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My interpretation was that the issue is the use of Microsoft Office's dominant position to (allegedly) push Slack out of the market. They aren't providing one product that does two things (fax/phone), but rather they are providing multiple disparate products in a package together to take advantage of the fact that everyone wants one of them already.

I think a better comparison is if Verizon were to decide they want to make a smart watch, so they start bundling them with every cell phone they sell. Sure, users can go out and buy a Fitbit if they want to, but Verizon would be taking advantage of their position as cell phone gatekeeper to get them into everyone's hands before they even have the chance to make a market decision. Users could come into a contract with a phone they got independently (analogous to windows users who don't use MSOffice), but the vast majority are just buying a phone from the Verizon store. Admittedly, the analogy would work better if Verizon was more dominant in the market, but as it stands the big three US cell providers seem to be on pretty equal footing.
As someone who voted for Trump in 2016(and won't this year)... This doesn't sound right to me. I'm not afraid to speak my political opinions because I'm ashamed. I'm afraid to speak my political opinions because the Overton window has narrowed to the point where discussing beliefs could affect my career prospects very negatively. Ideas like wanting the deportation of illegal immigrants, like thinking affirmative action is racist, like that states should be stronger than the federal government or that we shouldn't outsource absolutely every single job we can, these ideas are somehow interpreted as racist, sexist, or <whatever>ist.

These are pretty standard beliefs held by most conservatives, but I _still_ would risk my career by stating them publicly. Because of this, I don't speak up. But I do vote.
Yes, and it has been done. There are FPGA's that you can connect to with PCIe, and you only have to pay the small price of writing an FPGA implementation for your usecase. It usually takes just a couple of weeks (OK, maybe months).
The thing is, salaries are only high because they are based on geography. The extreme cost of living in SF and NYC contributes to the high salaries in the respective cities. If the COL were lower there, the salaries would never have become so high.

It is counter-intuitive, but I actually think everyone benefits from super high salaries in coastal cities, as it makes the benchmark rather high and thus even non-coastal employees benefit from a high expectation of a ‘proper’ salary. In other words, I’d FAANG were paying devs $50,000 a year in SF, there’d be zero chance that a dev in Iowa or Missouri would be making anywhere close to that.
>The course of action is clear: learn to negotiate.

I think learning to negotiate is second to selling something which you have multiple buyers to choose from and few competing sellers. If that’s not the case, you won’t be able to negotiate in the first place, and you need to figure out something else to sell.
Salary is about how easy you are to replace, and nothing else.

Remote workers are easy to replace because you can go all around the world to find someone to do the work. Why pay COL to someone in Mississippi when you can pay much less for someone in India?
I recognise your plight, because it has also been mine. Being hard on yourself and being frustrated by how hard it has been to fix yourself is something I've known well.

However, no one gives us manuals for our body and we're all inside an incredibly complex system which we are not evolutionarily adapted for.

I remember most vividly when I took 6 weeks off work, stayed at my Grandmas house with her feeding me good food and not having to do anything, then going back to work again.

I was incredible. Level-headed, extroverted, energetic. I thought it was just rest, but then I began to understand (many years later) that all my cycles of energy started off in similar ways. For example, if I tried a new diet or regime, I would feel great for a week or two until I wouldn't.

I eventually came to understand that it wasn't what I did, but how I felt. I discovered what the placebo effect was (for me) and why it seemed I'd get a buzz from doing something new or starting afresh. It was because I felt powerful and in control.

This feeling of power was so helpful, so nourishing, because it countered what used to be the worst feeling in the world for me: a maldapted feeling of powerless. That feeling was connected to my trauma/past experiences at a deep level.

As everyone can attest, being in the real world often creates feelings of powerlessness, because you are not in control of everything.

That meant everyday life could quickly wear me down depending on how much nourishment I was getting from feeling powerful vs powerlessness.

An analogy I use to describe this: it is a car with a leaky fuel tank. The hole in the fuel tank is the negative emotion. The bigger the hole or the less the fuel going in, the quicker you run out of energy.

Eventually the requirement to counteract the maladapted feeling of powerless diminished, and thus I didn't need to feel powerful in the same way.

For you, the feeling that wears you down, may not be powerlessness like mine was, but by looking at the things that make you feel good, you'll be able to figure out what you get from laying in bed for a few days on your laptop.

Then perhaps you will come to understand the feelings that you avoid or are the inverse of what you get from sitting on your laptop. e.g. sitting on your laptop might make you feel in control, or might avoid the pressure you feel from having to do something that doesn't nourish you in some way.

But before big life changes are made, I would say it's important to find out which of your negative feelings come from maladaptions (i.e. to past emotions/trauma) and then you'll be able to make more effective decisions once you've resolved those maladaptions.
True.

You can also make a good argument for variolation. Which is to infect yourself with a small amount of viruses.

This will (ideally :) create a small infection that your immune system can beat off in time, and then you'll be immune after a minor time sick.

Apparently, people did this with smallpox in the pre vaccine era.
I have a subtly different take on this; op is cheating themselves. They work in a field famous for people deriving immense satisfaction from their job, but they aren't because they are living down to the expectations of others.
I contract for banks. I can’t speak to what your experience has been in at this FAANG but things at banks can be really slow because the environment is very controlled. Lots of documentation. Every deployment change assumes the change will break the application so things need to be rolled back at a moment’s notice. Hence the extensive docs and I consider that a good thing. It requires discipline that helps in the long run. Bad part is the number of L4 tickets generated not because we necessarily encounter L4 problems but there is dire need for L1-L3 staffing and tickets just automatically become L4 after being unattended for a while.
I know this is a rhetorical question but the affirmative answer isn't entirely unreasonable. If an engineer can deliver the same value from remote then maybe yes, they should bear the cost burden of living in NY or SF.
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ok the current cdc best estimate of ifr 0.65%. Which is low. yes the number are changing but it quickly converging as times goes. Lockdown is not free, its not without harm.
>Assuming humanity exists long enough

That's a big assumption.

There's also the why question. What's on the moon that would make it worth all the difficulty to get there? I suppose we might have a semi-permanent research station on the moon or even Mars, but colonization? Unless we make some really unlikely discovery like unobtanium is only found on Europa and it's really super useful, we're not going to have space colonies.
Posts like this make me anxious to step out of the MacBook Pro bubble even though I want to. Aside from the butterfly keyboard saga those devices have generally been built very well, whereas I read nothing but complaints about the Dell XPS / Lenovo T4XX / HP Spectre du jour. Ranges from flimsy build quality to poor screens to coil whine to rapidly degrading batteries.
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Robotics also requires a thorough understanding rotations and transformations (and its time derivatives), thus requiring a bit of Lie algebra. The calculations itself aren’t that complicated, but the concept is still quite confusing for beginners and quite intimidating if you go deep down into theory.
Thanks for reading!

I'm not familiar with Barrier, but is my understanding correct that it requires software running on the target computer? If that's true, it wouldn't work for things like installing a new OS or managing BIOS because you'd have to wait for the computer to boot up fully before you're able to enter keyboard or mouse input.
As opposed to the museum shutting down completely?

I mean, look, I agree, the idea of a museum selling an art piece to make ends meet leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. But I'd rather the museums stay open.
This is true of every single object in the night sky, and is why an equatorial tracking mount is table stakes for good astrophotography.
Parent is not asking them to do that:

> So either start putting in your best work, or switch teams or company and see if it suits you better... or else accept that you're being a freeloader and pretending to do more work than you really are.

It's definitely a choice here, but the point is the OP needs to actually make some active choices and decide what they're ok with.
> Everything points towards companies historically paying employees not the salary they deserve, but the salary they will accept.

You hit it on the head. This is exactly what is happening. This is why people job flip every 2 years to increase their salary. Getting good at negotiation is critical if you are job searching.
There are so many of them and they are more closely integrated to PLA.

The encrypted military communication equipment they carry is designed works even during wartime operations under jamming.
Malcolm Gladwell touches on this beautifully in the most recent season of Revisionist History:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dragon-psychology-101/...
I just remember talks (I was at a cutting-edge immunology research center, The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego) about using mRNA vaccination in the 2007-2009 era to make monoclonal antibodies. Oddly, I can't find any publications from that era on it (but I can find a few papers from 2017-2019 using that exact methodology), so it appears that either i was mistaken, or it quietly pivoted to human vaccination as a target. It's really not possible for me to be mistaken about the timeframe, though, since I have been out of biology since 2015.
> My Forerunner 935 is basically the same story today. I can't do anything on it via the mobile apps.

I also have a 935.

Today I've so far recorded two activities. I can see my heart rate, and RHR for the last 7 days, I can see my training status (including VO2 max, lactate threshold, etc), I can see footsteps taken today and over the last 7 days, I can see my calendar, I can see my calorie burn today and over the last 7 days and I can see details about activities recorded on the device all the way back to December 18th.

The device isn't at all crippled.
I manage a machine that has an AST2500 (competitor to iDRAC in smaller vendors like Gigabyte, it rocks), and I didn't notice latency, so it's probably under 200ms.
This is some great timing, I might need a KVMoIP setup soon and I couldn't find anything cheap. Very nicely written article, thanks!
Upwork has been most successful for us. We've used writeraccess, random content firms from google, and other job boards.

Also, cold emailing other writers from sites has yielded high quality stuff.
> Those things don’t change in value when they move,

Not quite accurate. Proximity and access to other intellectuals, creatives, professionals, etc; as well as any personal differentials in happiness all have an impact on their ideas and labor.

That's (afaik) part of why people congregate in offices and universities (to give two examples).

Although - just as remote work results in "proximity and access" meaning something different now for offices, same goes for remote socializing.
I have limited experience in bigcos but in terms of raw development/shipping speed by an individual dev my experience being in a small/startup like group in a bigco:

- average bigco team dev has speed X

- startup like team in bigco dev is ~5X, given lack of bullshit (but still some)

- actual startup dev is ~10X, given marginal bullshit difference between them and a fast bigco team

- small founding team dev at ~20-30X, given lack of bullshit from non-trivial company size

- individual solo bootstrapper moves at ~50X, given lack of any inter-personal communication/coordination needed (This is my current status, having jumped from the second point to here in a single step, and it's insane.)

Now, this doesn't mean these velocity speeds translate linearly to net impact on users. But there's some dynamic there worth understanding. It's also interesting how leverage changes here. In the last bullet point, if I stop working (and say, type an HN comment :)) dev velocity goes to zero. In the first bullet, half the company could take a day off and dev velocity probably would remain relatively unchanged.
Ardour, Bitwig, and Reaper would probably be the top choices for full blown DAWs on Linux.
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Awesome, glad it was helpful! Thanks for reading.
I agree, although I do find it useful more generally to point out when common arguments conflict with one another. Contradictions aren't always obvious, so bringing them to light is helpful.
Hurricane Electric was giving out free tunnels for a while, they might still be.
That’s not how software development works
Yes, in hindsight a lot of people were hopelessly optimistic about the timeline. That doesn't mean it will never come to pass. The increasingly dire economics of IPv4 will force a disruptive change at some point, and IPv6 remains the heir apparent.
What percentage of restaurants might not survive?

What other types of establishments are likely to have a high percentage not surviving?
No offense, but your question is loaded. To see why, think about it this way: say you work for a company in Bangladesh and want to live in San Francisco. Should you be paid a Bangladesh salary? Not looking so appealing anymore, right?

So let's say salary didn't get tied to physical location. What's then stopping employers from moving headquarters to Bangladesh and then announcing everyone gets a pay cut? What happens with taxes and the social services funded by those taxes if suddenly everyone's incomes are dictated by how cheap a salary baseline a company can find worldwide?

Now, we all know what you're thinking. Obviously what you want is to work for FAANG and make FAANG salaries, but live somewhere cheap to end up with more money in your pocket. However, you need to realize that in order for this to work, it needs to be an exception to the rule. If the default is that everyone gets to do it, then you can bet companies will get in on the loopholes and screw you over big time.

So, should a remote employee's salary be tied to their physical location? Yes, they should (and they are). But not because it's better for everyone, but because the world isn't fair and you are proposing that you want a world where you can take advantage of its unfairness.
How about when satellite stray signals or signatures start to pollute not just amateur hobbies, but GPS, weather? It's all related.
>> It's any music that wasn't played on pop stations

> Not sure about the US but in the early to mid-1990s MTV Europe was playing groups like Nirvana or Soundgarden in heavy rotation, all day, it was glorious.

I was a bit too young and didn't have cable back then to see for myself, but my understanding was MTV in the US played a lot of alternative rock in that time period, too. Those bands even set the fashion trends for a time (e.g. flannel, and lots of it).

Where I grew up, there were basically three radio stations teenagers listened too: one "pop" station that played the stuff in this list, and two contemporary rock stations that played the rock and alternative music that was omitted from this list.
This is epic, I run a small computer cluster using workstation hardware (AMD 3970X's) and no IPMI boards exist. If I get some time I might build 7 of your little system to manage them all. Thanks!
>You say the company is evidently pleased with your work and that may be true, but now you're part of the problem. You think the company tolerates shitty work, so you've decided to tolerate shitty work. Don't.

For a non-manager in a large organization, the choices are pretty much accept your work environment or leave it. Fighting the entire company's culture as a low level employee is like trying to move a mountain by pushing harder.

To OP: Accept the pace your department moves at, and look for little victories. Your never gonna get to write a new app in a week and be a hero in your current company/department, but there is still some satisfaction to be found in ironing out little wrinkles one at a time.

If/when you leave, look for a job you want to go to, rather than just looking for a way out of your current job.
The idea that companies manufacture in china because of the cheap labor is misleading. Factory labor in China is not significantly cheaper than other countries. The benefit of China is the supply chain. The availablity of parts, factories, and labor is astonishing. There is no where else like it. There are entire cities devoted to manufacturing.
no. instead the prosecutor will fall off his high horse and see he only has power to harrass regular citizens, which he'll go back to doing. the police unions are directly asking for these fed gestapo to come and bring them outlawed weapons. this da is an idiot if he thinks the cops will arrest the guys they are on same team with. the da is not on that team. cops don't care what he wants or thinks or orders.
I have seen some ML methods that learn explicit structural mappings [1][2]. I think ML is great when used as such. Even RL can work, because it operates over discrete spaces.

But casting any problem with a discrete correct answer into floating point calculations that mimic probability is a bad idea.

[1] : Learning to Compose Neural Networks for Question Answering

[2] : Inferring and Executing Programs for Visual Reasoning
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Exactly, we'd want to model it on successful systems. Like having drugs dispensed at government facilities where users were offered counseling and rehab, and an area specifically for getting high. We don't want there to be tv advertisements for heroin or meth targeting kids (or anyone).
I too am looking forward to that. 99% of the time `&>:not(:last-child) { margin-right: 4px; }` does the trick, but that 1% (usually wrapping) normally leads to compromises.
Steam link does it, and fast enough to play games with no noticeable latency.

Not sure what the magic is, though.
Going from qwerty to number pad is a context switch. Once you've paid the price for the switch your middle finger rests above the 5, and you can quickly enter numeric information.

Numbers on the top of qwerty are good for incidental numbers when entering text, but around 5 consecutive digits is enough for me to move.

Are they useful enough to add to a laptop keyboard? Probably not.
AKA, please work harder for your corporate masters because poor people are suffering. What's that? You want your corporate masters to pay a fair share of tax so poor will suffer less? No, just work harder and that extra work won't benefit people who need it.
because they don't have solutions or useful advise. They don't think anything is wrong but the person who's presenting the actual problem. It's sometimes useful to consider the possibility you're wrong, but what OP describes is clearly not unique to his team or company. Many of us are in the same boat. So at least in this particular case, the "toughlover" is indeed, a "douchebag".
Amazon already has FPGA's on the cloud: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/

I don't think they are very popular though. Maybe they are used sometimes for machine learning?
This seems to be a common and expected way of getting promoted within Google: Their performance review system allows engineers to provide feedback on people from unrelated teams.

I don't know if any other company where this strategy is likely to get you ahead.
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I think the real question, if a company can hire someone cheaper that can do the job just as well as the more expensive employee, why should the company keep them? I believe this has already been answered by the market.
It’s not the speed, that holds FPGA adaptation back. It’s development process/time. While one can start with GPU immediately, there is a need for FPGA to develop whole PCIe infrastructure and efficient data movers. One is done with GPU while FPGA developers just start with algorithms. As long as one does not need real time capability, GPU is an obvious choice. My 200 MHz design outcompetes every CPU and GPU out there with very narrow data processing window, but development time is 5x compared to regular software.
Usually better to attach numbers to anecdotes, although reasonable people can still disagree on the interpretation or reliability of those numbers.

"Microsoft had 87.5% of the email and authoring market (formerly named the office suite market) share in 2018, according to Gartner's 2019 market research. Google held 10.4% of the market." https://www.ciodive.com/news/Google-Microsoft-Office-collabo...
This exactly. Satellites are incredibly useful and enable trillions of dollars of worldwide economic output that would not be possible otherwise. This is a very meaningful improvement in everyone's lives. We should not stop using them simply because they are visible in the night sky, and make astrophotography a little bit harder (though not much harder -- removing satellite streaks is a default enabled option in astrophotography image stacking software).
I found that a bit of an odd question, besides the point, but I might be missing something. Is any of the purposes or uses of Starlink actually related to something multi-planetary? From what I read on it they seem to be there solely for communication on earth itself? Or does the commenter consider Starlink as one of the things further enabling technology to go multi-planetary? Which I still don't really get, since other types of communication are already which go way deeper in space and send messages back and forth to earth.
I agree with what you are saying. The "tough-love" message is usually to "suck it up" and stay where you are. "Life sucks, get over it." My point is if you are smart enough to be in a FAANG you are smart enough to do great work and make an impact on this world. You don't have to settle for fixing tiny bugs in some admin page for an ad company. I know there are people that are 100% cool with doing that for $$$. If you are not cool with it, then figure out a way to change it because there are enough problems to solve that if you are a smart engineer and you aren't doing shit and hating your day then you are wasting your talent.
That is why I was hypothesizing the workers both did the job equally well, which, in a remote scenario means their output of ideas and other work product is equally valuable.