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She mentions that someone told her about being “intimidated” by her. Is this really something we shouldn't tell other people or should we work on it?

If someone has a tick accent that I can't understand or uses too much of slang that I cannot interpret without thinking about it or if someone acts as if they are simply a puppeteer of a persona(like if they bring up their identity all the time as if everything is about this persona definition but without personality) I also get very intimidated because I don't know what to expect at my encounters. I may intend to have a quick chat about something technical and it may end up me trying to understand what I did wrong to upset this person.

It's not about races or communities or genders, some people are acting as if they try to get upset, they are fishing for a chance to bring up their agenda or make everything about themselves.

In cases where there's no stigma to confront this kind of people, you can fight back but when this person is from a community that is ready to make it a big deal, it's really intimidating to confront people that make everything about themselves or their persona.

From the way she describes her standing point, I got the impression that she would be one of the people that I would try to avoid.
The sensors have been around for ages, nothing stops you using same sensors that are in phone cameras.

But you have to build a chip to control the damn thing over usb. I coupd not find any USB3 webcam except logitech brio
If anyone is interested in how Japan was viewed by American and British visitors more than a century ago, I have put together an anthology called "Japan As They Saw It" at http://gally.net/jatsi/
The first line of the article implies that this is an old agreement "in case".

Not an agreement that they came to just now.
You confirmed the parent comment's position on the need to have a free speech platform by making the mistake of disqualifying other peoples opinion:

> I don't think I'm ever seen these topics discussed in good faith.
That's not what white privilege is. From the thread:

> Before my role existed, Google had NEVER, and I mean fucking NEVER hired an HBCU student into a tech role-

_thats_ white privilege. Even if the number isn't correct, if google isn't even looking in these places, by virtue of going there and graduating even top of your class, you have little to no chance.

There's definitely two sides to this story, but that doesn't mean you should dismiss systemic issues.
That might be likely if the password manager database is stored in the cloud. iCloud hacks seem to be at least somewhat common and iOS users often hsve no other means of syncing their password manager database.
> not treating speech critical of white men the same as hate speech
> The article doesn't really go into a lot of depth about which Logitech cameras they looked at.

All of them. Brio is better, but still has much worse quality than any top smartphone.
The first line of the article implies that this is an old agreement that they talked about "in case".

This was from before the suits against them were filed.
You are correct, of course. It doesn’t make it less credible, but it also doesn’t make it automatically credible.

I have not yet had a chance to read the letter and all commentary, but I hear echos of Max Howell’s “google didn’t hire me because I cannot invert a binary tree”.

It was obviously a rage post; it was obviously his impression of the interview (even though “inverting a binary tree”, being an ill-defined operation, is unlikely what they asked him to do).

And following that affair, my impression was that he wasn’t hired for reasons other than his programming abilities - being a team player (and specifically not being a loose cannon) matters at least as much.

I have no idea what the story is here, but taking one side or the other based on a single post (and prejudice) is not really helpful.
Your demo giflike/video was compelling enough that it made me want to immediately try it out. Neat, intuitive looking UI.

Btw, since you're aiming at non-technical folks, you might want to make it clear that the page we land in after signing up, with the "Welcome, we're thrilled to have you" text, is editable and is actually our first publishable page. Some small call to action like "click anywhere to edit this page" would help.

I'm not familiar enough with this landscape, so: how does this compare to the widely-advertised ones like Squarespace, etc.? What's the differentiator here?
Take a look at Eizo (pun intended).
A really nice list.

I would also add the following which work for me:

1. The 80-20 rule - remember that meeting 80% of the spec takes just 20% of the time and plan accordingly.

This cuts both ways. In most cases, it’s not too much work to build a prototype and ascertain whether its worthwhile to pursue further, but attaining feature completeness, even asymptotically, requires a lot more effort.

2. Be mindful of the sunk cost fallacy - it is important to identify the point of diminishing/no return and turn back immediately.

Corollary - if you think you are most likely wrong, admit to this openly, to yourself and your peers.

3. Talk the walk - If you are convinced that you have a good product/feature, don’t hesitate to push for its adoption, even in the face of inertia/resistance.

4. Remember that integrity is doing the right thing even when this may be disadvantageous to you in the short term.
Seconded, to a degree. It seems most people's workspaces are just very dimly lit. Of course, modern hypersensitive sensors from DSLRs are immune to this.

I use a relatively simple and old Logitech (C720 I believe) as webcam, and when I am in calls, I point my desk light straight at my face from just atop the webcam. This alone increases the image quality by an order of magnitude. If I would do more videoconferencing (currently only an hour or so per day, mostly with my own team) I would probably invest in a better light setup and a microphone, before I would think about upgrading my camera. Most small cheapish sensors do absolutely fine, given enough photons to work with.
Got to love the chutzpah in the hypocritical disparity between the content and other behaviour of Metallica and their ilk.

RAWK THE SYSTEM!!!!! Apart from that bit of the system which pays for my flash car, that bit of the system is just fine. BUT RAWK THE REST OF THE SYSTEM! Just to be clear, if you rock the bits of the syetm we like, we'll be sending the big boys round in their fancy suits, BUT RAWK EVERY OTHER PART OF THE SYSTEEEEEEEMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
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and magically get the problem of distributed transactions. :)
How to build a strawman 101.
Oh, you don't know how true this is.
This is a shame, Ripple was one of the few currencies with actual adoption, and actually usable for everyday transactions.
I think this idea is idealistic. It's easy to say now that we should've reacted immediately. But try just getting public support for drastic lockdown measures when the virus was new enough to have about as much impact on people's daily lives as the latest hospital bombing somewhere in Afghanistan.
usb resolution is poorer to start with. older cameras cannot run for 30+ mins before overheating.
They are mediocre at best, owners say. I know some people that have one they use as secondary cameras (for multi-angle setups), but they bought it first, got disappointed and bought something else, this is the path.
I'm not denying the gender equality paradox, that in societies where women have the choice, they chose STEM less often.

I'm not denying a genetic factor either, because I can't disprove it.

What I'm arguing against is this "tabula rasa" at age 18. Women grow up with less female role models in STEM. A Barbie doll used to say "math is hard", which speaks volumes to how prevalent this message is. Sure, 18yo haven't seen the workplace yet, but they've seen how women are treated, how higher the bar is for them, how more criticism they get when they take a risk and fail, how often they'd be the only woman in the room... Going into STEM for a boy is being safe in a group of similar peers, going into STEM for a girl is harder, because all your life, you have to prove you're good despite being a girl, and because it's lonely.

My personal view is that both genetics and society matter here. I don't have a problem with genetics, but I do have one with society.
What happens if 5 people who have encrypted random numbers (and no key) get together?
It seems I needed to include a couple of shots - one is from my laptop webcam, and the other is from my phone. What "bad lighting" is changes very much based on the camera capabilities (lens, sensor, post-processing).
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You can save yourself some trouble by using a HDMI capture device. I use one with my Sony a7ii with good results.
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You say "only" but that's a _lot_ of neutrons, and space is vast.

For one, I'd be very surprised if they didn't bump into each other, cooled down and clumped up like normal matter, which is precisely the opposite of what we expect from dark matter based on observations.

Secondly we know[1] from nuclear experiments[2] what happens when neutrons interact with matter. I'm certain a nuclear scientist could list a bunch of effects we'd see if a whole lot of neutrons were hanging around black holes and similar.

The whole point of dark matter is that observations show it interact extremely little, if any at all, with regular matter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_scattering

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_diffraction
Group code files with feature, e.g "profile", "billing" instead of "controllers", "views", so that you don't need to jump into different folders when you work on a feature.
It's been a pretty frustrating experience, but like with most health things you can't really force them so I will just have to accept it and keep going. And so far so good, the degree of impact is not such that I can not function, I just have to be a bit more careful and monitor my rest time better than before.

Thank you for the support.
They’ve got to find a way to make it not look dystopian and a place you’d like to be. A huge “nakedly” concrete structure doesn’t have much appeal. Some designs I’ve seen look like they have no guard rails, for instance. Maybe it’d look better if it looked more developed. Or if it went a fully integrated direction like a traditional high rise.
> I have also seen mention of this in spacecraft design discussion. The concept being that for things which are powered from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, it's safe to treat the RAM as storage.

I don't buy it. They specifically design these systems with duplication in nature in case RAM gets corrupted by radiation in space. So you can't treat it as storage, but for very different reasons.
There is a principled way I'd think, but very few minds remain anymore that haven't been corrupted by incompatible heuristics.
Great comment. Another few things to add to this if you are going for more broadcast quality rather than just Zoom calls:

- The lens you use if crucial. A nice and fast prime portrait lens (20-50mm f1.4 or something) will make a huge difference with indoor light and give you nice bokeh/blurred background.

- Good quality lighting is essential. El Gato have a good, but again expensive, key light you can use as your primary source of light, but you might need side-lights and back-lights too.
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Country by, of, and for the people they say about the US.

Plenty of evidence in the historical record that taking a hands off approach to politics has exactly such consequences.

Look at the emotional harm avoidant attitudes on display all over the web, and this forums “politics aren’t real, but startup a startup constrained by legal tradition of ownership & debt service!” ... how much more mindless application of agency is there?

Politicians are just people and simply reflect the popular memes.

I know covid believers into the masks and science who still go to restaurants. To support the workers, they say. Because political effort to support them financially without increasing exposure seems beyond reason to them. They should have to earn those dollars is just as embedded in nice, intelligent people.

I don’t really understand how the problem is so easily deflected as “obviously the political minority is the problem.”
I'm using an old racing bike on a stand to keep in shape, that really helps.

edit: Case in point, and I only noticed it now, my previous comment reads 'though' when I meant to write 'through'. That's the sort of thing that happens much too frequently now.
This is the same issue as with static linking. This debate is quite old and was once "decided" already in favor of dynamic linking...

Using dynamically linked libraries enforces to upgrade all dependencies in lock-step. But you need to fix bugs or security issues only once for your whole software distribution.
I recently found that old smart phones make better dash cams than the purpose built dash cams sold in stores. I turned a two year old Samsung J3 into a dash cam. The phone cost 90 bucks two years ago when it was new. The dash cam app was 4.99 and the windshield mount was 6 bucks. The video is way better quality and there are more options/settings to play with.
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Counteranecdote: I remember being on a forum for a good ten years while it had a free speech policy. It worked just fine as in practice social pressures and being shouted down kept any talk of "gas the jews" basically nonexistant.

Unfortunately, the forum moderation team became woke and started introducing rules ouutlawing types of speech they disagreed with. This ended up reinforcing a whole load of vicious cycles (conservatives self-censoring, conservatives being ejected, moderation drifting further left) and you ended up with a very nasty circle-jerk of endless posters trying to one-up eachother with the latest scandal about how Evil their enemies were. Surprisingly, it didn't just kill discussion of left vs right on social issues, it killed basically all discussion of non-culture war political topics as well, drowned out by the purity spiral circlejerk.
This cannot be overstated. While I agree with many of the camera recommendations in this thread the most important factor is enough light.

Even the worst webcams go from absolutely trash to something usable if you add better lighting to you subject.

And when people start thinking over lighting you can move away from your window so you do not have that as a powerful backlight. Look out the window and the webcam will have much better results.
A more recent one here: https://media.freifunk.net/v/evolution-of-the-babel-routing-...
You actually think someone who bought XRP at any point in the past unaware of this did reasonable diligence?
A cursory look at the literature [1] shows five confirmed recent cases of PEG allergy. PEG is used all over the place: taken internally in several OTC laxatives, applied externally in cosmetics and personal lubricant, vaporized and inhaled in electronic cigarettes, and as a solvent in many industrial processes. If PEG allergies were a serious concern, it would have risen about the noise floor a long time ago since it causes an acute reaction.

It's definitely not worth stopping clinical trials for five total confirmed cases in the medical literature, especially if those trials target a global emergency like COVID. For comparison: you'd get at least five confirmed cases of peanut allergies just by spraying down a single decent sized elementary school with peanut dust.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221321982...
I'm saying that, even if it were possible for the electrical force to explain the motion of some moon, it still can't explain other things that gravity can, and I gave two examples of phenomena that general relativity explains that en electrical universe doesn't.

But perhaps I misinterpreted your post. I took it initially to mean that you believe electrical interactions to be a better explanation than gravity for the movement of those moons - a theory that actually exists out there, called 'Electrical Universe'.

If instead you simply meant something much more specific, that there are electrical interactions that could explain mass ejections seen on these moons better than some geological explanations, then I apologize for my tangent.
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This nails the issue with creating any kind of hardware. I’ve worked for hardware developers for most of my career, and have seen these types of challenges play out.

Frankly, hardware problems are hard. The laws of physics are non-negotiable, and doing what we assume to be simple tasks at scale can be crazy difficult. Solving a problem in a lab is not the same as making it at scale. That’s why you keep reading these stories about major lab discoveries that never seem to actually materialize in product.

Us software developers get used to being able to write some code, or license a library, and the problem is solved. Scale isn’t really an issue for us. If we can do it on our laptop, then we can push out our product to millions, almost overnight.

Hardware is quite a different world. We need to tool up factories, train assemblers, set up suppliers and transportation networks, negotiate dozens of contracts; even for simple projects, resolve regulatory issues (which can be quite intimidating, depending on the industry and market), establish distribution channels and create packaging. Some of these are reflected in the software world, but at a much easier-to-manage level.

Also, with software, failure usually doesn’t cost as much as it does with hardware. It’s a lot easier to pick ourselves up, dust off our lapels, and try again. Iteration is relatively easy.

One of my favorite scenes: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
I use Bunq for more or less the same purposes. Never had an issue.
> One hypothetical case is a system that does a lot of complex in-memory reads and a few writes to persistent data structures. That kinda of system could be faster than the Java equivalent, out of the box, in Clojure.

Why would Java be slower in a read-mostly regime? Your hypothetical is not convincing. Btw, you mention "real" and then move on to "hypothetical" as an example.

Are there actually OSS "production" cases of this subset of systems where Java lags behind Clojure in performance?

> When we say "faster" or "slower" it's equally important to specify "faster" or "slower" when and where. It's a complex question with no easy answer.

These sort of subtle distinctions only matter to langauge wars and debates like this. For actuals systems that need to do work and need to be maintained, we can in fact have metrics on efficiency.

That said, fundamentally, Java affords much greater facilities to "optimize" and approach white hot performance than Clojure.
> you also can buy a great XLR microphone for $100, but then you’ll need an external sound card with phantom power supply.

this is only true if you buy a condenser microphone. a dynamic microphone will work reasonably fine with your onboard soundcard if you have an xlr-->1/8" trs cable.
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There's a ton of online sites for it. I used something custom, but the first result on google seems like it would work just fine. https://iancoleman.io/shamir/

I kept a copy of the combined secret... it's the secret key to my password manager. I do have a plain-text document that fully describes the steps to restore my identity, but it's addressed to myself. My goal is to get my own identity back, not to prepare for my own death.
Perhaps buy a tripod for a phone instead?
I see what you did there:-)
I own an old Pro 9000 and it's still respectable. Only its FPS is a little low but, it was the king of the hill when I bought it.

As I've looked now, it seems that they discontinued ones with Zeiss lenses. The ones with Zeiss lenses were both low light and clarity monsters for their size.

Their highest model is Brio Pro with 3D sensing it seems. I need to see its performance. However Logi says it has a real glass lens so it shouldn't be a slouch.

Nevertheless, it's not fair to compare a lentil sized sensor with a Full 35mm, last gen mirrorless.
Take a look at the document "Applicability of the Babel routing protocol": https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-babel-applicability-1...
Absolutly! Also, Webcams are almost not developing. e.g. the Logitech C270 is 10 years old and is still selling for 30-40€, I think almost the same price since 2010.

Imagine the phones or cameras in the year 2010. I really think the webcam industrie is a cartel (not to say mafia).
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I'm someone who came to the server side of things from the scientific Python community. IMO, that community is still learning how to incorporate Python's best practices to cater their very specific needs.

For example, if you're writing a plotting library geared towards data scientists, you're almost forced to pick brevity over verbosity even if that means violating some of Python's core philosophies. Data scientists usually come from non-compsci backgrounds and almost 90% of the codes they write, don't go to production. So, they usually prefer tools that help them get the job done quickly and they write tools following the same philosophy.
I wish you the best. Hope you get better.
What's an "encrypted random number"?

If they have 5 random numbers and XOR them together, then they won't get the key as output.
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The title has been editorialized, the study comes to a different conclusion:

> Mechanical compression alone did not explain the rise in serum testosterone, although it may have a contributory role.
Rumour has it that the imitation 'Camlink' products overheat and cut out. Probably solvable with the addition of a heatsink if true.
Yes the Kasita does look better. Would still hate moving stuff up that many flights of stairs though.
What's the outlook of antitrust action in US is like when Google, Fb are well-known sponsors of the Democratic Party?
In that case, I don't want to hear another word about 'white privilege' until we're mature enough to also confront the growing issue of 'black privilege', especially with everything that has happened this year.
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The cheap USB-HDMI is perfectly viable for using it as a webcam. Qualitywise you won't notice any difference through a highly compressed Zoom/Teams/Skype video. They can output 1080p30 or 720p60, which is again mostly irrelevant in the webcam situations.
It would be nice to have some of those basic ideas that led to your thorough explaination of the pit falls of microservice development. What you write in this post is too general, sure if you have to release your microservices as one mega monolith, then it feels like an easy choice. When your application is not suited for microservices there are still things that can be easier: updating dependencies because of security is usually easier if the whole code base needs it. So it all depends on the application, what kind of development work does it need in a ten year frame, etc.

I really do not recommend big monoliths, but the most important this is that it should be easy to start development, that is usually easier with microservices. I feel your pain the automation really only starts to matter when you are above 40 services in my view.