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Tesco spend say 2% to try to get people to spend money there rather than ASDA.

ASDA spend 2% to try to get people to spend there rather than Tesco

Net result - both stores have no change in customer numbers, but an increase in overheads. Therefore they have to charge the customer more to make the same profit.
Eddie is this something you think would be interesting to talk about on The Changelog ~> https://changelog.com/podcast

We've talked about 18F with Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman in the past here ~> https://changelog.com/podcast/230

Get in touch at editors@changelog.com if you're interested!
Thanking someone for their time is free and takes only a minute. If I don't really want the job I won't be bothered, and if I do I will try everything I can to make myself stand out throughout the interview process, including sending a short email. Recruiters are not stupid, they know this. TIL this behavior is: classist, archaic, possibly sexist, possibly racist, and definitely "problematic". Who knew?
The funding project is MAC; that is, the ‘MAC’ in ‘MACSYMA’. The codes are of historical interest only—it was only a year later that Risch published his decision procedure. SIN & SAINT are still wonderful bits of software to explore.
What I particularly don't like from the original piece is "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them."

I write thank you e-mails to people who give me their business card during the interview. I'm sure as hell not hunting down your e-mail just to send you one. If you expect me to, you're not respecting my time as a candidate.
I'm very much against hidden criteria used to filter people. It's a lazy, bias-driven way to convince yourself you're selecting the best people. The author of the original tweet (who this person is replying to) is trying to select for some sort of work characteristic she thinks correlates with success. It would be much better to identify that characteristic and focus part of the interview on trying to evaluate the candidate against it.

I haven't been hiring people for more than 10 years, but I swear by the simple process of being transparent about what I'm looking for in a new hire. The hard part is the reflection on exactly what that is.

I wrote about this several years ago: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/were-hiring-engineers-a.... It's basically a re-presentation of interview training I've gotten.
You can interface with Object Pascal (which you frequently advertise) just fine.

(That doesn't make Object Pascal a practical language, though).

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-JVM-so-riddled-with-securit...

Another fact is, startup times alone make JVM impractical for many endeavours. For each task an appropriate tool I'll say.
Yeah; it's kind of impressive, in a way. It reminds me of my reaction when I first found out that Mac OS / Darwin's kernel was built by taking Mach and then grafting parts of BSD on top: "Wait, you can do that!?"
This argument does hold significant validity, unfortunately there is an irrational need to ensure that a minority are not exploiting the system, even at the cost of those who pay for the system.

For example, I think all buses in London should be free. Look around the bus and you'll see that most people aren't directly paying (under 16, over 60, on benefits) and by taking away the need to check for payment we could get people on and off the buses much faster and completely remove the need for card readers.
So will running 16 hours a day.
I'm saying isostatic may still be right, even with your objection.

Everyone can be having losses due to advertising (and be forced to charge more), despite advertising still being profitable for any particular business, compared to not advertising.
Its good but there are still many great Mobile VPN services like PIA, PureVPN and ExpressVPN. Also They are compatible with routers so you can easily use them on it instead of using the VPN on mobile directly.

https://www.purevpn.com/download/router-vpn
https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-software/vpn-router
third parties only observe what's published in a blockchain. they can choose to disagree with blockchain. when all/majority third parties disagree with blockchain - it becomes irrelevant and worthless while some other branch of that blockchain becomes "the real one".

it's really not the same as having limited number of third parties proclaim which version of blockchain is correct.

but more importantly - one doesn't have to ask permission from any third party to publish their transaction either via internet or radio or satellite or morse code. if you still think trading in gold is safer/easier - i don't know what else to say.
Threats to national sovereignty such as invasion.
We already went down that dead end road with Microsoft in the 1990s. What's different today?
To be fair, while much of that boils down to what is considered normal, Docker images are also far easier to update and maintain then manually grafted together libraries.
Thank you for introducing me to this!
My eyes had no idea what they were missing.
PopOS has converted me. The main overly complex and brittle thing now seems to be the installation of programs from so many different sources, and apt itself. If that was a better user experience I'd have no trouble recommending it to all Windows users.
Nah. I definitely got hit by him and it was right after a swanky sesh.
Less opportunity for sigint types to deduce information about the image source from the images and less opportunity for reversing whatever algorithm/processes were used to reduce quality (in order to make a "releasable" copy) in order to re-create that information.
Most of that is what was in her hotel room, not what she was caught with.
Disabled users don't get a choice, that's their lives. People who voluntarily disable a core browser component do. Apples and oranges. You should (and legally need to) worry about accessibility.
how many times has china banned bitcoin now?
Yes, but people who can't imagine living without Netflix don't consider that an option although I do know people who work remotely in rural areas for tech companies who make do with just satellite.

In all fairness, it's not a great option. My dad is at the very end of a DSL line in Maine and Internet is pretty bad. Neighbors who are a bit further out use a combination of satellite and wireless hot spots (on marginal cellular) and no one is very happy.
Well time to lobby for MRU tab switching in their community forums, don't want another chromium situation with the next big browser.
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That's tooth fairy trust. Last year china got rid of all its VPN apps in the apple store, how can someone would trust a VPN made by a Chinese company?
If you think I indicated anything about how safe trading in gold is - I do know what to say, and I've pretty much just said it :)
You saved me a click. Thank you!
You pay around 40% effective tax rate at £150k. It doesn't really matter exactly where the money goes, at the end of the day the budget has to made by the chancellor and they'll funnel money from NI to other areas and vice versa if they need to.

Still a good deal though.
> I find this argument similar to: regulating the

> construction of buildings will just lead to seasteading.

You're calling it out as a slippery slope argument [1], which is fair enough - except there is already evidence to suggest that users kicked off of these platforms migrate to Minds (Twitter alternative), Gab (Facebook alternative) and BitChute (Youtube alternative).

The BBC article for example has almost 70 comments on Dissenter [2]. Removing a persons ability to comment only hides the problem, you can't stop them thinking a given way and you're less likely to change their mind if you cut off dialogue with them entirely.

> The issue isn't really about silencing people, but

> removing their access to a mainstream audience.

You're removing their access to a mainstream audience by silencing them. In this case they are the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

[2] https://dissenter.com/discussion/begin-extension?url=https%3...
> Everyone wants socialist benefits for themselves and free-market benefits for everyone else.

I don't. I'm fine being self-employed and handling all my own stuff, but I do want the poor of the world to get more of the opportunities that I enjoy.
> Sure, a mate isn't _technically_ required to live a good life, but in our intensely individualistic society where the number of friends men have is dropping precipitously, relationships form a core of socialization for many men.

Perhaps this is the part where we need to change and improve? Rather than expecting the world or women to align to us.
Obviously we need to hold airlines to account to improve their environmental impacts, but I appreciate padding. I know I'm getting fooled, but if it makes sharing ETAs and making peace with a journey, I'd much rather it than be delayed continually.

I think most of us can appreciate the logistical challenges keeping increasingly busy airports running on time, and whilst we need to ensure operational improvements are being made I don't think airlines are deliberately ignoring this (in an age of squeezed profits, being more efficient is the only way to go for them). Padding just makes sense.
>If Huawei is incompetent at managing OpenSSL in their codebase to the point that there are nearly 100 copies sprinkled through, most of which are vulnerable to exploitation, that seems like a perfectly reasonable basis to bar their products for a number of years, regardless their nationality or other actions.

Yes, and it also highlights that we need independent review of any code going into critical public infrastructure, no matter where it comes from.
> Just block scripts

And make the web nigh-unusable.
Learnt from the best:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
Each time a podcast praises the credibility of a VPN sponsor, it reduces the credibility of the very show in my mind.
> If you are are careful to ensure certain initial conditions

And you trust people to do this? Even competent programmers need safeguards.
I've had stalkers before and it'd freak me out if I received a thank you note from someone I did not exchange contact details with.
you are right, sed or awk are good and would do that nicely

The advantage of Perl is investing a little time in learing some (not all) Perl 5 (not Perl 3 or 4, those are only a bit better than BASH + sed + awk) allows you to do a lot more than you can with BASH + sed + awk.
Mondrian vs. Elasticsearch: What to Choose
The only example I know of this happening are with Vice President Agnew.
Only hiring people who send a thank you email is totally weird. "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." To be honest my time is pretty much to valuable for this kind of teenager games. I am busy solving real problems for real customers. I don't have the time to search for your Email address, I also don't need to do that, people usually hire me for point 1), I get shit done.

"To be clear, a thank-you note does not ensure someone will be a successful hire. But using the thank-you email as a barrier to entry has proved beneficial, at least at my company." the author says. Blatantly ignorant towards all the genius they've lost in their broken process.
"The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." The author says, because changing the strategy for a handful of cases out of thousands is definitely really scientific and stuff.
"As a hiring manager, you should always expect a thank-you email, and you should never make an offer to someone who neglected to send one." as the last quote just showing the pure entitlement the author suffers...

That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me happy to be in Software, people who bring trouble usually don't get promoted into responsibility...
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> firmware developers - learn from these mistakes. Hopefully GCHQ is coming for your code next.

I won't be able to sleep tonight, thank you very much... Lucky me I only develop for medical devices. Nobody seem to care about that too much...

But firmware often does carry config-files for many, many different hardware revisions and versions. Creating a binary is mostly more work than just calling ./configure.

This code is never nice code. It is also difficult to implement unit tests. So for efficient testing, you need a good laboratory. With many fancy hardware devices... Additionally, the code was probably meant to never get public.

> these haven't been "universally applied"

This is probably the case for any vendor that existed for more than half a year. To be honest, I can see the criticism, but there will be lacking "hygiene" at least at some cases.

I wouldn't criticize the coders as much as the person responsible to use hardware from a chines vendor for critical infrastructure, that makes this kind of verification necessary.

Why not build your own system then?
ATT took a formal complaint to the FCC to get DSL hooked up...DSL. Charter is shown in our rural area. I live 20 yards from a two lane paved "Highway"...literally it's name...in rural Georgia (~45 miles as the crow flies from downtown Atlanta). Comcast actually has the rights. A Verizon hotspot (excellent 4G speeds) off my phone is actually the fastest, most reliable download speed we have. I have a large state university 15 minutes from me.

...this is the state of broadband for semi-rural America.

[EDIT] Oh and the ATT easement stops next to my driveway. There is an old T1? (as thick as my wrist) of copper entirely unterminated next to my driveway as well.
Recovery of criminal proceeds is regulated in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. There are certain instruments to recover illegal proceeds, either by restraint ("freeze") and/or confiscation orders. There is also a civil procedure possible, e.g. for assets that have been bought with criminal proceeds.

If a legal system were to allow a criminal his proceeds you effectively make property rights useless. Because why should I pay for a transaction if I could simply force you to do it and pay nothing in exchange.
bbc is now bbzzfeed
Regarding "(1)", "bs" is idiomatic and gentler than "bullshit" per se.
The abstract for that paper states:

> Cure rates for the treatments with antibiotics, homeopathy or placebo varied to a high degree, while the remedy used did not seem to make a big difference. Looking at all the studies, no study was repeated under comparable conditions. Consequently, the use of homeopathy currently cannot claim to have sufficient prognostic validity where efficacy is concerned.

I read this as suggesting that, rather than homeopathy working, antibiotics don't work particularly well.
It seems like you're flipping it around. I don't see anything wrong with doing this as a candidate. What strikes me as biased is making it a secret handshake, from a hiring perspective, that rules out people who don't think to do it.
I moved from Canada and while I lived there I didn't have two nickles to rub together. Payroll taxes, sales taxes, fee's, cost of living and under employment robbed me of a decent life. The medical system was hurry up and wait while you die. Anything in between full blown Cancer and a cold was a situation where you would wait or fall between the cracks(9 months it took me to see a Neurologist, 3 months for a shoulder expert).

After moving to the US I have earned more money in 10 years then I could have earned in my entire life in Canada. My medical is outstanding and my taxes in TX are a pittance.

It seems where you live in the US might make a difference.
Are they planning to implement "The End of Error"
(https://www.amazon.com/End-Error-Computing-Chapman-Computati...) algorithms?
I've read that the reason why flights have gotten longer is fuel efficiency. Flying slower saves fuel. This was a strategy adopted when fuel prices spiked years ago and it was kept in place because of cost competition.
Hard to reconcile the title with this observation: "Part of the problem is schedules are designed by airlines for perfect conditions".

There's a lot of available info for US flight delays at bts.gov

One good example: https://www.bts.gov/topics/airlines-and-airports/understandi...
How do you block "talking" to a VPN?
Sorry, but this is blatant whataboutism. Guantanamo Bay is a tragedy and deserves all the criticism it gets, but:

- At its height, Guantanamo Bay had about 250 prisoners. It now has 41.

- Camps in Xinjiang are estimated to hold "hundreds of thousands" of prisoners.

They are not on the same scale whatsoever. If you wanted to make a comparison to American systems of imprisonment, the actual prison system itself is a far better (worse) example.
Fair point. That is from good old Quebec, and friends from Ontario do tell me it's better over there. My anecdotes do match with numbers and stats I've seen at the time (but it's been a while since I've lived up north).
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I'm not the parent, but now you have a disagreement (it's not solved; solvedness is a continuum) not a fallacy.

I don't think it's in good faith to assume that because parent said "perfectly appropriate Sans Serif typefaces exist" that the implication is that solvedness is a binary; the implication could just has easily been that the problem is sufficiently solved so as to not matter, which is a disagreement about where to draw a line, not an abuse of logic.
Netflix do it with a good amount of success I thought.

Self hosting a vpn is still beyond the vast majority of consumers and every big player in the market has their ip ranges mapped thoroughly.
Wow, that is an amazing idea. That could keep out all those filthy hackers!
Is this something that Pi-hole can protect you from? I intended to set up one for a while but never found the time. It looks like ads are not only annoying but increasingly dangerous at this point.
Black-and-white thinking and argument is your enemy. Your use case may call for a lot of safety at the expense of performance, so you do run-time checks like this and sacrifice performance, or it may require extreme performance and you do static analysis instead of these wasteful run-time checks.

There's no such thing as 'trust people'. If you write the code yourself you decide whether your own code is safe enough. If you are a manager, you look for unit tests, static analysis or do a detailed code review.
I dont think this article is completely correct, and I dont see padding as a "trick". If the arrival window is more accurate by adding padding to the flight time, then I can plan more effectively when I get to my destination. Aren't airliners also flying slightly slower than they used to in an effort to save fuel(and lower emissions)?
You’re totally right that it’s much harder to run fiber across the US vs a much smaller country. However I don’t think you’re accurate on a few other points:

> the “subsidy” is really coming out of their own pocket

ISPs lobbied really hard during the 1996 rewrite of the USF so they could add the “Universal Access Fund” line item on your bill separately. So, by and large, it’s not coming out of their pocket.

> The universal service fund only recently started offering subsidies for broadband

Not sure what you’re referencing when you talk about subsidies, but the USAC website says that they offered $200m in 2000, and the number quickly goes into the billions from there.

https://www.usac.org/about/tools/publications/annual-reports...
There's also the fact that Western European countries desperately need immigration for covering future pensions. Countries like Germany and Finland are the next to follow Japan's crippling issues with aging population and poor dependency ratio.
What to Expect in Angular 8
Shadowrun was an amazing game.

Whenever I mention it these days people think of the FPS.
I can’t find the source I originally had for the paper being withdrawn, but it looks like one of the original authors believes that the paper was flawed.

The original article claimed that eating meat produced more CO2 than driving, but they used the wrong methods to compare the two.

For meat, they measured lifecycle emissions. Everything involved in raising, transporting, slaughtering, and processing meat was measured. I think this is a fair measure.

For transport they only measured tailpipe emissions, which is deeply misleading. You need to include the cost of oil discovery, refining and transport, plus the emissions of steel and concrete production for cars and roads. The actual tailpipe emissions of a car is a small fraction of its emissions, which is why buying a used ICE vehicle is greener than buying a new EV.

The summary, not the body of the paper, claimed that meat production accounted for 18% of emissions, more than transport, both statements appear to be wrong. Transport is actually 26%, and meat is closer to 3-4%. In America meat production and grain production have roughly equal emissions, with meat producing 42% of our overall agricultural emissions.

There are for certain things we can do to manage land, manure, and water better. But I believe that focusing on reducing/eliminating meat is misguided.

Sources:

- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatech...
- https://www.futurity.org/dont-blame-cows-for-climate-change/
Don't forget N varies over time. Programmers come and go.
The "What airlines don't want you to know" tone of this post is misplaced and misguided. I also question the suggestions that longer published flight times mean more CO2 and there's no incentive for airlines to become more efficient.

Here the airlines are doing pretty much exactly what I, as a passenger, want, which is to predictably arrive at an airport by a certain time more often. If a plane takes less time to fly somewhere some of the time because of weather, timely takeoff from departure airport, landing slot availability at the arrival airport or whatever, I don't really care. If they arrive late however, that can be a huge problem, particularly for making connections.

As for CO2, the plane flying slower is more fuel-efficient. Isn't this lower CO2 emissions?

40 years ago there were so many fewer planes in the skies. You could fly as fast as you want, take off when you want (pretty much) and land when you want. Well, lack of satellite navigation and tracking mattered but basically the skies were less crowded. Just the other day I flew out of NYC and it took us 40+ minutes of being in a queue to take off behind 15-20 other planes because reasons. You have to have that padding in your schedule.
Can you explain what you’re going for here?
Good for the planet, besides I would like the computer parts to remain affordable & not fluctuate as with bitcoin price.
Well, define "work", "every operating system", and "requiring user to do anythig".

:D Obviously you have to consider needs of your users as an engineer, when chosing any technology, for their particular problem.
I didn't understand how this is wasting fuel. Does ATC make them fly slower rather than landing early?
I remember young me spending hours on a VIC-20 version of animal.bas ("Computer guesses animals and learns new ones from you"). Given enough time and training input the computer could answer any question put to it! It helped open my eyes to the magic of computation and still gives me a bit of a tingle when I think about it.
Is it really true that when flying at less speed you burn more fuel? If air resistance grows quadratically with speed, I would assume that it is not, but there might be another effects on wing efficiency that I ignore...
Another ingenious method (ab)used WiFi to determine the distance (decimeter level, i.e. sub-nanosecond absolute time-of-flight measurements!) from a single accesspoint with common hardware.

This should be the paper, I think: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16...