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Are you sure this is on Google? I just tried with a three word query, and it failed for me.[1]

If true, this would be big news, as the "+" qualifier on search terms stopped being obeyed about a decade ago with the launch of... whatever that now-forgotten Facebook competitor Google used to have. The workaround was to use quotes around individual words, which mostly worked, unless it didn't. But the combination of using quotes and "verbatim" (under Tools/All Results") almost always worked.

[1] The way it failed is sort of interesting. I randomly tried "+rhino +cereal +gm", and the first result didn't include the word "rhino", and considered "gm" to be a synonym for General Mills. Quotes around the individual terms seems to work for this query, even without verbatim.
Did you read the article you linked to? Employer-provided insurance had nothing to do with strikes or unions. It became popular as a way to improve competition in the job market in the presence of wartime wage controls.

And it's arguably a terrible system that we're still stuck with today, with the effect of handcuffing productive people to their desks in dead-end jobs. We'd be far better off with universal coverage that's not tied to employment... and yes, that means better-off economically.
LLVM has 2.5 million lines of code, but I think it also depends upon the number of templated methods etc, not just LOC.

I'm surprised you haven't seen this point made many times. It would be a full-time job on the internet asking people why they have code completion issues with C++ IDEs.
Continuing to improve Certera, PKI for Let's Encrypt.

https://docs.certera.io
Their Trader Joe's colleagues got sick. Their stores are still open
My brother has had an interview scheduled for weeks, moved many times. First he was supposed to meet with the hiring manager... then they said the hiring manager wasn't approved (they had some other term) for interviewing. Then the hiring manager changed. Then the group he would be joining changed. Then the boss of the second hiring manager in the old group called him directly and offerred a 1 year contract to hire position and asked that he not mention it to the internal recruiter (what?!). Now the hiring manager has changed again.

Ridiculous.
> If you're up for starting your own seedlings, there are also obviously loads of places to order specific varieties of seeds online.

Just be careful where you buy seeds from. I have ordered some lemongrass seeds on Amazon (before learning how to grow more from an adult plant). Those came from China, were seized by customs, sent to a lab, then promptly destroyed. I got a letter in the mail, with the results of the analysis.

There was no indication anywhere that they would come from overseas.

I shudder to think what would have happened if the supplier also sold something like marijuana and my packet was "contaminated".
Totally agree. I had quite a chuckle!
Google voice also acts as a proxy for inbound calls. Your friend dials your GV number, GV dials your other phone number, which does not belong to Google and uses your friend's number (which may or may not belong to Google) as the caller ID. From the point of view of your telco, who services your phone number, Google is spoofing your friend's number unless your friend happened to call using another GV number.
Bazinga

I think this comment chain is more suited for reddit, but what the hey
How will they wash the bottles? A friend of mine used to work for coke (now retired), he always drank from cans or plastic bottles because he didn't think they washed glass good enough).
> Sick leave means "get a doctor's note to prove you are sick" or wrestling with what counts as "sick".

It doesn't have to be that way.

Every job I've ever had it's just a matter of emailing or calling my boss to say I won't be in, and that's that.

No Doctor. No authorization. No hassle. Unlimited days. Sick people shouldn't be at at work, and any job worth a damn trusts it's employees to do the right thing.

Jobs in Canada and Australia.
Tim Sweeney has a net worth of 7 billion. It's not about the money, it's bad management.
Having the option to generate it elsewhere is great, because it does break some pretty big integrity invariants that are assumed by various tools. node_modules shouldn't be changing, specially when there's lockfiles being used.
I experienced this "move a monitor" scenario myself whilst I was working at a DoD contractor company. I had to move cubicles and moved my stuff myself. My boss noticed and told me I couldn't move my monitor or docking station... but everything else I could. So I had to move my monitor and docking station back down to my old cubicle so that a few days later the "correct people" could move the items back up for me.

Why is this a union thing? No idea. Is it real? Yes.

Perhaps somebody is enjoying some popcorn watching an unending battle between "the invisible hand of the free market" and "an invisible union".
No it's quite different. With higher pay, people will want to avoid going home because if they keep working while sick, they'll get paid more. If you have paid sick leave, they will stay home. See the difference?
I have always been concerned about that as well. Although aren't you somewhat safe depending on if you only open it with the corresponding pdf software? I thought the "only" vulnerability was the software it's used with and if you double click it or not.
Epic can't secure a wiki but they can secure the biggest video game in the world? Nah they just lazy.
One time I had to create a button for a in-flight software which would control a lidar instrument. The button would enable you to select when to turn on and off the instrument.

We went for a few iterations where the button would light up when the laser was on. There were tons of issues--the state of the laser was not stored in the hardware, so every time the button would disconnect briefly, the state would get reset and lost. After months of back and forth dealing with algorithms to save the state and deal with spurious button presses when the device disconnected, we ended up with a completely useless button, as disconnects would happen very often inside helicopters, rendering the button useless due to the spurious presses near disconnect/reconnect.

Finally, we decided to go with a hardware switch (which I wanted from the start). In about one day the whole thing blew over.
Oh no, it's World Jump Day all over again. Wikipedia is boring so they deleted the page, but the Archive has the details (and unlimited free books):

https://web.archive.org/web/20190221002919/https://en.wikipe...
This makes me think of how certain types of people, i.e. the experimental, inventors, entrepreneurs, artists, etc, who live life to the beat of their own drums, don't really ever let society tell them how they should act, but if they ever strike gold, the rest of society immediate starts to follow along using their products, or mimicking their style. Also the majority of these types of people never strike gold, but they will wander on their own path regardless - very similarly to those 'loners'.
> Employers are never going to get this right. Amazon specifically (and obviously they're not alone) is looking at a huge financial impact to "doing the right thing" here. ....Realistically, governments are the only entities capable of providing this kind of security in extremis.

Oh come on. Amazon make huge profits (and McDonald's and Apple and Starbucks, etc.)

Yes, providing this kind of sick leave would reduce their profits, but they are absolutely 100% capable of doing so.

In almost every developed country in the world they do.

The government just needs to make it law, then Amazon won't be at a disadvantage to their competitors, they'll all be on a level playing field.

It's just a question of what's more important - corporate profits, or employee health, safety and ability to pay rent and buy food.
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I think I already mentioned the specific aspects I liked. But sure go ahead and be outraged about a bunch of things I didn't say.

> more people are going to die from this not the least from famine.

That didn't happen in the last recession - mortality rates apparently went down overall[1], though suicides were up[2]. And farm work isn't going to stop, so it isn't clear why there would be a famine.

Anyway, stay safe and take care. It's obviously a tense time for everyone, and I hope you and your family and friends are all well.

1. https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576669311/hidden-brain-great-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Great_Recession
IANAL, but would be interested to know if it would've BENEFITED their case if they met with a lawyer BEFORE putting their plans into action. It seems this would've been a pretty legitimate way of confirming their intention, and would've put Amazon in a much more compromising position after the fact.
It took a while for the carriers to bring themselves into compliance with the technical requirements to make it work.
This is a nice example of port-knocking: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Port_knocking.

I wonder if it would be possible to set up something like this more rigorously. Give everyone unrelated two phone numbers. The first never rings the phone. The second only rings if the first was called within the last minute.
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I don't get how we can explain it in a simpler way? If you add a microservice, you're adding another point of failure. You add another interaction, you add more code. Add more code, you add more bugs.

It's pretty much the only empirical thing we have in software engineering, more code = more bugs.

Lots of little microservices means lots of extra code means lots of extra bugs.

Plus you've got to manage how they all interact. Which microservice has priotity? Did you even think of that? The breaking microservice? Or the volume microservice? Did you even think of that or try and test that? Your breaks get disabled every time you turn up the volume?

Whoops, you just killed a thousand people with your "redundant" microservices.
Before potatoes getting enough food from crops was very difficult. Wheat was common in Europe but the amount of work to get calories from wheat is intense. After potatoes it's much much easier to get a lot of calories from a small amount of land. Thank you South America!
In fairness, Monaco, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland and Iceland are all tiny, distorted one-trick ponies.

Norway is all oil, Ireland is the tax haven of the Fortune 500, Ditto Switzerland, Monaco is the tax haven of the rich, and Iceland is pure tourism.

Pulling out Iceland or Monaco and comparing them to the entire US is like pulling out Palo Alto and Seattle and comparing them to all of the EU.

UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc are a much better representation of what larger, mores diverse European economies look like.

In fact, if you take the whole EU together (as you should, the US number also includes places like the South and the Midwest), the parent comment is correct.
> Am I alone in finding a lot of signaling transparent and kind of repellant?

^ And this one isn't?
What I like in nature:

- it's a subtle force, the scales are somehow in the human range (organic material,... leaving out tsunamis, volcanos, storms and lightning which, probably very few find pleasant)

- it's probably wired in us: the green hues, the tree nest shielding above, the strip of blue. The light dynamics, it's all gentle plays on contrast but it makes leaves shine like gold.

- the pace of wild life, it's a tiny melody at a tiny tempo. The flow of rivers, the wind..

- the freeness.. I go where I want if I can, I stop where I want, I take what I want. Feels like a useless mall and I have a yes-card. Also with a bit of basic engineering knowledge, you can see how to rise your level of comfort from wood, stone, fibers and fire, but that's a sidenote.
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I wonder how much time they require in a natural environment. I left a small chunk of PLA outside for weeks and saw literally no signs of biodegrading. It might be better than regular plastic but its no banana peal.
As if on cue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742476
Potatoes are indeed the game changer if you need to survive off of your garden.
What would help is to figure out a use for more things. Ideally we get so good at sorting washing and recycling that everything goes to recycling and they figure it out from there. I throw a lot of things in the trash that could in theory be recycled but they don't currently (partially because of contamination). Still I have more recyclable trash than landfill trash by volume (this isn't as good as it sounds as they don't want us to crush the recycling, while landfill bound trash compacts well)
Story is paywalled. Anyone got an alternitive link?
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Usually they don't really understand what I mean, and I just elaborate by explaining that I have no interest in working for a company that uses this type of brainteaser to decide who to hire.

One time the guy got half angry, started defending his process and just walked me out. Another time they tried to move on to the next interviewer and I just said I wasn't interested anymore, it would be a waste of time.

Obviously I never got a positive response after saying that. I still dream of the day when the interviewer will shout "that's right! That was the test! You passed!" :)
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No affiliation, just a happy customer.
Right now I use Apple's "Send Unknown Numbers To Voicemail" feature and dear lord it has saved my life.

Will be nice to go a step further.
The world is getting so strange. Imagine you were talking with a bright person from, say, 1920, and you wanted to explain this to them. Think of all the things you would have to explain, and how odd and impossible it would likely sound to them.
Try Hello Weather - https://helloweatherapp.com/!
Yup and the individual hotels are being cut just as hard if not harder. Bad days to be in the hospitality biz.
I will not be surprised when they were the same Lebanese gang from Berlin who also stole the big gold coin in Berlin, and most likely the Dresden green vault jewels. It's just too easy.
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Excuses excuses excuses ...
Whats to burst, storage is dirt cheap and they get their tiny data breach fines (if any) whether or not they store the color of your second dogs favorite chew toy with the rest of the info.
Jesus christ. That’s the second time in 3 months that I’ll have to rewrite rainmeter skins to change weather API. How hard can it be to just point to data? Time to just go NOAA.
just tried this and its graph-centric UI is exactly the thing I loved for years about Wunderground before it went dramatically downhill.

But please, let's not tell anyone else about this - I am tired of my favorite apps always getting ruined.
the herd mentality

Ever since the first time I heard that word, I've always imagined animals on a farm feeding happily at a trough, unaware of their impending doom. It turns out, that's closer to reality than I thought.

Edit: I mean the word "feed".
Unfortunately it's the only way a lot of people find information on the Internet.
Without context, it's hard to know the real situation.

I was laid off at the end of February. To make a long story short, the product wasn't selling well and the company had to cut costs.

In my case, my manager gave me a heads up months in advance. If you're still in touch with your manager or people you worked with, try to find out the real story.

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Think about some of the excellent experienced people you learned from early in your career. You now need to be just like them.

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Career-wise, what kind of "leadership" is expected from someone with 15+ years experience? A lead does the most important designs, sets the technical direction, mentors other developers, takes part in bug triages, works on the most difficult parts of a product, and interviews candidates. Sometimes the title of "architect" is used.

You can also be a manager, or a consultant who can get in and get things done.

But, someone with 15+ years of experience isn't just a coder getting a bigger paycheck than someone with 3 years of experience. Your career lessons need to rub off on the younger developers. Otherwise, your large paycheck just turns into a giant target compared to your cheaper peers.
Cisco certainly isn't using Zoom. My old school corp employer is on Webex, along with using SAP and other bullshit represented by good sales teams.
Free2play games with in-game shops became popular in Asia in 00s - mostly because piracy prevented traditional offline titles from taking off in many second world countries at all. But Fortnite and the latest breed of western free2play games is very significantly different, because they are not pay2win.

The shift hapenned in 2010s, at the same time as free2play gmaes moved west. For example, World of Tanks had some pay2win shop mechanics, but the core of monetization was on purchasing faster progress: you would spend less time grinding or new gear, but once you got into battle with other players matched to you, you wouldn't get any advantage. Such game design focus was already pretty risky and revolutionary at the time when other free2play developers considered non-paying users as cannon fodder for paying ones, and it paid back with a much higher % of paying users and user loyalty, although the game did have a significantly lower ARPPU, relying on the mass of paying subscribers instead of a tiny amount of whales.
Yes, but why couldn't it also be a product name. For example, an express delivery service focused on people who are willing to pay a premium to get TP within an hour.

Now, writing this comment had me finally realize that TP, however we mock the hoarders, really is almost unique in its urgency for most people. If you run out of food, you probably have a few hours before you get hungry again. Running out of TP is acutely uncomfortable right from that minute.
> But the plaintiff must provide the evidence to the courts

Sure, but any evidence which makes an accusation more likely than in the absence of that evidence suffices to meet preponderance of the evidence in the absence of any contrary evidence. The fact of the labor organizing, the fact of the firing, and their temporal relationship are, together, evidence for retaliation.
Total pain in the ass to join from a zoom room though
For every "expert" who takes advantage of those options on Android, there are thousands upon thousands of Apple users who get better privacy by default.
Some points first: I am an introvert, and normally work in a crowded, noisy open office, as a programmer.

I would say I’m at least as productive. The way I see it, I could distract myself in the office too if I want, bullshitting on chat or watching videos. I have developed a lot of personal techniques and mind games to keep me working. Some of that with therapy (All major insurers are covering phone calls like office visits right now). I have ADHD and couldn’t afford to lose more jobs because of it.

My wife shares the office with me. We have a 16, 7 and 4 year old. The teenager is in charge of the kids while we work. This works with limited success. Fortunately, she only works 30hr/wk and gets done at 2. Fortunately, we have a back yard. And it’s the burbs, so we can go on walks without getting close to others.
Poorly run unions produce bad outcomes. There are also governments and corporations that leech off hard working people. It's a human dynamics problem, not a problem specifically with unions.
It's a shame most people didn't hear about this; I don't suppose the archive team got any of this?
I have a similar perspective in that I think most engineers probably could get hired, but there's enough randomness in the interview process that we probably wouldn't. Not just in who gets advanced to the phone screen, but also variability in test performance. Most of the interviews were open-ended and had multiple correct answers - but it still really only answers, "did the candidate think of the right answer in X minutes". One of our questions pretty much explicitly required knowledge of how to implement a rolling hash to pass, and that's not something I knew when I worked at the company.

I'm of the mind that most interview questions can only reliably identify people who are not capable of coding, and roughly gauge the algorithms knowledge. I had floated the idea of making interview experiences that more closely resemble work, like having the candidates make PRs in a mock repository. Better yet we could see not just how they make a PR but also review PRs and make comments. But often the primary concern is logistical. It's easy to train people up on 1-hour problems with a grading rubric, than a longer more open ended interview.
I use Geometric Weather [1].

It's beautifully designed, has an excellent selection of widgets, and is open source.

You can even set your lock screen to be a live wallpaper of the current weather.

[1] https://github.com/WangDaYeeeeee/GeometricWeather/
Check your spam folder. I find Google voice itself is pretty good at blocking spam calls/messages/texts.
is there any reason to believe this is anything other than the next step in a long, slow-moving process? SHAKEN/STIR has been being rolled out for a few years now, IIRC most major players said they were going to have it deployed by the end 2019 (see response column of table towards the bottom of https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication), now they're just setting a deadline of June 2021 to start authenticating calls.
We could change our labor law to organize new unions on the Japanese or German models where nobody questions their legitimacy but instead we have this late 19th century model and the corporations act the part. Well I suppose they can’t call in mercenaries in a strike.
im surprised at myself for shilling a service i dont even use and dont have any stake in, but https://pinboard.in/ lets you bookmark things and then also archive those things so they dont go away
Not everybody is suited to be in a "leadership" position and that is OK. If you prefer solving technical problems rather than people problems, you aren't going to be a good fit for a "leadership" position.

Having said that, you do need to realize that the "glass ceiling" on developer positions tends to be lower than on management (aka. "leadership") positions. There often is lip service saying the "technical ladder" is parallel and equal to the "management ladder", but it isn't in my experience. Fact of life.

Consequently, if you prefer solving technical problems rather than people problems, you will be trading off money for happiness.[1] In my book, that is a trade-off I'm happy to make. In fact, I've deliberately chosen to stay in the technical realm rather than "leadership" realm for 35 years now. Especially early on in my carrier, my managers pushed me towards "leadership" roles and I let them know I was not interested. While I have and will take on a leadership role out of necessity due to circumstances in a project, I've always made a point of reverting to the technical work when the crisis is over.

I have less money but more happiness. That doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me. Sounds like it would work for you.

[1] There are people that enjoy being in a leadership position. "Rands in Repose" https://randsinrepose.com/archives/managing-nerds/ is a good example of that. I'm happy for him and I'm happy for my managers who enjoy being in a leadership position because that means I can focus and satiate my inner nerd.
Its the capitalism of it.
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This is like Hacker's computer in movies!