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> I spoke with a famous dean who told me, to the effect that, we have been instructed to focus heavily on candidates with the right gender and certain attributes (that you may imagine). Basically if you are not born in this pool, forget it.

Posting this type of hearsay is kind of irresponsible. It’s so vague and suggestive. We don’t know who the dean is or where this happened but he’s allegedly famous (juicy!), and apparently he didn’t literally say this but said it “to the effect” (surely we can trust you interpretation), and we’re left to imagine the type of attributes that might give a candidate an edge. What are we supposed to do with this?

You then go on to cite this as a reason why academia is no longer an efficient allocation of public resources. As if academia has not long been a place with arbitrary gatekeeping. Have you noticed that until not that long ago female faculty in STEM fields weren’t that common?

I’m not saying diversity efforts are implemented well in all institutions. But criticism of these measures so often feel hollow. Any hint of the system favoring a different type of candidate and a certain pool of applicants (with demographics that you may imagine) suddenly start caring about truly equal treatment. Before, being a woman would automatically reduce your chances, but somehow that didn’t affect the credibility of these institutions. Suddenly now we care about whether they are a good use of public resources.
Please add `return false` or `event.preventDefault()` to your keyboard handlers!
Otherwise the browser assumes the page didn't do anything with the events and uses its default keyboard handlers. I have find-as-you-type enabled, and pressing keys launches search for me. Handlers need to "eat" the keyboard events to prevent default browser behavior.
For those that are interested in self-hosting I’ve had good success with airsonic and some of the clients for it on both iOS and Android.

On one hand it makes search a little more high-friction since My personal library will never be as huge as that of a streaming service. My workaround is treat Spotify like a radio and star songs I like to then download later.

In that way it’s a lot like interacting with music before streaming. It also forces me to curate a bit more.

Probably not for everyone, but I actually like it better, and I know that my library will always be there.
It becomes an asset that eats dollars. Print more dollars and BTC goes up. Just like gold sits in vaults, Bitcoin can sit in cold storage.

BTC is also something that individuals can buy in extremely small increments. It is an escape valve for people in Argentina, Turkey, Venezuela, etc. to protect their wealth from horrible and corrupt central bankers.
What?

The comment I replied to is suggesting Trump is a theocratic authoritarian. We had this same rhetoric four years ago. It's clearly absurd.

I don't like Trump, didn't vote for him, and won't be voting for him, but this constant over-reactive nonsense is really unhelpful. Biden is a weak candidate, perhaps the weakest in decades. Everyone that doesn't vote for him isn't some kind of right wing lunatic fringe figure intent on destroying democracy.
My two year old refuses to stop playing the bongos now.
I much prefer the idea that we might vote for and fully fund a full time civil servant to protect us mere peons from corporate abuse. Often the abusive behavior is conducted out of sight or against a naive group of victims. Building up the capability in societies so individuals aren't victimized by their naivette is a net benefit.
I think it should depend on the game developer and the streamer. Usually streams are the best marketing material for a game that cant worm its way into E3 and streamers interact and involve a community of people and loyal fans. So the current model works in that sense.
Not being able to set Spotify as a default music app for Siri.
Indeed. I came across the use of learning in public just recently. It has something.
C/C++, WinAPI, anything Java.
Paris is the most dense I've seen personally but cafes in Vienna and Zurich at least still face the street at two person tables outside.
Don't be sales manager at Shovels R Us, open your own little shovel shop.
This appears to value the negative findings of the LHC at zero. I’m no physicist, but my understanding is that some variants and parameters of the theory have been excluded as a result of LHC experiments.

More to the point, what is the alternative strategy that’s more likely to produce useful data? “Don’t do experiments to validate or invalidate theory” doesn’t obviously seem like it’s going to produce better results.
Also a stellar Photoshop alternative is Paint.NET
https://www.getpaint.net/

I wasn't happy with GIMP's interface since way back but this one fulfills pretty much my every need, and I gather would for most other users too (excluding heavy professional users). Give this one also a spin
of course it does - less voltage => more power headroom and less overall power, less heat dissipated => more thermal headroom.

If the silicon doesn't need the voltage, more voltage is only harmful. I can run my skylake alike laptop at -170mV offset (which is borderline golden chip), stable at prime 95 and whatnot. Prime95 runs below 70C.
A Pakistan man born without arms has mastered the game of snooker
>If you do the local taxes right, it evens out, but the price of land and housing rises for the non-mobile locals and it makes for some awesome "you're not from around here" issues.

>The write-ups of westerners working from Bali goes into a bit of this. Yes, it adds to the local economy. No, not always in constructive ways. Feeding young egos desire for european beer and fixing their skateboard falls costs time feeding local kids in schools and providing primary health care in a stretched local economy which is 10x lower down the scale.

You're being far too nice by choosing the example of a digital nomad living in Bali.

A much closer to home and harder to ignore example is what SV money has done to places like Denver, Boulder and is doing to Boise.

I don't know what it is. I don't know how to fix it. But there's some very, very, very wrong stuff that happens when richer people move in. It shouldn't be that way.

And before any east-coasters or Mid-westerners start laughing, NYC money is doing a very good job destroying upstate, PA and VT. Masshole money is crapping all over NH and ME. Chicago is slowly eating more and more of Wisconsin and Michigan. This is a relatively universal problem at least in the US.
It's not what the tweet is saying, but being willing to admit you got something wrong is very valuable, and some people refuse to do it for (more or less) status reasons.
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C works to get a list of urls to the songs in a playlist on the format https://open.spotify.com/track/<trackId>
Which is less awkward: telling someone they aren't as qualified as they think they are, or making up a story about some policy and saying your hands were tied by factors beyond either of your control?

You're saying this guy is a high ranking member of an organization completely embroiled in internal politics. Would such a politically savvy person have any qualms about lying to someone at a party?
Are ip address blocks registered to defunct companies a relatively common thing? Clearly ARIN isn't regularly checking whether the owners of ip address blocks are still in business, so I'd imagine there are plenty of other blocks that belong to defunct companies.
Still unclear to me how that makes them associated with Trump, especially when one of their members explicitly says Trump is a tyrant.

Imagine a far left group did the same thing and also called Obama a tyrant. Is Obama responsible for them? I don't think so.
Then they should set an expectation not to stay in academia. Here's your PhD and don't bother with postdoc, go to the actual job market.
It would cost at least 3 times as much to get the same amount of talent working on something like that. Projects like the LHC are able to massively leverage the money spent just because smart people are happy to work on exciting/deep problems for much less.
I don't think I understand. Under what circumstance does a company A recruiting away employees from company B count as "taking away B's property without permission"? There is no permission needed by law to offer a better employment contract to, well, anyone.
You are citing a source in support of this statement:

"I’ll just point out that the plot to kidnap the governor had more ties to the anarchist left than to Trump."

and your source does not back that up, and now you are saying "seems like a reach" about the subject of your own statement.
Would have liked to seen the article list more of the specific towns. Just searched around and found this article [0], but only a few western towns were mentioned and most of the places listed are quite expensive.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/irenelevine/2020/09/15/zoom-tow...
The point is that you can spend a lump of money to check things out in that way, and fine - especially when you have the Higgs to confirm as well. But if you want to double down you need to have better evidence and a better argument. This is the logic that applies in any lab; sure take a punt look at x or y, if you're right then you'll get a grant and your career will thrive. If you're wrong you're out.

That's happened to many people (Hossenfelder included?) but it's now happening to the community and no one likes it. But given that is how science as an institution operates they shouldn't be surprised.

Here's a thought experiment. Would there be a bid for a new 100Tev machine if super symmetry had been confirmed at LHC? My bet is :for sure. And the key argument would be "we told you that we were good last time, so you have to back us this time"
It's not working in the console
The main benefit is that the GPU-side code can better integrate with the CPU-side code, and that you don't need separate tools and a complex build process integration.

For instance it's possible to share data structure between the CPU and GPU side directly from the same source code, or you can run the same code on the CPU or GPU for whatever reason (debugging, unit testing etc...).

The Metal API uses C++ (with some extensions) as shader language, which IMHO is complete overkill too, but one nice side effect is that you can put shared data structures into headers, and then include the same shared headers on the CPU and GPU side.

Ideally it should be possible to mix GPU and CPU code in the same source file, and only (for instance) annotate GPU functions with an attribute which causes it to be compiled as shader code.
It's not just temperature: many laptops also hit their power limits under full load.

I had a Surface Book 2 that was particularly bad for this, I think because it uses the same connector as older versions, and it could not supply enough power. Undervolting seemed to help quite a bit.
Many people sell stuff on eBay as their full time job too. I don't find this line of reasoning compelling if you want to single out Uber and Lyft specifically. What is the amount of hours they should work to not be "employees"? 5? Ok Uber and Lyft can limit the hours you drive to 5. Is that fine then?

I'd actually say though that what you identified (gig worker for Amazon warehouses) might be desirable if we had many "benefits" divorced from your employer, like the 401k, health care, etc. What if I could work my salaried job, and then sign up to go work a shift at the warehouse?
Colorado isn't exactly land starved.

Ask anyone there who isn't making their money directly off of California money how the influx of California money is working out for them and they won't paint a rosy picture.
Or just better genetics.
Yeah, but the whole point of the exercise is to see subtitles on players that don't even support subtitles; they're definitely not going to support an overlay stream.
My anecdata would suggest that refusing to acknowledge fault and instead reframing the context is a far more effective strategy, and yet neither are good predictors of success.
[Poe's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) in the wild!
A bunch of digital nomads are currently camping out in my co-working space. Most of them are trying to get back to Thailand. If you're near KL, you should say hello. :-)

(Email in profile)
There's this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

My startup is using ffmpeg filters to create video courses so the GUI is aimed towards that use case rather than being flexible: https://blog.modernlearner.org/product-update-split-content-...

The results aren't bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-NjLrwTyxs

Great results depend on fine-tuning of the ffmpeg filters and having great quality video to work with.

The ffmpeg filter mini-language is easy to work with when you're targeting a particular use-case.
Income brackets are not as sticky as you might think[1]. If you are in the second or third quintile, you are more likely to move income quintiles than stay where you are over ten years.

If you are in the bottom quintile, you only have a 64% chance of staying there. That's not incredible, but it does make you question the "inescapable poverty" narrative when a full 1/3 of impoverished people escape it every decade.

Across every income quintile, you are more likely to die richer than your father[2].

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/en/newsroom-and-events/publicat...

[2] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
so does this mean that mcdonalds has publicly accessible api exposed to the internet?
for the historical record: this user gave them 10 days; it took 8 days for spotify to reverse course, allowing users to transfer out their own playlists (those not generated by Spotify itself) to a third party controller (such as SongShift).
How so?

Storing a "user has opted out from tracking cookies" binary flag in a cookie is not the same as storing an unique identifier in a cookie.
- One member of the group attended a BLM rally.

- Anarchism is traditionally associated with the left (broadly, that is, not the Democratic (big D) left) and one of the members called Trump a tyrant with an anarchist flag in the background.

Trump can't simultaneously be an anarchist and a tyrant. That makes no sense.

I also remind you that I merely said "there is more evidence" than "it is directly connected."
In the pre-Kindle days, Amazon sold it as an Adobe DRMed PDF, which is how I bought it in 2006. When they introduced the Kindle they retired the Adobe DRM servers, and since they did not alert me as to this happening (despite the ebook being registered to an email address), my copy turned into a pumpkin.

It took me a few back-and-forths with Amazon's customer support to get them to even acknowledge that this had happened. Most of the reps I communicated with weren't even aware that Amazon had sold ebooks before the Kindle. They wanted to just give me the Kindle version of the regular eBook, but grudgingly gave me a refund instead, because I insisted on either the full annotated version in any form or a refund (I already own two copies of the regular book in paper form).
One of the underappreciated pros of php for web development is its execution model, it's fault tolerant by default and shares little memory across requests. This kind of makes sloppy programming far more tolerable in php than in other platforms.

In effect this has an impact on performance but it also helps in ensuring that a bad request can't blow out the whole application from serving other requests like is common in platforms like nodejs where you need to be extra careful.
Needless to say this makes php becomes quite viable for production envs, and prevents a whole host of issues that need expertise and careful programming to fix.
How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
"Interference" in this context is generally reserved for foreign actors. Isn't this CEO American? If so, how is this not a simple exercise of free political speech?

That being asked, while I agree with the message, I don't believe sending it was a good idea. It likely won't move the needle at all (most everyone has made up their mind), and potentially alienates Trump-supporting customers.
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SPIRV can also be used as intermediate format and converted to various target shader languages:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross
And it's an excellent match for this technology, because of the lower power-to-weight ratio sensitivity in ground effect.
I’ve also known pretenured faculty who have said, out loud, that they don’t like working with women because they work less hard. This did not prevent their tenure case from succeeding.
> F*ck fake. Share real experiences.

The visual design choice to use a fake chat transcript to explain your product is rather at odds with your slogan.

> Our super sophisticated and dynamic algorithm generates unique interest groups.

Also the choice to use a hand-drawn aesthetic for highlighting text is rather at odds with the algorithmic nature of the network.

And an astronaut is the most disconnected a human can be from Earth, so it seems a strange choice as a mascot for a social network. The scale of the astronaut (with face hidden) as large enough to play with the earth as a toy only strengthens the stereotype of social media being a mysterious, powerful and malign force.

Personally I don't think it's bad, but for me the design fails to reinforce the mission of "...building authentic connections...".
Professor Hossenfelder and others have written long books about why the probability of finding new physics based on not liking the aesthetics of the current maths (naturalness, supersimetry, grand unification) is extremely likely to fail, and has been constantly failing for ~50 years.

If our way of generating new theories has given bad predictions for 50 years, at what time should we stop and try out other ways of extending the confirmed theories?

It is unknown in advance if putting your hand through a fire will hurt you this time as well, but after 50 years of doing so, perhaps it's time to stop.
> The paper becomes an extension of you and your brain.

Because when the medium over which we write (the "paper") becomes a digital computer-based system it becomes possible for some actor other than myself to gain control over this extended portion of my self and my mind.

And while this has always been possible to lose control over one's writing (other actors may steal and/or modify them, etc..) with digital computer it becomes possible to remotely do this in better and more efficient ways (...etc)
The difference is that people on Twitter are chasing a real commodity called clout. Never underestimate what people are willing to do for clout.

In comparison, 8chan was downright comfy.
At my company we recently had an incident related to the recent WFH with a subcontractor in India. He was providing his credentials to another contractor who impersonated him, which is something that he probably would not have tried in the office!

Although maybe he would have tried it, because the impersonator called into meetings and everyone noticed that he sounded completely different (had much better English) and the work was different (less skilled)! If it was me, I would be checking the sub-sub-contractors work and at a minimum calling into meetings myself ;)
This is a good meme to use to keep direct reports quiet at work. Show them this and tell them that if they continue working in the ditch all will be well in the end!
went through the code, there's nothing here that i can see. its just a demo pet store app in flask.
Geez, I knew that France has had a...different relationship with age of consent laws, but I didn't know so many of their "great thinkers" were against the idea completely [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...
I have extensively used OpenAPI Specs for years.

You're right that tools are almost all partially-baked.

I use specs to generate data models in TypeScript, Kotlin, and .NET (for different projects). This gives me compile-time guarantees that my API docs match my code.

I also use it for generating documentation and client SDKs in other languages.

If used correctly, it can help automate hundreds or thousands of hours of error-prone work. It also forms an unbreakable contract between systems in totally different languages (not unlike what Protobufs could be used for).

It takes a few hours to find tools you like, but after that, it's generally smooth.
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Well, that's what 'not take part in an existing system' stands for. If you want to be outside a social system, that can be your choice. If not, then you'll have to deal with all of the constraints. That could be ICQ vs. MSN vs. AIM vs. YIM or BBM vs SMS or now iMessage vs. WhatEver.

The mass consumer market won't all join IRC to chat, they could have (and still can) for decades and it just isn't happening. And that's fine, but that also means that other systems (like iMessage but also Facebook) gain users with all the lock-in that comes with that.
This depends a lot on the accounting and tax treatment though. In many industries, that "investment" would be accounted for as capex, and in many countries you don't get an immediate write off against tax for capex but you get it over some approximation of useful life of the assets you've invested in.

There is a strong case for allowing immediate, or faster, write-offs for capex spending in preference to lowering corporate tax rates because of this effect.
Pretty certain any type of engineering is a good bet. But you wouldn't have trouble finding an engineering job with just an undergraduate degree (possible exception of CS since there are not many junior roles).
>Of course everybody knows the right way to convince conspiracy theorists that they're wrong is to go after them.

All this work to shut them down by various organizations can even accurately be described as a conspiracy. (Though more of a conspiracy-fact since they're so shameless about it)
“Ugh, you’re using C? Time for a Rust rewrite.”
I'm sorry, which one do you mean? If iPhone:

iPhone 12 Pro 128GB (base) model is $999 in USA, rumored to be 15000₺ ($1900) in Turkey.

iPhone 11 Pro 64GB doesn't seem to be offered in USA anymore (by Apple or Amazon), it's $1410 in Turkey.

iPhone 11 64GB is $599 in USA, $929 in Turkey.

Turkish prices gathered from Hepsiburada.com, one of the largest retailers in Turkey.

All in all it seems like there's 1.5x to 2x price difference depending on the model.

Trivia: There's also a government-enforced IMEI blocking scheme there, to prevent people from evading the taxes by buying it somewhere else.
> Adding tests for an app with no documentation requires a lot of effort.

code tests yes. Assuming it's a web app, probably not too hard. Get something that records the browser interactions, and do the common tasks people do (log in, click links, make a report, etc). Having general things like that automated to ensure you can run them repeatedly to make sure basic stuff didn't break unexpectedly will help provide some confidence when making changes.
> The only things you can be sure of is that you will be able to understand whatever you have seen better than before

I think it's more correct that you will be generating observations in largely the same way as in the past, but with higher resolution and fidelity.
This is great, ffmpeg has a lot of great utilities within it.

I'm using it for creating short videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-NjLrwTyxs

And I'm scratching the surface since ffmpeg has so many amazing filters: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html
wow this is great! I didn't think much would come of that original post last week
Power scales with voltage squared and linearly with freq. Turboboost allows for higher clocks but you'd be getting that with or without undervolting.
the README file of this repo does not help me understand what this project is about as someone who has never used OpenAPI (and only faintly used Swagger UI for a short time before).