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I hope the future is not so terrible but I can't really disagree with you.
I had one executive tell me "programming is becoming a blue collar job". And general programming companies are adopting the bad practices that were pioneered by gaming industry.

20 years ago when I started programming I had my own office, and that continued for a few years. Then I shared an office with a few people. Now we have open-floor plan factories and Agile fanaticism, and many companies that expect >40 hours of work per week from their salaried programmers. Fortunately I work at home now so I don't have to deal with this, but I take a salary penalty to do so.

It definitely seems like in terms of people and jobs, churn and burn is the future of programming. But maybe not just programming. It seems like there is an employment culture based on "exploit the millennials". Consider the weird "Hustle Harder" posters in WeWork offices.
It has to do with the intention. If someone is planning to redirect these £€$ 5 per day (150 per month, 1825 per year) on something else, e.g. algo forex trading with a safe 0.20% profit per day, then those 5-per-day will become 650k in 10 years. I like my coffee just as the next guy, but if 'depriving myself' from the daily coffee will help me get to my F.I.R.E. [1,2] ten years sooner, then I am dropping it.

By the way I have quit drinking coffee (only decaf) and juices, but it was more of a health-choice than a financial one. But of course everyone decides what to do with their £€$ 5-per-day :)

[1]: https://www.financialindependenceretireearly.com/

[2]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-independence-...

Edit: also.. converting that 5-per-day to 650k in ten years, can make life SO MUCH easier when your kids will have to go to University.
Nothing facilitates my social life more than technology. It's how I find events to go to, buy tickets to those events and plan how to get there. It's how I keep in touch with people far away from me and how I plan trips to visit them. It's how I find dates.

Without technology my social life would crumble. I'd adapt, sure, just like I'd also adapt to a world without motorized transportation or recorded media.

For people who genuinely worry about technology's impact on their lives, I suggest spending a solid hour or two seizing control of the software you use. Turn off notifications you don't want. Uninstall things that don't provide you utility or joy. Unsubscribe! I have to give myself a digital tune-up along those lines every few months to keep things in check.
I totally agree, and I believe any serious programmer should have at least some basic knowledge of the three "paradigms", as the core concepts are relevant in all cases, and there are many techniques that can be applied in different "paradigms". I didn't start talking about it in order to keep the comment short, but maybe it was a bit confusing.
I know - I switched schools (from public to charter) in 8th grade. It was a drastic move (particularly since the new school was 23 miles away and so it meant I had to be driven 45 minutes to see any of my new friends), but well worth it - IMHO it literally saved my life.

Usually if someone is thinking of switching schools catching up is the least of their concerns, because they're not learning anything anyway in their current situation.
Interesting! Thanks for a detailed reply. Since you bring up the cost of software, do you believe that using formal methods helps reduce costs?
> I thought companies like Twitter and Google routinely rebuffed requests for information from government agencies and opposed restrictive rules

They say this but look at AT&T and room 641A and the NSA.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
No, its buggy and the moderation tools are in-superior especially when you factor in the incomplete RES support.
Actually nowadays you can find really cheap CDs in Amazon (even more than iTunes)and of course rip it to FLAC or Mp3.

Or when i can not find the CD in Amazon i usually get from 7digital.
https://www.heritage.org/gender/heritage-explains/the-equali...

Heritage actively campaigns in the US and supports people in the U.K. who work against trans rights. Yes they do oppose my existence they just wrap it up in statements about “freedom of debate” or “women’s safety” even when those aren’t actual issues.
Then why have such a list in the first place?
It's a nonstarter because it flat out cannot compile projects beyond a certain size.
The massive externalities are two-fold though both good and bad. Whats the positive externalities worth compared to the negative, thats imo a better way to think about this.

Also does solar include externalities such as of decommission, price of extracting rare earth materials, externalities with regard to production and setting up?

My guess is that nuclear is going to win and that we are going to reduce the cost of creating the powerplants by reducing the bureaucracy around it because of the newer reactors safetymeasures (physics based).
The Federal Reserve has unlimited power to create money, which is what backstops the FDIC. It is not bound by any financial resources or constraints.

Organisationally, the FDIC might be challenged by massive bank collapses, though it's addresed this in recent past through forced bank mergers.

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/insurance/assessments/mergers.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_acquired_or_bank...
> The benefit to themselves was supporting their president's policies.

Interesting, well if that was the motive then I certainly can't have any sympathy for Motel 6 here. But I still believe that it is unfair for ICE to go without penalty, whether or not the law addresses this situation.

> per the complaint, Motel6 actually trained their employees to turn over such information even before ICE came calling.

It's not clear to me from the complaint that Motel 6 trained their employees as such prior to any communication from ICE. Your explanation regarding their republican alignment does make sense, but I'm not sure this specific point is accurate.

> Please do some more research before you keep throwing out hypothetical complaints about something that didn't happen.

This is a forum for discussion. It's not Snopes. I just want to share my layperson's opinions and also hear your (and others) expert feedback about them. By the way, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my comments.
I was a little unsure, and then started to ask why doesn’t Netflix include “free” media in its distribution network.
My father (72 Years old) started Netflix waaaay back in the day thanks to the DVD service and you would be surprised by just how much better the selection is than their online catalog.

He used it primarily for foreign films or artsy films that didn't have big theatrical releases.

It's very funny because i would say at least 60% of the times I am looking for a movie on Netflix I am referred to their DVD catalog and end up having to use another service.
tested GET on 5 links :

- 4/5 do not work anymore

- 1/5 is this marvel of 90's design : https://www.grsoftware.net

Enjoy :)
How can Safari 12.1 impact mobile apps?
At legal crossings, no different than flying into the US. Which, for that matter, is how the vast majority of known terrorists have gotten into the United States -- 100% of the 9/11 terrorists flew into the US.

When there is some sort of equivalency drawn between the Southern and Northern border it is usually founded on absolute nonsense. The Northern border likely sees more smuggling of both people and contraband (e.g. guns) North than the reverse.
It depends on the complexity of the sensitive variables. This looks like a purely academic exercise.
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Which is why when someone claims a law compels you to do something, your default position should be to demand to speak to an attorney, invoke your right to remain silent, and refuse to interact further.

(This means complying if they try to arrest you)

As defense attorneys say: you can't beat the ride, but you can beat the rap.
AI is used to make decisions. It impacts every part of our lives. It encodes the biases of its creators into. How does that not affect LGBT folk?

When AI starts being used t decide who to hire or if someone should be offered a rental then what happens when it is biased against LGBT folk?
From the article:

> Aoife Mullen, communications manager for Ireland's Data Protection Commission, told CNN that the commission was "aware of the issue," adding, "we will be seeking further information from Airbnb on the matter."

It appears that authorities were contacted and will investigate. I would guess this is more a civil case rather than a criminal case though. Still might result it jail time but probably doesn't require sending police out to find and arrest the host right away.
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Where do you think universal ethical labor standards come from?

Organized labor is the source of the vast majority of the things we now take for granted. You know, like "the weekend." People actually risked their lives for it.

All of the answers to your questions are in history books.
The whole idea behind dumb client/simulation server was to be able to support cities too big to be simulated on one machine (the simulation server can be distributed). I already have quite sophisticated streaming logic that basically makes sure only deltas of everything are streamed. Latency is not really an issue in this kind of game, for most player inputs I can even do simple optimistic prediction on the UI side, which works fairly well.
I think they're pointing out that when the web console is docked on the bottom (default), the responsive viewport is shrunk since it's scaled by window.innerHeight with no way (afaict) to zoom independently. At least I couldn't figure out how.

https://i.imgur.com/avAHd0l.jpg

I think I found a bug: docking the web console vertically while in responsive mode hides the top row of controls. For example there's no button to dock horizontally. (Edit: actually this was just fixed after updating Safari)

https://i.imgur.com/XOP43hs.jpg
Even creating an app, the hoops are non-trivial. Due to the scope required (gmail.send), app verification and approval is required.

I've been toying with writing a credential helper to obtain the oauth bearer token, but Authen::SASL::XOAUTH2 still needs to be written so that git-send-mail knows how to use it.
Most of the video rental business for new releases wasn't carried out under the first sale doctrine, because video stores worked out a deal where they could purchase videos before they were available for sale, at inflated prices.
Man in the middle attack is pretty easy to do if you have control over the traffic. So I would simply say stay off. But that's just being super paranoid.
I prefer the old design, but the new one has a number of improvements and I think I could get used to it if it wasn't so unbearably laggy. I'm on a beefy MacBook pro and it's so slow it's frustrating, especially on Firefox.

Also I think it's a huge shame how much customization they've taken away from the subreddit styling. Completely custom CSS was way better, the new design seems to allow for some basic elements to be styled along with the banner. That is a major downgrade.
I think this.

https://imgur.com/a/SgWuxWq

If you enter the responsive design pseudo-device simulator mode, you are automatically scaled if the virtual viewport is bigger than Safari's master viewport. Which, yeah, slightly annoying, but it's never caused me to rage walk. (Generally I'm using this to look at a teeeeeny little iPhone SE viewport.)
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Why does the fact that someone is staying in Motel 6 need to be admitted as evidence in court? People aren't being deported for the crime of booking a room at Motel 6.
Are you the only backend dev on the team? If you report to someone senior in a technical role, have you had a chance to bring up your work challenges, and ask for help? You mentioned that your coworkers are nice people, so they may be more open to helping than you might realize.

You ask "is this normal?", and I would say that yes, lots of backend code is awful. I have worked with devs ran into significant problems down the line, even though they'd been part of the core dev team since day 1. However, what I don't find normal is a company that would hire a 20yo without prior work experience for this role. Communicating challenges and delays is something you learn to do over time, with experience. I don't think it's fair to put that responsibility on someone so young.

Good luck. I wish I had more to say that could be of help.
Formal methods encompass a very wide range of techniques that vary wildly in cost. When the appropriate technique is applied to the appropriate problem, then it can certainly reduce costs, even significantly. But like I wrote in another comment, most of the cost of building software is determined by what we build, not how. Tools and techniques, even those that are effective, can only help so much.
They basically drove most of the local rental places out of business and now are slowly dismantling their own operation for physical media. Torrents aren't really an option for most obscure stuff. So you pretty much now have to just buy media for a lot of things out of the mainstream.
There are several that are guild-like.
For instance, in my state it is illegal to hold yourself out as providing 'accounting services' without being a CPA.
Likewise, it is illegal to assist in the sale/purchase of real estate for a fee without being a broker/realtor (or a lawyer).

It's undoubtedly the same for engineering.

However, there may be a subtle difference...
A non-accountant can certainly help with your books so long as they don't hold themselves out as an "accountant."
And, a non-realtor can certainly help you find a house, so long as they aren't paid contingency related to the ultimate transaction.
I think -- and I may be wrong -- a non-engineer can charge to design a treehouse for your... so long as he doesn't hold himself out as an engineer. (Obviously, when it comes to roads, permit-related structures, etc., a governmental agency may require a P.E.... but, that's a different set of requirements.)

But, one may not practice medicine EVEN IF one refrains from holding himself out as a doctor. And, one may not dispense legal advice EVEN IF it is clear to all involved that the person is not a lawyer.
I agree with your analysis, but I'm going to take the opposite view because of one factor that you didn't consider: power outages. People want to have some standby storage at their house anyway, and once they have it they may as well use it to keep rates down.

(I think the real answer is somewhere in the middle, but disagreeing is more fun)
As a Canadian, I hear frequently from Americans that Canada is a homogeneous place. I imagine there are a lot of different ways to measure that, but for what it's worth, per StatsCan Canada has the highest foreign-born population in the G8[1]. Subjectively, Toronto feels amazingly polyglot compared to most large US cities I've spent time in. (Although, as in the US, there's a lot of geographic variation.)

Not to invalidate your point, but that particular assumption always strikes me as dubious.

1. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-0...
Yes, but the range of what 'static typing' means is so large that it is meaningless in this case. C is statically typed, and so are Java and OCaml. So is Idris.

Of these, only Idris' type system has any power to model truly interesting properties (though the cost of doing so, in program complexity, is huge). Otherwise, even something as simple as rejecting `add(x, y) return x - y;` as a well typed function is beyond all of the others.
Ah, okay, that's what I must have heard and misinterpreted. Kind of makes sense, as it could allow for arrangements that reduce the losses from unused copies and thus the risk of buying too many.

Edit: I also wonder if the unit price difference will ever be big enough that Netflix has to charge a premium for those who want the excluded titles?
2.7M seems really low.

We primarily still have the paid for DVD service because there's a whole bunch of movies and TV shows that just aren't available via streaming services. For example we were just using it for the final series of True Blood, because all the previous series are on Amazon Prime, but not the last one.

There's a lot of classic movies missing from online services, as well, particularly MGM ones.
> Write-protection is typically enforced by the hardware. In the case of computer devices, attempting to violate it will return an error to the operating system while some tape recorders physically lock the record button when a write-protected cassette is present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_protection
But the point is they often go beyond ensuring people are treated fairly, and artificially drive up wages by constraining the supply of labor. This is a very unfair system. It benefits those they have the privilege to get into the guild (which often entails having the right connections, and until the Civil Rights movement also had the requirement of "be White"), at the expense if those that don't get into the guild. It also drives up costs for consumers.
Very true. As far as the view from the consumer goes there isn't really much interesting or innovative new stuff going on.
Oh... But I wasn't talking about salary, and Junior DevOps is most definitely a thing.
Similar story here, but on a ZX Spectrum :)
> I know we have Infiniband but that has always come at quite a cost, mainly in supercomputers.

Lower end Infiniband (eg 40/56Gb) isn't too expensive these days. Well, that's assuming people aren't paying list price. :)
Except Reddit's new design definitively sucks and it practically forces their app down your throat on mobile to increase their ad revenue.
I use https://sqlitebrowser.org/ if I need to but primarily Jupyter w/ Pandas to explore and understand the data and prototype new queries.
What the “painless woman” says about how anxiety and fear fit into pain
Thanks for your kind words, I'm glad you found it helpful :)
Have given this a fair amount of thought and it comes down to a few things:

Cycle lifetime of lead is good as long as you don't deep-discharge it, but then if you don't deep-discharge it you need a lot more material.

Eventually the lead is going to degrade and then you need a battery changeout, or you need the wherewithal to refurbish the plates and the paste. No one goes to the trouble.

Lead-acid doesn't tolerate the cold as much as lithium does.

But the big enchirito is the fact that lithium batteries at 100% max capacity are great for cars. After they wear down to 75% max capacity they're no longer suitable (you want a pack with 20 miles' range?) and junk. At that point they're ideal for grid-tie because there's literally not much other use for them.

Lead acid requires purpose-building, which I believe would be cost-competitive, but also require a substantial raise for what many consider to be a has-been technology.
Redbox selection is a vanishly small fraction of what's available from netflix DVDs/Bluray.
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"He's not a victim of the media."

I don't agree. The (news) media is misleading, if not deceptive, in how it presents itself. The major of the time it's not news per se, but shit that will draw the most eyeballs and attract the most attention, etc. Even for the casual observer it's easy to get sucked into that vortex.

Fake news is not simply a matter of truth or not. It's also about importance and relevance. For example, I took a dump this morning. That's a fact. But that doesn't make it news. So any any given moment, the news isn't pushing news, it's pushing - like everything else - increased engagement.

Intended or not, active participants or not, we are all victims of that because it manipulates broader perceptions, agendas, etc.
Not true. It's stupid expensive but you can use COBRA.

> Eligibility for COBRA. In general, employees who were previously actively enrolled in health insurance coverage for at least one day, but lost it due to a change from full-time to part-time employment or termination(both voluntary and involuntary), are eligible for COBRA

https://help.zenefits.com/COBRA/Understanding_COBRA/01_Emplo...
Maybe. But what about housing prices that came with QE, aren't they just delaying the catastrophy ?
I complain about how long it takes my guests to pick a movie on Netflix + Hulu + Apple + whatever else I have this week, but if I'm being perfectly honest we used to spend more time at Blockbuster. Especially if you included transit time.

Because Blockbuster had a lot more movies than Netflix streaming ever has. And you can scan a rack of movies faster than you can scan in Netflix.
SDL is generally the most painless way to get a framebuffer you can draw in, cross-platform, and it also handles creating windows, reading input and playing sounds if you want to. You can use it from C and pretty much any other language has bindings. Also any GUI toolkit will have a widget that is a blank canvas (Qt and Wx both do, GTK should as well, but I haven't used it much). Or you can write in javascript and use canvas.
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Hmmm, can't find it. Mind telling me what it is?
Quitting drinking isn't a cure for alcoholism, either. But the problem isn't the alcoholism, it's the alcohol.

Getting off of social media didn't make me a better person, but social media definitely made me a worse person. As I mentioned elsewhere, I jumped from reading two books a month to six. Those extra four books a month are making me a lot happier than the equivalent amount of cat videos and fighting with my fellow Democrats about which of our candidates sucks the least. The additional time playing guitar is making me a better guitarist, something I should value a lot more than snopesing the latest political quote meme. Going to bed earlier is better for my health than staying up another hour endlessly scrolling because I'm too tired to stop.

Alcoholics don't stop being alcoholics, but they can stop drinking, and stop subjecting themselves to the countless problems alcohol was creating for them. That's how I feel about Facebook. It created real problems for me, and when I quit, those problems have gone down.
Thanks for the supportive comment. I thought I was going to get a polite but firm message from dang asking me not to drink-and-hackernews :)
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