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I know Louis Rossman has posited that landlords are handcuffed by mortgages that require additional capital calls when rental rates decline.

That may be a factor but it’s not the primary cause. This has been going on forever because commercial leases are usually 5-20 year commitments.

I’ve danced the dance with many landlords where they act interested in having you lease, but clearly your business isn’t what they consider a “good tenant” so they draw things out while they continue to look for a “better” tenant.
Unfortunately it looks like when we finally make it as a space-borne species, we won't be going as humans or Earthlings but as Americans or Chinese or Russians or... and carry our conflicts out into the solar system as well.
I have only ever heard very awful things about some of the key figures of numfocus - especially Travis Oliphant and Peter Wang.

The stories of bullying, religious discrimination (or turning a blind eye to religious discrimination) and general unprofessional and poor behavior are staggering.

Considering how Anaconda took money from In-Q-Tel and mostly functions as a consultant to big banks, it’s a really sad chapter of Python history considering some of the amazing technical achievements the engineers have produced (conda, numba, pyarrow, dask, etc.).

The Python data and numerical ecosystem would be much healthier if Travis and Peter would just step down from their variety of positions and leave the community in peace.
I have a website that starts with my freelance price and then lists previous projects that I have worked on.

That website also states that I'm open to offering reduced rates and/or becoming an employee. So far, all of my jobs started out as me being hired as a freelancer and the company later approaching me to re-negotiate to become an employee.

I've had only one regular job interview, but it didn't go well because they were not willing to guarantee me a room with a window and space to bring my collection of potted plants. My opinion is that the problem there was that we negotiated the employment contract too soon, before they knew why they should value my work.

Also, learn related topics. I've done documentation writing for patents and bookkeeping, which greatly helps when you're hired to solve an actual business problem.
Can it do 'offline first for couple of months'?

Use case I'm thinking about:

- At first the mobile app has no account, db is used without online backend.

- Then user pays for premium features including online backup/sync.

- This user then is created and all the data will be put in the online db and syncs, etc.

- No local SQLite db or anything needs to sync, because you have this offline first database, that can handle offline only.

This seems like an obvious use case to me, but have had trouble figuring out best path forward.
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I will be very happy to incorporate any suggestions!
Sapping joy from the world and the prosperity of future generations in the name of a year or two of extra life is wrong. That is basically what we’re talking about here. If all the old-but-independent had food dropped off at their doorstep for two months while the rest of us just let ourselves get sick, this thing would have been over very quickly with not that many deaths.

Instead, young healthy people are hysterical and irrationally think they are going to die from this.
It's because of the recent RNC tweet[0] with a list of some of Trump's priorities for the next term, and the firs two listed were a permanent presence on the moon and sending a manned mission to Mars. It did not mention the pandemic.

Most people who already considered these were a waste of resources probably didn't bother talking about it much. Now they are, because they have a clear rallying point to shout about.

I'm very pro-space exploration, and I think highlighting those priorities right now is absurd. Imagine being someone who already thought they were a distraction from more immediate needs seeing this tweet.

EDIT: I should clarify, their first reply to that tweet went on to mentioning a vaccine, but most people just saw the first tweet.

[0] https://twitter.com/gop/status/1319715289328766980
It absolutely does make them not worth doing.
Why is RIAA acting like it's 2002 all of a sudden?
Passing the WLKs is, absolutely, a best practice.

But, with all due respect, Mr. cpgxiii, you seem to not understand the vast extent of systems that use Windows.

It is simply NOT POSSIBLE to run the HLKs on certain hardware systems. Let me give you a few examples:

We write a driver for an unmanned aircraft. The driver runs on a custom processor box, with custom, on-board hardware, that's inside the aircraft. This custom system will not support the HLK client. Ever. The hardware for which we've written the driver cannot be separated from the custom system. This customer is now screwed.

We write a driver for a device that lives in a piece of industrial equipment. Even if we could pull the boards for which the driver was written, and stick them into a system that was capable of serving as an HLK client, the hardware is designed in such as a way that is designed to be never powered off. This device, therefore, does not support ANY non D0 power states. While it might be possible to get his device to pass the HLKs with a LOT of work, it's unlikely.

There are a lot of drivers/devices in the world that fall into similar categories to those above.

And, there is the case of File System Isolation Minifilters. Any such driver will never pass all 80,000 WLK tests (that's a real number, by the way) due to the way these tests are written. We have worked with MSFT for YEARS to try to get the Minifilter tests to treat Isolation Minifilters specially. MSFT simply does not have sufficient motivation to make this happen.

So, yeah, easy to say "just pass the HLKs" -- I wish it were that easy.
I agree, not arguing with You. The point is I watch people on the news everyday adjusting their masks, pulling them under their nose, scratching their foreheads etc... yet I honestly have not heard a word regarding face touching for the past 2 or 3 months. Can you honestly say you have? I wasn't arguing for face touching so don't get all virtuous and preachy about my comment.
Maybe the last several months of what is going on here on Earth has made people reconsider if the massive investments required for space exploration would be better spent on something else.
Most certainly not equivalent. COCs are welcomed by corporations because it could be a door into exercising power over content that is worth pursuing. If it was really about labor laws, you would see union busters instead of open arms.
> Is there a story for offline support? Is there perhaps a react library that could help here?

If the interface is graphql, you should be able to use Apollo Client[0] which has offline support.

[0] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/
Is he really whining about NASA's tiny budget?

they didn’t think a lot of Americans actually cared about colonizing space, which they do.

This is incredibly misleading. A high proportion of Americans say they care when you ask them. Most don't think about it between days they see news headlines. When's the last time you saw a president get elected based on space policy? When's the last time space policy was even a presidential debate question?

Not to mention that at the end of the day, we either get off this planet or we die with it when the sun becomes a red giant.
> it wasn't in my 'marketing literature'.

It was in your sales site. Your sales site could most validly be referred to as marketing literature.

> It wasn't in anything user-visible at all.

It was visible though, to the search engine at least. And back to the "not marketing literature" point - SEO very much is marketing.

Now they might be being a bag of dicks, in this case and more generally, but I don't think those two points you are arguing with are valid at all.
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It can apply to those situations, but the fact that in those cases the people most likely to be affected have a voice in who gets chosen is an incentive to good behavior that is missing in this case.

If you're running a conference, you APPOINT who will be deciding whether the CoC has been violated. If you appoint people who are not trusted by activists, you will face criticism from said activists. If you appoint people who are trusted by activists, you've appointed people who likely got ahead by getting activists fired up in the past. What they did in the past they will do in the future, and you've just given them the platform on which they will do it.

That's a catch-22 for the organizer, and a set of perverse incentives that makes it easy for the people I don't want to see in that position to get in that position.
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Yeah, why not waste all those zero days on posturing, great idea!
> because I was a "close" candidate, I don't feel guilty about wasting their time.

Fuck that mindset. They're being paid to interview you, and you're (likely) unemployed. If anyone should feel guilty, it's the recruiters wasting your time making you jump through the many pointless hoops common in tech interviews today, and ultimately hiring someone else based on what is likely arbitrary reasoning (because in general, most people are lazy/bad at their jobs. Especially recruiters.)
Podcast episodes that are amazing but undiscovered are too common. Human recommendations is a great way to find hidden gems. Love the idea to solve that!
If you're interested in the history and the weird world of competitive scrabble I highly recommend Stefan Fatsis' book "Word Freak", as well as the documentary film "Word Wards" (2004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Wars
> I haven't heard anyone make this argument in earnest. What I have heard are arguments to the effect that we _must_ expand past the Earth because it will inevitably become uninhabitable, probably due to human intervention.

The counter-argument is that even after a nuclear Armageddon or the zombie apocalypse, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars for humans. Also, Mars will be much more susceptible to events like war or asteroids than Earth is.

Musk's point is that even if losing all humans (or just civilization) on Earth is much less likely than losing all humans on Mars, losing humans from both is still less likely.
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Completely agree.

The only people I've ever heard mention the space utopia argument are people who are pushing anti-space ideology.
I looked for an independent primary source on on these events and wasn't able to find one. However, it may be of interest that the conference program lists the talk title as "Creating delightful libraries and books with nbdev and fastdoc" [0], whereas the delivered talk has the title of "I Like Notebooks" and is a direct response to Joel's talk. The conference organizers, or others, may have expected a different keynote and felt deceived by the change in topic. Note also that, according to Jeremy's blog post, the version of the talk posted on YouTube is not the version that was presented at the conference. As third parties we have very little information.

I'm also uncertain if the investigative committee actually intended to impose any consequences. Jeremy expressed concern that the situation may prevent his talk from being available, but I don't see any talks posted on the JupyterCon site yet. The only definite action is the decision that a code of conduct violation had occurred and the notification thereof. The notification clearly caused Jeremy Howard significant distress, which should have been avoided. However this may have been unintentional on the part of the conference organizers. For all we know, the situation has also caused them similar distress. Hopefully the involved parties can still find some remediation despite the incident blowing up on social media.

My main take-aways are that (1) small technical organizations are often poor at community management and investigating potential misconduct, and (2) the public internet is worse, with a tendency to devolve into public shaming.

[0] https://cfp.jupytercon.com/2020/schedule/general-sessions/
Then again, banks are not exactly attracting people with "genuine passion for the subject".
I've posted this before, but I see terraforming other planets as a necessary step to learn how to take care of the Earth. Large-scale geoengineering will be necessary sooner or later on Earth. However, it almost certainly has failure modes that we don't know about, and won't know about until we can experiment with it. Testing the effects on Earth, with nearly 8 billion people, is wildly reckless. Testing the effects on Mars or Venus, though costlier to implement, has the advantage of not risking those 8 billion lives.
> You think that people at JupyterCon were genuinely outraged over a presenter expressing his opinion that he likes Jupyter notebooks?

We're on the same page here, what I'm saying is that the context makes this situation much more obviously pretextual. I'm not going to speculate on the actual reasoning behind it, though, it's likely no more informative than pissing off someone influential somehow at some point.
One involves the violent deaths of hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians.

The other involves financial loss and probably a temporary shut-down of one or more hospitals.

Frankly, a cyberattack is the kind of thing a hospital can and should be hardened against. This is an administrative and regulatory failure being dressed up as "terrorism."

Criminals that use ransomware should be prosecuted and sent to prison, not disappeared to Guantanamo Bay and tortured.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but is the idea that--apart from a CoC--people might venture into a community thinking racist jokes are okay?
Then let's do both, and not just space exploration.
The opposite is true. Investing in space exploration improves our ability to face climate change on our planet.
Agreed, and really Trump is not interested in ideology, but rather the recent successes of SpaceX and the potential of others are inspiring to a lot of people and point the way to potential new space business sectors. He is just pro business.
Regardless of what you perceive your technical specialty to be, you need to create a "sales pitch" and sell yourself to the job you are applying to.

Similar to waiting tables at a restaurant, 99% of people don't want a list of the ingredients, nor do they want the waiter to say "I like everything on the menu because im a food generalist". Customers want to hear "The burger is great because its cheesy and juicy".

The scope of how you are selling, whether its skills or physical objects, is very important. Calling yourself a generalist is just setting yourself up for failure for a job search. Sell yourself to the role, don't cast a "generalist" net and get upset when nobody thinks you are a correct fit for a role.
People will (rightly) ask you to state the rules before you enforce them.

Having a CoC doesn't mean that you get this benefit.

In the case in point, the rules being enforced from the CoC were not stated. After being ruled in violation, it was not made clear WHAT rule was violated. And certainly no rule in the actual CoC was violated.
Hi, I'm also a new JS coder, but I'd like to avoid becoming one of "those people" you're talking about. I've been struggling with exactly what you mention - how to find out the "correct" way to apply patterns/do relatively complex things, but all I get on search results are Medium articles written by bootcamp grads.

Can you recommend any sources of truth/books that can guide down the right path? Of course I'll be going through all the things you mention but I'm just curious if there's somewhere I can get the right information besides just reading through Firefox code, for example.

Thanks!!!
Thing is, I can't imagine anything that will happen to earth that will render it less habitable than Mars. Not nuclear weapons, not rogue states, not even asteroids. We could "colonize" an uninhabitable Earth more easily than any other planet. The fact that we could colonize a different planet makes us different from past species in mass extinction events.

That's not to say we shouldn't do it (though I personally would really like to get a chance to study Mars in its pristine state for a few centuries before we literally crap all over it). "Advancement" is a fine reason to go to space.

But the extinction argument doesn't hold water to me, and that makes me suspicious. If it's just a matter of increasing the urgency from the people who really want to go, I get that. I'd just like to be honest about it.
htmx is focused on increasing the network-oriented expressiveness of HTML, rather than on pure front end enhancements.

For something like menu popups or toggling content on the front end, I would expect an application to use a front end framework like bootstrap, or perhaps WebComponents, or a scripting solution like Alpine, in conjunction with htmx.

Alpine and htmx complement one another nicely, particularly since htmx 0.2.0, when we started firing kebab-style event names.
This is a restatement of the "we shouldn't do anything in Space until we solve (all/most/the most important) problems on Earth" argument.

If our ancestors would have used this they'd never would have, say, colonized the Americas, or even left Africa. Because there's always something broken at home. Has there been a single moment in history that would have satisfied that argument ?
As far as I know, we're the only ones offering this. Both on Windows and on Mac. We used to have healthy profits on Mac before the problems started. Then, as our customers moved from Mac to Windows, so did our revenue.
The UK has Unexplained Wealth Orders, which can be used if a person cannot explain where they got the funds to purchase property. It's been in the news a few times but I'm not sure how effective it is:

Quote:

3)An unexplained wealth order is an order requiring the respondent to provide a statement—

(a)setting out the nature and extent of the respondent’s interest in the property in respect of which the order is made,

(b)explaining how the respondent obtained the property (including, in particular, how any costs incurred in obtaining it were met),

(c)where the property is held by the trustees of a settlement, setting out such details of the settlement as may be specified in the order, and

(d)setting out such other information in connection with the property as may be so specified.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/22/part/1/chapter/...
this is still a time constrained rental. if you don’t pay for the upcoming month you lose access
It seems that I am not the only one who sees a significant contradiction between reality and the conclusions from the experiment.
How do you get one of those. Track down an old Sun keyboard? :)
I have seen it demanded basically as lipservice to an odd idea of justice. "Well, it's very easy to add, and there are some good ones, and X,Y and Z have it, and only a monster wouldn't adopt one!"

And then you start listing some of the issues that arise with these and defenders quickly respond that the problems are edge cases and usually the conversationd devolves from there.
Looks like an acquihire...
That's just circular reasoning. You claim they're "above board" because they are not questionable, but the only metric by which you deem them not questionable is that they are "above board".

This discussion is going nowhere as long as you don't understand that.
This is the nature of political strategy. The pandemic is a really hard thing for the current administration to spin, so they're probably better off talking about "hopes and dreams" types of things. They're trying as hard as possible to look good right now in order to get reelected.
Hadn't heard the term SSE. I'm vaguely aware of tools for searching compressed data. Will learn more about SSE. Thank you.
Agreed.

People are having a hard time when orange man does or says something that they actually agree with.

They need to find a glass half empty way of looking at it.
The term "xenophobia" is also a useful tool that is used by the government, the media, and individuals on social media to suppress the free discussion of very important matters.

The Government of Canada has the ability to published (anonymized) data (real estate sales correlated to the buyers historic income taxes/wealth, etc) that could eliminate most of the opaqueness of what is really going on in Canadian housing markets, but they do not, despite vowing to "get to the bottom of" the situation.

The media could point out that the Canadian Government has this ability but does not do it, but they do not, despite claiming to be trustworthy, unbiased reporters of the affairs that are important to the public.

As is often the case, what is actually true is unjustly (and "democratically") hidden from view of the public, coverage is provided (intentionally or not) by the media, and the end result is that the populace is split into various camps who then fight among themselves. Is this situation the actual "will of the people", as we are endlessly told is what Democracy (and nothing else) delivers? I believe there is a fairly substantial amount of evidence that it is not what people want, although that sort of topic seems a bit socially taboo, so all one can do is speculate.
And what happens when orders go wrong?

Last month the grilled chicken place gave me chicken which wasn't grilled. I called them (they have a national call centre), and the store manager called me shortly after, to apologise.
Following day they sent me chicken.

Last week I was at a pizza place at night. An angry customer called, they got the other wrong. I listened to the store manager for about 4-6 minutes trying to explain that this was the 3rd-party service that got it wrong.

That service doesn't have an agreement with the store/chain, as they have their own delivery service.

Is the extra admin worth it? I don't think so. It's unethical behaviour from the tech companies.
You’ve got it exactly backwards IMO. Terraforming Mars or Venus will take millennia at least, millennia that we don’t currently have the luxury of waiting around for. We need to terraform Earth first — restore some of the damage we’ve done over just the last century or two — before we can think about the much more difficult project of terraforming other planets.
Most often scaling and filtering is an integrated process, when one says bilinear it is usually implied that it is combined with nothing else.
As a student starting at that time, it was actually very frustrating. Universities hadn't caught up on having enough lecturers/TAs (or they hired a lot of TAs but they were very inexperienced and your odds of getting a good one were not good). Class sizes soaring also meant reduced time with instructors in office hours, and reduced opportunities for working with researchers (that is, a decent but average student had a shot before, but suddenly had none due to the glut of candidates).
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Really? The first thought they had was fuck NASA and they completely ignored the trillions being spent on the US military complex?
They'd certainly have a lot of very angry customers who were promised this was unnecessary and other OEMs would drop LiDAR. If it turns out that more accurate depth perception is necessary for L3 AVs, every Tesla owner with "FSD" wasted 6-10k, unless Tesla voluntarily retrofits these vehicles, which would likely kill their profit for half a decade. Recalls are always much more expensive than getting it right first.
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Saw the subtitle starts with "The President", searched for "nazi", and surely enough, there it was. I think writing politically-charged articles should be the next challenge for AlphaZero.