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That could bring satellite costs down a lot though - if launches are cheap and not weight limited a cheap steel frame satellite with heavy solar panels becomes feasible - all the old rules about building to optimise weight and not price go out the window.

I wouldn’t be surprised if spacex also enter the satellite building business after mass producing starlink.
He’s promised FSD in 2019, just a couple months ago, even though Tesla logged no testing miles in the last 2 years in California: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-drivin...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged among managerial types, that given enough collaboration, all work becomes shallow. To that end, the business will increase the number of collaborative tools and the expectation of their use, because deep work presents a problem. It is a risk incurred by the business. Creative effort by an individual is not auditable, there's no paper trail. No actionable data -- data that would allow the business to verify each step of the process and estimate time and cost to completion -- is produced other than the creative output itself. The only person qualified to assess whether deep creative work by an individual is on track, on time, and under budget is the individual themself and they cannot be trusted! "Beware the guy in a room."

So the deep parts of the work are now the responsibility of the team, and in order to do that, the team needs to stay in constant communication. Yes, it's slower and less efficient, but the business values reliability and accountability at the expense of some efficiency.

This is why you don't get an office or even a desk -- you get about one linear meter of bench on which to set up your MacBook. This is why availability on Slack is paramount. This is why you're responsible for attending standup, planning, retro, grooming, Three Amigos, and whatever parking-lot meetings your PM has called throughout the week in addition to all the work you've committed to this sprint. This is why "sprints" in the first place.

If you work for corporate, odds are you've signed up to join a hivemind, with all that entails.
Different scheduling algorithms and implementations have tradeoffs. Pick one based on your workload. No need to have only one for all applications.

You can approximate the choice down to two dimensions, latency vs. throughput. Pick your poison.
It turned out people hated that, but it was an unusually amiable group of experts who maybe were reluctant to speak candidly with this person (and the reporting lines weren't clear, in a firm of technical experts). Anyway, I only mentioned this anecdote because I was reminded of it, as a concrete example of disruptive notifications you had to be plugged into, for whatever reason.
Anyone using Carplay or Android Auto is going to get flagged by this. This is stupid.
Confusing indeed. Are they just trying to make it harder to buy the cheapest model? That's the only thing that makes sense to me.
He didn't promise autonomous cars in 3 years, he promised they won't be ready for at least 3 years. Hence the leasing scheme
Anyone want to lay odds on these cars ending up in a “certified pre-owned” program instead?

This seems like a scheme to both boost future new car sales and effectively “sell” the same car twice.
What does this mean? Will BBC podcasts no longer be free?
Every generation throws off the ideals of the generation that came before.

Parents monitor their kids for a combination of:

1. Worry about the outside world. Justified - but monitoring location doesn't make it any less likely that they'll get hurt.

2. Worry about their child doing something they consider dumb. Again - justified. They will absolutely do something you consider dumb. But monitoring your child won't make then agree with you and won't stop them from doing something you don't like. The tighter the grip, the more they'll fight and the more they'll resent you for making them fight.

Parents like to think that this resentment will go away when the child is older. It doesn't. Many of you probably resent something your parents did when you were younger. But it does become less intense with distance - like everything else.

Anywho - Monitoring teenagers doesn't actually help anything. Monitoring younger children might make you feel more safe, though.
How is that fair? Google's algorithm is biased towards what brings revenue for google. Content that isn't easily monetizable is suppressed, and content creators are punished for not conforming their content to what the algorithm wants.
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As a bicyclist, I can tell you what my greatest fear is: parked cars. Statistically speaking, I am far more likely to get hurt because someone opened their driver's side door without looking than from any other cause.

As a result, when I ride by parked cars I make sure that I'm at least a car-door-length away from them when at all possible.
> I haven't seen too many people grow...

Are they allowed to? Are they mentored? It's not just one sided.
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I certainly sympathise. In a strong culture, when you mentored someone, their achievements and success would reflect on you. The boss would see your cohort doing well, and give you a pay rise for your fantastically valuable contribution to the company. "Thank you, maxxxxx, for making these junior software engineers 50% more effective," the boss would say. "Why, you've had the same effect as hiring two or three more people!"

But if your culture involves ranking and paying people only relative to each other, I can understand the need to protect yourself. And everybody loses :( The company loses, you lose, the potential mentees lose :(
Well, that offer lasted all of two weeks?
No guarantee that Atlassian Wikis will last forever either, but I'm certain that's the wiki 90% will be thinking of when "use a wiki" is suggested.

Backing up your knowledge store is a very separate task from your day-to-day use of it. It's just as possible to back-up your company's slack messages as it is to back-up the company's wiki.
> btw, do you implement any edgeql-specific optimizations?

Not on the planner level. Most of EdgeQL-specific low-level stuff is currently built as an extension with helpers. Our strategy is to upstream as much as possible, including any possible improvements to the planner that benefit EdgeDB.
Yes, nice catch! Thanks :) In case you're interested, we want to explore opportunities to expand the "grammar" of assumptions people might want to express.

And, that's our hope. We'd love to increase people's awareness and confidence in their analyses.
Meh, in pretty much every company I've seen there are lots of entry level jobs to be done. Sure, you can ask an experienced developer to take care of them, and they will, but they'd rather apply their skills to more challenging tasks, or you could give them to a beginner, let them figure it out and run it by a more experienced dev to review.

We've done that with a guy that had been out of programming for half a decade but wanted back in. Within half a year he was a great asset. I believe it's more about whether the person is happy to learn something new, not so much what they already know.
It's easily the most misused feature of Slack.

Using @here in a channel is the equivalent of standing on your desk and shouting at everyone around you. So what happens is, like you, everyone starts muting it.

And then you just have people shouting into the void.
Surely you can provide a citation? Though if anyone claims they have proven such a link, then either they are lying, incompetent or mathematicians. Because nothing gets proven in other fields.
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Not really, that founding population could have mated with Denisovan before crossing the Wallace line.

Which is most likely what happened, IMO. Descendants of that population got outcompeted by later ooA migrations, other than small pockets such as Negritos, who also show high Neandertal DNA %.
the USA was pointed to do this under the Obama Administration; only speculation here, but perhaps the Volkswagon emissions scandal was influenced by this insider fight, as well

getting quick downvotes on this -- maybe mistaken for a partisan statement. This comment is not taking sides, only pointing out that a massive "sea change" in auto regulations was in the making, for years, but never in the public view, and perhaps it was substantial enough to change the course of the Presidential Election

ok! I provide factual evidence (below) and still get downvotes ! the mere mention of 'sea-change' auto regulations, makes the messenger the target..? curiously non-sensical amongst such a tech crowd
Yeah, with all this micorservices, serverless, lambda hype I can't help but feel this all was addressed, at least in the Java world, with EJB.
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So I guess anyone out anywhere beyond the lower mainland is screwed after 2040?

There's a lot of BC that's far away from sources of power.

But then again, the BC government might as well be the Metro Vancouver government. They really give such a small amount of shits about anybody living outside the lower mainland.
>This is so broad and vague that basically if I generate a random number to identify you on my website it becomes your personal data.

That's cool. If something can identify me uniquely then it's personal data.
In terms of fraud protection, the bitcoin network is only responsible for ensuring a double spend will not happen. I don't think it should be the 1st layer protocol's responsibility to also handle chargebacks and fraud claims... these issues need to be settled by intermediaries who are willing and able to deal with these customer issues.
IMO that devil's advocate argument is incorrect. There is no trap in working to increase an employee's skills.

If you train someone at work and level them up-- they're not in class 8 hours a day not contributing. They are working on a project.

All software mentorship is based around the idea of growing skills while meaningfully contributing to a project. Actually it's much harder to train someone without a project. I have never once in my career seen a scenario where a person isn't contributing and just learning skills.

After said project is done a trained person might leave. But an untrained employee might leave as well-- for a place that offers meaningful mentorship.
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> What sort of person thinks that its legal, desirable, or consistent with a free society for the government to tell individuals at the point of a gun what they are allowed to do

Isn't this the basis of all law?
I thought they were saying they're going to stop selling the current standard one, and the new "standard" will be the software limited plus, and that it will only be available at a store and not online.
Other than the "The car will be able to self-drive, coast to coast, this year" back in Jan/Feb, you mean?
The article doesn't explain why light would bounce off a rotating black hole and that doesn't make intuitive sense to me. I think of light as bouncing off of surfaces and I think of a black hole as being an event horizon and stuff inside. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
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They were getting a ton of spam messages so they have been locked so that only collaborators can talk. They will be restored when the spam stops https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/367#issuecom....
It's definitely the sound that most can't be reproduced at home. It really sounds like the air itself is being ripped apart. That's why I want to go back and see another launch. Also, the flame is SO BRIGHT, video doesn't do it justice. It's miles and miles away and it's almost like looking at a welding flare.
So a debit card for criminals?
I get the strong impression that even as a loss leader, the $35,000 figure was based on some back of envelope calculations. We know that they have had to expand or increase the cost in several ways since they started production.

I know they really want to make the Model T of electric cars, but it took about a decade of development for Ford to deliver one under $500. And I don't think Tesla has quite mastered the science of car production yet.
There was another thread yet, a day or two back, where people were talking about the financial windfalls that they received from their parents. I found that interesting, because as one person put it, paraphrasing, receiving that money from their parents to kick-start their life and presumably successful business had led them towards a more liberal political outlook.

Having been raised in relative poverty, I have no idea what it's like to have wealthy parents to fall back on. Instead, I spent a decade after high school fighting to get ahead. Today, I find myself, over a decade later still, living what can only be called an excellent quality of life. I, instead, give back to my parents. And I look back at the path that I walked and it makes me less liberal in my politics as a result.

> Getting ahead is hard, but certainly possible.

I think that most everything we do in life is hard and that the daily challenges of life are exactly what make it worth living.
I hate that there is no literal "genius bar" anymore - now you have to fight for table space like it's a SoMa coffee shop.
>Our laws aren't written in away that says if you steal something, and the value to others out weights the crime of stealing, then its not stealing.

Well, that's bad. And it has been known to be bad since the time of Les Miserables at least...

>Who in your opinion makes the choice of "what was unearthed is justified to be unearthed?" A judge, a police officer, a prosecutor, or a jury of his peers?

The jury of peers. But we're still on the court of public/pundit opinion, and many are making arguments as if the technical aspects of the law outweigh any benefits -- in fact as if breaking the law itself is morally condemnable whatever the circumstance. So I wanted to counter that.

Besides, are the people which will be jury really "peers" when the act might benefit humanity at large, but they are tied to a particular nation state (one he doesn't even belong to)?

"Peers" original intention was to be people "related to the community/society the accused lives in" with the same public interests (and moral ideas).
Don’t raise money if you don’t know how you would use it. VCs are asking for a piece of what you built. If you decide to give it to them, you’d better get something that you really need in return.

Don’t accept money just because other people do. Don’t accept money out of fear (i.e. what if competition has money). Don’t rush into a deal without understanding the terms.

If you believe that not having money will be a bottleneck for your venture in the near future, then it is a good idea to accept investment. Since you are in a position of strength, it’s worth finding good investors and structuring a favorable deal. If money will just make things slightly more convenient/comfortable, it will be worth just pushing through without it.

Just my 2 cents.
And you should expand on this with situation and timing details. In a talent starved startup like the one I was in, mentoring a nearly fresh out of college entry level employee was the only way to get the project completed in the available time ... except that very directly sowed the seeds of the destruction of both the project and the company.

Most US companies' management of software developers is horrible, see open offices, Agile as its actually practiced, etc. So I would expect the outcome of this process getting you replaced by your mentee to be common.

In that light, consider timing your mentoring period, which as I note can intrinsically be very rewarding, and I'd argue is vital as paying forward for the mentoring you yourself received, for when you want to leave your current company.

And since getting fired for doing a really good job is psychologically devastating for most if not nearly all people, and at least in the US makes it significantly harder to get a new job, don't wait to get pushed out, start your job search at an appropriate time. Especially since it's really unlikely you can't continue your mentoring after you leave the company, I certainly didn't, to this day. Although by now we're both so experienced, in somewhat divergent sub-fields, that the continued learning goes both ways.
Seeing the feature lists of used cars with base trim is just sad. I once had a 2009 car without electric windows or central locking.
If you're talking about Star Wars, definitely not, because it's intentionally unrealistic.

Other sci-fi, maybe.
> created Pizzagate out of thin air,

not out of thin air. but by several suggestive photos, some with pro-pedophilic comments/captions. If you were a PR firm, one of the few ways you could deflect accusations would be to infiltrate that group and make statements on their behalf that are as bizarre and irrational as possible. Which is funny because that's exactly what happened. All the signal was drowned out by orders-of-magnitude more noise.

Was the british pariliament child abuse ring made up out of thin air too ? Why didn't they just drown that out as fake news from alt conspiracists ?
You have always been able to export your keys manually to a file.
Would love one with computers minimized and privacy as a first-class concern, just like Adama did in the newer Battlestar Galactica, haha.

(I do like the feature where the car slows/stops when it encounters an obstacle directly ahead. As far as I know it shouldn't require machine-learning/privacy invasion, but it is harder and harder to get one without the other.)
You are absolutely, completely wrong. That in no way is protected by the first amendment. The first amendment does not give the press the right to commit theft, of documents or of anything else.
If the IPCC is right, we're all screwed unless we cut global CO2 emissions in half by 2030. So...yes?
I've started businesses. When I start a business, it's mine (and my partner's). Like a car or a house or a website. I'm trying to do something specific with it, with plans that I've drawn up. It's not just to make money. If all I wanted to do was make money, I'd just get a normal job.

When I hire people, I'm not giving away my business, in the same way that if I give a friend a ride, I'm not giving away my car. If they don't like where I'm driving, their only option is to find another ride.

That's the key difference between starting a business vs getting a job: all the decision making is yours.

And this applies at any scale, even Amazon scale. If you have plans and you start a business to execute them, you can execute them even better at a large scale. Getting Amazon big and maintaining control is the reason you start a business.

It'd be insulting if my hires started wanting to take away control. When you hire someone, it's with the implicit understanding that they respect that the business is not theirs. They don't own any of it. (Unless they want to buy in.)

Violating that understanding is disrespectful. Like your neighbor letting their dog shit on your lawn and not picking it up, because they think "well, he's just going to walk his dog in twenty minutes, he can do them both at the same time."

I don't like working (whether for my business or for someone else's business) with disrespectful people. There's a lack of trust.
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Of course you don't want to use the ground as your neutral. In normal wiring it's not designed to do that job so it sucks at it. I'm talking about the polarity of the line and the load as it relates to the device being powered. Your comment seems like a complete and total non-sequitur to that. I'm talking about a directional plug here.

> Your advice could kill people,

I am not giving any advice. I'm saying that unless you're doing something complex involving the neutral and ground no technical reason the neutral and the hot contacts on any given device are not interchangeable because the electrons are going both directions anyway.

> it's not reasonable to claim that decades of expensive electrical mains and appliance design&manufacturing was done for no benefit.

You can still get devices in 2019 that are not grounded (common) and do not have a directional plug (rare).

>Neutral closes the mains circuit also is grounded, protecting the electrified portion against accidental activation.

How is this related to what I said? Yes neutral and ground are both "grounded to the ground" at some point (usually the panel) but the device being plugged in doesn't know the difference between the neutral and the live wire because its getting its electrons from both (because AC).
This is great, I never took this into consideration and I actually enjoy Japanese as a hobby. JLPT N4 and I'm astounded to "wow, yeah, that makes sense it's a problem."

I always like unique problems like this, I never considered ABC vs Kana, Kanji -- and Romaji.
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It's the same steps but it is harder, the center booster was going faster than any other core that has been recovered. The recovery itself was ~300 miles further out than any other recovery.

Swinging a bat at a 10mph ball is the same technology as swinging at a 90mph one. I don't think anyone would say that they were equally as easy.
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I see Zarf around Cambridge from time to time. Either on the red line or at PorchFest. He's a recognizable dude. I feel like I'm one of the few people to fanboy at him in the real world. He's really nice!
Acting roles are an example an exception from EEO laws because the job requires it. It's not illegal to discriminate on the basis of a protected class (age, sex, color, nationality etc) if it's a genuine requirement for the job. And if the employer claims a protected class attribute is a "genuine requirement" when it really isn't, you can be sure they'll have to go to court to defend it.

An exceptional case isn't applicable to most jobs in the world.
I think you're right, but I think the motivation for a lot of posts like this are rooted in developers working with designers who believe "issues like which UI containers should be scaled on what rules (full-screen or safe area? hugging the screen outside or inside?) for different screen sizes" should be within their domain of influence.

That separation of responsibilities is always a tough line to define in reality, and I do agree that the tools used by whomever is assuming that role should become more like developer tools.
Had someone respond to a job ad for a senior dev last week with 18 months experience. I was skeptical. I've never seen anyone develop senior level soft skills in that timeframe, and skill with requirements and design and so on seem to take a lot more time than 18 months.
The underlying theory is still about [1]
There is some code of use get it quick [2]
I also found an MS blurb about UEFI [3]

This apparently requires a Kaspersky rescue GRUB

" Red Hat GRUB Secure Boot repository[2], the only problem—PE header parser is missing. GRUB gets parsed header from shim, in a response to a function call via a special protocol. This could be easily fixed by porting the appropriate code from the shim or PreLoader to GRUB."

[1] https://habr.com/en/post/446238/

[2] https://github.com/rhboot/grub2/tree/grub-2.02-sb

[3] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Hardware-Cert...
Which is probably why they haven't built any. They did the math and knew they can't make profit on it so they "announced" 35k model is available but tried to upsell all people who ordered it to more expensive models, and now they quietly cancelled the 35k model without delivering a single one. So they can say "hey we released 35k Model 3 as promised" to save face. But I don't think they can make profit from it so they are forced to sell more expensive models.
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