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A general contractor's area of business isn't exactly doing construction, it's the project management aspects. Talking to vendors, organizing work crews, acquiring specialized labor from various trades, communicating project information to various stakeholders, etc.

It's a subtle distinction, but one that I suspect would survive legal scrutiny.
Otoh, we have far more marketers, professional writers, video editors, programmers, and people who make their own profits via YouTube etc.

And a drastic drop in birth rate should mean fewer people so favor labor.
> Public institutions should be based on an entrance exam and that's it.

You mean the SAT? The problems with using a single exam as the primary criterion for acceptance is going to be basically the same as the problems with using the SAT--the scores are going to be very heavily correlated with how much money parents can throw at exam prep.
He is down 10% in farm support and that number will continue to drop as the new reality continues to set in over the next year.
For those who prefer PDFs (for local reading / archival):

https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691st/readings...

The author is the late Fernando J. Corbato.
I never drive in town, but offer me a free taxi service and I will use it several times a week.
> So basically desperate people ruin everything?

This is due to people (non-consciously or not-explicitly) holding or believing something like 'The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics'.

In a nutshell, it's often better to ignore a problem than attempt to improve it in any way less than perfect, at least in terms of other third parties' reactions.
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Why? It’s a much coarser feedback, doesn’t tell you that you’reno putting in enough feedack, just tells you about catastrophic failure to learn the basics.
Unless you want to make “fail’ everything below a B
That's just a reason why all of the benefits need to be government (and taxes on corporations to pay for them) backed things that are retained across jobs.
This is the way forward for service meshes. Consul connect is doing something very similar.

The early service meshes were all built on top of Kubernetes, due to the fact that k8s/etcd is an easy platform to build control planes on top of (SD, networking, etc. already done) but very few large companies are ready to move everything over to Kubernetes.
Why is apple so tight with storage? 32gb-128gb is laughable even for 5 years ago.
> In order to be legitimately upset with our government having"shitty allies", you first need to believe in the fiction that our government isn't shitty itself.

No, you don't. You can be upset about our government being shitty, and hold the shitty allies it chooses to support as one of the many exhibits demonstrating the general shittiness of the government.
LMFAO this guy didn't go to college because he didn't work hard enough and now he's butthurt.

College is not a scam. Are any of the engineering disciplines a scam? Is philosophy, art or english a scam?
The suppression is real, but not in a comic book conspiracy theory sense. Monsanto has been doing disinformation around glyphosate for a very long time, and stirring up controversy and character assassinations around these (admittedly speculative and unconventional) scientists and others. That's all that's needed for more orthodox members of the scientific community to start using words like "quack" and "pseudoscience".

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/monsan...

- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-28/modern...
Congratulations, you've just created eighteen years of nothing but studying to the test in cram school, with family wealth being the strongest single predictor of admission.
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The existence of that state-run hospital and the illogical size of their bill is a result of a lot of the lobbying done to keep the private industry from being uncompetitive with publicly offered healthcare.

If better priced options are available people are going to stop playing in that private healthcare sandbox - it's part of the same reason why the house has been unable to legalize purchasing drugs abroad... that too would weaken the price fixing abilities of pharmaceutical manufacturers and PBMs - also maybe pharmacies, they tend to get squeezed pretty hard by PBMs though so only in the case where a pharmacy is being squeezed by its own PBM (as is the case of CVS) is the pharmacy really embroiled heavily in this mess as a loss leader.
Arguably they wouldn't. This is for folks who want to buy their first iPad or are upgrading from Air1 or previous.
Many of us, especially younger folks with income anxiety and families see no other choice but to work slavishly at the expense of time with our families because we see avoiding starvation as more important than quality time. We could all be forgiven for this.

I've made it past that phase of my life, having missed the entire first year of my middle daughter's life, not being there properly for my family after the loss (cancer) of one of our daughters at 2 1/2. My oldest daughter (are you keeping count) who is 18, I barely know and am just now building a relationship with.

I have the luxury of not making that mistake with our youngest daughter (we're up to 4 girls now) who is now 5. I still remember giving up time at home so that I could ensure I kept my job and was investing in the skills to get the next raise.

Hindsight is 20/20 and you already know what I'm going to tell you. You'd be surprised how little of your stress about your current job translates to you keeping it, but that stress makes you grumpy or distant and difficult to feel love from. You'd be surprised how something as small as dinner together, tucking them in at night, or an unrushed breakfast, can take so little time but mean so much to you and to them, still leaving you with the time to advance your career on behalf of the ones you love.

Please spend those special moments, they're so few and they pass so quickly. Your family likely won't starve, and maybe even getting fired from a toxic environment will be the break you need to see what else the world has out there for you and your family.

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Jeremiah 29:11
cool but the performance is very poor. Loading time is not ideal but the really issue is after it loads, scrolling and navigating the page CRAWLS.
Like not exist. Seems like NSA is the biggest employer.
I agree with most of your points, but there are some things about the post-WWII college system that required ever-greater numbers of people attending. In particular, professors want doctoral students, but in most majors the only reason to get a Ph.D. is if you intend to be a professor. Which worked kind of ok for several decades, as more and more state schools opened up, and a higher and higher percentage of the population went to college.

But, like any system designed for growth that persists for generations, it isn't designed well for leveling off, much less shrinking even a small amount. It's not clear how well many universities can even function without a lot of graduate students to teach many of the classes, but without more and more college professor positions for those graduate students to take once they get their doctorate, the current number of graduate students seems unsupportable.
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I worked as a contractor for many years, and the opposite was true. We were brought in to help the in house devs improve their systems and frankly clean up their code.

In a lot of places, the hiring company had counterproductive requirements placed on their devs, stuff like mandatory CS degree, mandatory clock in and out time, and not paying enough to get the best talent. We were able to come in and not subject to those requirements, do better work.

It sounds like you've worked at some bad companies who were not able to make effective use of contractors, and due to this limited experience you are advocating for a law which would make many mutually beneficial business relationships illegal. You want the state to come in and use an extremely blunt law to help you grind an axe about your boss or something.
Steam engines have been around since the 1st century, but like guns, they weren't going to be as important as they could be without all the advancements in ideology, planning and sciences that resulted in industrialization.

Which brings me back to my point, the current status of civilization is due much less to legislation than people say it is.
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That depends how resource utilization (really, AWS/cloud costs) scale with customer growth. Often it scales poorly when your SaaS is really a bunch of prototype-isp "MVP" code.
You can't use a lot of the libraries and still get the runtime exception to where it doesn't have to be released as GPL I think.
I like the casual nature of walking through a museum, but I agree with having a faster option. Possibly allow sprinting with shift key or as an alternative allowing double tapping of the wasd keys to run.
This is pretty cool/fun! Thanks!
Unions were far stronger yes. And so were communities. The legal changes are minor, compared to the changes from a high-trust society to whatever we are now.
I read this article with great interest. I have two children, one of them a high school senior, and we have been doing a lot of travel to various parts of the U.S. and Canada to visit campuses and better understand our options.

One factor that the article did not mention in the admissions circus: The high sticker prices for many private colleges are resulting in some students & families not even considering them as an option. Trinity and many other 1st and 2nd-tier private schools in New England (where we live) are $70k+ all in. This includes my undergraduate alma mater, Boston University, which I don't even discuss with my children as an option.

The other trend taking place: Some state colleges have become extremely competitive in part because they are affordable. Not only are they cheap for in-state residents (UMass Amherst all-in is about $30k for Mass. residents) but they are relatively inexpensive for out of state residents (UVM ~$53k all-in for out of state students) compared to private colleges.

We are middle class but really tight on finances, driving used vehicles and putting almost every extra dollar we can afford into 529 and retirement plans. Because our AGI is well above the median we won't be eligible for Pell grants, and my assumption is other grants will very rightly be designated for students and families who have far greater economic needs than us. I don't put any hope that our children's grades will make much of a difference. "Financial aid" in the form of loans is just putting off the pain, with interest.

And even if we get $5k or $10k lopped off per year? Congratulations, you will now be paying a quarter of a million dollars over the next four years, instead of $300,000. It's still not worth it, so the BUs, Trinitys, and Brandeises are not part of our college tours.
That is good fun. What's interesting is the amount of thought I'm willing to give something that's virtually hanging on a wall over an onscreen sentence in a list.

On a different note, one of the images from a Bloomberg post was simply showing "We've detected unusual activity from your computer network" and the usual reCaptcha "I'm not a robot" box.

Please join me in condemning such hostile behaviour of web sites. Of course it's 'unusual activity', it's unusually creative, and it's what the Internet used to be about.
This is unhealthy, try to find what you enjoy! At least a little bit. If you haven't noticed it yet this will start wearing you down.
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Absolutely. Thus, it's worth reading the restrictions the 1998 accord (the aforementioned "smackdown") that the four biggest tobacco companies entered into for lying to the government, and consumers, about whether cigarettes cause cancer.

https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/topics/commercial-toba...
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"Never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence." - variously attributed

Of course, there's no reason it can't be both.
So you point to one incident to prove everything that exists about a country must be wrong? How does that logically work? Was there corruption? Yes. Which government doesn't have corruption. Tell me if you know.

Well, telling people to hate a country on the basis one one corrupt incident sounds suspiciously like IDF to me. If you think corruption is an issue, then why don't you do something about it, instead of whining that it's bad?
The US is a pretty huge player in industries like mining and farming, industries that produce commodities in huge quantities.
"Do you think I'm lying when you read the years and years of experience on my CV ..."

Yes, they do. Because so many people do lie on their resume and hiring a liar is a very costly mistake. It doesn't matter that most people tell the truth... The ones that lie are just too much of a risk.

When my father was looking for a new job, he would walk into the interview and tell them all the problems they were having. When they asked how he could possibly know that with so little information, he would tell them it was because everyone who was hiring him had those same issues.

This helped reinforce that he understood the issues and had fixed them in the past.

Perhaps some similar prescience on your part could help you answer their questions quicker and easier? It's almost a party trick, but it really did seem to be effective for him.
Looks like I was wrong. Thanks for the reference and stats!
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Who cares. As long as they weren’t engaging in illegal sex activities and were all there conducting business then how is this even news. It seems more like random character assassination. Unless Buzzfeed is trying say that all sex offenders should not be allowed to work, eat, or associate which anyone regardless of the circumstance and likewise you should never associate with a sex offender regardless of the circumstance whether you knew they were a sex offender or not. This is all complete rubbish. Shame on you Buzzfeed.
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My government doesn't reflect on me. I'll protest any government that I disapprove of.
I understand how contexts can replace Redux, but can you please elaborate how they can be used instead of Apollo? Do you mean the whole of Apollo or Apollo local state?
Although the editor of the jargon file was confident he was able to speak for all "Hackers", I'm not sure they were ever quite as narrow-minded as he likes to make out.

(Many of the early criticisms of Ada seem a bit silly in hindsight. For example people used to like to make a big thing of it taking three or four years for fully standards-compliant compilers to appear, which seems pretty good going compared to, say, C++98. Similarly, hardware from the early 80s sometimes struggled to compile Ada code efficiently, but it turns out that processors were getting faster rather rapidly around that time.)
...and a healthy market must make bad ones go under. Some of those companies should have been stopped way earlier.
- I read about cool things people do (you're already on the right path if you're on this site). Learning about the cool things often motivates me to "Hey I'll make one too".

- Customize your work environment. This is rarely mentioned, but it's a very effective way to keep you interested in programming. All the best SWEs I know customized their work environment heavily. I've basically never lost interest on programming, even on the most boring projects I've worked on, mainly because just "typing" on my vim/terminal is so fun!

- Learn other engineering branches. When I don't feel like coding, I design and print a lot of 3D printer stuffs. I build/program RC cars/quadcopters. Then somewhere in the process, I'll be like "hey I can program it to do this!" And I'm back to having fun with my computer.

- Don't burnout. I have the feeling you may have some early symptoms of burning out. Go play games and hangout with loved ones.

- Know what _really_ makes you unhappy. Is that the work truly soul crushing? Are you trying to get promoted, but felt like you can't even though you are trying hard? Work environment? Lack of sleep? You usually can't debug a problem without knowing what causes it. So take some time and reflect about it.

Hope things get better for you :). And keep it up!
Not true even a little. You can compare to the average or median applicant.
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How do you jump?
Perhaps I should clarify in that I don't worry about what's cool right now, but do in continuing education in what's new-ish and a solid solution. Having fundamental understandings of your domain is very helpful in spotting what's good and what's marketing flash-in-the-pan.

> That being said, the further down the stack you go, the more stability there is in technology.

IME, it's about where you go and not what level of the stack.

Some places are just fine with a basic form-based website with a little JS for convenience that ultimately just talks to an IBM mainframe. Others want full-blown SPA in the latest, greatest Hipster language deployed across a dozen datacenters with Kubernetes and whatever other trimmings.
Maybe the US market turned out very different, but the UK market has be pushing 90%+ coming from independent vape shops, stalls and some discount chains selling e-liquids from non-tobacco connected vape specialists. It's where just about everyone seems to get their switch to vaping when they decide to give up smoking.

The big tobacco owned products like Vype are almost always seen in petrol stations, off-licences and small shops that sell, or formerly sold tobacco and cigarettes in addition to their main business. Prices for liquids are 3-4x the price of the vape shops. You still sometimes see these places selling the silly, tiny e-cigarettes that look identical to a king size smoke, with LED where the tobacco used to burn. You won't ever see these anywhere else. I've seen exactly one person using one of these compared to hundreds using regular vape pens and box mods.

Juul was late to the UK party, and I've yet to notice anyone using one of those, though I have seen one or two garages with a few packs of cartridge refills, but they don't seem common.
Plenty of US cities aren't like that. You're going to get a wayyy different response talking to random people on the NYC public transit than in SF. Seattle has the infamous "Freeze", and DC has that government contractor omerta thing going on.

Santa Cruz is a whole 'nother creature too.
I think you're right, however, I still have concerns about the long term unknown effects. Maybe not for vapes specifically, but lets take IQOS which is Philip Morris' heat to burn product which many people says tastes better, doesn't stink, etc. If people switch over to that and it has 9/10ths of the negative effects of smoking but also attracts new people to the market it could easily be a net loss for society.

I'm not a huge fan of banning things in general, I think it'd be more interesting to either tax vapes heavily so people really have to take the cost of externalities into account when they're being used or make them available by prescription.
If you'd like to innoculate yourself, and have a bit of fun in the meantime, consider reading https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ .

It's not just for fun, you can get a good sense of the algorithm. One of the things it is somewhat prone to is some weird looping, like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/d1nwdg/if... in which the algorithm generates the sentence "Toss some leeches around and wait 'til we get there." (no, it does not make any more sense in context), and then repeats that sentence nearly (but not quite!) exactly 23 more times. (I expect this is a consequence of the way it is tracking some internal state; I assume these sentences are strange attractors in some sort of state that is getting iteratively modified.)

You can also see that while it picks up some deep structure, a check of anything trained on /r/jokes (https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/d055mt/a_... ) or /r/math (https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/d1yz1e/ho... ) the algorithm is definitely unable to deal with deeper structure right now. The /r/jokes bot is humorous in its complete lack of humor, I mean, well beyond any sarcastic snark about how unfunny /r/jokes may be. It has the structure of jokes. There was one recent one that even asked "What's a pirate's favorite letter?", and the bot had noticed the answer was being given in the form of letters, but I don't think a single instance of the bot proposed "r". But it does not understand humor in the slightest. Of the several dozen attempts at jokes I've at least skimmed, I believe it only achieved something that was at least recognizable as an attempt at humor once, and it still wasn't that funny. Likewise math. It's got a good idea there's these "prime number" things and they're pretty important, but I've seen at least half-a-dozen wrong definitions of what one is.

It's a very interesting algorithm. It's a great babbler. But on its own, it's not a great solution to generating text. Although it may very well be able to generate text that can pass a casual skim text, as the article suggests. Still, it takes human curation to get that far. Any human that can read is going to guess something's inhuman about repeating "Toss some leeches around and wait 'til we get there." 24 times in a row.
It's pretty bizarre to release a new iPad supporting only the 1st generation Apple Pencil, no?

With the new iPad Pros, I would have assumed Apple was going all-in with the 2nd gen Pencil. But now both are supported by current iPad products, with the "most recent" iPad only supporting the 1st gen Pencil. So both Pencil models will be in stock, and only one will work with each type of iPad.

Does anyone else find that unusually confusing for Apple's product lineup? I wonder what the technical difference is that prevents using 2nd gen Pencils at the same price point (I assume it is a cost reason). Surely just including the magnetic charging apparatus in the new iPad would have been cheaper than maintaining two SKUs - unless they had a lot of leftover 1st Gen Pencils to sell.
Funny title, especially considering its 9 to 5 Mac’s article.
What killed your motivation to be exact? Most programmers don’t find their work boring... you must’ve hit a really dead end company to feel that way.
Athletics matter, IMO. I care nothing for college football, but I wish I would have taken more athletics credits in school.
What's wrong with your state school?
My frustration with this is that it's completely unintuitive and doesn't read very well. Yes, you'll get used to it once you work with hooks enough, but at first glance, the empty array and the return value from the function passed to `useEffect` don't give me any useful information as to what the code is actually doing. It's an entirely React-specific abstraction that forces you to memorize a bunch of obtuse rules in order to use it effectively, as opposed to building on simpler primitives, which had previously always been the appeal of React.
I would say sure, if it werent for the fact that a lot of major corporations are currently having some of their most profitable years ever. And if you consider companies like Apple that are sitting on literal mountains of cash, this argument breaks down.
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Yep. Just view the reduction in side projects as normal. No matter how much you love art, if you paint at work for eight hours, you're going to be far less likely to want to paint at home. Monotony is defined by lack of variety and repetition.