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Thanks for clarifying this. I've read a few articles and for some reason much of these details seem to be spread out in small bits.

It seems if he had been more careful with his approach he could have kept the beach clear during winter just like the previous owner did without any legal hassles.
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> I’m ready to just start spanking him every time he cries and to tell him that it’s not okay to just cry whenever he doesn’t get his way.

This is extremely counterproductive, and this punitive attitude might be why he has so much difficulty handling his emotions. Spanking the tears out is a great way to raise a volatile misanthrope who drinks his pain away and beats his wife and kids (my dad). It sounds like what he needs is a bit of talk therapy.

Ask him why he's crying. Dig deeper. Ask him why losing at a video game illicits such a strong emotional response. Ask him why he continues to play, even if he knows that there's a risk of failure. Help him reason through this stuff, and it'll start to click after a while.

He'll enjoy this even less than spanking (which, fyi, can and does turn into a fetish for folks; yes, even straight boys can have "daddy issues"), but more importantly, you'll be equipping him with the tools he needs to process complex emotions.

This isn't meant as an insult; but you might consider therapy yourself. We all need it, even if we think our life was idyllic or that a hard life made us too tough to need the help.
ACH is a two-way street. when you give your routing and accounting number to your employer for direct deposit they can pull money out of your account. There have been multiple public instances of this happening due to bugs or bad software. The most recent case involved an HR startup whose founder embezzled his company's funds and thus the banks pulled back the money from the client's employee accounts.

My employer's bank recently mistakenly did the DD 3 times and pulled back two of them.

ACH doesn't come with two-factor auth or any sort of real safeguards, I would be very careful who I give access to.
They announced yesterday a bunch of Ryzen 4000 laptop chip news, and a version of Dell's G5 15 Special Edition laptop is planned with one of these.

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/06/dell-g5-15-se-amd-ryzen/
No. Not if you understand how unions work.

Professional sports leagues have unions because they are necessary. There is exactly 1 league, and you’re required to sign exclusivity contracts with your team. You are owned by your team. You play for them, or you don’t play at all. You move your family to whatever shitty city bought your rights. Only rarely does a player get any say, unless they’re a superstar with a special contract. They’re also very prone to injuries that can take them out during their narrow prime earning window, and that risk needs to be hedged. As does the risk of permanent damage, including brain damage, by being required to play when it is not safe. And NBA players actually got paid very poorly before the union. Far worse than software engineers. They had no leverage.

There are many reasons for players to have unions, and none of them apply to software developers.

The Hollywood situation was similar. New actors were locked up in bad contracts. But generally, all of Hollywood is a mess of negotiations, unconventional and confusing compensation structures, scheming lawyers, and conflicts of interest all over the place. These also don’t really apply to software developers.

We don’t have agents, royalties, multi-year exclusivity, or a huge population willing to fight for scraps and slave for free in hopes of getting a big break (game development - which has much more in common with Hollywood - being an exception).

Unions are not free. The layer of bureaucracy that they introduce is a huge cost, and one that many companies cannot bear. Startups definitely can’t. Then you have to account for the widespread abuse by employees in unions. Your salary has to subsidize everybody who decides they’re going to be lazy and take a free ride by exploiting union rules. Those people are everywhere in unions. And it’s completely rational. Most people will do the minimum required for the maximum take, especially when there is no risk to doing so.

Sometimes, this cost is worth it. But, if we ranked industries in need of a union, I can’t really think of anything that would have less need for a union than software development.
Because by shouting loudly now, we can maybe get changes into libraries within the next 5 years, before these attacks are commonplace
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Uh hello? https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/mueller-statement-bu...

This is a titanic error, any new scoop from them must be verified from other sources now for them to be taken seriously.
So far, I've been totally unimpressed with Date/Time support in Elixir. `DateTime` wasn't even part of the API until 1.9.0!
Another comment[1] gave a link to an existing implementation of such backdoor using only doping. It doesn't implement a cryptographic scheme but weakens the randomness in a way that still pass NIST test suite.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21979268
Well I can't speak for the actual intention of the author. However, I do know that fire fighters are often paid well. I have heard (could be completely false) of people starting fires in order to produce work for themselves. I know it sounds ridiculous but when times get tough...
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Curious how are the 40,50,60 year old programmers working out for your team?
It seems weird to decide that you won't use features because they are in a public standard that your target platform doesn't support, even though your target platform fully supports those features themselves.

I could understand the concern if it was about portability to other target platforms, or keeping the option of doing so. But in that case, the public standard your current target supports is irrelevant.
This is really the key. Decide how many hours a week you're available and use that to estimate your delivery schedules. If you can work more than the estimate, great, but never commit to more than you know you can do.

Life got a lot easier after I figured this out :-)
Then you'd be a senior web dev and get paid the big bucks. As a beginner, just use Next.js and don't worry about this stuff until later.
If that kind of development model was that much of a liability, you'd think at least one studio or company would have figured that out and would now be killing it as a result. I suspect it's just one of many factors, and probably not that important by itself.

The bottom line is that the supply of game developers has historically outpaced the demand. There are simply a lot of people who really want to make games, and are willing to put up with those work conditions.

I mean (for developers at least), it's not as though most of them couldn't find work doing some other kind of SW dev that doesn't typically involve death marches. Game dev programming skills have plenty of applicability in other kinds of software. I know this from first hand experience. So there are definitely a lot of people who are doing this voluntarily, and not because they have few or no other options.

Given that, it's hard to see a way of solving these problems via unions that doesn't effectively increase the barrier to entry for game developers. I guess that's one way to deal with it..
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It's because this kind of hype inevitably leads to a trough of disillusionment -- the methods we collectively call "AI" today are never going to lead to a general-purpose artificial intelligence. People are disappointed we don't have self-driving cars yet, but it's not clear whether that problem domain is constrained enough for deep neural networks to solve.

What we have developed are ways to automate complex tasks within a constrained input domain that can be easily quantified. It seems like magic, which leads people to say that it's "AI" but in reality it's just a complex automation built through reinforcement techniques that leverage some clever math tricks. Throw an unexpected input or new set of circumstances at the model and you get interesting results.

It's not a sense that people are overestimating the speed with which AI is going to overtake human intelligence -- it's that the techniques we're using today that we call "AI" are not capable of doing anything of the sort.
Because he enjoyed it, and he provided for his family. He came to this country with literally nothing (his family fled Idi Amin...so the real "nothing", not like most economic migrants today), and he sent all his kids (three) to private school and university.

I understand this isn't appealing to the lazy, indigent middle-class person who has everything and expects daddy to hook them up with a soft job...but he is the kind of person that provides for your life and the real tragedy is that we allow so many talented people to grow up without ambition, responsibility, or even the desire to produce things for anyone besides themselves.
> Also, why would space limit itself to only expanding outside a physical body?

It doesn't, it's just that the forces within the body (the spring in the analogy) are stronger than the expansion.

The "relative to space" bit is the nonsense part of their analogy, but I'm not sure of a clearer way to describe things than what they did. It's not my field.
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My wife and I went through the exact same thing back in 2006 and I can tell you while fear of the unknown is real, it might have been the single best decision we ever made.

Also, Phoenix is pretty reasonable cost of living wise and they have a growing number of opportunities tech wise. June 15 - Oct 15 suck but you get used to it.
If all engineers were making salaries like that, nobody would be ogling over them.
One mid-future prediction I've been making for a while: eventually we will make lying in the public sphere either a crime or a civilly actionable tort. Libel and slander already can be, but I am suggesting something more broad: the criminalization of the promulgation of fiction, opinion, or propaganda not labeled as such.

We've always had tabloids and dumb mass media but smart microtargeted mass media powered by machine learning is to these what the machine gun is to the flintlock. Add deep fakes and machine generated text crafted to appeal to each reader and it's a tactical nuclear weapon.

Many religions believe in intelligent literal demons assigned to individuals to deceive them. Seems to me we are busy inventing a real version of that.

Seems to me that lying at industrial scale with AI and big data and social media is just not something society will be able to tolerate.
I've had the same experiences with unlimited PTO as a lot of the other commenters.

I hit the soft cap of unlimited PTO after requesting my 16th day off in a row. I wasn't denied but had to get multiple approvals and jump through some hoops.

One thing to watch out for is when people say "if your work is done, take off whenever you want".

What that means if your manager has a lot of projects in the pipeline it means your work probably won't be "done" to their satisfaction.

The deadlines and pressures people put onto whoever approves your PTO tends to change how productive they perceive you to be...
This is a water gap, a feature which is commonly formed from a river older than the mountain range. In combination with that older river, in this case, the specific location was caused by "subrosion (a general expression applied to karst processes influencing the course of a river) and..meltwater channels at low altitudes" (Rohde 1994, Martini et al 2002-page 285).

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I read all of this as "Major union seeks to extract rent from an additional sector".

All the video game industry has to do is to give its workers better treatment than they would get under union stewardship. Problem solved.

But I expect video games will follow the path of many other industries, and keep beating their mules until the mules revolt.

It's a lesson that has played out publicly hundreds of times over the last few centuries, but new overlords always think they're better, smarter, luckier than those who came before them. They never are.
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What is so scary? The humiliation you’d feel while in heaven? How irresponsible or bad your kids or loved ones are going to be?
How do you find the power for intense tasks compares to that XPS 15?
There are plenty of examples where unions can be a constructive force in securing good working conditions while promoting good business practices. Given the poor reputation of video game development work this could be a really positive development.
That being said, the last time I had a unionized job I was pretty disappointed with the results. They consistently failed to secure cost of living adjustments, and the one time I got a pay bump was to ensure that I would be ineligible for an increase in the federal overtime threshold.
That's definitely lower middle class. Barely scraping the bottom. I'm there on one income in a low Col area. It's comfortable and life is easy but I'm on the edge of failure at any moment.
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It would be really cool to see snippets or even the whole original and transpiled code side-by-side.

When I was working on compilers I spent as much time making such a script in a web-browser with scrolling etc as I did studying the results.
About the only big shortcoming is good Thunderbolt support with AMD. I think that will gain parity eventually, but will probably be in the USB4 timeframe over the next couple years.

I watched the same videos, and will be looking at laptops over the next few months, so may well go the AMD route myself.
Fortunately ESP32 does have an OS, so you can use all kinds of niceties (multitasking, bootloader, etc.).
100% agree with this and still don't grasp how some of my peers go in the opposite direction. Being able to talk at the level of your audience (not condescending) is a massive skill. I know that I am decent at doing it (not amazing but decent) and even so I've come out heads and shoulders above my peers on this skill which baffles me.
This really isn't new, alex jones with his "infowars" has been doing the same for years.
Or put more simply... marketing.

Every new discovery ever, people wanting to exploit it have done anything necessary to use people's honest interest in new technology and good feeling about human progress to get money or power.
That no good deed goes unpunished.

And that people rarely miss the opportunity to criticize others.
You can program anything without an OS.

Here's an article on writing C targeting bare-metal Raspberry Pi.

http://www.valvers.com/open-software/raspberry-pi/step01-bar...
Yup, my bad. So definitely not what's on the W2.
I'm not sure what that sentence means, can you rephrase it?
"artificial" and "synthetic" aren't exactly synonyms in my mind. If I synthesize glucose, there is nothing artificial about it. It just didn't come from a process developed by evolution. Conversely, artificial leather is nothing like real leather.

I'll have to think about that some more.
Depends. If I care about others, and my influence does them good, that increases my happiness/joy/contentment/whatever, while I'm alive.
It works with group by group elections. So for example if 50% of Activision software engineers in Irvine vote to unionize, then Activision will have to bargin with the union for contracts for all the software engineers they have in Irvine.

That's quite a low bar to start. All it take is one site with abusive management and they may make enough of their employees willing to get the ball rolling. If the union improves their conditions, other people may start to see it as a more viable option and it can spread.
It's not so much Patreon as some sort of outside discussion, notification and possibly discovery platform with YouTube reduced to serving media instead of discovery. That outside platform would likely need to be membership based or paid, probably both, because that "paid" bit may provide a lot of cover against children getting access - at least on the basis of T&C that say something like "as part of this membership you agree to not allow access by any persons under 13 and agree to cover fines and legal expenses we may incur as a result of you violating these terms or as a result of collection attempts."

That would be a combination of "get us in trouble and you're in it too" and "as you can see Your Honor, we've made strong attempts to enforce keeping children out of the community."
Humanity has built a /lot/ of bridges that have fallen apart before we were able to learn how to do it correctly. It’s sometimes easy to forget just how young the software industry is.
On macOS, instead of running Firefox via the app icon, I run a an AppleScript[0] that forces Firefox to launch with the Profile Manager window. I have it bundled as a one-step Automator application, which I run from Spotlight but which can easily be added to the Dock or whatever.

I used to have this script built as an app bundle via Platypus, but that stopped working somewhere between Yosemite and Mojave (likely due to increasingly strict OS file permissions or something). The Automator app doesn't seem to suffer from this issue...I think I just had to grant it a couple permissions the first time I ran it.

I wasn't able to figure out how to set a custom icon from within Automator, but it's not too hard to do if you're comfortable mucking around inside app bundles. The icon file is stored under <app-bundle-root>/Contents/Resources/, and its name (sans extension) is referenced in <app-bundle-root>/Info.plist.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/ilikepi/9d2e17e0d3b3efd6fc0584f46f09...
Huh. I've heard of PEBCAK errors, but this is the first PEIC I've seen.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. My non-sequitur wasn't intended to be a formal argument, but a joke to get people to think about the nature of "bans" in general.
Given the initial spark is usually lightning, which will have a higher chance of causing an out of control fire in dried out conditions, and which is certainly "spontaneous" in my view (as in, nothing we can do about it apart from monitoring), why not?

I'd say it qualifies.
Low in this case (read the CW article https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252476283/Cyber-gangster...). The "ransom note" seems generic and it implies they aren't sophisticated data thieves, just disruptors.

That said, there has been news of late that these kinds of attacks are indeed stepping up the value chain of stealing, selling, mining the data itself. But I would tend to think not, in this case, as the ransom note would have been much more severe.
Yes, can do bare metal https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=72

Though I'm sure many `purests` will say this is not bare metal and it's impossible upon modern CPU's due to the ISA microcode.........
Not impossible, but assuming there's not a mathematical flaw that affect both algorithms the difficulty is roughly the product of the difficulty of finding a collision in each. AFAIK no one has come up with a joint collision for MD5+SHA1 despite collisions in each being practical for several years.
I find Buzzfeed News to be consistently factual and well-written. If anyone has evidence to the contrary I'd rather they discussed that than simply maligning the outlet
We can directly measure distance to stars which are near us, using trigonometry and waiting half of year for Earth to make half of distance around Sun. Distance to thousands of stars is already measured with ±5% precision.[0] Yes, it's true that at least some stars, which are near to us, are moving away from us. However, it can be explained in number of ways, without inventing of Bing Bang or other epic events.

We cannot measure distance to super far away stars directly. Period.

10^-17 m/s is very high speed. Distance to Moon is 0.385E15 mm, and it can be measured at sub-millimeter accuracy, so this effect can be spotted. However, it will violate Conservation of Energy principle: no force applied, but job is done.

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SHA1 is vulnerable to preimage attacks in reduced round variants. The findings keep steadily improving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack

This means if a storage system just uses SHA1 to detect duplication, you can abuse the ability to create a collision to possibly do bad things to the storage system.
Kotlin for backend? Well... Choose something that is more appropriate.
Exactly this. They have found the scapegoats and are now going to enact extreme and cruel destruction on them, likely beyond what can be considered ‘justice’ so the people feel good about what has happened.
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That applies to every field as corner cases are covered. Restricting it to what is actually relevant to the domain is sufficent to "consultation with relevant country lawyer" as opposed to entire law firms.
In reality, the entropy estimate is of no value. See Ferguson and Schneier, who have a chapter on this.

The meaningful states of a CSPRNG are "initialized" or "not". Once initialized, there is never a diminishment of "entropy".