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You don't have to be a developer all your life (or not at all) :)

I recently met someone who started out as a dev in a bank, then took interest in the numbers part, and now he's a director in a mega-big bank in Internal Audit. Cool person.

In similar paths, I too studied CS, hated programming, started as help-desk, then moved to sys-admin, then to IT Audit and then IT Sec, GRC and now I am mixing and matching the above (Sec-Audit-GRC). I enjoy what I do and I never imagined that I would move from IT Ops if one would have asked me 20 years ago.

Ask people what parts of their career they enjoyed and why.. again this is about their life, but you can understand the CRITERIA more than the actual subject. Listen to their WHY and it may help you construct the rule-set that may lead you to your why/what/where/when.
We had colleagues, photocopiers and telephones. A good lab had a large library and many shelf-feet of schematics. Search was difficult, sure, but copy pasta was just as fundamental to a young engineer then as it is now. The consequences for bad judgement were however a bit smokier (is that why my memories are hazy?)
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Yes. They should absolutely fight for free speech rights.
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From the article:

> Acid3 dates back to 2008 and the web platform specs have changed over time so a perfect score, using the version hosted on acidtests.org, is now only 97/100. The version hosted on the web platform tests site has been updated to match the specs and so, using that, browsers should score 100/100
Thanks for that tip. I personally will start putting like 25€ away for saving every month. I will note the 50/30/20 method for the feature if I have a regular income none based on my parents.
This discussion looks like a harmless discussion about preference.
But when it comes to a situation where you are deprived of natural sunlight because your co-workers use a dark mode and need the room to be pitch dark - this is when it becomes very harmful.
So, non-Google employees decided to make Chromium spy on its users and send lots of usage data to Google? That was kind of them!
I must say I was confused too. You explicitly referred to fountain pens, while everything you said applies to all handwriting.
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There is a function which has 18 return results in the K8s project
A simple way to fix incentives would be to allow private prisons, and to allow inmates to choose the prison they will stay at.
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Well, there's the notational ambiguity!

In maths notation, Σ(x * y)^2 would mean Σ((x * y)^2), but in most programming notation, treating Σ as a function, it would be as you say. I'm going with the original formula in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23508661.

I don't know PyTorch, but regular Python, Numpy, Sympy, etc. seem very similar to Julia in this instance.
>Science is not a faith based system
Some disciplines certainly are, you only need to look at the current rigamaroo around COVID and climate change models. Some 'models' saying millions of deaths before being re-engineered a few weeks later to be mere thousands, or predicting huge swaths of the Earth being uninhabitable by now, etc. You can also look into climate models that predicted perilous cooling on a global scale from decades past.

These sorts of model, which are presented as capital S Science, are at best guesstimates, that don't receive nearly the amount of popular coverage when they shown to be wrong in the fullness of time (or indeed need to be reinforced by changing data). If a model is no better than a coin toss that's faith based to me.

A recent example; WHO "walks backs" statement made a day before about data showing that asymptomatic carriers infecting others is very rare. At the same time saying between 6% and 41% of the population may be asymptomatic with a 16% error margin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im0G7jb78jc
College financial aid is not feasible at the moment. The world should strongly look at alternatives to the regular college with so many people now accustomed to online learning.
> "extremely low memory consumption"

Might be nice as an Electron replacement
> This works if browser is the only application that runs on machine.

I don't understand what you mean - individual applications within a multi-application system can absolutely utilise multiple cores. It isn't true that it won't work. The kernel schedules all the tasks of all applications across the available cores.

And even if you have many applications running, most of them don't need multiple cores all the time, so it makes sense for each application to be able to use as many cores as possible, when the user is looking at it and doing something.

For example if I'm using my text editor and browsing docs. My text editor only needs tiny a fraction of a core every now and again, but each time I navigate it'd be great if the browser temporarily used all sixteen cores to do that as quickly as possible.
Technically yes, but only some niche parts of the original test do not apply anymore. Firefox and Chrome "fail" the test with a score of 97/100, a large part of it is still useful.
If I may suggest (only because I have become a fan of the guy's principles), check out Dave Ramsey and his 7 baby steps. I wish I knew these 35 years ago, I could have avoided most of the "stupid". I know that his ecosystem is about sucking you in and but all his books, but still, if you can phase out the too-much-Christianity bits, he gives some solid advice. (YMMV)
Yes, I get that, but protests are rarely spontaneously created, they are organized by someone or some group of people.
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I think rat out is a strong word, being transparent with law enforcement is more appropriate.
Or it is all theatre.
I don't recall which Yakuza on PS4 requires a patch otherwise it won't go further than the intro.

I'm not completely sure but I also think that Just Cause 3 required a patch at day one to work on PS4 and IIRC it was considerably big against a weak 4 Mbit DSL...
If I am not mistaken, there is no "yes" in classic Latin.
Broken link, I think you mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals#Modified_vigesim...
As far as I know it's also new in the sense that unlike their previous work it's not based on an existing engine.
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Who here doesn't think that China has similar things and much much worse added to Tiktok, Zoom, etc?
Years pass, now decades, yet SQLite is still the most pleasant DB to work with.
Centrists would be somewhat rare it it hadn't become a slur for both extremes to label anyone that's not an extremist.

Moderates are far more common than centrists. But these day's you're either completely toxic and insane or you get ridiculed as a centrist for not caring enough.
"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
I would highly recommend his 2019 book Hate Inc.
Brilliant. I've played PUBG constantly since May and before that Division 2 - two "low latency" games which apparently should suffer on Stadia.

I think since November I've paid the monthly subs twice, due to the "free" months from the Founder's Edition and then Google offering another three months free.

I've bought a handful of games, the most expensive was Grid for £55 and Division 2 (£8) and the WoNY expansion (£25).

I have a fairly standard connection, 40Mbps down and 18 up.

Overall it has vastly exceeded by expectations. As a causal gamer I find it perfect to dip in and out of, without the need to layout £500 on a console or wait for huge Gb updates.
Figured I'd add that Martin Jarvis is my favorite Wodehouse reader, and the audiobooks are usually available through my library (Overdrive/Libby) app.
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When teaching programming analogies can help (familiarity) to convey concepts. At the same time some analogies work better than others. What are your thoughts on this?
IIUC the penalty is applied automatically but they get a warning [1] and then they check if the penalty is correctly applied and may revert it.

[1] I guess by email, but it may be a SMS or a big red blinking light in the headquarter.

Also, perhaps they get the warning when a submission pass a lower threshold and the penalty is automatically applied with higher threshold.
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Insulin is also a natural chemical made by our bodies. The cure for cancer is not. How much people power has gone into looking for its cure? How is this funded? Either by taxes or revenue. If you decrease that then clearly you cannot perform the research. And the reason why all these companies are chasing that cure is the massive payout at the end.
It is to make the soldering process easier and faster by increasing the thermal resistance between the pin and the large metal of the gnd plane. If the gnd pins were sunk into the ground plane directly, the assembler would have to leave the solder iron in place longer, which would heat up more area, and possibly cause damage to the nearby parts.
It's healthy to look at alternatives, good on OP.

I wanted to comment on a specific part that mentions that Ansible's YAML is a nightmare to debug.

I wouldn't describe it like that but I'm biased because I've written ARA Records Ansible exactly to make playbooks easier to understand and troubleshoot: https://github.com/ansible-community/ara

I've been using Ansible for many years in different contexts and I think it is easy to get into the trap of "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

For me, Ansible shines as an excellent abstraction layer for supporting different operating systems or as a glue between different tools.

I am very much a believer of using the right tool for the job. Ansible isn't always the answer and I think that's OK.
Either way, women deciding to sleep around for a decade and then complaining that there are "no" men left is a problem of their own design.
Apple could be planning to make an EHR system, like Epic and Cerner. Google is supposedly working on one, too. (I don’t think the article really arrives on that possibility)

Most electronic health record systems are really terrible software, and they’re also very profitable pieces of software. Google, Apple, and Microsoft are probably the only companies with enough money and software engineering talent to start from scratch and disrupt that space.

Some interesting further reading: https://medium.com/design-and-tech-co/how-google-ehr-could-f...
This is definitely a common complaint with WHOOP! Looking into the reviews for the WHOOP 3.0 the biggest piece of negative feedback I could find is the lack of integration with Apple Health. Seems like this is a bridge they'll have to cross eventually.
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I want to be free to choose whether a political issue deserves my action or inaction in a work setting.

So please respect (not you but people who make such statements) individuals who rightfully choose not to get involved.

There isn’t just the “right” way of thinking. Which is what exactly is happening right now. “Either you think and act as we do or you are an ass*ole.”

Pluralism of thought shouldn’t even be in question in the 21st century.
Like I said, could be, but if I wanted to do something not entirely on the up-and-up, I would just open a challenger/neo-bank account in 5 minutes from my home and do it in there. Not somewhere where they have proof of everything I have and do which I need to refresh every year.
Cool! Where are you getting the transcripts from?
I wrote all my university notes with Bernanke Blue, Bulletproof black (I think) and Widow Maker red. I had a few TWSBI pens, which were nice while they lasted, but unfortunately the plastic crazed after a few years of sitting in a box and at least two are now broken. I had the big one and two minis. I'm not sure if that was becuaee I didn't flush the ink out before storage, but something to be aware of.

My goto before that (and now) are Uniball Jet Stream. The ink dries faster than you can try and smudge it. Refills are slightly hard to come by in physical stores, but I don't write much these days and they last for ages. I got a nice metal one (Jet Stream Prime, I think, single colour) last time I was in Japan - wasn't too expensive. Very hard to find that version elsewhere, but it's lovely and heavy.
Paul Graham tweeted the other day about the opportunity to supplant Zoom with something better.

Zoom doesn't seem to have much of a moat, right? Most users aren't even logged in.
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Try pkgsrc?
There is a solo variant for both the runner and corp that you can find on BoardGameGeek. I believe the runner side is called Running Solo, can’t remember what the corp side is called. I printed it out ages ago and never tried it, you’ve inspired me to give it a go today!
I thought that mama/papa/nana/dada or some close equivalent existed in all languages, as it is the first basic sound that babies can say.
The 65 relational databases are for the same application or similar deployed in 65 countries...At least I read it in that way.
I find the thumb clusters perfectly sized and positioned. I can easily hit the bottom four keys on each cluster and can reach up to the top two without issues. I suspect this depends strongly on the size and flexibility of your hands.
I think there's a difference between "standing up for your principles" and "bullying".

The fired employee didn't make a political statement about what they believe - They harassed someone else's private choice, and then pressured them to publicly cow to his political will through social media.

As if anyone who doesn't publicly virtue signal with the movement is also the enemy.

"Your either with us or against us" -- Famously said by Vladimir Lenin, Benito Mussolini, George W Bush, and Recep Erdoğan. What wonderful company he's keeping.

It was malicious and ugly. ...and its becoming more commonly accepted on social media.
Not sure exactly but any job ads I've seen for the likes of Monzo and Starling talk about backend engineers that have a deep knowledge of CI/CD and you don't do that on a mainframe.

Also, Monzo are heavy users of Kubernetes, so again, no mainframe. [0][1]

Starling use AWS and GCP [2]

In addition, the cost of entry of a mainframe system is a high bar when you can spin up a server on Azure in seconds and deploy code to it in a handful more seconds and then scale it to the heavens in yet just a few more seconds... all for less than the hourly cost of the IBM salesman.

I've yet to see any jobs that mention mainframes, Cobol or the like.

[0] - https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...

[1] - https://www.8bitmen.com/an-insight-into-the-backend-infrastr...

[2] - https://blog.container-solutions.com/starling-how-to-build-a...
When I was in Germany, it felt like there was a calligraphy store on every corner. In the US, you basically have to order fountain pens online unless you happen to live in a major city because they’re not common at all.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a post here about a guy trying to use a Pi as his main machine for a couple of days, and one of his conclusions was that he needed 8GB of ram to run Chromium acceptably, and I thought, hardware evolved to these amazingly small and powerful machines but software is bloating faster. All this is to say that software such as Flow might be the way to go back to more performant ways of doing “essential” computing.
> 1) Take copious notes (in whatever format works for you).

Documentation is always key. And notes about experiences is also important. Check on this one.

> 2) Confirm managers decisions with a recap email (especially when you disagree with them).

This is always important. I discussed a lot to with people in higher ranks than me to find for the perfect fit for a project. Check on this one.

> 3) Understand that while you may not like politics (I don't) knowing how the game is played allows you to mostly stay out of it.

Yeah I stay in the mainstream part, and just vote if there is something to vote on. But it is just a decade where keeping up with politics will just drive you nuts.

> 4) Work time is work time, learn to be productive and then go home and switch off.

That's something I really need to learn. For me it is really hard to switch off my head.

> 5) Work friends are NOT friends.

Always true. I mean you can meet with them for lunch etc., but it will always be about work.

> 6) Learn to say 'No' in a way that doesn't ruffle feathers but does result in the no case.

Also know your weaknesses and don't lie about them. This will save a lot of nerves.

> 7) If something seems interesting, go for it - all the best experiences in my working life have resulted from stepping outside my comfort zone.

Also something I need to learn. For me it is really hard to step out of my comfort zone.
Yes, I could have stood to be more clear. They say it's a clean sheet rewrite, and I have no reason to doubt them. All I'm saying is that no doubt the team having written one before massively benefits the process of writing a new one.
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The point was that you didn't know the difference between where elliptic curve cryptography would be used and a directed acyclic graph. Also a ledger is by its nature a directed (one direction) acyclic (no cycles) graph of dependencies, it just depends how you visualize it. Just like instructions on a computer are in a sequence, they can be separated into graphs of dependencies which may be woven together.

Other crypto currencies are able to synchronize in a decentralized way with different miners mining each block. As far as I know IOTA's structure makes this impossible, even though when they created it everyone else had already done it.
Which is peanuts in the overall costs of healthcare. At what point are you given one as part of your welcome kit? There are already health plans in the US that offer fitbits or will subsidize their cost.
The game becomes encouraging a healthier lifestyle to help people avoid getting sick or hurt which costs alot less than treating someone once they have developed a full blown disease. It's one place where both the patients' and the insurer's and hospitals' interests are all in line with each other.
"Euh" has a different meaning though. Huh is "hein" in French.
Why do you assume that being hatched from eggs means they have to fend for themselves? Birds are usually brought up by their parents.
> Sciter's Quark (https://quark.sciter.com) - 5 MB binary and 28 MB RAM by default is probably the lowest what you can get for HTML/CSS/script engine.

That doesn't even run standard HTML/CSS/JavaScript. That fact alone would make me completely ignore it for any possible application.
Would you say you have big hands? Small hands? Normal sized hands?
As a motorcycle rider, this site was invaluable to me when considering new bikes to buy: https://cycle-ergo.com/

Now that I'm getting into bicycles, I'd love something like that. Have you considered adding bikes other than MTB?
> Queuing theory is a branch of mathematics.

You don't say! The context of this subthread is clearly about software development methodologies, not about software itself.

But obfuscation and petty arguments is also a bureaucratic strategy.
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I really welcome the Health Kit or Google Fit approach for sharing data among health app, I actually want to use that for health research. The main problem is that as soon as you mention the fact that patients data is going to be shared with a company (besides in the US) doctors shy away because of data protection, regulations etc. We need the data to be on the device and possibly outside of the control of one (or 2) companies.
I know Apple says that data is encrypted end to end, and I wish Google did the same, but even so it is still problematic. When you add the fact that every manufacturers of wearables obliges users to share data on their dodgy platforms... I don't see a solution to this. At least not until the mindset changed completely.
IIRC one of the attempts to deliver on "Github but for Design files" used SQLite as an app file format.
I’ve only recently learned this but letting go of your ego and being easy to work with rather than constantly believing you are “right” is going to get you extremely far and you’ll be able to learn how people think and be able to judge if you want to model them (or absolutely not).

So basically if you think your boss knows nothing, got there by luck and you are finding everything they do irritates you; it’s you not them.

We could also talk about not getting too involved in general, work is work and you should have important things you’re interested in outside of what you are doing in exchange for money.
One spouse cannot control the decisions of the other.
If one spouse is bound and determined to leave the marriage, then I'm not sure there's much that can be done.
However, I know from experience that as long as both are willing to try to save the marriage, there is hope, even with disagreements that seem painful and impossible.
Counseling can help.
Maintaining a positive vision of the future -- hope -- is motivating and can change one's perspective on the spouse.
I don't mean to diminish your concern -- I acknowledge it: marriage is not easy! But I also believe there is a way to stay together in many instances, and that doing so is worth the risk and the sacrifice.
Based on the headline I thought the same. And just wait until the shady audit and renewal practices begin. In reality the total cost may be small for a bank that big. But messing even one trade or large account can cost them billions.
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Plastic is not biologically inert. Micro plastics accumulate inside tissues and many plastics contain endocrine disruptors, including some non BPA plastics. Glass waste (basically just sand) is not a big problem pollution wise since like sand it's basically just a rock, but plastic does break down slowly, making it far more of a concern.
I've made this available on GitHub https://github.com/shahinrostami/chord

Video of it in action + examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ2RnU-0KwQ
...all languages that we checked.
You are correct. In fact old English didn’t have it as well. "Yes" comes from "gese" which means "So be it".
Always important to learn stuff besides theory and the stuff from school. Something I do since 7th grade with CS.
I've lost three boxes in ubu upgrades, although in retrospect two of them were blob video drivers.
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Sounds like a marriage made in heaven between these two.
I switched my major from EE to CS, but I did take a few courses in EE. It seems analogue circuits are more about complex signals (the type you’d analyze and describe with Fourier and Laplace transforms) and less about simple voltage switching (though op-amps can get you voltage switching if you need it as an output).
Unfortunately all to often they are hosting these files on a hacked server, or using a stolen card - So your good deed may backfire
> 5 MB binary and 28 MB RAM by default

I wonder how WPE [1] compares to that.

[1]: https://webkit.org/wpe/
To some extent there is a per-country copyright block. There are some videos not available in the US but available other places because of copyright claims. It probably has to do with who the copyright holder is.