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I have seen the startup stages of software projects with varying levels of quality. The whole spectrum from very bad to very good can be observed and/or participated in in the wild. The good ones start out with one experienced developer. After two or three features have been added (within two weeks to a month) more developers, possibly less experienced ones can be added. Their number should grow somewhat slowly mainly to make sure that they are not getting in each others way too much. Practices that make this work are automated testing and code review. Occasionally, some pair programming can be practiced, especially when some refactoring is needed. I am talking about limited refactoring here, maybe taking two to three days. If the project can be split in a front end and a back end one may start out with two developers. In theory a system that consists of N services might start with N developers but if N starts out larger than 3 one is quite likely engaging in over engineering.
Never used Slack. Shall try it out.
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As always the problem is not so much the debt but the size of the debt.

Don't take on debts that you cannot readily pay back.
You’d be surprised. Sometimes the level of support from others is basically zero but you still make it happen. That’s the real sign of 10x
that would only make it more authentic
Interesting, guess I shouldn't have such high expectations..

But I still would think G Maps has a system to deal with spoofing; maybe they weight your data based on how reliable/valid your data is over time.
Hm, a hostile nation state could cause some serious economic damage this way. Maybe they're already doing it?
Most robocalls are illegal anyway, unless you've given your explicit consent to a company, like your utility company.

Making something illegal doesn't mean it goes away completely (or at all). https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0259-robocalls#legal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man, regarding your literary works argument, but I'll bite.

The person described could exist, so gendering them is inappropriate if we're to fix our issues with inclusion in tech. If you're asserting that the person described is definitely fictional, sure, give them any gender. But they're not, they're a hypothetical person with non-trivial likelihood.

Characters in novels have a trivial/negligible likelihood of existing because the specificity of events described in the story rules out their existence to a large degree. Whereas here, all that's described is a potential person born today and dies 12-12-2121. Of the ~360,000 people born today, you're looking at a sizeable likelihood that someone will live that long and pass on that day.

So, since the person described is somewhat likely to actually exist, do our own culture of inclusion a favor and don't presume gender.

How hard can this be?

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Edit:

I feel myself becoming frustrated at my inability to convey the point, so I'll opt out. I regret I couldn't bring you around.
There is a notion in economics of complements and replacements. The plow was a complement to horse labour, while the gas engine was a replacement. The former increased demand for horses while the latter basicly eliminated it. If we truly had human-level AI, labour models predict human wages would decline below subsistence. However, applying these labour models in a regime where we have AGI makes little sense, as all that will matter for human welfare is the objective functions of the AIs.
No problem, we have Terms of Service to avoid that liability.
Affects .Net Core 2.1, 3.0, 3.1 -not app specific but workaround exists as mentioned and is tracked here
https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/issues/123
This is an understated problem. Google used to regularly take me through a route that involves a left turn in a major road and multiple crossings where cross traffic won’t stop. Literally two blocks from the suggested left turn is a left turn arrow signal which also avoids the dangerous crossings.

It’s both dangerous and anxiety inducing and doesn’t save time either.
I think this misses one of the social benefits of UBI, or maybe glosses over it in the umbrella of "addressing poverty and income inequality", which is that it gives people on the margin the safety net to reboot their career/job into something more productive rather than destructive behavior they might otherwise fall into.

I got this insight from the end chapters of the book "Ghettoside", where the author describes US social security payments to those who are "disabled" as the closest the US has today to a non-universal basic income. Coal miners who are no longer able to work because the coal mine shut down and they have no other skills get this "disability" income, and in Ghettoside the author describes former gang members also qualifying under the rationale that they are unsuited to the formal workforce and are therefore "disabled" as well. But what it can serve to do is break the cycle of criminal behavior: when the former drug dealer gets out of jail, absent other opportunities or a safety net source of funding to cover life's basics, they quickly fall into the path of least resistance and return to their criminal behavior. The social security disability payments give them another option to turn things around. Now, if they transform themselves into a legal entrepreneur or productive employee, they sure don't seem disabled any longer, which is part of the problem with this being a non-universal BI. It is akin to the downsides of a negative income tax: it gives only to some, and when you do that you have opportunities to abuse the system, and you have more process costs/friction and barriers to entry which keep some who should get it from getting it.

Social security disability is an abused program, with attorneys advertising their ability to get you qualified, which is the irksome aspect of this being a non-universal basic income: it is only available to the savvy or those willing to engage an unscrupulous attorney to qualify. So it is a flawed comparison to UBI, but I think the social benefits described in Ghettoside deserve more attention.
This happens a lot when driving around on smaller highways in rural areas here in the US. We even joke when we see red on the map; is it a real slowdown or did the one driver with Google Maps slow down to pass a tractor?
Yep. Happened to me a couple of months ago on my iMac 5K with TB3. I guess it's because the TB controller is off when nothing is plugged.
From your flagged comment, you're interpreting the downvotes as some sort of reactionary resistance to your free thinking rebellion against conformity.

In reality I think it was because you gave a hostile, pompous response to an honest question about the motivation of TLA. The actual point you made is not controversial at all, in fact it's quite self evident, banal even.
There were major benefits of things like the new deal - massive road systems, parks, etc which allowed America to prosper for the next century.

Mass infrastructure investment would be great, trouble is we need educated workers now, not day labourers, so we need to combine the infrastructure building with education both formal and on the job, ideally at a part time rate, say 3 days a week
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It’s not. It’s not even worse than deaths caused from medical errors.
20% population decline in 5 years is a horrific situation, but machines have a finite lifespan so you still need to make widget making machines. A more realistic +/- 0.5% per year is all of a 5% difference over 5 years and hardly changes projections.
Those older ThinkPads predate M.2 standard and since M.2 is longer than mSATA/mPCIe they simply don’t fit in case they needed a PCIe based storage.
Here's a map with the latest coronavirus data: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Correct,

it is not the debt itself but the size of it and expected payoffs.

If you were coming from an average financial background in America then

a 30K student loan to go to an excellent school that sets you up for life would be most certainly worth it, 300K would most likely not
The study looked at small assignments in a course. So it’s definitely ignoring these types of long term productivity advantages.
wget does not re-upload the content elsewhere.
The statement was about the people who are no longer earning other income because their labor is not needed.
So what? If those few people provide services to a great number of people who freely choose to spend their (now increased) income on housing, those people have improved the lot of a large number of people and have earned that wealth (upon which they'll be taxed).

Indeed, if UBI becomes a significant possibility (but before it's a certainty), I think that buying low-end rental properties would be a good idea as I'd expect UBI to result in a net increase in household formation. This is literally giving people freedom and agency with which to live their lives in the way they choose.
...most of which is just repos being rolled over yielding a surprisingly small net 150b CNY injection.

But I guess there's no reason the PBOC can't legitimately go PPT a la BOJ and just buy equities. They have the reserves.
Yes. But you have some users that want writetoo. Nice to have the option.
Supply exists. Surplus exists. It’s just reserved for the wealthy, since homebuilders can make more profit off one luxury home than a hundred affordable homes, even if they have to leave the luxury home vacant for years before finding a buyer.
Good Podcast on the same subject. This now submerged region is known as Doggerland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006707
Quotes are just a tool, not a religious requisite. Chubot is talking from experience, and he is right. Putting quotes on all shell expressions is a burden, because it's more keystrokes, and more characters on the display which make the source on display disorienting. When you use shell every day, you know where the quotes are needed and where they are just a noise. Use a tool - when it's needed.
Wilbur Ross's comments come off as a little callous but whatever.

Anyway, these repo operations are meant to stabilize the markets in the event of a flash crash where there is a major dislocation on the price of equities, due to the coronavirus. Still might be a major downside move, but it should stave any long term move downwards.
I paid 100 euros in today's money for Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5, the last TP version before Delphi got released.

Likewise I paid 150 euros in today's money for Turbo C++ for Windows a couple of years later.

Borland products were king for small business, but then they decided to switch focus to corporate users, and the rest is history.

As side note, Delphi and C++ Builder are still quite loved in Germany, several companies keep using them, and there is at least an yearly conference.
The dirty secrets of US chemical companies have deep roots that spread wide
This gives a new meaning to the maxim "You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic."
Slight correction: "We took a classroom of students and measured their performance with coding challenges in a situation that bears no resemblance to actual business operations with no middle-management, insane CEO requests, or office politics. We observed that several high-impact comparisons could be made, similar to literature suggesting a 10x programmer. However, we found that comparing a student to himself often results in >10x results, and that other comparisons often used in literature could produce >10x from this dataset, which obviously had very few true outlier talents or performances. Therefore, we conclude that the story is varied and that individual variance overtime outweighs cross-individual variance at any specific time."
FOIA thank you for catching this!

I requested footage from the patrol person’s vehicle. They circled back and needed the exact time of footage (I was ticketed long after the alleged violation). So this was me personally using the time stamp to surface the window of footage necessary. Turns out the camera caught a car veering into my lane that the officer “did not remember”, thereby exonerating me of swerving into the shoulder.
This hooks directly to the PCIe bus, so you can boot from an NVMe drive on 2008-2013 era ThinkPads that have no other PCIe exposed. The internal HDD/optical/WWAN M2 interfaces are all SATA-only.
“a UBI would actually become a regressive policy where a tax on consumption (VAT) is effectively transferred to land owners.”

Since UBI is mainly pushed by wealthy people I wouldn’t be surprised if this was intended.
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Absurdly so many supposedly “capitalistic” essays on this topic misunderstand macroeconomics. At the macro level money functions more as a signalling mechanism than anything else (which is why there is such a struggle to match the money supply to aggregate “size of the economy”). UBI allows otherwise non-participants to signal demand for t-shirts vs phones.

At The micro level sure, money has other roles like reservoir of wealth, but as the marginal cost of production drops precipitously “wealth” becomes less and less useful.
Very basic stuff. Actually only the fact that for a syntax aware editor you need other data structures than for a compiler and that edits only affect parts of that structure.
Right now those in cheap areas get 0 dollars. Getting 15k per year would be a vast improvement in terms of government sponsorship.
I know you're at least half joking, but for me it actually is the year of linux on the desktop.

As a developer who does server-side stuff, a mac was an obvious easy choice for a long time -- a tradition that has been widespread going at least as far back as dhh's intro to rails development using textmate [1].

What does that open source crowd want now? They want to build OCI/docker containers and deploy them to kubernetes clusters. You can do that on mac, but these containers need to run on a linux kernel, so the setup winds up as containers on a VM on the host OS.

If your dev machine is linux, you can remove the VM layer in between and the setup is simpler and more efficient. I think that might push a lot of developers from mac to linux. I just got a new dev machine recently and it's a linux laptop.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY
WASM is just yet another bytecode format.

AssemblyScript is already quite ahead regarding WASM support.
Why borderline? Call a spade a spade.
What makes me uncomfortable is tying my professional identity up with a part of the product lifecycle.

Sometimes it's just fun to take on risk, and other times, great to be able to eliminate risk. But fundamentally, almost everything in tech is a kind of wicked problem. Sometimes that problem domain sometimes shifts to areas where you have less control.

Where things usually go off the rails are when you feel like you're no longer making contributions. I find _this_ is really what "pioneer people" are really griping about. It isn't that they need to "move fast and break things" or other such BS. It's that they got used to having control and seeing the impact of their work. After a while, things become complicated, and it becomes hard to see how they make much of a difference.

Usually when I see one smart, inspired person leave because of "process", there's often a team left behind frequently spinning their wheels on something useless.
I recently tried walking directions to JapanTown in SF on both Google Maps and Apple Maps.

gMaps took us to the restaurant on the shortest path - straight through the heart of Tenderloin. My girlfriend was sketched out as heck and almost made us take an Uber.

On our way back from the restaurant, we used Apple Maps. It took us on what looked like a longer route but lo and behold, it took a wiiiide berth around the Tenderloin. We saw not a single sketchy thing on our entire night time walk.

Don’t know if it was a coincidence or Apple Maps really has an “avoid seedy areas” model. The route was way simpler at least. 2 or 3 turns compared to gMaps’s 15

And grid geometry means Apple Maps was only 2min slower. But way nicer and easier to navigate.
Hopefully it won’t grow into eTLA acronym.
I wonder how many of those tourists would even care. Income inequality is a global problem and many tourists come from countries that have been rapidly developing in the last few decades. The situation in SF might not be that shocking to much of the cohort.
Ouai is slang for oui (yes). It's not classy but it's nowhere near as bad as the other words discussed here. It's like "yeah" instead of "yes" really.

Using meuf/rebeu/trome (woman, arab, tube) is similar to using hoe and nigga in English. Better not do that even in an informal setting. If you talk like that near people, let's say in a bar or in the tube or on your phone walking, people nearby will avoid you.

If you add "putain" every few sentences, you will be universally approached as a violent degenerate.
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I just watched The Game Changers which praises the benefits of a plant based diet and claims a significant amount of scientific consensus around its health benefits. What’s the healthiest proportion of meat in a diet? Majority/minimal/0 calories?
So what?

My guess is the now-incredibly-rich rentiers (with guaranteed income) will start lobbying the government for concessions (e.g. restriction on new housing, tax-breaks) that further distort the very inequality UBI is trying to solve.

No one loves UBI and its noble objectives more than I: but I'm worried about this inherent failure mode.
Considering how repetitive pre-CSS web development could be, I'm surprised a templating framework for compiling static HTML files didn't catch on. These days, we have things like Sass, but we also have CSS, so there isn't as big of a needs as there was in the late 90's.
>Some combination of obfuscation, encryption, mixing, and plausible deniability seems to be the best bet.

Go on.
California is most definitely fiscally conservative. Taxes, and regulatory enforcement of leftish causes with real teeth are an uphill battle even with huge Democratic majorities, mainly because Democrats are basically a right-of-center party.

America doesn’t have a left wing in its political landscape, at least not one with any representation or power. Sanders might change that, but I doubt it.
You don’t need to eliminate all jobs to create a problem. By simply automating trucking, and you’ve put about 15% of our workforce out of work. What jobs could we easily retrain that 15% for, that are not already being filled?
You can use --limit-rate=500k if you want to limit the bandwidth you're consuming.

And load does not translate to cost for everybody. If you saturate the connection to my VPS, I don't pay more, it just gets slower for everybody in contention. I can spin up mirrors but if I'm offering a free resource like this, I'd be more likely to limit the bandwidth-per-client-IP or just actively let it run slow. They could even limit the bandwith to the subdirectory with...

location /download/ {
limit_conn addr 1;
limit_rate 50k;
}
Not an AMD fault, but I'm bummed that the only model of RX 5700 with ITX form factor is available exclusively in Japan, cause a I would love to assemble a full AMD 5 liters PC (without selling a kidney for importing the GPU...) T__T

I guess mini ITX is a niche market.
I just toss a lot of applications around online. What sort of engagement have you been getting so far (phone interviews, onsite, etc)?
I think banks make their money not on interest rates but on various fees and overheads: each person getting a mortgage pays 10K (or more) to the bank right away. That is huge upfront money in addition to the interest rate.

Same with late fees etc. Huge business.
It could be efficient to hire via nepotism. For example to maintain valuable connections, improve your standing in a group, etc.

Market != meritocracy
By "we" I mean the developers, we can explain the upsides and downsides of the solutions but we don't decide the look and feel.
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They found no true outliers in this group, but were able to make comparisons which did seem to show fantastic 10x (or 24x) outperformances. From this you may conclude that comparing programmers is difficult and likely to produce misleading metrics.

They found that 95% of programmers had such high variance in their day-to-day that Bob on Monday might be >10x with respect to Bob on Tuesday. And, this variance dwarfed the variance between Bob and Alice, one of whom may be a supposed 10x programmer.
I've found this to work extremely well. I tend to err on the side of caution, building well tested systems with carefully planned failure modes. I work very well with people who drive hard and spit out a ton of rapid prototype code that's full of bugs. It's frustrating, and there's often tension. But the end result is the best of both worlds.
Excellent idea!

With NVMe now a thing it feels as if the express card slot is ready for a comeback.
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I'm afraid the 2242 requirement makes this much less of a slam dunk than it should be. Last time I looked for one, only the Toshibas were available as 2242 NVMe drives. (Many more similarly-sized drives are available, but they use SATA which won't work with this adapter.)

I've been looking for an upgrade to my 2242 PCIe drive but they rarely appear, and usually by the time I find one you can't actually order it anymore.
That is understandable in the sense that the original RLS seemed to follow an exact opposite of a strategy: it was frequently said to be "pretty good already" and "close to 1.0", but some people experienced crashes and the code completion not working, and were obviously let down, which led to even some animosity towards the project.
I'd make a slight nitpick that that the purpose of UBI is to decouple work from the ability to have enough money to live on.

The "robots will take our jobs" argument is just one of the arguments for why we should do this decoupling, among many good arguments, but is the easiest to swallow.
> "...is that really an issue people would have?"

Hell, yes. There are a vast number of low-education people with what the HN crowd would call "old fashioned attitudes". From https://archive.is/CCTXs#selection-1205.100-1205.363:

"'Being a man means supporting your family,' says Mr Davis. 'You’ve got to do whatever it takes so they eat, [or] you’re no man at all.' Being a man, says Mr Redden, means you 'work hard, provide for your kids, have a car and [maybe] get your own house some day.'"

What would UBI do for them? It isn't going to fulfill their emotional or spiritual needs. (What they really need is a universal jobs program, IMO.)

> "With UBI, I would expect to see many more people building open–source software. I would expect many more going into the arts. I would expect many more doing volunteer work. There are so many fulfilling and valuable things to do that are not easily profitable!"

Funny, then why aren't people on public assistance already doing all these things you imagine? As others have noted, EU nations provide benefits better than any UBI proposal likely to succeed in the US. So where is this magical wave of creativity?

Could it be (shock, horror) that the vast majority of people don't have the creativity to build things or make art and don't feel they would be fulfilled by volunteer work?
It's too high level for a shell - the unix concepts are too many keystrokes and modules away in python. Also, bad performance.
What you are describing here is a code monkey. Did he had any opinions or took any design decisions or he was just paid to simplify things?
> Does this already exist anywhere?

Of course, any basic offline routing application that doesn't have live traffic feed. Something like Osmand for example.

It's an interesting example of over-optimisation causing unforeseen effects. Perhaps better to rely on naive basic routing combined with external traffic condition prompts instead.