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How many more engineers would Microsoft then hire to maintain the Linux kernel? My guess is it would be approximately equivalent to what they already have now.

And, there a definite feature differences in how the kernels behave, so they will have to rewrite major sections of Windows to fall in line with the Linux way of doing things.

And on top of that they will have to support Wine, or their own equivalent of it. In order to make decades of Windows only applications work. Sure Wine works pretty decently now, but not at an acceptable level.

They appear to be working on getting Direct X to work on WSL, but not sure how that will work if its on raw Linux. I don't think it does.

And Windows handles drivers completely differently than Linux. There was a thread here in the last few days about the AMD drivers being ~10% of the lines of code in the Linux kernel. There is all kinds of specialized hardware that take advantage of Windows drivers. Which would now probably need to all be in the Linux kernel.

And how about Active Directory? Thats a huge part of the Enterprise use of Windows. Need to translate all those features and controls over to Linux too.

So even if you save a few Engineers on the kernel dev directly, you probably have hundreds of new jobs to deal with the migration. If not thousands.
Maybe measurement is not the right approach here in the first place. Who says that everything can (or should) be measured?
Sounds like an American problem with an American 'solution' (solve the wrong 'problem') and then everyone is surprised that nothing got better.

Certain type of prefab help, i.e. things that would normally stall a project, or things that are generally the same. For example, a new house I just bought uses some prefab concrete plates where the amount of variation is limited. On-site, some minor changes were made and it sped up a lot of the foundation, walls and floors.

Other elements, like entire frames with windows and doors etc. are 'prefab' as well when you think about it. We have had those for years, but it didn't always be modular like that.

The real 'custom' stuff so far is the roof, which is a well-known pattern and construction method, but the final size and shape depends on the house. Same goes for details in your walls like where the doors and windows go.

If you optimise 'too much' for some of the construction elements you stand to lose more than you gain (i.e. now you have to keep a larger stock of prefab stuff due to the amount of variations -- or people might end up with a choice biased towards something that is easy rather than what they actually want). It's also easy to think that a complete module could be prefab and the design re-used over and over, but that only makes sense if all houses are the same and all land is the same (Which is not the case). Then you end up with prefab stuff that doesn't fit and you have to either live in a crappy not-really-fitting-well house or do a lot of (more expensive) local changes at installation time.

Having some re-usable modules is the way to go if you want to optimise; especially when you think about things that are similar in a lot of cases (be it by choice or by building laws). We're already doing a lot of that, and optimising it further (be it selection or scale) would probably gain you more:

You can design with ready to use components where applicable, you can build with known-good components, methods and time scales where applicable and as the one buying the house you still get to make whatever choices you want without the risk of simply getting a 'badly modified prefab'.
Windows kernel has more security primitives and is more versatile. The problem lies within Win32 userland.
You can, but apart from calling & web browsing, it's not that useful, in contrast to a windows machine (i guess you probably can't use the windows store)
Keep on supporting the clickbait headline writers - for those of us around a bit longer we know what bricked means. And yes, actually bricking can happen, and no, it does not usually involve a quick and easy reset by a DEALER tech.

If you want bricking, check out Samsung's work around the Note7. "prevent all U.S. Galaxy Note 7 devices from charging and will eliminate their ability to work as mobile devices" - that turns these devices into actual bricks with no future utility.
I feel working on side projects actually helps boost my career. Having a diversified portfolio betters myself in other areas I didn't get an opportunity to do at work and employees love the creativity factor.
Apparently enough people to create a market for seats specifically designed for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qn...
I would argue that, unless the OP is asked explicitly, the OP should under no circumstance say anything that could be perceived as a weakness and whatever statement starts with "I don't have <whatever>" it does not look good.

Remember interviews are largely about luck and circumstances.

I'd like to wish the OP good luck! :-)
i dont know if you meant to, but you just linked to this thread
There's very very very few large companies that aren't doing something unethical somewhere. If you're looking for executives who will sacrifice everything due to how someone else in the company is acting then you're going to be down to very few saints.
Unshackle Yourself from Statistical Significance
If I would have went deep on a weekend hack I did once, I would probably looking at $25K MRR or something like that.

But article is good, nonetheless, everything needs a balance.
That fact check is actually well written and explains the relevant underlying principles of how n95 masks work. It cites experts in their fields and gives a complete list of sources used, so it’s again verifiable. As far as my understanding of these things goes goes, the explanation holds up.

Whether it’s published in USA Today or not does not impact that.
I heard this secondhand from a colleague who somehow ended up with one of the F6 cubesats sitting on an endtable in his office, but my understanding was that formation flying wasn't really what killed F6. Over the planned mission duration the satellites wouldn't have drifted apart too much, and even without thrusters there's tricks you can use to tweak orbital periods to keep them lined up. Even that is a moot point, since for F6 they didn't need to be lined up, a cluster was acceptable.

The main problem came from the 4th F in F6, fractionated. The goal was to create a heterogenous network of satellites, built by a whole litany of manufacturers without even a common bus. That ended up being a solution in search of a problem. It made integration way more complex, which was exacerbated by the number of independent participants. The project spent a lot of time working on shared SDKs that would work across the constellation. In practice, there weren't really enough benefits over homogeneous constellations to make all the extra effort worthwhile. Instead of having 5 satellites with cameras beam their images to another satellite that determines which images are cloudy, it's easier to just have each satellite running identical code so it can figure out for itself which images are cloudy. On top of that, a homogenous network has advantages wrt survivability, manufacturing costs, maintenance, etc
They're barely a year into being a public company and have already more than 3x'd their share price. Impressive.
I've always had a side project (I enjoy it) but I understand the author's sentiment.
When it comes to financial matters, working on a side project doesn't make any sense.
Unless you're connected to big VC money or have a good business network, your side project has 0% chance of success no matter what you do. No matter how much better than the competition it is.
On the other hand, corporations or hotshot startups are connected to big VC money so they have a very good chance of success and most of the founders of these companies don't fully realize how lucky they are and so it's easy to get a sweet deal from them... You can get a lot more money for a fraction of the work. You don't need to add any value, just support the status quo (which requires almost no effort).
I grew up in grizzly country in Northwest Montana, spent loads of time out in the wilderness on my own or with my younger brothers, and even saw a mamma grizzly with two cubs in the wild once. They are absolutely not a serious concern.[1] We used to make fun of outsiders who feared just getting out of the car without their guns and pepper spray. :-)

[1] That being said, please don't be stupid: keep your distance and show them all due respect.
You used to be able to buy a "solvent trap" which made the job of cleaning a firearm a lot less messy. But 99% of the people who bought them drilled a few holes and converted them to makeshift silencers. Even though they have a perfectly legitimate use case none of the major online platforms will let you list one for sale.
Hmm. What has worked for me is to solve problems I encounter. For instance, I was at a friend's house a couple of months ago and some walkers in the neighborhood shouted that a pipe was burst, and we should report it to the utility company. We called the utility company, and it was difficult to tell them the location of the burst pipe. From there an idea was born, what if we had an app that can report the gps location to the utility company.

The hard part for me is to find the time to implement an idea. An idea for me just naturally flows from a problem.
It's a good point. Our largest and most targeted cities (e.g. NYC, DC) absolutely should have dedicated heavy weapons troops on call to respond in real time to a terrorist attack. Their equipment and training should be separate from workaday policing.

Then most of the rest of the country just needs normal policing, because realistically, they're so unlikely to be a target. Look at all the big terrorist attacks that have happened in the past several decades. They've targeted huge international cities: DC, NYC, London, Paris, Mumbai. These are the kinds of targets (and the only kinds of targets) that plausibly need military-level policing on stand-by 24/7.
I think it might be even more useful to think about the time you saved - i.e. without a car, will you be spending more than 5% of your time on transportation?
Genuine question as i hear this argument quite often: "to maintain personal liberties". presumably infecting and/or killing other people would fall under this liberty? anyone outside their own home is considered to optimise his personal liberty and therefor ok with being killed?

if not, how do you include those who would like to maintain their personal liberties but don't want to trust others with their life in your proposed worldview (reckless behavior of others in terms of infections etc)?
A million people could defend it, but it doesn't change the fact that the act only happened once.
If you abolish the cash bail system, what's the penalty for not showing up to your trial?
I personally get 1-2 ideas worth of implementation each day. I always get the idea while doing something and thinking "hey, it would be cool if...". Latest idea I had was when I was playing piano, then played in VR and realized it would be really cool to create a VR trainer/game/vizualizer for the piano to fully immers yourself in the music that you play. So, not only you can be told what to play but you could also shape the entire world/environment around you by what you play. So something like Tetris Effect VR but with you playing the piano instead of Tetris.

Whenever I get an idea, I quickly note the main pointes in a note-taking app and usually never return to it, as the secret of creating actual useful products is to spend the time to create them well. Ideas are worthless if they are not well implemented.
Acorns are incredibly high in tannins (the very word tannin comes from the Latin for oak bark), and ingestion of large amounts of tannins will irritate the stomach, cause vomiting, etc. so it is vital that acorns are prepared properly to make them safe for human consumption. I'd guess that many peasants wouldn't have known this, especially if they came from regions which didn't have any traditions around making acorns safe, and that may be a simpler explanation for why they had a reputation as a food of last resort in times of famine - better to eat something that will make you a bit sick but keep you alive rather than eat nothing at all and starve to death.
Right, I think the point is that you no longer have atomic semantics for the write as a whole.
How did they remove the tannins? The article is light on that info. Anyone that has ever bitten into an acorn knows that is not a small problem.
> I think what's much more likely is that machine learning algorithms are so good right now, they're able to determine what people are interesting in based on browsing habits and other metadata.

I and a friend were discussing this before that podcast. He was of the opinion that FB was very likely listening because he had multiple occurrences where he'd visit family, and they'd talk about something, either some product that family was interested in or had just bought, and hours to a couple days later he'd see an advertisement for it.

My stance (which looks to be the same as yours) was that they don't even need to listen to you, and doing so would probably be really bad if it was found out. Instead they know who you're around, they what that they're interested in, and they make some educated guesses and tag you as interested in stuff they are also or that they just bought, and it's the hits that stick in our mind, not the random other stuff you were shown that you never talked about with others but they had searched for or bought.

Throw enough data at he problem, you'll get some hits. There's a lot of data out there right now.
You may not be aware, but PowerShell can now be run on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

https://github.com/powershell/powershell
I couldn't agree more. We do a ton of travelling to rural and touristy small towns, and the experience of renting from a super host blows hotels out of the water (and is usually cheaper, or at least similar in price).

Even if Airbnb goes under, there seems to be more than enough demand from both owners and travellers for VRBO or someone else to pick up. It may be different in apartments and townhomes, but I don't see this trend disappearing anywhere else.
Everyone should just do “x very specific thing that happened to work for me”
The link explains some practical applications of Milgrom's and Wilson's work on auction theory. Mechanism design and auction theory are definitely predictive and useful in the real world.
There are mic-end noise-canceling headsets too. I have a Jabra Evolve 40 UC which cancels out fan noise, street noise, etc. (it doesn't have noise-cancellation on the headphone end though -- the more expensive Evolve 75 does but costs $240)

https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Evolve-Stereo-Professional-Comm...

For other mic-end noise cancellation, you could pay for krisp.ai, or if you have NVIDIA board, there's the free RTX voice virtual mic. Zoom to has background noise suppression you can turn on, and MS Teams will have NN-based noise cancellation in Q4.

Lots of options.
Don't tell that to the people that pay me to replace large legacy systems.
> But there are higher priorities than those, like growing better humans.

I grew up in a suburban bordering on semi-rural area, and while I do think living in a rural region certainly has it's benefits (like the ones you describe), implying it by default "grows better humans" than those living in an urban area is ridiculous.
Yup, came here to say that. I think this is a great development, since the subresources of github, twitter and mediume have nothing to do with each other (as opposed to other subresources like a normal TLD).
The issue isn't that buyers think they'll prevent Covid.

The issue is that buyers know they're useless against Covid and buy them to thumb their nose at mask requirements.
> I've seen no evidence that stage fright is a significant factor ruling out good candidates.

I'm just going to link again to a scientific study on the subject.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
>If only you knew which one!

That one is actually pretty simple: pick the one that you have the most to learn from, because that's the whole point of doing a side project if you are trying to leverage it as something that would help your knowledge/career development (as opposed to doing a side project for some supplementary income, for example).

And yes, I am aware that there are many unknowns, and when you are trying to pick a project with the goal to learn the most, sometimes the projects where you think you already know 90% of the solution end up being the ones where you know the least and have more for you to learn than projects that had initially more unknowns. But without the ability to know the future, picking the one that has the most "stuff to learn" (according to your first assessment) at the initial discovery phase is imo the most optimal strategy. It is fine if you discover later that the other project had a bit more to learn than the one you picked, because the goal is to learn a lot averaged down over a long period of time.
I'm 29, following the rule of thumb where you have (your age)% in bonds and (100 - your age)% in stocks.

Is 30% too much or too little from your experience? I can understand people preferring stocks at the moment because bond yields are so low. But that won't be the case forever :)
The Most Deadly Job in America – and What Happens Next
aiui it was VFAT.
I was under the impression from reading the patch comments [1] that it was more of an issue with them not having an open copy of their ISA documentation (which then is causing a lack of possible reviewers)

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D64830
No you can't infer the infection rate from models. That's circular logic. You have to accurately measure the infection rate first before you can calculate the fatality rate. All of the existing tests have a fairly high false negative rate. So we can only calculate the lower bound on infections; the upper bound remains unknown.
From the article: 'In ancient and in medieval times, acorns were also occasionally employed as food for man, in cases of emergency: “when there is scarcity of corn”, Pliny noted in the Naturalis Historia'...

Does anyone know if this quote is correct, or how it might be better rendered? Isn't corn (maize) a new world food that Pliny would be unfamiliar of, let alone consider a staple?
I think it's mostly the hills. It's not "completely drenched in sweat so I need a shower immediately" but "going to take a second shower before going to bed for sure" even on a relatively short trip.

And on anything longer (again, with hills), it's definitely a "damn, I hope I won't start smelling too bad until I get back home".
And for at least 20 of those, he was not CEO. You might not agree with it, but "change from the inside" is a point of view.
From the article:

"The main idea was that oak nuts (preferably those from Turkey oaks, Quercus cerris) were to be treated in order to deprive them of tannins, and were parboiled in meat broth, or salted water."

Looks like boiling/soaking in water will remove tannins
Is that a matter of competence, or a deliberate tradeoff regarding false positives and false negatives? Or are they just motivated to show high numbers?
"You should sink $30B into an investment that has a 50% chance of going to zero, that's very rational." — some HN commenter
While I agree that D is a 'treasure' (full of good ideas that should be copied more often by other languages) I don't understand why you think that D's way is better than Zig here..
What exactly do you prefer?
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I think the biggest advantage of side projects is for when an interviewer asks you an open-ended "tell me about a project you enjoyed working on".

As an applicant, I can speak in great detail about any of my side projects, discuss any design decisions, trade-offs and compromises I made. Personally this usually involves some interesting trade-offs made on personal projects to optimize for AWS bill, vs decisions I'd have made at any company where a $100 /mo bill wouldn't even register as a line item on a budget. It also is a great way to differentiate yourself if you're trying to make a move from eg an Enterprise Java B2B company to a consumer-facing SaaS startup using $NEW_TECH.

As a hiring manager, I can see the candidate isn't being challenged enough by their current job, or they had a curiosity they wanted to satisfy outside their regular hours. Either way it shows initiative and a hunger to learn, both of which are good signals. Usually when people are talking about these projects, they are passion projects and you get a good feeling if somebody actually likes programming, as well as hints towards what specifically they find interesting. Did they spend 10 minutes talking about progressive enhancement techniques and bundle sizes? Did they talk about user feedback? Or maybe they focused on CI/CD, auto-scaling, or API design choices? This to me is far more useful than "Worked on team X and performed assigned tasks Y, Z".
If Microsoft loved Linux, Windows 10 would be a lot different.
Growing up in NYC I walked home alone, took the subway to meet friends, walked around all of manhattan a million times, etc. Most of that started around age 13-14, and as a preteen I would have my slightly older sister along with me.

At 15 I started to bike everywhere. I took my bike to the Hudson river path and I could get anywhere I wanted in 10-20 minutes - visiting a friend who lived downtown, or head up to Central Park to meet up and bike around with others, try out some diners uptown, etc.

At 16 my friends and I would walk around the east side, walking for miles in the middle of the night.

I don't think it was negligent at all, but I felt extremely independent because I could get anywhere as a kid without needing a car. I've always found that growing up in a city that felt safe and had great public transportation made me extremely independent at an early age.