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I'm an early millennial and ex IBMer. We know this is bullcrap. What sets IBM apart from Google isn't older workers, but things that don't appeal to millennial sensibilities: deep management hierarchies, focus in sales and marketing instead of tech, a hellscape cubicled office out of the 50s... IBM convinced me that Office Space is a documentary.

I would be hard pressed to find anything cool I did on my time there; quite the opposite, everything was 'uncool': uncool offices, uncool projects, uncool tech, uncool processes.

And to add to all that, they offer salaries and perks below market rate compared to their direct competitors. Remember when recently IBM rescinded all remote work arrangement for employees? Good luck attracting talent like that.

I don't think IBM is doomed just yet. Their sheer size and inertia will keep them moving for quite a while. But if they want to keep up with the competition they will need to pivot really really hard. Also they should we aware of their strengths and weaknesses and not compete with Google. Just don't.
Nothing is really provable. The bible is full of oddness and inconsistency, but if you must tie your identity to your reading of a book, do it. It doesn't matter, except that you behave rationally (evaluate the problems world and the people around as they really are, as best you can), and decently (try to fix said problems).

If you want to use the bible as an excuse to stone gays to death cos god says so then I'll oppose you because in my eyes that's utterly irrational and hateful. If you say it's between then and god, and take happiness in their happiness to be who they are while we share a planet, even if you don't understand it or agree with it, there's no point of friction between us.

I use sexuality merely as an example, there are many others.

Do as you will, just be decent, kind, rational.
It's still a relatively minor issue. There are far greater sources of microplastics, especially wear and tear from tires, paint:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA7zXLWUIAAaSfS?format=png&name=...

We'd need to drive way less, stop sending products overseas, build high speed underground trains. Even more importantly we'd need to make sure that India and Africa are going to follow the same principles because they're going to exceed the consumption of the West in future. That being said, I do not care because I do not plan to have children.
It is effective against missiles that are equipped with very small radars. Since new aircraft like the F-35 are equipped with strong ECM and no longer require dedicated jamming support aircraft you also cannot use the much wider radar of the aircraft to guide the missile. This means we are back to using infrared missiles which can be avoided by flares.
Most web tasks are completely I/O bound anyway, the significance in making the few business logic decisions is minimal.
Doctor visit are never free in France you always pay 1€ which is deducted from future reimbursements.
Also you still have to pay 70% of the 25€ unless you have additional private insurance.
How does the meaning of "jawn" differ from "thing"?
The big thing about WestConnex was that it fed many lanes of traffic into a tiny crowded one lane street that has a lot of pedestrian traffic as well.

Maybe that's a bit of NIMBY but generally after new highways are built they are effectively choked off by the roads that feed in and out of them, especially ones where people want to exit on.
I was surprised by "Shops are expected [my emphasis] to donate the money to charitable causes - and the charge is estimated to have raised £169 million since 2015." so I went looking and it looks like the only thing keeping them from just pocketing the money is a £20,000 fine.[0][1]

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42638548

[1]https://www.gov.uk/guidance/carrier-bag-charges-retailers-re...
What purpose does the phrase "geographically distant" serve here? Seriously, why include that? Because, for one thing, while this site was started by an american, in america, its absolutely read all over the world, and two, HIV rates are highest in these "geographically distant third world countries". This is a really strange thing to post.
This is because there are free alternatives. When 99% of the articles on the frontpage are freely accessible, it feels "wrong" to find an article that requires you to cough up money first, especially when it does not hold up to the insane quality level implied by that price difference.

If there were no free search engines, I can see people paying a few bucks a month for Google. Even more so if Google would then again make their results as useful to users as they once were.

A practical example: I'm incredibly price-sensitive wrt productivity applications because there are many great such applications available as open source. I'm much less price-sensitive when it comes to video games (e.g. I spent 300€ on Breath of the Wild since it required buying a Switch) because the selection of open source video games is very limited.
"rate of rate of increase" = "second derivative", I presume. Negative second derivative doesn't necessarily mean a decline, it can be just growth slowing down.
There's still a lot to improve in Germany too. From a Northern European perspective the German bureaucracy is archaic and inefficient, though points for thoroughness. The main complaints would be

1. Lack of Internet services. This may be hindered by lack of national strong authentication? I'm not German national so not sure what the pain point there is.

2. Paper based. The paper is the document, instead of being a representation of a fact. I'm not used to storing paper. I assume this is also at least a partial reason to the astronomical side costs of apartment purchases.

3. Lack of communication between authorities. Granted, this may be by design as a privacy guarantee. Regardless, taking a paper from one place to another is inefficient. I'm used to, say, banks reporting my capital income to the tax office without me having to work as a useless mediator.
This is a profound and compelling perspective. Thanks for sharing, I have quite a bit of things to rethink of in my spare time...
Er... this is exactly how it works in developing / third-world countries.

My parents managed to obtain a loan for their first apartment thanks to my grandparents offering their house as colllateral. This is how pretty much everyone from my parents' generation got their first apartment.

Credit pretty much didn't exist in my parents' generation - loans were generally reserved for houses and cars, because of the strict conditions. Everyone saved up lump sums and paid cash. It's ineffficient, but far from "not participating in the economy".

It may be possible to negotiate different conditions on receiving credit, but I don't know if you can demand a modern economy without any drawbacks.
> ultra-efficient web-server.

There are a lot of these already. Serving static content quickly is not an interesting challenge any more, most of them will be able to saturate a 10GBE link over a huge number of connections. No, all the interesting effort is in dynamically assembling pages.
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You know what he meant, if you want functionality comparable to the Go stdlib you are going to have to choose between Core or Batteries, then for async do you choose Async or Lwt? And as said the build system (when you're used to Go) is poor. I like a lot of what OCaml offers, but there's a lot of friction.
Yeah, no.

There are many conflicting beliefs and values held and no way to keep everyone happy. You don't avoid beef because it's a sacred animal to Hindus.

And if your attitude and approach reflects that of the protestors, then that certainly helps mine move towards "fuck them".
I have credit monitoring through Chase through my Saphire Reserve card. They gave it to me for "free" and I never asked for it. I have to wonder how many others are out there, like me, who are just getting it as a matter of course as an add-on to one of their accounts.
I love the design of these graphs -- can I ask what you used? Thanks!
When it comes to the simple newtonian premise of a vehicular object in motion, you are very nearly 100% correct.

But there are multiple factors to consider. Namely: electrical, chemical, and mechanical factors.

The mechanical aspects do seem trivial at first sniff, but brakes are a really important component of the vehicle’s operation. With a total overhaul of the power train, many serious moving parts just go away, and you want to make sure essentials receive good attention. If there’s computer controlled braking related to anti-lock and cruise control systems, is a drastic power train modification going to affect the behavior of those systems? Do they go away too? Does the computer get replaced? Are there new inductive braking appliances installed? What’s providing power to the wheels? Is it the usual shaft or something else? Does the brake pedal apply the usual hydraulic brake lines, or are those gone, and a push button magnetic braking system replaces them?

Chemical: those batteries are pretty serious slabs of chemical energy. Mostly, it’s an improvement when you think about gasoline, fires and explosions. Then again, batteries do burn vigorously and explode in their own ways, and these batteries are usually very big. Maybe ten times the size of the usual 12 volt car battery that cranks a conventional starter motor. When punctured or crushed in a collision, how bad is the result? What about junk yards? Can they dispose of these power sources?

Electrical: how trivial is it for an individual to short out a live circuit on a modified vehicle. Are there breakers built in to trip and prevent electrocution and shocks? What about irregularities introduced by collisions? Is it possible that the breakers might become crushed in such a way that they fail to disconnect power? Would first responder risk grounding an energized power source when prying in to extract accident victims, and get fried during rescue operations? Could a collision discharge electricity at the moment of impact, killing passengers by electric shock?

Granted, some of these problems are hypothetical concerns that electric trains have been exposed to for years, but homebrew mods mean you’ve got less disciplined randos trying their hand at hobbyist duct tape exercises.

You can’t just trust everyone to do a great job.
Anecdata:

I switched back almost 10 years ago (because Google creeps me out), and the UI differences made it much harder.

I ended up tweaking firefox with extensions to make it look and behave like Chrome as much as possible, then gradually turned it back to the default UI. It made the switch far more pleasant.
Lucrative? Do you mean pay? Some low level jobs pay really bad, some very well.

So all I can say it might be, or it might not.
More like there are plenty of people born in Australia or who are longer-term residents than yourself who are jaded after seeing ridiculous developments or promises by successive State and Federal governments.

All that aside, I'm not against reasonable and financially responsible development. In my hometown of Adelaide the recent revival and expansion of the tram lines has been done in a successful and financially responsible manner (IMO):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Adelaide
Are you sure it actually cost your insurance $6k? Usually they have a high rack rate and negotiate down.
Sure, but about anything is legal if you're wealthy. (sometimes a travel to a poorer country might be needed). Or more precisely: the law bothers you only if you're poor or piss off someone richer than you.
You aren't wrong on any of the accounts, but you also have to include that these were not ordinary people (half had a college education, which basically nobody had at the time) and that they were given responsibilities from a very early age.

Washington was a surveyor, working on the fronteer at 13.
Does Experian response with an actual credit score as opposed to information whether you have defaulted some of your loans recently or not?
It seems the point is no one knows if the site is genuinely significant or not. There's a claim it's significant, but the claim doesn't appear to be any more specific than "a demigod lives there".

Obviously there's no way to make a rational impact study of the effect of a large telescope on a demigod.

I don't think it's about self-righteousness, but it probably is about sovereignty. Some Hawaiians don't like outsiders coming in and building expensive things they won't personally get to use.

It's never really about a demigod, because religion is mostly just politics rationalised (?) by appeals to the supernatural, and isn't really about anything supernatural at all.
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Colonizers gonna colonize. I don't believe your "oh you weren't nice to me, this justifies my arrogance", you'd feel justified anyway. But you aren't.
The traditional solution to this is the Yellow Pages. The business owner would pay a small fee to be listed. In the internet age, Yellow-Pages-like directories of business do not need a publishing house generating them. You can basically build one yourself from OpenStreetMap data, and if it gains traction in the community, you could turn it into a side business by taking a small fee from businesses, say 10$/yr, to offer them "OpenStreetMap update as a service" for their business's POI.
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These points aren't about amateurs and professionals and most of them don't stand up on their own merits.

>Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a process.

I'll tell my boss this the next time we set my goals for the year.
We're actually building infrastructure to serve ML as a Saas and would love to get your input.
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But did you have the option to remove these onerous parts from the credit agreement? If not, you did not "opt in", you were coerced.
I said rate of rate of increase. The second derivative is negative at a local maximum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_test#Second_derivat...
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Perl aims to be an enabler, and is therefore not particularly opinionated ("there is more than one way to do it"). This includes making little to no effort to make it hard to write difficult-to-read code.

Personally, I don't tend to have a hard time reading code I myself wrote, even long after the fact. But I will concede that Perl code _can be_ hard to read if the author has been too clever.
This entirely depends on if the employer is willing to initiate the application for the permit for you to fulfil the role. See the authority on this here (in English for obvious reasons)[0].

Edit: "Authority on this" as in Migrationsverket is the entity that receives the application and ultimately decides to grant/deny it.

[0] - https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...
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Hi hacker's, I was exporering options to renew my subscription and came to the opinion that the most optimum internet plan I can access within Uganda(where I live), is about $1 per GB capped at a speed 2 MB/s.

This is a bit expensive for me. & I Just want to answer 2 Questions;

1. How bad are our prices compared to that of other hackers?

2. Can the price be reduced by magnitudes more (if its magnitudes cheaper in other areas may be it can be reduced)?
And not just that; street LSD is also not unusually mixed with various other compounds
A thing is going to be a noun.

A jawn is a possibly uninitialized variable thrown in at random anywhere, as far as I can jawn.
You can (and I do) whitelist select contacts. If my family wants to contact me, that is fine. Random people will go to voice mail and I deal with them when I get the time.
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> In Europe, you as a private person just don't know it and don't have access to your own rating. But you are likely to be rated anyways..

In the E.U., there are no private organisations who can process your personal data without making it available to you on request.

In Ireland, there's a state-run Central Credit Register, to which lenders must submit any consumer credit agreement above €200, and which they must check by law before issuing credit. Anyone can apply online to get their credit history from the CCR, and make submissions to correct inaccuracies.

There's also the Irish Credit Bureau, a private organisation with a similar purpose. They are also required to reveal data held about you on request, and correct inaccurate data held.
I'm on the coast and finding a fish monger is like looking for the diamond in the rough.
Interesting - would love your thoughts, why is it that DAGs aren't very scalable?
To me, it feels like the sender wants to yell particular words at me because they feel like I'm not capabale of digesting entire sentences.
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IBM QRadar is not different, just like anything else IBM sells nowdays. For example, to send custom logs from application you need to read bunch of confusing PDF's while at the same time most FOSS systems have single curl call to do so (or something equally trivial).
I especially hate those tools that allow the marketing department to change the page, e.g. Adobe Target. They work client-side, making their changes after the html has loaded.

They don’t work well with universal/isomorphic web apps, because they have no way of telling when hydration occurs, so they can really mess a page up if they do their filthy business too soon.

But assuming that doesn’t happen, there’s still the matter of what they call “flicker”, which is a silly word that means the original content is visible initially, and then marketing’s changes kick in. To avoid so-called flicker, a page-hiding snippet is inserted into the page, making the entire page transparent until the tool modifies the page. These tools are often blocked by ad blockers, so the page will either remain blank, or will be restored by the page hiding snippet after a few seconds.

You can make a blazingly fast website, and then marketing comes along and takes a big dump on it.
It's interesting to see how people interpret the word amateur in this.

There are two definitions:

1. a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid rather than a professional basis.

2. a person who is incompetent or inept at a particular activity.

My interpretation is that it's only referring to 2 and isn't referring to those who engage in a pursuit without payment. Or more specifically, being an ameteur is a product of those actions.
I know nothing about this topic and I'll admit that I even had to google what 'PrEP' is, and I have a vague feeling I'm stepping into a minefield asking this question, but who is "everyone at risk" in this context?
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I switched in 1995, never looked back. Perl can’t die soon enough.
I'm speaking specifically about the Mac Pro, which Apple doesn't really care about. I get the sense you think I'm talking about using Zen in their laptops etc.

They're not going to build a chip that competes with high end Xeons just to field the new Mac Pro.

Given that, in a world where MacBook Pros are powered by A15s, Apple can either cut the Mac Pro, keep it as their only x86 product or put an ARM Zen in it.

I'm saying keeping it as x86 will straight up never happen. ARM Zen or cancellation are the plausible options.
The interviews sucks, but do you think those credit bureaus (+ your bank + your credit card operator) don't have that exact same information?

I might add it's one thing to buy a car or house on credit, another, very different is to gouge on credit cards and have them topped up beyond your repayment capacity.
> There are many conflicting beliefs and values held and no way to keep everyone happy

Lets have a look at how history has gone. "We need a nuclear test site. The French decided Tahiti would be the best place". "We need a site to test the hydrogen bomb. The Americans decided Marshall islands would be the best place". Both those victim populations now suffer the consequences of those actions of a much more powerful country. Hawaii's history is also muddied with colonialism. Perhaps having a shred of empathy and respect might be a better way to start engaging with them about building a telescope rather than using the "tried and true" "fuck them" approach you're implying is appropriate.
if we cared so much about sea life, we would ban nets.
Coming from Europe, it would never occur to me to buy furniture on credit, is this something common in the US ?
My mistake, I misread.
Gov systems are orders of magnitude smaller then Facebook & friends.
Miracle drug with unknown long term side effects*

I wouldn't take it unless I was a non monogamous gay man[0], the risks out-weights the benefits in any other demographics imho.

[0] not that I have anything against that per say, it's just statistically the most affected demographic
You're picturing someone crossing at a right-angle to the tram tracks, as one might cross a train track at a level crossing. In that case you would indeed only get a small bump!

But if you cycle in the direction the tram travels - as you would if it was a bus lane, or a car would in a lane shared between trams and cars - then [1] can happen. Wheel goes into the groove in the road, cycle can't no longer steer, so it can't balance.

Obviously, you might think "Well then, don't cycle along lanes with tram tracks" but that means retrofitting an existing city with new tram tracks makes it less welcoming to cyclists - unlike busses or a metro system.

[1] https://youtu.be/aE3W4kEBhuE
I lived in Amsterdam a number of years ago. There were people constantly hit and killed by trams. There was a constant health emergency with cyclists getting their wheels stuck in the lines and then damaging their kneecaps, shoulders you name it.
Anyone know if Melbourne solved any of these issues?
I’d like to see the outrage if google and Facebook were added to the internet bill of everyone around.