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> Generally awful reviews of the company in the other comments here. Probably a deal breaker.

There are also good reviews in the thread. I'm sure we can find similar reviews about any other random laptop brand, except that there you pay the Microsoft tax and they aren't merely showing little love for techies' issues but instead never even heard of the word Linux and require that you reproduce issues on "a normal system like Windows" before they accept it could be their hardware that's faulty.

I don't have experience with Tuxedo Computers, but this is Germany. The EU warranty and 'remote purchase' laws ("koop op afstand", not sure how to translate) are quite excellent (even if the Dutch are better). It might be a headache to get issues fixed depending on how stubborn they are, but rotten apple stories about support is not something I'd generally reject European hardware for.

(I once had a drone from a company that was beyond stubborn, and while I wouldn't wish that experience upon anyone, I learned a lesson or two and now feel a lot more confident in dealing with companies unresponsive to warranty claims: they really don't have many options when you send them registered snailmail stating your claim and subsequent steps if they don't fulfill or refute the claim. If someone had told me to start doing that earlier instead of trusting promises to fix it or call me back or whatever, I'd have saved a lot of time, but I eventually realized how the game was to be played.)
I told my manager (yes, it is a generalisation): There are two people in life, those who think you solve problems with technology and those that believe you solve problems with humaneness.

It's funny to me that people think the first options "sounds good". The second option didn't even sound like it was an option at all (to tech people). My silent reaction was along the lines of: "Do you really think I am kidding about the second option?"
The common reason to buy a computer preinstalled with linux is to not pay the windows/ios tax. Not that the price would be different though.
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Sure. Data that people don't care about enough to be worried about losing--for example, time series data from an unimportant remote sensor. Should this data be recorded at all? Maybe not, but if should then a best-effort recording may be fine. It may even be all that's possible.
Average US engineer makes about $95k. Software managers average $130k.
email is all that is actually required. well, that and the saas product i am currently working on. er, and an issue tracker. email and an issue tracker and the saas product that i am currently working on. but not slack. definitely not slack. slack sucks the life out of a company. dont believe the hype, kids.
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You can also set the relevant folders to keep the files always available offline.
Also, we can generally only find an hour per month that the people in my book club can meet up (and then they individually need to find many hours in the preceding month to read the book).

I like the idea of a weekly club with partial book assignments, but that's more time than a lot of people are able (or willing) to give it.
Single channel RAM? What’s this nonsense
If you forget your iTunes password you have to book a new room.
The only issue I see re: the GIL is that ThreadPoolExecutor (by its name) can mislead them into thinking that they are using proper threads when in fact they are still constrained by the GIL.

It's a confusion that has been quickly resolved every time a team mate of mine has run into the issue, but I have seen it happen multiple times (at different places).
I'd take dogs over people any day.
> A book isn't something you're supposed to read and finish

Shit, I’ve been doing it wrong all these years. Thanks for setting me straight.
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Can you clarify if this was a gTLD or a ccTLD? Being so used to standardized pricing with .com's, this never even occurred to me as a risk.

For anyone unfamiliar with premium TLD pricing:

- it's common for .com's to be sold on the aftermarket for high prices but the renewal prices are standardized. So if I invest $36k on buying appletini.com, I know I will be able to renew it for ~$10/yr.

- gTLD's like .land or .tech seem to set premium prices at the registrar level and apply to renewals. This means if I want apps.wiki, it's going to cost me $3,180/yr every year.

The risk I'm now wondering about:
If I build a successful brand around a gTLD, can that registrar retroactively classify that domain as a "premium" and just start 10x-ing my renewal price every year?

If this is possible, I cannot imagine how any serious site could be built on a gTLD.
I think the only thing saving me at this point is that I am obsessed with mathematics, not with tech.

I have a lot of other hobbies that save me, but the math vs. tech mindset is very real to me in the workplace context. I am not saying all mathematicians are good, or good people, but it helps to have something more real to hold onto.

I think the same holds for hacker culture. If you are a hacker more than a "techy" (Edit: I think there should be a better word here.), sometimes that distinction is what saves you.
I find LVM2 to be easy to work with, but the weird marriage between MD and LVM confuses me, so I just use "hardware" raid beneath LVM.

(For server OS installs that I can recreate trivially, and not for actual data, which lives on a proper SAN because I value my employment)
Just an aside from the argument here, I think almost no python API actually follows the zen of python. It's certainly a nice idea, just incredibly hard to actually live upto in the real world.
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Do you need to be, or can you have a "designated person" in the EU? Higher end registrars are happy to supply designated people for address requirement purposes.
Exactly.

Just like a password wallet. Store the hash of passwords, not the actual passwords. Then disallow password resets.

Then you effectively "forget" your account if you lose your password.

The book Translucent Databases (2nd ed) [2009] explains clever strategies for applying this technique to protect sensitive data. It's brilliant.

https://www.wayner.org/node/39

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1441421343

Meta: I remain disappointed by the obscurity of this book and translucent techniques. A long time friend recently asked me about GDPR compliance and so forth, in prep for reworking stuff to allow proper audits. Very tech savvy. The translucent notions just could not compute. So their efforts went down the conventional rabbit hole of actually deleting data. Which I don't consider practical or auditable. How can you be sure an org deleted every record, log, backup, etc? You can't.
> after the dev env stuff things got a bit weirder

I kept going, and it wasn't worth the read. The seven paragraphs on the internal tool training were only a bit weird. I could see a company spending an hour or two having new hires answer contrived questions with internal tools.
I doubt it. Blondness is evolved for colder climates, that means the northern europe. Eastern europe has some slav influence so they might be blonde. This is the same reason why polar bears are white and other bears are brown or black. Southern europe has the mediterranean climate and so does turkey, isreal, lebanon and morocco.

Being a black person in snow would attract predators and they would die so people with lighter skins who could camouflage easily in the background would survive.
And those destructive startups are run by people who seem "nice" in person but who enact their own sinister agenda, maybe while tricking themselves into thinking they're doing good.

Being "nice" and being a good person are two different things.
Not the author but done similar things (patching something rather than migrating away from it). Usually it's way more work to migrate away than just patching it again to fit your use-case. Once you find yourself having to patch it too often, you start thinking about migrating away. Then the research slowly begins ad-hoc until it hits "seems we need to migrate away now, otherwise we're spending too much time working around something / fixing their broken shit", that's when you sit down and decide to migrate away from it.

Also would depend on how long time you think the application will be around. You're building an MVP to evaluate something? Just hack together whatever will work (then throw away). You're maintain software for a library/archive that will most likely stick around for a long time, even if they say it's just temporary? Do decisions that will help in the future, always.
I'm much more of a hacker, but that's the problem for me, I'm not doing anything interesting. It's all the same things I've done a billion times before, again and again. I guess my problem is that nobody wants to promote a remote developer who lives in Greece to anything other than code monkey, so eh, these are my choices.
I don't quite understand the purpose of this list. It contains potentially malicious input, but also emoticons based on Unicode characters that are completely harmless and used in every second post on Reddit.
These are really nice machines, compatible with Linux and upgrade able. Almost as nice as a thinkpad.

But the work at home rush on laptops made them hard to find. You could get them for $100-200 less than a similar spec T-series.
OK, seeing "﷽" [1] was unexpected :). For those who does not know, it's very important for muslims and It's all over the Quran

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
Watch the video until the end. It seems a bit boring even after the landslide has started, but seeing the entire P̶a̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ Indian Ocean linger at the top of that last bit of land, waiting to plunge into the open space, was fascinating.
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I've never been cool with people using my keyboard or with using other people's keyboards. One of my personal silver linings from COVID is that this should generally no longer be acceptable outside of family units.
Is that "deaths with COVID-19" or "deaths by COVID-19"?
Nothing to do with parsing commands, just with writing sentences in articles (or elsewhere). It’s the difference between having punctuation that is not part of a quote in the quote, like when I said last Tuesday to “not do it like this,” or outside of them, “like this”.

The former is supposedly the “correct” way, at least in English, but you can see from my explanation that I’m absolute against it. I’m sorry, it’s just wrong on so many levels, and whoever invented it were not understanding what they were doing.
People forget to address power dynamics. New hires at a company are often grateful to have a job and nervous to make a good first impression. If you immediately ask for feedback from these people they are going to do everything they can to show that they’re (insert all the positive adjectives you can here) so that they get to keep their job and impress anyone who may be watching. On top of that, this effect continues indefinitely for some people, who never stop feeling so grateful for having a job at all (or they’re just that type of person, or they’re playing a game) that they have to be super effusive indefinitely over every little thing. Some people also just like to be butt kissers.

People like Rachel (and myself) who speak up from the very start and never stop speaking up are unfortunately very rare. Employers who can recognize how valuable we are, are luckily not that rare, so long as the truth-teller can maintain their composure.
In search/social/IR: reputation graphs, PageRank, reachability, link canonicalization & dupe detection, identifying "objects" that are referred to by different names (eg. people, company names, knowledge graph, synonyms, etc.), propagating properties known to one entity onto related entities.

In geo/rideshare/logistics: shortest-path routing, traffic flow, minimizing the distance driven by someone who needs to make multiple pickups, optimizing delivery routes.

In health: contact tracing, recommending closures of social activities

In industrial/EE applications: circuit theory, flow networks, load stresses

In basic CS infrastructure: register allocation, dependency management, dead code removal, data-flow propagation, figuring out bandwidth requirements in a network
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It's just how formal US English requires quite a bit of punctuation to be inside the quotes, even if the punctuation isn't being quoted.

https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-aroun...

This rule is obvs not super composable, and leads to a lot of confusion when punctuation (or lack thereof) is part of what you're trying to quote.
I tend to share your view, and your views in general (lisp, moloch, etc), and I wanted to run an idea by you.

I feel like much of the marketing problem comes from three places:

- overcompetition (too many useless products competing for mindshare)
- inefficiency (if you can't target your marketing well, you just shotgun it out)
- debt (pressure for cash makes people do things they otherwise wouldn't)

So we end up with a push-based economy.

The idle thought in my head is: what would a pull-based economy work? And not necessarily a whole economic overhaul, but for instance, what if I personally wanted to do things in a pull-based way, or encourage others do so? What would any of that look like?
What causes the stark vertical divide in population maps of the United States?
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I go up Parmer a lot to see my parents and I definitely see cyclists all the time. Maybe not ideal but it has a clear bike lane and it's enough that people actually use it.

Not walkable? That part's accurate though.
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Only 8% fewer traffic deaths in March: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

And consider that heart attack and stroke centers are seeing precipitous drops in patient referrals, almost certainly meaning that the fear of catching COVID-19 is causing many people to avoid treatment and die at home: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/patients-with-heart-at...
Analytics: you don't want to slow down your app, and you don't care if you lose a few records in the process.
I think the purpose is to run these strings through your inputs and make sure it doesn’t behave in unexpected ways.
Did I really have to say no living languages?
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Are there any good online programming clubs?

It would be fun to work on a project together every weekend.
anyone know of some good online book clubs?

I have this idea in the back of my mind for a while, which is a mailing list or forum where members agree to read a specific book every 2 weeks and then write a review about it or discuss it online.

every member gets to suggest a book as what to read next and whatever suggestion gets the most votes will be read. it would be highly specific to keep the communities small enough and to really dive deep on certain works/authors. this could be done using categories. a category has certain rules for the books to be read, and could be titles which are at least 100 years old (my pet peeve), in the public domain, and limited to n-authors, ... one could then also have all future readings be descendents of that category/author (e.g. in follow-up readings read only/everything that an author has cited, or things they have read etc). kind of like a snow-ball system. but there are many ways how to structure this to make it interesting for different crowds.
> People in industry know this, what's left is is for tenure committees to also take software impact into account.

Software should be citable. You can make it so by publishing a paper describing the software. Usually the authors then request anybody who uses the software in their research to cite that paper.
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No, MySQL stands out here. Postgres, SQL Server, DB2, and Firebird all give at least some way to do some major DDL transactionally. Usability varies (e.g. Oracle supports a very specific kind of change that is not its normal DDL statements), but it's at least possible.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_Postgr...

That MySQL autocommits is also even worse than just "doesn't support it."
I wouldn’t go as far as to say an “unimportant” remote sensor... but I think you’re correct in spirit.

I could think of an instance where you’d like to log data, but the occasional datapoint being missing wouldn’t be terrible. Maybe something like a temperature monitor — you’d like to have a record of the temperature by the minute, but if a few records dropped out, you’d be able to guess the missing values from context. Something like the data monitoring equivalent of UDP vs TCP.
But then technically you’d need to add additional punctuation to actually end the outer sentence, “like this!”. I have a firm preference of putting punctuation that does not belong to the quote itself outside of it, and when I want to add punctuation that does belong to the quote inside, I usually work around the problem above by just putting the quote after a colon: “like this!”
If this were true then doesn't that mean being taller increases risk taking?
Yes. Most people are fine with jerks.

I’ve worked with plenty of jerks and it doesn’t really bother me. I, like most well adjusted people, say “that person is just a jerk, whatever” and move on with my day.

Wimps grind the entire company to a halt because we all need to focus on their wellbeing 24/7 because they can’t do that.

It’s not to say wimps are bad. It’s just that wimps can kill a company culture just like jerks do. And more often than not, it’s the combination of the two that really causes most of the trouble.

Nothing is more damaging to a company than an over performing jerk and an underperforming wimp on the same team.
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Depends on how big your structs are coming in, how you are holding on to the data, and what else you are doing with it on ingestion.
You can use GC to implement the persistent structure in C++/Rust just fine. But then you pay the GC cost for only that structure, not for all the other things.
After reading the first post, my thought was "is this really the hill you want to die on?" Dropping the always-awkward HR onboarding bits and focusing on signs that the system you just signed up to work on might be beyond repair would be more interesting.
On the day of the rally there were zero reported deaths by covid19 in the entire country

But the situation in Italy, our neighbours, was clear enough, no need to be Nostradamus.

There isn't a single nation or government in the history of humanity that decided to lock down an entire country...

You're very good attacking a strawman. Between encouraging massive rallies of hundred of thousands of persons packed in the streets and locking down an entire country, you know, there's a whole lot of intermediate points.

...just because there was 1k cases of what was described by then as a mere atypical form of viral pneumonia.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-update-107758-...
Is it only me here who experienced such paradox:

I love tech side-projects but often I don't want to introduce more tech in my non-tech hobbies and activites as they are remedy for too much screen time. E.g. my gardening hobby highest tech is $25 weekly schedule watering valve and I feel very good about it.
I have the strong suspicion this person doesn’t participate in book clubs. Or much in the way of social events.

Mistaking “book club” for “book class” isn’t a small category error.
Or create a program to extrajudicially assassinate American citizens, including specifically targeting minors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
You could probably set on up on Tildes? (Although it might be a bit quiet at first). https://tildes.net/~books
> I suspect creating psychological safety boils down to things like the rewards and incentive system, org structure and transparency of decision making but I'd love to hear if anyone has first-hand experience

I've never been in management but I am someone who modifies my interactions with people very easily and is very conscious of what harm could come to me based on my various actions. I am also good at spotting squirming people.

Consider what you would do if you personally owned the company, i.e. you can't be fired and everyone must get along with you. What issues would you report? What opinions would you challenge? What ideas would you propose? How uncertain would you be willing to be in a discussion? Would you cut corners on the code to make sure that everything in the sprint gets finished by the end of the two weeks?

Compare that list to what you actually do. For example, most people challenge very rarely but I can confirm from the Slack conversations which parallel the meeting that many want to do that (myself included). I've been in plenty of meetings where most agree that something is pointless or even harmful and we leave the meeting to go implement it. Why? The person speaking is the manager. Our concern is only expressed in chatting on the Slack in private during the meeting. That is why UnderCover Boss is so good at finding issues management knows nothing about.

The difference is the psychological safety deficit. Ask yourself what exactly causes that difference. Why specifically do you challenge far less than you would like to? That is what you must fix.

The problem is that the people who know this information are often lacking in the power to yield change and extracting feedback on this in an environment with low psychological safety faces the same problems as extracting any other feedback (which is why you wanted to solve the problem in the first place).

I would not believe that it could be done without replacing >50% of team members and having them trust from the start.
I run multiple pcs (Linux, win, imac). Barrier setup lets me control all three like a multi monitor setup. Its suitable for gaming on windows with Linux as the input host (hotkey to lock input to one host).

Generally just super convenient when I want to control multiple real machines with dedicated displays. I even sometimes use it for Linux laptop + win tablet portable setup.
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I am working on building on my own website as an engineer. What does your personal website as an engineer look like.? What all do you showcase there.?
love the Lottie animations. were they much work?

General question - if this was the first web app you worked on from scratch I'm impressed - did you have experience with working on existing ones?
There are only so many hours in the day.

We sell a complicated product for professional designers. I am bad at using it and I don't have a great understanding of user workflows. I could learn more about that but then I would have less time to read our huge codebase and figure out how it works.
Never mind all that!

How about IJ? Have you folks made any progress at all on guessing what maybe actually happens? For example do we know anything at all about Hal and Gately digging up JOI's head? Even for example what possible use that would be to anybody?