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> I used to think that was sketchy. It wasn't until much later that I realized that B2B enterprise sales people do that stuff ALL THE TIME even with their onerous kpi's, forecasting and fiscal quarter expectations!

Depending on how it's done, it still is, and enterprise salesmen doing it doesn't make it less so. As a customer, I don't necessarily seek absolute minimum price, but I want it to be a fair price that I can agree on voluntarily - that means, I don't want to be subject of a bunch of manipulative sales techniques during pricing negotiations. Moreover, individual pricing used at scale makes it impossible to compare prices, or even develop a sense of what price is fair price. I actively prefer buying from vendors who list prices publicly, so by going the individual price route, you might be losing business of me and people like me.
It's similar to mobility scooters. Made for handicapped, but also popular among the lazy.
It's partially synthetic according to Google
Just to end this out, I do agree. I was not suggesting this resource be paid, but that they should have someone dedicated, even a volunteer.
True, but not everyone does, and for them, the Echo provides extra functionality. I've also added a lot of dimmable lights in my home, and voice control to set a light or set of lights at 50% is much much less impactful to whatever I'm doing than pulling out a phone.
Thats not how any phone company I've ever seen works :)
I've created reasonably complex projects on Django (with late 00's capabilities), I've done things in Flask, Asp.Net, Java (with very out of date components), very simple things on Rails, and also used some non-OOP frameworks like snap, I've also used some newer templating systems. I have never created anything in Laravel, but I have done some maintenance.

Compared to Django and Rails, Laravel has those two problems I said. I don't think I ever saw a benefit of Laravel compared to them, except for the easy to deployment of PHP (that is a mixed bag anyway).

The ASP.Net and Java frameworks are so different that any comparison could join Django, Rails, and Laravel as a single point. Everything on those languages is more bureaucratic and stable, easier to compose more complex projects, but harder to create simpler ones.

Compared to snap (I've used very little of Yesod, but looks like it's alike here), the trio Laravel, Django, and Rails compose pages much better (it's a shame really since "compose" and FP go hand to hand, and I expect that to change in the future), but the FP frameworks are much better for creating data services.
Unix timestamps have an extremely strict definition and should not be left up to interpretation.

You're describing UI/UX challenges with calendaring and appointments. Very real issues, but separate from Unix timestamps.
Everybody knows how offer and demand works if left unchecked. That's why it's almost never left unchecked... I mean this is what the whole discussion about gigging is: why should we allow such crappy working conditions?

"simply because the actual value of their work may be lower than the liveable wage."

That is not a job then and the entity assigning such tasks is not a company. A company has a responsibility to offer its workers certain benefits in return for having access to the legal and social frames that are allowing it to operate.
Speed limits in pedestrian-heavy urban areas and children-heavy residential areas absolutely have to be no more than 25mph. The difference in survivability stats for pedestrians struck at 25 vs 35 are stark. What we need are narrower roads, pedestrian islands at intersections, and harsh enforcement.

On highways, it doesn't matter. Survivability between 65 and 75 or even 85 is not that much different. You're going to have a really bad day regardless of speed. Far more important is longer ramps, higher vehicle inspection standards, and higher licensing standards. We also need to get long-haul shipping off the roads and back on the rails.
The global trade in junk and trash
Correct. When was the last time you changed UNIX time due to summer time/daylight savings?
That works for individuals, but the social interactions won't change unless a lot of people do it.
UTC jumping around affects it if you're basing your time-elapsed measure by checking "time.now() - previouslySavedTime". That can give you a negative value, if e.g. your 1/2-second elapsed time crossed a leap second.
This is a great service but honestly the pricing is too low at $20/year.

You should change your professional plan, probably Mark it up 3-4x at least. If professionals are using the service (ie they’re making money themselves from it) some will pay $40/month for it. Just a few of those subscribers will let you hit all your goals, work full time on it and let you keep the $2/month plan out there in the long term.
>Alexa has always seemed like a gimmick to me

...what?

Maybe you don't ever listen to music, but the first Echo was a GAME CHANGER. 99% hassle free being able to just say "play x on spotify" "play x on pandora" "play x on amazon music" "play radio station 103.5whatever". How else could you do that before the echo? You either had to plug in your phone/ipod and control it from there limited to what was on your device.. stream bluetooth from phone to speakers which was a nightmare and dependent on your phone there etc.

Ever cook and want to set a timer without having to touch anything and stop what you are doing?

Those two things ALONE are absolutely massive.. music + alarms.

Not to mention the pure simple info you can get- especially for kids. They can ask so many questions and get answers. They can set their own timers.

I can go on and on.. but it's pointless because you have decided a device that is vital to many peoples day-to-day life is still a gimmick in 2019....
TAI is what you want.
Perhaps this could be dismissed as semantics, but saying that we don't subsidize fossil fuels seems to not jibe with the reality that the only countries that have lower gasoline prices in world are countries whose economies are predominantly fossil-fuel based. See https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/gas-prices/#20184:United-...

If the US gasoline costs were even close to EU levels, (say, 2x what we pay), there'd be an inversion in household energy consumption economics (and it'd be the difference between 2% and 5% of household incomes). EVs wouldn't be just for tree-huggers. Buying from 100% clean electrical sources might be cheaper than "standard" sources.
> The key difference is that using the async module requires modifying every function in the call stack

This is why I still prefer gevent - it's easy to do async I/O using familiar patterns (gevent Pool works like multiprocessing Pool) while mostly writing blocking code.
A valuable lesson I learned at a young age from one of my first 'customers' when doing computer repair jobs for friends and neighbours was is that you don't get paid for what you can or do but for the value you add or time (money) you save someone.

Most of the time the problems I had to solve where easy ones. Install printer, update software, remove toolbars, email settings, etc. All 5 minute work jobs, seldom totalling to more than an hour or 2 an evening. Not even worth asking money for in my opinion, because it was so easy en quick for me to do. But my neighbour always insisted I accept his money. Because for him, having to solve these issues himself would cost him multiple evenings. So the money he was giving me, which felt like too much to me, was stil a bargain for him.
Also in his words it was easy for me because I had spend years in training to acquire this knowledge, or as others might call it: wasting your time behind that computer playing video games.
It’s also worth noting that not all cities are equal when it comes to stress, with some being worse than others (mostly correlated with quality of public infrastructure, in my experience).
Exams 5 certs 3 weeks Why? How?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-exams-5-certs-3-weeks-why-how-sasa-kovacevic-/

have you all found certificates to be easy to obtain? azure, aws, gcp, others? which are easy, which are really hard to get?
I know we all love to marvel at the idiocy of audiophiles, but the actual article we're discussing here says next to nothing about audio gear. It's a reflection by a copy editor on the craft of copy editing, and (IMO) a well-written one. I liked this bit, for instance:

> We like to think, or at least we like to say, that each writer's voice is unique, but it isn't. Too often, what a writer most fondly feels is his unique voice is actually a combination of bad habits and received language and tones shared with all too many other not-very-good writers. The inspired copyeditor's task is to bend an ear finely tuned to hearing the least hint of unique music in a writer's voice, strip away the accretions of junk language and tone picked up in a life drenched in TV and marketing and promotional copy and political obfuscation and bureaucratese, and then revise, even rewrite the piece in whatever authentic voice remains. The job is to produce a final edited article written in the writer's own voice, but in language and tone more consistently and authentically the writer's very own than that writer can produce herself or himself.

As someone who's done a little writing myself, I can relate to this. A good editor is someone who can cut the thing you're actually trying to say out of the tangle of spaghetti you carry around inside your head. And this passage would apply just as well to an editor working at any other magazine, it has nothing to do with Stereophile's particular editorial bent or the relative merits of green Sharpies.
"The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams was a big help to me when I needed to take a leap in my ability to pretty things up. The tenets in there seem to be rediscovered and reworded often (not sure if this book is the first, honestly) but I think the main idea is to have some kind of strategy for how to be purposeful with your design choices. From the book: Proximity, Alignment, Repetition, Contrast. I think that ordering is less funny as an acronym but more useful as a guide with respect to what you focus on first (Proximity - grouping ideas is a natural place to start, Contrast - which comes last because it's the trickiest).
They went into the first day of trading >115% short so they could buy more in the open market. As they cover the short they are adding buying pressure, but if the stock is down from the offer price, also making a handsome profit on each share
Driving slow in the left lane is a problem. Driving slow in the right lane doesn't seem to be a bit problem. Germany has sections of the autobahn with very large speed variances, but they are aggressive about enforcing the slower traffic keep right rules so fatalities low.
Take the original one about names, which claims that sometimes children don't get names.

Should I be flagging mandatory name fields as an I18N concern? How many people are affected? In which regions does this warrant UI hints or changes? Will they have names by the time COPPA stops applying?

I've casually Googled this and found nothing, so whatever point the author hoped to make was lost.
I get plenty of calls from people outside my contacts list that I want to hear from. My doctor calls me to discuss test results. My daughter's school calls if there's an issue.

I want to get rid of robocalling, too, but I don't want my phone neutered to do it.
Most jobs don't actually provide value to society.
It should be a choice between spending pre tax dollars or spending post tax dollars. I doubt many would argue in favor of “burning” money just for the sake of not paying some fraction tax on it.

Imagine that you must access $100 of labour/whatever somehow.

$20000 - sales
($10000) - cost of sales
——————
$10000 - gross profit
($100) - extra labour paid for with pre tax money
——————
$9900 net
($4950) tax
——————
$4950 ending sum (pay dividends or do whatever you feel like with this)

vs

$20000 - sales
$10000 - cost of sales
—————
$10000 - gross profit
($5000) - tax
—————
$5000 - after tax profit
($100) - extra labour, post tax money
————
$4900 - ending sum

It’s a bit unrealistic because (1) labour should always be pre tax (2) there are rules about what goes where in an income statement and you can’t just decide to put stuff where you want but there is some flexibility.

In particular, the one easily controllable lever is how much interest you pay on debt (pre tax spending)
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Voynich Manuscript Deciphered
I really agree, especially with "There is no universal semantics that will deal with every case." When I enter a time for an appointment, then travel to a different TZ, but know I'll be home when the meeting occurs, I have to tolerate the Macintosh calendar converting my meeting to the local TZ, then back to my local TZ, which ends up being odd at least, and confusing and annoying when it first happened.
If I understand what people are saying correctly, this is actually not true; leap seconds can not be referenced in Unix time and are not included in the unix timestamp value. They're just ghost seconds during which the counter stopped for one second. Which is not the way the system should have been designed, in my humble opinion. All seconds should be referenceable.
I think the "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs may encourage noncompliance because nobody wants to think of themselves as "Slower." Perhaps a better sign would be "If a car passes you on the right, YOU get the ticket."
It is both not doing and doing physics. That is the TaiChi way.
Unix seconds ARE physical seconds.

> Every day has 86400 Unix Seconds.

Except a day with a leap second in it.

> Unix time cannot represent the seconds beyond 23:59:59 on a UTC day, but otherwise attempts to match UTC.

Err...it literally represents ~49 years beyond 23:59:59 on Day1 of UTC.
pricing is an entire industry of it's own, with conferences and such

I see it like advertising - one part of the chain of value, and ensuring that a responsible and fair transaction occurs

Production: control of how something exists

Project management: control of when something

Advertising: control of how you become aware of something

Pricing: control of how you take ownership of something
This is my take as well.
Good to know, and so sounds like there is reason to be cynical after all.
I've spent a lot of time finding objects in the sky to high accuracy with astronomical algorithms. The first step is always converting from UTC to TAI. See Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus if you don't believe me.

Your noon example works for a single longitude in a time zone and the time between subsequent noons on two different days will only be exactly 24 hours 4 times a year. It seems unnecessarily complex to push annual leap second updates to preserve something like as obscure as these 4 events for the 24 time zones exactly on the line of longitude to the accuracy of a second.

See the Wikipedia on abolishing leap seconds,
"that the drift of about one minute every 60–90 years could be compared to the 16-minute annual variation between true solar time and mean solar time, the one hour offset by use of daylight time, and the several-hours offset in certain geographically extra-large time zones"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
> The headline is entirely correct [...] No one is arguing that Morgan Stanley overpriced the IPO on purpose.

The headline is:

> Uber IPO underwriter so certain IPO was overpriced they shorted it themselves
Also worth noting that even tho it "solves" leap seconds, it does nothing to solve normal clock corrections. Clocks skew normally, and they need to be corrected eventually - nothing that I'm aware of skews across more than a couple seconds / within NTP limits.

I.e. disconnect from a time server for a few days/weeks/months/etc. When you reconnect, it could be off by seconds/minutes/hours. Odds are pretty good that your system will just jump to the correct time immediately, rather than smearing it out for like N*3x longer than the difference is.

The same is true any time you lose your internal clock, e.g. if your machine is shut down and its battery dies. If it were to skew across "all time since jan 01, 1970", it'd probably catch up well after the expected lifetime of the computer.
A missing piece of (valuable) documentation would be handling cache scenarios for how you'd mutate a response based on user-agent or accept headers - say, changing file format.

I personally do client hints polyfilling via workers (dpi matters for things like "fit" even if you use srcset) and transpose images off-workers (github.com/h2non/imaginary). Will do testing and see how they match up in terms of quality.
It's a bit of both but yes velocity dominates the drag forces. You can reduce the wind resistance of vehicles reducing their coefficient of drag but the dominant factor as you reach higher speeds is velocity which increases as a square where the drag coefficient is only directly proportional to the end drag. There are definitely limits to how low drag we can make the normal passenger sedan without drastically changing it's functional form.

If we move to a more infrastructure style car transport where you just subscribe or have access to (depending on where we end up on the public-private spectrum) there's probably a lot of gains we can still make that will make cars much uglier (to our current eyes) but more aerodynamic.
Usually they use purchase orders initiated by the buyer/manager to solve this sort of problem.

Hiring a freelancer? Issue a purchase order to the freelancer for the maximum amount you think you'll pay them. They then bill you for how many hours it actually took, after completing the job. Then accounting can process it if it's under the PO value.

No PO, invoice doesn't get paid.
> Or as an ex-boss pithily put it "serious people charge serious money".

Leadership teams are buying validation as much as they are a product. That's why management consultants can charge so much damn money, they usually aren't telling the company anything new, they are there to back managers decisions.

When you look at it that way, you're not just getting paid to build something, you're getting paid to be the subject matter authority who walks in and tells leadership how smart and forward-thinking they are.
Sure the headline is “technically” correct but it does sound to the uninitiated like they are prop trading. This short position is simple flow trading that happens in any IPO.
> Amazing that Solar Roof got so much news coverage for what, in the end, amounted to practically nil.

I know engineers who work on Solar Roof and it's definitely not "nil". It's still scaling up. Just give it more time. It's still going through revisions. Keep in mind that when they sell this it needs to last for 50 years on someone's roof. It can't be defective.
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> leap seconds can not be referenced in Unix time

UNIX time does not represent/reference calendar time, it represents the number of physical seconds since 1970-01-01UTC. How you translate that into local calendar time is up to you!
Genuine question, because I do not know the answer. Does it support:

Lexical scoping

Coroutines

Generators

Decorators

Generic type containers

A functional API (e.g. something like Java 8 streams)

An extensive selection of data structures (collections) included in the standard lib

?
Let me see if I'm understanding this right:

Morgan Stanley sells 115% of the stock, i.e. they sold stock that doesn't exist. Then they expect people who bought the IPO to immediately sell, and then Morgan Stanley buys that stock.

This does two things: It shows buying activity on the open market, raising the price.

And it covers their extra 15% that they sold, so all is well?
> C++ is almost like two different languages now (well, probably even more than two).

C++ is a different language in every company I worked for. Ha. Even a different language per team/project sometimes.

Tab vs spaces, different capitalization, different indentation style, exceptions vs no-exceptions, 0 is failure vs 1 is failure and then we like featureA, we don't like featureB, and so on.
> A day is defined as the rotation of the earth around its axis.

When you get into the world of programming for most people, businesses especially, a day is defined as 24 hours. We like to think that our days and months and years are tied to vast astronomical forces, for romantic reasons, but when it comes down to it, everything comes back to the second, and the second is defined to be a single unvarying length of time.
The original point I was making what that dismissing container isolation with the trope "containers don't contain" is overly simplistic, not that I thought that docker/runc containers with a default profile had as small an attack surface as gVisor.

Generally the security of a piece of software isn't considered fundamentally flawed just because it has a security bug, otherwise pretty much every piece of software would be in that bucket by now. As such dismissing containers using that trope based on a bug which wasn't discovered when the trope was coined (by Dan Walsh IIRC) doesn't seem appropriate.

There have been (AFAICR) three breakouts that would affect a default Docker installation in the last 3-4 years (Dirty C0w, WaitID, and the runc issue). That doesn't feel like a particularly high incidence, and gVisor has had at least one in it's shorter lifespan...

If it's always trivial to breakout of docker/containerd/runc containers as (if I'm understanding you correctly) you appear to be implying and which is what appears to be implied by the trope, then I imagine people will be making good money from bug bounties for a long time as a lot of companies are creating platforms which execute semi or untrusted code in runc containers.
Well, time is complicated, but not for reasons that really matter to 99.95% of engineers (relativity and such). At its most basic level, Time is really just a monotonically increasing counter of seconds (or ms or ns or whatever). That's it.

The problem is really the cultural and societal layers on top of it. That's not Time's fault, its Our fault. A "Day" has to be 1 rotation of the earth around its axis, a "Year" has to be 1 rotation of the earth around the sun, etc.

Every unit of time at the Second and below is Simple. Every layer above it is Complex, including the counter of seconds from any date in the past, because Humans are Complex, not because Time is Complex. If we stopped caring that it always has to be cold in Winter (in the US) or that 7am is always morning (well, sunrise changes w.r.t both time and location), or that days are always (usually) 86400 seconds long, our interactions with time would be much simpler.

And, really, given that EVERY SINGLE UNIT above the second has not just some but many special case rules that are instantly confusing, maybe we should stop caring so much.
I've had decent luck with Upwork.
>left the cameras disconnected... AP worked but degraded

That’s very interesting, and closer to what I would expect.

The newest development, when I drove in this morning, the Service Tech said it’s a seatbelt sensor malfunction.

There is a “driver seat buckled” interlock for cruise control, but the alert for that explains the reason. I’m just getting “cruise not available” with no explanation.
I guess "Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Scaffolders" wasn't catchy enough.