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> If we want to colonize anything outside our orbit, we should start with solving our basic earthly problems.

That doesn’t necessarily follow. In fact one could imagine that earthly problems will provide the stressors to spur us into action.
How is "team fit" different from "culture fit" which basically means acts/talks/works "like me" and without explicitness can produce a discriminatory monoculture?
> getting a direct booking is a hassle for them.

You'd think they'd be a bit more willing to take peoples' money
Let's say you spotted an early stage start up... If it was not IPO, you wouldn't be able to invest in it easily.

You would still have to reach out to the founders and offer something. Is this what you are trying to do? In this case, how would you approach it?

PS: I also read highscalability.com - the dude usually talks about cool new products and stuff they are making. It's usually heavy tech related but always interesting reads.
4:1 is about the ratio of male to female developers anyway so they shouldn’t be doing too bad.
Blue Light FUD is an industry now. Although blue light exposure at night is detrimental due to melatonin blocking, during the day, it's important - both blue spectrum light and brightness. The fact that we spend most of the time indoors during the day is one of the reason of the wide incidence of myopia (shortsightness).

I warned LensCrafters that they may expect class action lawsuits as they call blue light "harmful" and offer coating, which reduces blue light both during the day and at night, which could be a trick to make people shortsighted to sell them prescription eyeglasses later.
The next generation are being raised on iPads, computer literacy is plummeting because they're only exposed to appliances, not real computers. It's sad, but it's good for our job security!
No, not now.

In the future, yes.
Almost everyone takes more than a week to ramp up to a large codebase. There isn't much differentiation after the first week. It's more like, we know if someone was a quality hire after the first or second quarter (3-6 months) of their employment.
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I still dont know what they do.
Sounds like a CPU...
Paywalled. Article text also here:

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Some developers got burned by Microsoft. Example: the ones who invested in Silverlight.
How do u become an early adopter?
Aside from this comment[1], DRM prevents casual piracy. There was a point where a lot of my music was cassette tapes with the album written on it with a sharpie. DRM definitely prevents this.

HDCP up to 2.2 is completely broken, so even perfect software DRM has a huge gaping hardware hole, but most people don't have the tools needed to circumvent this.

One person breaking the DRM can make a torrent for all torrenters, but if say 1/4 the population can break the DRM, then people will copy things for friends.

The closest current day equivalent is probably many people sharing a Netflix password.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307648
I had the opposite experience. I don't have Asperger's or ADD, but I'm shy and struggle with eye contact and small talk. I interviewed at about ten startups, and despite doing well on the technical questions, I got rejected every time. I began to suspect it was because of "culture fit" -- will this 35 year old introvert fit in at our frat house/office?

I was getting pretty depressed after all that rejection, but I got a random call from a recruiter at a big-N company, and figured why not give it a shot. The interview ended up being more professional, and at the same time the interviewers seemed friendlier and less antagonistic. And I ended up getting an offer.

In any case, I'm mentioning this because I went in expecting what you described -- that startups would be easier for me, as a socially-awkward person -- but that's not always the case.
Yes.
That would be what I meant.

I'm hazy on the details thanks for the extra information
From WP I get the impression that the work-in-progress now called HTTP/3 was not necessarily designed supposed to supplant HTTP/2:

> On 28 October 2018 in a mailing list discussion, Mark Nottingham, Chair of the IETF HTTP and QUIC Working Groups, made the official request to rename HTTP-over-QUIC as HTTP/3 to "clearly identify it as another binding of HTTP semantics to the wire protocol ... so people understand its separation from QUIC"

Any opinions on how things are likely to play out?
The bigger issue is you restrict your hiring pool to the set of people who aren't currently employed somewhere that won't allow that kind of moonlighting, etc.

It works, until your company gets big enough, and then it doesn't work anymore.

One of the main reasons that interviews stick around is because they allow for a much larger applicant pool.
A lot of hotels will also spread their stock over a lot of sites to limit overbooking and micro management. They'll put 5 rooms on booking.com, 5 on expedia, and 5 spread around a dozen other places. There's no confirmation step like with deliveroo because the industry evolved with much less real time communication. So as far as booking.com knows there is only a few left. At least that was the case >10 years ago when I worked on automating this stuff.
> Regarding Isaac Arthur (I'd link the video, but there's so many), he definitely doesn't make that kind of rookie mistake, so I assume it's more of a tongue-in-cheek remark, to address popular concerns and show solutions — drive the point that a space-faring civilization is equipped to deal with such 'problems'.

I guess I should say that there is one other advantage of an asteroid that's already on a collision course - if you can aerocapture instead of doing that propulsively, you only really have to pay the delta v to get to the asteroid in the first place. The problem is that the asteroid might have structural issues that intense acceleration exposes, and that people might be a tad leery of having a large asteroid on a course where if you miss by 100km you kill a billion.

> Just curious, at the current pace (considering 1950-today) and barring any major stall/setback/boost (no WW3 etc), what would be your personal estimate for the first profitable mining operations? 10, 30, 100 years?

I'll say "10 years after we get cheap ($500/kg class) launches" - which might be within the decade, or might be never. I think asteroid mining might still be profitable at far higher launch costs, but the risk and the startup costs would be far higher to the point that it probably won't happen.
Dialazer is pretty bad and not even close to a static language.
In my view, companies are inherently discriminatory (they choose who to hire, that's who makes up the company) regardless of any policy that is implemented. A monoculture is often the goal! Whether that's good or not depends very heavily on what that culture ends up being in practice, of course.
Who decides who runs the milk production department?

In a market economy, everyone is free to compete, and everyone votes with his/her hard-earned dollars each time they purchase some milk.

With the government system, would you have people vote for the best milk producer? Is the general populace qualified or able to assess skill in milk production? If you instead decide to appoint this milk producer, how do you prevent corruption?
I thought that myopia was more of a genetic inherited trait than related to time spent indoors.
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In any negotiation, nobody should take (at face value) the reported interest of the other party. A real estate agent could say a dozen people dropped by the home earlier today. You'd be foolish to believe it. You'd be foolish to believe Booking.com saying there's 1 room left, or the number of people currently looking at a webpage.
I am absolutely in love with this response. Thank you for taking time to produce this. This could be a blog post.

Your post has me looking back at the opt-in samples of my experience and realizing that when they were opt-in, I never considered them to be "pair programming". It's always just been "healthy onboarding" or "healthy collaboration". My current org's obsession with enforcing PP for its own sake as a measured performance metric has conditioned me to squirm when I hear the term, but that's just a branding/emotional response problem. Thank you for the beautifully articulated check.
There are more reasons than that to perform good, I guess that's what the classic "where do you see yourself in 5 years" is trying to judge. But in general this is a problem, yes.

More importantly, the fact that FizzBuzz is used to the point of being a cliche is already admitting that given just a CV and a verbal interview we are unable to reliable judge if a person can even program at all.
Uber back end is mostly Go.
FUZIX is a tiny UNIX that runs on a Z80 using memory banking rather than an MMU.

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
Practicing with no repercussions(100) is the best way to level up. If you’ve written down 100 ideas that add value to someone else you’ll start getting better at finding ways to add value. I’m sure practicing chess moves intentionally with no repercussions makes you a great chess player pretty quickly.
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> animal-brain genetic instincts

You're discounting intuition with this dismissive label. Trusting the instincts of your team to make decisions on who they can work with is critical to maintaining cohesion on that team and keeping people happy, which is a critical competitive advantage (especially during any kind of downturn). We're not talking about "low mediocre", "animal-brain" people, we're talking about professionals who may have hired / worked with hundreds of different people.

But then, you're just using ad hominems, and not actually providing any kind of evidence, or really an argument of any kind other than "you're obnoxiously ignorant", which ironically enough is _your_ intuition about _me_. Delightful! Thanks for this crass exchange.
In my experience interviews are less effective with students because they rarely have relevant experience to talk about. At the mid level and above tests and technical questions become less useful, but they can talk about meaningful past projects. I don’t know of anything else that’s predictive without weeding great people out.

PS: It’s odd, but I suspect a random process may actually work better because the great people actively looking for jobs are likely to be bad at getting them.
> I'm not sure what good these kinds of bets are.

I'm just putting some numbers on my confidence level.

> All code could be made leaner and smaller. What's your point?

That Instagram's code could be made much leaner and smaller. I feel like I've been very clear about that.
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Thanks but Pop_OS also doesn't help here.
They did something different for the T490. My colleague has a T480 and that works fine. T490 also doesn't have a BIOS/UEFI option to disable the NVidia (again there's forum threads requesting that as well on the Lenovo forums).

The problem is that the NVidia card never enters its high power saving states even when it's disabled.

I lose about 20% battery on standby overnight.
Hey, if you want to make it a racial thing, that's your problem. I find people "go to the well" for this sort of argument when they can't actually argue with the real premise.
MeshCentral is open source, runs on Linux and works with Windows, Mac and Linux clients for one-off support and unattended remote control...
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I've seen some articles[0] and firms[1] in the last years of not only valuing diversity in profiles of people but actually valuing aspies higher than neurotypical types.

I think aspergers can definitely be a super power, but I thought it strange to actually say it is a net advantage since how can it be expected across the board?

0. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160106-model-employee...

1. https://auticon.com
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The problem is that on the T490 you can't turn it off. It never enters power saving states on Linux and there's no UEFI option to disable it.

There's plenty of threads on the Lenovo forums about this.
I would imagine that, very quickly the drivers inputs would necessarily be more and more ignored, taken as an unimportant hint about what to do, just to keep the audience interested and emotionally invested in the silly concept of a “driver”.
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I said nothing of the kind.

I wish people hated me for what I actually say, not what they imagine my attitude is :)
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My only gripe with DNS over HTTPS is that it seems to somehow be coupled with making it harder for me to actually force everything to use a particular DNS at the OS level, so apps can do things like circumvent your pihole regardless of how you configure your device's DNS settings.
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> I can’t even begin to think of a development app that would be written in sdl2, a bloody games API

A lot of games do, some even have their built-in editor and it's not about sdl2, it's anything custom widget toolkit. So your thing is a nice convention which often works but not always.

> laughable cry from elementary OS, because outside of a small limited set of apps specifically targeted at such a niche distro

Small limited set? a lot of programs are already written with gtk, distro merely enforce this convention in their app store like apple does.

I am not going to bother commenting on obvious things about how consistent OS X is.
Yeah, but the wife already asked the husband for help, and he refused.
FindHotel.com's prices are frequently understated when searching with Google Hotels. You click the link, and the price magically goes up $40, and that number still doesn't include taxes and resort fees.
You can create multiple backup paper copies, and also 2-of-3 or 2-of-4 multisig helps you in the second case. You can also have multisig between different devices.
Customers paying me and/or easier way to make money.

Example from 25 years ago: HTML and CGI were a much easier way to build and distribute reasonable applications than the current desktop technologies. There were a lot of customers too.

Example from 10 years ago: mobile apps are as difficult to create as desktop apps. I gave them a try and I stuck to web development. There are enough customers even nowadays.

Example from 3 years ago: a new customer wanted to make me work with Python and Django. They are worse than Ruby and RoR (which I worked with since 2006) but OKish. I accepted to collaborate with them.

At the same time another new customer was looking for Elixir developers. I looked into the language a couple of years before, better than Python for web development, I started to work with them too, with more enthusiasm except for the React frontend. The complexity is insane, worse than the desktop apps of the 90s.

I also did some Rails web development in the last years, that was easier money than both Python and Elixir. I go Ruby for my pet projects: it's easier and quicker to code. My time matters.
It's worth pointing out that we're talking about Disney here, who owns likely all of the copyright of their content in full without any legal encumbrances. They're the ones who are insisting on distributing content only with hefty copyright protection guarantees, and they could snap their fingers and cancel that insistence at their sole choosing, unlike (say) Netflix.
> C++ is a hydra of complexity, sure it has it's place, but it's not nearly as productive as Java for your typical web application.

Modern C++ well is as productive ( probably even more productive ) as Java. The main issue with C++ is recruitment, C++ engineers are rare because C++ is barely teached.
Find it quite ironic that an article discussing freedom of the press restricts users from accessing the content while in private mode. Freedom of privacy perhaps?

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The problem with octopi is that they're solitary, by nature and instinct.

The smartest human in history, with all the encouragement in the world, couldn't invent agriculture or ironworking from scratch if they were born a hunter-gatherer. Innovation means building on the work of hundreds of generations of the best and brightest. That can't happen if you don't regularly interact with other people. Every genius octopus is starting from a blank slate.
Thanks for your input. To answer your questions at the end - Yes, we learned it primarily for the test, but also this was more than 20 years ago, and back then, the ATIS (Terminal Information System) broadcast that gave you your weather and QNH etc. would prefix every repeated recorded broadcast with the 4 letter ICAO airport code.

My local airport here is YPDN (Darwin, Australia), but in larger cities with several airports, we had to verify via morse to the instructor during a flight test that we had dialled in the correct ATIS frequency by cross checking the morse ICAO code.

Also, we had to do the same verification when dialling in to an NDB (Non Directional Beacon) which is about the most basic navaid available on a plane. Because the ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) on board used to dial into an NDB was in the HF radio band and thus subject to reflections off the troposphere inadvertently picking up another NDB over the horizon, we also had to listen to the repeated morse identifier of that beacon to ensure we had dialled in and were tracking the correct one.

As said, only on flight tests mainly. We soon got used to the patterns of the beacons and transmissions that we used regularly and would just listen for the pattern rather than try and decipher each letter/number.

EDIT: Here is a video I found recently which talks about using the binary tree method of memorising morse code, as well as another method - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8tPkb98Fkk
I've even seen some that asked if you were ever arrested and the reason, whether or not you were even charged with any crime. It's nuts.
yes, essentially that is the same as my changeprop function so I do understand that - however what the parent comment was arguing about was the actual terminology and wondering why no one ever uses it correctly.

As I noted in another comment I don't think people use the terminology correctly because explaining to people the difference makes explaining an already complicated thing more complicated, and also it makes communication less elegant if more precise. I certainly never say Objects are passed by value of a reference, I just say they are passed by reference and if someone wants to take the time to correct me I would probably say "yes, sorry I was imprecise"
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>Or you could press a button on your way out of the house, and not have to have an array of finicky sensors and interacting components make these decisions for you.

To clarify: I wouldn't be using the security sensors (PIR or whatnot) to control HVAC - I'd like to have the security system send a simple "system armed" message to the smarthome controller.

>Seriously, how big is your house that this isn't just a two-minute thing you do to go and close the blinds? Alternately, how lazy do you have to be for this to be something you'd invest thousands of dollars into?

Two minutes a day over the course of a year is ~12 hours of your life wasted. Not big, but annoying enough that I'd like to automate it.

>Or you could just turn on a light when you need it. Is the wall such a long walk away? Seriously. You'd invest hundreds into each lightswitch so you can control it from your phone, only for it to not work the moment you want to show it off to someone

Again, none of this is neccesary. It's purely a convenience thing. It would be nice to e.g. turn off my room light from bed without getting up to do so. That said, while it's certainly not cheap home automation with Z-wave or isteon is getting more affordable as time goes by, and you don't have to upgrade your entire house in one pass.

>Imagine missing the point of gardening to the extent that you automate the whole thing instead of actually taking the time to do it, and reaping the psychological benefits of doing so.

I'm not talking about fully automating the weeding etc., but being able to go away for a couple of weeks and know that the garden is watering itself is good for peace of mind. I don't garden for relaxation, I'm more concerned about making sure my lawn and trees don't die.

My current lawn watering setup involves a bunch of manual intervention to move drip hoses around and such, and in the Australian summer you often have to water the garden every day or two to prevent damage. Plus there are some awkward spots where I have to bucket water and have been meaning to put in a proper irrigation system.

>It honestly doesn't sound like your life started "harder" if this is the kind of thing you think makes it easier.

This is fair and I freely admit this is all about convenience, not neccesity.
> The only viable option being: HTTPS.

But why not DoT on port 443?

The story about office workers, sysadmins, and service providers trying to make life harder for each other and complicating things for everyone seems unfortunate, but makes sense, yet I don't quite see why HTTP has to be involved.
Literally any of the recent(past 10 years) VC fueled startups whose main innovation was breaking the law too fast for the government to stop? You think Uber, Lyft, Zenefits, all the scooter companies who use public property to store their fleet, etc aren't being run by criminals?

Edit: and that's before we get into the more etablished companies commiting crimes like Enron's accounting fraud, Boeing's attempts to circumvent safety regulations, HSBC modifying their teller windows to the size of the money drops from cartels so they could speed up the money laundering
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It'd be difficult to infer that Math.random was used, purely by the element inspector. You'd actually have to sift through JavaScript code, which may or may not be minified (likely so, though).
buckets (a.k.a. fare classes) can change in price. Also, some airlines will not sell certain fare classes on certain days or release all of the fare class seats at once.

The airline definitely isn’t lying when they say there are a certain amount left at that price. I’ve seen the price change at those exact amounts when booking tickets for groups of people individually.
You would think Disney would want to support chromeOS because of its widespread use in schools
Few have real values. They wrote this article because it will get clicks.
https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcentral2

Seems to do this (currently in beta)
He is selling Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin. I sure hope he can start turning a profit on his space company and gets his O'Neill cylinders before he runs out of cash.
who would have thought Instagram is a python monolith. ?
I think reddit is very obvious about it. They only care enough about their mobile website to add huge, impossible to miss „download our app“ callouts and ignore the rest.
You’d be surprised how often people will jump for an extra $200/week. Especially if you’re going from one week in four (TOIL for incident time) to one week in six or seven (TOIL for incident time + $200 regardless) on the promise that things will get better. You can always un-volenteer if after a few rounds it’s clear things aren’t getting better, but the initial position is already better than the starting point.
You don't need a torrent client to watch movies on piratebay.