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This story reminds me of playing the board game "Deep Sea Adventure" ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169654/deep-sea-adventur... ) with some friends. In this game you try to get as much treasure as you can from the sea bottom floor. At the same time you share your oxygen supply with your competitors. We managed to run out of air three times in a row! The final round was particularly amusing: When the players noticed that (only) one player had a chance of making it back to the surface, they made sure to use up the shared oxygen supply since they were doomed anyway.

Fun game, give it a try. Also quite educational, just as this excellent short story.
I (and I'm sure many others) would gladly take an option to provide a whitelist of acceptable licenses.
Can I patent open/read/write/close methods? I might have an idea for the greatest troll in modern era.
I love how there are still no 10nm CPUs in sight for the likes of the 16” MacBook Pro.
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See also https://nomoregoogle.com/ .
Personally I'm not that surprised, criticism of any type is no longer PC. I think you nailed it with "well understood" - exactly so, anyone with an interest in this area knows about this stuff.

It would have been fine if the post was along the lines of "I've observed XXX, there's clearly something strange going on" but as you say there was a misinformed leap to blame the kernel devs. That's not OK as bearing in mind the exposure the post got, there's a real danger that the misinformation it contains will become "accepted knowledge".
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It probably depends on the type of paste, but I've found completely dried out paste in old systems that would just fall into pieces when you touch it.
Yes, Julia has a lot of benefits in some regards.

The community is great. But small. For a lot of situations, I'd be hesitant to invest in Julia, because I don't know if the community will stay that way or if it fades away.
I agree. Clearly, not every dev in the US works for Apple or Google. Plus, simply comparing the raw income is flawed as well. I agree with your assumption that overall, German developers have better job security and most definitely the work life balance aspect. I'm a developer myself and I don't know anyone around me who regularly does more than a 40h week. This is excluding those that have started their own company and the occasional deadline of course. Not to mention that our cost of living is definitely not as inflated as it is in SV.
It's great, but the differences between runtimes can be painful. In practice you still need your project to be aware of which Clojure code files are platform-specific and which are safe to run across all platforms.
Offtopic, but slightly related: I'm looking into building a budget DIY all-in-one system by mounting a small form factor PC to the back of a monitor. It needs enough GPU power to run Zwift, and enough CPU power to be usable in Lightroom.

My plan:

* get a second hand 27" IPS monitor that has an unobstructed VESA mounting point

* Get ASRock DeskMini A300 chassis. It already comes with a STX motherboard and a power supply

* Put Ryzen 3200G, 8-16GB of SO-DIMM RAM and an appropriately sized SSD in it

* Mount the A300 to the monitor, done

Are there better / cheaper / more performant options?
>or something very similar to it

The original title did not reflect that.
Dalvik is APL licensed, so it can't be benefitting from a GPL license grant in any way. The GPL only lets you distribute derivative copies that are also under the GPL.
I guess render-blocking isn't really a thing, the HTML spec only describes script-blocking and is light on the rendering aspects. Now most web pages have styles and scripts and since styles block scripts, you usually perceive styles as render-blocking. But this web page doesn't have any scripts, so the browser reaches DOMContentLoaded right after parsing the HTML and does the first paint while the request for the style is still in flight.

At least that's my theory. You could test this by inserting an empty <script> tag into the <body>, which should delay DOMContentLoaded until the style arrives and prevent the flash of unstyled content.
This might not be exactly what you’re looking for — it’s meant more for interactive editorial features than simple forms — but Idyll looks really cool and is worth a look.

https://idyll-lang.org/
A man's job, socially, civilizationally, is to toil and die. You're now effectively dead. Congrats! You can now get on with telling this shit-insane resource-hoarding monkey planet to fuck itself in the praxis of not doing any goddamned thing at all. And if you're so fucking programmed that you can't abide yourself outside the workplace or a relationship with a rat dog, you might be better off literally dead.
Get him a VR headset. Beat Saber can be quite the exercise routine.
>It attracts non-programmers

If employers are hiring non-statisticians as data scientists then the problem is the employers.
Can I ask what you do (and where)? That's absolutely insane money for former soviet states, probably equivalent of >>1 mil in the bay area.
And also very important to watch for changes of your dependencies, as they can be quite dynamic. A single review too early or too late in the development process may have misleading results. Watching for commit changes is too time consuming, so watching for releases is a bit easier, especially if you use something like https://newreleases.io or other similar sites.
Gunbound was extremely complex with all kinds of variables including boomerang style projectiles.
I'd argue that the modern definition has nothing to do with immigrant status, and is entirely about whether or not you can pass as a native English speaker. It just so happens that most people who have accents are immigrants, and you can reasonably assume that anyone who didn't grow up speaking English as a native language is going to have an accent.

You are not a fob if you moved here from China at 9 years old, didn't read or speak your first word of English until then, and have no discernible accent as an adult.

No one would call a Hong Konger with a HK English accent a fob either.
In Germany we have "Kleingärten / Schrebergärten" in most cities that mostly belong to non-profit associations. They give people the chance to lease a small garden - 400 m² on average - and grow their own fruit and vegetables, and of course spend time there in the summer (most gardens have small houses where people can stay overnight as well). More than 5 million people use such gardens. The statutes of most associations require people to grow fruit or vegetables on a given percentage - usually 30 % - of the lot, and to have a certain number of trees on the lot as well.
Yes, I have a K1 and a K2. I'd prefer a 65% layout, however, and the upcoming K6 sounds more like what I need.
> simply doing the work without complaint is one of the most inefficient relationships with a programmer

There is a difference between complaining, voicing opposition and articulating trade-offs less technical people may not be familiar with.
I have worked in team where programmers constantly questioned business requirement - without having any understanding of business.

Eventually customer got tired of having to defend how many statuses he wanted in combobox or what process their company want to use.

By that I want to say, there is definitely such a thing as programmer not willing to consider business point of view for a second and thus being impossible to work with.
> After a gradual dawning of awareness, he asks the computer, “Is this a game… or is it real?” With the aplomb of a delusional college student wandering the steam tunnels, imaginary sword in hand, the computer replies, “What’s the difference?”

Hmmm, I have never met this perspective. An AI might be limited in perceiving reality in addition to being much stronger intellectually. A dangerous mix I would say.
Imagine “See”, but with AI instead of the blind people.
Let's turn this around: why would they invite you? What makes your application stand out from the dozens/hundreds similar applications they receive every day? Were you top of your class? Do you have specific domain knowledge? Do you know someone on the inside?

Not to bash you, but these companies get to pick the best candidates. Just the education and some experience alone isn't enough to get you in, you have to stand out in some way.
You get used to almost anything.

"Cloud" has gotten even less specific technically as new marketing uses for it become established. What do bare metal private cloud and Google Docs have in common, anyone?
Hi, author here! I've just finished writing the pre-emptive multitasking [0](only round robbin though, nothing fancy).

I'm currently writing an ATA driver [1], the idea is to implement ext2.

I used to do this in Rust but I switched to zig for maintainability and readability over Rust. It seems that with `comptime` I'm able to make a lot of things optimal.

Overall I have to say kernel programming is _hard_ but very rewarding when it finally works, it's really demystifying computers for me!

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Brendan%27s_Multi-tasking_Tutorial

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/IDE
I’m an outsider who attended Cogx in London and spoke to some of the brightest minds there:

“Social/communication skills” were sorely lacking.

I’m not naming names and I don’t like what I’m writing but it really worries me that they were architecting the future.

I do apologise as I’m not a cruel person but there you go.
Not so sure I agree, I moved to Beijing, China having never spent a second there, probably the best decision I made ever. (Though, I had no pre-conception on how it would be like prior to landing...)

While no longer living in mainland China, I still haven't left Asia (nearly seven years on)

Sometimes pushing yourself right out of your norm/comfort-zone can really help you find yourself.
Couldn't agree more, Consider the Lobster is beautifully written and completely captivating.
> And then the Google pedigree thing is obvious. Youngish startups with a little money just starting to build their team past "a co-founder and these two recent grads" are hungry to get FAANG alums into leadership. I don't know whether that's a good thing for them to care about—maybe it is—but they do seem to show a very strong preference for them.

It generally isn't a bad idea for inexperienced founders to have some insight into how larger tech companies operate. Especially when it comes to scaling, knowing how companies typically handle this can be quite valuable.
This also reflects in Von Karman's saying: Scientists discover the world that exists, engineers create the world that never was.
I use R for the statistical packages, handling data frames, and plotting. For other types of work I would switch to python.
Or even better for loneliness: Find a team sport you really enjoy. Two birds with one stone.
Good mechanical keyswitches and a solid BT implementation that doesn't time out and enter sleep mode too quickly.
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> That your job is not your life and figure out what really matters to you. Then focus on that, and use your job to fill the boring hours in between

This hit me very hard.
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Currently, I use wordpress but it is very slow, I was looking for alternative, one is ghost.
I don't want to use dynamic blogging platforms,
Is there a way to produce static site from wordpress or Ghost or any other better solution?
>... its much worse to take an action that completes an electrical circuit (similar to biblical prohibition of lighting a fire) than to just look at something happening...but there is clear guidance about what you are allowed to even read or look at on Shabbos.

Knowing very little of the "rules" and on the way they are followed, I have always been intrigued by this thingy here (Halachic switch):

http://www.kosherswitch.com/live/
It's a lot of work to support a language well. Our intention is to focus on Go for now, but we're open to others in the future.

Lots of reasons for building an editor, but mainly our technical backgrounds with compilers and macOS apps felt like a good combination. Also, there aren't many (any?) macOS-native editors with deep language integration, so it really felt like an under-served market.
I tried vanilla JS three years ago. It got so tedious after just one page that I decided to try and use Elm instead. I have not regretted it once. In contrast to the hacky Npm ecosystem, Elm feels like I'm working with somebody who values my mental sanity a great deal.
Thanks for this. I've just subscribed.
In NL we call them 'volkstuinen' or people gardens. For people in cities who don't have outside space, such as apartments.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkstuin
And I guess sometimes you're sitting in front of your Mac with others without using any presentation mode. Muting notifications could be really helpful then.
Forky?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forky
You should probably look at updating your TLS. TLS 1.0 will be deprecated in 2 months.
We're also super curious about this. We started Chime when Coda (pre-Nova) was all but abandoned. Panic is probably the best/worst competitor you can have for a macOS app, but we're very excited to see what they do. I'll probably lose sleep checking it out when I'm finally able to.
I do feel London is somewhat underrated in this discussion, for a senior Rails position I find quite a few startups willing to pay 80-85 GBP, that's not that far off from the U.S if you factor in cost of living. But yes - Belgium, France and Germany don't offer this type of money.
Thanks for answering :) I have never heard about Fasttext - I will take a look.
> Is there a way to produce static site from wordpress or Ghost or any other better solution?

For Wordpress there is the Simply Static plugin, and I think similar others.

There is also a productized version of the "Wordpress to a static site" idea - https://hardypress.com/ I'm using it and no complaints.
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Excellent point. Ironically, FAANGs, and especially Amazon, are quite conservative in adopting technology from other sources and are not hype-driven.
Here's the central issue with the coast: saving 10% of $350k anywhere is a lot easier than saving 20% of $175k in a dirt-poor county in <Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana>.

Partially, this has to do with the desire to retain your absolute peer tier: if your neighbors have PhDs in Alameda, then you want to live with the PhDs in New Orleans. And the Sliver by the River is still expensive. Same holds in Augusta, Jacksonville, wherever.
Learn statistics. It will help you to understand that most people don't understand statistics and the world is therefore full of bullshit.
(See also https://www.callingbullshit.org/tools.html )
AMD gave us a dual socket test system (back in the Phenom days) which started failing after a couple of years of very heavy use for builds, CI, etc. After much head scratching I eventually found that the thermal paste had dried out, and simply reattaching the CPU fans with new paste fixed the system and it lived for quite a few more years after that.
Modern JS is the current ECMAScript standard. Typescript is not "modern JS", any more than Coffeescript was, any more than the compile-to-js language that will probably replace it in a week.

You're confusing the tool for the language the tool operates on, akin to claiming modern C++ is Visual Studio.
>Also, don’t use bug zappers, which Berenbaum said do not work in killing mosquitoes but do kill hundreds of beneficial species.

This summer I stopped at a petrol station located in some remote forest area. There were literally heaps of dead bugs inside and under the neon panels. Since then I have been wondering how much of the insects are killed simply by the lights that we keep on in the outdoors.
The problem is when the database becomes the performance bottleneck.

Scaling a database is incredibly difficult, and requires a lot of expertise.

Some of the biggest engineering projects I've been a part of is removing a central db that everybody connects to in large companies.
Software in Norway and saving $80k per year? In government, no less? That means post tax you're making in the ballpark of $150k, or maybe a bit less if your expenses are very low? Very good number for the location regardless.

I'm able to save $20k per year in Norway (south) and consider that great, relatively speaking. Remote work? I didn't think the public sector jobs paid this well.
That's a bit incorrect. Returns from a typical investment portfolio have been over 4% for the last 10-20 years, so that's the amount you can withdraw without depleting any principal. If you're looking to consume your whole principal by the time you die you can go way ahead of 4%, easily double that.
I've worked with such people and on applications made by them.

All that is usually done at the expense of others - be it teammates or future maintainers.

It works great for MVPs and such, but falls flat on its face when you have to add new features to a three year old application, whose original creator moved on a while ago.
That's assuming you want to leave the whole 2 million principal in your will to your children. I don't see why - if you want to retire, you can consume the whole principal while you live.
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These things can't be underestimated. Coming from a much more capitalistic country to the Netherlands (allow me to assume it's similar to Germany) - the prospects of leading a relaxed life and raising a family here are very good. Yes, it's less competitive. Yes compensation is worse than SV. but if I had to gamble where developers are leading happier lives I wouldn't go with SV (despite the superior weather).
Chime has in-process crash reporting. Which is both open source (on our Github page) and you can opt-out via prefs. No other telemetry of any kind. To be honest, I'm not even sure how telemetry like that could even be used to be benefit us. But, perhaps we're just not in that mindset.

Regardless, there's nothing like this in Chime and there never will be. But I get that not everyone wants a closed-source tool. There are many open source options, including a number of high-quality macOS native ones.
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Why Clojerl when LFE maps directly to the best of what BEAM offers - supervisor trees and pattern matching?
I thought it was a memo from Howard Marks AKA Mr. Nice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks). I couldn't understand what's an interest in interest rates to do with him. Took me a few moments...
You write like "what women are looking for in a man" is some absolute thing, but it is decidedly not! It is highly context-dependent. As an extreme example, there are some places on Earth where simply not being an alcoholic can make you a desirable mate.
Often times experienced engineers eventually move to much smaller companies that aren't as likely to appear on levels.fyi

They might get tired of the politics at their company, or they just want to try something new, or founding/joining a smaller company might be the easiest way for them to continue to get promoted
Maybe. None of the screenshots I could find via Google seemed to match my recollection. It was accessed by typing "menu" at the command prompt and was basically blue-on-blue with no mouse support.
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Chime team member here.

Uhh, none :) It's built specifically for Go, and today supports no other languages. I'm not sure when, or even if, we'll do a public plugin API.
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It took me many years to realize that nearly everything in my grandmother's back yard (except the lawn and porch) was food. There were orange trees, a cherry tree, an avocado tree, garlic, and a raspberry bramble. I loved picking raspberries. There was a pomegranate tree in the front.

A garden is always going to be better than a lawn. A garden of plants that grow faster than trees may be higher-maintenance, though.
Are you able to buy real estate in a decent location? Because if you can't, you're not "high middle class". Housing is not a luxury.
Final price is TBD. We've got a lot of beta testers now, so unsure how an open beta will go. It's quite possible we go right from closed beta to general availability.
Yes, that is true. However that's not what Georgists have in mind.

They care about what a currently empty lot (perhaps with necessary building permissions) fetches on the market.
Looks awesome! Planning to do a similar thing in Jai once it comes out
Nah, I got an offer letter from Amazon in Berlin, and it was easily 1/10th the compensation they offered to people in NYC or SF (compared with Levels). I made sure with the recruiter that I understood the position and the internal salary ranking--then I told them I would not be taking the position as I found their offer insulting.
> I used to do this in Rust but I switched to zig for maintainability and readability over Rust.

Can you expand on this ? I'm asking out of curiosity because I want to learn a "system" programming language (for whatever definition there is to this term). So far I briefly tried Rust and Nim and found the former more difficult to read. I know nothing about Zig, how would you place it between these two ?
Yes, oxygen goes inside our bodies. Also liquids.

I base this certainty partially on my expertise in the field of cognitive decline, but mostly common sense principles. Cognitive decline is a natural part of aging. It happens to everyone regardless of how much TV one watches; even people who watch no TV whatsoever cannot avoid cognitive decline. Thus our best estimate of what causes cognitive decline points towards the aging of the underlying biological apparatus that supports cognition. Furthermore, there are likely to be infants and young children who watch as much TV, and view programming geared towards learning; and as they mature will see gains in cognitive abilities. How is that explained it TV causes cognitive decline.
> I think that “it works but we don’t know why” is appealing to a small slice of well-educated people who are comfortable with complexity and the limits of knowledge, but otherwise off-putting.

Really? So a limited number of intellectual elite are the only people capable of accepting faith-based arguments?

> It’s all pretty tricky human psychology though.

Indeed.
It’s slowly expanding, but JS has an anemic standard library. The node platform adds a little, but yo’re still miles away from a typical standard library like Java or python.

If you want to have 0 dependencies, you will have to write a lot of code to do things that would just be a line or two in most other languages.
There are over 1000 engineers in Amazon's Toronto office. Every one of us knows we could make a huge increase in total comp by moving to the USA. Amazon would even help us make the move, relocation support, everything.

I know ~3 people who've done so after 7 years here. We just like it better here, money be damned.
Unless you plan to work at the certain job until you retire, you gotta think about your resume. You don't want to be the guy looking for jobs with Visual Basic and Excel macros experience.
Those same people would be making $250-300K in the US, with about 25-30% effective tax rate (depending on the state), and healthcare mostly paid for by the employer. Assuming they're actually senior and get paid that much in Eastern Europe.
Why? We already have property taxes. They just also tax the stuff on top of the land. Do you see property taxes leading to over-extraction?
Oh man I'm an idiot. Yes. You've all figured it out. Cursor there would indeed make sense. Will fix!
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It is not obvious to me why I'd want my front yard to be teeming with insects.