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>When we see Border Patrol agents wearing camouflage and helmets, carrying M4s with optics, rigged up like they’re about to go on patrol in Ramadi or the Korengal Valley (or deal with a migrant caravan in the southwest), that’s empire coming home.

The federal agents in Portland are using technology to reduce harm. Over 50 nights they have had mobs trying to come in and destroy a federal courthouse, but instead of reenacting the Boston Massacre, at worst there has been non-life threatening injuries.

Empires and countries grow weak when they divide against themselves. This is obvious, and the main way power structures fall apart. Articles like this are trying to further this division by suggesting that trying to keep a mob from destroying courthouses is authoritarian. Would Putin be so patient as to allow mobs to lay siege to a courthouse for 50 days?

It's unbelievable how hyperbolic the rhetoric has gotten on this issue. My guess is that people like the author are not actually seeing what's happening in Portland. He's seeing what the federal agents are doing, but not what the mob does to provoke these responses. I won't go so far as to say the city is burning down, but if the federal agents left the courthouse to the mob, it would be burned to the ground that very day.
50+ here. Never had an issue. Many media articles in this context also "consult" or "quote" or "interview" someone from a company that "consult older software developers how to stay in the market". One note: you have to respect it from both sides, and factor out age when young person is your manager or colleague. Your age is not an argument in a technical discussion.
This completely off topic but the author has a long and detailed podcast series on the fall of the roman empire.

https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/
Yeah, the first pass for the clustering was SciKit's Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Function and then the clusters were manually tweaked in an attempt to increase accuracy. Clusters are also manually updated and curated, so hopefully they shouldn't be able to be gamed at the moment.
It's interesting to see multiple people in their 30s here mentioning the decline in interest of learning. I'm young 30s and I'm literally quitting my job because I can't do it anymore - I can't be bothered to learn new stuff I need for a new project. I'd literally rather quit. I feel so broken because of it and I know my next job is going to be a third of what I'm paid now because it won't be software.
I'd say it's partly that, but more a case of survivorship bias; we don't hear from other solo free climbers because most of them are dead.
You don't really "get" randomness
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bat should not be doing that. It should perform exactly like cat when piped or redirected. At least it does for me, even if the text is colorized in a tty. Perhaps an issue with your pager settings? Dunno.
Young 30s here and I already feel like I don't have the muscle for it.
The same thing that happens when a peer accesses an illegal torrent on his country? How is this relevant? It is a decentralized system, it shouldn't make a difference.
The problem is ads and ad revenue, but Google is increasingly scraping content from websites in order to put that content on their own site—To keep users on google properties as long as they can.
Why would Intel not be focusing on protecting its x86 business and working through the issues on getting CPUs onto TSMC first rather than a product which is currently generating zero revenue for Intel?

Just to clarify - not a point about Intel using TSMC at all - just not clear why they would put Ponte Vecchio on TSMC first when CPUs should be the priority.

EDIT - Added clarification.
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Try doing the following queries from your address bar:

view.java

main.rs

main.cc

libc.so

winrar.zip
If you want to do this optically just shoot a flashlight across the surface of the stone, hills and valleys of even less than 1mm in height or depth will create shadows revealing most of the otherwise hidden text. But hey, I bet we can get a startup to do this with a only a few million in round A seed money.
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I'm really not sure. There's VAT which is around 20%ish, maybe that's lower in the US? And then registration + carbon taxes cost on top, but I didn't even include that in the price

It's also just that middle-class and higher incomes are much lower here than in the US + property is on average much more expensive. so people don't have as much disposable income to burn on cars
> For some people, nice things can actually affect their life experience, while some "experiences" (as in activities) feel rather meaningless. I think the point is that you should aim to pursue whatever positively affects how you experience your life and not what looks good on the surface only, regardless of whether the entity under consideration is a material thing or an immaterial activity.

I agree. Being a coin collector and engaging with the coin collection community can be as or more meaningful as a holiday
Thank you, very useful
Every cloud database provider I can think of gives you random initial credentials from the getgo
It's certainly unusual.

But I very rarely go to "latest". I tend to read "friends" or a subset thereof.
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DocuSign tried to pull that shit on me a few years back. I politely declined and proceeded to get several offers at companies that didn't force ridiculous tests.
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I really like the numi/soulver calculator concept, and so have added it as a module to my note taking app. Looking forward to what you guys think!
It sounds like America, except for the hiring for cheap bit... American companies pay a lot more on avg for their devs than other countries.
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If that was the case then there would be a larger variety of objects in the bottles. Even taking into account that the creators want to keep their stories "kind of" believable.
Anything's going to be slow in comparison to a minimalist X for people who really just want to have a bunch of terminals on screen at once and barely anything else.

KDE (and the other DEs) offer a whole lot more than that, obviously :-) Dolphin does do thumbnails and all of type of stuff, but it's not really a heavy application in itself, it just does a lot of disk-intensive tasks.

Obviously generating thumbnails for a whole folder of photos is going to take a little while on an eMMC drive, just like it takes a little while to get a list of all the shared folders on a network.
> a software engineer in tech is the best job security you can get

Can you explain this? Anywhere I have ever worked (Fortune 500 orgs) I have always had an "at will" employment contract as a W-2 employee. They can fire me at any time for any reason. Furthermore, when budgets are cut typically the first group to go is the IT department, since they do not bring in any revenue, unless the company is selling IT products and services.
Nice product but I have to ask - why mini USB?
“15-20 years ago America enjoyed total and complete hegemony over the rest of the world “

I think this was an illusion. There was a lot going on in the rest of the world. Americans just didn’t notice.
Back in the good old days of Dmoz, this was the way, but then it became extremely limiting, and I remember wanting to rank in the directory for something and I "knew" one of the people in charge of a section. There was even some accusations of "pay for play" too. Eventually Dmoz died when Google came on the scene. But I get what you mean.
With things like running, rowing, and weightlifting you aren't at a significant risk of brain injury though. I would much rather have damaged joints than a damaged brain. And for these sledding athletes, it sounds like this damage is constant and inevitable even if you do everything perfectly, rather than a result of accidents like with sports like snowboarding and skiing.
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The Zoe is, sadly, at the moment, the perfect anti-yellow-jacket car: no matter how much rebates the government will give you, you need to put so much cash on the table that it's completely unaffordable to those who might benefit from it the most (daily short-medium commutes between peripheral towns.)

Instead, it's bought by already-affluent upper middle-class, who then get to feel better about their carbon footprint, while also saving on gas ! (Which, don't get me wrong, is great !)

As the saying goes, "it takes a lot of money to be poor."

The situation will, hopefully, get better, when there is a second-hand market for EV, or much cheaper vehicles...
> I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around what exactly is the problem and where the unreasonableness lies. I'm sure a Republican would say that the problem is the amount of benefits,

As far as I know, that is exactly the problem. I don't think any private corporation would be paying $11k per year for each employee for retirement benefits right now. Unless the base salaries are much lower, this is a pretty difficult requirement.
It's usually not so much the expense of the car as the cost of operating them. Consider how expensive it is to own a car in NYC, well it's the same in all European cities, even those of much smaller size.
Go one better and get some hair die to cover those grey hairs. No need to go under the knife.
I think you mixed up km and miles. 310 miles needs about 75kWh or $120 * 75 = $9,000.

If the car is smaller that number also goes down.
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Sure that would work as well. But i imagine that to be much more expensive then adding some requirements to the sledge that increases drag or increases the sliding friction
Can't agree more. Recently started a personal project in .Net Core + Visual Studio. What a joy. Can't get away from the front-end completely, but I can at least enjoy the backend side immensely.
> Does either camp have second thoughts about how their careers have progressed?

Anecdotally from our conversations, I would say that they see computer programming as being less valuable than people programming. My friends do have lots of ideas for things and one in particular will keep saying that he wants to "re-learn iOS dev" or "learn Elixir", but he never does. I've started down the path of learning how to angel invest, which is where I'm trying to learn my people management skills.

> Would you trade places with any of those friends?

Absolutely not.

> Would either of them trade places with you?

I doubt it.

> Do you have an 'exit' plan out of software engineering or do you plan to stick with it to the very end?

I'm already on a trajectory where I won't need to work a traditional job the rest of my life. None of my friends who are climbing the management chain are anywhere near that. I honestly love building and learning (I just finished up a 3.5 day hack-a-thon yesterday). My next path will lead me either to building a company, helping people start tech-enabled companies or helping someone co-found a company. Unless I become a CEO, I don't plan to stop programming.
Yes, don't think that is wrong though. There are very few teams even in the FAANGs that are working on interesting problems. So instead of talking about tech companies, we should be talking about tech teams.
> would be surprised if humans did NOT follow some kind of power law of injuries based on total cumulative energy dissipation in tissue over time or something like that.

Only if the injury is related to velocity. If it's related to mass, you'd expect linear scaling.

KE = 0.5(M(V^2))

Kinetic Energy is linearly related to Mass and is geometrically related to Velocity.
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By then it's already too late. You should have an exit strategy when bringing the money in in the early years. Most folk in their twenties don't realize they're forty before they know it.
Not quite 50. Still coding, still enjoying it.

As I've gotten older my time has gone from '20% think about it - 80% code it', to '80% think about it - 20% code it'.

I currently work with a surprisingly well balanced spectrum of developers at my current employer. The median age is in the early 30s, with probably a third of us 40 and older out of 150 developers.

I'd say with some confidence, that the older developers in my company complete as many "tasks" but write less code when doing it, with a lower defect rate.
I wonder if at some point the amount of extra data necessary to achieve an n-fold improvement will outstrip what we can provide.

I think the time for AI legislation is now - before FAAMG deploys something like the next-gen of GPT-3. Of course with the legislative lag that exists even for decade-old tech I don't have the highest confidence in this being achieved by a federal government in the state it is in now.
I think you should also add a point for public transport, a bus with 30 people should not have the same priority like a car with 1 person in it. Trying to keep public transport always moving will also have other benefits.
> why your fellow-citizens didn’t vote the right way.

I'm a little concerned by the implication that regulating tech should focus on making sure that people vote "the right way".
I think there is a difference between working at a company where software is the product, vs a company where software only supports the main product (i.e. an IT department). Companies where SW is the product value developers more I think.
I'm in my mid-20's and everyone my age with a BIT/CIS/%Information% degree looks down on actual coding. They all act like it's way beneath them and focus on some hand-wavy consulting stuff. I work with a bunch of people with this degree and I genuinely couldn't tell you what they do other than add connections on Linkedin.
I've always considered these theories to be a genre of speculative fiction, somewhere in between creepypasta and a real theory. I thought it was generally understood that these things are more for the sake of entertainment than real investigation?
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Here in the US, used Nissan Leafs run around $10K. We don't have much call for another car right now (our main car is a plug-in hybrid Chrysler minivan), but if we did, this would be a likely candidate.
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> The US is influential in a broad way but not in any particular deep way.

Depends whom you want to credit/blame for things like Hollywood, x86, the internet, wikipedia, google, facebook, jeans and tee-shirts and sneakers, apple, microsoft, smartphones, laissez-faire capitalism, private car ownership, crossover suvs, climate-change scepticism, the post-British-empire popularity of the english language...

Perhaps some people are so immersed in American culture they can't see the forest for the trees, but American culture has been hugely influential over the past century.
Not as permanent, but my dad says he notices that clients listen to his suggestions to update 10-year-old network equipment a lot more readily when he dyes the gray out of his hair. He first did it for a high school class reunion, and has kept doing it since.
Not to the degree that there is a pattern of them committing suicide before 50. This sport seems particularly pernicious because it's a slow accumulated brain injury and because the sport normalises concussion which is taken very seriously in other sports.
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The “in tech” part I think was meant to say in technology/IT focused companies.
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Wow I love these so much.
I’m all for renewables but this is an unacceptable compromise. Seriously, this isn’t how large business can operate.
I for one don't think that every principle they defend is worth protecting, nor I do fully agree with their definition. I'm not trying to convince you, just to say that some people have a different opinion.
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These are ad companies.
You're absolutely correct. That's why if I applied to work at any of those companies (I've already worked at Amazon) I would be extremely particular about what project I work on.
In case the OP doesn’t reply my interpretation is there is way more demand than supply so sure you’re “at will” but you could find another job quickly. As for fortune-500 and IT layoffs I imagine we are talking here about technology companies for which “IT” isn’t a line item to be cut but _is_ the business. Rules may be different at BestBuy or Bank of America but I bet not by much.
I'm 43, with 20 years of solid experience in most major languages out there, from backend to frontend.

I guess the virus is partly to blame, but I'm having a REALLY hard time finding work right now; and I'm applying all over Europe with a focus on Amsterdam & Copenhagen, remote or otherwise.
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There's a continuum between direct central administration and tributary/vassal status. The Roman Empire, for example, often had big chunks of land that were entirely run by local people, but were 'part of the Roman Empire' as far as public perception. Look strong and all that. (this went back and forth in different places at different times, sometimes there was very strong central bureaucracy).

The US, by contrast, insists that we're merely allies with all of these countries that host more US military power than they even have domestically, only buy US weapons, trade using our currency, scrupulously respect US intellectual property law, vote with us in the UN nearly 100% of the time.. it's a different political posture for a different time.
Don't hear me wrong, I should have been more specific, but the reluctance to learning is specific to tech and programming. I learn a lot of new things during my spare time. Even in the field of pure computer science there are a lot of interesting programming theories to learn.

After decades in the field, I feel like I'm mostly always doing the same thing. Grabbing data from here and there, making sure I rate limit and fail gracefully, serialize shit and deserialize a response, or vice-versa. Writing software is just plumbing and it's infuriating when people just keep changing the size and shape of the pipes just for the sake of it. That's why to me the actual product being built is more important than playing with tech just to play with tech.
A related insightful take by Jacob Levy (an important political theorist) on the capacity of border lawlessness to undermine the rule of law at home: https://www.niskanencenter.org/law-and-border/
>Question - why is it that experience / age / wisdom is an asset in other professional trades [1], but it is seen s as a liability in tech?

Silicon Valley (software) Culture.

tech (software) company want cheap labors and believed youth can overcome any difficulties. its deep rooted in Silicon Valley culture. From 19 yrs old Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel...etc.

While on the hardware side, most of engineers/founders are much older because hardware is more unforgiving than software.
All good points, brother.

I'll just add that the perspective of many years of experience brings clarity to many discussions.

= have you chosen tooling that is going to last five years?

= is the design as simple as possible or are we building a Rube Goldberg machine that will assert a life of its own?

= how are you going to train people / maintain the system? do we have a resource plan or is this a death march?
Maybe I'm imposing my own, um, biases, onto the OC: methinks many of the replies here are wide of the mark.

It's pretty simple. The costs and consequences of war will be felt at home as well as abroad.

First, creating a weapon means it's more likely to be used. An underlying feared consequence of the military industrial complex is that the build up increases the potential for violence at the expense of diplomacy.

Second, the wages of war are paid by the people. Returning veterans discarded by the war machine. Families ravaged. PTSD, addiction, domestic violence, broken homes. Etc.

Third, everyone's keying off the title, is the chaos in the aftermath of war, every where. The OC gives a historical example. This story is as old as humanity. I have nothing new to add here, but will note that some tried to mitigate these effects with stuff the League of Nations & United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and so forth. Stabilizing institutions which have been under continuous attack, from before they were even enacted.

Those who ignore history are fated to repeat it, cliche, blah blah blah.
It's hard to muster up the energy to worry about the privacy policies of luxury toys for rich people.
I've read about "Uber for jets" or "AirBnB for jets" startups for a while, but most of them are out of business.

What's the hardest thing for them? Regulation? Else?
You shouldn't be downvoted for stating the fact that this changed drastically under the new Trump appointee, who has donated millions to his and other republican campaigns.
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I'm of the opinion that the only way humanity will travel through space in any significant way will be after the creation of AI which then goes in our stead. Having biological bodies just doesn't work well for long term space travel for so many reasons. By the same extension if we ever had a UFO visitor from another planet, I believe there wouldn't be some alien body. Just a ship with a computer.
I would expect Toyota or Nissan to be in the top spot, though not sure if they count hybrids or only fully electric cars.

As fore Renault, are we sure these numbers are not driven be some big purchases of some (French) car rental companies for their fleets? It would make perfect sense especially in France.

I'd really like to see which countries contributed to this success of Renault and in what countries it holds the top place.

EDIT: at least in Germany it's tight victory for electric Golf over Zoe - 7320 vs 7066 cars sold in first half 2020, third place far behind Tesla Model 3 with 4367 cars, in UK is winning Tesla, in France Zoe
https://www.best-selling-cars.com/germany/latest-germany-bes...
>little direct control over a lot of its "territory"

Check out Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela, Bolovia, Chile, etc.
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I'd like to see constructive alternative proposals.

Today, many cities and states have underfunded pensions following a continually worsening trajectory. The scale is enormous. Please take a read about the state of public pensions in Illinois, for example.