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The alternative explanation is that your view is simply an opinion, one that is not shared by others. Why must it be some kind of conspiracy theory of Microsoft trying to "buy" goodwill? They certainly have goodwill from our company. We're in biotech and the backwards-compat of Windows has saved us from re-buying new versions of very expensive LOB software. No other OS has the level of binary compatibility of Windows, and commercial software is not guaranteed to work across OS versions.

Windows as a dev box is a tiny niche use-case that is over-represented on HN.

>Meanwhile I can simply avoid Google products.

That maybe true for you, but for most people, its far easier to avoid Windows than Google.
>I'm making it all up and the South is perfectly open and tolerant.

I'm sure you're not. But "the South" is diverse. Atlanta has a very large LGBT community (both in absolute terms and as a percentage) and culture that is completely different from areas just an hour away. It's very possible that you and the people you are talking to had completely different experiences.

Both of you are almost certainly overgeneralizing your experiences when you say "the South".

People who live in the South get upset that the country likes to pretend that the rest of the country outside a few urban centers is any different. That is, if you had left the South for the rural or suburban Midwest or most of Pennsylvania, you'd likely have had a similar experience.
> They have file extensions turned off, which is the default, so they probably don't even know what a CSV is

And if, also by default, Excel is setup with an association with CSVs, the CSV file will, in addition to not having an extension to identify it, will have an icon which identifies it with Excel.
We ought to support the bill. However, NO digital communication is secure. Start put all important information in NON digital form.
Yes. And it is a specific breed of quails bred for this. Similar to how domesticated cows in the US are dumber than the ones roaming around India.
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> The literature is saying that if you're under 48 the flu has a higher mortality rate.

I don't think that's correct. Covid is well above influenza mortality in every cohort except children, I believe.
Yeah, I meant to say CMU is a private school unlike the other leading Midwestern schools which are generally public. Pittsburgh is pretty far from the east coast, so it being in Pennsylvania doesn't really make it a 'coastal school' in my eyes, so I'll continue to lump it in with its geographic neighbors, though perhaps 'Rust belt' region is more accurate than Midwest for what I'm trying to b describe.

What ranking puts CMU at 1 in CS? Just curious because I usually see it behind a couple coastal schools.
I completely agree.

My real unpopular opinion: designing a secure asymmetric cipher is much harder than symmetric.
I appreciate the tone, and I don’t think you’re being uncharitable.

While it may be true that my claim is tautological (especially if we understand a tautology as a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form), that doesn’t make it false or irrelevant, which seems to be the implication.

When you say ‘That's a tautology, or at least a trivial claim. It can be reduced to, "if it were a public spat, it would be a public spat,’” I agree. It’s pretty self-evident. What I’m doing is highlighting that it was a public spat in the case of Fortnite, and wasn't in the case of Bose.

I think the bit you’re missing is that once we’ve established that there is a difference between something being a public spat and something not being a public spat, we can use a phrase (like quietly stops) to add that information into a statement. Thus there’s a point to saying quietly, and the word is appropriate. That’s the point I’m making.
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I'm tarring an entire region because I say, truthfully, that I left it because I experienced discrimination there? Can you elaborate the ways I'm obligated to caveat and contextualize my experience so I don't hurt other people's feelings by honestly relaying it?
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you're being facetious. We don't "have to first lose", its just the very likely outcome is that we will lose.

That's not to say its not worth trying but that we should assume failure, otherwise you end up like the UK's Brexit negotiators who were "all-in" on the "oh they'll buckle as the time runs out" strategy and have no plan if that doesn't pan out beyond "so what now?".

The basic strategy right now seems to run on the basic belief that human-kind will figure out its slowly destroying its habitat and change accordingly. I don't think we've even managed to all figure out the extent of the destruction let alone even start to change accordingly.

What habits have we changed since the 1990s within our population to cut global carbon emissions? I'm struggling to glue a couple of things together. If I'm not mistaken, global air travel has _soared_ within that time window and everyone is just sitting on their hands under the mistaken belief that renewables will bail us out while we all still drive in a car to go to the supermarket.
> has to guess the type

I believe that's the point, it certainly does NOT need to.
I have not researched this heavily, but the tests do not seem to be very good.

It seems like RT-PCR is more sensitive than the IgM/IgG antibody test for mild, moderate and normal group.¹ And a negative result of a RT-PCR test a few days past the peak would reduce our estimate of the relative probability that a case patient was infected by only 3%.²

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343570266_Compariso...

[2] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495
Glad to see this on here. Was planning to attend their launch event tomorrow.
Here I was just recently eyeballing Minneapolis tech jobs and as salaries vs. 5 bedroom non-mcmansion houses with front porch and some woods nearby. Man it's getting to be an interesting sell. Chicago too if NYC is more your vibe.
I've never heard anyone talk about that issue without actually saying "Walmart" before.
That feature is on the roadmap!
And the behavior of x | y is consistent with both {x, y} and x.update(y).
OP: "What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white)."

P: "Of course everyone isn't racist, and most folks are friendly and accepting."

If these statements are equivalent, you have my apologies. English is not my native language. I think I will have to study for 10 lifetimes to understand.

"Some people are friendly only if you look like them" would be a more defensible claim. Probably that is true everywhere on earth.

But, the text of the original statement is about the behavior of Midwestern people [1] generally towards non white people generally.

[1] Not all Midwestern people are white in any case. Nebraska: 86%, Ohio: 82%, Illinois: 71.5%
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90% of mozillas revenue comes from Google paying to be the default search engine. Seems more like a subsidy than a successful business model

Disclosure: I work for GOOG
It’s certainly not East Coast, but it’s very North East - the rust belt spans well beyond the Midwest. Even culturally Pittsburgh feels like it has more in common with, say, Buffalo or other North Eastern rust belt cities than Wisconsin or Minnesota.
Worked at an optics company and they were spoiling lenses until someone discovered that Excel was rounding values to two digits after the comma (financial rounding).
> This format is even less wieldy than the current one, requiring multiplication and division to do basically anything with it, except string formatting and parsing – once again showing that MySQL places too much value on string IO and not so much on having types that are convenient for internal operations and non-string-based protocols.

Not necessarily an odd choice in the Olden Days, after all BCD representation used to be pretty popular. By modern standards it's insane, but at a time where binary to decimal conversions could be a serious performance concern it might have made sense. For instance if you had a date in "hours, minutes, seconds" and wanted to add or subtract one of these TIME values, you could do it without a single multiply or divide.

Now I was 8 when MySQL first released in 1995, so I can't really comment on whether that choice really made sense back then. 1995 does seem a bit late for BCD shenanigans, but maybe they based their design on existing applications and de-facto standards that could easily go back to the 80's.
So AMD is back to having a northbridge again but it's on the same package instead of the motherboard for latency reasons? Or could we actually get away with a northbridge on the motherboard again?
Throwaway due to worry about comment being linked back professionally. Early COVID case mid February. Took 5 weeks to recover but the acuity wasn’t too bad.

After just never really felt the same. Assumed adderall “wasn’t working”. Couldn’t explain the lethargy or sharp uptick in anxiety and general inability to work. Luckily with the world it’s been easier to lay low, but the symptoms generally track even the muscle piece.

Is there more research on this? Where does one get this “Fatigue Scale” test? The linked article suggests they tested at an osteopathic clinic but that doesn’t really make sense.
Thanks for explaining my experiences to me, as someone who spent twenty years living in exurban Atlanta.
Haha. Pre-kids I was right there with you.
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This is a bad comparison. DRAM margins are razor thin and unlike transistors, DRAM has not gotten much smaller, which is the main cost savings gained from process improvements.

Instead, server and accelerator vendors want ever faster and higher performance DRAM, and so these performance gains trickle down to consumers, but nothing is driving price down.

People on here literally think Moore's is a natural law and if computer hardware isn't getting 15% cheaper every year there must be funny business involved...
Are there any plans for JIT compilation for elixir/Erlang and if not why not?
> The agreement was mostly to keep their phone bank of recruiters from polling me continuously and the managers like four levels above me from playing pachinko with the pay and benefits packages

Do CS majors not understand marginal thinking? High-level people in business certainly do.

Yes, each of those things might not sound that bad - who cares if the recruiters don't poll me if I "know the door." The problem is that phone polling does have a real impact on people switching jobs and it does depress wages if businesses agree to not do it.
Gladwell's book Outliers held this theory that the people who learned to be good at math are the ones who sat down long enough to see it through. It took about 22 minutes for someone to learn a basic fundamental of math. Most people give up by 2-5 minutes. Programming is a lot like that. Arguably those with good algorithm skills and such have even higher frustration tolerance.
It's a reference to the lack of scientific rigor in this particular study.
I’M guessing gastrointestinal
No they just interfer with local politics via lobbying, i.e. buying politicians, i.e foreign agents.
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In this case, simply fixing the problem would have taken the same or less work than writing the quoted paragraph.
Until the fines/consequences are worse than the profits made, why would they ever stop?
I like the idea of rebuilding Heroku without the command line. It's not for me, but it's probably for somebody.

There's just too much of a premium for this over a standard DigitalOcean droplet though. At the low end you're paying double for the same resources, and at the high end you're paying 4x.

I deployed a toy Node.js app that was a bit too resource hungry for 1 virtual CPU. The cheapest plan with 2 virtual CPUs is $150 per month (vs. $15 for a droplet with 2 virtual CPUs).

Seems like there are some pricing issues to work out.
When it comes to hogs, it's a matter of extermination, not 'hunting'/sport. Pulling punches with notions of sportsmanship and respect for the animal totally misses the point. These aren't elk.

Of course, even the extreme measures taken against hogs (explosives, machine guns, etc) seem to be doing little good.
It’s in the city limits, and there’s tech firms located all over the city and suburbs. It’d be about 20 min to get downtown though, yes.
> Jobs can just as easily be provided in any other industry.

What do pervasive ads provide to society? What does instagram? How did the obliteration of newspapers help? Tobacco provides stimulation to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors which increase alertness, heart rate, reaction times etc. Some people highly value this, even though overall it s an unhealthy habit.

It's not black or white. You see more complaints here because there are a lot of IT professionals who have seen how these things work. Average folk dont know much beyond what with Big Tech's marketing departments spew. There's also a lot of pushback from mainstream press, which was to be expected since BigTech took all their ad incomes.
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Agreed, winter has its hardships but having lived in the south I'd never give up winter, fall, and spring ever again. Winter is my second favorite season after fall.
The point is that's a manual, tedious, process that will be performed with error or completely skipped.

We have computers to do that sort of work.
Even when I was a real customer of Google they treated me like shit.
The last time I participated, a guy had build a loft in his garage that was going to fall on his head or his car within a year. Sooner if he actually put all the stuff on his shelves up there.

try /r/woodworking for a more mature conversation.

The people who know they fucked up post self-deprecating pictures for a group chuckle. Showing your first dovetail (even if it looks like a 10 year old made it) is practically a rite of passage. The rest of the projects are usually small enough they can't kill people, or anchored to the floor so you might lose a toe at worst.
Free with no limits? For how long? What a load.
> Microsoft today is immaterial to the MS that should have been replanted in the 90s. Does not follow.

Microsoft of today follows from the MS that wasn't replaced in the '90s. Of course it's material.
I mean it obviously was, that was kinda my point. If they cared about user privacy they would've passed a user privacy bill instead. I should've phrased it "They pretend to care about national security and user privacy..."
"gastrointestinal", the usual medical term for the digestive system (the name might suggest it just includes the part starting with the stomach, but the esophagus is generally considered part of the "upper GI tract", so...)
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You should just let developers use virtualenv and then let them install packages through pip, or let them use tool like poetry which makes the experience even better. This makes life easier for both sides.

If you use RedHat or CentOS I would highly recommend ius.us repo, it contains latest versions of python and it's pretty much all what's needed.
I also feel like it would be useful for Schemes to have a common FFI interface.

Currently AFAICT (I don't know much, so might be wrong...) each Scheme implementation has its own FFI. So even though pure-Scheme R6RS or R7RS libraries are portable across multiple Schemes I don't think any Scheme libs which are wrappers for C libs are (?)

But these C libs are often vital to many projects.

I found this attempt at such a thing: https://github.com/ktakashi/r6rs-pffi ("R6RS Portable Foreign Function Interface")

But I didn't find many libs which were written on that PFFI. What I mostly see are libs specific to a single Scheme implementation.

Would love to know if my impression here is correct or if things are actually better than that?
I didn't mean Walmart when I wrote that.
DRAM is not transistors. Transistors have gotten much smaller much faster than DRAM.
> "in the city, anything is possible"

I am reminded of this and grateful anytime I get interested in a new hobby. I started indoor rock climbing and discovered there are at least six gyms in my city that I can bike to. I got interested in film photography and found there was a great community darkroom with all the equipment needed to develop film and make prints. I discovered I enjoy board games and found there are dozens of clubs that meet regularly that I can choose from, depending on what types of games I like and how competitive I want the atmosphere to be. (Asterisk on all of this currently, due to the pandemic of course.)
Yes, ECC is required because the chips themselves have so many issues.
Here is an interesting discussion of this work by physicists: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
> Not being too experienced with MySQL, as I prefer PostgreSQL

Because that's why. He likes PostgreSQL and you need to know about it.
I actually kind of hope it passes just because it will stimulate the development of decentralized encrypted communication services VERY fast. What good is this law if it only motivates people to make their communications even more secure?
What states other than California have reasonable protections for employees' side projects and protections against non-compete agreements?
I have known many people that have had it. Not all were tested, and not all that were tested came up positive.

I also know several people that have died from it. Directly; not hearsay.

I live in New York. We've been dealing with this for a while now.

Also, as is shown in this thread, just talking about it brings out the COVID-deniers, so this is the last post I'll make on the topic.

Have a nice day.
The "Midwest" is approximately 20% of the US population.

Therefore, all generalizations about the Midwest are false stereotypes. The Midwest is large and varied.
> how much compatibility would it really break

Probably only a few applications; but that's still too many.

And backwards compatibility does matter. A change here means that some few dozen developers have to now troubleshoot a previously-stable application which now fails silently in odd corner cases.
Those 3 tend to have diminishing returns past 35/40, which is around the time lifestyle concerns that more trend towards safety (financial and otherwise) and stability start mattering much, much more.

It's like the professional equivalent of finally owning a paid-off car and realizing what a difference it all makes.

A nuked mortgage by a tech salary, a home with an extra bedroom that can support your ailing parents who lost their retirements in '08 and then again in '20, a stable school system that balances non-urban but also not bible belt, and the concept of actually being able to save up nearly full college for 3 kids.... all lives in midwestern tech jobs. Of course there are some cultural tradeoffs the less Minneapolis/Chicago and the more Boise/Des Moines you get, but it's a spectrum that's worth considering.
I would say humility is the most crucial skill. If you can't admit when you're wrong or you lose your mind when peer reviewed, you are going to find yourself in more trouble than working correctly in a team setting. It also allows you to question your own code to confirm if it's the existing code or yours (usually whatever is new is broken, not always, but usually there's a high probability). I have had coworkers that have lacked simple humility and self-destruct verbally when you question their code, and I've heard of coworkers having worked with people that will never admit to their code being wrong until you point to the exact line and the change they need done to fix the issue.

You waste more time defending something that will always need updates and fixes than you do getting things done when you lack humility. It is something I learned early on and I hope more developers learn it.

I will take a 'good enough' dev with a wonderful personality over an above and beyond developer with the most toxic personality any day of the week, unless I'm under an extremely tight deadline. A toxic developer can poison a whole team and ruin their productivity.
Not really in an ecosystem where there's some hundred startup opportunities in addition to the big established players. The mathematics on that are far more complicated than "big company doesn't pay more ----> everyone's wages are lower."

Besides, I have a hard time worrying about if my wages were lower than they "should" be when they're already more money than I'd see in any other field. Apple, Google, Pixar, et. al. employees are extremely well-compensated.
In Texas, it is legal to hunt hogs year round. The point about "surviving pigs spreading across the state" doesn't make any sense. If they have no predators, their population is going to expand no matter what you do, until they hit a natural limit on food.
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Realistically the upcoming testimonies are just grandstanding by lawmakers hoping for some brownie points in the upcoming election.

There was a similar outcry over Facebook's testimony after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and nothing happened afterwards.
Edit: The below applies to people who don't want kids. I get why you wouldn't want to raise kids in somewhere like NYC (though I can also see the inverse).

I don't comment often on HN but I feel like I had to chime in here with a bunch of questions. These may sound inflammatory but I mean them sincerely, I just don't see where people are coming from. I understand that a lot of the things I'm listing are negatives for some people, I'm just shocked that it seems like they're negatives for 99.99% of people. Like, I'd expect at least a little more of a balance

I don't understand all of the hate for big cities recently. I mean do THAT many people truly hate living in a big vibrant city? Do that many people really want to have to get into their car and drive 25 minutes to the only (probably subpar) ramen shop in town. Does everyone just want a big 6 bedroom house that they can sit in and read/watch TV all day? Are you gonna go out on all that land more often then you would go out to eat world class, multicultural food? No one likes/wants public transit anymore? Having tons of theaters, shops, bars, etc around? You don't want access to the [some of the] most interesting jobs in the world? Surrounded by people who are world class at what they do? Being able to go to a bar and find someone who's a musician, someone who's an actor, someone from wall street, someone who sells hotdogs, etc all in the same place? How could you go from NYC to Madison, WI and not be so bored that you want to blow your brains out? It's a completely different world.

Maybe it's just the midwestern cities that I've been in, but they're all so dead. Everyone just seems to be ok with the status quo. Everyone just goes home and watches TV until work the next day. Maybe once a year they take a beach vacation, and then the other week they have off they see family for the holidays.

I mean yes, I get that it's expensive. I'm just surprised that SO may people have been seemingly staying in this place that they hate, driving up rent prices for everyone who wants to be in the city, just so they could keep whatever job they have. I mean if you really hated the city wouldn't you have looked elsewhere by now? It's not like it's competitive to get a job in one of these midwestern cities, so surely that great job you had in NYC that tied you there would guarantee you a way out of the city.
As one youtuber put it, if the CCP wanted to cause chaos in the US, one thing they could do is have an "accidental" data breach and disclosure of every TikTok users private communications. Or like FB use the platform to influence what people see in order to cause unrest. So yes? It's a geopolitical thing and not about user privacy.