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Kerouac represented the counterculture back in 1957, and out to upset the squares, and welcoming to most anyone who rejected mainstream values. Now it's the left that holds the podium and deems what is and isn't acceptable, and it's the Alt-right who are out to own the libs, and consider and weirdo or outsider who rejects mainstream society to be an ally. The poles have flipped.
Yeah, but it's better than flaring it.

The other comment about reinjection makes way more sense, though.
“a poster in the cafeteria is not the best way of reaching the majority of Googlers.”

I heard the food had gotten bad, but I didn’t know it was this bad.
Organizing is protected by law. Firing for organizing is intimidation.
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Yes but if you borrow like a maniac from credit cards and default on everything and live in a van but still start a successful software business you still get wealthy.

My point being that actually owning that successful business is the mechanism for wealth. Avoiding frivolous spending can be very, very helpful to achieving that status, as you point out correctly, but it isn't actually the status itself.

This article and many others seem to be unable to make that key distinction.
Velocity isn't really what you care about though. I understand the point you're trying to make, but that table really points out that the type of the round you're using has a greater effect on velocity than the barrel length itself. The linked muzzle energy plot, which is what you really care about, shows this quite well, where we stay fairly stable for all tested rounds and fall off significantly at barrel lengths shorter than 7".
(Personal Opinion): I'm gonna vouch against 1Password.

Some months ago I tried migrating from LastPass to 1Password, had a lot of headaches with the >having to run an executable in the background< as well as the horrid UI on the control panel.

During testing, I was also constantly being prompted to pay for the thing, (trial was just started!). At least importing worked (kinda, some non-form fills [CC, SSN] didn't import or just would get dumped on random places all over their UI).

The key-management thing they have for the safe is really annoying, having to keep a big string around whenever you need to log in somewhere real quick just doesn't work. (One thing is having OTP codes on your phone, other is needing to type a big, random, safe unlock string).

With that said, due to this acquisition of LogMeIn, I'll be looking into alternatives (Mainly Bitwarden as it's been in the "market" for a while already and seems to be recommended). Probably not gonna move yet but better be prepared.
Wouldn’t Apple or Amazon suing Bloomberg force them to provide details and access to their farms in ways that could expose more info than they are willing to give ?

I think about the kind of info we only get when lawsuits happen, and here the suing party could be losing more in collateral damage for just punishing a petty journal ?
For sure, declaring something as `val someReferenceOfMutableObject` will not make the object itself immutable, only the reference. The case I had in mind was when creating class with only `val` fields, and that would certainly make that class immutable.
So use a longer password with BitWarden.

Think about it.
Humanity has hunted all kinds of megafauna (wooly mammoth and co.) to extinction. Also the ongoing mass extinction [0]. The problem is that what is useful to us in second or farther removed degree, we don't value much.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Toilets that are tilted downwards to stop workers spending too long on the loo
Some thoughts for your consideration, delivered with collaborative intent:

> I have a bunch of coworkers that think scientists are making up this data and skewing results because their jobs depend on it and they want to continue to get funding.

FWIW, I also happen to harbor this suspicion. How might one actually know whether there is an element of truth to it?

> "Follow the money" is a common thing they say in regards to this, but also conveniently disregarded and deny that big oil/coal have more to lose.

Whether big oil/coal have more to lose seems orthogonal to the question of whether bias is involved in climate science. If so, this sort of approach to debate seems counter-productive to me.

> It's very difficult to fight ignorance, especially when they don't believe facts.

I will confess, referring to climate models that are literally estimated projections of future temperatures as "facts", very much rubs me the wrong way. It doesn't put me in a very cooperative mood. To me, whether this reaction is "illogical" or not seems irrelevant, whereas the reaction itself seems extremely relevant, and completely overlooked in the analysis of the situation. I wonder, am I the only one that has this sort of reaction? Have we seen similar behavior in similar scenarios?

> This is the main issue with climate change deniers, not the inability to visualize the data.

I proclaim that you are speculating about what "the main issue" is with climate change deniers. You think you know (your perception of this appears clear as day), and you may even be right (by chance), but you do not know. I have a feeling that guessing wrong on such things might be far more impactful than we realize.
The problem is propaganda. Climate change is the victim.
Even staples of modern life, like vaccines, can be sullied by the private interests of the ultra wealthy/politically affluent.
> "Yeah let's be real, if she programmed a popup to appear over twitter with a message like "Don't slack off dummy UwU" and or something equally ill informed she would have been rebuked at worst."

What? Granted, I've only worked for large businesses but that would be grounds for immediate termination at any company I've ever worked at.
Your $5 instance with cPanel management isn't really quite the same as someone manually managing 100 servers hosting these services on disparate configurations and environments.
In other words, what your tooling of choice automates in a specific situation doesn't necessarily apply to any one else's usage, and scalability-wise, would be even more detached.
Exactly. Big companies move slowly. A small, well-funded company may be able to approve an X-thousand-dollar payment in a matter of days, but a large company just can't react that fast. There are too many layers of process and approvals and vetting and negotiation to wade through.
That's crazy
And it seems to be down already..
Which is super annoying. They are really loud and hard to "ignore". I do my best to ignore them.
from her blog:

> This kind of code change happens all the time.

we have all been there.

i think she knew she wasn't following proper procedure. even if it's done "all the time".
Another alternative is Abine Blur, which is privacy-centric and has some other features.
It wasn't her thoughts it was company policy, or to be specific it's required by law that this notice to be posted in the workplace.

It's was her personal judgment that it should be posted in a chrome add-on rather than only by poster like is typical in most workplaces. But assuming her job was to maintain an add-on that informs employees of company policy, and assuming her job typically lets her act with personal judgment, yeah I think that's perfectly reasonable

In fact, you can find further support of her action from the NLRB FAQ:

https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/faq/elections/are-there-any-c...

"The employer is also required to distribute the notice electronically to unit employees if it customarily communicates with employees in the unit electronically, either by email, by posting on an employer intranet site, or both"

Again, it's her judgment to add the notification (which links to the Google intranet posting of the NLRB poster), but considering that Google customarily informs employees of policy via notifications in this add-on, and she is in charge of maintaining said add-on, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable judgment to add this notification
The premise of this essay is that workers should benefit from automation, not owners/stockholders. In your case, workers do benefit in some way, like less boredom, but do they work 15 hours a week instead of 50?
If those thoughts are factual and relevant to the topic at hand, it... does seem like it's reasonable?

She's an engineer, not someone working a type pool.
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> It's coopting an internal tool for political messages then implying "it passed PR" means you had permission from where it should come from.

No one's saying it "passed PR", it passed the review process that was in place for similar changes.

> IIRC, an employer has to make the content available in some form in a place where employees will see it, not just anywhere. Traditionally it's a wall display of posters in a cafeteria or break room. Trying to fulfill the requirement by putting the posters up in a broom closet of the CEO's office would be forbidden.

> It's not even the message itself, I don't want politics, even those I agree with, living in the codebase I use at work.

A lot of this thread feels like unusual sudden concern for the aesthetics of the cafeteria wall.
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I'm curious to see how much helium is being used for "recreational" purposes (e.g. party balloons) vs. medical/industrial uses. Has anyone attempted to quantify/estimate this breakdown? I haven't found anything online on this topic.
As famously pointed out by Larry Wall: http://threevirtues.com/
It's on the products page.

https://www.logmeininc.com/products
Term limits is one of those ideas that sound good, but is actually bad.

Think about it: why would you want to have lawmakers automatically removed from office after they have gained significant experience in writing and lobbying for legislation and serving in various committees? Terminating someone when they are at the height of their productivity doesn't make any sense, either for business or for government.

Furthermore, the only thing term limits would do is further encourage the "revolving doors" pattern. Every politician would optimize their legislative careers for their post-term private sector gigs, rather than try their hardest to continue doing a good job so as to get re-elected.
> like notable entertainer or cardiac surgeon

Google says cardiac surgeons make $400-800k, assuming that's true a very talented engineer at FAANG can easily match this (staff or senior staff level) without being mired by an additional 10 years of school. I personally know engineers making 7 digits in liquid compensation. Obviously these are not your average engineers, but it's doable if you're the 1% (to be good enough for FAANG) of the 1% (to be amongst the best at FAANG) of engineering talent - so this isn't most people.

Just throwing it out there because I imagine most readers here are engineers and you make it sound like it's an impossibility for any of us. I bet at least a handful of readers here are engineers making over $500k.
(from the article)

> The reason we will not run out is that hydrogen forms bonds with other atoms besides itself

And hydrogen is the single most common element in the universe (three times the Helium quantity, by mass despite being the lightest, according to [1]). Oxygen is the third one, and is 24 times less common than helium. No wonder our gas giants (and sun) are so big.

Still according to [1],

> Hydrogen and helium are estimated to make up roughly 74% and 24% of all baryonic matter in the universe respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...
He in fact unironically declared it his most important work. And I feel inclined to agree.

Here, a video on it:

https://vimeo.com/17116481

Here, the actual rules:

http://www.classwargames.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/THE-...

And here, an absolutely ingenious, book length elaboration on the game:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Barbrook/public...
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But it was not a "feature". It was a change to an extension that did exactly the same thing on other sites, so a code review makes absolute sense.
The article addresses this, the point is that someone new to the technology can make this one that's ok
"The video isn't perfect. It doesn't quite capture the full details of Data's face, and if you look closely you can see some artifacts around the edges.

Still, what's remarkable is that a neophyte like me can create fairly convincing video so quickly and for so little money. And there's every reason to think deepfake technology will continue to get better, faster, and cheaper in the coming years."
It's an even harder problem when the employer is firing people for trying to organize.

Change the words in the message, and I can't imagine it being anything but a reprimand, at worst. This is a message to other employees that organizing gets you fired.
It’s sort of ridiculous to think any boss would approve this, which is why she did it the way she did it in the first place.
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Key bit: right now. What will you do when interest rates change and you end up with an obligation to pay the now much higher monthly amount?

If you have your interest locked down for an x period of time and you intend to keep your property always ensure that you can pay off enough of it to be able to continue to live there even if interest rates go back into the 5-10% range.
Saving 10% on a median income adds up to roughly three thousand dollars saved, a year. Depending on the amount of risk you're willing to accept, you may find yourself making between ~2 to 10 grand over a 10 year period from interests alone. I think those numbers are reasonable (and that saving in general is absolutely worth it), but I don't think they're significant enough to grant you upwards mobility.

Even furnishing a savings account is a privilege many people cannot afford, and no amount of frugality will help them. Only access to higher quality jobs.

If you ask me, Jay-Z gambled on the entertainment industry and won. His gambling chips were talent and hard work.
I switched from LastPass to Pass to KeepassXC about a year ago and it's the only one that hasn't given me problems cross-platform and it's also open source.

I use MacOS, Windows, Linux and iOS and it works perfectly between them.

On Window, Linux and MacOS I use KeepassXC with their browser extension on Firefox. On iOS I use Strongbox. I sync my password file using Nextcloud (self-hosted).

Syncing is pretty easy if you're using Nextcloud or Dropbox :) Tried Syncthing but I didn't like the idea of having to have a PC on all the time to make sure it synced.
No, they're dependent on preferences in what you want. Your preferences differ from mine here.

Either that, or you're assuming that the reasonable benchmark for comparison is close to the absolute most expensive example within a specific sector, which doesn't really match how I spend money.

Thinking about it more, I'd probably say I even hit #4 before #3. Why?

a) I don't really care that much about eating out, so despite being able to theoretically afford "Super Fancy Meals" I still think about it because I could just give someone else that money instead.

b) First class flights and fancy hotels I find ridiculous, they don't factor into my purchasing decisions. I far prefer a cabin in the woods or going hiking or something like that to some constructed notion of luxury.

I'd sooner give $10k to charity before I take a first class flight - in fact I'm on track to do that this year, and hope to increase it. If you don't count anything below $millions as being philanthropic then of course you've defined level 6 as being the top, that doesn't make sense to me.
This is a new agey woo kind of idea that comes probably from a layman's interpretation of the effect of the observer on changing the quantum system being measured. However, it does not scale to macro systems. As Sam Harris put it when debating this idea with Deepak Chopra, the moon does not disappear when we're not looking at it. The universe was before consciousness and will continue to be afterwards.
Was she hired to only add things other people told her to add?

Or was she hired to add things she considered relevant?
nice! any way to make it work in Lynx/Elinks?
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/blight_576
I read on HN that cars were a silly American thing that Europeans don't need.
I use the *BSDs a lot and it's pretty common to install gmake from ports. I wouldn't feel bad.
> Or does the main benefit lie in not having to wait for the designers of your programming language to implement a feature that could be a library?

Precisely. And you are right, it's very hard to write useful, robust, reusable macros.
I don't understand how amazon can contract a local company to drive amazon branded trucks, wear amazon branded clothing, and deliver exclusively amazon packages, but somehow they are not considered an amazon company and do not have to provide amazon level pay and benefits. Part of the cost of USPS/FedEx/UPS are the good union protections. This is a large part of why I am moving as much of my spending as possible away from amazon.
> I feel like they are a partner in our mutual goal to make a lot of money.

Your employer doesn’t feel that way.
I don't have anything to do right now, and that's even better than needing to be reminded.

I make sacrifices to keep my schedule as slack as possible.
It would be more like that employee emailing a company statement you didn’t want people to be aware of.
Some engineer at CERN wanted to easily share documents with its colleagues and came up with the World Wide Web.

It's not a direct result of CERN, but a byproduct. They have special requirements for cooling, data processing, engineering, etc. It helps to push for improvements in these fields.
Omg. That is super cool. I want to turn this as a phone interview question. Sounds like fun.
Maybe that's reasonable in private markets, but Logmein was a public company (LOGM). Valuations and multipliers for public equities are the consensus of a set of investors who buy and sell the stock all day. Anyone who wanted to take the money and run could choose to do so between the hours of 9:30 and 4 EST for the last decade.
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By giving you greater control and direction over the nature of the company, the kind of work they do, and who they work with, to check executive power from engaging in short-sighted or immoral behavior, to provide you with an alternate route for addressing workplace discrimination or harassment, just to begin.
You mean it passed the review process in place for "changing a few lines of code"?

Like a PR?

And I don't even get what the second half of your comment is trying to say, especially the cafeteria wall comment...

Putting an unannounced popup when you visit the page for a legal firm would not fulfill the requirement either, so what is your point?
But IANAL firing some one for telling their co-workers about their right to unionize is an illegal reason to fire someone. I'm not completely convinced that's what happened here but still
If its not on my calendar, it doesn't exist.

It removes a ton of burden on needing to give a shit
It isn't fear-mongering to wonder about it. Although, new reserves were found in Africa so it probably isn't going to be a problem.

But the history of helium production is fascinating. The US government seems to have severely mismanaged this resource.

https://earthsharing.org/a-comedy-of-errors-how-the-us-gover...
Not necessarily. If it's your job to add notices to internal tools, and you've added notices to tools before without approval outside the engineers on your team, then I wouldn't expect someone to get more approval than that in this situation.

If I were Google, I'd give the employee a warning (one of three strikes). I'd tell them that they need approval from someone in a certain role (that's not an engineer) to post internal notices. Otherwise, it's up to the employee and their fellow engineers to make a judgement call about which notices are right to post.
> "we taught people to fear risk X, the way to alleviate the fear is to reduce the likelihood of X" is the most asinine bullshit in the world.

The US was a scary place after 9/11. I'm sure a lot of money was wasted in domestic security that didn't do anything, but I'm glad we made an effort to reduce the likelihood of future terrorist attacks rather than just reinforcing how incredibly rare they are.

We can't stop terrorism or mass shootings but we should try to make it as difficult as possible even if they are rare events.
You supported his statement. Megafauna are a renewable resource.

GP is saying that we run through renewable resources much easier than we do non-renewable.
Not the original poster, but I could think of two possible reasons:
1) As a user, you are providing a lot of trust into a private company to hold some of your most sensitive information.
2) Often, "open alternative" is misinterpreted as free. At the very least, one would need a self-hosted server to gain the same UX 1password provides, which comes with additional overhead (cost and maintenance) for the user.
The irony of this is that Google's increasingly abusive behavior towards people talking about organization is that they're actually building a case for engineers to unionize to stop Google from these questionably legal firings.

If Google upper management had just shut up and kept the status quo and recognized that without impetus, comfortable workers almost certainly won't organize in America, then the unionization of Google would not be a national topic.

But here we are, with holdout reactionary bro's who ate the Ellison/Jobs/Schmidt wage-fixing cartel line about how evil unions were (even as they organized to oppress workers) in positions of power opening up the company (and thus the company's stock) to huge liability.
That's a good question, I don't know, but she claims the latter.

In her Medium post she claims that "Part of what makes me a great fit for Google is that the company is always telling us to take initiative to deliver high impact work." and also that she received stellar (4/5, 4/5, 5/5, where 5/5 is apparently top 2%) performance reviews, which reinforced her view that she should act on her judgment.
> I often wonder how Java developers feel when they look over at C#, and see a language that has exploded in functionality over the last decade, all while Java has mainly optimised the JVM and slowly added features.

I am a long time Java programmer that has mostly programmed C# lately.

I'm getting more conservative by the years but I still found myself liking modern C#.

The thing I miss from Java is the ecosystem:

- three top notch IDEs

- more mature ecosystem

- maven