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I do not use fizzbuzz but variations that are simple like it. I do not like fizzbuzz for 2 reasons. It relies on a math trick. Modulus math is something everyone can grasp but it is not something everyone knows about. Plus it is easily looked up and gamed. I try to pick something that has a few if conditions and a loop, which is what most people do. Bonus if it can be a 'refactor' style problem for the small walkthrough afterwards. But it is not necessary for that. If I were to make one up right now I would say something like 'given a string reverse the first half and move the second half to the front of the string and return the result'. There are enough little gotchas there to see if they have a feel for what can go wrong and loops and ifs. It also has an advantage that it is not easily looked up on the internet and pre-studied as fizzbuzz has been codegolfed on some discussions. The downside is it would probably burn a lot of time. So you need to budget your time with them accordingly. If I can talk someone into it I try the test out on them beforehand to see how long it would take. I want it to be quick. I just want someone who is competent and can explain what they did and has some relatable experience and can explain what they did there.
as well as a file-based tiny IRC client in C: http://tools.suckless.org/ii/
You don't need any "significant" advantage. Even a very small advantage ("an anonymous struct would be handy here") is enough, why would you _not_ use it when it's free? For the fun of the constraint? I'm not a C expert but I don't think there's any downside to using the C11 standard compared to C99
"insurmountable problems at the company that make you consider leaving"

Is the problem with the company or that the company is no longer a good fit for the interviewer?

Personally, I've been interviewing people to join the company I work for while also on the lookout for changing jobs and I don't feel it's immoral.

I would recommend my current employer in general, but I'm not sure it's still the right place for me.
Not sure about the rest of the EU, but in the UK it's unusual to have very long-term mortgages that seems to be described here. The norm is 2->3 year variable rate (tracking an underlying rate + a %) or a 2->5 year fixed, maybe a 10 year fixed. After that they tend to 'default' to a worse rate for the remainder, but with no penalties generally for switching.

Remortgaging is a normal part of life, but you can imagine that there might be penalty clauses if you've signed up for a 10 year fixed and in year 2/3 you want to remortgage at different terms.
> In the lives of anyone 25 and under

I think you're mixing up your generational labels. Millennial are pushing 40. Under-25s are typically referred to as "GenZ" or, more colloquially, "zoomers".

> ... 7-month recession [...] lasted 18-months [...] lasted 8-months ...

Those are some... VERY specific timings. For many, the 2008 recession lasted >10 years. Putting a very narrow specific figure on it needs a little bit of perspective. 10 years is obviously ridiculous as it represents the extreme, but the impact of any academically-defined "18-month" recession is always going to be multi-year.
There is, again, principles from real philosophy, which state that there is and always will be a principal gap between an observation (and language) based model and What Is.

The classic example is inability to tell why the sun will rise tomorrow by merely observations of it doing so and any kind of statistics.

The "why" is in understanding of the nature of the process we call Sun and realization that such kind of process cannot be stopt or even change in 24 your.

Another modern illustration of the same principle is the principal, infallible inability to infer the actual wiring if processor from the level of code it excites.

This, by the way, is the very same Upanishadic principle of inability to infer the true nature of Brahman from the level of human intellect, conditioned by a language and experience.

Some things will remain only guesses, models and "scientific", (or rather sectarian) consensus.
Sorry to nitpick but the social isolation and massive unemployment are being caused by our response to the pandemic, not by the pandemic itself. Lockdowns are a choice, with tradeoffs.
He's a bit on the sensationalist side but he's usually reliable enough.
The BBC are one of the very few impartial news services out there. If you look at how people complain about the BBC, you get people from all sides of the political spectrum moaning that the BBC is biased to the other side. But what's really happening here is that it's the readers who are biased and feel their view point is unfairly represented.
How long will the lithium supply last?
Kodak Didn’t Break Law When Loan Was Revealed, Special Committee Finds
To be fair there are quite a few millennials for whom loss of beloved parents and grandparents to an avoidable cause would be something of a downside too...
In most states, you can fill out a form provided by the commerce division and you'll be up and running for a small fee. In my state, it's about $35 and one sided sheet of paper application (or file online).
In an era of rampant misinformation feeding reality-denial, I think our collective willingness to respond to global catastrophe is worse off today than a hundred years ago. The US response to the coronavirus epidemic is a great example of this.

You hear it time and time again: people who have personally felt the loss of loved ones to pandemic or wildfire or flood still deny the cause. I fully expect 50% of the (surviving) public to point out that "some scientists disagree" on the cause of global climate change while we slowly perish in a Water World dystopia.
Syndicated summary, non-paywall here:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kodak-broke-no-laws-with-l...
Duopoly?
Has anyone else had issues with Pine64 shipping phones or laptops recently?

I placed an order July 31 and still don't have shipment information for a PineBook Pro laptop. Support hasn't gotten back to me with any dates for 5 days now.
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> The system is supposed to prevent people from dying, 346 people died, the system is broken, it is a fact.

Please present one system that you designed and implemented and it worked without faults. Imperfect (as all things are) does not equal broken!

From a system design point of view I've lived to see multiple "broken" systems being replaced by a worse system with the best of intentions.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_analysis

To be clear: I am not saying FAA is faultless, I am no expert on aviation security, I simply have no opinion. I'm just saying some people are quick to take out the pitchforks.
Anecdotally, I find that the lockdown is much more strongly supported among millennials than among older people. They may claim they’re doing it for the benefit of boomers, but did the boomers actually ask for it?
Regulation like a utility doesn't mean their has to be only one gatekeeper. It could just more rules once one becomes so dominant they are a defacto gatekeeper.

Doubtful this would be done in the same way everywhere. Though big markets like the EU or US may regulate at the federal/union level to ease the burden on interstate commerce.
I can't speak about Material Shell, but on dedicated tiling WMs, you get to select a subset of apps that you want to always open in floating mode to accommodate the use case you are describing. Nonetheless, I find myself not using that at all, since in most cases the tiled view allows for optimum use of screen real-estate in my opinion. If I can't see the entirety of a window it's kind of useless to me, so i'd prefer it be on a different workspace. But of course, floating one window like your calculator while your browser and RSS feed reader are tiled on the desktop is entirely possible and probably quite common. I do, however, use a popup rofi window with a custom script as a calculator, so that does indeed float near the top of my screen.
>why don't millennials do what we did in our twenties

Because we're not in our twenties anymore? We're supposed to start families now...
I think that would be "are you asking a rhetorical question?".
oh! i may be trying this hover the week-end :)
> But let's be clear, 30-40 years of interventions by governments did this, which is exactly what left leaning people want of government.

You Unironically say this yet Trump (a very right candidate) is the one pumping money into the economy to save his election chances.

The reality is each party wants to spend money where it feels it is important. Republicans/right wingers have given up fiscal responsibility a LOOOOOONG time ago.
How does this extend their walled garden? The kernel doesn’t just accept patches willy nilly.
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You forgot "How" at the beginning of the tile which completely changes the meaning.
Looks pretty miserable. Are there any proper example applications or is this more of a toy framework?
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If we don't comply you'll continue to escalate until we do comply or we're dead. That's what happens if I refuse to pay your unjust civil infraction.

The fundamentalist faith that is evangelical progressivism allows nothing and no one to fall outside its purview.
Every aspect of everyone's life must submit to its edicts.
> Normal drivers have to drive, so they can't watch their phone.

Despite being a huge legal and moral issue, a large minority of normal drivers can and do watch their phone while driving.
Depends on many things. For example: how much do you trust the company, what other products have they built, are they building a prototype or MVP, are they building software that needs to be highly reliable, secure or precise, do they do internal code reviews, do you want them to optimise for time of delivery or correctness or what exactly, etc. In any case , I’d recommend to get someone you trust to do a cursory code review after the first month just to see if they spot major red flags. Although if their code quality is bad, you’ll probably spot red flags in their product as well.
The slow recovery and after effects is also part of that timeline.
> So, do many republicans hold the view that killing 346 people in the first year of service is acceptable business practice?

Well yeah the US had 36k automobile deaths and globally its 1.3 million (that's 3500 per day). You need to accept some level of fatalities as normal.
How dare you spread the truth!
Are you trying to ruin the new world orders plan to enslave us?
Wine runs older Office versions fine. I heard Crossover works even better if you're willing to pay for it.
Is it really bad for mental well being? I know a lot of people nowadays (including me) have the desire to live separately from parents. But mental health has been going down, with increasing rates of reported loneliness and isolation.

Society has made us individualistic / "independent". But has it really made our mental health better?

Edit: and as others have pointed out, more people living separately is not ecologically efficient / sustainable.
"millennials shouldn't be arguing for more government intervention, but less"

Your argument that government intervention is bad for millennials is flawed. Without government intervention such as eviction moratoriums, unemployment benefits and federal government stimulus checks there would have been massive homelessness. Prior to the pandemic 40% of americans could not cover a $400 emergency, all of these people would have been on the street without the government stepping in. At one point the unemployment rate as 15%. I cant really see how this would have been good for them.

I would argue that specific and targeted government intervention such as complete student loan forgiveness would have a massive beneficial effect on millenials.
A consequence of low-density policy built in the days of white flight and redlining, actually.

After a few decades of nobody having the rights to control their own property, it became ingrained that this is how it should be.
One downside is reduced portability. If you're writing in C that's often a motivation.

The number of platforms with a C11 compiler is lower than the number of platforms with a C99 compiler.
"you will never have working audio" - what you mean by that? Some specific software not working on Linux or complete lack of audio?

I run into some cases of software refusing to run on Linux (though curiously, I switched to Linux due to software refusing to work on Windows).

I run into wifi/printer issues (but both on Linux and Windows) and I managed Linux to Work, while Windows remained resistant to debugging and kept failing with contentless errors.
> 90% of it doesn't work

Sure, but 50% of what a smartphone does are anti-features anyhow.
Maybe having to drop to CLI a few times a day is better than being spied on, for some people.
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If you're doing ok on your own and your parents aren't worried about your financial capacity, they're probably just worried in general, about your physical or mental health, or their own. Sounds more like they just have the same general anxiety as most of us. They might want it for themselves more than you.
Now do the same numbers for aerospace for the sweet 'oops' moment.
Where in Europe is this? We haven't seen 10% mortgage rates in the US since the 80s...
That's called a DNSBL, and there are many of them, mostly for email spam though.

https://www.dnsbl.info/
I disagree that anything was misrepresented. After two airliner crashes I think it is clear that the "system" (in this case the ability of the FAA to provide sufficient oversight to ensure safety of these planes and companies like Boeing to provide the FAA with the information they need) is broken. Wouldn't we all agree that the entire point of this inquiry was to "work backwards from there" and figure out where things could be improved?

I'm less clear on what Sam Graves means when he says "if aviation and safety experts determine that areas in the FAA's processes for certifying aircraft and equipment can be improved, then Congress will act," but I can see why people would be upset. It seems to me that we don't need input from anyone after two crashed airliners, be they safety experts or not: there clearly are areas in which the FAA's processes can be improved and they should be improved ASAP.
Not to be funny, but OP didn't say it "doesn't work". OP said it wasn't workable, which is a synonym for practical. Something can be 100% fit for one purpose but not for another.
The absolute horrible thing about forming a Llc in California is the $800 FTB tax, that you have to pay irrespective of wether you have any income or not. This is really discouraging for any individual who is trying to start a business and is unsure of the outcome in the initial years.
Congress made mortgage interest payments tax deductible in 1913, which gave folks an incentive to think of houses as investments.

Increasing home ownership was an express goal of the Bush Administration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAtUq0OJ68&ab_channel=vastg...

They wanted to promote an "ownership society": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership_society

Great questions.
I can barely tell the difference between Excel and LibreOffice Calc with both of them open on the same computer...
Hm, maybe that's how the statement should be interpreted, but I was interpreting it in light of the "too big to fail" mantra after the 2008 recession. Lots of banks and auto companies were bailed out to keep them afloat. So I interpret it as "let companies go bankrupt".
I'm my early 20s and in the UK. I earn more than my Dad who is in his 50s. He managed to get a house, have money left over for an expensive hobby, decent car, the odd holiday etc.

I'm a 90th percentile earner. Will 95+ percentile earner in a few years time. Yet it feels like I am not as well off as I should be. I don't live in an expensive area either. Yet I need to save so much money to even have the opportunity to buy a house. Then I also need to save a tonne of money for a nice retirement as government pensions get absolutely gutted.

I'm not going to pretend I won't have a good amount of disposable income even after maxing my pension contributions and paying a mortgage. But it just annoys me that I'm a relatively high earner and yet the money won't go very far. The most expensive thing I'll ever buy would be a brick box, and one that's not even as good as my parents.
There's also flash, which is also pretty fast, and fits nicely between magnetic and RAM.

Here's a handy rule of thumb about relative costs: the cost of a byte on magnetic_disk:flash:ram is about 1:10:100. I.e. the cost increases 10x when you go to the next level.
I don't think having a similar UI as mobile is very good for the user since the input mode is very different.

I think macOS does way better here with a minimal use of white space because I can easily have a browser open on the side to look up what I'm trying to change - though some things do appear a bit old school (e.g. networking).
This piece of news has been interpreted by user stevespang. the fact his comment is now dead and the fact that Amnesty Interntaional are being denied access to this trial really support his point of view. The comment should not be dead, to be clear about it.

I disagree in that I still hope it's merely arrogance and exceptionalism by the UK courts thinking, unlike courts in poorer parts of the world, they are utterly above reproach in all things and so there is no need for Amnesty International at the trial of a publisher who has reported and published evidence of war crimes. For all that arrogance I hope the court will make the correct decisions according to statute and precedence.

The job that has been done on Assange has been astonishingly effective. People don't /like/ him enough to notice his rights being removed are precisely their own rights and are removed for all. I put him with Tony Blair, George Bush jnr, Hilary, Donald, Boris as someone I would cross the road to avoid having to talk to - as is my right. It's also my right to note that it matters not at all in defending the rights of all of these people to fair due process because even the worst asshole imaginable's rights are yours and mine. Of my list of assholes above, I think Assange is the only asshole with no evidence to suggest his actions have actually killed anyone at all. Blair and Bush jnr in particular deserve fair trials so they can rigorously defend the extremely prevalent belief that they did kill people, knowingly, making decisions supported with jusification made in bad faith to enable the actions leading to the carnage. I would completely support their rights and Amnesty being present at their trials.

The rule of law and equality before it is the most important thing to ensure civilisation continues.
No, it's zombie companies kept alive by stimulus cheques, and management who get to stick around and failing companies that should have gone under 20 years ago.
> This is the reason that self-diving cars that require human intervention is a flawed concept. We should be designing vehicles that we manually control, but have a computer take over when needed.

This makes sense if the objective is to reduce fatalities. Unfortunately it makes no sense if the objective is to merely reduce the cost of operating commercial vehicles by eliminating the need to employ a driver - which is where the money is.
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I'm 34 and bipolar. I'm stable on medication but my dad doesn't believe mental illness exists and attributes every symptom to a lack of moral character... or demon possession.

I don't see myself changing how I feel about him any time soon.
Exactly and by not locking down properly we have managed to extend the pandemic in the US and its associated quasi lock down leading to our current situation. I agree with your response.
As an i3-gaps user... I would try this.
> On the other hand, not having Office is kind of a feature, it makes you learn better tools

Replace “Office” with Photoshop, Autodesk, Altium, etc. and it becomes very clear why this isn’t true. The Big Guys(tm) aren’t popular because they’re Windows and macOS programs; They’re popular because they do practically everything and no alternative comes close.

Sure, there is the bit about market dominance which leads to people learning just that tool which leads to further dominance (this is true of Photoshop especially). There’s also the bit about tools not getting better if no one uses them. But one would be hard pressed to find programs as capable as those mentioned earlier.
This flaw is perfectly predictable, given other experience in industrial safety, so why was the better system not built?
> Most television writing is terrible.

What shows do you watch? Otherwise it seems to me to be an uninteresting blanket statement, since there's tens of thousands of people working in TV.
After a career in financial advisory space, I became convinced that financial advisory companies are designed to keep you afraid and dependent on their wealth management services. Their ultimate goal is to have you save as much as possible and die with a vast fortune, which they’ll then have the privilege of overseeing for a 1% annual fee. If this wasn’t true, then their incentive structures wouldn’t be what they are.

Retirement planning doesn’t need to be so complicated that you pay someone upward of $10,000 per year to answer simple questions like, “How much should I be saving?” or “How much should I withdraw from my portfolio?” or “When can I retire?” These are all questions that can be answered by formulas.

So, four months ago I debuted a proof of concept of what I wanted to be the ultimate retirement calculator. It combines several useful ideas:

1. For those who aren’t retired yet, simultaneously models both the accrual AND drawdown phases. This eliminates the guesswork of manually calculating how much savings you’ll need in the future.

2. The ability to plan around social security and/or a pension (the typical thing to do is to either pretend that they don’t exist or almost exclusively depend on them).

3. And lastly, the ability to draw down your savings.

It ended up being pretty popular[0], so I incorporated everyone's feedback and then some. Here’s the shortlist of enhancements:

1. Graphs to illustrate the balance of your portfolio and the components of income during the retirement phase.

2. A ‘pension’ parameter, for folks who have a non-inflation-adjusted pension (90% of pensions are like this).

3. A ‘size of estate’ parameter, to specify how big (or little) an estate you’d like to leave behind.

4. Numerous UI improvements, including slider bars, financial insights, and a HUD to facilitate experimentation and ‘what if’ analysis.

Looking forward to another great round of feedback.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23146836