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> It is, realistically, the smartest financial choice to invest in growing the people you hire instead of just throwing them away and hiring new ones every quarter.

Absolutely, a capable person can contribute far more if they develop professionally especially when trust is built between employer and employee, with the caveat that this is specific to tech firms whose business model centers around developing a body of code and institutional knowledge to maintain it. But this is a minority of firms and thus what a minority of people experience.

Most IT roles have a lot of churn. Contracting is a big one, but many roles in non-tech firms don't benefit much from highly skilled engineers because the software is not their core business. If you land in one of these roles, you'll likely have the negative experience many people talk about.

Broadly put, the best jobs in a company are usually the ones critical to what the company does. If you're doing support work of some sort, yeah, you're easily replacable. On the bright side, it's good experience you can leverage to get a better position.

The other problem is for everyone trying to become an engineer, most will fail, and the only way to know is usually to fail repeatedly, which is a miserable experience. If your management really is good at investing in their employees, it can be less painful as they can help you transition, but nothing can make trying really hard and failing a pleasant process. And since the quality of management is something like normally distributed, the bulk of people go through this with mediocre guidance.
> I’ve spent the last three years learning to think like a wizard, to conjure joy from pain[1] and cast protection spells over the important things[2]. I finally feel like I’ve grown into a bonafide wizard myself.

Sounds like they're being quite earnest about the wizard stuff. Clicking through the links yields even more wizard talk.

[1] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/06/01/conjure-joy-from-pa...

[2] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/11/07/wizard-consultant-s...
Doesn’t WSL depend on a Windows host though? Can WSL be used as an independent OS?
Mozilla is on fire lately, this is Trump level trolling & I love it
I think he's saying that Apple would say this regardless of whether they knew of his departure in advance or not.
You can buy reddit premium so you no longer get ads. It's absolutely bullshit how much stuff they still track, though.
Ive not seen any indication of such a thing.
Some jurisdictions add an extra layer of protection against companies being (maybe intentionally) "sloppy" with where they pull data by mandating sequencing: You first have to make a conditional offer, and only then is it legal to pull criminal history. If you find a big red flag in the criminal history, you are still allowed to rescind the offer. But obviously at that point you had better be prepared to defend your rescission, so companies tend to make sure that they are using the real/legal criminal-history documentation there.

I first ran across this when I rented an apartment in Washington, D.C., which has that rule for housing (I hadn't previously seen that sequence of "conditional housing offer" followed by criminal-history check, followed by final housing offer). But it looks like at least California (as of 2018) requires that for employment too, with pulling criminal history only allowed after sending out the conditional job offer: https://www.californiaemploymentlawreport.com/2018/01/califo...

Of course, this doesn't stop blatantly illegal behavior, where a company uses un-expunged third-party databases pre-offer and just doesn't tell the candidate why they were denied. But at that point you're nowhere near having plausible deniability, which most bigger companies would like.
Home Depot co-founder to donate $5.8B fortune, support Trump for re-election
What Is Fastshare and How It Works?
This sounds like a super villain premise but nuclear meltdown sounds like a very effective way to forcibly create a wildlife sanctuary.
My sports/mistakes theory:

Attacking players are measured by how many successful things they do. Scoring 2 goals and making 50 mistakes in better than scoring 1 goal and making no mistakes.

Defensive players are measured by how few mistakes they make. Period.
Like many Apple stories, it's definitely being over-reported.
Actually it's worse--it's explicitly inconvenient to the point of being impossible to use in a wired fashion. The inconvenience of the user is a designed-in feature. They purposefully screwed over the user for aesthetic reasons.

That's messed up.
This is the one thing that could make me switch from iOS.
Hilarious how Ive gets blamed for everything.

He is not responsible for the features that goes into a product. Nor is he responsible for which demographic a product is targeted towards. It's a combination of various executives in particular Phil Schiller and Jeff Williams.
For all anyone knows Ive probably was a proponent of the touchbar. If for one am proponent of the touchbar, and as such I have no need to be very vocal about the support (if you don't like it then you don't).
Why should I have to wait, at all? Let me plug it in and keep using it. Best of both worlds.
Needs (2015) in the title.
You could also embed content with stronger security inside the wrapper you’ve broken, so even if someone else has figured it out, they can’t decrypt your real messages.

Hopefully.
> That said, does a native observable actually buy that much performance-wise?

I don't know, but it should.
Well, that's a hit piece if I've ever seen one. They even manage to paint spending time with his ailing father in the UK as a sign he was neglecting Apple.
Well, part of the problem is the intrinsic desire for the person to prove themselves to you by doing a great job. Sometimes it’s more useful to let them try for a bit, before showing how your solution might be better.

Letting juniors experiment the best design by failing is sometimes an effective strategy. And if they do succeed or produce a better solution, awesome. That is a lesson that you can learn from (technology changes very quickly).
The relevant paragraph is actually this: And while radiation and other types of DNA damage can cause tumours in plants, mutated cells are generally not able to spread from one part of the plant to another as cancers do, thanks to the rigid, interconnecting walls surrounding plant cells.
As long as he doesn't release a Jony Walkman.
Imagine if every single one of your PCs had to show the windows logo on startup

My keyboards have a dollar symbol on the keyboard, a currency I don't use and have never used and no major country in this continent (Europe) uses. It's high time we had the right to remove this nationalist/capitalist advertising from our devices. Imagine if every single one of your computers had to show a dollar symbol on startup, right now it's just on your keyboard.
What do you mean by general purpose computing? I would wager that things like "search a file for a string" or "show the first x lines of the file" count as general purpose and even these simple tasks are easier done on the cli than anywhere else. On windows/macos using the regular guis, you will run into all sorts of problems if the file type is not recognized, you will need to open the entire file in some text editor, click through the interface to find the search feature (or memorize how to use it, which is no different from memorizing the cli command), etc.

Unless you can explicitly enumerate the "small" subset of tasks the cli is simply better at, I don't think that's a valid out. The CLI (specifically, the unix philosophy) is IMO the best platform for general purpose computing. It's the specialized stuff, mostly applications with such a large feature/configuration surface that it would be foolish to try to learn all the commands and arguments, that is best left outside the cli.
I hate this — yet it is very typical in southern European nations too.

The way I see it you always long for what you don’t have. That is why in torching hot places they tend to cool things really down and wear long pants and a second layer, while in northern nations people will run around in shorts and thin dresses literally the first time it seems to be a little bit summerish.

I think that big of a temperature difference is not only a tremendous waste of energy (that heats the rest of the outside at the same time), but it is also quite impractical: you always have to carry around a second layer if you are planing to stay somwhere for more than an hour. There you are, carrying around that hoodie, just because the rooms are cooled down to much.
What a blanket statement. Ubuntu is the same Gnome with three super popular extensions enabled, Yaru theme and some minor dconf tweaks. It even provides a simple gnome-session package in case you want an even more vanilla experience. The software selection is quite standard and sensible. The installer is good looking and idiot-proof. It's not that I dislike Fedora, it's just that it's not a more o less polished experience than Ubuntu.
This non-biological life you're apparently aware of is the real breakthrough in science.
I did mention real-world cases, but that didn't get me buy-in to fail them. Besides, the real-world consequences for nurses who kill patients through negligence are slim, just ask Google for Radonda Vaught.
We have city-wide central heating system. If you don't pump (literally) boiling water into the system, it gets pretty cold in apartments furthest from the heating station. I live somewhere in between, so it gets even hotter the closer you live to the station. What do people do to combat this? They open the windows, and it's -40°C outside. This further lowers the efficiency of the whole system, so they get the water temperature even higher. Rinse and repeat.

Of course, instead of opening the windows, you could always install a gate valve (or whatever it is called in English) and close it to make the water go through your apartment's heating elements without actually (mostly) heating them, and that's what they recommend, but why bother? The level of self-entitlement of many people here, you wouldn't believe. I could tell stories all day long.

Like a caricature of a stereotypical American tourist.
You might really enjoy Solaris's boot environments, then ;-)
That means you never build up a habit, but it still comes up fairly regularly. If you forget to charge it before it dies completely, then you either find another mouse or take a forced break. Not ideal.
I'm surprised it took this long. With Linux support for .NET and SQL Server, there is zero reason to host anything new on Windows now (of course legacy enterprise software is another story). I wouldn't be surprised if Windows Server is fully EOL'd in a few years.
Could you cite or link to some of these studies?
Seattle used to have one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Wireless
"Study finds mindfulness is associated with reduced creativity"
I think you underestimate how slowly things move in some places. There are still shops running COBOL on mainframes. Windows is going to have a place on servers for decades to come.
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I had not heard about mr. Ive before his departure. I must be a function over form person. But I'm just wondering if he wasn't just tired of his design leadership turning into people leadership (increasingly so, from the article). Apparently the design team "ballooned" into a big organization, and overseeing those people may not be where your ambitions lie, as a world-renowned designer. As a (small? -- don't know what he has in mind there) design firm, it may be clearer that he comes in as a design brain, not as a department head. He is accomplished enough to be just working on where the true passions lie, or even just tuning out when a loved one is in bad shape, or retire altogether (if he chose so).
>> Now I read that they are releasing updated mbp 13 without touchbar

Where did you read this?
I'll give him the privacy thing actually; I'll concede that.
Yes, the constant refreshing of metadata is very annoying. You can disable it for searches, though. Gnome software sometimes becomes very unresponsive because of this (and because of flatpaks silently downloading a >1GB runtime). Probably a reason while it gets so much FUD.
Seeing vs. Observing
Elon is already on the task. Only he is being realistic and producing something outside of cynical reddit-style BS.
Once a national model, Utah struggles with homelessness
IBM is not a serious player in the cloud segment.
Fortunately I welded the power of Emacs and was immune to their blandishments!

(actually of course in those days Emacs didn't run on the Mac. The ability to run Emacs convinced me to get a NeXT).
Dang is trying to cool your jets.

I think America is an idea where most countries are based on genetics and history. I get where you are on this, but it should be realized illiberal people will take advantage of liberal people. It's a price worth paying if you stick with it to the end.
Yes, but in the same way companies are still running XP. There is zero chance there will be new releases of Windows Server a decade from now. Microsoft itself is starting to host its services on Linux.
There have been studies on office productivity based on temperature, as well as how it seems to differ between genders. Planet Money covered it fairly quickly[1], but they generally include sources so if you're interested you can dig deeper.

1: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730438603/the-battle-for-the-...
Compare it to the "wireless" keyboard -- everyone I know who has one with a desktop just keeps it plugged in.
At each stage, the most expert remaining users are left behind. Many professionals extensively use the CLI. The majority of the remaining professionals use a traditional GUI on a traditional OS. Most people using smart phone UIs are not professionals, but some of them are fairly expert in their interactions. Those using AI UIs are generally just crossing their fingers to avoid pulling their phone out.

Maybe someday AI will be a legitimate user interface, but I don't think we know what that looks like yet.
The cheap Baofeng radios are all VHF/UHF dual band. Single band handhelds are pretty rare. There are more VHF only mobile radios.
I am trying to figure how one can arrive at a sustainable strategy.

The success hinged upon cheap land and unless we take away homeless projects out of capitalism oriented markets, it will always be a net net failure because the rate at which homeless base consumes cannot compete with the market facing resources.

ETA: what I mean is..I am trying to articulate..market economy is based on scarcity. Resources are limited. Unless the homeless are catered to in an environment that is sterile and doesn’t participate in a market economy, they will always consume from a pool and when subsidized, it will create market distortion.

Put another way, should the homeless be supported and subsidized within or outside a capitalistic economy.

I honestly can’t think of any strategy that will work efficiently and painlessly in the USA.
Consider that the political positions they hold may differ from the views they hold in private, both before and after a seeming change of heart. Successful politicians are skilled opportunists. If the politician believes that holding one kind of view plays well with their constituents, they will hold it until the drawbacks begin to outweigh the advantages or the appetite of the electorate shifts.

Consider that news of a politician's family member coming out as gay is likely to invite questions about the politician's stance. They now have a choice: embrace the family member and evolve their political views, or reject them and play the hardliner. Fewer of their constituents would be put off by the first course of action than the latter.
For me it is useful to see a clear separation between 'code' in English and 'human-readable strings' in my own tongue.
Frink data file for non-changing units (2016)
Designing, Coding, and Marketing a Web Startup in 57 Hours (Playdate.gg)
Why do you believe that? Apparently it's possible to build a somewhat functional version from their git branch. Anyway, chromium is just the first step. Then electron has to work with the wayland version of chromium.
The purpose of recaptcha is to block malicious bots from accessing parts of a site that automated bots are not supposed to go to.

Why would someone be using recaptcha to block bots from the general part of their web site? Your imaginary scenario would require web masters to become hostile to crawlers.
You don't need advanced math to answer this question. If there's no activation function then all the weights in each layer can be multiplied together and the whole network is just a linear classifier.
Sounds like the playtesters should form a union and collectively bargain.
NLP is the future.
That ship has sailed; Andy Rubin tried to do that but the market has matured to the point where it doesn't have room for a new entrant (look at the super low end android market: lots of churn).

I was talking with my gf's kid today and the same point came up: Linux, the MacOS and iPhone didn't displace Windows; Windows continues to dominate a market that simply doesn't matter hugely any more (desktop/Laptop PCs). A post on the HN front page right now says that Linux exceeds Windows on the Azure cloud...but nope, not on the desktop.
The new mac pro is a sweet piece of hardware, but you have to take the price into account. I remain unimpressed.
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I attribute this largely from platform lock-in than technical leadership, though my opinion is largely on sentiment so please feel free to roast
Which also means rhat everybody with the link can change it’s content which means you cannot trust this content more than the person who sent it to you.

Why not just copy and paste the content directly?
Do you think Ive couldn't get the keyboard or the useless bar removed if he wanted?
+1, people generally run the AC too cold (<20C)
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> fractions of the size of a proton change in length

...less than a ten-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton.
That might be your issue then. It varies from phone to phone, but for my old one (Nexus 5X) I had to get the stock ROM from https://developers.google.com/android/images#bullhead and extract vendor.img, bootloader-bullhead-bhz31b.img, and radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.41.5.01.img (or whatever the matching versions are for your Android version). Then after installing the ROM archive, reboot into the bootloader and install them:

(install TWRP and custom ROM package)

> adb push vendor.img /sdcard/

(Go to 'install' in TWRP and install vendor.img)

> fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-bullhead-bhz31b.img

> fastboot flash radio radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.41.5.01.img

That's the quick version of how I set mine up and it works. :)
I like to customize my phone to be exactly what I need from it.

Things I do that are only possible in Android:
1) I script some behaviors using Tasker. One example is that I have a script that takes it out of vibrate mode and turns on the ringer if I'm home (GPS), the phone is plugged in, and it's between the hours of 9am and midnight.
2) This requires root, so it might not be worth the trouble for you, and it's not available on every phone. But, I've managed to make my default home screen completely blank. My primary "launcher" is an app called "Pie Control", which doesn't appear unless you touch an area of the screen, which you can set. I can also swipe up to get a screen with all of my apps - The default behavior of Nova Launcher.

It's not just customization. Really, the sky is the limit when it comes to what you want the phone to do. With an iphone, the limit is the constraints of Apple's design.
See the post from dredmorbius, it looks like the assertion is based on evidence.
For commercial web use, I use a DNS cache just like the website creator would expect; I use a popular browser in these instances, too. Nothing out of the ordinary. For exactly the reason you mention. If something goes wrong I want to be able to say I am the "typical user", not an enlightened one.

However, I rarely use the web for commercial purposes. Almost all use is non-commercial.

I do not use a Pi-Hole. I do like dnsmasq. I prefer djbdns. I use older hardware running Net/OpenBSD as routers and newer hardware running OpenWRT.

I also do not use popular graphical browsers much. I probably would not use whitelisting if I was doing all web use via a popular graphical browser. I reasonably consistent speed across all websites by using text-only browsers and tcp/http clients.

Cannot really speak for other users. Everyone is different. For me, whitelisting works well.
Asset price inflation != currency devaluation.

There are structural incentives to inflate asset prices (free wealth to the holders), though those aren't ironclad (bubbles burst). Bernhard J. Stein's work (1930s - 50s) is interesting here.

Commodity price inflation tends to have different mechanisms, as does wage erosion. There are other classes of economic goods, including public goods, taxes, interest and (in some cases distinguished from assets) capital goods.

For all that Adam Smith discussed these (the better parts of books 1, 2, and 5 of Wealth of Nations), they are, IMO, poorly considered in most modern economics. Marginal analysis only explains part of their dynamics.

I'm also increasingly convinced inflation is a symptom rather than a fundamental problem.
I've used several meditation apps including Headspace, Calm and Ten Percent Happier and found Harris' Waking Up to be by far the best. It separates itself from the others in that it speaks to the epistemological question of what it means to be a person.

Meditation is much more than simply clearing your mind or practicing letting go of your thoughts, although those are certainly benefits. It's about completely re-orienting yourself with respect to your relationship with the world and, most importantly, other people.
oh i remember this all too well. when i was in high school, there was a kid in the same grade as me who ended up dying because he did this. and then me being the curmudgeon that i was, decided to go on MySpace af the time and essentially say that the kid was stupid for doing something like that and deserved what he got (not sure that I feel that way anymore, as it turns out, aging is a great way to develop empathy!) and then suddenly started receiving threats on my life from his "friends". good times!
Yes, run by business people who will milk the company until it is not possible to do that anymore...
Not sure what you expected with the pricing, Apple isn’t known for bargains.
That sounds ridiculously ineffeicient. My post-Soviet city has district heating, and similar temperatures, but usually bottoms out at -35c.

In each building there is a system which takes the district heat and uses it to heat the water of the building. Both hot tap water and central heating. But the water is separate from district heat, so in each building the temperatures can be adjusted.

In older buildings you still have the issue you describe on a macro level - apartments on the bottom floor are too hot, and on the top are too cold - but it doesn't matter how close or far your building is from the district heating station.