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You aren’t too old to learn new things unless you suffer from dementia, and I don’t get that impression. I’m probably older (60) and I still learn new things in software development and sys admin constantly.

Find out what cloud provider(s) your employer is migrating to. Learn those, get certified, get involved in the migration. You have two to three years to learn some new things that at least relate to what you do now. Don’t stand around waiting for the ship to sink, as you put it. Get on the team, learn about cloud hosting, networking, security. Make yourself valuable to your employer rather than standing there watching your job evaporate.

You can read books and articles but the best way to learn is by doing. Most likely your employer will go through some trial and error figuring out the migration, which gives you an excellent opportunity to learn by doing.
> Have you ever seen a 75 year old use a computer?

I'll be there within a few years, Dog willing, and don't expect to have any problems.
>Being the only woman in a meeting room, we all know what has happened next.

What happened next?
I think the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle put it well. Formal methods are unstoppable but they're also really slow.

A lot of it is incorrect too. For example, there are methodologies to doing software estimation. Some of the more complex ones are less accurate than some of the simpler ones. Nobody really cares that there's a 90% chance that this feature will be completed between 4 hours and 4 months, and a 30% chance that it will be completed in 2 weeks. If asked for an estimation, someone will just toss out the "2 weeks number" because it has the highest odds. Nor do you really want to spend several hours or days narrowing that range, because not only would you still be incorrect, you'll have spent time on estimation that you otherwise would have spent doing work.
Flash is about more than just games, musicals featuring Colin Mochrie, and documentaries about badgers and mushrooms.

Flash has lasting anthropological significance. Some of the kids who grew up tinkering with Flash grew into structural roles and helped build the internet as we know it today. Others sequestered the interests that got kicked off of the mainstream into petri dish crevices of the internet such as the early days of 4chan.
The F-150 is the best selling vehicle of any kind in North America and has been for years. So lots and lots of people.
Excess deaths in US due to any cause 28% higher than Covid-19 deaths
Here's my $0.02. Kleiner Perkins invested in Juicero and the exit strategy on that one was the public markets... which is WAY worse than having the Catholic church come in a do an acquisition.

I say you go for it!
Depends on the aircraft and engine. Some (like my little Rotax 912ULS) has a peak power at which I can only operate at for 1 minute during takeoff. I typically cruise around 70% peak.

I believe in Helicopters you're often running at 90%+ max rated power, but on an engine that's derated from its true maximum power.
Do you mean OSB?
What about obesity?
Ok boomer works on the GH too
The reviews are in for this response and they are bad. It's concerning that given the react it got, there's no edit addressing the concerns. The HN audience has to be the power user, bread and butter of a product like this and when you see a company ignore the concerns of a key constituency like this, their future almost never looks bright.
Sure, they might be raking in now, after 20 years.

And that $1.05M invested 20 yeas ago in the stock market? They would have doubled their money with none of the headache.
When it comes to a browser, I'm curious as well. I often end up with 100+ tabs in firefox before I close them all. I don't think think I'd consider that being a power user, but would a 10x power user simply mean someone with over 1,000 tabs open?

I haven't used Chrome regularly in the last year or so, but it would get noticeably slow by the time I had 3-4 windows with 10-20 tabs each. Firefox hasn't really had that issue yet.

Years ago though, Chrome was noticeably faster than Firefox. That changed (IMO at least) at some point in the last few years.
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I've got a sad single port macbook on my desk here that has issues as the plug hole seems to have got wider and it doesn't make connections reliably with cables that plug into monitors.
Yeah, but those who are 'proud' of their caste are the upper caste ones.

After centuries of cast discrimination, do you think that lower caste people will be 'proud' of their caste? No. they were brainwashed into thinking that they're subhuman, that they are not worthy of it.

Dr Ambedkar was a LSE scholar and he was treated as crap. he was a distinguished scholar, not just any other who was treated as crap because he was a Dalit.

Here is why your equation to GenX and California/British is a false equivalence:

GenX didn't treat GenW like shit for a century

California/British: it is about being proud of _where_ you live. I am proud of India, I was born here and I'll die here. I am sure that all Indians, irrespective of their gender or caste or religion are proud to associate themselves to India.

> Not every mention of caste is about caste discrimination.

It is. How else do you explain that only Bramhins and Rajputs do it? I didn't see any Mahar or Jain or Parsi say "in us Parsis we do x" or "in us Jains we do x" or "in us Mahars we do x"

Mahars were fierce warriors from Shivaji Maharaj's times, they defeated the Peshwas in Koregaon Bhima in 1818.

Only them upper caste folks flaunt it, just like the 'south Bombay' folks can't shut up about where they live
>For example, from the outset, would you object to an AI that made decisions on how harshly to sentence someone based on age & number of prior crimes?

Yes. This is an overly simplistic system for which it would be hard to justify the cost of developing.

>What about hiring or admitting people to college based on the results of an IQ test?

Yes. For the same reason.
And bigger penalties when you get it wrong.
It feels like a product hunt launch. Going downhill!!! my dear Hacker News.
Yep, at least as of 2016: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-su...
They already have the big online retailers collecting sales tax. People can't save money by driving hundreds of miles to another state to buy small ticket items, and big ticket items like cars and boats get taxed on registration.
You might like reading some thoughts in this direction from Matt Frost: https://mwfrost.com/coal_retirement_plan/

Or a slightly more conversational article on his idea: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/every...
When people say "you can't do" something that is already being done, it means they can't justifiably do it. Context matters for what words mean.
It is still pretty unethical, but you do you.
We should probably eliminate interest too then?

I mean, if I loan someone a million at 6%, I'm doing no work and collecting $60k a year!

Oh yeah, it's called risk. Similar to a landlord, the returns are in no way guaranteed.

Let me introduce you to some landlords who went bankrupt in 2008.
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It was just a Duralast Platinum from Autozone.

The guy there didn't even realize they sold a correctly sized one for Subaru Outbacks, because they're typically for e.g. larger pickups or similar.

For $50 more, you're getting a much nicer battery: AGM internal structure, higher reserve capacity, higher CCA, better durability, some deep cycle properties (i.e. it can get drained down lower without damage), and so on.

I mean it is 10 lbs heavier, while fitting into the same physical space, that's the AGM structure within the battery. The new battery has been great, but the alternator is still not kicking on until freeway driving.
The problem is that companies currently get away with passing the cost of packaging disposal to the customer. So it's cheaper to use disposable packaging than have to arrange return transport, cleaning, etc, etc.

If companies were made responsible for their packaging, this kind of scheme could more easily become economical.

But even so, for many things, just reduced/alternative packaging would be a huge win.

An egregious example is shampoo. Especially the ones with pump-action dispensers (I won't even mention the glitter/plastic-microbeads that many shampoos contain). These containers use a good deal of plastic, and are surely bad for the environment. An alternative would be that you own a nice pump-action dispenser, and buy shampoo top-ups in plastic pouches - or even take your dispenser to the store where it's filled by tap. I believe I have seen something like the top-up pouches, it should be strongly encouraged, with packaging taxes of some kind.
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Maybe rent control? That seems to have worked really well!
Philly is super affordable, so your comment isn’t really on point.
I meant plywood but you could substitute in OSB or any other construction material and the meaning of the example doesn't change.
> At DuckDuckGo, we do not collect or share personal information. That's our privacy policy in a nutshell

Except that you do, exactly in the way that the reporter of the issue explained to you.

But you choose to patronize them and ignore the issue.
It is interesting how this dovetails with the trade war with China. When the media got all hot and heavy about evil Huawei and how the would use their communication equipment to spy on America, my response was simple. They can't spy on us if we encrypt everything. If they want to give us cheap subsidized telecom equipment, let them, we will just use encryption for everything.

Then the government decided to ban encryption and then things started to get clearer.
I've been out of the loop on the AoT side of Java for a while now. How do these systems handle dynamic class-loading / code generation and things like hot patching?
This whole thread is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with this industry.
https://reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/5qnq6j/time_to_...
Many things in electrical and building codes aren't that risky to break one at a time, but they all contribute to safety by eliminating possible hazards.

You're right that temporary protective grounding protects power workers from inadvertent energization, but that is primarily to protect from sources of hazardous energy that can't be isolated (like lightning or induction from parallel lines). Temporary grounding can fail too (improper application, bad jumper, an accident severs the earth connection after the job begins, etc) so we provide multiple levels of protection instead of relying on just one thing to keep people safe.

Electrical systems need to be stupid proof because although you might be smart, the next person who comes along won't be. I agree that improper use of a home generator is unlikely to injure someone, but the job as electrical engineers is to think of unlikely but hazardous things and prevent them from happening.
It's running on a fairly current version of Apache, but aside from keeping the server up to date, it conceivably could be running the same setup for years.

For an organization the size of Warner Bros, it's essentially free, as they are literally doing nothing to the server for that site specifically.

However, it does look like it's running on AWS using their global accelerator (globally optimized traffic) so I assume it's sufficiently robust.
It's been up for years, well before Space Jam 2 was even in the works.
You had me at "more React than I'd like (but not so much it's ridiculous)"!
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You are welcome and thank you for raising this to my attention as I sadly do not have the time to be as involved as I once was.

Since we are currently Julians is a wider forum I would also like to advise non-Julians and Julians alike against kneejerking along the lines of: “They are coming to take our freedom!”. As opposed as I am to this specific feature, one would do well to read the technical background [1,2] as there are plenty of points in there that I gladly support as moves towards a world with more privacy and platform diversity than the current one – it also makes for interesting technical reading at that. Those behind this are not horned demons and do have the community in mind even if we seemingly disagree on the matter of consent.

[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1377

[2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1544
I remember reading an article that said, while people who want to buy really want to buy, many of the sellers have gotten cold feet. When people imagined that the market would dry up and property values would go down because of the epidemic, they weren't thinking about the asymmetry.
Agree with the other commenter - thanks for your sentiment - this kind of thing hurts to see, but it should be seen.
Being manterrupt, men repeat your ideas that you just mentioned, men don't look at you during the meeting because they want to listen to your male coworkers more.

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A free program for doing US taxes that has the polish and SEO of TurboTax.

The ultimate successful exit sees the entire sector of “tax service middleman” drying up once you have cut off the revenue of TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation lobby, so they can no longer keep lobbying the government to have this complicated process instead of just automatically doing your taxes and sending you a bill like every other civilized country. Your company vanishes along with the rest of this sector.
To be clear, I am looking for Engineering Manager position. It’s already hard to get response from companies. Even smaller companies (50 to 250 people) in Bay Area have adopted to this style of interviewing. It’s no longer just FAANG who do this kind of interviews. That makes it super frustrating.
Yup. I've seen the same. Rents are soft, but they certainly aren't dropping.

That said, there are distinctive rental markets in SF. The massive 100 unit buildings without rent control are an entirely separate market from say a duplex in the Sunset.
Neat! OTOH, Peter Suber's Nomic page must win the contest "who has the biggest dead-to-live link ratio":

https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm
Also, I think their point was that this kind of thing just hits a lot harder given the generally negative tone of the world around a lot of us.
If they were making stuff up, you'd think at least their own Google.com would score higher than a 76.
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> They can't spy on us if we encrypt everything.

Well, they can if it gets onto their hardware before being encrypted or after being decrypted, such as if it is encrypted or decrypted on their hardware, and since Huawei makes a lot of consumer gear...
The term used to describe the drop-off in organic content was "content collapse". I do remember it.
I see you worked on APIMatic - do you have any experience with Apigee?
so does this mean, someone paid cash or some asset worth $1billion in exchange for the bitcoins? Or is it just simply moving from one account to another owned by same person?
Analogy != "something different entirely". If we accept such weak criteria for acceptable arguments, one could argue for or against anything by picking a convenient "analogy".

Pointing out that a weakened encryption is analogous to getting a wiretapping order for everyone without a cause is a stronger argument.
You realize "landlords" are not all individuals? I've lived in a run-down multistory building owned by a stereotypical slumlord, but also in apartment complexes where the people I dealt with were employees of a company that managed it, and other similar places.
brb, making a dozen sock puppet accounts so I can give this all the upvotes it deserves :)
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I guess they collect statistics of the sites that people visit. This is anonymous but valuable information.
> otherwise you would know that a bike that you could cycle a 40km to 60km round commute on in a rural area is gonna set you back $2k

Pot, meet kettle.

That's an almost laughably out of touch estimate for a 40-60km commuter bike. Speaking as someone who has cycle-commuted between 30 and 60km, full time, for the better part of two decades (including a couple winters in the upper midwest and a 10 year stint of not even owning a car), plus recreational riding on the weekends, my response is: Horsefeathers.

A nice gravel or cyclocross bike (with components one level below, say, Shimano 105, or SRAM Rival), one that will easily take 10 years / 75,000 miles of daily commuting with moderate maintenance costs, should set you back no more than about $1k. Paying more than $1k doesn't get you a more reliable bike. It gets you a lighter bike (which is often less reliable).

And, respectfully, if you're paying $5 every time you puncture a tire, that's a you problem. When you're on a budget, you patch tubes instead of throwing them away. Cranks generally last the life of a frame, and bottom brackets don't suddenly catastrophically fail without warning.

You're criticizing someone for not understanding what it's like to live on a low income, but all your cost estimates are from the perspective of an upper-middle income person who rides a fancy bike recreationally on the weekends. Like a politician who thinks that a gallon of milk costs $20.
Issue with that is I don't know when someone posted something. Some users I like post once in a month. It's like if all Twitter users didn't have a feed but constantly checked on users they liked.
Killing yourself is still a cost to society. People have to come out and scrape you off the road, put all your bits in a box and bury you.
Hi there! I recently applied to a similar role through linkedin and did a take home assignment but apparently my submission was not good enough. I kind of liked this step and was disappointed to know that I failed. Worse was not receiving any feedback or at least a code review round, which could have helped me improve, specially after spending 6 hours on it. :(
What would be your advice if I apply again in future ? Thanks!
Cleanings aren't $25 though and those are recommended every 6 months. Along with exams once a year. You're looking at $100+/cleaning and $100+/exam.

From my experience of talking to people - seems like the quickest way to get cavities and ruin your teeth (beyond not brushing) is to not do the regular cleanings.
Aleksandar Totic from the original mosaic team has his website still up.

http://totic.org/nscp/index.html

Personally I enjoyed this bit:

http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html

If Aleksandar reads hacker news I hope he never takes that down.
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They don't. They explicitly refuse to compile an app that takes advantage of things that can't statically be determined to be available at compile time. There are a few exceptions, but it is best not to rely on them.
With communists, especially in the 50s you would have been arguably justified in being extremely sceptical of them in power. Not to the extents of McCarthy but keep in mind that around that time the KGB were really flexing their muscles.

In the UK, the soviets were almost totally successful largely because the British establishment could not believe that someone who came from the right place and went to the right place could really be a communist spy. Even after, with or without hindsight, it was obvious Kim Philby was almost exonerated and re-entered MI6 to an extent purely because the people above him decided it was simultaneously too damaging and unlikely for a Cambridge man to be a communist.
Directly suppressing flame is different than discrediting a speaker to silence them.

I was mostly replying to the "it's overused" claim, that suppressing a bad faith actors may justify collaterally suppressing a good faith. I'm not sure that's what they were saying, but they didn't seem bothered by it.
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I kind of get it but I'm not sure it's fair when the other hand is boeing, who is as married to the govt as any American company could hope to be