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I mean that’s fair. To calm myself down I listen to Keisha Lance Bottoms talk about public private partnerships. But, I do need that talking down because:

1) I don’t trust academics and I think they have outsized influence on culture. I think, for example, academics destroyed the original understanding of the Establishment Clause, and thereby hastened the decline of organized religion as one of the institutions of civil society. I think that is a bad thing. I worry about what’s next on the chopping block. For example, while I don’t think the government is going to seize the means of production, I worry “life, liberty, and property” doesn’t have the cachet it used to. Many people don’t really believe the constitution protects economic rights.

2) Related to (1), I’m worried some well-meaning teacher will tell my brown daughter that “rational linear thinking” is “white culture.” (That would result in a lawsuit.)

3) I know few people my age and economic/educational class who actually wanted Biden to win. The “wonk” set seems to be much more amenable to these fringe ideas. And because we’ve sanctioned an unconstitutional administrative state where unelected wonks wield great power, I worry.

4) There is a disconnect between what I consider mainstream sources out of historical inertia, and maybe what they are now. I have a hard time reading the NYT these days. But I also recognize that, due to massive declines in readership, the NYT is more of a niche source than it used to be. But who still reads it? See (3).
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This is very true.

Lobbying, for its many faults, helps lawmakers (who are understaffed and generally underresourced) filter and figure out which opinions are worth listening to. Even the most well-intentioned / good ideas have trouble being advocated by one smart person in this system. You need an organization to attach to that gives you credibility.

Not saying that this is the right way -- and certainly often the less privileged opinions get short shrift in this system. A good government/political structure would give lawmakers effective ways to not have to have to rely on lobbyists.

But it is the system that has arisen in the absence of that.
I am probably one of the very few who prefers whiteboard problems compared to knowledge based problems. In my career spanking over 12 years, I have worked on ASP.NET, Silverlight, Blackberry, Android, Node.js, HTML/js/css, Xamarin, .NET Core, Code generation, Java microservices , Native Windows and AWS services.

The result of working on so many things is that I am not an expert in any of those topics. While I do well in generic system design interviews, I lack depth in literally every single thing that I have worked on. So inspite of having more than a decade of experience, I don't satisfy the criteria for companies who ask for 'x' years of experience in 'y'. So whiteboard and algorithm problems work well for me, because there's not really much to learn and memorize in those topics.
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20 years of breathing practice here and it sounds like rubbish to me too. I think this guy had a conflict of interest.
This was the Stockholm office, but the foreigners (especially the English) absolutely had an impact haha.
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Are time shares not possible? Planes in this category are low utilization vehicles. The cost could be split between 3-4 or more owners.

Bottom line, between more pollution and making a hobby cheap , pollution should win every time.
> that you oppose people searching holistic remedies to their ills

Nope, I am for individual freedoms as long as it happens in their private sphere.

> a percentage of these might accidentally turn into snake oil salespeople

the problem is that bullshit takes a lot more time to debunk that it takes to spread. So you end up with hoaxes, false claims, rumors, confirmation bias spreading through other people's minds with extreme speed because of how we communicate right now. And my point is that as long as you can't make people understand that "anecdotal evidence" means absolutely nothing, you can't stop this from happening: it means you will end up with bullshit spreading everywhere and good Science being ignored or simply drowned in a torrent of unfounded claims.
There seems to be a confusion between versioning an API, which is the contract between a service and its clients; and versioning an implementation of that API.

I version the API with semver. If I add a new optional field, that's a bump in minor. If I add to a list of enumerated strings, that's a bump in minor.

But if I change my internal database schema, that's a change in my deployed service without any change in the API.

I use date-based release IDs for the service, because it marks a point in time of my development.

So release 2020-07-29 of MyService might support API versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0. Clients using 1.2 are backward compatible with 1.0 and 1.1. Clients using 2.0 are not.

2020-07-29 is useful to SREs running MyService. It's irrelevant to the clients unless it changes that list of available semver'd API definitions.
It's weird though, because exercising physically can increase stress in the short term and can greatly elevate heart rate. Exercising is really unpleasant to me and I would really rather not do so.

The only reason I choose to exercise anyway is because of the people online and the scientific evidence saying that exercise is better for you in the long term. I certainly don't feel like it in the moment, and in fact sometimes worry if my heart is going to give out as I exercise. But if I am going to believe that exercise is beneficial overall, but that you can't experience the benefits it brings until it's too late to change things, I don't really know what else to do except listen to them and keep exercising, while getting over the unpleasantness and complete draining of energy and motivation to do things I'd rather do that it causes.

Maybe that's what some things in life come down to. It either comes down to eating diets like ones with plants prioritized and getting over the fact that they don't taste as pleasant as foods with refined sugars, or accepting the impact on your health by choosing the latter. Maybe some people just make their own peace with the taste of such foods, somehow.
“In some weeks, the “Live PD” universe accounted for more than 85% of A&E’s daily programming.”

Every bit of this story is grotesquely moronic, lol. I’d say they’re justifiably paying the price for letting their channel become so dependent on a single genre/show in the first place.

Also a reminder that A&E used to stand for “Arts and Entertainment”
I don't think I'd want to be a Roman emperor. Senator maybe, but that big a target on your back has to keep you up at night.
> Even if it is proven to work that's no proof that it's economically sustainable.

If it is proven to work, then it removes one of the key unknowns: Does it work?

If it can produce more power than it consumes, then it's ahead of the smaller demonstration reactors that have already been built and demonstrated.

> The enormous complexity and required scale are huge barriers to adoption.

Hence they're building this one.

> Most of the advantages of fusion reactors are already enjoyed by fission reactors,

Say what? What do you think the advantages of fusion reactors are, and same question for fission reactors?

> and it's not like the fusion reactors are going to have that much of an easier time managing public perception. "They're building a H-Bomb in your back yard!"

'This reactor can be built far enough away that even if it explodes - and it can't - you won't notice. You won't notice it going off, and you won't notice cancer and birth defects, vast tracts of land cordoned off, water sources rendered toxic, etc for the next few hundred years. And we don't have to bury the waste product somewhere for a millennia or more.'

Sounds like a much easier sell.

> Worse, since fusion reactors aren't useful for making bombs government investment is basically guaranteed to be tepid.

How many power stations are owned by governments around the western world today?

It feels like most of the interesting things happening in high tech now are all privately funded. If / when this works, and there's money in it, government lack of interest due to inability to make bombs from it (and that all sounds dubious to me) is irrelevant.
No, it does not. By downloading the images to Gmail's/mail providers cache, they are effectively giving the impression that the user opened the mail just when it was delivered. The mail provider then shows their cache when you open the mail, the tracker will not work.
China is definitely a Master now in information warfare where it can create pieces like above (with borderline subjectivity involved) and attack right at points of cultural significance of its enemies. Just because it is written in a specific style that seems very conducive for discussion does not mean there is no agenda behind it. Off course depending on the internal degree of skepticism you have your interpretations will vary. China is brilliantly using the West's own style against them in undermining its enemies, so next time there is a conversation involving a few folks in a restaurant, how someone will narrate a story that fish sauce was Roman gift to Vietnam or some other bastardized version of the story. Tbh this is what happened in most of the history.
folder UNC paths cannot be understood by CMD.exe

Does using Powershell instead of CMD solve this for you perhaps (I mean, it does wrt UNC, but I don't know what else you're doing with it)?
> Netflix.

In this one case they are right.

it was game-over to your opinion when you purchased their product and use a proprietary client to connect to the their proprietary servers.

If they want to break every single feature, while also denying access to older versions of the client, there's nothing you can do. Besides cancelling the membership, that is. But in this case there is nothing the changelog that would have helped you.

...all that is the complete opposite of Mozilla though.
Good. Facial recognition coupled with mass CCTV is going to force us to make _hard_ choices in respect to privacy, and I don't think any society on earth is truly prepared to deal with that yet.
I reject entire the premise of this question. Anyone spending huge amounts of time is either going to produce way too much or they just took too long. There is nothing magical about programming where taking 8 hours to solve a 2 hour problem is going to stump 40 year veterans or be unusually beautiful. That's just unrealistic.
Could you explain what's wrong with disinfecting the fingerprint scanner?
The main difference is that the aether was only ever a theoretical construct, whereas we have lots of indirect observational evidence that "dark matter" is a phenomenon that really exists. We don't know what it consists of, but it certainly seems like there is more of it in some places than others, and it has mass and momentum (see e.g. the Bullet Cluster that was already mentioned in this thread), so "matter" seems as good a name for it as any.
I am sure they have changed curriculum overs years, but I was born in 86 west coast canada.

I learned using phonics.

We have been introducing our daughter to phonics for a few months now (16 months old).

I am suprised to read in this article that it's not part of American curriculum... very strange indeed.

Every toy, video, for english alphabet we have/seen has a phonics component
The Internet Archive is younger than Deja News. Someone would have had to provide the data. Did they?

If you want to look, you might start here:
https://archive.org/details/usenet
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I think we agree?

Just because you don’t know how something works doesn’t mean it’s pseudoscience. You just might not understand the mechanism.

There’s a greater risk that something you think works actually doesn’t though if you don’t test it.

There’s also a greater risk that claims people make about things in this untested space are more likely to be false.

Part of the reason it’s important to test and understand the mechanism is that people are good at deluding themselves with all sorts of biases and made up false explanations.
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By all the accounts I've read, what we're looking at right now is nothing even close to the Long Hot Summer. You'd have to know where to look to find evidence of protests in Chicago.

It's tough to metabolize not knowing anyone who wanted Biden to win, because he won the primary overwhelmingly; compare the map in Michigan in 2016 to 2020. Biden won Washtenaw County! Single-payer health care polls well in the abstract, but failed as an actual ballot measure in Colorado and Vermont; people support all sorts of things in the abstract, but in reality don't support radical change.

I have the same contempt you do for the "rational linear thinking" thing and haven't shut up about it for weeks. But then, the Black History Museum took down the poster; it looks like it survived as long as it did because nobody was paying attention to it. Both The New York Times and the Washington Post ran reviews tearing down _White Fragility_; when people actually read the book, rather than nodding their head to the title (it's a great title! admit it!), the scales from their eyes.

If anything, I think the most reasonable concern is that we won't change enough. The police violence and accountability problem is very real and very serious.
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It’s my understanding they don’t work against all kinds of depth scanners and that there are some researchers/agencies who are using gait tracking which is promising and doesn’t require facial recognition. I assume it might require mass surveillance and that gaits may be localized, but the general sense I have, is we shouldn’t get complacent and every time we think we are safe, we are probably not being creative enough.
Does it support the Keystone Enclave? Or is SiFive Shield an alternative to that?

https://keystone-enclave.org/
I don't think it's quite as simple as "Americans don't care about the past" when discussing cities like Detroit. The actual reason those places were left to rot is a lot worse imo, and it's the same reason that led to San Francisco becoming such a (cheap) haven for LGBT people / artists / etc in the 1970s and '80s: http://cornersideyard.blogspot.com/2020/06/repost-personal-s...
A few months ago under a VM, with Qemu and w98se + IE5.

Google worked, but any further link failed, as expected.
I'll like to know why there's a Koala behind the triangle!
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Here's a potentially random question: Is UTF-8 essentially a fancy way of representing arbitrary precision BigInts where the character-to-integer mapping is specified by Unicode, and which coincides with ASCII encodings on a certain range of numbers?
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Yes I agree, a vast difference between basic accounting and a CPA. I am not a CPA, but I do understand accounting.

That doesn't change the fact that I'd be wary of any accountant writing a blog post on how to write good quality code for production. Are there accountants out there who can do a good job of that? Absolutely. Are there many more accountants who would do a poor job of that? My guess is also yes.
For those who left the article wondering what Sedaris’s beach house is named, it is the “Sea Section”.
You're right that something like a super collider could produce its own major opportunities for graft and corruption, but because it's a single project with a single construction to production timeline and a much more specific budget proposal, it doesn't quite compare to the endlessly fluid, highly organic and always adaptive nature of many long running billionaire foundations.

So no, I didn't quite prove the idea of its PR value false. Conspiracy nuts will always find a reason to consider anything made by some people or groups as suspect or outright nefarious, no matter how straightforward it is. but foundations oriented towards education, medical research and healthcare for the developing world are easily much more prone to that kind of narrative manipulation than a fixed, specific and extremely complex scientific device that will be used for a more limited range of possible things over a certain period of time.

The same applies to the differences in opportunities for graft and corruption between the two: Dishonest contractors and consultants could find ways to milk a privately funded super collider project during its construction and even during administration, but the scope of their opportunities would be fairly limited beyond a certain point, especially if the (presumably not stupid) billionaire funding it is keeping an eye on details.

Imagine on the other hand how many opportunities something like the Gates Foundation could offer for bad financial administration down the decades after its creator and main benefactor dies of old age or etc. Most of the collider's budget as covered by a billionaire in my scenario above will be a single sunk cost spent during a very limited period of time. The endowment of a giant foundation with flexible goals can on the other hand be managed (or mismanaged) ambiguously for decades.

The two things are not the same either administratively or philosophically.
I live in Sweden and we seem to have a very different interview culture. I've never heard of whiteboards or trivia questions, here.

I've only gone to four interviews (across eight years), and been lucky to get an offer each time (three of which I've accepted). They have all been primarily discussions about personal experience, hobby projects, personal interests, would-be responsibilities, benefits, and company culture.

At one place (Ghost Games, an EA studio and the only company which wasn't purely Swedish) I had to complete a code assignment (create a clone of a classic arcade game in C++) ahead of the interview.
It was also because MS and Intel sabotaged it. OLPC probably would have never worked anyway but the actions taken by the two companies left a very sour taste for me. Also, the “right-click any program in order to see its source-code” was an idea many generations ahead of its time, one that I’m afraid we won’t ever get to see, actually.
> won't work on such a processor;
Eh, I think SSH clients for OS8 existed.
http://www.heilancoo.net/MacCVSClient/MacCVSClientDoc/ssh-cl...
http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/macos.html
To have a sense of scale, it would be super cool if someone could make a photo montage with some aerial pictures from https://www.iter.org/album/Media/4%20-%20Aerial and some other big known structures.

Maybe one of the Tesla Giga factory on top of the same picture (correctly scaled of course) ?
Try this, whenever you feel anxious/sad etc. say to yourself "i forgive myself for having anxiety, i am only human" similarly if you are worried about something not happening just repeat "i forgive myself if it did not happened, i tried my best". If feelings are directed towards other person just forgive them and forgive yourself. This somehow calms the mind not sure why.
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This is a fantastic point. The commentary about the passports is really a sideshow: if other nations that are part of a larger state are allowed to participate, so should the Iroquois.
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Last Qemu suports PowerMacs. Check Emaculation.
It's basically a spider chart, but setting the new version (rather than the old) to 100% makes it especially confusing.
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I really wanted to see Buildings that were 4x lighter, aeroplanes 5x lighter, solar cells > 50% efficient, Chips sped up by 5x beyond 7 nm, Solar desalination getting 10x cheaper but i have settled for the fact that Graphene is never going to be cheap enough to be mass produced unless by luck someone invents a process that works.

It will be restricted to niche applications based on its cost of production at a given point of time assuming it does provide enough benefits at that price point.
Fingerprint scanners are legacy tech. The cool kids now are using palm vein scanners - great CER and non-contact, you just hover your hand an inch above.
I think the problem is similar to the problems in systems engineering, where techniques and processes can de-rail real engineering progress. This has been observed back in 1969 by Robert Frosch, who served as NASA administrator:

"I can best describe the spirit of what I have in mind by thinking of a music student who writes a concerto by consulting a checklist of the characteristics of the concerto form, being careful to see that all of the canons of the form are observed, but having no flair for the subject, as opposed to someone who just knows roughly what a concerto is like, but has a real feeling for music. The results become obvious upon hearing them. The prescription of technique cannot be a substitute for talent and capability, but that is precisely how we have tried to use technique."

- http://origins.sese.asu.edu/ses405/Additional%20Reading/Fros...

Current technical interview processes with its whiteboards and technical questions will undoubtedly lead to hiring the first type of music student.
Yeah, Spotify feels like a really cluttered small shed in the backyard; like I have to step over all sorts of crap to get what I’m after, and every day the stuff is cluttered up in a slightly different way and somebody randomly hangs a big Michelle Obama poster or some other crap from the ceiling once in a while. Very annoying. Desktop app is mildly more tolerable than mobile.
You just proved my point!
This comment is mainly for the OP but I really enjoyed your reply. I’m currently reading A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics by Jeremy Khun which is absolutely phenomenal so far. But he gives the same advice as above. He states that as soon as you see a theorem or problem in math you need to instantly start writing down examples. Write down examples and then see that they fit the rule.

I found when I took Discrete back in University that advice as very helpful (I got the advice to split up large complex problems into their smallest and simplest cases from a TA at the time.) in proving things you often work yourself up from simple examples to more complex examples generally, but often if you can prove by induction you need only the simplest case (base case) and the abstract case (induction step from n to n+1). Sometimes these abstract cases are hard to spot and they definitely take time, but as you learn more of them over time you’ll find that you can do them a lot easier. My Discrete Math teacher said to learn something in mathematics you have to basically already know it. This was just to say with math there is no metaphorical “royal roads” [1] (short cuts) in mathematics and that things come step by step. You’ll eventually get enough tools in your tool belt to handle abstract thought better and better.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road
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Nice work, I love this sort of stuff!

I know there's legal (and perhaps ethical?) issues to work out, but I really wish tech like this, if fine-tuned, could be used to resurrect stuff like Jim Henson's original Kermit voice; the Muppets' new voices all sound horrible. I'd love for fictional character voices to become immortal.
I don't fully agree with the part of the title that reads

Companies that don't have a broken hiring process

Only because they don't currently do whiteboards. I feel like interviews in general is a tough problem
And which particular Government department is in charge of stating the bleeding obvious today?
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