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I think that greatly depends on Blender further acquiescing to some industry expectations:

- having a stable plugin API that is not Python based is a must for many studios that are working with large computations. A stable C or C++ API is a must for them, versus having to patch and recompile the entire application from source.

- Allowing the plugin API itself to not be beholden to GPL. This stops a lot of commercial plugin developers from supporting Blender.

- Better large scene performance. Right now blender absolutely chugs compared to commercial apps when your scenes get larger

- better undo performance because it's effectively saving a copy of the whole file again per undo.

- potentially more ingrained support for Pixar's USD toolset including a Hydra stage view. Which would open up access to a lot of commercial renderers, but also offload large scene handling to the Pixar stack instead.

The leadership have been resistant to a lot of these over the years. But they seem to be coming about to the value of playing well with existing toolsets rather than being the do-it-all that doesn't fit in well.

I am hopeful with their current trajectory after the revamp of the 2.8x series that it'll see further advancements in the areas I mentioned.
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It's not really a 'power trip' is it? It's his instance and he can do whatever he wants. Aren't most of the folks claiming censorship also claiming to be for 'individual freedom'?

Also, not that hard to spin your own instance.
Because it's impossible for jobs to exist in Africa?
I was thinking about that while playing that recent Shadowrun cRPGs: you’re right on with the boredom factor. It added a separate combat system which was both obviously not how it’d really work and not more fun than the primary system.

I disagree a little on the split-party aspect but that requires careful DMing: it can be an interesting goal to synchronize real-world activities or need to protect someone who is completely exposed while they work. If you don’t overuse that and have a good mechanic for why the hacker needs to be in the combat zone it can work, but it’s easy to fall short.
Yeah but I'm not sure that was all, or if it necessitated a major version bump.
Actually most software business use that business model. Eg. buy low, sell high. The difference between market rates and wages are their profit.
>Nothing can come good out of sharing my salary with current coworkers.

Care to expand?
Stuff like this regulated by the government. Even if they do spot something, we wont be told until several months after.
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This is what they call slave morality.
Seems like you're completely missing the point of the interview question which is to see how someone would approach a problem, investigate its requirements, propose a solution, examine its drawbacks and how they would take feedback on that solution and its possible advantages and disadvantages.
Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
You don't get good cancer diagnosis without funding. You don't get neoadjuvant therapies without funding.
These days ECL lives on as CML, which is similar and mostly used for signal transmission. It's very fast so HDMI uses it. Some crypto circuits use CML logic too, because it's less susceptible to side channel attacks.
Can someone explain what is the issue with LGPL license? Do you plan to modify Qt code and add your proprietary secret stuff in it? Or you want to build one big binary proprietary blob? (what I liked about Qt it that is has been split in chunks so you can avoid depending on the entire framework if you just need the core.
Why you find it hard to cancel that subscription
Diversity goals don't necessarily imply discrimination against non-minorities. There are many completely reasonable ways to work toward such goals.
I'm not sure how that's even relevant since any life saved counts( and this isn't a valid argument against releasing a new drug). Anyway yes, depending on the country of course but e.g. metastatic melanoma which was a death sentence has much better survival rates nowadays. You can also look up the small cell carcinoma 5 year survival rate with nivolumab for example. A similar thing is happening with more specialized drugs applied in specific stages of other cancer types in which case yes, the point that it's a small fraction of cancers holds true, but again, how is that an argument?
In a nutshell: a lot.

You need to ensure all screws are tight from time to time.
Belts need to have enough but not too much tension.
Bearings need cleaning and re-lubing.
Leadscrews ditto.
Nozzle needs unclogging and replacing every now and then.
Fans must be kept as dust-free as possible.
Print bed needs wiping frequently with 99%+ isopropanol, eventually a wipe with acetone (if PEI; glass only needs alcohol but you need to ensure it's squeaky clean).
Plastic parts can break or sag and need reprinting and replacing.

I'm sure I've missed something but you get the idea.
The government has been in the business of basic research since science was a thing. Funding from taxes is a more fundamental component of the scientific process than peer review (a more recent development).
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Here is POC of cryptocurrency donation daemon, with example usage for micro-payments for GitHub contributors.[0]

[0] https://github.com/jollheef/donate
> Was this same role or across roles?

OP said their number is by "job title". Is that not the same as "role"?
Does it add up though?

If each launch moves 100 american-person-years of CO2 production off of the planet, that's... 1600 tons of CO2 that isn't being released.

100 person years per launch seems like a vast under-estimate too.

(Number sourced from the first paper that appeared when I searched "CO2 footprint of the average american" - https://externalassets.cooleffect.org/lib/content/wp-content...)

In the grand scheme of things I doubt enough people will go to mars to make a significant positive difference, but that's nearly synonymous with saying I doubt there will be enough rocket launches to make a difference.
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For other's who don't know about equity swapping. It is a process to swap equity of your business or startup with other business for long term goals in terms of profit or helping each other grow in multiple ways.

We have amazing entrepreneurs and startup here.

if any business is looking for swapping some percentage of their equity with other business, Please mention your business or startup below in comment along with equity you want to swap with others:

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Compliance with SEI CMMI Level 5 probably is expensive. While looking for more data I noted that several Boeing units are at Level 5. And I also found that between 2008 and 2019, about 12% of appraisals given across all industries and countries were at maturity levels 4 and 5, and hundreds are at Level 5 (more than Level 4), according to CMMI Institute: https://cmmiinstitute.com/resource-files/public/cmmi-adoptio...

So it all makes me wonder about the official maturity of Boeing's 737 team, and also how much that rating relates to actual software quality and safety objectives (as apparently achieved in the space shuttle work)....
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This is one of those cases of huge variation between each case which makes the average useless. Metastatic melanoma can go upwards of 5 years while others might still be futile.
Spot on. I enjoyed Sapiens but Homo Deus was unreadable. He doesn’t understand computers or mathematics, and his predictions about AI seems like all of his knowledge about it came from opinion articles in the NYT. Very weird book.
Fundamental physics or esoteric math are funded for several reasons, one of which is that they engender humbleness in society. These fields are among the most intellectually demanding of all, and by trying to do these difficult things, what we should learn as a society is that we are not done and we don't know it all, and can't do it all.

SETI particularly has this extra humbleness benefit, because it reminds us as a society that the journey that began from earth at the center of the universe, and is currently halted at, humans are unique in this universe, is not over. If we stop doing SETI, as a society, our egos will flare. If don't stop, we will forever be in the shadows of possible alien intelligences who could be far more intellectually advanced than us.

By doing SETI, we also are reminded that our science, and our viewpoint of the world is from a very human point of view, a very limited view, that could bear expanding.
If we diagnose earlier, it's expected that the 5Y survival rate improves even if the patient dies at the same age as she would have in the counterfactual.
We're very excited about this new release. I'm pipeline lead at Tangent Animation. Blender was used for "NextGen" and our future projects. I may answer how it is to be part of the development (Blender/Cycles) while producing features, but better yet you can talk to us at the SparkFX in Vancouver if you happen to be there.
Me too. I’m working at a FAANG company and apparently I could make 100k more.
I was relocating for this job and I wasn’t really prepared for the negotiation, totally screwed it up, and I think they gave me the minimum they could.
Oh the bright side, it’s still a good salary for me and I earn enough for two person to live comfortably.
In the absence of a thriving civilization in space, I don't have any confidence in governments to actually maintain adequate asteroid defense for the long term.
Unless you are a name brand already pay the tax and focus on growing your user base. Any additional friction (even a paid app up front in most cases) is going to stifle your funnel.
It's the opposite in my experience (at least outside of the bay area). All the engineers on my team seem to want to hire people who are like them, and are not incentivized to give minorities an easier time. The standards seem to be higher when the candidate isn't a white or Indian male.
Presumably he meant IP ownership or something along those lines.

To his other point, take homes have their own problems, especially for anything beyond the most trivial 2-3 task. That said, there are certainly many jobs where you want to see concrete evidence of ability. I'm not going to hire someone for a job that involves a lot of writing without seeing some writing samples. And if they don't have anything they can show me for confidentiality reasons, I'm going to ask them to produce something.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_Desert#European_explorati...

> The Gobi had a long history of human habitation, mostly by nomadic peoples. By the early 20th century, the region was under the nominal control of Manchu-China, and inhabited mostly by Mongols, Uyghurs, and Kazakhs.
Lots of great suggestions in this thread.

Another you might consider is starting your own business.

This path is not for most people. However, being successful as an entrepreneur does require a wide breadth of knowledge, and plenty of new things you'd need to always learn.

If you go this route, keep your (current) full-time job while you start building it on the side. Your one and only test of when you're ready to go solo is your ability to make consistent profit.
Would you not agree that spending hundreds of thousands for a few additional months of fairly low standard of living (even if higher than before) is wasteful on the larger scale?
In the UK we have ITJobsWatch[0] that seems to aggregate all the public job listings and organises by key word. It should give an idea of what the average person in that job is earning in each area, along with other correlated skills you might want to make sure you have.

[0] https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
You miss a group in between: the average.
I had my own text library where I converted to/from ASCII internally. There was nothing special about the 6 bit boundaries, so you could use any number of bits per character that you wanted until it was time to interact with the rest of the system. By the time I used it they had extended the character set to include lower case by using a special prefix character.
Dinosaurs are just beakless ducks. If you want to blow your mind, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota
I think you will do very well in IT security, those who dabbled in many things can join the dots and appreciate the bigger picture, which is necessary for security due to its "cover all bases" nature
I've been using hub heavily until last year (haven't used github much since), so I was a bit surprised to see this as news. Seems like it's basically the same thing as Hub with some updates b ut most of the flows (and a bunch more) I see were already available through hub.
> Trains in the UK got a lot better after privatisation,

I don't expect my point to be landing with free market Regonomists, but seriously? I mean even trains in my native country, which is generally fairly undeveloped are a lot more dependable. Trains in the UK are regularly late, cancelled, broken due to the slightest change in weather that's fairly typical of the UK, overcrowded, slow etc. etc.

Maybe it was even worse before, but if this is what 'a lot better' looks like, then the private industry has a long way to go.

I think there's plenty of room for private industry, but am not sure essential public transportation is one of them.

German trains are a lot better run, (have family there presently, so can speak to that) and while they're technically owned by a private company, the state is the single shareholder there.

Perhaps the problem was that in the UK, like in the US, there's a strong desire to underfund and underpower public programs to be able to then point to them and say how they 'don't work' - the same has been the case for the NHS as well, which btw now has huge contracts with private companies like Virgin Health, who sue and waste public funds if they don't get a contract rather than conclude that their offering simply wasn't good enough in the 'free market'.

That's besides the point that there's no such thing as a 'free market' for most people, because most of us aren't of means enough to simply pack up and leave if there's no good train/ISP... choices in our area for example, nor do most of us have the ability to start our own.
In Germany childcare costs vary a lot and depend on your income, so it's hard to say what somebody would pay for that.

However you'd definitely pay less than 400/month. If you're paying more than 200/month, you got quite unlucky. In some places, such as Berlin, childcare is free.
The company bringing scientists into the gig economy
A person in Nigeria isn’t a minority, unless they’re not ethnically Nigerian.
Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement
Never used these, but lemme put my Technology Selector hat on for a moment.

critic.sh seems to support BDD style tests whereas the other two are old-school XUnit style tests.

BDD style tends to scale much higher, declares its test coupling more clearly, and survives refactoring and growing test plans much better, IME. It’s also stupid simple to split large files into several bits by cleaving the tests.

But if I’m writing that much code I might switch to shebangs and use another language that has a better debugger and simpler code sharing. Python. Ruby. Node.

For all the time I’ve been using Bourne shells I’ve hardly touched the actual debugging facilities (instead of echo all over) so my advice is a little biased against big bash.
I think there will also be an enormous drop in revenue once the next recession comes. A lot of loss-making companies, aiming to grow as fast as possible using VC money, use cloud providers because it's one less thing they have to learn how to do. If they have an actual business model, like Dropbox, they eventually self-host. If they don't, and didn't really expect to have to develop a business model other than "grow really big", then once the VC spigot gets turned off they will shut down.

It is much like the late 90's boom, when a lot of companies were selling banner ads to each other. Even the ones who appeared to be profitable weren't really, because all of their customers were not. Once the loss-making customers of cloud companies go away, the big three cloud companies may find that they don't have a business model either.
One possible path is looking for products where the customers are other engineers.
UK police tell parents if their kids use Linux or Discord they could be hackers
> but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet

We're not all assholes. Just most of us.
To be honest, I'm a Democrat at heart. I just got tired of them taking my vote for granted. I know the Democrats will win, and I _usually_ vote for them.
This is a story about a developer going to project management from developer.

Speaking from the experience of a friend, they started out by talking with their manager that they did not want to be a developer in the long term. Shortly thereafter, the manager announced to the team that the developer was going to start taking on project management tasks (like managing the project using Microsoft Project and leading the scrum daily stand ups). They continued in that capacity until they officially became project manager for another team. Now, years later, they are still managing but managing managers and a much larger team overall.
Those at the top, early, get rich either way.
Integrating concurrency with mutability is a tough problem, and concurrency is becoming increasingly important.
The problem also is that diagnosis doesn't stop progressing. Today's opponents to cancer screening often argue with data from the 1990s. On the other hand proponents often refer to data of underpowered, badly designed trials.

Also, there exists no real guideline as to what would be "sufficient evidence". How much better would the survival of screening participants would have to be? In exchange, how much pain may be inflicted on people who get false-positive results. This discussion is extremely difficult. And once you are in the situation that you or somebody close to you get's diagnosed with cancer, it becomes really difficult to deal with arguments like: "On average the whole population does not benefit from you having diagnosed your cancer early so that after some small surgery, you'll continue living as if nothing had happened."
> For those unfamiliar with Blender's versioning, the major number is effectively meaningless. The 8 is effectively the major number and the 2 the minor.

According to semantic versioning this would look like Blender v2.8.2.

According web browsers versioning it will be Blender 28.2.
I worked at the company Jim Thornton founded after he left CDC, Network Systems. Each network adapter box had a custom processor implemented in ECL.
Yeah the version I'm using is ~9 months old from the XDA link.

Even GCam 5 and 6 perform better
It seems like the power consumption of this computer must have been pretty spectacular anyway. 60mW per gate is no joke.
Really appreciate all the suggestions in this thread.

Very similar story. Beyond doing the full stack development of their web properties and internal database, design, IT, networking, I've created a marketing, seo, and advertising role handling all of that to bring in clients. It's a busy day but have automated as much as possible. Currently looking for something that checks all the boxes and that'll have me. Hardest part is remote is a must. Definitely don't have an issue traveling for work but relocation would be tough. Recently bought a house in the midwest with my wife.
On user level, people could cooperate and make lists of spam accounts. There could be various lists with different values that determine who belongs on the list. People could subscribe to the lists that suit them and add all users on those lists to their block list.
I don't get it, honestly.

I would not recommend a candidate, who, when asked if they could do this with cut|sort|head would reply something like:

heh, what a pathetic question, I bet your history is full of "man cut"

it is not the right answer, it is needlessly obnoxious and indicates a person that can barely bottle up their emotions and quickly gives in under pressure. Usually not a good match to any team - unless they also bring in something massively beneficial.
It would be nice to know that the Агентство интернет-исследований
(Internet Research Agency) has KPIs for “diversity”. It must be really hard to hire non-white and openly LGBTQ people in Saint Petersburg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
The fact that there exist other clients that are specifically "built with user experience in mind" (Ditto) or built "to be a Matrix app that
everyone can use" (Pattle) sometimes makes me wonder why that would not also be the goal of the official client?
No, semantic versioning applies a specific meaning (that’s what the ‘semantic’ bit means) to the major version number. If the 2 is meaningless then it isn’t a Semantic Versioning major version number.
it was something with a simple name like nextapp
I completely agree with you. EU trust into US companies is all time low between technical personal and not without a reason, companies like google and facebook has made USA look really bad, even more with their ignorance to GDPR which is a huge thing in EU. All countries have some bad connection and history ties to some dictatorship that was collecting data to remove the oposition, from Stasi, UDBA, Securitate not to mention Gestapo that gave data collection bad taste for future generations that are learning this in primary school. USA didnt have ww2 on their soil. Hoower is probably their only connection to massive survailance and even that one was limited. People there just dont get it that privacy in EU is not the same thing as in USA, we had massive killings and torture due to lack of it. Europe remebers it and FB and Google are poking into one open wound they shouldnt. To have Crypto AG connection with CIA in national news is something that never happened before (highly specialized hitech themes is typically not submitted to general public). And then Facebook got kicked due to trying to smuggle something forbidden (this is perception of average cityzen) You couldnt wish for worse publicity for their service. And USA is always tied to this.
Not triggered at all. Called you out on your likely “everything i don’t like is a Nazi” and you post from a literal hate group as proof. SPLC is a bad org.
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US unveils 15MW 'open source' wind turbine after global project
I can confirm this from personal experience (at least it was the case 10 years ago).
And what about the price of time? Going from e.g. Denmark to Spain or Italy isn't cheap in terms of time..
How does inlining happening in C++ mean that the asm in C isn't predictable?

Even with inlining the point is mostly the same - there aren't small program changes that lead to big changes in what is generated.
Because Thomas uses his real name, whereas Moxie uses an alias.
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The Kardashev scale is essentially sci-fi. In a couple hundred years when we have an actual chance of having a functioning colony on a planet and not some playground for a handful of people, there will be a measurable advantage to humanity for this.

And democracy, even as limited as it is today, has been the only system which has brought any amount of peace around here.

And I'm not attacking Musk specifically, he is just very visible, and happens to be the subject of this article. But I do not believe anyone is worth a billion dollars in their own merits, even if Musk is perhaps not the worst one.