recourse.

Today in the US there are at least 4-5 agencies that oversee companies and their behavior. Laws are now on the books to protect workers. Workers can now sue their employers for violating their rights. Workers have protection of whistle blower laws. Are any of these perfect, no, but these are the true reasons unions existed. It was to protect the worker from abhorrent conditions and treatment. That has happened through the new laws and agencies in place. What we should be doing is forcing the agencies and politicians to use the tax money they took from us to clean up the areas which are not good enough still, not giving away more money to a union which is just another business there to take their share of your earnings and the companies earnings. Unions are a tax on everyone, they are not free, so you are taxed twice for 90% of the same protections, and the other 10% I would argue are not protections but limits on your rights.

I still see places we need it to be better, but that doesn't mean tech is a place for unions. Can you imagine all these 2-3 year post grad engineers getting the title of Senior software engineer and getting the equivalent high salaries or out of turn bonuses for great work now learn they have to wait 20 years to be called senior, can never again get an out of turn bonus or special treatment for going the extra mile. Unions equalize by taking everyone down to the lowest level of commonality, you are no longer an individual you are a cog to be used to further the union leaderships goals, not yours. Sure, you get a few extras for that but I for one don't want to hand someone else my freedom to earn and advance at my pace so they can get what they feel is important.

* edited a few words to make it clearer.
All low hanging fruit were taken. You can ask good questions, but it would be too niche and nobody sees it.

People see your low reputation and will automatically reject your edits with generic reason, even when I gave very detailed explanation in the note.
First off, Great Question!

Your question is a very interesting one, because it blends themes of persistence, visibility, and accessibility within the context of the web...

Before we talk about the web, let's talk about persistence outside of the web... to gain persistence of your writings outside of the web, you could collect all of them into a book, and physically publish that book.

That would make your writings somewhat persistent, although, perhaps not as accessible as they would be if they were on a website.

But alas, the web changes over time.

Web site hosting companies come and go, and freely hosted web page providers frequently change hands and become subject to owners with new terms, conditions, and inactivity deletion policies... If I recall correctly, Geocities or Tripod (both free hosting providers), one or the other went out of business and lost thousands of free pages that people had created... so it's not guaranteed that any given free hosting provider will be in business 5, 10, 20 years from now...

A few ideas...

1) Put the same blog on multiple free blog hosting providers. That way if one goes down, it will still be mirrored by the other providers.

2) Make sure all of those blogs are indexed by the Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/web/ (The Internet Wayback Machine will probably stick around for awhile...)

3) I suppose you could write a book, and then if the book became a literary classic, like say, The Bible, then it would it would be copied and printed and re-printed throughout history. (On the other hand if your book didn't become a classic, then it wouldn't be reprinted, copies of it would be progressively harder to find, and at least in physical printed form, as more time went by, it might not achieve persistence...) But if you did write a book, you could probably get it on Google Books and on Amazon's electronic shelves (you'd probably want to make it free), and there it might stick around as long as Amazon and Google are in business... which might be reasonably decent persistence...

4) Oh yes, you'd probably want a legal notice in your writings saying that anyone can copy them at any time and for any reason -- or whatever set of conditions you'd prefer to apply. But keep in mind, the less conditions you apply, the more other people will be willing to freely copy and share the material, resulting in more persistence...

5) You could additionally put your writings in audio/video formats and upload them to YouTube and other video/audio hosting services.

6) You could host your writings (in whatever media format(s)) on P2P networks... if enough people downloaded them, they might stick around for awhile...
It's unreasonable to require a private company to do the governments job of policing and enforcing laws.

Nobody would consider forcing hammer manufactures to police their customers not to hurt people with said hammers either
> a simple quota that is too high to be achieved naturally

As I recall, Dilbert nailed this one decades ago. "Welcome to sales training. We don't ask you to act illegally, but it's pretty much the only way to reach quota. That's it for training."

It works best at large, high-turnover companies; even if only 10% of the people you hire are willing to break the law, you filter out the honest people pretty quickly. And once fraud is common enough, it becomes culturally accepted, or inescapable via rules like "fire the bottom 20%". Sometimes it even ends up taught as a "best practice" to honest hires who don't know better. Hence credit card signups, hence fake Wells Fargo accounts, hence Comcast assigning reps to upsell on a percentage of all calls, even cancellations and complaints.

Heck, this is pretty much how game dev 'crunch time' works too; it's not scheduled, so there's no one to blame, but development targets get set so that it's a predictable outcome on every project.
You don't have to guess at #1 and #2. One of the pilots came right out and said it: "The F-35 is as maneuverable as any other airplane, except perhaps the F-22."
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most definitely. ANN's do just that.

That said, they assume a computer. and a program to run it. Similarly, the brain probably has many complex lower structures that compress language storage, but the compression software is not trivial to store itself.
This quote from the parent comment made me sad because it is true. With that being said, why is this so? Is it because the internet learning makes it possible to not need training classes to learn a language like you once did? Would the poster's mother prefer a week long off site course led by instructor or going through learnadacore.com (or whatever) at her own pace?
They literally walk up to the container in the video in the article, it doesn't seem to be difficult to access at low time (which happens at a predictable time twice a day...)

It is buried, not easy to retrieve... but you could just pour fast setting concrete on all the openings.
Google “Thasos Group”. They are one of the big providers
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I think Lisp is a great choice for a first interpreter, but a hard one for a first compiler. Macros make the separation between "compile time" and "runtime" really squirrely. For a first compiled language, I would do something like Pascal.

But, personally, I would really like to write a compiler for a Lisp specifically because I find the handling of macros really confusing and I don't think I'll understand it better until I actually do it.
Yeah that sometimes works. Didn't work for us in uni though. A constant stream of spam with hilarious scare tactics.

That said, I still support the licence fee. Eventually they'll require your licence number for iPlayer and then they'll probably be able to cut back on the annoying spam.
> I'm pretty sure at this point Apple has lost the trust of the professionals community. I personally don't think I would ever buy new equipment from Apple again. At most, I might buy a refurbished iPhone SE downgrading from my iPhone 7 (or spare parts for my iPhone 7) and spare parts for my 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro. It's simply not worth upgrading to new Apple equipment unless you have a lot of spare change burning a hole in your pocket, or you're a visual/graphic designer and your programs are Apple-specific.

I keep saying this, but every time I try non-Apple stuff I run screaming back. when I felt like my 2013 MacBook Pro was getting long in the tooth last year, I got a X1 Carbon 6th Gen. Now I'm just counting the days until my wife won't get cranky if I buy another computer. It's big things and little things. I had to reinstall Windows because random background crapware was causing battery life to vary wildly doing the same thing. (Not even third-party crapware, just like Windows randomly deciding to chew through your battery scanning for viruses or indexing stuff.) The screen developed a cluster of dead pixels within six months. The depot service replaced it for free, which was nice, but the new one has a uneven backlighting in the lower right corner. (Lenovo's Q&A for its LCDs is shit.) Oh, and the bezel is just a sticker that is starting to lift and peel. The LTE card has never worked right, despite repeated driver updates. At first it would just die during sleep, more recently it's started conking out while I'm using it. The touchpad is just okay. Windows is unpredictable crap these days. I replaced the stock install with LTSB which is a bit better. But random shit just won't work. The taskbar will randomly refuse to hide, then you'll have to play a game of "guess notification icon is preventing the taskbar from hiding" (it's usually Windows Defender). Edge fails in basic things like searching PDFs (and won't let you use a separate PDF plugin or set PDFs to auto-download instead). Chrome, meanwhile, eats up your battery.

Apple has a high-profile fuckup every now and then, but at least it tends to be one thing that affects some defined set of machines you can work around, not pervasive random shit Q&A that you can't avoid.

You're right though, Apple has been going downhill. I used to get a new Apple laptop every couple of years, and held off on the 2016-2018 for the reasons you mention. But at least I have hope for Apple. My iPhone XR is just about perfect, totally trouble free. I have zero hope for Lenovo, etc.
If that's true, I'm not exactly sure how to feel about it. It seems messed up.
This is what I was thinking. How will this affect wasmer.
Plastic in ocean gives extreme insensitive to bacteria or other life forms to come with way to consume it for energy. If something will come up with necessary enzymes and reactions, then not only we will end up without plastic, but perhaps without oil as well in a world polluted by byproducts of that plastic consumption that may not be compatible with human life.
"Somewhere between one and two hours" sounds a lot like 90 minutes.
Correct me if I’m wrong but culturally I believe it’s much more important to have children in China vs USA
Have it cook dinner? ;-)
> I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've never seen anything so toxic.

That's very odd to me. I spend a lot of time in online communities and I've been hard pressed to find anything as welcoming and helpful as Stack Overflow. I became a high rep user over the years, and I made mistakes that earned downvotes, but usually someone could give me a pointer to how to improve my question or answer. (Not always, but usually.) It does suck to get downvotes, especially without a comment about why, but honestly, when I look at other sites (ahem hacker news) where the rules are only ever referred to by experienced users and in tiny print below the fold, the clear rules and help on StackOverflow, and posters who are willing to link to them and clearly explain them seem like a breath of fresh air.
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I don't mean this to sound as glib as it probably will, but I can't help noticing that HN appears to be _very_ concerned about age discrimination in contrast to the amount of concern here for gender or racial discrimination.
My reaction was due to the "And boy, were they awfully buggy. And you didn't have access to the source to understand why it didn't work" part. They were not buggy, especially if you compare the equivalents of today and most of the source you would care about was there.

The main thing that modern open source tools do better is the performance of the produced executable by modern compilers is better. But everything else, especially when you go into UI and UX, is much much worse (and most programmers increasingly treating their computers' UIs like terminals from the 70s doesn't help).

I'll agree that the majority of developers today do not want to pay for their tools, but of course with the proliferation of free (as in beer) tools it is expected that the value that people see in their tools (especially when they are surrounded by free tools, like programmers are) will drop dramatically.
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Or more ways to pause any kind of count down timers.
So what is the best replacement for fast food and takeaway purposes? Bamboo cutlery?
I'm apologetically opposed to foreign workers. The US has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. I find all the excuses just that.

Years ago, I worked for a rather well known security/dev company in Northern Virginia. We had two arms to the company: the gov contractor side, which required security clearances and the dev side. The dev side hired a few H-1B visas and within a year, the boss, a former H-1B visa holder himself, now a citizen, slowly, but surely purged the Americans from the dev team in favor of people from his country. We all complained, but to no avail. Six months later, the place had two Americans: the good looking admin assistants. That was it. This happens all the time. I have friends in Northern Virginia that I still keep in touch with and they say nothing has changed. The IT payscale has been run down because of this. Same thing is happening with a certain large HW vendor here in Houston. Filled to the brim with H-1B visa holders while native sons and daughters are given the brush off.
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Alternatives inside GitLab Serverless (https://about.gitlab.com/product/serverless/) would be great. At the moment they have Knative, but enabling more gives a richer possible experience.
> After grad school I got some very good advice from a mathematician: If you are good at math, don't go where they are good at math.

^This. LOL.
IMHO a lot of opportunities arise at the borders between fields. This helped me put my finger on it; physics and its related math are a great basis for interdisciplinary work. Selling that idea to SW-company HR and hiring managers can be hard, in my experience, but startups more often benefit from versatile employees early on. Cool business idea BTW!
I honestly wonder whether anyone else has had my philosophical crisis this past few years. I started to think all of my attempts to be part of an elite group that's "changing the world" through technology are actually fucking it up more.

Whether this is fueled by burnout or a feeling of uneasiness with world events I can't be sure. I'm getting scared though because if I don't get my motivation back in a few years being broke is going to suck.
I was citing eth's ones. Bitcoin is a poor platform for doing layer2 due to unfixable restrictions. What matters is it's about 600k~1000k (not 100m) and even with these it supports quite a lot of users. Supporting more than 1% is desirable but not mission critical.
example of github integration https://github.com/rochacbruno/dynaconf/pull/142

https://github.com/rochacbruno/dynaconf/pull/142/checks?chec...

reports (junit)
https://dev.azure.com/rochacbruno/dynaconf/_build/results?bu...
How do you find the time? (2012)
yup it's all about that empathy, and having a constructive, vs. destructive approach to candid criticism and conversation. SO somehow swung far in the destructive direction. Candid discussion does not have to be toxic to be direct, no matter what Linus and co might say, and SO seems to embody.
You know, I recently posted about how I learned to program with no home internet connection. Learning to only rely on the docs for major libraries has really helped me use obscure stuff.

That said, SO is still a wealth of information.
To be fair how people learn on the internet has changed too and I fully admit that. Prior to SO you had to read quite a bit of answers that were close but not quite what you were looking for, but by going through that process of reading you learned quite a bit more as to how things worked, what the language/software/hardware was trying to do and I feel as a result grasped a deeper understanding to the problem and technology you were using. Now, questions and answers are much more specific and thus create a much more of a copy and paste environment where people just get stuff in and hope it works without really learning the how and why. Part of that is because the need for programmers over the past 20 years has grown to such an extent people really don't care as much about the quality of work as long as it sort of works. They needed a programmer with a pulse and will fix poor quality work later because they need to ship now. Hardware also vastly outpaced the programs in performance so doing things in a less than best manner wasn't as evident. Just a generational/era thing.

SO definitely tried to reinvent the 'manual' for many years, which was silly when there was already a manual to read.
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Images are clickable (beware of 5-25Mb JPEG's).
Colors are enhanced, in reality they are much less saturated. "
"instrument-rated pilot" - That's the key part that makes this individual able to weigh in on the situation.
bitly lets you make custom URLs, even if you're not a paid customer. You can make them anything you want, so long as it hasn't been taken already.
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It's why we say in high-assurance security to address each root cause as they're understood and mitigated. Then, build that into your languages, analyzers, etc. Ada and Rust do that for lots of code injection opportunities. For web apps, even PHP has Airship CMS to reduce risks. Jif/Sif languages track information flows to block leaks. Several OS's do secure-by-default configurations. And so on and so forth.

We know these attackers may expend a lot of effort. They also have more education, tooling, and labor out there than at any time before. Might as well use technology that makes blocking them something we don't even think about vs a cat and mouse game where we must consider every detail for even common operations or apps.
you could scan a QR code from your phone
Having no pain, okay.

But having no anxiety? wow, that sounds like true heaven to anxious me.
The formula might not be elegant, but if you have an exact description of tectonic drift, you can absolutely have a code that refers to a fixed location on its plate, rather than to a point on some imaginary sphere.

GPS coordinates are just one possible solution, there's no reason to consider equivalent encodings of the same values as the only alternatives.
> Tech firms in China typically expect their employees to work long hours to prove their dedication.

> By the end of 2018, many tech companies were announcing plans to cut benefits, bonuses and jobs as they hunkered down amid the country’s worst economic slowdown in nearly three decades.

> Yang is pondering what comes next. With more than 10 years of experience, he now holds a mid-level position at a top-tier internet company but has reached a career ceiling. He compares himself to a construction worker, who can earn good money due to high work intensity but can easily be replaced by younger, cheaper labour.

There's a lesson here. Anyone who asks you to be "dedicated" to their business or cause is looking to exploit you. When things get tough, they will not repay your dedication in-kind.
Gender issues aside, speaking as a daily text-to-speech user this voice doesn't sound particularly natural or pleasing. The accent seems to constantly shift between American and British, and there is some weird audio phasing going on. It sounds more like a Hollywood director's idea of what robots should sound like than something I'd actually want to listen to.
I don't think you understand what the monopoly on violence actually is.

It doesn't mean the government is the only agent capable of committing violence, rather, that the government determines what forms of violence, and under what circumstances, are legal, and that the enforcement of laws and contracts are always backed up by an implicit threat of violence through incarceration or worse.

The Second Amendment being legal doctrine adopted by the government is an example of that monopoly being extended to the people - yet the same government that passed the Second Amendment also put down Shay's Rebellion. That's the monopoly on violence.
Have taken over other coops and made some members redundant - this is from when I worked in coop in the early 2000's
This is why I'd much rather be doing the Matlab modeling simulations and analysis as the first step of the project and would prefer to stay away from the actual implementation part. You get the creative fun without the hard part of tracking down bug.
Why would anyone use anything else than Chrome or Firefox on Android?

I wouldn't even trust Samsung.
To continue to work on this project after the outcry its generated is to metaphorically twirl one's mustache.

Google is in the same spot IBM was in 1981 or so. They are ripe for disruption. I don't know how or who, but in the cycle of tech companies, they are up next.
It's reductionist because it assumes management has no choice in how to run their business and US corporations are basically all the same.

This is clearly, obviously not the case. There are many ways to make money and the management of a company has a lot of freedom to choose how to go about it. Different companies have quite different strategies and cultures. Some treat their employees much better than others. Pretending they're all the same is sort of like saying it doesn't matter who wins in an election.

What we can say is that when new management takes over, sometimes things change quite drastically. But this isn't deterministic and so you can't conclude all that much just from knowing the theory of shareholder value.
I wonder how much of the existing plastic could be replaced with PLA. For a lot of use cases it should have all the same upsides as oil-based plastic.
Invest or pay off debt, which one is better?
Maybe this is an excessively callous view, but isn't all of this voluntary and self-imposed? Is the expectation for the reader to pity their condition?

There is no totalitarian government that's relocating these people to a gulag and forcing them into 996 labor work for their motherland. These are people who are trying to break into upper middle class or beyond by pursuing high risk high reward economic opportunities and sacrificing much in exchange. When you start with nothing, and you want a lot, you end up getting exploited by a system that has major leverage over you.
The secret to Weird Al's success.
Sorry, but I don't see how this is relevant to what the other person said. Important or not, if you're too tired for sex then wtf are you going to do with an infant?
Much probably. Safe + low level was synonymous with Ada but it wasnt trendy