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Many, if not most, jobs have a peak utilization rate well below 100%. The most obvious example is fire fighting. IIRC, a firefighter should spend less than 10% of their time fighting fires. If they're spending more than that, then they're likely to be busy when you need them.

Sure, they're likely to spend a good chunk of the other 90% working, but it's just busywork. That busywork might be important: they spend a lot of time inspecting and maintaining their fire trucks, for example. But it's not their "real job". Their real job is to be close to the fire truck so that they can respond when an alarm rings.

It's much the same for the rest of us, except that the line is grey, not black and white like it is for firefighters. We have a priority list, and stuff on the bottom of the list will never get done unless it bubbles up in priority for one reason or another. That stuff at the bottom is real work, but since there's always stuff that's more important it's comparable to "washing the fire truck".

And even the stuff at the top of the list is busywork in a way: it's always possible for more important stuff to come in and bump it out of the way. A server can go down, or an important customer can call, or ...
I meant Norway vs Sweden, but your point is well taken. If you want kowtowing even more overt, there is the Pirate Bay raid. That goes beyond the pale.
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somewhat backwards region in the middle of nowhere

I love how in The Netherlands the "middle of nowhere" is a 90 minute drive from the capital :)
I have eaten those style of pizza. They are tasty. Not everything must be Neapolitan to be edible. I think it may depends on local ingredients - since Italy has amazing ones it is just a matter of putting simple toppings with minimal heat processing not to fuck them up and serve.

If there were no good local substitutes you have to pump up the grease and toast the ingredients a bit more to make it flavorful enough.
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How is it conservative to throw away your own traditions and replace them with someone else's? Don't let them steal your country by taking your words.
I knew about the + sign, but not about the period. Thanks for that - will come in handy!
Isn’t it the other way around? The OP is making a causal claim (“depression causes realistic world view”). The parent is merely pointing out the room for selection bias. Burden of proof should be on the OP IMHO.
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That doesn't have anything to do with being optimistic, as far as I can tell. Dismissing others' suffering is caused by a lack of empathy or by selfishness--the two go hand in hand. It can certainly seem to a depressed person that an optimistic one is oblivious to their suffering, but it is not always the case. I think the best you can do with negative people is make it absolutely clear that you acknowledge their pain while getting them to progressively come out of it.
Using CNN to confirm Chomsky is like using RT to confirm Putin.
There are lots of ways to decrease risk in a startup, and if the founder is not seeing this realistically, s/he can get caught up in the details of the startup instead of looking at the fastest way to decrease the risk of failing.
Donation pages, maybe. But there is a lot of categories on the play store where you have to use your own payment method or can if you want to.

Some examples are purchases that can be used outside the app, eg. cross platform purchases and things like transportation and finance.
Their tool Twist is the result of their own problems while developing their app (Todoist) , and they use it internally.
Usual tools made by companies that use it (dogfooding) use to be better.
I know this will be against deeply against HNews but I'm open to discussion.

I don't see anything wrong with this. Charging vs Donations, I don't see what the difference is. It's people paying money for good/services/software. The primary difference is the open ended pricing model.

Google, Apple put up networks and there's value in that network. Whether someone chooses to release their app for free or charge money for it, that app is dictated by the network fees. This network is extremely powerful in terms of its distribution reach. Does it warrant 30%? That's what the market is willing to put up with, but if we're debating 30% - it should be for the whole network not just because someone has an open ended pricing model.

If this app is registered as a non-profit (which it did not look like based on the website?) then I am 100% in the wrong and do believe the app should be able to operate under different pricing schemes.

At a philosophical level - what is the difference between a free-to-use app that has open ended pricing vs a FOSS with donations?

If there is a difference, let's discuss it.
I'm not exactly averse to templates...

https://atilaoncode.blog/2015/02/11/the-craziest-code-i-ever...
>Apps that employ in-store or in-app purchases must comply with the following guidelines

A donation is not a purchase.
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How does this apply to tone of voice?
Only if the app is enrolled to their resigning program, requires either initial agreement or signing key upload.
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> It's the same in other language when you go deep into performance engineering

Take a look at the optimized code for the C version of wc:

https://opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-68/w...

There are a couple special cases for a line count and a total character count, but it's essentially a couple of nested loops.

I agree with you that going deep into performance engineering brings out a lot of esoteric edge cases, but in this case for the C program it wasn't even necessary to go down that path. Basic concepts in C outran or at least matched something heavily optimized in Haskell.

I'm a big fan of higher level languages, and use them almost exclusively myself in my day job, but there's something to be said for basic constructs that just run quickly out of the box. It may be harder to optimize the C ode, but you're also less likely to need to do so.
In some Landmark course, many years ago, our homework included giving $1 to one random person every day, and recording what happened. As I recall, maybe 50% of people wouldn't take it, at least at first.

This was, of course, mainly an exercise in sharing Landmark.
One percent is just a small, round, common number that crops up in human thought frequently. What's the point of targeting 5% of the closest users if you might not even have luck converting the 1% closest users? Would you see this connection if it turns out they actually targeted the closest .96% of users? Do you think the one percenters that Bernie Sanders rallies against have anything in common with your [1]?
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As a pessimistic person that does tend to analyse everything that can go wrong. I have to say it can still turn out worse than what you think.
I have just found the one you use - will do some research! I do a lot of Fusion 360 work and I always feel like a trackball would help.
This is also one of the positive side effect of electricity generation from ocean thermal energy. I've wondered for a long time why we're not investing more in this, as it's one of the few possible large scale generation mechanisms that's actually carbon-negative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversio...
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Wow, this is a really bad article. So much fakeness...

> That’s because education in the United States is supposed to be meritocratic.

Then why are like 30% of students at elite colleges admitted as "athletes"? I mean, sure, "best at sports" is "meritocratic" but on a dimension fairly orthogonal to educational success (just like "best at using parent's wealth and connections").

> In 1965, the student population in American colleges and universities was ninety-four per cent white and sixty-one per cent male. By one measure, this problem appears to have been solved, despite tireless resistance to the methods that colleges have used to get there. Today, fifty-six per cent of students are classified as non-Hispanic whites and forty-two per cent of students are male.

So college being 61% male was a problem, and being 58% female is "solved"?
Curious what makes this design amazing compared to the alternative offerings shown in your link, which look quite similar and are much cheaper.
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The issue I often have with discussions of remote work vs. on-site, is how much confirmation bias tends to be incorporated into the conclusions made.

After about 16 years of on-site work (at various jobs), I did almost 5 years of remote work (for a single company), having just recently returned to an in-office role (despite focusing on landing another remote position, the best opportunity wasn’t.)

And, frankly, I find neither inherently, categorically superior. It has far more to do with a number of unique variables, among them: culture, software tools, and the people themselves.

So while I do largely agree with the core argument of the linked post (roughly summarized: asynchronous communication helps facilitate productivity for knowledge workers), I also feel too much emphasis is placed on working remotely as inherent in part of the solution.

How about we just teach and incentivize people to, for example, not interrupt others unnecessarily, how to recognize when someone may be deeply focused on a task, how to indicate such an effort is currently underway, plus to recognize when it may be appropriate, necessary, and healthy to stop the “deep work“ and address communal, biological, and psychological needs? All regardless of the exact mode of the work.
You are not a kook.

Back during the invasion of Afghanistan, there was a photo of a soldier holding up a poster. The poster read, "We are at war. America is at the mall."

Murdering browns and yellows abroad while being laser-focused on status and self-stimulation at home has been the American Way for the entire post-war period.

Today's google news recommendations:

- delete these android adware apps hiding on your phone
- a british family on vacation accidentally drove into the US
- cardi b stuns in louis vuitton bikini picture
- salma hayek, 53, shares revealing acupuncture photo
- 'wheel of fortune' contestant's crack about 'loveless marriage'
I thought that was opt-in still (https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...) unless you use app bundles, but that article makes it sound like you can bring your own key too. Do they still modify the signature in that case?
If you like this you might also like http://terralang.org
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It should always be "I get paid for giving my employee 40h/ week of availability for work". that doesn't necessarily mean code. there's design, meetings, bugs to find, etc.

ofc, short breaks should be in those paid times. And the hour/week is not the same in every country.

But 40/week doesn't have to be every week, just average (as some times there is less work to do, and other times stuff is on fire and must be fixed)

also, that rate has nothing to do with being remote or on-site.
> So I could 'legitimately' order char sui tsa sui?

Not really, for a couple of reasons.

The "r" in "char" is a rising tone, which is distinct and different from the "tsa" in "tsa sui" (Mandarin) or "tsap" in "tsap seui" (Cantonese).

> How am I pronouncing the 'tsa'?

The "tsa" and "tsap" are (and I can't confirm this 100% since I only speak rudimentary Mandarin) most likely sharp falling tones, like when you say "Shit!" If you say "cha" with that tone, odds are that it'll sound like "chop" with the p not being very strong. The closest approximation is probably saying something like "it's a" but without the "i" and in the tone/falling pitch of a curse, like "Fuck!"

They're very distinctly different in most Chinese dialects, and Cantonese and Mandarin are distinctly different dialects themselves.

The other reason you couldn't say "char sui tsa sui" is that "char sui" (correctly, "char siu") is from Cantonese, but "tsa sui" is from Mandarin, so you can't really use them together.

Another issue is that foods don't always work like that -- imagine trying to go to the pub and ask for "salmon and chips" someone unfamiliar with pub culture and English might imagine that it's just fish and chips with salmon being the type of fried fish specified (not knowing that you can't specify the fish), or someone else might expect grilled salmon with chips on the side, but odds are you might not get anything at all because it's not something anyone usually serves. :)
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It’s not Apple’s job to parent my kids, but it is Apple’s job to provide access control features (screen time) to admins (parents) that work and can’t be circumvented.

Imagine how silly I would sound if I said “It’s not Apple’s job to sysadmin your users” in response to priceless not working properly on user accounts.

So while parenting support, or whatever, isn’t that important to me, functioning audit and access controls really is.
Rust is generally fast-by-default. My favourite example is the collections API, where you can do mapping/reducing/filtering operations only by inlining multiple operations and going through the collection only once.

With Haskell these things are possible, but not efficient by default (the default Haskell library uses liked lists instead of vectors for example).
I found a wallet in a train earlier this year. I dropped it into the office at the station.
I had to make an account just to point out that your analogy doesn't make any sense :D
RT (like CNN) is a network (mostly) aligned with the interests of the power structure of its respective country.
Chomsky is a dissident and critic of the power structure of his country, therefore broadly in disagreement with the CNN world view.
The line between that decision being made freely vs. being forced by labor market competition or other economic reasons is pretty fuzzy.
This is why this is done to our societies.
One aspect is failing to break out huge problems into manageable pieces.

This is the main problem I have had with depression. Beeing overwhelmed by the smallest problem because the consecquences of all actions that has to be taken to solve it.
It is useless to discuss market or even fairness as long Google and Apple are (de-facto) monopolies for the respective phone owner.

It's a major failure of governments to allow monopolies.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B079FBN9VQ

Edit: And here it is for 800 yen cheaper, but no free shipping through prime so you pay 700 yen for shipping: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0735584RM
There is no need for a philosophical debate, because Google Play In-app Billing simply doesn't support donations.

https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/
That, and since politics became social media's plague I don't feel like things improved at all. Now everyone is living in their small make belief bubble at either end of the political spectrum, completely isolated from any kind of meaningful discussions, it breeds mob mentality, hate and conflicts.

I don't need to see Trump's idiotic personal attacks on other world leaders or AOC twitting insipid things like "Tax the rich." to farm virtual internet points, all of it is 100% meaningless and has 0 political interest.

It's world politics, not a reddit thread were everyone talks about his favorite marvel superhero for fuck's sake. Just have a look at any of Trump's twit comments, it looks like a parody. We're not that far from "Rich men bad", "Criminal bad", "Tax bad", "Wall good", "Terrorist bad", "Health good": it's level 0 of politics and not too far from level 0 of communication.
> At home this obviously never happens for me.

Interesting, you never get phone calls, texts, Amazon deliveries etc.?
my office is hell to work in. everyone simply shows up next to your screen and starts talking.
that is why async comms from remote locations has been a blessing for me. i can simply queue the non important messages for later.
once they've realised that i won't answer for a couple of hours they started being a lot more aware of what messages they're sending. thus comms improved greatly once everyone started working from home. the occasion call takes care of any face2face situations.
overall major win
Maybe people could vote for politicians that prioritize education over defense?
Restrict retweeting? Ban the damn account instead.

Normal users gets banned, and one would expect world leaders to usually behave better than the average user and actually read the terms of service.

If Twitters simple terms of service is to complicated for world leaders then they should probably stay away...
Users will retweet and like screen-grabs instead. I don't think it will solve the issue. It's a step in the right direction though.
I'm generally a fan of direct communication but also find NVC interesting, and have thought about this a bit. Although I have nothing to do with the military now I trained to fly with the RAF volunteer reserve and I remember my instructor punching me once (not particularly hard, but the sort of thing that could easily get you fired in most jobs) when I messed up a turn. My folks knew a few high ranking army types some of whom had quite a bit of trouble integrating with civvy life when they left.

It strikes me that the military way of doing things, while appropriate in battle, might have downsides for those who end up flying desks. In particular if people are so accustomed to taking orders, how do you know whether or not you have an optimal balance of command versus information flowing upwards and initiative from subordinates? And does the authoritarian system produce good enough people in the highest ranks, or might top brass skills be better if they weren't so shaped by it themselves?

I guess you don't have to deal with longer term burnout issues as most people leave by the time they're 40.
That’s when I understood that this idea of justice for all under one rule of law was bunk. It is justice against those who don’t have by those that do have. Interestingly I’m not sure if that drives me further right or left. Neither I guess.
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> For one it's not clear how many genders exist.

It is clear to many of us that there are two genders. Particularly to those of us that have studied biology.
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And just like that, a micro-optimisation has introduced a bug.

If the last number generated is even, it will still appear in the result set in the new code, and not in the old code.
The same for the classic Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical. Best mouse ever but they just don't make it anymore. They did resurrect the IntelliMouse briefly recently due to demand, but it has stupid extra side buttons and isn't symmetric. :/
>Why are taxis given special treatment in cities?

Because they are point to point transportation for the elderly and disabled.
>Charging vs Donations, I don't see what the difference is.

Charging: Person paying gets something in return
Donating: Person paying does not get something in return

>The primary difference is the open ended pricing model.

What does "an open ended pricing model" mean?
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Please make wireguard available in App Store China region.
A lot of people justify Google and Apple's 30% because they provide an app store and distribution.

But Android is Android because of these apps. Without them it would be like the Windows phone which was nice but didn't get enough apps on it and so it failed.

These companies depend on our apps as much as we depend on their app store for distribution.

Fuck apple for starting this walled garden and creating a parasitic relationship rather than a symbiotic relationship.
Nice.

I was going to say that it is unreadable, after spending a bit trying to understand it, (for someone that knows no ocaml) it actually is not. Only things I'm unsure are the ~ symbol and <-. What do they do?

edit: <- is just mutating assignment. I thought that ~ introduced named arguments but doesn't seem right.
Donated via PayPal. Thanks for your work, would be great to see it in the kernel soon.
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I agree with you, though nyc pizza is actually really good (thin crust which tastes good and good ingredients)!! Im no italian, but as a frenchy that loved to tell americans how bad their pizzas are, i must tell that shut me up.

Chicago pizza and its dip dish really on the other hand, was one of the biggest deception of my life ^^

But i’ll definitely agree - i find your typical usa pizza (HUGE crust, terrible ingredients) impossible to enjoy ;p
Nobel isn’t noble in spirit. He created the Nobel prize because his eulogy was accidentally published before his death, where he was declared the father of death (he invented dynamite), or something like that. He pulled a Bill Gates and started doing philanthropy to clear his name. His real eulogy was far better. I don’t care for a second what that man thought was a good idea.
While it doesn’t touch on donations, for the “value prop” angle I strongly suggest developers read and internalize Apple’s point of view as expressed in “iOS App Store Principles and Practices”:

https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/

Also on the value prop front, worth noting a variety of digital app stores at scale have found operation costs 12% to 18% fees before the hands on “40% rejection” level of oversight that Apple is providing to end users.
We had to go to see many classic drawings and renaissance etc. It was mostly boring to me whole time. It does not have that awesome feel when you are a kid who is not artist and seen a lot of the same already.
Meanwhile I pay 20 euro for 1Gbps in Poland and I work remotely for company in New York.
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FTP was fine. Plus it was easily mirrorable.
The code assumes that, once the loop finishes, out[0] through out[index-1] contains the desired output. out[index] is not a part of that output.
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> 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens."

I have solve that long ago. Something bad will happen. If I can prevent it, I will and only live it once. If I can't prevent it, why should I be worried ? I make preparation for after it happen.
Does Cydia etc no longer exist?
Exactly; take every thing good or bad as a life challenge or experience to be fully engaged with and do not give up! Learnt the not giving up as a teen while race sailing; not giving up ever, resulted in a stack of trophies - but also a few submerged boats - in retrospect the submerged boats were more interesting. Winding years forward and experiencing many "challenges" I now have cancer that I am told cannot be cured - but its just another life challenge that I am experiencing and is quite interesting - like boats sinking, and I carry on doing what I like to do...
Is it this one, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

You're shadow-banned btw (which I normally wouldn't tell) but your comments look OK, so maybe this has happened by accident? You could try to challenge that (maybe via the email support?).