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I don't know man, just kinda depression posting from my tiny room. I want to do something about it, because I haven't lost all hope yet, but I don't see a clear way how I personally could have any real impact.

I wish I had enough cash to quit my job for a while and figure where I could make a difference, but I'm kinda barely hanging on as it is.

It just bums me out that so much time and effort in the tech-sphere is spent on improving the efficiency of our destruction of the planet, and that the people who got rich of this destruction seem very content sitting on their pile of cash.
If arbitrary thrust is allowed you can move as slowly as you like in any direction.
“Cant’t take a joke” is a terrible excuse for making people uncomfortable.

People are sensitive, impostor syndrome is extremely common. The people who work for you are always going to be worried about their job at some level. Don’t take advantage of your power to make a joke that is, at best, not funny and at worst incredibly anxiety-inducing.
I literally did abuse them for a decade, and one ear is still functional!
Incorrect. Old PHP was more like C. If you see a modern, best practices, PHP code base today, it reads like Java 7 did in 2011.
Persi Diaconis' book is excellent. You come away with the proof that it takes seven shuffles to fully randomize a deck of cards...

https://www.amazon.com/Group-Representations-Probability-Sta...
What's up with that elitist attitude? Are you saying that people shouldn't be able to write code unless they've first how to do it properly?
What do you dislike about composer?
Bingo! The runaway feedback loop driving the singularity (which was John von Neumann's idea originally FWIW.)
> Criminal court doesn't really use the concept of responsibility, it assigns punishment based solely on who did the crime.

Saying someone "did the crime" is just another way of saying that they are responsible for the crime.

> the concept of crime itself is provided by lawmaker, not by human's judgement.

What? The entire point of the judicial system is to interpret the law with respect to human judgement.
> Because humans have a choice in it.

This is the assumption. (Most)Women nest when a child is on the way. That's an involuntary behavior. Why can't there be some involuntary behavior associated with choosing a mate?

And I'm not searching for some offense. I keyed off the OP saying "Game", but I don't feel they particularly had their feathers ruffled.
Opening a company of your own solves all your problems and brings back others, only you can decide which you value more. An in-between route would be to go freelance, which in my area (Amsterdam) and our field (software dev) seems just as 'sure' as employment, but gives you more freedom to:

- jump between / serve multiple employers (customers)
- play with your hours (ie make some room for side project or other life goals)
- play with your hourly rate (making it easier to play with your hours)

In general you may want to move close(r) to hardware dev work (not necessarily going embedded, but at least tied to it), especially within small startups or a mostly independently operating R&D team. Although anecdotal my experience is that this brings you more of what you search for.

PS: As for academia, I wouldn't go as far as saying you can replace it with some Googling / online education, but having been there for some years I do think your conclusion that you will not be happy there might still be correct, it's slow and rigid.
The experience is a bit different in VS Code.

To me, in Vim it feels a little bit like one is calling an external program (which one is), and the monospaced text-only UI constrains what can be shown.

In VS Code, the experience is more integrated (because the GUI isn't constrained to a text interface), things update live, so you can preview the changes before applying.

I've tried both, both work but I find myself preferring the VS Code experience.
Can those 'three strikes' happen as part of the same crime complex?

Not a perfect example, but let's say an addict robs someone on the street, buys a big score of her favorite drug and then sells some of that to an addict friend. Would that be considered three strikes?
There is a lying madman at the top superpower, none of these words matter as muchas getting him voted out. The single most important thing in human history could be to make Americans go and vote in November.
Most countries run on fiat to exchange wealth. Fiat already takes a huge leap of faith in the state issuing it. To think that the current economy is anything like barter is bogus. There is too much blind trust that the current economy is more fair than not, which leads to "fiat wealth" = "human worth" thinking, while money leaks like a sieve to entrenched interests.
How could a programmer of great ability ever become wealthy living by your ethics?
It's not just IT. I transitioned to a career in IT when I was 35. I've done a _lot_ of things in my time; everything from bouncing in a world-famous downtown district to being a cashier a gas station.

This is all good advice. Find something you're passionate about outside of work. Maybe look for tech-related 501(c)3s, educational programs, or (if you're so inclined politically) social-justice related causes. All of these could use the help of an experienced IT guy/gal.

And (IMO) there's nothing better to recharge the 'ole batteries than to see the look in someone's eyes when something just clicks. Want to find the hacker ethos and culture? Pass it along to the next generation.
Yes, if you read in the imgur album I state that an ex's dog chewed on it and it has been like that for the past 5 years!
AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
Except if cloudflare is part of a PRISM like program, associated with a gag order. In which case they have pwn half the planet security.
ColdFusion, Java Server Pages, and other languages copied this syntax. I don’t see it anymore except with php. Does anyone know of any other languages still in use that have this?
What I quoted does clarify (although in a convoluted way) that it is multi-core.
Yes I did. The point I was trying to make was, this really shouldn’t come to anyone naturally. It is like writing a blog post about not bullying anyone. People still do it, but I think those people are psychologically unstable, should be isolated and needs help.
I imagine a future where a project like wikipedia is replicated endlessly by willing users on an IPFS-like network, where people can donate CPU, storage and bandwidth instead of money to pay for a centralized server, simply by running something like ipfs pin wikipedia (or a subset)
That's exactly what I said. Sensitive people or people with impostor syndrome are problematic. I think those people are the problem, and not jokey managers. But we can disagree, that's okay. :)
Did you have a Nintendo Network ID linked to your Nintendo account though? Was that NNID password secure?
An experienced CEO joined a mid-sized company that I worked at a few years. His opening line, in his first all hands was a joke about firing the people who were a few minutes late to the call. It was obviously a joke, but you really can't make a worse impression and he was gone within a year.
My manager does this. My managers' boss does it to him. One of the very few complaints I have about my management or my job.

I've sort of become inoculated to it though. Was tough at first though, especially since I have some (undiagnosed) manner of anxiety disorder. So the joke would happen and I would think about it for the rest of the day, if not longer.
I'm more upset that ignorance of the law IS a defense for police officers, whose job is to know it.
Yes definitely is more about making money than actually helping in reforming the inmates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
You left out a "g" for the first link.
I use a tool called Agent Ransack for searching for text within files. Works great for git repos / source code.

https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
> Isn't the punishment a way to stop people from trying to commit a crime?

Harsh punishment fosters resentment.

Isolation is a form of torture.

Cutting off prisoners from society makes reintegration and rehabilitation difficult.

A person who is incapable of participating in society is going to be pushed to the fringes and will more than likely become a drain on society rather than a contributor.

Severity is a huge factor. We don't really have a gradient of consequences, and much of what we do have is limited to privileged individuals. When was the last time you heard of a nonviolent drug offender being given the option to serve his sentence over weekends or in a minimum security facility?

Unless you're a wealthy elite with a very expensive team of lawyers, you're going to "Pound me in the ass Prison". We even make jokes about how extreme the conditions are in our prisons and use those poor conditions as deterrent.

On top of that, we've privatized our prisons so the operators are constantly looking for opportunities to profit. In the post the author talks about per minute charges for email. Some prisons no longer allow face-to-face visitation and instead require the use of video conferencing technology that costs money. Beyond nickle and diming inmates, they're reducing staffing and quality of everything to save as much money as possible. That in itself is punishing torture.
Uber Tumbles on Report It’s Close to Ending Talks with Grubhub
I've been noticing it for a while, the search quality gets worse and worse every year. For me, the red line was the Panda update in 2011. That update completely destroyed the search quality by bringing dubious quality news articles and ecommerce websites on the top of search, it never really recovered since then.
Thanks for keeping us up to date.

The timing on that incident was a weird coincidence for our team. We had just rolled out a bunch of production updates, and then 5 minutes later ALL our VM's went down and I freaked out and tried to diagnose what was happening and recover before I started noticing all the other people going down.

So. Hate to ask this. But what happened to your old posts that are now just "-"'s?

I mean I can guess.

It's just that the communication blackout while the incident was happening was not appreciated. And you stepping forward to let us know what was going on was very appreciated.
> but that requires an enormous amount of global coordination.

I think this is the biggest lie in favor of the fossil fuel industry.

Here's this from the thread yesterday:

https://www.electricitymap.org/map

California is doing better than most because they use solar and nuclear (but also quite a bit of gas). France is even greener, because they use almost entirely nuclear and hydro. Likewise Ontario.

Meanwhile there are places like Australia that are still burning coal. Even switching to gas would be a marked improvement, but there is absolutely no reason they couldn't be using as much solar as California right now.

California pays less for electricity than Australia. Until recently France had been paying less than California -- and then Germany shut down their nuclear plants and caused a regional supply crunch; now they're about the same. They're still lower in Ontario.

So what's stopping everybody from doing the same, without anybody forcing them to? Squat. But if you convince everybody not to do it until everybody else is doing it then the fossil fuel industry just needs to control a couple of major holdouts to bust up any kind of international agreement and then nobody does anything.

Meanwhile if you do it yourself without anybody forcing you to, that gives the alternatives economies of scale. Solar is where it is today in large part because of places like California. Batteries are where they are in large part because of companies like Tesla. Nuclear is in the sorry state that it is in large part because people haven't been building it.

Doing it is how you get others to do it. You don't have to wait for anybody else.

And you were never, ever going to get e.g. Russia to sign a treaty that gets them to stop burning fossil fuels. But once you have 75% of everybody, then you can get an agreement to have everybody slap the last holdouts with major tariffs.
It's a shame that a lot of the antitrust criticisms of google don't focus on Youtube. The fact that youtube is one of the main rivals to wikipedia in results is highly suspicious to me, and should be to antitrust regulators.

Of course at this point its a bit of a self reinforcing cycle, because youtube ranks, it gets more and more content, becomes more popular, and so google might be ranking it more and more legitimately.

But I find it impossible to believe that youtube would have done as well and would be doing as well in SERPS if it wasn't a google property. They've clearly built another site and brand with their own monopoly, similar to internet explorer by microsoft.

It would be such an easy target to go after imo.
Yep. It’s natural. It’s happened to me, and I’ve done it as well. It never bothered me when it happened to me, so I thought it was OK. This is a good reminder to be more careful.
One more factor I would recommend to take into account is when the store restocks.

For where I live, the supermarket I usually go to always restocks Tuesday mornings, sometimes on Thursday mornings.

This may be a bit selfish, but I always go on Tuesday morning 10AM and it has not been crowded do far, and I've had zero issues with needing repeated trips due to groceries being out of stock.

EDIT: One would expect it to be busier right after / during restocking, but that has not been the case at all. Maybe the supermarket has an incentive to restock during the least busy times or people have not caught on in general yet.
On the contrary, when you have only a few large companies, they form oligopolies, there is no competition, free market does not function and the consumer looses out.
The general point the author is making sounds true but I am sceptical regarding any criticism against make. Building and/or handling dependencies was basically a solved problem as soon as make was invented and all of the new stuff in this area just seems plainly unneeded to me. Also, when people invent new build systems one can end up with projects where one part is built using one build system and another part is using another. Since things can depend on each other in arbitrarily complex ways because of code generation this will lead to build either too much or too little. In particular having a build system for a particular language is such a strange concept.
JavaScript Questions and Answers to Test Your Skills
Sony ain't that good in embedded software in general, the Alpha series camera software is ... a hot mess.
What Is the Difference Between CNN and RNN?
I was going to be even more cynical and say that 3 million sounds absolutely pathetic relative to the scale of both entities, and given how important it is to the quality of Google’s search results.
The basic rule of comedy, or making jokes, which is amateur comedy, is that you always punch up. It’s funny when you say “ha! you’re fired!” to your boss, but never when you say it to someone you can actually fire.

Same reason why parents (should) never joke about punishment or disciplinary action with their kids - when you have power and authority you also have a responsibility not to belittle it. People will take your power over them only as seriously as you take your responsibility towards them.
Get shot down cuz you're over-zealous / Play hard-to-get, females get jealous -Young MC, 1988 or so

In all seriousness, if this is a strategy to make yourself look better than you are, shouldn't prospective partners ask why you need to do that? Doesn't your playing hard-to-get imply that you're the desperate one, on some level? Or rather it's the "I drive a Dodge Stratus" of dating. It separates/differentiates you from the lowest tier, but I think those who are truly in the top tier will probably use some kind of counter-signaling approach.

Welcome to the wonderful world of over-thinking it and trying to game the system.
Only time I've seen a manager joke like that was with a senior engineer that also joked about quitting fairly often. It was banter and it worked for them. Same manager never joked about it with anyone else though.
I (ab)use Make for anything but compiling C sources to binaries. Eg. all my Python projects use Make to conditionally create virtualenv's, install packages, run code linting/tests. For which Make is just the most ubiquitous and simple tool available.

But one thing that still annoys me with Make are the workarounds needed to work with stuff which state can not be derived from a file (or only from complex paths). Things like having a background process running (eg. a test db) or a external package that needs to be installed (which can be easily queries using apt, but is much harder to determine reliably using system files). I end up having to create intermediate hidden files which sometimes decouple from the real state. Then things really become messy with Make for me.

Would redo be a better solution in this case as well?
Economists people who believe in infinite growth in finite world.

They made up Nobel in Economics to pretend to be scientists.

They might start wearing mystical robes and give themselves funny titles. Since they are as useful at guessing how economy works and how to steer as other 'officials' who wear mystical robes and have funny titles. Both are also always 100% they are right about everything.

Sorry about ranting, reading about climate change always puts me in depressing mood.
I would rather Wikipedia took some advertising, rather than it’s begging pop ups which have become more intrusive and irritating recently.
The Bill of Rights is full of inequalities like this. inequality. And inequalities they are!

Lots of inequalities in our system when you think about it---

- 12 jurors get to decide guilt, no matter the will of the people

- you can publish whatever you want, even if all of Congress would rather you not

Equality and inequality don't exist in vacuums. It's more art than science to know which to strive for, and when.
I'm curious to know which libraries you use.

Also, in my own experience, I was able to get hierarchical layouts Graphviz by using directional graphs with subgraphs.
It is good advice, but it is not very common for newly promoted managers to have full hiring/firing power.
There are a lot of tech blog posts to the effect of "Here is the obviously common sense business thing we learned" as a way of building a personal brand. I blame it on the fact that the tech culture starts in HS or College and then takes a worker straight into the industry; HS coder -> University -> jr coder role -> startup, but without the exposure to other contexts/jobs/roles/experiences.

But yeah, it's basic professionalism -- don't joke about firing people, quitting, pay cuts/raises, etc.
I imagine this is less of a thing in countries where you need just cause to fire people.
I learned similar lessons about police when I was a kid. We would get burglarized almost every year by the same house down the street. Every time we called the police they would show up a day later and spend most of their time doing nothing and trying to blame us for getting robbed. They cared so little about actual crime.

At the same time some cop from the same department wrote up my brother for "Riding a motorcycle on the sidewalk while not wearing a helmet on his bicycle, crossing a street (Pedestrian) without a walk sign, and running a red left turn in a car. He got 200 hours of community service because the judge (Not really a judge but some ticket approver clerk) decided he didn't care if it made sense. He was doing community service next to a guy that beat and robbed an elderly woman who got 40 hours instead...

Then we moved to a different city and the sheriffs there were GREAT. You would meet them out and about and they would say hi and hang out. They actually cared about their jobs and spent their time keeping the community safe. Report a car stereo stolen to them and they would set up stings and bait cars! For a car stereo!

The first city was leasing their cops from a notoriously bad city next door. The second city funded their own Sheriff, spent tons of money on them to keep them well trained, and was super politically active (Mostly retirees). Both cities were within 50 miles of each other.

Consistency of police in the USA is all over the place. I think the ACAB movement is missing something. They are alienating the groups that can actually make a difference with policing. The LEOs who are actually good at their jobs and the people who honestly cherish them. At the same time I know what kind of cop they are really after!
>In my opinion, that would be incredibly cruel and stupid.

Usually, it's more ignorance rather than (intentional) cruelty. If your office has a relaxed atmosphere, as a manager, it is very easy to make the mistake of thinking that you are just a regular part of the gang. But of course, you're not, and everyone (except you) is aware of your status and the fact that you control their continual employment, bonuses/raises and career advancement.

This view is reinforced in modern tech culture which is deeply uncomfortable with power and status hierarchies without realizing that a proper hierarchy with defined roles and responsibilities actually makes everyone more comfortable because everyone knows where they stand. The Valve case study of a fully horizontal organization is complete bullcrap because they replaced defined roles and responsibilities and chain of command with an ambiguous and implicit set of roles, responsibilities and chain of command. Nobody there believes that Gabe Newell is just a regular joe, regardless of what his title says.
Everyone had a subscription at one point not so sure anymore.
It is more or less universally recognized that jokes are only funny if they are punching upwards. Someone in a position of power making jokes about using that power against someone with less power is more akin to bullying.
If you have Firefox I would suggest that you go on Wikipedia.org, right-click the search box, click "Add keyword to this search", and pick a keyword. This makes it faster to find information that you know is on Wikipedia.
I've had a manager who made it work. It was deliberately a running joke, it was one of a family of running jokes with similar delivery techniques, it was never aimed at any new hires, and most of this manager's direct reports "fired" him as well, on a regular basis.

It is reasonable to regard even this particular situation with caution, but I mention it anyway, to highlight the patterns that did make it work, that you can regard the absence of these patterns in your own situation.
While we're on this topic, managers don't invite your direct reports for one-on-one meeting out of the blue with no agenda. I've heard multiple people tell me they assume they're about to be fired.
Yes, they may take other jokes wrong, but this probably isn't the metric you need to optimize as a manager. And it probably isn't a very good proxy for whatever that metric might be. This is to say nothing of worsening that metric by stressing out your employees.
> But whatever the definition of a processor unit is, it didn't change. The prices both before and after the change are for the same unit.

Umm yeah but what did change is lots of multi-core processors with increasing core count appeared and not changing the definition of processor unit to count each core as a processor means more money to Oracle. None of what you keep saying contradicts what I said - it's still a lot of money and people are not wanting to pay that much.
Laravel uses some Symfony components, but it isn't based on Symfony. Laravel was heavily inspired by Rails.
Typed-assert: A typesafe TS assertion library
> but I know that it's basically useless to solve this bottom up.

Doing the right thing can feel incredibly pointless, but it is not useless at all. It's like voting, also not useless. Many tiny ants build a great hill if only they keep at it.