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Man, one of the worst debugging experiences of my life was when we built an extensigble build tool, based on Bash. Most of it worked, but there was always an inconsistency between $* and $@ and there would be PRs that swapped those values around, back and forth.

They were both totally valid; we just hadn't agreed on a calling convention for the tool so people were trying to fix their individual problems based on their own habits.
Cloud hosting is great for businesses, that's why I believe that every web developer should experiment with those services. It's not great for personal use for the reasons you've stated - the risk of your service going down due to it being viral is much easier to bear than the risk of having to pay outrageous amounts of money for those services in that event.

If your hobby project goes down for a while nobody will remember that and having to pay $100k will make you remember that for an eternity.
You present a false (and somewhat offensive) dichotomy.

Here are some more optimistic ideas. If we reconsidered vehicles, everyone could have access to them when desired. If we reconsidered city layouts, everyone could have a home with desired proximity to others without needing to sacrifice either nature or privacy. If we reconsidered education, medical care and communications infrastructure, they would be universally available and effectively free (indeed, in many places these are already the case). If we reconsidered politics, we could encourage global industry toward environmentally sustainable outcomes without irreversible disaster.
Use this: https://github.com/librosa/librosa
It seems Carrey was especially cruel in his treatment of his ex-fiance. At least the cop had a reason (seeking to flush the criminal) for his actions. Carrey was just plain mean.
You provided the value of false cover to management.
Lots of fish sticks are made from tilapia, which are plant feeding fresh water fish. They're basically impossible fish sticks.
Exactly. According to what you said, any service with that policy could literally shut down next year if there is a deprecation announcement this year.

Which is better than some small no name startup service provider who might just go out of business tomorrow, but among all the big cloud providers Google is definitely the hardest to trust with longevity.

A more realistic concern is that Google might substantially change the free tier making this more expensive, or might shut down some auxiliary product that would be painful to switch from without migrating clouds completely, or that a payment might bounce for some reason and now I’m locked out of all of my google services without recourse.

Sure the odds of all of the above are relatively low, but from what I’ve seen they are a lot higher on Google than they are on Azure or AWS.
And sympy installed of course...
It will be interesting to see the repercussions of this. A lot of people woke up to ~2 hours of what was probably quite frightening. Anyone nervous of living in the area is probably considerably more so now.
> so long as the worker's basic needs are met.

So just the one teeny tiny detail of meeting everyone’s basic needs then?
What is common in the public at large is not necessarily what is common in the subculture of old money families. Still, I am not necessarily claiming that this is happening, but it certainly seems more plausible than having some psycho-somatic path where wealthier women would give birth to more male offspring. Another even more plausible explanation is that the effect simply does not exist, that the data was not properly collected.
The way the internet contributes to the problem is that it makes it much easier for violent extremists to connect to each other and together they amplify and reinforce each other's extremism.

As to why incels think they're not getting laid: people are very good at lying to themselves, and rarely have the strength or honesty to face negative aspects of their own personalities. It's much easier to lash out at others and blame them for problems of one's own making.

This is seen again and again in all sorts of abusers. Self-identified incels are just a new version of this.
How does someone so painfully propagandized even stumble upon this site? Lmao what a joke
Well, some people aren't as focused on achieving optimal efficiency in their information consumption.
Waypoint (aka, Vice Games) -- A games podcast that takes a very lefty, critical lens towards the games industry. Covering a wide variety of topics from organizing to reviews of what's happening. It's nice to hear people talk about games as a medium that deserves some thoughtful critique.
There's a balance, as is often [always?] the case in inversely related factors like code "cleanliness" (hard to talk about since it's a little vague of a word) and developer "velocity": pristine code can go awry and became "fine china" code that's too verbose or restrictive to effectively change and maintain; likewise, spaghetti code, maybe the opposite?, needs no introduction.
I also do a lot of hiring, and can say that it's also NOT correct. We'll query it, but it's rarely a problem. Different companies have different process and expectations, so let's steer clear of absolute statements like "this is correct" and "this is not true" as it's unhelpful to folks in the situation. Generally speaking, if you have a gap, make sure to explain in a cover letter. These are important and can make the difference between a rejection from HR and being passed onto a hiring manager.

Edit: spelling
I love podcasts and I'm glad for any service that helps me find useful content. That said, I'm not quite getting how I'm supposed to be using this.

From a consumer viewpoint, I have a front page recommending episodes and a weekly summary. I get that, cool.

Now if I want to heart episodes to tell other listeners about episodes I particularly enjoy...I go to the website and search/submit the episode...I guess?

Anyway, I'm interested - I just wanted to share my first impression in case it was useful.
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> Interestingly, and I'm sure with plenty of precedent, in Wittgenstein's case he came to dismiss parts of his own dismissal later on.

Okay, but that doesn't prove that I will reach the same conclusions Wittgenstein did.

> I won't get into the philosophical issues themselves (as I'm sure it can only hurt my case:), but you must surely be aware that when dealing with philosophical matters, your, my or anybody's agreement or dismissal of a viewpoint will never be universal, not even nearly universal.

Whether everyone believes the truth is irrelevant to whether or not it's true. Universality and consensus are not goals I have when seeking the truth.

It will never be the case that everyone believes what's true.

> To wit, philosophers will still in this century go back and forth about the law of non-contradiction [1], one of the pillars of classical logic, and there is no sign of a slowdown. So, before you find "evidence (empirical or logical)" you may have to first wrestle about the very nature and demarcation of logic, with turtles all the way down.

Sure. I won't claim to have a solution to this debate, but this, like "Can we trust our senses?" is another question without implications. If the law of contradiction is false, few people are willing to really put their money where their mouth is and really embrace contradiction, and those who do end up in psych wards. That doesn't help us prove that it's true (or false) but it does make the question fairly uninteresting. I prefer to ask questions where the answer has real-world implications.
In the current economical climate that seems to tilt more and more towards huge inequality (which is already a fact, mind you, it's just tilting even more in the same direction) I think we cannot afford to simply cross our fingers saying "oh well, maybe new jobs will magically appear". Yes it happened in the past, sure. That's not guaranteeing it will happen again this time around though.
You can see the components it's made of, or whether they're using one of the established fixed wing drone manufacturers. Look at sales records to see who's buying those drones or components in Colorado, get a search warrant, and then bust them for owning these drones.
Came to say the same thing, clear writing and a great voice. Definitely something to emulate.
It's strange that this article says "Toronto area" - it was sent to the entire province of Ontario.
Good point, but I would jovially rephrase that "some people don't get bored easily enough".
>You can afford the tenth car because you already contributed to the common good to earn that money

You don't need to "contribute to the common good to earn that money", in fact you can actively undermine it (exploit monopoly, form a cartel, rent-seek and hog resources, buy political influence, fool people with BS ads and sponsored "research" to buy your shit, pollute and in general ignore all kinds of toxic externalities from your products, and so on...
Android Firefox with uMatrix in the EU. All js disabled. No popups. Site works fine.
You are a victim of the difference of (summed) real file size (output of du) vs free space as reported by the filesystem (reported by df on Linux and assumably diskutil on Mac).

In short, the output of df/diskutil is the one which is interesting if you bother about free space left, while du says you something meaningful if you bother about transfering files somewhere else. The difference "df-du" is basically non-usable space occupied due to the layout of your filesystem.

See for instance http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-du-and-df-... or any result for a web search "difference of du Vs df"
Yes. It is much, much faster...until you get behind someone who:
Never used it before;
Has no idea what they want to eat;
Wants to check the prices on all the sides;
Is waiting for their friends to send them a weChat message with their order also so they don't have to wait;
The machine can't print the ticket;
The machine crashes after taking payment;
The person in front of you has friends show up and they start going back through all of the options.

I love it if it isn't during "rush hour," but some people take a long time to make up their minds when given a plethora of options. And then I seek out a counter person as they will just help the next person if someone hasn't made up their mind yet.
You’re right that this one metric doesn’t tell the whole story, but no metric does and they aren’t meant to. Of course you need to look at other metrics besides employment to understand how well your society is doing.
Here's my take on that: A marginal amount of gatekeeping is necessary for any group to maintain its group identity. The toxicity comes from the overdose, not the act itself.

A lot of "nerds" have personal insecurities and downtime. The potent mix of the two leads to more gatekeeping behavior than is necessary.

It's for this reason that many people (especially women, PoC, etc.) will be hostilely quizzed when they express an interest in something nerdy. It's not overt racism/sexism, so much as a "oh no, if they share my interests, I'm less special" sort of reaction.

Unfortunately, nerdiness doesn't strongly correlate with emotional maturity.

But things don't have to be this way. We all have the choice of what kind of person we want to be. Some people just choose very poorly-- short-sighted selfishness that hurts them long-term and everyone else at all times.

There are a lot of "nerdy" individuals who choose better. I'm happy to know of at least 100 in my industry.
You wouldn’t be isolated with the apartment you described.
https://github.com/knative
https://github.com/google/gvisor
And deciding which things are "needs" and which are "wants". We'll never agree on that, so no level of basic subsidence will ever seem like enough.
All true, only those people will be probably 1000x less than all working people currently, due to highly specialised and manual and creative skills that not everyone would (or could) acquire. So this still doesn't seem to address the problem of a huge portion of humanity being displaced and left to live under a bridge.
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I'm not speaking from a position of ideology. I'm describing the world based on a scientific understanding of human motivation.

Sorry if that's incomplete.
Well, that's a wall they've built for themselves, between mobile-first interaction, porn addiction, me-first no-compromise individuality, infantilism, the body as "dirty", and neo-prudery of various forms...

People had more sex fun in the 60s and 70s without that baggage...
Always go back and read the UPGRADING document if you encounter something like this in the future. It will save you a lot of time.

You should use Ubuntu LTS if a major release every 6 months is too much for you.
I don't know where Atlas Obscura got that from. It's definitely not in the photo. (And Atlas Obscura or sites that seem to have copied from it word for word is the only place that appears to mention it.)
> You’ve got armies of managers and bean counters trying to squeeze nickels out of processes

Unfortunately the processes they are squeezing often involve budgets and salaries, like those of factory workers, teachers and nurses. Its a bit hard to sympathise with this kind of 'value' sometimes.

> In fast food, for example, self-order touch screens are vastly inferior to a trained order taker
> Grocery checkout automation is atrocious

I don't kniw about elsewhere but in NZ and Japan I'll pick self check out every time it's there. Its a bit sad on the human side of things but it is easier
Just the other day I wanted to buy a book, but Amazon no longer has it in stock...

Yes, that makes about as much sense as people who can't get over their favourite RSS reader, 13 years on.
Fucking your reports is not your personal life. It's your professional life. It opens both you and your employer to professional liability.

Under American law, if my manager, Bill, is having a secret - or not-secret affair/relationship/'friendly' arrangement with Sally, who reports to him, I have grounds to sue both Bill, and my employer, on the allegations that this is a quid-pro-quo relationship. If they break up, Sally also has grounds to sue both Bill, and the employer, on allegations that she was pressured into this relationship. It turns into an incredibly nasty game of he-said-she-said, which is why the professional thing to do is... Not sleeping with your reports. Professionals don't open their employer up for liability, in exchange for personal gain.

If he were sleeping with some rando engineer that worked on Cloud, that would be his personal life - because he is outside that engineer's reporting chain.
I don't know, I often miss the pipe operator in python, which makes certain things much easier.
I once created a small class to simulate this a bit, it allows you to use + as pipe operator. Wouldn't use it in production though, was just fun to write it. https://pastebin.com/eQacwLj7
My guess is that these are hobbyists having fun. This is my guess because I've had similar ambitions and done similar research. There's a lot of software for DIYers to make a fixed wing gas/nitro powered plane autonomous. There's ethical dilemmas surrounding this (endangering existing air traffic) but inexpensive long ranged drones are quite valuable for the drug smuggling industry and could make the operators a lot of money. And these people probably don't care much about the safety hazard.
A bootcamp is about gathering the minimum knowledge necessary to be productive as quickly as possible.

...and that nicely sums up the problem with software today.
You have company, I didn't see an epitaph either.
For item 2, Do you know of a email trickel system that would take care of this. Or is it just a salesforce/crm feature to look for?
The whole book "bullshit jobs" which is what people are talking about here is talking about useless white collar labor, not service jobs so I'm not sure why you think that that is what's being discussed.
When I write code at work, I write so according to guidelines that my employer and my teammates have produced, not all of which I agree with. We mostly write in Java, which I don't really like as a language (I'm lucky enough to be on a team that writes Python, but if I need to work with another team's code or a common library, I need to write Java). We run Python tests with unittest instead of pytest. We format our code with the `black` autoformatter, even though I disagree with several of its approaches. And so forth. I still follow the recommendations, because I'm working as part of a team, and none of the recommendations are egregiously unreasonable - they're just not what I would have preferred.

The recommendations of the university working group seem similar. Well-intentioned people can reach different conclusions on these things, but none of them are egregiously unreasonable. You don't have to use the BMI exercise; there are enough other exercises that solve the goal of inputting some numbers and calculating a simple formula based on them. None of them are even at the level of saying, you must teach a thing you don't believe. (He's not even, say, a biology professor asked to teach/not teach evolution. He's a computer science lecturer, and none of these recommendations are about the facts of computer science itself.)

As a professional software engineer, if I picked a fight about the coding guidelines, I would in fact be spending a significant amount of my political capital. If I find something very important, it's possible I can slowly try to convince people of one thing, and have it reflect positively on me. But if I picked a pointless fight - like saying that we should standardize on double quotes in Python instead of single quotes - my management would be right to question whether I was more interested in doing my job or in getting my way.

And if I were to say that I wanted to work on "heterodox engineering," I would be surprised if my management did not question whether I was in the right role. By his own admission, this man's "best teaching" is in areas entirely unrelated to computer science - why is he confused about having trouble getting tenure in a school of computer science?

For all that Quillette seems to dislike professional victims, they appear to have published one.
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey -- The People's Forum

It's an academic deconstruction of the text of Karl Marx's Capital. It covers a lot of the foundational language used in contemporary discussion of Socialism/Neoliberalism/Economics.

It's a 12 part series, and it really helped me understand what people meant when they said value/commodity/labor/etc. And it's presented in a dry, academic lecture that I found accessible but not 'pop', if that makes sense.

https://peoplesforum.org/capitaldavidharvey/
I agree with your goals, but I do not believe the strategy you are espousing will achieve those goals.
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I remember paying for things like analytics and video chat where there were still major blockers that I could have fixed myself easily if I had written the software myself. Instead, the high priority requests for us were triaged as low priority for them and never got resolved.
That's a good conclusion. You can buy cards that are actually specced for high-endurance workloads, they're usually marketed as either for video capture or industrial applications.
Yes, as much as I agree with the sentiment of the GP, these comments really are just a bore now.
Except, clearly, a job
Controversial opinion: I think everyone should have access to good education, and I don't see why a public system is incapable of providing it.

Private systems aren't outcome orientated, they're profit orientated. If a public school and a private school are both given $n to educate a kid, the private option will maximize the proportion they get to keep.

Elite schools are a different story because they have significantly more resources.

The free market is good at some things, but the public wellbeing isn't one of them.
It addresses a lot of issues and problems ..many urgent..with 45 billion dollar California Ag industry.

This is why I fret when Agtech VCs pours $$$ into the existing industry that looks like a cash cow. But it’s a crippled cow. They will bring it all crashing down. They are talking to corporations and not to real farmers in the ground.

I started knocking on doors five years ago and at this point, I don’t think it makes any difference anymore. So much VC $$$ have been pumped into California Ag that by investing in an industry that was showing signs of a fever..they have only to made the infection worse.

I don’t know how this can be remedied anymore. The right time was five years ago. Hubris.
Behind the Bastards -- "The Birth of American Fascism" is an excellent 7 part series as well.
SD and SDHC differ in some material ways. SD uses byte-level addressing and is limited to a size of 2 GB. (The spec could theoretically support 4 GB, but is limited by spec to half that, possibly as a hedge against implementation errors.) SDHC uses sector-level addressing, lifting that limit to a theoretical 2 TB.

SDHC and SDXC are identical at a protocol level.
If you wanted to be that precise, sure. But something like an hourly ‘calculate what I owe’ and compare it to a cap is not a big stretch of the imagination, and would suffice for many use cases.
What are your thoughts on DragonFlyBSD?

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/
Indeed, and the election of a character like Trump seems like a symptom rather than a cause of depression.
There should be a category for sustainability/food.
That's reasonable. I thought you were talking about things like the B5000 and the 8087.
> sliced it was to only provide the bottom 4 bits of each byte.

That’s hilarious. I guess people were not that knowledgeable back then.
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I enjoyed Tyler Cowen’s interview with Larissa MacFarquhar:

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-lari...

She writes for the New Yorker and has spent plenty of time around unusual notable people. She also wrote a whole book about extreme altruists. Here is the first bit of the podcast (both transcript and audio are at the link):

> COWEN: First set of question about altruism and extreme altruists. Are very virtuous people easy to dislike?

MACFARQUHAR: Not to me, but to many others. And this was actually news to me when I embarked on the book. I went into it wanting to simply understand the drive and the motives of people who could sustain the kind of extraordinary sense of duty and altruism that some of us have some of the time, moved maybe by a poignant photograph or somebody in front of us, but can’t sustain without those cues in front of us. But there are other people who can, and I wanted to know what made them tick.
But in my first foray into this field, I was writing about people who donated one of their kidneys to a stranger, and I discovered . . . I was talking to people about the people I was meeting, and they would say, “Well, those people surely are all mentally ill, right? Or they have some problem, or they are probably very, very censorious or judgmental.”
It was very surprising to me. I understand, of course, that not everyone is going to be an extreme altruist, but I didn’t realize the extent of the hostility and suspicion of them until I started writing about them. And I became fascinated by that. It became a major part of the book, trying to figure out where this comes from because I don’t think it exists in every time and place in the same way.