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> Just spitballing, but it'd be nice if Wikipedia worked a little more like Linux distro repositories. Keep the tightly curated articles in a "core", but leave room for "community" or "nonfree" collections if you want to turn them on.

I think that's a fantastic idea, especially if it would lead to a drastic reduction in the number of articles served from the main Wikipedia domain (to a number that can meet some reasonable quality and maintenance standard, maybe 10 times the size of the most comprehensive print encyclopedia, or a 1/6 of Wikipedia's current size) [1].

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/101795/encyclopedia-britanni...: "The 2002 Britannica contained 65,000 articles and 44 million words. Wikipedia currently contains close to four million articles and over two billion words..."
All about the New ML Super Resolution Feature in Pixelmator Pro
And they just moved off of Oracle to Redshift after years of effort...
How to Setup Remote Development with VS Code in your Browser
I found the rain a very generic postapocalyptical series. Come to think of it, can't really think of a good postapocalyptical series...
Great Article! There is far to few of these in the world. So many companies go under but keep their website and linked-in in a state that looks like they still exist.
Then don't have the interviewer read the resume, but have another person reading the resume give them the basic information about the expected skills.
Probably pedestrian fortifications like the bulb-out?
Sun Microsystems had a saying: "All the wood behind one arrow".

You can say no just because you oppose everything. That's oppositional. Or you can say no to almost everything, because you think that all the focus should be on one thing, and you're trying to keep people from chasing after a bunch of distractions. That's not being oppositional, that's keeping focus.
Assume a spherical university.
Chiming in to agree with you - where I work there are different coding competencies that are assigned per interviewer (e.g. good understanding of data structures and algorithms, good problem solving when dealing with ambiguity, knows how to write code that's readable/maintainable/extensible for future use cases without overengineering, etc).

I explicitly tell the candidate what I'm looking for at the very start of the technical portion of the interview. I'll say something like "this is a difficult problem and you might not finish, but that's intended since I want to see your problem solving skills", or "this problem is meant to be a little simpler so don't overthink it, I'm focusing on how you structure your code to be readable and easily modifiable if we want to change behavior or add a feature". I suspect that knowing exactly what I'm evaluating, instead of thinking they need to excel at everything, takes a bit of pressure off and allows the candidate to perform better.
Yes, this is the exact meaning of “independent from” here.
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Me too? I also hope that I never encounter slavery in real life?

It does happen, and if I did meet someone that was forced into slavery, I would hope that I could find help?

If anything I was defending public school? What the hell are you talking about?
So, you're saying that US governments in fact do fund the American movie industry?
Only for a pleasant instant
I think this heavily depends on your model. What if you're sticking a hundred darts in the dartboard to see what gets traction? $10K a month is going to hurt.
I use a razer orbweaver as a macro keyboard, and even though its still for sale it doesn't work with the current version of Synapse. So if you have an orbweaver and another peripheral, you need to run both synapse 2 and 3.

Instead I just stopped buying razer products.
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Rick Wilson's writing has been a small point of light in otherwise very dark times.
Heh. I've seen that tried once, as an employee. Not sure what the motivation was, may have been investment-related.

Pretty sure not a single person signed. No harm came to us. Solidarity'll do that.
Russia joins race to make quantum dreams a reality
>"Interesting. I wonder if that's why it was never purged when they did everything else."

A combination of the endowment effect and inertia/status quo bias. When a Big Medicine lobbyist shows long government wait lines, that can be as effective, and as insidiously misleading, as a picture of immigrants waiting to gain admission to the country.
I’d guess that’s for a fairly slow machine, or else the prices would be pretty high?

What sort of spec machine (or kubernetes pod) are you providing for that?
There are many things more important than money, so either money doesn't break the system, or if it does, it's at least countable and potentially to be held accountable. It just makes sense to make that explicit.
from the time it was given to you, yes
The argument needs to be made about the secrecy level. It’s really odd if the Supreme Court can’t rule on constitutional issues because “it’s secret”. Then there is no point in a constitution (which was my point)
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The reason startups die is that they run out of money. Ramen profitable is a thing, and ramen costs less than the kind of outlays you're describing.

If you've hit a seam such that each feature you develop nets you more revenue, you'd be a complete idiot to optimize for costs. But a company in search of a business model hasn't gotten that far yet.
The D language has its own forum powered by DFeed, a forum engine built with D (https://forum.dlang.org/). You can also access it as an NNTP or mailing list. Have never seen a discussion software this snappy.
They had to eat something.
It is not always because farmers couldn't produce their own seed, but it is also because growing for viable seeds has a bit different finishing procedure as growing food stuff. You might end up with a loss of seed viability because your primary effort is based on selling food for the highest profit and not storing viable seed in the most pristine way. So naturally a local farm community can evolve into a large number of food producers who don't store their own seeds, and a smaller variety of seed farmers to supply the other farmers with crop seed every year.
At least in Calgary, Uber was 2-3x the price of Car2Go. You could get halfway across town in 15 minutes, and pay ~$7 for the trip if you got one of the smart cars. It was great. Last time I checked Uber, it was $18 for the same trip.
I'm from California, but I think I might be French. Would explain why I always felt so alienated all the time...
But then what do you need the key for? In theory somebody else could try to pair with it while you have it in pairing mode, but they would have to be on your property for that and could potentially see the key anyway. So you go slap them with a trout or call the police or something, and then go back to setting up your future garbage.
I don't have the answer to your question, but I don't see the connection between mindfulness and Zen to be as direct as you're suggesting. I've been highly influenced by a lot of the mindfulness writing out there, but Zen actively turned me off for a long time, because it's a lot of "deep" paradoxical puzzle/koan things, anecdotes that make no sense, emphasis on "enlightment" etc. Contrast that with a lot of modern day mindfulness stuff which is highly, highly influenced by Buddhism but basically extracts the most practical stuff, meditation practice, awareness of thoughts/feelings, recognition of egotistical cravings, acceptance of impermanence, etc.
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This was wax/shatter inside a vape pen. I'm sure it was the correct use. Whether or not that is actual wax, it definitely left some kind of residue that I could detect just by breathing.
Or you could use voice authentication... or require that known phones are within range, or best yet don't link your smart speaker to your door lock (when do the pros outweigh the cons here?)
In Germany, everyone is allowed to watch when votes are counted in their local election office. Is there a similar way to follow the counting in the US?
The cases that make it to court are often the ones where the employee was in the wrong, but cases that make it to court aren't the only thing to judge these policies by. If the policies cause a chilling effect where people who join give up on contributing to outside projects (as the OP twitter thread and multiple others from the author talk about), then it's valid to criticize the policy for that. The cases that make it to court are more likely to have the employee be in the wrong because they're selected from the subgroup of cases where the employee went against the policy instead of quitting outside contributions.
This may fly in France but in the USA it's a great way to be the dick on the software team or, if you are an independent consultant, someone clients won't want to do business with.

Your job is to PLEASE YOUR CUSTOMER. See that person who is paying you/us money? While you're on the clock, bringing a smile to their face is your reason for being. You either commit to that, by whatever means you have at your disposal... or someone else gets the job. Period.
If I recall correctly, Reddit benefited significantly from some minor mishap that caused people to leave Slashdot back in 2006. I recall checking out Digg and Reddit and deciding that Reddit was superior.

Welcoming new members from other sites is always a good move.
What it has made me actually very grateful for is the sudden revelation - to me - that Dropbox, Google Drive and others are secretly reading files that I never explicitly asked - or wanted - them to read. macOS now asks and allows me to block by default.

No, Google, I DIDN'T intend for you to snoop in my Mac ~/Downloads folder - that area is PRIVATE. So in a way it's good for user Privacy, Apple Inc.-aside.
I had never considered those metrics as a possible source of data. I'll have to think about it. Thank you.
We don't need to engage in inter-generational griefing

Why not? A huge amount of post WW1 was about precisely that: generals trained for war on horseback, leading men into mechanised warfare. The 'never again' peace movement was a reaction. (wrong headed maybe, but this is how I believe it happened: it was inter-generational griefing.)

The EU exists because a generation of new voters emerged from the ashes of WW2 and said 'we're not going back there' -The election of the Atlee Labour government was the generation who fought WW2 saying "no" to churchill, from the generation who fought WW1 and the Boer war.

Inter-generational griefing is routine, normal and I would suggest neccessary. The succeeding generations have to seize control of the agenda, and stop the prior generations over-reaching their stated goals.
I love strongtowns. Such an interesting blog rich with data and thought-provoking ideas.

He brings up a few ways to measure "Infrastructure Obesity," but really it boils down to over-investment but under-utilization, aka malinvestment.

Some might argue that "well eventually this infrastructure would be used" but he makes a good point that bloated infrastructure "impede(s) social connections" so people will move away or not move into these areas, and entrepreneurs take notice when foot traffic declines. Then these entrepreneurs decide not to expand to areas with increasing infrastructure obesity. Like a positive feedback loop.

The wannabe social psychologist/economist in me would've loved if he included some stuff related to game theory/tragedy of the commons, e.g. Braess' Paradox. It's probably not as impactful in cities where populations are declining, but Braess' paradox posits that adding capacity to a system (like an extra road) actually impedes (traffic) flow, rather than facilitating it.

In theory, this is because the aggregated "normal route" across all drivers in a system (i.e. a morning commute) eventually reaches a Nash Equilibrium. Adding capacity changes the "normal route," so drivers will have to re-adjust and discover new optimal routes, which has cascading effects to other drivers, etc. etc.

This is fascinating to me because conventionally, you'd think "Extra capacity = more people on the road = better throughput" but we're seeing evidence that maybe this isn't the case. Would love to hear yc's thoughts on that, though.
Social Media: Tools vs. Strategy
I don't see an issue. I also don't see an issue with folks going to therapists, taking SSRI's or other medicines, and so on. So long as the weed isn't doing undue damage to their health, go for it. Psychiatric medications often come with their own health concerns, sometimes you get the concern and sometimes you don't. Unfortunately, many folks make a distinction between those prescriptions and weed, but rarely say a word if folks pour their anxieties into over-exercise. To me, none of it matters if it makes their life better, if it is worth the consequences, and it isn't harming others (within reason).

It isn't like alcohol where doing it daily will absolutely destroy your life (legal issues aside). It doesn't have the same destroying effects on the family, friends, and so on.

And to be fair, if there is an underlying problem, it doesn't really prevent folks from dealing with it either. Lots of folks go to therapy while smoking regularly. If it doesn't need therapy, then it probably takes care of the issue... since it keeps the anxiety attacks at bay.
I used car sharing in Toronto a lot including Car2Go. A couple years ago Car2Go left Toronto. As they explained it - they failed to get the city's permit for free unlimited street parking. However, as I see it the real reason was that they couldn't compete with Uber:

When I need a car for 1 full day or more, I go to Avis/Budget/etc. They charge per day.

When I need a car for 2-5 hours I get a Zipcar. They charge per hour. Daily rates are somewhat high compared to Avis/etc.

Before Uber, when I needed a short ride (up to 30-60 minutes) I would typically take Car2Go. They charged by minute which made sense for short rides. However, per hour their rate was higher than Zipcar.

When Uber appeared, it became a more convenient choice for short rides. Just summon it, and get going. No need to go find a Car2Go on some side street. No need to deal with unlocking, locking, parking, refueling, etc.

Maybe, if Uber wasn't subsidized it could've been a less attractive option and Car2Go could have a chance to stay. But with the current Uber pricing, Car2Go simply has no business.
This isn't a bad argument, but it doesn't match up with the experience that OP had in the Twitter thread.

I don't see the point in arguing about what most theoretical cases are when we can instead talk about the actual case that actually happened here. It's difficult to argue that OP stole anything, and they weren't competing with Google, and OP is saying that they didn't use company resources to build anything.

Unless your claim is that OP actually did something wrong, the rest of it a little too theoretical for me.

I've written this elsewhere, but if obvious abuses were all that companies cared about, the terms wouldn't be written so broadly as to cover everything. A contract is not the place to put an egregious term and then say, "don't worry, we won't enforce it." Treat contracts like they will be enforced.

In particular, we've seen this pattern with arbitration agreements. How many women signed Google's arbitration agreements when they joined under the (false) assumption that, "of course for something serious like sexual abuse, Google wouldn't enforce that"?

> you should always tell your employer that you've started working on something and have it acknowledged as yours way before any valuable IP is created

I do heavily agree with you on this.

Don't do what OP did and just ignore the terms, be up front about what you're doing. It just removes doubt. And don't be afraid to walk away from a company if they won't negotiate on this kind of stuff. You want to be in a trusting relationship with your employer.
Scheme is a good programming language.
Researchers create world's fastest molecular shuttle
But that wasn't from marijuana, it was from dodgy chinese carts
Agreed. We could have single-payer and all the infrastructure could be well maintained if the big corporations paid the same rates the small ones did.

Instead we have kleptocracy.
I concur on spelling being the Achilles' heel of English. We actually subject children to contests ("Spelling Bees") in which they must spell English words without recourse to automated correction or a dictionary. Because native speakers commit spelling (along with typographical and grammatical) errors so frequently, automated spelling and grammar checkers are an essential feature of word processors and text entry systems. Dyslexia seems to be more common among English speakers vs. speakers of more phonetic languages.

I doubt spelling is a competitive sport in saner languages, though I imagine that character writing (and reading) contests could be a thing in languages with large numbers of written characters.

Like long division, both spelling and character recall can be delegated to technology, but I'm not sure what I think of this as a general principle. I use spelling checkers and I like phonetic character input methods, but I dislike grammar checkers.
But I won't get an alert if this blocks someone else from accessing my account. The email will go to the address associated with the account, and the odds of me checking that address without knowing I need to are nearly zero. And all of that is as it should be, because attempts to compromise my Twitch account do not matter in any way at all.

You'd need to be a lot more important than a non-streaming Twitch account before I'm going to provide an email address that can reach me reliably.

"But how is Twitch supposed to know whether I'm a streaming account or a non-streaming account?"
Evidence of Syllables in American Sign Language
Isn't the topic of the article that they are trying to create a standard?
There's a big difference between spending 50 minutes fiddling with that stuff when you're employed and evaluating it as part of the research phase for a project vs. in an interview with a gun to your head.
But I thought you said nobody ever did large acquisitions for customers....

weird, I must be thinking of somebody else. Since it would make no sense for you to try to take both of those sides at once.
Nice picture of a D-Wave chip at the top of the article...
I end up doing a lot of technology selection and so I have to have these skills and the ability to ask hard questions.

I don't for a second believe this should be the skillset of every member of a team. A team where everyone is adding new tools all the time is chaos. Learning new tools isn't really a goal. Getting better at your job is the goal, and learning new tools is either a means to that end or just moving the goalposts over and over so nobody knows what's going on.
Some cities have provided dedicated parking spaces on blocks for Car2Go/Zipcar type services, but the issue is that not every city is doing this in every neighborhood, there are not necessarily enough being created even in places where they exist, and finding out where one can legally park otherwise at any hour of the day is extremely complicated.
I'm sort of reminded of the book "Schiit Happened" from the Schiit guys (they make cool headphone amps). They documented how they started their business.

One thing they mentioned is that apart from RCA jacks, all the surround sound standards are tied up and closed.
The US spends over 2 trillion a year on social welfare services, and that's just federally.
Many times I drag and drop a path, then edit the path.

There are few reasons to go to catalina.
The article is correct in that Buddha being a prince is a myth.

The use of the word myth in connection with religion always fascinates me. The entire concept of religion generally depends on myths. recursive use of myth in myth.

Generally I have to read these sentences as in my opinion because the 'factual' quality of statements regarding the ur-myths of religion is usually not quantifiable, its all contextually defined by interpretation, semantics, ontology, eschatology, history, culture...
Thank you! And you are correct -- I am indeed ESL :) tbh writing the copy for landing site has taken me longer than some of the code :p

I shall revisit with fresh eyes and get it sorted out. Thank you! Please keep us in mind whenever you do need CI.
One argument I could think of is that it can take a long time for typical users to upgrade their browsers. If they've stopped development on the old version, then open sourcing it could help people find vulnerabilities that will never be addressed.
He said REITs- ones' personal income and credit rating is not relevant
The rubber-stamp nature is why those corporatists were courted (and funded) to run in the first place.

When money is allowed to essentially buy elections, then a race-to-the-bottom is an obvious outcome.
I found "Composing music a new approach by William Russo" a good start this.
It is a pretty Nifty guide to the topic.
I had a lot of fun on that one (as I wanted to animate it) making a version that follows all the forks one step per render loop. The output was really satisfying!
This is how democracy dies. In secret.
Infosys settles with California over alleged visa scam, tax evasion
The flow you're asking for (PIN required to do ordinary FIDO not just for FIDO2 passwordless auth) seems like a weird choice and I doubt it's possible.

This hypothetical person has to get your password from somewhere. The mode most (essentially all non-test sites I've seen) used has FIDO only as second factor, so the bad guy needs your first factor (invariably a password) as well as the stolen Yubikey.

You're asking for a three factor system, with two factors you know, plus a final factor you have. The improvement in threat resistance is small and the added inconvenience is large.
I find it disconcerting that there is a language the healthcare industry uses named MUMPS.
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I've always been confused by the English definition of "carpenter". I always thought it was originally something like "woodworker" or a furniture smith, but it appears that most native speakers understood "carpenter" to mean "house builder". I wonder if at some time the same occupation referred to both or if I simply grew up misinformed?
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