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You personally are the one who will be hired or not, not a fungible Georgia Tech Graduate (or otherwise).

See if you can find out where previous graduates of your current masters ended up, and compare it to the Georgia Tech masters. If dropping out and moving on will lead to a genuine step change in your career prospects, give it serious consideration. If it will just result in more debt and more stress for broadly similar prospects (assuming you get accepted and then succeed at the new course), just focus on learning and being employable from where you are.

I'm based in Europe so I don't know what the jobs market in the USA is truly like. I have to ask though, is it really that important to get a job at a FAANG company?

Is it genuinely the case that you won't find interesting, fulfilling and well-paid work outside of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google? Are you even sure that you will have a great job in one of those five places?

Good-but-not-top-tier universities routinely produce very good graduates with very good prospects. Boring companies have a lot of interesting problems to solve, and lots of them let you wear jeans to work too. Google has plenty of drudgery and office politics.

If the companies you're aiming for will not consider you unless you went to one of a select few expensive elite universities, that's probably not a great reflection on them either.
> I mean, the perfect seams of the joints in various Peruvian ruins

Er... the peruvians was an advanced civilization. Certainly advanced enough to fit stones snugly. That we don't know the exact techniques used for various ancient buildings does not mean they couldn't have built it.

In any case saying "maybe someone else did it" explains absolutely nothing. You just have a new hypothesis with zero evidence.
Does ThinkPad X/T have something similar? On their website the only option is Windows.
At almost 40, I've come to realize that work gives me plenty enough opportunities to track and measure performance as it is. But there's also that part of life that's not work, and I've found that merely being, as opposed to performing, is quite valuable in itself! It's hard to enjoy the moment with my kids, my spouse and my friends when I constantly think of my todos and objectives. I feel by now that the goal is to learn to balance between times of performance and times of non-performance, even multiple times a day.
I bought a Dell XPS 13 (same model in article, 9300) a couple of months ago, and installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it myself.

It works great. No coil whine, and I haven't heard anyone complaining about coil whine with this year's model.
I’ve been hoping for this too. So there’s at least two of us.
That's part of it, but it's also the case that wealthy countries have a lot more travel, especially internationally, to spread the disease beyond initial outbreak centres. Asia also has much more practice in taking pandemic threats seriously and responding early and appropriately.
It is the same one they released back in 2018 from the specs: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/palm-phone-review-fu...
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I think this is the same phone that has been out since late 2018 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/palm-phone-review-fu...
Link to 32GB version: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
Depends on the Zune I think. If it was a V1, there is a lot to hate. Also, try using it today - this guy did and it seems like he seriously struggled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3Jud-829A
As if it has been different at any point in history.
I imagine you already do not drive car, wear only rawhide sole shoes and use eco packaging - to prevent all the bigger real pollution sources by longtom.
I used to go to clubs like this in Vegas and get bottle service all the time. A few notes.

1. The girls know why they are there. They may not know the economics of it exactly, but they got free admission to a club with a giant line and cover fee. They got told all night “those gentlemen over there want to buy your drinks” and then escorted behind the ropes. They’re not stupid. They knew this wasn’t because of their personalities, though many of them were lovely people too. I ended ul dating a med school student who went on to become a brain surgeon that I met that way.

2. Any sex was consensual. I never saw any prostitution or the like. Most of the girls just enjoyed the free drinks for a few hours left. The only girls I saw who were probably prostitutes were brought there by certain celebrities.

3. It’s not your bar tab that keeps the service flowing, it’s the gratuities. We didn’t buy bottles of Louis, and probably spent less on the alcohol than most of the people behind the ropes. But we probably tipped everyone (and I mean everyone) more than the guys who did. Every time the bouncers see a couple extremely attractive women they’ll send them to your table. Every time they’ve got a great party coming up the bartenders will send you a text. We had a house out there and invited them to our bbqs on their off nights, and that goes a long way.

4. Is all of this immoral? I don’t really see how. Everyone knew what they were doing.
OK. Suppose USA had 100 cases a day due to very little testing. How do we hide those 120K deaths? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
I just got the 32 GB version! My top complaint after rocking the Ubuntu 13 laptop for the last 4 years was lack of 32 GB option. (Other people complain about the webcam, but I hardly use it).

Overall has been a great platform.
It's click-and-go, unless you want to manually set up different partitions for home, root, etc.
Thankfully my company has forgotten about their OKRs initiative. Trying to figure out 10-15 _useful_ personal metrics was stressful and a waste of time. And they rightfully would get bulldozed over and ignored by our actual need to implement new change requests/features.

Not to mention all the "guides" seem to be dedicated to companies that are B2C or already heavily use the word "engagement" or depend on ad clicks or only make sense for the sales/marketing team.
Only the potential difference is physically meaningful. The absolute potential has no effect on anything. You can add 1000 V or 10^6 V to everything and you get exactly the same physics.
My first thought was that this sounds like a pulsar, and I was surprised to not see that among the list of possible phenomenon. After looking it up, I still wasn't quite sure why these couldn't be pulsars. Is it because the period is much higher than typical pulsars?
Because you count deaths where they happen, or where they're registered.
We have bought 7 or 8 for my startup in the past 4 years. Only one failure that happened at like month 3. Seems at least average reliability?

In the same time we have had 2 of 4 appple laptops need a new motherboard / some drastic problem
> Since there are no studies to disprove the hypothesis, the hypothesis is valid.

You have that totally backwards. Everything is invalid until proven valid, not the other way around.
An imperial fluid ounce was defined (metric style) to be exactly the volume of an ounce of water. The reason for the change in number of fl.oz. in a pint was to make a gallon weigh 10 lb.
Only one of them would allow you to be productive. A big case, screen, keyboard, etc all adds up.

You're overestimating the performance of phone CPUs and storage too.
They are doing lots of interesting OS research, also using C++ and Ada/SPARK alongside each other on the lower layers and safety critical parts.

Definitely one of the OSes to watch for, specially when one gets tired of the UNIX clones that keep being remade.
Great that Dell is supporting their Laptops with Ubuntu and Linux. I like the developer experience of Linux. Most things work as they should out of the box and the system is stable. Plus it feels like the right thing to use open source software where you can contribute back if you want.
I sorry what? This comment reads like complete gibberish based on the context of the OP
By a bit too old do you mean like 24?
I agree the question of how it formed is a bit more complex, but what it is seems pretty straightforward.

Some plausible formation mechanisms include primordial black hole and neutron star merger. It could also be some other alignment of statistically improbable events. We've only found one so far, after all.
I think that they have a very different mindset as suppose to average Americans. They might be less likely to rebel against orders to distance socially, to wear masks etc etc. Those things do add up
And sometimes the crowd is mostly right. Kleiner Perkins' big bet on renewable energy pretty much flopped.
For one, S76 is not shipping icelake. Second, s76 = clevo + coreboot. Not everyone cares about that. Dell/Lenovo have better hardware, support, etc.
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People will become their inner assholes if there are no consequences to their behavior as in real life you get thrown out of the neighborhood pub if you act like a doofus.
I wish they made these available in Australia! Wouldn't even be different to the US version, power supply aside.
There is not really any novelty in this kind of approach, I guess? Just that with .js it hasn't always been possible, but with other server-client games, it always was.
The race map seem only keep the race start and current boat position. It would be better if the whole historical locations of the boat are kept and drawn on the map. Otherwise, nice!
You don't need to ban poor-performing software to use something else, or to wait for updates that will improve it, or for competing software to emerge. All of this can take place with nothing being banned.

Banning has no place in software development at all, which is why it's not wreaking havoc on Github with projects being disappeared for poor performance. It's why you can't write to Github and request a repository be banned "FoR pERfOrMaNcE ReAsoNs". Games don't get banned from GOG and Steam for poor performance. There's simply no such thing as Raspberry PI banning software. Firefox banning pages that perform poorly does not exist. Everywhere we build and distribute software regards poor performance as something we might be able to fix, something we should wait to be fixed, rather than a bannable offense.
Tyler Cowan did a great podcast with the author, Ashley Mears, on this topic a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_BzgKOJme8
No. Lenovo doesn't sell linux laptops in the US on the open market. You may be able to buy one through the IT sales channel or in some other countries.
Nuts and Bolts for an online Start-up.
I'm beta testing a gift concept for women. It's a line of edgy underwear to give your BFF. I am looking for cost effective ways to market them organically. Can anyone recommend a great omnichannel app to help build community. We have a good content strategy but I would love some recommendations on must have apps/process/considerations etc. Any lessons learned from other startups would be wonderful. THANKS
Not even just models. Attractive women all over the world can go out with a $10 bill in their pocket and drink all night and still have enough left for Taco Bell at the end. Free drinks are cheap.
Yeah, seems like now half the questions on there are someone pushing some random agenda with "Why is [statement that isn't true]?"
you just need to know that there are 360 degree in a circle. now do:

- count the segment dividers and divide 360 by that amount, let’s call this X.

- count at which divider the pointer is pointing, multiply that by X and be good.
I don't disagree, but I find the idea of archival materials interesting. Does Van Gogh's cheap yellow diminish his art? Or to put it another way, folk art isn't lesser just different and mostly in the mind of the beholder. All these techniques work with Elmer's and corrugated cardboard. Matting and framing is mostly about presentation not preservation.
A cleaned up Neanderthal would look like in modern clothes
VC is fundamentally a power/money alliance which exists to further the allies' interests. Capitalism ideology says that it turns out that this is fairly optimal for consumers, given competitive forces to keep it checked and balanced. But this balance is only healthy to the extent that the homeostasis can be maintained. Unconstrained growth (prioritized above all else and with disregard for externalities) is less like homeostasis and more like cancer ("Wall Street: As long as someone wants to buy this [collateralized debt obligation], we’re good.")
For me the IPhone 7 was the perfect size at 4.7, my only wish is that they made it a bit fatter so it will be easy to grasp and not slippery and that also would increase the battery capacity.
Without paywall: http://archive.is/SH3EU

The article mentions Toby Ord and his The Precipice - I think a must-read book:

https://theprecipice.com/
Yes, it's not a devastating impact, but my thinking on this has shifted a bit lately to "somewhat significant" impact. For example, I believe the strong store-store ordering requirement significantly hurts Intel chips when cache misses and hits are mixed and an ABA scenario occurs as described at [1].

Also, it seems that Apple ARM chips exhibit essentially unlimited memeory level parallelism, while until very recently Intel chips had a hard limit of 10 or 12 outstanding requests, and in a very-hand wavy way some have claimed that this may be related to the difficulty of maintaining ordering.

More recent, Ice Lake can execute two stores per cycle, but can only commit one store per cycle to the L1D, unless two consecutive stores are to the same cache line. The "consecutive" part of that requirement comes directly from the store-store ordering requirement, and is a significant blow for some high store throughput workloads.

Similarly, I believe the whole "memory ordering mis-speculation on exiting a spin lock spin" thing, which was half the reason for the pause instruction, also comes from the strong memeory model.

None of these are terrible restrictions on performance, but they aren't trivial either. Beyond that it is hard to estimate the cost of the memeory ordering buffer in terms of power use, etc.

I agree that Intel has made chips with power memory subsystems despite this, but it is really hard to compare across vendors anyway: R&D and process advantage can go a long way to papering over many faults.

[1] https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=173441&curpost...
The only insecure-by-design authentication scheme is passing the user identifier through HTTP headers (it's unfortunately quite common). Headers are set by the web client, so any client can assume to be anyone.
Basecamp first launched when I was in college, and being completely unfamiliar with any project management workflow I thought: "this would be great for managing myself" so I set milestones and wrote entries for myself and project managed my life for a brief period.

It makes life as boring as work.

These methods are meant for teams working towards a common objective, where anything extraneous to the OKRs is considered a distraction. This has its shortcomings (I've met way too many project managers who seem to be so absorbed by metrics they fail to see what is right in front of their noses). It's most definitely useful is this context, but not in life.

Consider: the author has set himself to read 20 books per year. Suppose this is double of his standard. What he will do to fulfill his OKR? He's not going to choose a difficult read such as Ulysses, or an existential crisis inducing book such as Crime and Punishment, he will go for what is more superficial and easier to read, because his goal is not to be transformed by what he reads, his goal is to read 20 books.

The crucial layer of meaning is lost when we project-manage ourselves. Life is more akin to a poem than it is to a project.
One year of ProSupport for free is a pretty good deal at that price (looks like limited time offer). When I bought mine (32gb with Windows) a couple of months ago, the same specs were $100 more but without ProSupport. I chatted with a sales rep and got an upgrade for 1 year of ProSupport and 256gb -> 512gb ssd for about $1 more.
U.S. Antitrust Regulators Investigating Apple's App Store Fees and Policies
Adele's former personal trainer shared 3 simple steps to transforming your body
Apple is the exception, as they don't rely on 3rd party OEMs.

Microsoft however does allow 3rd party OEMs for Windows and PCs don’t have that issue. MS makes sure the most popular or even some obscure hardware is supported.

Even Microsoft isn't able to do much regarding laptops and Windows tablets, and was forced to start their own Surface line.

I have an 11 year old Dell E6500 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz running Windows 10 perfectly.
I don't know why, sometimes useful and good things just don't get upvotes :/
> This is a good example of how the "system" produces racially-biased outcomes without any racist human input in the present day.

What is the end goal here though? The most wealthy ethnicities in the US are Asian-Indians, Jewish and East-Asians. Is that also systemic racism (against Whites) and these groups should be knocked down?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-asian-quotas-repeat-an...
> Start with the book: “Head First JavaScript Programming”.

Please don't. 6yo book doesn't worth it. Even one year is a lot for modern tech.

> Do Free Code Camp.

Agree. Crazy good chunk of exercises, also useful for React & Node.

I always recommend to get any basic video course if you learning something from zero, it helps to start fast. Avoid crazy 60+ hours all-in-one courses. Then do exercises and grab advanced books & blogs & manuals.
not sure why you're being downvoted but conspicuous consumption and capital's drive to constantly create new markets makes perfect sense to me as an explanation for decadence (a word that literally means decay ie not a thing any organism would organically pursue).
I'm pretty sure decadence is older than the 1850s... Yeah, it would seem Martin Luther died in 1546.

Decadence requires power, and capital is the most obvious way to acquire it in our society.
Not really — some edm shows focus on the music as much or as more than the glamour — Glow in DC is one in particular that has straddled that particularly well. They have always had a lot of kids going who don’t dress up and go to dance only. And of course the underground edm shows that don’t have bottle service at all and are purely about the music.

When I was talking about ‘normal’ people getting bottle service, I meant people who were there because they liked the DJ and not for all the other stuff.

In my experience, most of the good parties are run by people who love dance music and know how to build a community around it. Most of them have nothing but contempt for high rollers who go to flash money around, even if they cater to them to stay in business.
This is not about Sun Microsystems :-(
Irrelevant. If the application doesn't call the function to verify the user token, the application is insecure, it doesn't matter what protocol or token format is used.
>Or do it naked in the front yard.

Let's take this simple one as example of stupid laws that suppose "to make world a better place "

Can you justify rationally and logically why naked person in the front yard is a problem?
I mean, we have born this way aren't we?
And yet having such biases you advocating for technology amplifier to enforce laws??

And you think you are making the world a better place ?

If you ready to prosecute someone for being naked,
which means actually simply being himself and not
sharing your views about nakedness, I prefer
that you would be prohibited to have access from any surveillance completely.

>We could very well frame it as 'database search'.

And in that case I do not wish you to have any access to any database what so ever , and the 'data base' itself should be destroyed. Because 'AI' is a different level of magnitude in surveillance, because one thing is when you go some people notice you while some don't and another when something watching your every step. This by itself is intimidating. People would not feel free and relaxed they would fake it or smash the cameras at some point.

We already have too much surveillance to the level it's annoying to go outside. I do not feel comfortable any more. I do not like somebody watching me with AI precision. I was questioned by police just for taking the walk not in a 'proper' hours and all I wanted is just to take the air and think about deep topics without interruption.
The world is already going crazy with too much control and some people seems do not realise that at all.
I tend to go with news feeds like Morning Brew these days. I trust their collections.
I made a comment somewhere, where someone was asking about FTP games, and I thought there were looking for games that would be like this. You'd upload stuff to an FTP server instead of mailing it...
I was very interested because of the 16/10 display and the general design but besides the Intel CPU being apparently not that great compared to current AMD chips (including thermals and battery life) and the 32GB not available in my country (and not upgradable) it seems there is currently a great lack of QA at Dell that is really off-putting.
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> Now good luck to get that with most lock-file based package managers like npm, cargo or pip with ~1000 packages in your dependency tree that hardcode their dependency number...

I don't know about spack or Guix, but nixpkgs has buildRustCrate, which builds each Rust crate dependency as a Nix derivation (it does not use Cargo). In this kind of setup it is possible to override specific crate versions across all packages that use a specific crate.

Unfortunately, currently most Rust-based packages in nixpkgs use buildRustPackage, which does not follow this approach [1].

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89563
How to Know You’re Not Insane (How a Cards Against Humanity Writer Was Fired)
I wonder how bad the battery life is in practice.

They seem to be selling an always on battery saving mode as a quality of life feature. Which is fine for me having do not disturb activated 90% of time on my phone.

All the smartphones I had in recent years I had to charge overnight. Not because they were depleted completely, but enough so that they usually run out some point the next day. And I prefer to just plug the devices in at home insted of carrying around cables and charging banks.

And related question: How well does the apple or other smart watches do with audio interactions only? I have been playing with the tought of instead of having a phone, using a smart pocket watch. So not even wearing on the wrist. But just take it out once in a while and use headphones, for things like accepting call, dictate messages/notes and chose spotify playlist.
"The Light of Other Days" is by novel written by Stephen Baxter, based on a synopsis by Arthur C. Clarke, that deals with this issue as a "surprise" near the end of the novel. Basically, the world is in turmoil for a series of reasons worse than what we have going on now, and then it is discovered we're the 2nd advanced civilization to evolve on Earth, with details of them and their demise. Well worth the read for a number of good reasons.
The compass is not always oriented so that North is up.

The interface is barebones. You need to understand a compass to use it, I can solve the captcha but not figure out the controls.
I really don’t understand why we’re not doing full contract tracing right now, especially in for example my state where there are only 50 new cases a day. Are we really going to wait till it’s 5000 to do something? It’s like there’s just literally nobody in a position of power with any initiative whatsoever.
He isn't saying he can't imagine it, I believe he's saying there is no way that one can say they are living a moral lifestyle while still consciously contributing to the destruction of the planet and abuse of animals when it can so easily be avoided by eating different foods.

I understand some people can be naive of the issues or not be in a position to choose their diet.