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Had an interview (one of my last formal interviews I ever did) back in 2002 where the developer gave me a computer, no internet access and Notepad (not Notepad++, or an IDE or anything decent) and said I had to write an entire generic double-linked list class in C++. Without access to documentation or a compiler. In a room. On a folding chair. Without a break. I had two hours to do it in. I cranked out around 1,100 lines of code.

The interviewing developer was all smugness when looking through the code because he didn't like my bracketing style, or my variable style, and so on, and pissed and moaned because I had a couple of syntax errors in the entire class.

I was offered the job. And I turned them down. I did it to prove I could do it. Then I walked away. That was pretty much my last ever formal interview.
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Atleast where I live, and I choose local registrars, I can sue a registrar for the ownership of a domain, even if it was bought by someone else in the meantime, I can get it back.

The likelihood of loosing a domainname in my country (Germany) is fairly low unless you used it to actively (and provably) spread malware or commit other crimes (and your registrar will have to prove it and better hope they filed a police report, or their cancellation goes poof).
That’s like five chips :P
"...China is a primary competitor in the AI field. It has made massive investments in artificial intelligence technologies over the last five years, harnessing several <smart cities> in a military-civilian partnership to understand how AI can be propagated for everyday use.

On Wednesday, the news on the China's ambition to become the global leader in AI and to prevail as a <digital police state — unencumbered by privacy laws or ethical governing principles.>..."
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> Matt Cutts

That’s some nostalgia for me, used to read almost every post of his blog. I see his last post was about an year back.
I have
1Gbps up/down fiber, no monthly cap on data, i use zero p2p.

Canada

I stream alot.
I have 3 IPTV boxes, Netflix, 2 mobile devices, and my kid watches a tonne of YouTube.

We constantly hit at least 1.8tb/month.

We don't upload anything, just alot of 1080p streams (don't have 4k device).

I last had a 150GB/month cap when I had ADSL connection and only 1.5Mbps connection like 15 years ago.

Heck I just did 110GB of wifi usage on my 1 phone this past month.

How are you using so little data. Do u just read text and look at limited images?
TIL there’s a thing called nanoMIPS.
The pros and cons of programming in Swift
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Of course they go shopping, they need food and stuff. I would know, I grew up in an Eastern European country in the 1980s. We had shops. What I think you possibly mean is that there is little selection. That is true. But the context here was whether the relevant information was there: Of the things that are there, what do they prefer? What sort of things do they ask for that are not available?

The difference to capitalism is that in capitalism this kind of information does trickle "upwards" to the wider economy, because the store orders more of the popular stuff and less of the unpopular stuff. In a planned economy, the information is not propagated upwards because the planners don't care, or wouldn't be able to do anything about it. But the "local knowledge" that the OP mentioned is there.

(Also I'm confused whether you count 1990s Finland as a non-capitalist system.)
I generally say yes. The fixed timer is for the delayed ACK. That was a terrible idea. Both Linux and Windows now have a way to turn delayed ACKs off, but they're still on by default.

TCP_QUICKACK, which turns off delayed ACKs, is in Linux, but the manual page is very confused about what it actually does. Apparently it turns itself off after a while. I wish someone would get that right. I'd disable delayed ACKs by default. It's hard to think of a case today where they're a significant win. As I've written in the past, delayed ACKs were a hack to make remote Telnet character echo work better.

A key point is asymmetry. If you're the one who's doing lots of little writes, you can either turn set TCP_NODELAY at your end, or turn off delayed ACKs at the other end. If you can. Things doing lots of little writes but not filling up the pipe, typically game clients, can't change the settings at the other end. So it became a standard practice to do what you could do at your end.
Actually in a lot of schools, it is mandatory to read it! At least I recall being required to read it at high school.

Honestly, I never appreciated the irony at the time, I suppose because the people in 1984 weren't really encouraged to read about alternative political realities. But you're right. That was pretty ironic.
Well, Google would be required to eternally hold your email address available for you and forward any incoming mail to another email of your choosing while also allowing you to send email via another provider (SMTP relay).
There were extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives. Even the (bipartisan) Senate report on this states that much. There is nothing nonsense about it.
Well said.

> In a post-fact world, consequences for publishers reporting falsehoods might need to come back on the table. On the one hand that's a problem because it stifles reporting, on the other hand they have been playing very loose and saying "oops, sorry, we'll do better next time, promise" every time doesn't work.

That one flip-flops in my head all the time. Maybe the idea of reduced liability or a higher bar for proving libel / slander in a civil suit against a publisher might be an option, but with _some_ exposure to liability. There has to be a threshold where high quality publishers could bear the costs of honest mistakes, but bad actors would be overwhelmed financially.
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The European country I live in has just changed to shared medical files. Which has 2 consequences:

1) patients no longer have any option at all to delete anything from their medical files. Corrections can be done, which sounds good until you realize what those are: short sentence or paragraph appended at the end of often 60+ page documents that practitioners have <3 minutes to read.

2) they are by default accessible (and used) by any and all remotely medical personnel (including administrators and it's been, for example, used for bill collection. Or, even more seriously, to forcibly admit people to psych wards, which in 2 cases led to the death of the patient)

3) they are by default accessible (and used) by police and the justice system and are used to convict people (you were the only one coming in with injuries right after someone died from a fight? Better have a good alibi ... and if you ever had any psychiatric treatment, even 50 years ago, it *will* be brought up by the public prosecutor every parking ticket you fight)

I do not think AI or private enterprise, or some dark new form of government that's about to conquer us is really the problem here.
Anecdotally, I think chewing more brings satiation sooner, so you eat less. When we're really famished, we eat fast with less mastication. It's like you forget to chew. Consciously chewing more might bring you out of that devouring mode. Just speculating.
Apple patches security vulns even in older versions of iOS (to support people whose device is too old to upgrade to the latest version) - I don't know for how long though.
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Beware that the tasmota rules engine has a bunch of bugs in, and the maintainers aren't interested in fixing (or even documenting) the bugs for fear that users now rely on the bugs. They mostly stem from the fact the engine does no tokenizing, and all parsing is ad-hoc.

That makes implementing anything more complex than "when this sensor goes to this state, do that" very hard, because you'll hit bug after bug.
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An interviewee making that kind of mistake is unfortunate an interviewer doubly so.

But putting this kind of thing into an article that has presumably been reviewed by multiple people does, in my view, a fair bit to undermine their credibility.
> Short-term but nevertheless evidence-based thinkers would struggle to see what the problem is with totalitarianism.

Their growth was due to copying the strategies and technologies developed in the free world, not due to totalitarianism. If anything, totalitarianism only slowed them down, just see the results of the cultural revolution.
Autonomous vehicles do of course have the potential to reduce deaths but there are lots of examples of this being the preferred method of regulation in the auto industry. For example if you want to sell a motorcycle in the US it has to have a kill switch in a specific place on the right handlebar. You don't (as a manufacturer) get to innovate about this because it's a safety feature and a first responder needs to be able to locate the kill switch so it always has to be in the same exact place so they can always find it. If you want to sell a car in Europe (I believe) it has to have seatbelts, ABS and a catalytic converter that meets a particular specification etc etc.
There are much more fundamental issues with doing any research on drugs like this.

First there's a huge selection issue, many won't ever want to take it.

Since the drug has a strong effect you cannot easily design a placebo study - people would still know if they got a sugar pill or the real deal [0].

Anything that's a highly unusual experience is likely to be rated as significant.

Very hard to design a good study.

I believe the reported efficacy would greatly go down with increased availability. If alcohol was a mostly illegal schedule 1 drug in most of the world I could see similar narratives forming around it.

[0] btw I think that's a very underappreciated factor across all kinds of research. Even with regular medical drugs. Don't see it brought up too much.
Rolls-Royce’s New Car Was So Quiet at First, It Made Drivers Nauseous
and depth from motion is really just stereoscopy using multiple photos from the same camera instead of two photos from two different cameras.

I have a side project where I manage to get a helluva lot of depth info using a single photo from a single camera (monocular photogrammetry).
You should sign your post with your name (in this topic), in case a lot of people are not familiar with who you are :).
This is pretty important.
The way the guys does this is very close to how you could also fool a human by hanging up real stop signs in the wrong places, and "stupidity" people would start to respect them.

The only difference here is that a mere 500 ms flash elicites a response, where a human wouldn't notice.
on balance, a 500 ms response time does seem like a feature more than a bug compared to a human.
> your home network will get tor-like treatment from many CAPTCHAs and you'll be blocked from anything on cloudflare

That will happen if you use any VPN,so that's expected.
Anecdotal experience: Chrewing food thorougly also reduces acid reflux symptoms.
The castle in France would probably require more than 300-500k a year in upkeep costs. It is "cheap" because it will be an ongoing financial burden to whomever takes it on. There is a reason why so many châteaux are derelict.

It is incredibly juvenile to make such meaningless comparisons.
Working at a hosting provider in the past I realized I'd be out of a job if web browsers implemented native support for torrents real fast.
Features Of a Food Delivery App
That would depend on what you mean actually. This sounds a bit specific. If you’re looking to make an online food ordering and delivery app, some good features to include would be multiple payment options, multiple languages, easy interface, wallet system, real-time restaurant status, etc. If you mean a specific app for restaurants, meaning with the dashboards and everything, the answer would differ a little. Either way, the best thing I would suggest is using an ubereats clone app. These uber eats clones have all the features already built-in and come with apps for restaurants, admins, and customers.
This way you wouldn’t to break the bank, which you might have to if you make the app from scratch. This is not a small task and would require hard work from multiple developers. If you are looking for a good clone, a simple good search would sort you out. Many companies provide uber eats clones nowadays. Just make sure that you find a company that is well-experienced in doing this kind of thing. They should help you out with future software updates and also get the app on the relevant app stores. Hope this helps.

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Yes, the interface for chained Tweets is atrocious. There are blogging tools that allow commenting on specific parts of long form content.
Sounds interesting, but the video doesn't seem to be available anymore. I'd be interested if anyone has a working link!
I guess the whole idea of reinforcement learning is to "learn" how basic physics works from the observations

We can hardcode a solution in a simple example but how do you write a rule to drive a car from pure physics equations?
The monitor stays on your desk.

Who plugs it in? How hard is it to plug in a USB cable to your laptop that you need to ask who’s doing it?
It’s hard to tell what “pandering to white nationalists” means anymore, and I think the media perceives much more of that than actual non-white people do: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/biden-latino-vote...

> The results are sobering. We began by asking eligible voters how “convincing” they found a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points. Among other elements, the message condemned “illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs” and called for “fully funding the police, so our communities are not threatened by people who refuse to follow our laws.”

> Almost three out of five white respondents judged the message convincing. More surprising, exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos.

> These numbers do not translate directly into support for the Republican Party; too many other factors are at play. Nevertheless, the results tell us something important: a majority across the groups we surveyed did not repudiate Trump-style rhetoric as obviously racist and divisive, but instead agreed with it.

If the media had any self-awareness, it wouldn’t automatically label points a majority of non white people “agreed with” as “obviously racist and divisive.”

As someone from a third-world country I felt this way over the pearl-clutching when Trump said “s—thole countries.” It’s a crass and very cruel thing to say. Definitely offensive. But not racist. People don’t leave Bangladesh because they’re racist, they do so because of the poverty, arsenic in the water, etc.
18k a year sounds very low for anything tech. Can you even survive with that in the US?

I don't really know, WordPress administrator perhaps? But I would suspect most of those earn far more. I would not code much for 18k a year.
It helps to think of your abilities on multiple axes -- sort of like a spider chart. Your expertise is actually the "area under the curve." You may very well be the foremost expert (comparatively) in certain regions of the spider chart. Ironically, building expertise in multiple domains actually helps you specialize relative to others.
generally you can not block DoH without blocking most of the web, thats literally the point of it.
No. Claims Require Evidence. Maybe it's contamination. Maybe it is something interesting. Ordinary evidence will reveal which.

Demanding extraordinary evidence is just defending turf, and not science.
The modernisation of the Soviet Union under Stalin was also very impressive. They went from a feudal society with serfs, like Europe in the Middle Ages, to the first man in space rather quickly.

Of course, in both cases, China and the Soviet Union, ideas were being imported from elsewhere, though in the case of the Soviet Union, a lot of the space technology came from Nazi Germany ...

Probably best not to try to infer simple rules from history.
It might be worth looking at ESPHome (https://esphome.io/), it's very similar to Tasmota but modular and is configured via yaml files. It also supports OTA updates for firmware/config changes (after the initial flash).
I feel ESPHome scales better than Tasmota for these reasons - no need to visit the individual web UI's for each Tasmota device, using ESPHome you can update your configs from a central web UI and then push the changes to your devices via wifi.

TLDR; Tasmota is great for bespoke devices, but IMO ESPHome is better because it's modular and supports OTA updates.
I had one experience in an interview where I couldn't context switch fast enough to answer a simple technical question. It was for a CTO job and I was asked to prepare and present a presentation on "how to launch a product" - I think I had 30 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to give the presentation to their management team. This went really well.

Then the CEO wanted a quick chat and asked me a simple technical question - and I could not do it. My brain simply froze and he clearly thought I was an idiot or some marketeer pretending to be technical. The reverse being far closer to the truth!

Edit: I've interviewed a lot of people over the years and would never had believed this could happen until it happened to me.
> Anyone have any other good things they use their vanity domain for?

Remote access.
Wow you are not even discussing in good faith anymore.

Where did I say discussion of certain topics should be banned? Where did I say people should be killed for believing different things? It’s literally strawman after strawman from you.

> you must explain, as a matter of implementation, who gets to decide what is banned.

No I don’t. I pointed out a problem, but I am not suggesting solutions, and I sure as hell don’t owe you an implementation.
I believe I met Shubhendu Sharma at an event and if my memory recollects, showed interest in something like this for rural/remote Indian locations, especially the North-East.

That was back then.

In the past few months, Reliance Jio have dropped fibers everywhere even in that edge of India, reaching homes with Gigabit Internet options. I have a friend who invested in a small ISP there and I was interested in that. They no longer don't care and are now piled up with over-time work laying, connecting, and fixing up connections.

I understand the philosophies of choices and alternative options. Nonetheless, what are your plans to compete and/or differentiate when the 99% of people don't really care from where they got their internet?

The other things I see is the likes of StarLink[1], which is not physically bound by wires and is a matter of turning knobs as and when they have enough satellites to cover other areas of the world.

Amongst all of these, where/how do you plan to compete/operate?

1. https://www.starlink.com
Really similar! To be honest I think I have seen many similar bridges all around Spain and Italy, not just Central Europe.
This was on HN recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24761116
It’s called the “world in chains” scenario, where, like the preceding thought experiment, a global totalitarian government uses a novel technology to lock a majority of the world into perpetual suffering.

Why would anyone do that? If the answer is profit how it is different from $smallpercent holding $bigpercent of all wealth, while the majority of the people must work until death to make them slightly richer?
Why do you instantly assume that anything said is "shitty and racist"? You seem to be doing the kind of thing that I am referring to - nothing in my comment was racist, but you are doing your best to imply that it is.

And potentially loosing your job is quite a big deal for most people. That's what happened to James Damore for bringing up the wrong subject.
The `mount` is overloading /mnt/foo, and in a similar manner also overloading /mnt/foo/.. that's why.

If you examine an unmounted filesystem however, the raw /.. directory entry points to the same place as /. directory entry.
Colour me amazed! I saw a video of some buskers which someone shared a week ago and the tune I know but couldn't remember where it was from, it is a waltz and I thought maybe Swan Lake or Nutcracker but after listening to the soundtracks it clearly was not. At some point I was going to work out the melody on the piano (very basic strap line) and use that to search (there are a few sites which offer this and I have had luck with it in the past). But I just tried humming to Google, I have a sore throat after a minor op, have not long got up, and can't hum or hold a tune to save my life, but low and behold it offered up 3 results and it was the second one.

The Second Waltz, Johann Strauss.

Okay, a very famous piece of music, and a very recognizable melody, but I just thought my warble was so far off that most humans wouldn't be able to tell me what it was!
It's here:

* https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6938a7.htm

* [PDF] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6938a7-H.pdf

Although the only correction was on an email address.
n = 21

That seems a little low to draw conclusions from?
It's about the amount of pre-processing the food gets in our mouth, so the effect they're measuring depends on the time the food has spent in the mouth, in contact with enzymes from saliva, and how finely ground it was by our teeth. A bit hard to put that into a single easy to understand metric.
These package the operating system's native web view, which has its own set of issues like inconsistency. Sciter on the other hand is its own HTML rendering engine.
I'm a bit puzzled by your comment because I just had a look at their closed bugs page on GitHub and it looks these devs really work hard at fixing whatever people throw at them. Could you give an example of a bug they refused to fix/document?
I had a second interview about the same - was given a Linux PC in the corner of the office and asked to write a simple client server system in C++ that registered clients based on their MAC address.

They left me alone for two or three hours and didn't speak to me and at the end I had a chat with the CTO about the code and he was happy enough and all was OK.

The main bit to me was they left me alone - if someone had asked me anything, or even worse, watched me coding I would never have been able to do it.
Hey that's really awesome to hear.

Congrats! I'm happy you're doing well :)
If they use Canvas Zoom to schedule all classes, if you hover over a calendar entry, this box pops up https://imgur.com/lIQk5am and you can just click the Zoom link in description. The prof does not have to manually copy-paste anything anywhere.

If there is still trouble in your courses, ask your prof to paste the Zoom link with password on the hompage of your Canvas course (they can add it as first module item if using Modules as homepage)

As for the submission issue, I think Canvas will only tell you about multiple or unlimited attempts on an assignment if you have them. If only one attempt is allowed, then it says nothing. I agree that this is a bug.