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> Rumour has it doing a PhD might actually be a rewarding experience in its own right

Have you ever met a single person that said so? Because I haven’t.
Ridiculous. In 2030 I expect my laptop to be feather light and be powered by 2 chips.

You all are really exemplifying the famous Ford quote:

“If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!”
AFAIK they still do, just without any way to find it except by digging into the channel page’s HTML to find the channel_id and then constructing the feed URL from that (“https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$channel...) — or (edit) using something like https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge that presumably does something like that under the hood — so I guess scraping for an undocumented API.
Advanced System-on-Chip Design Lecture Notes
Picture 18 year old me in 1995, I got a 486SX laptop as a graduation present out of the blue from my estranged father. I wanted to add an external CD-ROM to it so I could play games and load software for college, and it had a SCSI port. I went to the local computer store and asked the guy for a "ess see ess eye" CD-ROM drive, he busted out laughing and said "oh you mean a scuzzy drive?" Very embarrassing for me at the time but that's when I learned that computer acronyms have a preferred pronunciation so I should try to learn them myself to avoid future confusion.
I remember using the multiprocessing library to speed up some file I/O. Basically I found out that I could spawn a separate process for each physical storage interface, and I was able to hash like 7 TiB of data in a little over 7 hours. My understanding was that threads are subject to GIL and thus cannot run on multiple cores, whereas processes don't have that same restriction, so I needed to use the multiprocessing library, NOT the multithreading library to parallelize my I/O.

Also, the featured video is from 2015. Maybe it's just outdated information?
To put some context on this, this is a “think piece”, not an official position of a large multi-national bank:

> Deutsche Bank says its research is designed to spark debate around a series of important topics.

> Report author Mr Templeman said he'd had a lot of feedback on the report.
"A lot of people aren't impressed at the idea of another tax, however, some have seen it as an interesting policy that governments can use to redistribute some of the gains from the pandemic which have been unexpectedly accrued by some people while others have lost out."
That's an excellent idea! I hope they will succeed and we will get cheaper and greener energy.
>Economists at Deutsche Bank suggest a tax of 5% of a worker's salary if they choose to work from home.

>The tax would be paid for by employers and the income generated would be paid to people who can't do their jobs from home.

That's what we want. We want to give people an economic incentive to go out and mix with people in the middle of a pandemic.

I'm working from home right now, but if you told me 5% of my pay would be taxed because of it I'd be back in the office like a shot.

>In the UK, Deutsche Bank calculates the tax would generate a pot of £6.9bn a year, which could pay

...For the massive cost of a huge wave of COVID caused by office workers who have been forced back into central london via public transport.
And your dishwashing based social media platform WashedUp
I will attempt to speak their position, though I disagree with the left on identity politics.

They might respond that, as a nation, US slaves and native americans and their descendants were exploited brutally by white English colonists. Over generations, this disparity was solidified by white male laws like jim crow, voter disenfranchisement, and overtly racist and harmful attitudes.

Where they go wrong, IMO, is what you've stated. I'm a white male posting this, does that matter? Should it? Or is it merely the historical fact that matters? And how fair is our current society?
I didn't mean that non-.NET stacks are somehow antagonistic to hexagonal architecture. It's just that, based on what I have been reading on the subject, I came to a conclusion that .NET has the most comprehensive support of said architecture thanks to a diverse and feature-rich ecosystem of relevant frameworks (including DI ones), whereas alternative stacks are significantly behind in this regard.
Fixing inefficient Django ORM calls in brownfield projects
An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
I've seen similar things. Also aware of 'boss as a service'[0].

One funny thing I have read someone do is give a cheque to a friend. The cheque is for an organization with values against the issuer's values. The person gave instructions "If I don't X done by Y, send them the cheque".

The person reported that they have achieved their goals and got X done by Y.

- [0]: https://bossasaservice.life/
If I have to complain in 2030 that my device doesn’t have enough ram, technology will have failed.
Counterpoint: Tax employers additionally, since they now face lower rent and spend less on office supplies and coffee.

Or, hell, tax high-income earners. For instance bank executives working for shady banks
This sounds like a horrible idea.

Home work improves many peoples mental state, reduces time spent at work (if you count commutes), people's footprint in terms of pollution and allow for the redistribution of people that were clustered in big cities under asfixiating rent/home owning costs. Why on earth would we disincentivize it?

>By working from home, people aren't paying for public transport or eating out at restaurants near their places of work, while expensive offices remain virtually empty.

Spending your money isn't an obligation as far as I'm aware. Should I be taxed for bringing my homecooked food to work then? What about walking to my workplace, or using a bike?

>"The virus has benefitted those who can do their jobs virtually, such as bank analysts, and threatened the livelihoods or health of those who can't," added Mr Templeman.

that one is reasonable until:

>It also wouldn't apply when people are asked to stay home for a public health emergency or other medical reasons.

So..the concern is that the virus hurts some workers, but it doesn't apply during times where workers are harmed?
TFA goes on to say that pandemic related WFH shouldn't have the 5% added.

Who gets to decide when its pandemic related or not?

Zoom should be making more money since the pandemic, ergo a tax on high income (business related in this case) would cover your example.
Apple Introduces New Macs with the First Apple Chips
Securing Kubernetes: The Paranoid Guide
I can recommend the book "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/16/dark-towers...

Edit: I know that name is a bit unfortunate, but it's a good book and I'm recommending it because of it's coverage of Deutsche, not for the political element - which is actually quite small.
It argues this is only fair, as those who work from home are saving money and not paying into the system like those who go out to work.

By working from home, people aren't paying for public transport or eating out at restaurants near their places of work, while expensive offices remain virtually empty.

This is a terrible argument that just makes a lot of assumptions without also considering the benefits. The main assumption being that "WFH" is a net drain on the local economy.

While yes, people working from home aren't paying for public transportation, or eating out every day - they are spending money other ways. For example people are using food delivery services, buying more grocery, moving to cheaper COL areas thereby supporting a local economy somewhere else. They are buying better homes or furniture or equipment, etc. We need to understand better the complete impact on the economy to determine the net gain or loss.
SD-PWN – “attack could shut down a company’s entire international network”
If you want a great introduction to, and appreciation of, SoCs — given the announcements yesterday and to understand what goes into something like the M1 a little better.
Slightly off-topic, but the original Sound Blaster came with a piece of software called Dr. Sbaitso. It was the first chat bot I interacted with and you could ask him to say swear words and stuff. I had so much fun with that program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso

I named a chatbot I wrote for work after him :)
I will not say that it should depend on crowdfunding, but in emergency situation, with the proper communication, that could be a way to get urgently some money for a specific situation like that.

Without waiting for states and large funding that usually take a lot more time to get
H5N8 is not a new virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N8 If this outbreak develops like previous ones, they'll have to cull a lot of birds, which would be bad news for poultry farmers.
People always assume that every 3rd party repair shop has Louis Rossmann-levels of skill and integrity. Some do. Some don't.

Apple is trying to protect people (and their public image) from the scammy people who swap the cheapest shit on your phone and still charge a premium.

Then when the phone explodes and takes someones buttock with it, it's WAY too late for Apple to say "but it was a 3rd party battery, which was dodgy and installed carelessly" - the Court of Twitter has already decided that Apple is evil and their phones are crap and here come the class action suits.

So the only sane way is to make sure people can't get dodgy components installed on their devices.

Also, if every Apple Genius was Rossmann-good with similar tools, they could solder out single components and fix pretty much anything on site.

But they're not, so they are instructed on how to swap the smallest viable part when one section fails. That might mean swapping a whole case when one rubber foot falls of, but that's still easier and more cost-effective than training everyone to be a soldering and electrical engineering genius.
Productivity to me is a measure of cost vs impact, where cost for developers is almost always time. Time spent is easy to measure - something like time from idea to deliverable is usually good enough. I don't think you need to be precise. You just need a general idea of what kind of work takes ages, and what can be done quickly.

Measuring impact is trickier. It should be a signal of how well you're achieving the goal of your project. If you're working on, say, a budgeting tool, you will want to measure how much money your customers have managed to save, or something along those lines.
> It's a bit like taxing cyclists 10 % of their income because they don't support the car industry...

Good analogy. But their argument is even worse because they don't look at the other benefits of remote work on the economy.
FYI: This is Rolls-Royce Holdings, not Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars
I'm curious, which jobs do you define as bullshit?
Exactly this. How many Cuban americans in Florida had phones that they answered? The polls clearly missed this demographic group and it's pure "malarkey" to say they were shy Trump voters. The amount of times I've tried to debunk this shy voter nonsense...its much more likely that random calls miss people than they are shy to admit their support anonymously.
In 2012, the same Mac mini case held a cooling system for a 45W chip, 2x2.5" storage bays (or one storage bay and a DVD-Drive), 2 RAM slots, and had three more ports and a card reader. They really used every last corner.

The new one is apparently half empty:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22027513/m...
I wrote a bit about it in a Twitter thread[0] and repeated here sometimes[1]. The context is custom machine learning products for large enterprise clients in the mid six-figure range that one or two individuals can pull off.

We've been doing this for seven years and fortunate to have been profitable from the start. Now building our machine learning platform[2] to streamline this and solve actual problems we faced in the real world doing real projects that enterprise clients has paid for. Some projects took us longer than what we think their irreducible duration should have been. It is important to always remember so one does not build a product around imaginary workflows, or around workflows that never produced actual paid products. i.e: when you abstract something into a product, it helps to leverage your domain expertise and it helps having shipped paid product in that space. This is a reminder to people who go into something from a different background and think nicer stylesheets/UI will solve things, or assume people in a domain are morons who never heard of "the cloud" or "Kubernetes". Sometimes you may even have to remind your team looking at other products and wanting features: have we actually ever faced that in real life or is this Aikido stuff/Don Quixote battling imaginary adversaries/problems?

Why: at some point in your consultancy, you'll notice that certain patterns emerge and that you can solve certain classes and clusters of problems you faced delivering software itself with software. That product will help you tremendously if you build it.

Happy to answer questions.

- [0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/13106682933...

- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611

- [2]: https://iko.ai
It's odd indeed that various self-organized groups of self-interested individuals assembled for their mutual benefit resemble each other in various organization aspects that can best be attributed to human nature.

One could just as easily show a strong resemblance between drug gangs and modern corporate industry, or between medieval European feudalism and modern corporate industry.
For the record, the patch (0010-set-language.patch) is not present in the accountsservice package in Debian, neither in unstable, (0.6.55-3) testing (0.6.55-3), nor stable (0.6.54.2).

https://sources.debian.org/src/accountsservice/0.6.55-3/debi...

https://sources.debian.org/src/accountsservice/0.6.45-2/debi...

The changes that fix both vulnerabilities can be viewed here: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/com...

Personally I question the logic of having accounts-daemon grovel through pam_env's config files in the first place. This isn't an API, it's an implementation detail! It just seems like a bad idea, even ignoring the vulnerability which anyone who isn't an absolute expert on the semantics of real/effective/saved UIDs & how to safely change them could have made.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/11th-usenix-security-sympo... (the famous Sendmail vulnerability therein is actually the _opposite_ of the accountsservice problem... sendmail _should_ have set the real uid as well as the effective uid, so that its effective uid could never be changed back to 0).

LWN has an excellent series of articles about thedesign of UNIX, one of which explains the problems with setuid: https://lwn.net/Articles/416494/
Should we tax bank economists even more to fund people who can't work from home?
Most likely it's a bit of both, like all TV productions nowadays.

If (when) the camera track is static, they can overlay any CGI on top of the final image to enhance backgrounds or add/remove items.
It is also lonely work to be commenting on Hacker News on pages that do not make the front page.

Anyhow, for dang and stcb (founder market fit!), I believe, with abuse in online communities on the rise, is an opportunity to dust up that YC application (stamp of approval!) and apply with a startup idea that can be repeatably (software eating the world!) sold to other companies grappling with this problem (product market fit!) unless they agree to a merger (acquihire by Stripe incoming!). Mark my words, this is going to happen someday.
Number of states that you get wrong isn’t a great measure though right? If I call if for trump at 51-49 and you call it for Biden at 75-25 and Biden wins by 51-49 I was more correct than you were, to count “states called” is the wrong way to evaluate analysis in the same way that fptp is unrepresentatove of the popular vote, ironically.
Visualization of connections between politicians and orgs awarded gov contracts
Thanks for sharing. The issue in question has been closed, and the discussion on changing the behaviour and improving the UX happens in

- Manually resolve conflicts in merge commit on the target branch: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/25014

- Add in application explanation of what Resolve Conflicts is doing: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/25003

I've added that as a comment to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/35054#not...
Deutsche Bank can fuck right of and come back once they start paying taxes and stop laundering money for the rich.

Fuck everything about this.
I'm more partial to the idea that RNA based life developed outside earth. (panspermia theory)
Certainly, when I burned out was when I decided to go independent. I waver between full time hours and part time hours, depending on the work/life split I'm after at the time, but it's all contract work.

Contracting has it's own set of challenges and it's distinct from a full-time job. I take on the risk and additional challenges of contracting in order to be able to manage my own time, but it's not for everyone.

I think you're right about compromise too. Working for FANG has become a bit of a social institution and I think some people get into the false assumption that FANG and startups are the only logical options in tech. If you're willing to compromise on location, salary and prestige, you can definitely find tech jobs outside of the various bubbles.
Everywhere the conditions for these processes are met – though it's unlikely it would be going very far on Earth, as this planet is already teeming with bacteria and other life, some of which is certain to find proto-lifeforms delicious.
I remember that the original title was the title of the press article "Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography".

Sometimes the mods change them.
I've observed the NYT's recent drift with dismay. Here's a recent example I noticed: https://imgur.com/a/uST4zE0

Somebody was murdered at a protest, and two bullet-points the NYT splashes with are "blame the victim" context hits because the deceased was on the "wrong" side.

It should not be necessary to visit a toxic site like Breitbart to get a balanced diet, but at the moment as an NYT reader I feel it is.
What you should realize is that you haven’t lost 15k.

Yay the outcome of the negotiation, the lower part of your range is something you’d be happy with, and the upper is something you’d be quite happy with.

The employer meanwhile is offering you a range from what they’d like, to what they can tolerate.

Anything you get in the middle is satisfactory to both parties, with the added benefit that you didn’t have to beg for it and they didn’t have to cave for it.

Randomness allows for some absolution of responsibility.

If you’re shameless in salary negotiations (not a bad thing for you), this system puts you at a relative disadvantage. But the median person finds salary negotiations to be nerve wracking. I think this helps people closer to the median, by allowing them to negotiate a better position without feeling as guilty about it.
> It also wouldn't apply when people are asked to stay home for a public health emergency or other medical reasons.

So what is this even attempting to accomplish if it wouldn't apply during a pandemic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25057854

Now you have.
“5 layers down”

This is precisely why I jumped ship 5 years ago to Go.
It's actually from the 2020 survey in 2019 windows was at 47,5% and in 2018 at 49,9%. Unfortunately this metric apparently wasn't tracked in 2017 so we'll never be sure if they were above 50% back then.

So currently the majority of responding dev use a POSIX (mostly)-compliant operating system. That is actual food for thought.

Sources:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#technology-_-...
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
In Germany many people are already penalized for working from home, because the tax exempts for commuting are quite generous.
I remember when the xcom reboot launched and it was a notable fact that there was a clone of the original xcom with 3d graphics. because that was the Linux gaming scene, openttd, wesnothn and emulation.

It's still amazing to me now that the only games I don't play on Linux are MMOs and competitive multiplayer because I'm worried about being banned by an overzealous anticheat. And by all accounts , the games in those categories I like do work on proton
That's Why GUI is always hackable, vulnerability are always there hidden in 01 logic !!
There's a whole book on that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

To quote wikipedia

"The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs:

flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants
goons, who oppose other goons hired by other companies, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists
duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive
box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers
taskmasters, who manage—or create extra work for—those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals
Germany continues its war on the self-employed.
Might Deutsche Bank be sitting on a non performing commercial real estate portfolio?

Alan Sugar (British Trump equivalent) similarly issued a demand for people to "get their asses back in the office" after telling everybody his commercial real estate portfolio wasn't performing: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/lord-sugar-offices-prope...

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/03/lord-alan-sugar-calls-on-gove...
Greenpeace's comment is pretty disappointing. They refuse to back nuclear without offering any reasonable alternative (let's be honest if there was a good alternative we would already be using it). Hand-wavey stuff about hydrogen and turbines don't cut it I'm afraid. They have done good work in the past, but perhaps if they had backed nuclear a long time ago we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now?

I've actually been pretty critical of them for years because of this stance they have.

And before anyone comments about Chernobyl, my view is all energy production comes with risks. You have to weigh those up against global climate change IMHO.
It’s about 40%, look it up there’s polling on it, and that’s apparently probably over representing the more trusting/sane ones. Partly joking on the last part dunno how the populated those polls.
The future of teledermatology: DocBright – Quality care from anywhere
> Last year, it received £18m to begin the design effort for the SMR concept.

I read this as implying this is a long way off...
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Yeah, no, fuck off Deutsche Bank. How would they track if I'm working from home anyway?
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Istra :)