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Are you, personally, saying "Hi" because you think that if you ask your question -- then your message recipient will ignore you?

I am saying "Hi" (without anything else) - to check if person is available for discussion (exactly like okusername described it).
this is just different definition of what fasting is. What he's doing is time-restricted eating but it is a form of fasting. You are just doing longer fasts. No need to gatekeep
Terrible news. :(
The reddit app is 17+, because of UGC. If a majority of users used it for porn, it would probably be banned.
Yes! One side effect that we learned is that there isn't much difference between something we wrote 3 months ago or today. As we can replay any coding session, legacy code feels like a brand new commit.
Is there a reason no one says, "hm, that don't make a lick of sense, let's change that?"
Also, I was amazed at how listening twice to a history lecture really helped my retention. I'd listen while walking to my next campus class.
The URL when I found it was: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec

If that URL doesn't work I went to Settings and there's a tab for "Facial Recognition" on the left rail. Between "Language and Regions" and "Notifications"
Stripe is an example of it. They do have a dashboard, but at the end of the day, without implementing their AI or stripe.js, there is not much you can do with them.

It seems like a great business model for engineers to try out ideas.
It was a calculate risk, same as many others, and by far not the most wasteful event of that year even had it not been needed.
In practice, a great engineer should be relatively well balanced in all 3 aspects and know when to favour one over another (such as the time sensitive case where performance in the code execution is more important than writing something that the next engineer can easily understand).
There's two ways to evaluate the comment.

Truth is almost none of us are "engineers". (meaning a very strict discipline, often with licensing, and with very real consequences for failure after you sign off on something) I'm fine with that, but I'm also fine with the colloquialism of "software engineer" (same way I'm ok with "crypto" meaning "cryptocurrency" if we all have an understood context)

However, I usually interpret comments like this to suggest things like the backend is "real software engineering", which while being literally incorrect, it's also a very narrow view of our craft. I think the pushback is similar to the traditional ops folks pushing back against "devops" or the way people make the same, predictably pedantic comments about any "serverless" article: it represents an encroaching on their expertise.
I believe they just didn’t give the option to wreck your car by overclocking.

Their selling point is repeatability, so overloading the systems is not part of the Taycan experience.

Probably it’s possible to push the car to higher performance and risk performance degradation later on as with Tesla. Would be fun when people start playing around with these cars’ systems.
I have always heard the saying attributed to Oscar Wilde.
Things have changed a lot in 10 years.

Even as someone with heavy "tech nerd" needs (e.g. a mosh session that is always open to my server), there is very little I want to do on an iOS device that I can't do with tools provided by developers via the App Store.
WKD tastes good because there's a ton of sugar in it. There's plenty of sugary alcopops in America already (Smirnoff Ice, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Four Loko, etc.).

White Claw is interesting because it's low-carb.
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>The FDA analyzed 12 nicotine samples and 18 THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) samples taken from patients across the country. The vitamin E-derived oil, known as “vitamin E acetate,” was found in 10 out of the 18 cannabis products.

>But tests didn’t find anything unusual among the various nicotine products used by patients who fell ill, according to the officials.

If the oil is not in any nicotine products, can it really be the cause? Perhaps there are similar materials that were not sought after in the nicotine samples and other cannabis samples.
Hi Peter,

my wife is a foreign citizen currently on an OPT F-1 extension who travels a lot for research and conferences as she's a historian who works on other parts of the world.

We've been told that traveling during a green card application without urgent family circumstances basically voids the process. Is that true? Is there a safe way for her to be able to continue research travel while a green card application is in process or will it require her giving up archive trips for an unspecified amount of time?
Not necessarily. The purpose is to show how you reason your way through a problem where you can't simply google "how do I solve x problem." It's intended to see how you communicate, how you handle mistakes, how thorough you are in double-checking yourself, your work style (do you jump right in or ask lots of questions first), etc.

In any case, there's a lot of strategies to show that you understand a concept without relying on exact memorization. For example, a common answer I give if I can't remember something might be something like: "The language has a sort function that can accept a list, I don't remember the exact API or the underlying implementation but let's assume it's n log(n) as that's a common runtime complexity for sorting--I'm going to define that as 'sort(listArg)'." I don't remember the exact function, so I'll just define and explain how it might work myself. If you're expected to be able to compile the code you're writing, simply ask the interviewer and explain the API you're looking for, I've had great success with that as well and prefer when an interviewee asks me over staring at the screen or board.

If it's a problem where you're expected to produce some algorithm, if you can't come up with any solution, explain to your interviewer what you're stuck on. They may provide a hint that will get you rolling. I had this happen during an interview at Microsoft (spoiler, I got the job) where I forgot how to determine the length of the hypotenuse of a triangle haha. The interviewer wrote the formula on the board and we moved on. Interviewer later told me I seemed nervous and he chalked it up to a brain fart--good call, I was really nervous! The point of that problem wasn't to see if I knew the Pythagorean theorem--it was just a small piece of the puzzle I was stumped on. Similarly start from a simple, naive solution, and interatively optimize rather than trying to recall a perfectly optimal solution. If time is running low, explain your intended optimization or ones you think might be meaningful, making note of any uncertainties in that explanation.

I've worked at Microsoft, Amazon, some other notables and interviewed at many others. I am speaking from that experience. Others may have better ideas. Of course, not all places approach this in a reasonable fashion and some are just missing the point entirely with their interview and they do expect you to somehow memorize everything.
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I'm not answering for hirundo as I suspect our views are different.

But generally speaking it has been recognized that broad based sales taxes across all products is more stable when it comes to various economic downturns and etc. Same goes for just say property taxes that cover X, but not Y property.

Some sin taxes that get tagged to be used for "good things" often have bad results if usage drops and the "good things" that we previously wanted to fun suddenly have no (or a dramatic drop) in funding.

I'm not saying anyone shouldn't / can't do such things but there are reasons to avoid tax policies where things are taxes dramatically differently. How much "dramatically" is obviously up for endless debate.

That doesn't mean "tax should be the same for all items" but keeping close to that concept is not a bad idea.
Well this is the first scene that comes to my mind...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lLCEUpIg8rE
Anyone who isn't part of all three tribes needs to find a new job NOW!
>True, and the Taycan may well be a better car in many ways. But a discussion of the gearbox has nothing to do with handling or sports car feeling.

There isn't a single published metric in which the Performance Model S doesn't trounce the Taycan.
I feel like I can relate to all of the tribes' value systems, depending on various things, one being time... time of day, time spent on a project, time in my life.

I've come to view many supposed divisions between people this way. There aren't homeless and successful people, so much as there are people that are homeless right now, or people making lots of money right now. People can certainly swing between both. Nothing is forever.

I find this perspective helps me to appreciate more my present situation in life, as well that of others.

Getting back on track, we should find value in the diverse perspectives in programming and find things to learn from them. One of my pet peeves is the programmer who does not have a learning mindset. That toxic behavior transcends the divisions laid out in the article, and is to everyone's detriment.
I have young children and waking up at 5am every morning is a life saver for me. By the time I finish the bedtime routine at night I'm usually too drained to do much that's productive, but by waking up at least 90 minutes before the rest of the house it gives me valuable quiet time to after a decent night's sleep to get things done.
This is why in the EU it is anti-competitive behavior that is targeted, not anti-trust.
Going the other direction would be interesting: if companies produced ongoing metrics, there might be fewer rewards for gaming them and less impact from missing one hour's target. I doubt either the SEC or the accountants are interested in going that direction, but it seems like it is the periodic nature that is the problem, rather than the specific length of time. Perhaps there should be a Continuous Reporting movement.
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Once upon a time there were cars with a "normal" 4 speed (+reverse) gearbox and an added "overdrive" box (that if I recall correctly could only be used in 3rd and 4th gear), surely there were a few Triumph's and some Volvo station wagons, they had a button/switch on the gear stick that activated it electrically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive_(mechanics)

This device (with all the possible evolutions in these 30 or 40 years) sounds a lot like this "overdrive" box.
No, it's not job security related, just awkward.

I'm just choosing to believe I'm doing a poor job explaining the tradeoffs, and then time or someone else does a better job a few months later.
If you use Google cloud enough you'll soon realize they're not very fast at anything.

Better hope you don't get your account automatically banned because one of your employees does sketchy things on their own personal account
I think the issue is that people see the reckless driver and think "That guy deserved to be ticketed but I would never drive so recklessly while I'm texting on the road! I'm perfectly aware of everything and so I don't have to change my behavior going forward" while seeing people busted for holding a phone regardless of how they drove tells them that if they are seen texting on the road they'll get in trouble even though they are "flawless" drivers.

a dash cam might see someone holding a cell phone to their face, but people texting or checking social media sites tend to keep their phones in their laps which is why police want the birds-eye view of a semi to spot them. Bikes have been used at intersections but with low held phones and high SUVs that wasn't always very effective.
It is 100% Etsy forcing this change. Josh Silverman is there to increase revenue and this is how they are doing it.

There was no consideration for their sellers, a large number of which cannot do free shipping. Etsy want to be "Etsy" not a platform and service for sellers.

Sure some stores won't be affected but plenty had already tried free shipping and reported it did not work, Etsy didn't care. Anyone shipping heavy items or internationally can't do free shipping properly. I know UK stores who have been told to just offer a code and discount back some of the value to their UK customers so that these stores can sell with free shipping in the US. It doesn't make sense. This is a pure revenue driver, it does not benefit stores.

Etsy do not know how to run small businesses and they are forcing people who do to make bad decisions.

You could have offered free shipping anyway if you had wanted to.
> Only thing that does is break scripts

That's not really an acceptable change... Would you like all the scripts you run on your Linux distros to break every time you do package updates? I wouldn't touch such a distro with a 100 foot pole
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I've been trying to not use the words "statistical significance" in my reports. It's hard to find alternatives, but "confident" usually fits the bill. Sadly, the reports need reviewed by other statisticians, and they much prefer I use the normal jargon because it's clearer to them.

But these concepts aren't clear to the people using the data. I've seen people use statistical tests done in batch without correcting for multiple testing (one of my regrettable tasks), and flat out ignore any differences that weren't statistically significant. They thought it meant "no difference."

With population-level data (e.g., Census counts or hospital records), I sometimes wonder if statistical significance has any value. It's a tool to make sure we don't accidentally claim a difference where there isn't one. But I can guarantee you that nothing worth measuring is exactly the same for men, women, whites, blacks, young, old, whatever. It'd be amazing if the difference was 0. So statistical significance ends up being an obfuscated way to state the sample size.
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This. Is. Hilarious. I've never heard of this before.
Choose your enemies wisely. You become them.
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On one hand I think there is no argument that can justify Apple not letting me install whatever app I want on any of my devices. I can on macOS, why not on iOS?

Whatever risks there are on iOS are also on macOS. Security is not a great argument. Yes, add Gatekeeper or a red blinking alert if you want, but I should be able to install any app I want without jailbreaking my device. There are many ways Apple could solve this if it wanted to.

On the other hand... it's heartbreaking to see someone spend so much effort on a project and fail, but Windmill was never going to pass through the review process.

Personally I would never bet my future on iOS unless the App Store policies change drastically.
Entrenched industries benefit from regulation and will lobby to keep the odds in their favor.
This is great for the new users it appears to apply to. But what about people like me? I haven't had a Facebook account in seven years. Yet, I'm not delusional to believe they don't still have my data (yes, I "deleted" it) along with my picture. So every time my wife posts a picture with me in it to Facebook, they know where I am.
“Leoforos Syngrou” is probably not his name.

I’m not greek but thats “Syngrou Street/Road” where he is based...
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What in the post did you consider to be "jabs"? Nothing read that way to me.
The tribes exist and people can straddle more than one.

I would say you're not a poet though.
What is the history of 2% as the target inflation rate?
I think "easiest" is sauna. Exercising is good because it can also help with your mood and brain functioning. I heard conflicting information about cold shocks. There is also fasting which as top comment said works similarly to original link.

If you want to read for example about sauna I recommend thishttps://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics/sauna she also has a lot of stuff about other things I mentioned
> I did a Haskell short course late last year and I challenged the main instructor. I told him "this is all well and good, but I bet I can still make useful software using my practical languages faster than you can". He said no way - using haskell he was convinced he could implement anything I could implement, faster and better and with less code. We didn't test the claim - but I still wonder - is he right?

OK, here's a problem. Read a file of text (the name is to be passed in as a command-line parameter). For each line, if it begins with a number, print out the number.

I'd use Perl, and it would take me one or, at most, two minutes. It would take me seven lines, only because I put my curly braces on their own lines.

Now, I picked a problem that is a better fit for Perl than for Haskell. But that's kind of the point - there are problems that are a better fit for other languages than for Haskell, and when you hit one, you're better off writing the program in a language that fits better.
If you inject the ransomware into a system that is subsequently backed up and wait a significant period of time, you could potentially lock all backups as they are restored. Then people have to decide between paying up or restoring to a time before the ransomware was injected.

I'm not sure if it's feasible to have ransomware lock backups as they're restored, however.
Advancing Science and technology is exactly the thing people of India need right now. This kind of mission inspires confidence in a nation's abilities and also inspires a generation of people to pursue science. Wont you agree that US moon landing inspired a generation of Americans?
Hi Peter, hopefully a simple one: if an employee on a valid L1A work visa had to resign, is there a grace period after the last working day of employment to wrap up affairs in the US, or would they be expected to leave on or before that date? Thanks in advance
I’ve been writing JavaScript for at least a decade now (way before all of these fancy frameworks, build systems, etc.), and yesterday, I googled “JavaScript addEventListener” so that I could remember how to use it. I’d love for someone to tell me that I’m not a “proper engineer” because of that!
I found it extremely surprising that this company didn't mention the new trend towards "public" companies. For instance Zuckerberg controls the majority of voting shares for Facebook, at Google Page/Brin control the majority, and so on. For those that don't know the 'trick', it's simply different quality shares. They allocate themselves a minority of shares, but ones with 10x the voting power of normal shares - enough to ensure unilateral (or bilateral in the case of Sergey and Larry) control over "public" companies.

This is, for instance, why trying to unify shareholders against Zuckerberg was quite bemusing. Literally every single Facebook shareholder could vote to do away with Zuckerberg. It wouldn't matter - he's not going anywhere unless he wants to. Suffice to say, these sort of "public" companies don't seem to be engaging in any more enlightened longview than those who are genuinely under the heel of profit seeking shareholders.
How would this work? I could just hide in plain sight: act like I'm shopping.

Do you have to seek only people that look like they are hiding?
Yeah, there was definitely a trend a decade or so back when everyone was hyped for the fact they were releasing API access.

Generally speaking, anything that took off slowly let those APIs die so they could make money for themselves instead of letting third parties capture value.
Why not? If the 2nd amendment is in place to prevent the need for a standing army by allowing for militias to exist and serve as the defense force therefor the maintenance of a standing army is unneeded. The other option is that you support a standing army which is a tool of oppression.

Either you support the 2nd amendment as a means of national defense or your support handing the tools of oppression to the government, per the founding fathers.
> When management does demonstrate credibility, Wall Street's usually more than happy to let them focus on long-term initiatives. Just look at Amazon, which is a darling of the investment community, trusted to steer nearly a trillion dollars in shareholder capital. Bezos has continuously poured huge resources into long-term speculative initiatives at the expense of quarterly earnings. And he's loved by shareholders for it, because he has a history of competence and putting company interests above personal ones.

I'm sure this perspective is not correct.

You are pointing out something that exists, but your argument about why it exists is misguided.

Bezos can do this because he is a Founding CEO. I recommend reading Andreessen Horowitz's primary thesis on why they invest in Founding CEOs (https://a16z.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/).

Founding CEOs, as opposed to Professional CEOs, have two things working for them: 1) Moral Authority 2) An Ability to Recognize New Product Cycles.

1) Moral Authority: It's not that shareholders trust Bezos more than anyone else. It's that he has Moral Authority to take risks because he founded the company. Per Ben Horowitz:

"Often, true innovation requires throwing out many of the foundational assumptions of the company. If the company is significant, doing so may be extremely difficult for the professional CEO. The company’s core belief system is often entangled in those assumptions. Since the founding CEO made the assumptions in the first place, it is much easier for her. An excellent example of existing, invalid assumptions paralyzing a whole set of companies recently played out in the music industry."

2) Ability to Recognize New Product Cycles: This is a skill professional CEOs simply don't have. Again, per Ben Horowitz:

"Founding CEOs naturally take a long view of their companies. The company is their life’s work. Their emotional commitment exceeds their equity stake. Their goal from the start is to build something significant. They instinctively know that big product cycles come from investment and that even the biggest product cycles will eventually fade. Professional CEOs, on the other hand, tend to be driven by relatively shorter-term goals. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance."

So in essence, what you are saying, that public companies have the ability to be like Bezos, is simply not true and never will be true. This is why something like the LTSE is a needed experiment.
What problems would decentralization solve here?
> targetting the Uighur community

I read between the lines "A state actor was actively tracking a group based on religion"
hard to say, the article just presents "man relocated 75 times, finally stays put" and the conclusion "ultimately everyone wants a roof over their head" back to back as if that conclusion obviously follows. the reader has no idea whether the guy genuinely preferred his new dwelling or if he just gave up resisting. or maybe the 75th time happened to line up with the first cold night and he decided to stay just for the winter.

I'm not trying to be flippant here; I think we walk a dangerous line when we presume to know what's best for a person and especially when we apply pressure to get them to change their ways.

one of my good friends from high school developed severe schizophrenia after graduating and has been homeless for several years now. he has a standing offer of support from his (wealthy) parents on the sole condition than he start some form of treatment. I and some of our other friends have repeatedly tried to help him get into housing, treatment, or even temporary shelter, and he always refuses. his parents had him involuntarily committed for a few days; he left as soon as he was able. when I run into him and ask how he's doing, he always says he's doing great and loves the freedom of his lifestyle. he doesn't look great, but is it really up to me to decide?