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Doom Emacs is a collection of many recommendated packages. For someone doesn't use evil much like me, I can turn it off in the config file. Using Doom Emacs is highly recommended for new comers to Emacs
Why would you want do do that?
Almost all languages have lots of borrowing. And we have German, where instead of borrowing, they make up words from other words, having some nice things such as:

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There's no contradiction between providing a ton of value and being horrible. You know how people ask "why do people stay in abusive marriages?"? That's why.

On a bigger scale, this passage from The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han stuck with me:

> Today, in a stretch of about 1,100 miles, the Yellow River moves along 11 yards above the plain. But dikes do not control silting, and floods continued to occur on an ever larger scale. On more than 1,500 occasions during the history of imperial China the Yellow River burst its dikes, destroying farmland, killing villagers, and earning its description as "China's sorrow".
Or use kubens[1].

[1] https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx#kubens1
You cannot grok it without first trying to live inside it.

It can be treated as an editor, and as your workflow slowly adjusts you will find yourself writing a mental wishlist.

Realising that wishlist is where Emacs shines among other editors/IDEs/applications.

It is a headspace/workspace and imo the programming equivalent of BASB.

I for example use it because I want nothing to pull me from my workflow, so I have shells, repls, notebooks, filesystem browser, internet browser, rss, and a slew of other utilities tiled, something akin to a Bloomberg terminal, even spotify if I need music.
It has enabled my productivity in a way no other application could.
And the ironic thing is that modern English is heavily influenced by French, which was once the lingua franca. Just like a lot of words in my native language (Dutch) are now being influenced or replaced by the current lingua franca, English; here [1] is a list of new words added to a dictionary in 2015 (couldn't find a more recent one, but I know "boomer" was added recently); a lot of English words like "onesie", "filesharing", "steadycam" and "raw food" and combinations like "gamificatie", "tinderen" and "dronepiloot" were added. Take this process over decades or hundreds of years like what happened with english / french and a new language will emerge over time.

[1] https://www.vandale.nl/nieuwewoorden/2015
I don't have a breakdown per resource, but the whole resource group (Storage account + CDN + a KeyVault to store the TLS cert + a Function app to get the TLS cert from LetsEncrypt + a DNS for ACME + a second Function app to update the HTTPS cert used by the CDN to whatever's in the KeyVault) cost about $1.50 for the month of March. Of course nobody visits my website, so it'd probably cost a bit more if there was some actual egress traffic.
Spacemacs with the common-lisp layer sets you up.
British Rail was the name of the railnetwork in the UK before it got privatised and split up (many still don't think that was a good thing either).

Was before my time and I do recall the buffett cars and resturant cars and could buy cans of alcohol.

Though in many parts (whole London area for sure) you are now not allowed to drink and it is illegal. Which for many, disagree with. Though you are not allowed to smoke on the platforms at stations either, which is a good thing IMHO - though it was darn handy to work out were to stand at a station so when the train stopped you would be near the doors to embark as you could see the grouping of cigarette butts grouping on the tracks near the door hotspots.

Would this work today - nope as in many of the routes, they can't even provide enough seats and often see services that are the polar opposite of what we class as social distancing by today's standards. Indeed, the game sardines would be a step-up on space for many services.

Alas rail - least in the UK, is expensive, crowded and sad when you can get a return flight from London to Scotland for less than a single ticket from London to Birmingham - much less alas and also quicker.
> What part of "I have secured funding for taking Tesla private" was accurate and honest?

We don't know. He might have chosen to not disclose his discussions with other people.

> If he had not secured funding, how was his statement not deceptive?

He might have meant it in earnest. For fraud, surely he must have had the intention to profit from it personally at the expense of shareholders?

> And if you sold shares based on his statement,

Who would have done that and with what reasoning? Why would you sell for a lower price if you believed you'd get $420 very soon? That's a silly notion.

> a fraudulent pyramid scheme

A pyramid scheme is by definition a system where most (i.e. the last) investors get screwed, i.e. they don't make a profit.
The real problem here is cask ale - the preferred pint in Britain - is ruined by movement. Casks are left to settle in pub cellars for days or weeks before being hooked up to the hand pumps in the bar.

The only way this works for beer is to use kegs, which is what most of the World uses but the largest consumer organisation in the UK - CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale - was created to fight against. And with some success - cask brewing is now a massive growth area in the UK.

That said, this looks considerably better than the over-priced plastic nonsense from the "onboard shop" or "at seat service" we have to suffer today.

I don't think I'd want to go near one without a British Transport Police officer nearby if a bunch of football fans were making a journey to an away game.
Things might be different now in ways that now have a different impact, but if you want to feel better, there's evidence that the Great Depression did not cause an increase in people dying[1].

> Population health did not decline and indeed generally improved during the 4 years of the Great Depression, 1930–1933, with mortality decreasing for almost all ages, and life expectancy increasing by several years in males, females, whites, and nonwhites.

(Although, significantly, it does note that suicides increased, and another study found no increase in life expectancy, but no real change outside of suicides and car accidents.[2])

1: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290
2: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324202055.h...
You didn't pay $399 for it.

Apples to oranges.
> "For every 1% unemployment goes up [in the USA], 40,000 people die".

I have seen that line too, but I wonder how substantiated this is? Is there any data to support it?
The fact that WD is refusing to tell customers basic facts about their products even when called is a huge red flag. There is no legitimate reason to refuse to tell customers about whether or not you’re using SMR on a given drive.
I don't doubt it. Like I said, troll-shielding. The more interesting consequences of that don't happen in game chats though. The censorship apologists come out in force in the wake of a competitive player being banned for publicly supporting the HK protesters was a good demonstration of that. They were clearly struggling to understand the value of free-speech, and the fact that those accustomed to it are unaffected by "You wanna hurt my national pride?! Well I'm glad 9/11 happened! See, free speech is bad!"
I wish there was some kind of list for the UK. Our news services are shockingly bad.
Just a point on the comment "~1/2 their ICU cases dying".

The University Hospital handles most of the cases (and all except two deaths). According to their statistics* a total of 25 have been in ICU ("Á gjörgæslu frá upphafi"), total of 13 on ventilators from the beginning ("Í öndunarvél frá upphafi"), with as-of yesterday 3 still on ventilators ("Í öndunarvél") and 6 deaths ("Andlát samtals vegna Covid-19"). So that's less than a quarter of ICU cases dying and half of those on vents.

* https://www.landspitali.is/default.aspx?pageid=b629a8e0-b262...
Great stuff. Now send your ugliest ones (PCB hacks)
> Management overhead = Mean org depth / log(# of employees)

Your model is in the right direction but misses more important aspects. When consulting I measure overhead of the orgs I'm working for in great detail.

Cultural aspects like fear, autonomy, transparency, etc have a much higher impact on management overhead than the org chart structure itself.
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To limit supply is mostly to control price, like how OPEC controls oil. Current doctors have a vested interest in remaining a scarce commodity and lobby accordingly on the boards it matters.
> Our default human response could have been wired to be "i can't possibly feel bad when criticized, because i know i'm not a master" and "i love having people examine my work, because it's a shortcut to getting better even faster", but instead we take all the wrong lessons.

This would not be practical nor evolutionary advantage in practice. Saying that as someone who used to believe the above is something to strive for.

It makes you super vulnerable the moment politics appear or when you work and are judged among peers. Among other things, if you welcome and accept criticism while others dont, you will appear less capable to third parties because your mistakes are constantly pointed out and theirs are not. Impression matters. You will be more likely to be convinced you are wrong when you are right or when difference is matter of opinion. You wont be perceived as potential leader.

You will also be getting a lot of bad advice from overly confident people. They will be perceived as more capable then you, even if you realize the advice was wrong. People with hardwired do end up nitpicked and favorite target of those who like dominate others. Which is why such trait is not evolutionary advantage, even if it would be collectively helpful.
They could have made a LOT of money (I think) by offering a "secure" registry - only packages that were reviewed, verified and signed would end up in there, and they would be sealed and made available forever. Companies could have their developers use only that because there is still a huge risk of a malicious actor pushing a patch version of a library with a security vulnerability in it, and at the moment security is still a reactive action in the Node ecosystem.
You are absolutely allowed to drink on long-distance trains (West Coast and East Coast mainlines, the lines out to Norwich, Cornwall, etc.), and in fact on a weekday service travelling first class, there is complimentary alcohol. I was having a glass of wine on the train just a couple of months ago.

Commuter services are very different - and yes, this wouldn't work on those routes today.
While they do charge per address for the smallest account size, the Premium subscription includes a few for free and it's very cheap to add additional domains.

I use 6 domains with them; a few from the Premium tier and a few I added as extras. I also get my VPN through Proton and the whole thing costs less than 15USD per month.

As already mentioned in this thread, the interface to handle all this is fantastic too.
In some companies it feels like they are firing the people that they could not easily get rid of otherwise - cutting of the bottom 25% of staff (based on low performance reviews or personal grudges).
I like Gnome shell. It keeps out of my way and I can do everything I need to do without every having to lay hands on the mouse.

I think most people complaining about Gnome are trying to use it either like Windows or like OSX. That of course won't work and thus they run into issues left and right. That's a shame, because the Gnome workflow has something to it.
> That lens is a 16 year old lens

40 years old actually, still made new by nikon in their japanese factories to this day.

> Canon RF 50mm f/1.2

I'd happily test one but it costs more than my whole 35mm + medium format setups + darkroom equipment. It weights 3 times more than the nikkor and uses 77mm filter instead of 52mm so this is already a big no-no in my books.

I'm sure there are good fast lenses, it's just that they have so many drawbacks that it doesn't make sense for the vast majority of photographers.
What sort of low temperature is a kilt still comfortable outside without long socks etc?
Same in Firefox.
Doesn't this have the same problem as lyx but worse? It might be nice for you to use, but sharing your files with colleagues doesn't work well and submitting to journals (converted to tex) also does not work well.
I did a down vote on your comment because it's just trolling.
Or non-Western countries!

And the list is just startups, too - they're obviously more vulnerable in many ways to financial shocks than large companies, but large corporate layoffs are going to be where the big numbers are.
Based on dunning-kurger, you would expect everyone who is less knowledgable than you to actually think that they are more knowledgeable, so you could say that they are acting with somewhat honest intentions in their attempt to correct you. But then this also acts in the opposite direction as well, in that you might think you are more knowledgeable because you are, but you might also think it because you aren't. So, how do you know if you are "right" to be insulted? You probably would need multiple orders of magnitude difference to be sure, but that's very rarely the case. That is to say, it's probably best to be charitable with my interpretations of others.

I feel often the issue ends up that I am more knowledgeable than the other, but only slightly more, so my instinct says that they are off. However, I can't express it well enough, because I can't absolutely describe all the circumstances in which their advice is correct, and all the circumstances in which their advice is not, and then prove why it's not applicable in this specific case. If I could do so, I'd explain it fully, there would be no complaint from the other, and it'd be a great teaching moment. So then maybe such situations where someone is trying to correct me, but I can't give an absolute response back indicates a gap in my self-held expertise.

And either way, experts can learn insights from those who are noobs (though often not in the way that the noob intended).
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Make an image of the back button, revert the color, and make your phone display it when you sleep.
You will burn the other pixels and won't see the pattern anymore !
Archival storage shouldn’t be use anything other than tape, in my opinion.
It's not really a reaction that I expect from someone whose posts I have respected so well up to this point. There is a difference between acknowledging that some people are behaving in horrible ways and assuming that everyone must be educated about the need for inclusion. If someone assumes I am a mysogynist simply because I am a male gamer, that is a really terrible problem.

I don't think that's what's happening here, but being open to the idea that someone may reasonably misinterpret the situation as such is not a massive stretch. Please don't assume that all people who have a different view of a situation are massive jerks.

Understanding that different people have different perspectives is key to improving interpersonal problems. For example, I wonder if you know who the prime minister is?
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> Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America

Or cars make lines look big.

"Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. "

Is only 200 cars by my counting.

I'm sure there is an untold problem, but I'm not big on trickery.
Looks like their chatbot needs to sanitize input - "All set! I've sent an email confirmation to sales@circleci.com." that will be interesting.
I have grown into this, and strive to keep it.

Early on on my career, the products I made were an extension of me. Bugs were an insult, design critiques a personal attack. The code was precious and deleting large swathes of it unthinkable.

The consequences? I was probably not that easy to work with, and my software wasn't as good as it could be.

Nowadays I'm proud of what I create, and I enjoy the act of creation. But nothing delights me more than someone (can be me, can be others in the team) taking a hatchet to large chunks of what we've produced, I value criticism of approach and I need people to find faults and bugs to help me deliver a better product. My focus has entirely shifted from "I produce intricate works of art" to "let's find the simplest, most robust way to deliver what my client needs"

Code is a means, not an end.
What I don't quite understand is why startups who either just received funding or companies who were doing reasonably well decide to do mass layoffs during economic downturns? I mean they provide $reasons but I have a hard time taking them at face value.
> The ideal is ...

Nope. That was perhaps the case in the 50-80s, but today we can do much better, and it's dependent on the people, the culture, and the market/product structure and strategy.
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The general rule for precision electronics is that you want to avoid anything that needs high absolute accuracy (because such things get expensive fast even as discrete components) and instead rely on accurate ratios between parameters, matched pairs of components and inaccurate, but long term stable parameters that can be calibrated out.
That piece of culture was extremely short lived, maybe just the late eighties and the early nineties.

Already in the mid to late nineties people started mocking this culture, eg the MFX Transgression intros which were just 3d polygon renderers but with some uglifying post processing and then they claimed it was super impressive real-time raytracing (which, for no context, was basically impossible to do full screen on computers of the days).

Some stuck up kids blamed them for cheating but generally everybody laughed at the prank. The demoscene has been open, friendly and collaborative much much longer than it was properly competitive. It's really a minor origin detail, not a key part of culture and ethos.

People do still like to make fun of it, i.e. pretend is still current. Eg common proclamations such as "Kewlers suck", or demos like "Regus Ademordna" which IMO is a particularly splendid example and worth checking out.
In summary, 10% of internet traffic relies on one patch panel somewhere :)
We're all immortal from our own perspective because we're living in a multiverse.

Although the knowledge to see this is all out there, I'm not aware of anyone else alive who says it's true.
From an anonymous employee I know: SimilarWeb fired 10% of their workforce - mostly sales engineers and sales people they recently hired and cancelled their holiday bonuses.
There is a US version too, you just have to put a pistol in it https://www.511tactical.com/lv6.html /s
The US president doesn't actually have a global jurisdiction.
> This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster.

Also probably much more transient, no?

Is there a reason to think this trend would continue beyond say... six months? (or whenever quarantine measures are mostly relaxed).
It's neither vitriol nor irrational to expect a leader to yield to experts and to relay only reliable information.

What he did instead lacked context or information necessary to mass communicate. There's a way to communicate it and it wasn't this.
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And if they didn't, and somehow you managed to magnetize it, you needed to use a degaussing coil, moving it away from the screen in a spiralling motion... ah, the memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVLizAHby4
Fair enough I guess - don't think I've ever had a need to do client side JSON validation against a 'schema' so I've never had that concern.
Australia apparently saw a minor rise in employment[0] for now.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/australia-unexpect...
Good to hear you can still drink on long-distance trains, alas not so in London area https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2008/may/al...

What with TFL gradually expanding, one does wonder what the future does hold.
LOL Your response -
1. Gave money 2. Gave equipment 3. Generated a contact tracking solution with their rivals

"SO WHAT".

Also, Google's donation matching is best amongst companies irrespective of a global pandemic. Google gives separately as well as matches my donations to a slew of organizations. But sure don't mention that at all.

Also, here you go - direct cash transfers -
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/google-partnering-to-give-ca...

What you're describing as extraordinary perks from your company are regular perks at Google.
> British Rail was the name of the railnetwork in the UK before it got privatised and split up (many still don't think that was a good thing either).

Note that rail in the UK has effectively been taken back into public ownership due to the coronavirus crisis (it's being run by the private companies still, but for a set fee determined by government - they're not getting any of the money from ticket sales). And it's widely suspected that it won't return to the previous franchise model when the crisis is over (as there was a recent government report recommending this, and apparently there were already plans in the works to shake things up).
You're fired!
Are they seriously listing down emails and mobile numbers of the people layed off? Is there no privacy concern here or am I missing the bigger picture?
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My previous two employers, Lonely Planet and Eventbrite.

https://www.protocol.com/eventbrite-major-layoffs-coronaviru...

https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/04/09/14...
Thanks - you have any good links to resources describing how to replicate that setup?
Seems like many companies within the startup world. Layoffs.fyi says more than 250 companies and more than 24,000 people.

Their tracker, https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/, has reasonably well corroborated data, although it's surely incomplete.
What do you mean, everybody is happy Mr Prime Minister is out and about, and you have page 3 still? All peachy then.
Now I feel like a fool.
Crazy. They're advertising quite a lot on LinkedIn at the moment too. :(
I agree. I look at it as the price of a phone, not price of an iPhone and the new iPhone SE as of today is too costly for what it offers.

I switched to iPhone (older SE) from Android. Size and privacy were two reasons. Then my SE broke down after 3 years (I hadn't put any protective gear). I bought 7 as I needed another phone immediately and I was going away for two months.

The last one year I have been using 7 the lack of a headphone jack is so frustrating I would never buy the new SE.

The next time I have to buy a phone I will buy the smartphone that will provide at least 2-3 years of guaranteed OS upgrades (or there's Lineage support) and has a headphone jack.
That depends how many companies survive the six months. The good thing is it should reset things to a boom time in 5 to 10 years.
How would you characterize the quality of CircleCI? I've spent quite a few hours trying to work out mysterious bugs in a build process that runs fine locally. This morning the web ui was full of 'client error' messages.
Can someone please change the title of this - just as with other similar posts - to use "laid-off" instead of "fired"? Regardless of how loose some may be with language, there's a clear distinction between these terms.

For example, my home state's Employment Security Department: https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment/laid-off-or-fired

Given that there are non-US readers here, maybe there's another pair of phrases that Hacker News could use as standard in this situation. I know in the UK, "made redundant" is used instead of "laid-off".
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Fired by hackernews would be novel.
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