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Salaries are increasing slowly in London due to the realities of market competition, but not as fast as they should be. I think it is important to note that investors and indeed managers/founders tend to erroneously focus on quantity over quality when it comes to engineers. Instead of paying two very good senior engineers 200k each, they think they can get away with the same quality and quantity of work by hiring four mediocre or entry-level engineers at 50k each, saving 200k.

I suspect this is because they consider the work that an engineer does as auxiliary in nature and that Taylorist presumptions can be applied to them (modern day factory workers).
I don't know about expiration dates, but I think a hard-to-miss warning in the product description and packaging would be highly desirable.
Super interesting. Would this mean Earth has been "growing" over time?
You mean being a VC? But angel investment is a skilled job.

Even more so if you are trying to sell people on some idea.
It's been mentioned, but a solo-401k would likely allow you larger tax-deferred contributions than a SEP, depending on income (Can defer ~$57k on $200k w/ solo-401k).

I have one at Fidelity, it's free and I would recommend them. Vanguard / Schwab / ETrade offer similar prototype plans.

Since you're in TN, the standard LLC + S-Corp playbook w/ 'reasonable' salary + remaining as distributions isn't going to net very much after state taxes.

You didn't specifically mention a _home_ office, but it becomes valuable if it is your principal place of business. Miles between home office and other offices become deductible. A proportional % of your rent, utilities, and if you owned the home - mortgage interest.

If you're able to max the 401k and are generally young/healthy, you could pick up a high deductible healthcare plan and open an HSA. Fidelity is also one of the best HSA accounts, so that's convenient. After age 65, an HSA basically becomes a Traditional IRA (Except for unfortunate CA/NJ residents). Some folks use the HSA as an emergency fund and pay medical out of pocket, but keep enough receipts that they could withdraw a few months of expenses if needed. (An HSA is basically self-managed, not like an FSA where you have to submit claims and such if you paid out of pocket).

If you open a solo-401k and roll your SEP into it (Fidelity supports this), you can also make a $7k non-deductible contribution to a tIRA and then convert it to a Roth. It won't lower your federal tax, but will build a tax-free retirement base (+ protection from creditors / civil suit). Can also use this as an emergency fund since Roth _contributions_ are able to be withdrawn tax-free.

(If you don't roll the SEP into the 401k, you cannot do non-deductible tIRA -> Roth conversion without paying taxes on earnings of your entire IRA pool).
Another issue with iPhone 6 was the amount of RAM it had. With the newer iOS and updated apps, the memory consumption went up and the device would run out of memory, slowing down everything.
Do you want two OpenMoko phones sitting in my drawer? They're about as useful now as they were then.
I worked with a Simulink-generated system in a previous job. The generated code was absolutely unreadable by humans, and honestly downright ugly. I agree, it is very high-risk because it is a black box.
Cool! How are you creating the various export files (stl and the like)?
1 on 1s as status updates are horribly inefficient, which is why managers should not use their 1 on 1s for them.

However, when a manager uses 1 on 1s for what they're actually for (career growth, feedback, blockers, coaching, praise, etc) they have the best teams and best performance, because they make sure the employee stays motivated and the team as a whole operates better.

I've uncovered so many problems that would have otherwise blown up later, as well as found tons of ways to better motivate team members from them, I can't imagine not having them, nor ever working for someone who doesn't do them.
The ANT+ protocol and FIT file format are sort of open. They are well documented and available to everyone. Multiple independent companies do contribute. But ultimately they are controlled by Garmin; they aren't true open standards like WiFi, TCP/IP, or HTML.

https://www.thisisant.com/
I don't think two browsers with the same backend are really the pinnacle of competition, unfortunately.
Literally every electric car you can buy today does this exact thing.
I was under the impression python dict ordering was deterministic, just not in an order recognisable by humans, i.e. ordered by hashes. Was this not the case?
Not just control, but they gather a huge amount of data from the cars as well, including video from all the cameras. Heck, for the Model 3, there's a camera inside the car pointed at the driver. It's very creepy.
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For those that don't know PHP associated arrays are equivalent
pythons dictionaries. They are implemented as an ordered map.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

Its pretty much the main data type used in php. Once you get used to it is pretty powerful for dynamic languages. They even have built in sorts:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php

They are "simple arrays" that have numeric indexes, but I find those used less frequently. (They can morph into the key->value pair).
Like I said, I use Firefox with the exact setup as you said, but I find the interface isn't as slick as Vivaldi or Brave (that's pretty nebulous but so are most opinions). At least for Vivaldi, I think most people who fondly remember Opera know what I'm talking about. I don't mean to denigrate Firefox, I quite like it.
This is true, and the most likely outcome considering federal gridlock. The boondocks will be the last to come along, and its going to be relatively straightforward to get enough states in a coalition to force automakers towards EVs.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/01/states-represen... (States Representing 44% of US Population Sue Trump's EPA for Blocking Auto Emissions Standards)
Also known as SPS.
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Sounds like a fast and idiomatic way to shuffle a deck of cards is then to convert to a map and back.
This seems like an overly dramatic response to what is a very unlikely scenario. If you check the Consumers Reports owner's ratings for Tesla vehicles you can see that they score very highly, even the model X with the flying doors. They must be doing something right to have such a high percentage of happy owners.
I think you might be able to detect that the cat caught the dot by identifying an unplanned motion of the dot itself.
The first sentences are this:

France fines Apple €25 million for slowing iPhone software

France's consumer watchdog slapped on the fine two years after Apple admitted its iOS software slowed down the performance of older phones.

Then a huge photo.

The failure to notify thing is fine - Apple should notify folks that

a) they may be using a non-apple battery if they can detect that - was a common scam to replace the battery with a junker just before resale to show full battery for those checking

b) showing battery life for batteries they know are legit

c) warning users (and/or giving the user an option) to extend battery life by running phone slower.
> Hard drives last about 5 years.

I've often heard this, but I regularly use hard drives for much longer than that. I've only ever had one fail.
When a vehicle overheats and goes into limp mode the car tells you. Changing a vehicles oil does not increase the horsepower in a measurable way like the percent apple lopped off as batteries aged. If that was the case oil changes would be a much bigger deal.

Again, this is all semantics. The whole point is apple never told people they were throttling. And you've got two groups saying "Oh they are so nice, they did it so you could keep using your phone, how nice of them" and then the "my phone is slow I guess I need to buy a new one".
haha ok so this is going to be complicated.

1) A bit about what I'm doing with zig. I am working on an FFI interface between elixir and zig, with the intent to let you write zig code inline in elixir and have it work correctly (it does). https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/. Arguably with zigler it's currently easier to FFI a C library than it is with C (I'm planning on making it even more easy; see example in readme).

2) The specific not-in-master-branch feature I'm working on now is running your zig code in a branched-off thread. Fun fact about the erlang VM: if you run native code it can cause the scheduler to get out of whack if the code runs too long. You can run it in a "dirty FFI" but your system restricts how many of these you can run at any given time. A better choice is to spawn a new OS thread, but that requires a lot of boilerplate to do and it's probably easy to get wrong. Making it also be a comprehensive part of erlang's monitoring and resource safety system is also challenging, and so there's a lot to do to keep it in line with Zigler's philosophy of making correctness simple.

3) Zig does have its own, opinionated way of doing concurrency. I honestly find it to be a bit confusing, but it's new (as of 6 months) and is not well documented. I believe the design constraints of this are guided by "not having red/blue functions", "being able to write concurrent library code that is safe to run on nonthreaded/nonthreadable systems"

4) The native zig way of doing concurrency is incompatible with exporting to a C ABI (without a shim layer) so I prefer not to use it anyways.

5) Zig ships with std.thread. I believe it's in the stdlib and not the language because some systems will not support threading. But since I'm writing something that is intended to bind into the erlang VM (BEAM), it's probably on a system that supports threading. Also I believe that std.thread will seamlessly pick either pthreads or not-pthreads based on the build target, which makes cross-compiling easy.

6) So yes, figuring this all out is not easy (zig is young, docs are not mature), but once you figure out what you're supposed to do, the actual code itself is a breeze, this is the code that I use to pack information to connect the beam to linux thread and launch it: https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/blob/async/lib/zigler/lon.... I really hope the docs come with guides that will make this easy in the near future.
But the person was already dead.
No.

"Observation" involves interacting with the system under test, thereby necessarily changing the system. It is this interaction that results in quantum collapse.

Yes.

With our consciousness, we become curious and ask questions. We devise experiments that lead to quantum collapse.

Is "consciousness" the only cause of quantum collapse? I guess that depends on the simulation we're in.
rustc does indeed deliberately seek to emit LLVM IR that resembles what Clang would emit, in order to benefit from the same sorts of optimizations that default LLVM is tuned for.
You can resell the software upgrades you bought. This article talks about a case where the dealer (according to Tesla) had not bought the software.
Seems to be a far cry from explaining the Hard Problem of consciousness.

As for the meat of the text (pardon the pun, I just re-read “they’re made out of meat” yesterday), my amateur understanding is that there may be some degree of quantum effects in the microtubules of the brain, but that decoherence is very localized and limited, thus unlikely to have broader impact on physical systems at large. To this end, it’s unclear how a shared physical reality such as ours would allow for quantum effects from a measurement experiment, through the non quantum systems to the brain. Can someone explain the basis of the hypothesis presented by the paper in simple terms?
Porsche Taycan Turbo S is similar in terms of speed+acceleration to Model S, while lacking a bit in range (190-200 miles vs 370 miles) and being much more expensive overall ($79k vs $185k).

Unfortunately, that’s the closest comparable EV that is available today. I am not comparing to any vehicles that arent available yet on purpose.

Note: i intentionally picked the longest range models of both cars, but it was mostly to prop up Porsche, because even the cheapest Model 3 in production beats Taycan with 220 miles of range.
I think this change is great, but this really only becomes news again once all major LTS are shipping with at least Python 3.7, right? No one can really use it in code they plan to distribute at the moment. Maybe I am underestimating the amount of Python code that is meant for internal or personal use only.
The Overwatch example reminds me of Playing to Win (http://www.sirlin.net/ptw), and in particular, "the scrub" section (http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub). "A scrub is a player who is handicapped by self-imposed rules that the game knows nothing about. A scrub does not play to win."
You are confusing revenue with profit. The profit margin for a high-end chocolate is higher than a snickers bar's.
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I found it a significant enough annoyance to switch to a competitor. Getting into food logging requires low friction.
"Amadeus" is famously fictitious. In real life Salieri and Mozart were friends. It's good dramatic writing but that's all.

I'm somewhat disappointed that, of all the possible stories and lessons one could tell about Mozart's life, the one that Hollywood chose to immortalize on the silver screen is simultaneously depressing, disparaging, and false.
As far as I understand - we can make a random number generator decide if the automated observation of the photons passing the slits happens or not and then the pattern on the screen will change from one to the other randomly.

So we're pretty sure it's not consciousness that causes the collapse, right? Unless the RNG or the camera is conscious :)
Sorry for being even more tangential, but an Israeli friend joked about this that "You shouldn't mix your Rams with MLK." (i.e. Dodge Ram and Martin Luther King vs the kosher dietary restriction of not mixing meat with milk)
A wonderful read. I love how he basically mocks the product everybody in the room is using. "While I’m on the subject of variable names, I should say something good about Visual Studio." - that's basically the only time where he says something good about it.
Neat idea! I mostly like them for languages (spoken, not programming) but I can see it being great for programming languages too. I guess there are loads of topics that could fit into this.

Do you envision that your site will enforce a particular layout(s) and style for the cheatsheets? Or will it just be more of a catalogue?
They sell the car and the software. You can resell it. In this case Tesla disputes that the dealer bought the software in the first case, otherwise the dealer would be able to resell it, as all Tesla owners who sell their cars are doing it.
I would think that keeping the 3700 people confined to a cruise ship is just asking for the nCoV to spread more.

Best would be to take everyone off cruise ship, assume everyone is infected and keep them in quarantine on land for observation before being released.

I think it is more known now about how long it takes to show symptoms so I would say if someone exceeds that period by 35-50% they should be free to go from quarantine.

I have no experience at all in the medical field or know anything other than what is being regurgitated in the media so take my opinion less than a grain of salt.
To be fair, neither Boeing had any manned flights. I mean, the bulk of engineers and managers currently in Boeing didn't participate in creating the last manned spacecraft Boeing worked on, so the company history is rather irrelevant. It's similar to say Russia (actually, USSR) has created, say, TKS (with an arguably better returning manned capsule than Soyuz), Buran (with cutting edge automated capabilities), VEGA (a pretty successful interplanetary robot) therefore Russia has an edge today in these areas.
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we'll soon find out in next 5 years, as the big car brands launch their new ev line-up.
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The big tech companies will pay this to engineers with 5+ YOE when you include stock. Financial firms can be within this range too, and be a lot higher for quants.

I’d suspect 20% of my engineering colleagues make in excess of £150k a year.
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One thing I learned only recently was the Romans had a version of tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses, Xs and Os, etc) that is (IMHO) superior to the modern version.

While any capable player will always draw in the modern version, the ancient one gives each player only three pieces. To place a new one, an old must be removed. On the surface at least, this seems to result in a much more strategic game.

I wonder why the modern variant is the one that is most well known?
I’m a remote engineer, salaried by a SF company that’s mostly in-office. A good instant messaging client and a good docs suite are essential. Slack and GSuite are good choices. To those I’d add telepresence software like Zoom. That’s all you need. The hard part is setting the right norms and expectations.
> The industry forces us to throw away perfectly fine hardware after just 3 years or so.

And even if you don't care about software or security updates, it's still true in the sense that most don't have replaceable batteries now, and they tend to use batteries that start to die out after about 2 years.

They do this on purpose, but it's quite difficult to prove they were doing it as "planned obsolescence". This is why I'd fully support laws that make it illegal to make battery-powered devices that can't have their batteries easily replaced by the consumer (not the iFixit guys).
Genuine question from someone looking at toying with graphics programming who had never heard of WebGPU before today: does this mean I should hold off on learning WebGL? How different are the two?
I view that as confirmation of the GP observation. Async is an afterthought for Xnix.
Note that's EPA range. The taycan dramatically beats it in real world use while Tesla tends to do worse than rated. There are a number of tests out right now showing the Taycan gets as good or better range than most Teslas (the difference is even more dramatic when you include charging time).
Ahh - probably true. It was annoying me playing world of warcraft and I turned down the settings to shut it up - I forgot that.

Not an option if you are using it for your "work" workflow.

There must be a kill switch somewhere; I'll have a look.
Yes, but if that superior work ethic is a trait more frequently expressed in immigrants than natives, then that's important, and that's the distinction being made here. They didn't look for the best immigrants for this study, this was a study of random immigrants. The entire point is to show how this group called "immigrants" is different, not it's subgroups. The selection criteria itself was immigrant vs non-immigrant. you're saying that's not valid because it should have been more narrow, but it wasn't invalid because they were explicitly looking at the group as a whole.
this is definitely not true speaking as someone who just bought a used Tesla from Tesla with all software features
If it's important for you, you can try to find commit which degrades performance by using bisect.
From the docs:
"CPython implementation detail: Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order which is non-random, varies across Python implementations, and depends on the dictionary’s history of insertions and deletions."

So I would claim that equates to non-deterministic
TIL: rustic supports Windows: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/020_installation.htm...
I assume that the issue with processor groups on windows is that something somewhere is hardcoded to represent some kind of per-CPU state as bits in machine word. Having some kind of hypervisor as an additional layer will not help with that.
If what you've said is all accurate, then yeah, absolutely 100%.

Imagine if you return a MacBook to Apple. As part of refurbishing it, they disable half the RAM (make up a reason, it's broken or whatever). And then sell it to someone described as in its current state.

Heck Tesla could take the engine out and sell it as a lawn ornament. As long as they're not committing crimes by misrepresenting what they're selling.
Nowadays all browsers are extremely fast, but unoptimized and 3rd party script ridden web apps/sites are causing them to feel slow.
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> With our consciousness, we become curious and ask questions. We devise experiments that lead to quantum collapse.

You are mixing up intelligence and consciousness.
The ocaml compiler does constant folding too, and I consistently look at the (usually javascript because of Bucklescript) output in amazement when it finds shit like that. Unrolling all my tail recursion is great too.
There is no magic, and you should explicitly acknowledge the fact
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This. Plus, the typical 7-year loans we're seeing are not the 1.9% loans but subprime rates.
> Tesla does not and will not remove a feature from a car unless they have legal possession of the car.

Well it seems they have done just this.

> If the used car dealer can provide documentation that Tesla sold them EAP or FSD then it’s a different story. That has not happened.

Others have pointed to the Monroney sticker in the Jalopnik article, which lists this feature.
That does not matter, nothing is above criticism.
I'm talking about thinking, not sitting in an office.
I pulled the Fide player database for standard play ratings. The set of ratings had a minimum of 1001, maximum of 2862 (Carlsen), an average of 1663, and a standard deviation of 349. The 25th percentile had a rating of 1428, 50th percentile: 1663, 95th percentile: 2237, and top percentile: 2862.

Given those ratings, the 95th percentile has a ~100% chance of beating the 25th percentile, a 96.75% chance of beating the 50th percentile, and a 0.38% chance of beating Magnus Carlsen.

I think 1 in 20 is fairly rare. It's just that something being rare and something being hard to reach aren't always the same thing. It's likely just a matter of "trying hard to reach x" is the fairly rare thing. That doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile accomplishment. Sure, only having a 0.38% chance of beating Carlsen doesn't look great, but then you're comparing yourself only to the top players and not looking at the whole picture.
well, it creates a lot of DOM and executes a lot of JS, which stresses both JS and GC. it also uses the full bootstrap build to stress CSS & layout...which "modern" websites definitely (and unfortunately) do.