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Not explicitly looking (my current employer is outstanding, and would be a tough bar to clear), but willing to engage with and investigate compelling opportunities.

Location: Canada, Pacific time zone

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C# & DotNet, MariaDB & MSSQL (DBA), Windows Server (sysadmin), Computer Hardware & Networking, CentOS, virtualization, PHP with frameworks like Laravel (no WP, please), Java, HTML, CSS, and much, much more. I have touched nearly all major components of the IT ecosystem short of game design and 3D animation.

Most of my development work has been with server-side business web applications to be used inside a company on both full-fat PCs as well as fat-free mobile devices with equal functionality and performance. Some eCommerce and stand-alone Desktop programs. Also strong UI/UX skills with a focus on minimalism and simplifying systems to maximize functionality and usability.

My technical preference for development is full stack web-based work (both front end and back end, from needs assessment and DB design through coding to visual design and layout) primarily with the DotNet platform and MSSQL. I am a developer that focuses on quality, simplicity, practicality, reliability, and the most effective solution for the need at hand.

My technical preference _beyond_ development is to be a jack of all trades, providing all the IT resources that a medium sized business might need from a full-time individual. Literally nothing would be off the table as long as it is clearly IT related. I have had several decades of CS experience in hardware and networking, as well as systems administration in both businesses and datacentres.

My non-technical preference is a leadership or coordinating position, possibly as a head of IT in a medium sized business in my local area. My second Bachelor’s was a BBA in Accounting with a minor in leadership and strategic management.

Résumé/CV: Upon request.

Email: rene@kabis.org
When I used to work for one of the UK’s largest social networks, I spent a long time researching optimisation platforms. I’d used Optimizely before and liked it, but when I saw the pricing table had been replaced by the dreaded ‘Call’ CTA I knew we were in for a bad time.

When I finally negotiated the rigmarole of callbacks and salespeople, the quote we received was so ludicrously high that there was not a chance that it was ever going to be worthwhile. Especially considering their old self-serve model was pretty good value and the horde of functionally identical and much cheaper competitors.
I very much agree with you, actually!

I disagree in that I believe that states and localities can be an agent of broader change. Sure, the feds won't reform drug laws, but locally our states and localities are simply working around the feds! So we should know what's wrong in a broad sense to push our localities in the right direction. And I believe in keeping tabs on the feds so if we get a chance to nudge them in the right direction, we can.

Despite disagreeing with you on that point, I think you are 100% right, and if we were all acting locally to make the world a better place....well, it probably would be.
According to the study being discussed you're clearly wrong.
Money is already worthless. It's paper. It only has value that we as a society set on it. If the shit really hit the fan, governments of the world could decide to scrap all currencies give everyone an 'equivalency' of their old lifestyle in a 'new currency' and reboot the virtual monopoly game.

Why do you think billionaires horde money? It's the same reason debears hordes diamonds, if all the diamonds that exist actually were available on the markets they wouldn't be worth shit. By hording all the diamonds mined, they get to set the prices.

Sure if you spread more money out to more people, some prices may adjust up a bit, but you're not going to get runaway price gouging across everything like many who are against UBI claim.
If I'm the employee I too would fully expect company to do this kind of thing.

Meanwhile As employee I would try to do the same but in the opposite: to extract as much as possible (money/knowledge/whatever) from the company while minimizing my effort as much as possible.
The acquisition share price is usually told to employees. They probably got the information from current employees. Since they are a shareholder, they'll eventually find out anyway.
> Who exactly is investing in this "green gold"?

France[0]

> If it's so valuable why does no one actually want it,

I mean France does... we actually gave them the tech. The reason we stopped is more political. But more people do this than just France, but they are the biggest example since 17% of their entire grid is powered from recycled nuclear. The other reason we don't do it is that it is just cheaper to buy more Uranium than setup reprocessing plants. France doesn't have as easy of a supply chain so it makes sense for them to recycle. Obviously the US's supply chain could change, so access to that waste is a potential benefit.

[0] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
To some extent yes, but that is different from the claim, which is about "all money."

But also, you're neglecting things like cheaper parts tending to be worse for the environment. Comparatively expensive wood, for instance, would likely cause fewer problems than cheaper plastics. Plus, that's true by virtue of the cheaper parts breaking sooner and needing to be replaced. It's certainly not a universal that luxury goods are eco-friendly, but it is true that eco-friendliness is a factor that requires a premium to be paid for it.
They're getting harassed too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mEpdfPJq6w

https://mclynasforsheriff.com/pcso-corruption/
We don't have a good track record of confronting the cleanup of nuclear waste. The US federal government recently shipped a secret load of waste into Nevada. Nevada was very unhappy about that and claimed it was done in secrecy because it was illegal. After a bit of a fight, the feds caved and have agreed to remove the waste.

There is no plan for this stuff. The repository that was built in Nevada was never actually approved and it is not legal to use. So everyone that was planning on sending stuff there has just been piling it in the side yard waiting for something. New Mexico is now trying to open up a waste site.

But if you operate a reactor in Tennessee, right now you have no idea where to store the waste so you just keep piling it higher and deeper on site.

Source: rumour and gossip
Doesn’t the US government already spend more per capita on healthcare than any other developed nation? Surely it would just be cheaper by cutting out the parasites.
> Anyone notice that it's impossible to browse to a private DNS name in the new Firefox for Android?

This is odd. Even with DoH enabled, shouldn't Firefox fall back to the OS resolver if a domain doesn't resolve via DoH?

Or was this an actual split-horizon situation, where the private domain did resolve on the internet, but to a different IP?

( see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs... )
>such that the exchange operator (e.g. Alphabet, NYSE) cannot also be a participant in the traded assets.

If I recall correctly, ICE, which owns the NYSE, is itself traded on the NYSE. Obviously their position is small compared to that of Alphabet on the ad exchanges but I wonder if things go against Alphabet, would that force ICE off of the exchanges it owns?
Consider specializing on some technology (e.g. Javascript) and focus on that.
Killing hundreds of people with shitty code is not a misdemeanor. Also most executions are carried out by state governments not "Washington".
Just make sure to exclude that port from service checks ;)
Everything about Paul Romer's plan (https://roadmap.paulromer.net/) makes sense and seems uncontroversial except Step 5: Let everybody get tested and if you get a negative result, you don't have to wear a mask. This permission not to wear a mask is also mentioned in the New Yorker article.

But I don't see any justification given for the no-mask part. I can see how it would be an incentive, but I'm not sure it wouldn't just erode the norm of wearing masks until everyone felt they could get away without wearing one.
My parents were antique collectors. They were very proud of a glow-in-the-dark fireman's helmet circa 1940's that my dad bought. They told me it was radium paint and to keep away from it.

I will say it does it's job. That helmet was still glowing in the dark just fine
To be fair to the late Graeber, DeLong was intentionally provoking him from the start. To be fair to DeLong, he was doing it because Graeber had dramatically overreacted to relatively mild critical takes on his work on the Crooked Timber economics blog whose contributors thought his book intellectually stimulating enough to hold a multi-author 'seminar' on it - accusing them of being part of a 'strategy of delegitimization'. Which just goes to show that academic debate can easily head in the same direction as arguments on the rest of the internet.

As for the actual Debt: The First 5000 Years book, it's engaging, thought-provoking, less opinionated than I was expecting and right about a lot of big things. But his critics aren't wrong that it's also wrong about a lot more small details than the founding of Apple Computer (one I'm surprised none of the academic economists scrutinising his book picked up on: he describes Treatise on Money as Keynes 'most famous work' which is akin to calling Wings Paul McCartney's most famous band. That's particularly surprising in the middle of a passage about Keynes' work which is actually well-informed). Still think it's worth reading for people vaguely interested in the subject matter though.
If you have an easy access doctor around to ask, I completely agree with that!

If you're not going to see a doctor about this, for laziness/poverty/whatever reasons, I think the average risk from not taking Vitamin D is vastly bigger than the risk from taking it.
OP here. It doesn't go to 'the same location on the page', that's the problem. It always jumps to the top of the page, as if the anchor didn't exist.

Note there is, in my case, a form submit action to a hidden iframe with the reload but the page location stays put in Firefox.
Needs a (2018) in the title: https://web.archive.org/web/20180523010341/https://what-if.x...

Unfortunately, Randall hasn't added any posts since then.
No probably about it, it’s a disastrous idea.
And accusing fellow commenters of being foreign shills isn't a personal attack?
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Instead we will burn 700,000,000 quadrillion gigatons of rocket fuel to send all this poison to the sun.

Or just use wind and solar?
Some viewfinder are made with thoriated glass too, which is much more problematic because they blast alpha rays straight to your eye while in use.

Lenses, as you pointed, are safe: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:652338/FULLTEXT01... I'd avoid dropping/breaking one indoor though.
Commuting isn’t expected of you. Being at a certain place at a certain time is. Once you’re there at that time, the clock starts, but I’ve never heard anyone argue that an employer is responsible for your commute.
It sounds like to two of you (and downvoters) didn't read my post closely enough and/or not up on recent research:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32252338/

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200518/more-vitamin-d-lowe...

Most folks are deficient, and it is difficult, though not impossible to overdo it. Also, if you are living at 35+ degrees latitude, dark skinned, or ~50+ years old, you are deficient.

Your warnings to be careful are careful in the wrong direction, ie. dangerous.

Just found this on the front page!:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006
Isn't abstraction of any sorts essentially creating a 'black box' I.e the higher level system doesn't need to understand the lower level system as it's not need or isn't relevant.

My thoughts are it's scary for engineers to feel like they are abstracting themselves away from a lower level systems, a bit like how it's hard for managers of people to let go the tasks they used to do themselves...
I know it's hip to be pathologically cynical about the news media, especially in a thread like this, but that hot take flies past hyperbole and right into farce.
SMB and grow into enterprise is the easiest path bc can iterate and grow revenue. In theory, similar effort for more revenue initially and more revenue as seats grow.

Problems are often:

-- Beyond just VC, it becomes an issue ongoing to having full-time dedicated sales: quota, qualified leads, etc, it's a beast. Internal culture and priority shift to start/maintain/grow.

-- if not naturally pulled here and no obvious tier separatation, above can easily destroy the SMB side, instead of using as part of your moat + growth. The marketing+sales org will kill it, unless you split those as well or otherwise solve

-- VC money just means artificially faster deadlines and expectations for all of the above, so even harder to do 2 things, even if long term natural and better to habdle
I think we can look to austrailia for many many many examples where we thought something would work out when we fucked with nature on a large scale without really studying it.

IE. Canetoads.
Holy hell that's shady as fuck. I would have never found that and I've gone out of my way to disable as much of this type of shit on my phone as possible. There's no way in hell the average user is ever going to stumble upon that setting.
Hehe, it's obvious why.
Graeber didn't defend the Apple statement, he said it was an editing error and that it was revised for later editions.

Obsessing over that wasn't a good look for DeLong. It isn't for his alts, his stans, or whatever you are.

That Crooked Timbre post is not very good. It reflects much worse on the author than on its purported subject.
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There was a mountain of accusations of anti-semitism that boiled down to "she said something anti-zionist which we think implies she is anti-semitic if you look at it in the right light".

Meanwhile, over in actual Israel they're busy setting up an apartheid state and enacting race based policies.

It's simply not possible to be consistently anti racist without being accused of anti-semitism. Rebecca Long Bailey getting fired is simply the latest illustration of that.
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You're ignoring decades if not centuries of politics and economic data. This is an insane claim so I'd love to see citations.
Any amount of lead is harmful, just because you don’t notice the effects doesn’t mean there are none.
Why the title change? The original title "Why undefined behavior is often a scary and terrible thing for C programmers" may be a bit polemic but occurs verbatim in the article - and IMO does a better job of expressing the article's message.
What’s more insidious than the accuracy of what you read in the media is the control the media has on what they actually cover.

If you cast a wide enough net, it pretty quickly becomes apparent that the media is very selective about what they cover. One human rights issue may get front page coverage, while another is completely ignored.

The vast majority of people think they are focused on important issues, when in fact, they are just focused on what the media tells them is important.
I would like to point out that most exchanges do not operate this way, and that even in equities, dealers have eschewed rules by not technically being an exchange, but functionally doing so.

All banks have trading desks, and the vast majority of the the trading they do is engaging in a private contract with themselves and their customers. Citadel/Jane Street both use ECNs to simply tally a trade that they do privately, and in markets where Citadel has to use an exchange, they get extremely (suspiciously) good rates and preferential treatment.

I do want exchanges and dealers to be separate entities, but I would also prefer it if this justice were doled out fairly—not just when it’s politically convenient to pursue it.
Diabetes and high blood pressure are significant risk factors, but I wouldn't go as far as calling them huge, certainly not capital-letter huge.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2521-4
Gas turbines are the ones that ramp the fastest and are used to handle dynamic peaky loads. Nuclear/coal are generally used as the baseline power because they're more efficient.
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So, what about upload speeds?
Well, that's one of the reasons that athletic competitions are popular. At the end of 100 meters, someone's in front. And within the sciences and technical fields, the limits of charlatanism are sooner reached. Plenty of writers go out of fashion pretty quickly, but it takes a Stalin to back a Lysenko.

I would say that there are better and worse writers, and I can offer my reasons where I offer an opinion. Yet I know that there have been ages that reversed the attributions of better and worse held now. Shakespeare was out of fashion for a good part of a century, to name an obvious example in the English-speaking world.
$5 says this is stuck in some bureaucratic sinkhole somewhere. Barring a _good_ reason, I'd much rather have Daniel's brain here in the US than anywhere else.
Could you have a split AC system with a big centralized compressor?
I don't see how it's economically practical. How are Chrome, Gmail, Maps, et al going to be able to support themselves without the ad cash cow?
This doesn't deviate from what I said at all.
Exactly. A small number of us were offered packages to incentivise us to stay (ironically we still left), but the vast majority weren't. Which led us to conclude that the plan was to just keep everything afloat long enough to sell.
First off, love the username :-).

You argue that pivoting from self-serve to enterprise was one of the company's best decisions. If that were true, Optimizely would be considerably more valuable now than it was four years ago, which is manifestly not the case.

Moreover, if the self serve model was indeed fatally flawed, then it would not be possible for anyone to build a profitable business serving this segment. However, a competitor, VWO, showed that it is possible to build a large, profitable business using this model.

Finally, let's say my prior two arguments are wrong, and the unit economics of the self serve business were fundamentally flawed--an assertion I challenge--the self serve business would still have been useful as a source for attracting future enterprise customers. When Optimizely cut the self serve plans, it also killed its largest source of enterprise deals.
Is there a practical benefit to pubkey or certificate auth? I feel like using ufw with limit on port 22 and using fail2ban covers most cases, assuming good password decisions.
But if the reload is triggered by a form submit to an iframe (thus staying on the page) with a timed call to window.reload(), the page resets to the top. Not so in Firefox.
Desktop unless you travel or build iOS apps, especially with Covid and homes offices, way faster hardware with great upgrade options. Windows 10 Pro with docker and wsl 2 is good. I can put in a monster video card or cpu for ML or do anything I want.

I've owned macs since late 90s and am done with them. No more dongle madness. Touchbar was horrid. Ive had multiple $5k macbooks pros fail, literally video and drive failures and the new gen weld hardware in so you cant do anything, even minor upgrades.

My current MBP is now randomly freezing for no reason. Ive had folks on my team had batteries die. Going back to PC!
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I don't accept your premise that books are not factual and news media is more/entirely factual. Do you have any evidence on that?

The evidence I've got generally sways towards well-regarded non-fiction book authors generally having more expertise in the area they write about than well-regarded journalists. This also makes intuitive sense - journalists often write about many subjects and act as second-hand sources, while researchers and authors are often first-hand sources and write about fewer subjects.

My point is not that most news organizations don't publish similar articles. My point is that they do, but them doing so is not evidence that what they post is useful factual information for staying informed.

Just because you consulted multiple sources doesn't mean you get a true picture. 3 bibles all will tell you there is 1 god because those three sources share the same underlying bias.

A dozen news sources will tell you the same thing, but that could also mean that they share the same underlying biases (the bias towards a quick and profitable news cycle vs a slow and thoughtful conveyance of meaningful fact).

The fact that NYT, Reuters, etc are all reporting on a fast news cycle and using similar content doesn't mean that the content they're reporting is intended to inform me and give me a more realistic grounding necessarily. It could also mean they all have the same profit motives and all optimize to produce more clicks rather than inform more meaningfully.

To make sure I'm not being taken the wrong way, I do think the news generally does strive to be both true and to convey information. I think that the competing need to drive clicks/ad-dollars/etc results in it conveying information poorly. It frames true facts in ways that drive outrage to drive clicks. It tries to create a quick news cycles so there's always new things to publish. The faster news cycle favors reporters creating quick pieces, and disfavors serious investigative reporting. I don't think the news media succeeds on informing me well of important things, but rather succeeds on making me weary with a deluge of facts that won't matter in 2 weeks.
I'm happy with my HP Pavilion. There are some glitches - the touchpad is inaccurate, and battery change feels like defusing a bomb.

But otherwise it's relatively cheap, light enough to hold on one hand, hardcore enough for work (Android Studio) and gaming, and comes with touchscreen and backlight. As someone who has used a MBP, I prefer a touchscreen over a touchbar any day.
Not even that, spot pricing on an 8 GPU instance (the 16xl I believe, the larger one has the same number of GPUs but more memory per GPU) is something like $6/hr. I use this for personal projects sometimes, get all data in S3, a good launch template, and then spin up a spot instance and be super efficient about training quickly. I've even run evals on a separate, cheaper, machine so the 16xl can spend all its time training. It's still not "cheap", but $50 for 8 hours of training on a machine like that with $64k of GPUs on board is really not bad.
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Users have to manually "Opt out" as per Apple's own documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074

or https://web.archive.org/web/20200903215036/https://support.a...