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Ulbricht was a self-professed libertarian. He was an anarchist in the same way that libertarians are anarchists, in that they are not anarchists. Libertarians want a state that enforces property restrictions with violence and death, and an economic system that enforces class hierarchy.
wow, it looks like the answer rate is going down significantly. It looks like it slipped a bit in 2014/2015 but there's a big decrease in 2019 around the time of the Monica Cellio incident.
I'd rather avoid either asking or answering anything there like a plague. Maybe not as suicidal as tweeting something slightly unorthodox on a politically heated topic, but still not a place to be while the cancel culture exists.
Because rebranding a chat app as it evolves instead of calling it '2.0' doesn't imply you have spare resources to check notes utterly revolutionize battery technology out of nowhere.

Google's CFO's strategy has been to incubate those ideas and either sell them to industry or spin them off with independent investment after the, say, first $10 billion in costs.
The triangle in this is the worst bit of communication of quantitative information that I've seen lately. No one show it to Tufte.
Just feel like mentioning that the "old" version (without SharedArrayBuffer) works just fine on my iPhone 7 Safari browser. What a time to be alive.
Damn... you just took a pencil to space with that comment. :)
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I’ve been wanting a fitness tracker version of this watch for some time now.

Anyway, cool to see that this watch isn’t only a favorite of terrorists.
I participated in MetaFilter for years before I went to any meetup. At my first meetup, I realized I had never thought about how to pronounce the nickname "MeFi" despite reading and typing it countless times.
Both the Soviet Union and the United States, sporting the most powerful armies the world has ever seen, failed to conquer a bunch of farmers and goat herders using 60-100 year old rifles in Afghanistan.
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I love playing with the MacinTalk (text-to-speech) voices. Be sure to enable talking alerts in the Speech control panel.
Paintings of blue squares also sell for that amount.
I had this moment recently....

What’s between hardware and software?

Firmware

Hard - Firm - Soft

Maybe I never saw it since I am not a native English speaker. But better late than never

Like:

Heavy Metal - Metal - HardRock - Soft Rock
I am Italian and this is very interesting: all the requests were made with the topic "Stalking Diffamation Illegal processing of personal data" but this (https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/21395773) is simply fantastic. It seem that a fool with persecution mania has reported half usenet and the bots was auto-triggered...
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Lol, yeah I did the exact same thing until I was like 18 and my girlfriend mercilessly made fun of me for it.
Corporations aren’t people, but from a legal perspective, they have some rights in common with persons, which is why you often hear statements saying they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
how easy is this to get running in an actual browser, rather than Electron*? I want to host some Hypercard stacks (some of which need Quicktime support, hence colour Mac emulation).
I can’t find the video I followed originally but what I do is pretty simple. I lie on the floor with one hand on my chest and one hand on my belly (just below the sternum). Then I breathe paying attention that only the lower hand moves, ie that I’m using my diaphragm. I put the weights (small metal plates) under the lower hand to add resistance. I recall seeing some papers explaining the mechanism being related to how the diaphragm kind of wraps around the oesophageal sphincter, so strengthening it helps it close.
This is popular to say, but doesn't hold up to reality.

An analysis of "17,171 worldwide leveraged buyout transactions that include every transaction with a financial sponsor in the CapitalIQ database announced between 1/1/1970 and 6/30/2007" found bankruptcy rates around 6% [1]. This isn't exceptionally high.

[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.23.1.121 Table 2
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Seconded. That guy is great. I've been following the QuickJS project with great interest.
Good. One more reason to look at rust. Main motivation is webassembly for me
Noob question: how do they even measure performance faster than RAM sequential read?
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It's not anything specific to Google. Tech is awash in cash and breakthroughs have been lacking. This seems like an obvious opportunity yet no one seems to be going for it.
Which amount to little more than nothing. Google is destroying the open Internet and everyone that works there is complicit.
How do you avoid awarding candidates who violate your request of no more than two hours and spend considerable time coming up with something amazing? They may still produce 100 lines of code — but those 100 lines may end up being unusually elegant, beautiful code that stumps 40 year veterans. How do you avoid punishing someone who took your requested time constraint seriously (or otherwise didn’t have enough free time to violate it anyway)?

That’s not to say I don’t think this process has promise, but I’d need to be convinced that the above two issues can be fairly dealt with first.
Twenty-five years before social media became mainstream, this observation seems so prophetic:

Sharing is important - we're all communication junkies
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Damn, can I do one just for fun and then let's code review together? :p

I recently had a humiliating experience. Just was approached on LinkedIn and at first they sent me a take home. I learned the front-end tech which was required for it, and then coded it. They just wanted me to fill out a doc but I put it all up on stackblitz. Another portion was back-end which I also put up on another online env so they could see not only the code but how everything was laid out.

Get to the over the screen share interview - just nervous and both the interviewers were impatient, and just the atmosphere was so nerve-wracking - they did nothing to make it more relaxed. Just seemed like the senior guy was stressed out and I was wasting his time. My brain kind of shut off and the seemingly simple problem at that time just seemed insurmountable because I felt myself second guessing my every thought.

Been developing for a number of years for a few companies, and I guess I haven't prepped for the tech interview - I thought my existing skills are what they need and should be enough to evaluate but boy was I wrong.

Needless to say they didn't go with me. It's not like I needed the job, or probably wouldn't have taken it anyway since what their maximum range was lower than what I make, but the startup seemed quite interesting. Just such a bad experience.
> I recall one hypothesis is that DNA (or RNA) based life evolved shortly after the Big Bang (500,000 years?) when the universe was a balmy lumpy-gas bath of 0-100C. If this were true, it would follow that life is as pervasive as the cosmic background radiation and we should expect to find it in every crevice. Mind-bending.

That's pretty unbelievable, since at that time stars hadn't formed to create heavier elements, so the elements available were hydrogen, helium, and a little bit of lithium. DNA is mostly carbon and nitrogen.
No joke. How was this better than a bar chart like how every performance metric comparison ever uses.

And that 2 points are “more is better” while one is “less is better” is inexcusable.
The branch of yoga that covers this is swara yoga. There are books on it. Maybe worth investigating if you're interested.
Any chance of emulating a PowerMac running MacOSX using PearPC or something that emulates PowerPC? It is so old that Apple should not care about it running in an emulator since they are moving from Intel to ARM.
I want to point out that "mam" does not mean sauce. Nouc means water and is applied to water-type liquids, including fish sauce. Mam means salted fish. It's salted fish water.

Mam does not mean sauce.
There is a comp.lang.lisp archive published in 2009.

> In 2009, Ron Garret published a 700MB archive file of all of comp.lang.lisp

https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/notes.html
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For anyone not using it, the great thing about Little Snitch is being able to set just the precise port numbers and remote hosts you want a given app to access while blocking everything else, rendering plug-ins like MailTrackerBlocker unnecessary. You can also set profiles for different networks, and even have them switch automatically: https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch/adv-profiles .
My single advice would be to find a client (or clients) beforehand and start doing work for them before you drop your job.
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100%.

if properly trained, interviewers ask questions that build without throwing the kitchen sink at you.

whiteboard interviews (when done holistically) assess for signal, not binary correctness

- do you have a solid framework to build a solution?

- are you considering multiple approaches / data structures / complexities

- referencing similar problems, vocabulary, situations to illustrate breadth of knowledge

sure, the stress component isn't ideal, but there are multiple relevant capabilities being assessed in a very short amount of time...

in other words it's a much better test of tacit knowledge than alternatives
What's the rationale for your bank doing this? The litigation-heavy environment of its jurisdiction? Someone once sued a bank due to a loss caused by not knowing what was in their bank account, and they demonstrated that they were not 'receiving' their statements?
Just fix your language, it's based on latin script, it's supposed to be phonetic.

Then learning to read becomes trivial.
Not yet - there is a bench vs clickhouse that has been done by one of their contributor though see below in the comments.
Indeed, my kindergarten class was 36 kids.
>Or they can buy Sony MDR 7506 for about $100, and they will sound ok and last 20+ years.

I happen to also own a pair of 7506. Do note these are a closed set, and they are, by far, not comparable with HD600. Basically like night and day.

In the words of a coworker who also owns 7506, after trying my HD600: "Now the 7506 sound to me like an AM radio."

Still, I don't disagree they're decent as closed headphones at <$100, particularly if you only care about the mid range. But they're relatively colored, despite their popularity as "monitors", and much worse than the Japan-only mdr-cd900st classic.
>For the contractors-on-roofs, the slip & falls add up even though they'll never get an HBO mini-series.

Are solar roofs significantly more dangerous to work on than a normal roof for some reason? Roofs are going up whether they have panels or not.
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Having something you love removed would cause emotional pain, having something you like removed would be like meh.
Melatonin, but I’m not sure if it eventually became a trigger via placebo.

The other is I let my eyelids sit heavy while I read (1/2 open).

Basically whatever tricks my body into sleep mode.
> The introduction of pinyin revolutionised Chinese language teaching and had a near-miraculous effect on literacy rates;

This is inaccurate. Taiwan continued using Zhuyin, the native syllabary China used prior to the 60s, and Taiwan's literacy rates have never lagged.

Pinyin and Zhuyin have a one-to-one mapping at the syllable level, but Zhuyin is more accurate at the single character scale. E.g., the sounds for both ㄜ and ㄝ are written as an e in Pinyin and ㄨ and ㄩ are both always written as u. Worse still, the ㄩ sound is also sometimes represented as ü in Pinyin (when preceded by an l).

Pinyin requires more context (and rules) to distinguish which vowel sound is being represented.

Zhuyin isn't perfect either. It's definitely a better representation of single consonant or vowel sounds but it still has its own warts around diphthongs and triphthongs.

Pinyin is definitely a flawed phonetic system, but it's usable and widespread. That's it's real strength, along with being less alien to non-Chinese speakers.
I remember in 1998 ordering my Yamaha COD and waiting out in the cold Minnesota snow to get it from the UPS driver, then paying 1$/disk. Total cost per GB amortized over the life of the drive was like 2$ since a newer faster model came out 3 months later. Now I get pissed if storage is more than about 0.04$/gb. Times have changed.
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I think that's only half of it. The other half is that it's easier for consumers to find content in the silos of the large corporations than content that exists outside of them.
There's a joke in Russian quite popular among small kids: "The hedgehog learned to breathe through his butthole. One day he sat down to rest and suffocated".

(Hedgehog is the hero if many slightly absurdist jokes).
Maybe that's something we need to bring back -- limits on how many and how large corporations can be? Before they take over running all of society?

Right now you can create infinite corporations, with little to no traceability as to who's really responsible. Maybe there should be some limits?
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This special encoding of the null character is Modified UTF-8 and is used by various Java and JVM APIs and in Java class files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Modified_UTF-8
The statement is a work of art, and should be read, perhaps even studied. It's perfect. Jeff is a master at doing PR. Learn from him.

The big question for him and Amazon should be: why does Amazon paid an average of 8% tax rate [0], when average people pay much more?

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-amazon-really-pay-no-taxes...
My partner did EFL for years. She always said that truth lies both sides of the whole-word vs phonics debate.

Here in Queensland Australia it was deeply politicised in a left right electoral battle between state governments, teaching unions, public and privately funded schools.

As an EFL teacher her praxis was focussed on adults not pre-literate children which is an important distinction.

That said, I like this nutshell exemplifier of the problem.

"Cat" c-a-t. Cee aaye tee spells cat.

Now do that for "women" (UK english, Australian english typically pronounced "wimmin")
This. I just can't see this not penalizing conscientious candidates.
By hashing data already in the processor's cache.
https://vimeo.com/72501076

If you're a fan and you haven't seen Hyperland, it's fantastic.
They need to take Netflix off the list. All they do are algorithmic whiteboard interview questions.
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Most companies don't even have spare billions of dollars to waste playing these games. Your normal companies, with normal budgets, have normal projects, which need people who can get work done.

If you want some one who can build web sites using React JS you are better off hiring people who know and have built things using React JS. There is little logic in hiring people who can do some obscure fashion-of-the-week algorithms, assuming if they can do this they can learn React is just plain wrong. A person does what they are good at doing, if some one is good at interviewing their incentives are in changing jobs often to find the next company that can offer a raise. Not getting your work done.

Also this whole thing that one must know these algorithms because they might once in a life time face a need for Dijkstra's sometime during midnight at a place where they wouldn't find an internet connection, is unrealistic. C'mon. Get real. Companies are full of situations where people are digging with shovels and spoons, because people don't have the skills to use and build tools and system to save thousands of man hours of manual effort. Code bases are full of tech debt. Deployment problems because tests aren't written, or there is just no CI infrastructure. Lack of skills and productivity is a far more realistic and commonly occurring problem than these once in a decade algorithm needs. On top of this comes the need for proactive problem identification and solving(a.k.a innovation).

The fact that FAANGs have to acquihire or acquire companies to grow shows they are not hiring the right people either.

As of today if you are hiring for devs. You must look for turn-key projects executed, expertise in one main programming language/stack, ability to script quickly, skills to build tooling/monitoring, ability to produce deployable code, code maintenance, writing test cases etc etc.
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It pays 8% because US tax law is set up to allow that to happen. Perhaps, even incentivize that.

And maybe that's not a good thing. But there are well defined ways to change that. If we can't, then there is something else wrong.
> Like most comedy, there's a question of punching up vs punching down.

"Punching up" vs "punching down" is this weird trope that materialized in the past couple years as a way to argue "making fun of MY preferred groups is not allowed." But there are many successful professional comedians who don't agree with it, and "punching down" on the rubes is in fact a time honored genre of comedy...
How do you feel about paying candidates for the time they spend on the assignment?
It is also used for group chats, even without images.
I'm not entirely sure which one of the two, Dark Matter or MOND, is conceptually the bigger disaster. Dark matter pretty much sounds like the invisible ether that was suspected to carry EM waves. A physical theory that depends on the scale at which you look at space seems similarly awkward to me.
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I interviewed a FAANG company and made to the whiteboard interview. The interviewer asked me to implement an algorithm to extract words from arbitrarily long string, which do not include any separators, using a dictionary, within 30 minutes and a code that compiles into $PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE on the spot. Pseudo-code is not allowed.

Yeah, I tanked the interview but I really did not care if I pass when I got to that point.
There's lots of different takes on why it failed, you can search 'olpc criticisms' on google and you'll find many articles with endless takes. To me they had many 'great' and inspiring design ideas that were completely out of touch with reality. For example, trying to put a handcrank on a laptop and the completely unfamiliar UI.
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Can someone explain to me the advantages of fusion over fission? Except for the radioactive wastes and the enthusiasm of journalists I don't get it
Or like three pre-launch startups
This sounds really cool.
To be truly pedantic, "mam" means more "salted thing" than "salted fish". There are "mắm nhum" or squid mam that has nothing to do with fish. And it is overloaded in any case. Asking for "mam" to go with your main dish means asking for a mam-based sauce.

Mam does mean sauce, frequently.
Programming was my hobby when I was 11yo. 38 years later, I still can't believe they pay me to do this shit, it's awesome. Also, I have new hobbies now.
Not if they don't actually change the API. If you fix an internal server bug that relates to a visible change in the API, then yes, it's a patch in the semver.

If you change something internal that has nothing to do with a client's use of your API, then there's no change to the semver.

Your package/container/program may change version in deployment, but that has nothing to do with the API.

If I decide to move from redis to elasticache or mysql to postgres but my API hasn't changed, that's not a change in the semver.
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At least here it has to be reported, registered, and subject to scrutiny.
Hard to determine if a certain practice is harmless or not.
Yes and no:
I currently work for the editor of iTop (an open source ITSM software).

Providing the software under an open source licence was a very early choice.
But what if a rogue concurrent decided to fork and hire engineers to provide it's own, better version of the soft while keeping it closed source?

The only open source licence providing protection that I'm aware of is the AGPL.

When you throw on the project your lifetime savings, it is quite a reassuring licence.
I'm of the opinion that this is fair enough as long as the pay isn't crazy high. The truth is, no interview is ever truly fair, and all interviews can be gamed. "Grinding leetcode" is much the same problem you are describing wrt spending 40 hours on a 2 hour project. People game non-technical interviews too. And resumes.

It sucks, but you only need to be better perceived than the next best competitor. Most folks don't have 40 hours to spend on a 2 hour max coding challenge. Hopefully the ones that do are already employed and not currently competing with you, or are so inexperienced that 40 hours produces horrific over-engineered abominations instead of clean efficient readable code.
Yah, maybe, this is part of a big picture that I've been thinking about lately - is the economy there to serve people, or are the people there to serve the economy. The libs want the dial set very much to the people serve the economy, and they're taking advantage of the current situation to make it so. I'm more an economy is there to serve the people, so let's make things so that people have a good life, and figure out how we can do this.
I haven’t seen your train site, but the kind of content I imagine you produce would be, in my mind, akin to a reference book.

By contrast, Facebook is at best like a magazine, at worst a radio phone-in about trains.

Reference works in the form of websites have amazing value in and of themselves. I don’t think they need to be measured by social eyeballs when they attain an outright high level of quality.

I happen to be particularly fond of a reference website that is a taxonomy and history of British traffic lights:

https://beno.uk/trafficlight/
https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/notes.html
Sriracha sauce in Thailand has nothing in common with the American version beyond name. They don’t remotely taste the same