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Move to Washington and mail it in. But to be honest, you have an obligation as a citizen to do whatever you have to do to vote and I’m not too sympathetic to people without a disability saying it’s too hard to get out of the house when I see other people standing outside in the cold and rain for hours to do it.

Take some responsibility for your country.
There isn't proof of either of those things you said.
I know that Microsoft's datacenters, and probably many other, are parked next to cheap power sources like hydro plants that aren't near any major demand sources.
"It's because there's a catch-22 in this situation between empathy and honesty. "

This is one of the exact things addressed in Crucial Conversations:

(1) The authors recognize that a lot of people feel this way. That they are either brutally honest or they don't talk about it.

(2) That people often feels this way because they don't know how to talk about difficult things. It does not have to be this way.

The authors lay out the steps for being able to communicate difficult conversations with anyone. Is it still going to be unpleasant? Yes. But it does not involve an either-or choice of being "brutally honest" and being "empathetic".

These are especially important in conversations these authors call "crucial conversations": important conversations that people have a lot of stake in its outcome, when opinions differ, and emotions run high. These are literally the underpinning of every relationship I know, be them romantic partnerships, to relationship with friends, with bosses, with people who work for you.

The key thing to getting out of that seeming either-or trap, is to understand that you can talk to anyone about anything if they trust you. They trust you because you sincerely want something that includes them. That you are not out to get them or trap them into things. That perhaps, you both want the same things though you might not see it. That you both are sharing in some shared meaning together.

It is a very practical book. It lays things out in ways that are catchy and easy to remember.

It's the book I gave to a friend of mine for a wedding present after I have been married for three years, something I wished I had known about when I got married.
This is maybe a bad example because it is exactly how people talk about compensation. I’ve never heard anybody say “oh I made $70k last year after taxes and rent.”
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I would have worded this as "given around 50 interviews" because "taken" sounds (to my ears) like you were the candidate, which I don't think is the case here.

I would not ask an interviewer what I could have done better before I knew the outcome, because I'd prefer to be a confident candidate not second-guessing myself. But I'd like to know after the decision was made not to proceed. (or even if the decision was made to hire me!)
Simple question, are electronic voting systems required to be FedRamp certified? If not why not?
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I give it whenever asked. Last I was interviewed, I got it at about half the places I talked to.

It's a very natural thing for people to ask about. And answering questions is also pretty natural. The notion that it happens approximately never strikes me as something that needs a lot more evidence than your personal experience.
Inquiry-based stress-reduction can help reduce anxiety and procrastination
I am not afraid of getting sued, but experience makes me afraid of getting dragged into an argument about my conclusions and judgement, the last thing I need when managing a hiring process. I do still provide feedback when it is politely requested, though.
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> If you want the candidate to be more likely to reapply feedback would help.

I'd be so happy simply hearing feedback on whether I should bother with the company again.

"You were barely beat out by another candidate, we hope you apply again next time!"

"You are not a fit for this company, don't try again"
Ah excellent! Glad to know the invention of the whiteboard was completely superfluous.
The entrenched and ossified power structure which has taken hold at the top has to be fought and dislodged by overwhelming collective action. Also, worth noting that a President of the United States (if backed by overwhelming popular support) could crack open any part of the CIA they wanted and show the public.

The controlled media still exerts a powerful influence over perception and narrative, but it is gradually being eroded by alternative sources and information flows.
Wow, TIL thanks.

> The Voyager service is a true mission of exploration, sending the Celestis spacecraft carrying cremated remains or DNA on a permanent celestial journey, well beyond the Moon.

> Starting at $12,500

(This is the most expensive option)
>Is there currently a shortage of drivers?

Most of the money Uber is burning is to recruit drivers. If there are more drivers around, there's less of a reason to burn $100MMs to recruit drivers.
So wait if I see a new bmw, all I need to do to break in is download the app and put in the VIN?
Because of unrelated, ride-count-independent costs. For example, massively unprofitable self-driving car and food delivery businesses.

Those reasons have nothing to do with Uber being unable to charge more for the rides than the cost to provide, which is not true and a widely held misconception.

An investor should care about "can they make money selling rides". That business unit can always be broken off from orthogonal ventures.
It doesn't have to be a missile.

Any fuel-air explosive will do.
> If you want the candidate to be more likely to reapply feedback would help.

Do companies really want that? Presumably they didn't hire the candidate because they believe better candidates exist. Why invest in someone if there are better candidates readily available?
I hate it when candidates put me on the spot at the end of the interview, because it feels like they're trying to get me to tell them (or at least hint to them) if they're going to get an offer or not. Even if that decision were wholly within my hands (it rarely is), I'm not ready to discuss it with them at that point. The other way it sometimes goes, if I do cave and give some feedback, is that they try to disprove me or show that they actually can do the thing I said they need to work on. It just ends up creating awkwardness, and doesn't benefit either of us.
In the UK I've heard it said you can make a subject access request (SAR) for any information a company holds on you. This would include interview notes for example.

I assume something similar applies in the rest of europe due to GDPR?
The algorithm requirements changed. It used to be to recommend the "best" content for you and now it is to recommend the cheapest content for them.
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Wow. I haven't not washed myself for a week but I imagine. Does showering more frequently help? I heard about the oral hygiene during the fast before. I am basically interested in doing a fast like this but am not sure if I could go to work if I smell unpleasantly but as you said I could probably start in such a way that the 2nd and 3rd days fall on a weekend. Thanks again!
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I fully understand removing TLS 1.0 because of the POODLE exploit. However, TLS 1.1 fixes it, provided you don't make yourself vulnerable to a downgrade attack.

Why is Mozilla disabling TLS 1.1? It probably doesn't provide the most up-to-date ciphers and such but algorithmically it's fine, right? Is there an attack on TLS 1.1 I don't know about?
It really does amaze me how much worse the delivery experience has gotten in the last few years. Prices are way up, and the additional complexity means deliveries are less reliable and less predictable. Which makes a lot of sense, really. If a restaurant advertised delivery previously, they had delivery employees and treated it like an important aspect of their experience. Now it's really not clear who, if anybody, is responsible for ensuring a good experience.
You know, I tried it[1], but it's still got some kinks to work out.

[1]https://www.dropbox.com/paper
And those competitors are also subsidizing rides. In many cases they are also paying drivers better to the point you'll get uber drivers recommending other services. The winner is whoever can pump more investor money in the longest, and even the can be disrupted by new rounds of investors.
This hasn't been my experience at all. Granted, I try to order from places close to me, but I was shocked at how smooth the transaction was with Uber Eats, and how fresh the food was. Also, little pro-tip: order food that travels well. French-fries are a huge risk, but hot sandwiches/pizza/asian food is great.
Tell me about it. I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on the thing (I turn off as many notification as possible, put timesucking apps out of easy reach, etc) but it still consumes much more time than I'd like. I despair when I see a crowd of people silently exercising their scrolling thumbs in complete ignorance of each other.
If you're actually sensitive to performance you surely would never use upstream debian binary packages. At least for the x86_64 distro they are built to run on Opteron and just rebuilding them for a less-old CPU like Intel Sandy Bridge, or for whatever CPU you intend to use, can make a huge difference. I get a full 100% improvement in sysbench oltp just from rebuilding the libc and database server with march=skylake.
I think the parent gave a good example of how it affected him long term. And I have to say the experience is mirrored with me. My attention span is not even 1/10th what it was when I started in this industry (where I had a team-office), and I don't think it would return very quickly if ever.

There could be other factors, for sure, but your brain is a muscle, if you do not exercise it (focus) then it will atrophy.
This is one of the vanishingly small implementations of fizz buzz posted online that don’t have separate paths for fizzbuzz cases than for fizz and buzz cases.

Usual solve is %3 = fizz, %5 = buzz, %15 = fizzbuzz ...

If you change 3 or 5, you now have to go edit 15 too, does that not seem like a problem?

Nicely done.
It might be that people are less motivated to take the effort to rate something if it was "meh, okay" -- whereas a 1 or 5 star rating is something you might want others to know about, so they can see/avoid the show.
Just wanted to say that that was a really enjoyable read. Thanks for taking the time to type it out.
Perhaps the easiest business-oriented solution to this mess is to simply comp applicants for investing their time in interviews with a company. At least then there isn’t the sentiment of having wasted time.
To give some sense of the difficulty in machining to that precision: the difference in a 4" block of steel at 68 degrees vs 74 degrees F is about 5 microns. Everything gets MUCH MUCH MUCH harder as you get bigger if you want to maintain precision. Truly an amazing feat of engineering.
The problem with simulations and paperwork with high tech engineering is you need enough competent, independent reviewers that understand how the whole system works together.

That sort of thing is rarely organized. So we test it instead.
Wait, Uber is now selling cuts in line? I hope the ghosts of their kindergarten teachers haunt them as they sleep.
You're assuming that anyone would be incentivized to tell that difference. Goodhart's Law is a thing.
I have this pinned to my wall by my desk. It reminds me how far I have to go.
Not only that, but I don't trust myself to remember how I calibrated myself to the rating system in the past. If I'm more stingy with the 5-star ratings now than I was 2 years ago, then I'm going to skew things in a way that the system probably can't understand.

In other words, it not only expects me to define my own scale, it also expects me to stay consistent with it over time. I don't think that's realistic.

I honestly wouldn't mind if from time to time, a service asked me to stack-rank movies. Because that would be a question I feel confident I can answer. Give me two movies and ask me to say I prefer A, prefer B, or don't have a clear preference. Or give me 5 movies and have me put them order from best to worst, allowing me to say two of them tied or exclude some. Maybe the UI on this would be too weird for average users, though.
20KM/h is a lot for newbies? really? I don't think that's true, how do they handle bicycles (which easily exceed that).
In the supposed scenario that the server sucks, and it stores directly whatever you sent them, no rounds, no salt, nothing, what you are left with, is whatever protection you did on the client side, so I'm thinking doing the rounds client-side.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know how practical it is to do the rounds on a low-spec device like a cheap android
If netflix replaced their UI with a single excel spreadsheet containing data about their content, I would consider it an improvement.
This didn't have anything to do with how it looked or sounded. It was getting the "Devil Fish" association. Anybody who used a 303 back then coveted a Devil Fish mod. Whittle was right to ask for a fair royalty arrangement and to emphasize quality. His brand was at stake. More power to him.

Losing brand is exactly what got Bob Moog into trouble. He sold the Moog name when he merged with another company and lost it for a few decades. Couldn't even make synthesizers with his own name on them.
They are not. For one thing elections are run at the state level.
I said compared to wide open spaces, not compared to employee costs.
You have it exactly right. Companies are protecting themselves from more than just legal action - Glassdoor reviews have a huge influence on how candidates view your company (especially true for startups).
Google, Facebook, and Amazon have made a sport of shoving people through their interview pipeline multiple times.
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They do want it. A strong signal is when a weak candidate comes back a year later and kicks ass.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Apple build in some sort of not-Qi charging in future phones. Really surprised they didn't do that to begin with TBH. Where the NFC has to read a compliant Apple chip to allow charging.
I try to choose activities that also will increase my social circle. So, like, with learning an instrument, avoid piano, which tends to be more solitary, and go with viola, which, if you get decent, will put you in demand. Or if studying a language, pick one that people actually speak (I studied ancient Greek in college).
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so is CompTIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9JKRItHDME
The issue with dishonesty in the context of relationships is not an ethical or moral consideration.

It has to do with the health of the relationship, whether people can really be connected with each other. A good chunk of drama that happens among people happen unnecessarily, often because they don't feel they can be honest with each other. They cannot be who they really feel.

Are there times people going to have white lies? Yes. Or how about withohlding information out of concern for them? Sure.

Figuring out whether you want to go the bar is one thing. It's when these things really matter, where people are not aligned in what they want out of the relationship that trying to keep things from each other makes things fall apart quickly.

Even simple things like, a friend who keeps asking you to go hangout with him, would borrow money from you and never return it. You feel used. But you also feel you cannot say anything for whatever reason. How can you tell this person, this behavior is not OK while keeping him as a friend? (Do you even want him to remain a friend?)

A married couple with kids. One of them is offered a promotion, but it requires moving overseas. It is a big opportunity, potentially career-defining. The other partner would have to leave a job and it would be highly disruptive to the kids, and does not want to move. Do you think putting this into a communication escrow app will help with talking this out? I don't think so.
So many comments in the vein of "who has time to waste on candidates we aren't going to make an offer to?" - You are damaging your companies brand thinking this way. You want people who you reject to say to themselves "I can't wait to study up and interview here again, they said no, but I still want to work here!"
Yeah, any way of increasing the cost factor, whether is PBKDF2 rounds, salt rounds in bcrypt, or just a pepper
To be clear - selective solar absorbers that absorb the solar spectrum well and have low infrared emissivity (so they don't radiate heat well), are a mature concept and can be achieved by multilayer coatings pretty well. This is a nice manufacturing process and could also be a competitive approach compared to conventional thin film deposition. However, I don't think the specific performance is dramatically different from things that are used in commercial solar thermal systems.
I would hazard a guess that the reason for the two licenses is different. For some reason braiding is classified under cosmetology, and cosmetology industry used to involve a lot of hazardous chemicals. In order to address health issue among employees who died an early death thanks to dibutyl phthalate, formaldehyde, lye, ammonia, and coal tar, the government stepped in a started to regulate the industry. It similar to how mining and particular coal mining has a lot of regulations.

Of course, one can braid hair without the employees being exposed to toxic chemicals. Still, cosmetology is even today regarded as one of the more dangerous jobs in terms of toxic exposure, and many employees do get exposed to nail polish, hair dyes, and nail polish removers.

There is also a cultural aspect to it. The demographic that work as beauty salons tend to be young women. Politician that drive harsher regulation in this area want to gain votes by being perceived as the champion and protector of women.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple argue that Lightning is in fact a form of "USB" and thus Lightning should be the standard or... we are already compliant with your nonsense laws
I did a quick search and found out that you can use something called the "Family Link" app. Here is an article regarding it.

https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103338?hl=en

I have several email addresses that I reserved for my children and grandchild way-way back when gmail was by invite-only, I guess I just got lucky and none of them got dropped (yet), but I guess the times are changing. I'm going to give this a shot too, just to cover my rear end.
When proving its correct, isn’t there always the possibility that the proof abstracted away some real world nuance into an assumption, and that assumption could be wrong?
LEO has enough atmospheric drag to take care of most of it. At higher orbits it might be a problem, but humans mostly want satellites that help earth activities, which usually means LEO is preferable. This is actively monitored and worked on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Depends on who you think of as paying the costs. One of Uber's "innovations" is to get the key capex, cars, off their balance sheet. Along, of course, with major opex contributors like repairs. Instead, those burdens now fall on individual drivers. It's really not clear to me if Uber would be truly profitable if they had to pay a reasonable wage plus the actual costs.

So instead the question becomes how long they can keep exploiting workers like this. AB5 suggests that the answer is not "forever".
The architecture of the system was such that no cross-checking could occur. There was a feature to implement an AoA disagree light, but that only came into play if an optional package was purchased.

The Lion Air crash data had the computer registering an angle off by a ridiculous degree that should not have even been attainable by flying one of these planes in the manner for which it was designed.

The Ethiopian FDR showed even more ludicrous measurements as I recall. It wasn't just a case of "It wasn't bad enough", it was a case of the computer believing the plane was belly flopping into the air stream (75 degrees AoA!).

Note the Space Shuttle only hits around 40 degrees on it's reentry in order to keep the wind hitting the thermally insulated bottom, and that only at Mach 10+.

There is no excuse for any software engineer/computer scientist to ignore the basic physics of the domain they are coding for to the point they cannot identify when a critical measurement is so far out of whack as to be instantly dismissed.

FDR graph:
https://visualapproach.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Data_Sh...
As I understand it, Firefox now has substantial parts written in Rust, Mozilla's own language. Also, unless the OS and drivers are written in a memory-safe language as well, that castle is to a degree built on sand.
On the topic of form letter rejections:

I WISH I even got those... durring my last job hunt most of the time the company just goes dark and stops contacting me or doesn't respond.

I say this and other recruiers tell me they're shocked and yet getting ghosted seemed to be the rule rather than exception durring that time.

Maybe I'm such a bad canidae that they don't even want to bother with a form letter.

Strangely one company who ghosted me contacted me recently about some opportunities. I told them I wasn't interested and about being ghosted previously.

They didn't respond...
Had the same thought. In theory as long as future connectors fit the same form factor (backward compatible) it shouldn't matter and USB 3.1 has plenty of head room as far as the protocol goes.
Actually, I have a few notes on image performance in there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22185760

(I maintain both Ubuntu and Alpine images and never noticed significant performance differences)
It's not the American education system problem, it works well for Asians or whites. It is the African American culture of being a gangster rather than studying and no school is going to change it, this is something they have to change within their own culture. Also fixing the families there, stop bringing children out of wedlock and behave properly like black families used to do 50 years ago.

There might be some genetic traits also, maybe the slaves were not that smart to start with and they can't close the IQ gap. The new immigrants from Africa are the descendants of people who sold those slaves, so obviously they were better, at least in warfare. They might also be from the upper classes, basically just having a higher IQ to start with.

An interesting thing is to look at England where blacks are all immigrants, there are more college educated blacks than whites percentage wise but the non educated ones are pretty problematic with the same gang issues as in the US. So maybe it is just black culture that is screwed up, who knows.
Yea, so how are the unit costs working out? Why is delivery so costly AND they are losing money? How costly is delivery supposed to be for a company to be profitable (assuming NYC level density).
...and a lot fewer people taking uber rides.
Jack London's rather pulpy novels of Alaskan adventure found a huge following in the Soviet Union. Here's a citation saying that more than 10 million copies of his words circulated in the USSR between the 1920s and the 1940s. https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/58636...

From a Soviet perspective, London's admiration for socialist principles made him an ideologically fine choice. And his subject material made Russian struggles with winter, prospecting culture, etc. seem universal.

London has been read to some degree in the U.S. ever since his death in 1916, but his awkward (or perhaps horrifying) racial attitudes, plus his gruff, beat-the-drum writing style have diminished his appeal in his native country as tastes change.