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Many single family home owners will strenuously object to having a developer build a 5 storey apartment building next door because they don't want additional noise, traffic, and people looking down into their private back yard. It directly impacts their quality of life.
I (try to) never do this. I'll ignore cold emails, but once I start taking to a recruiter, I'll tell them when I'm not longer interested.
I've been using my new keyboard for a few months now and haven't had any latency issues. Most of the newer custom wireless keyboards run ZMK (https://zmkfirmware.dev/) and latency issues are uncommon. If you are interested in making your design wireless, consider joining the Discord.
Here you can find a lengthy analysis on this classic XKCD:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1110:_Click_and_D...
Yeah, this is spot on.

Most people don't quite understand how homelessness works, and it's because of this whole "support network" thing. In most people's mind, homeless = bum living in a cardboard box. What actually happens in reality is someone falls on hard times and they move in with a relative, or bum a room from a friend, or etc, etc. That's what keeps them out of the cardboard box, and keeps them fed.

And that's why they're shit scared to move. Move, and all those friends and family can't help you. Even scarier, move, and you're probably scared the whole friends-and-family ties might get weaker - most people are always paranoid about whether their friends/lovers/etc still care about them, so they stay close to make sure they're "tending the fire" and keeping the friendship alive. It's human.
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It's there a reason you don't mention the company, which I assume is DuPont, by name.

So often I see comments "this company is awful", or whatever, which don't even refer to the name of the company; which I find most strange.
- Not in any given relationship it doesn't. You can't ghost someone that has already ghosted you.

- On a systemic level, you're just propagating the same crappy behaviour that you don't like to see in other people. I don't see how that makes things better for anyone.
Agreed, this made my day! Such a fun idea and well executed.
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Tesla: the sporty, luxury, fashionable, functional car that just happens to be electric.
To say nothing of whether it's appropriate or fair, "name-and-shame" can certainly change dynamics because people generally want to avoid reputational harm.

That said, this service isn't actually doing that - it's sending anonymous notes to the alleged bad actor in private, which of course wouldn't have that effect.
The context here, from the top level comment, is AAA game companies and the developers working for them though. In that context, that and indie developer came to the same conclusion after a while is probably just more evidence for the original point.

In a larger studio, even if code sharing isn't common as is expressed here, at a minimum having someone around that sees boost and says "don't do that" is probably a given.
I understand the sentiment and I agree with that

I don’t see any regulatory framework or statute or case law that matches it

You can’t assume the rights holder is giving tacit consent to non-license holders to share. You can assume they are mitigating bandwidth constraints using the bittorrent protocols. Assuming the other seeders are pirates like “you” is the bad assumption here. Relying on autoseeding software to distort the legal reality is the bad assumption here (someone else mentioned this).
How commonly do candidates actually get ghosted? Clearly it happens, but this doesn't seem like a serious problem.
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Yeah, very similar idea. The zip trick is awesome; especially letting the browser do the decompression is brilliant. My version has a couple features you might want: automatically opening the browser when launched and shutting down the server when the last tab is closed, and a debug mode where it serves directly from the filesystem to make editing easier. Man, I can think of so many cool features I'd want to add to this as well:

CGI support. Maybe also an option to embed node or deno, or even tcc for directly executing C source as CGI scripts.

Embedded writable SQLite DBs. Appending would clearly be tricky but probably doable.

PWA support, giving you native notifications, launcher icons, and top-level windows sans browser chrome just like a native GUI app.

Option to morph into various app formats (apk, appx, ipa) and instant install on a connected phone or upload to app stores. (Wait, actually all of these formats are based on zip! So maybe this wouldn't even need that much morphing? Just some extra cruft in the zip file, some code signing BS, and maybe an embedded copy of adb.)

With all these features it might not be tiny anymore but it could make a pretty complete cross platform native app dev environment contained in a single file. Still way smaller than Electron.
Agreed. If I can tell ahead of time that the recruiter is a ghost, then I can tell them I don't want to work with them because they've got a bad reputation on the ghost-list. Like a bad yelp review, that will hopefully motivate them to change. As long as new reports keep coming in, their full history remains. But old reviews should start to fall off the ghost-list after a certain amount of time without a new report of ghosting (to reward the positive change in behavior).
I used to write a lot of Haskell and tbh I find the idea of restricting IO to the edges of an application to be equally as important in traditional imperative programming languages as well. It's just good design, not a PITA.

It seems to be a common view point that Haskell makes IO difficult. I actually personally found that it was more powerful because I was being more explicit about it. It also allowed for higher ordered functions to abstract common patterns in IO. The only difficulty in Haskell was not due to monads or type safety, but rather in getting my brain to understand lazy evaluation by default.
> And actually all of those things are problems with the default prelude and not the language core.

This directly means "a problem with the lanuage" to any beginner with the language. Since it's the default Prelude. So a beginner has to somehow learn that there are issues with Prelude, that there are other preludes, find the differences between them, select one, and then reconcile the inevitable differences between those preludes and the official one when reding various docs.

...

And then figure out wich of the two dozen language extensions you need to use to even write something useful beyond a "Hello, world".
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I'd agree on the public shaming point - something like Glassdoor that could be anonymous?

You can also privately shame these behaviours by directly reaching out to hiring managers at the companies they're recruiting into and informing them it's damaging to their reputation. I've done this after being hired - told the new company that they should switch recruiters due to bad practice.
Okay you are right, GHC does not produce a stable ABI with dynamic libraries. But it could do so in principal, no problem with laziness itself. It just would be a lot slower without all the cross module inlining and so GHC chooses not to. The archlinux haskell packagers could just ship programs as statically linked binaries and not recompile them on each minor dependency upgrade (except if there is a security upgrade). The binaries would not have any dependency on haskell packages themselves and you would not be forced to upgrade the whole package graph when some dependency is bumped, that would also save a lot of download bandwidth. I'm not sure that anyone really needs haskell packages (besides standalone programs) from the system package manager. No haskell dev I know builds their programs this way.
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Hmm. It's reasonable to assume one human could save more than "a bunch of" dogs' lives by dedicating their post-decision life to doing so. I wonder what they'd think about this as a reason to save your own life.
Recruiters are by far the most rude selfish people I’ve interacted with professionally. I get a sense it’s usually, but not always, younger people that weren’t able to get a more prestigious job and tend to take it out on applicants which gives them a feeling of superiority they’ve been craving.
"But there were billions to trillions of dollars in fake wealth that turned out never to have existed" That is not true. They were financial assets which only have the value that people put into them. They are underpinned by confidence. Confidence goes away, it takes value with it.

"no serious attempt was made to figure out who exactly was screwing up" Exactly. Some very powerful people got very rich and it was in now bodies incentives to find anybody accountable.

These are interesting and may help you understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment

https://www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/
This is just wildly incorrect. Landlords are very strongly opposed to left wing groups in SF, based on political funding. Landlords are the number one target of progressive legislation. The most left wing supervisor is literally a tenants rights attorney who ran on protecting rent control and wrote the law banning evictions.
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Only if you got them to sign an ITAR End User Certificate and you have a reasonable belief that it was completed truthfully.

HP for example is still heavily involved in the investigation of Huawei's export of HP hardware to Iran. They didn't get to just point and say "go talk to them."
My impression of Haskell is that (1) people who use Haskell as a hobby often write libraries to show off (2) people who use Haskell professionally write proprietary software.

One of the problems with languages like Haskell, Erlang, and Lisp is that they’re so flexible that you often don’t know what you’re getting into when you read somebody else’s codebase. You often see projects written in these languages with a small core team that understands e.g. SBCL and the various macro libraries they use to get work done, or Haskell and the monad transformer stack they use in their app, and it’s very hard over the long-term to on-board new team members and bring them up to speed at a rate which keeps the team healthy.

Maybe this is an inherent problem with “flexible/powerful” languages.

There are a few Haskell tools around that people do regularly use—Git Annex, although Git LFS seems to have edged it out in popularity, and Pandoc, which I’d say is powerful and irreplaceable.

Maybe zero people are writing lens libraries in C, but C does have a fair number of different string libraries around, exception / error handling libraries, and a bunch of people churning out terrible “single-header” libraries which only exist because average C programmers aren’t good at working with common, mediocre C build systems.
Keep in mind that for a lot of recruiters it's a number game.

They, mostly, spam mindlessly until they reach whatever quota they get. You can try and shame them but chances are they'll be at a new place spamming you again in a few months.

Either that or selling used cars.
Right now, the interconnects are used to import power, so they're not a limiting factor for local production.
This is something I'm trying to figure out how to better communicate about the project, and there will be another blog post on this soon. Buttplug is both a floor cleaner AND a dessert topping, and that can really be detrimental to the initial developer experience.

There's a dichotomy in this project that's difficult to resolve:

- Community wants sex toy access because there isn't much else out there that does this.

- I wanna learn new stuff and also have a weird "LET'S PUT DOOM ON IT" mentality of having the library support everywhere.

So we end up with support for lots of toys, but it's on top of a complicated, violently async rust library that is in some cases compiled to WASM, which is a whole stack of technologies not a lot of people are familiar with.

To torture another metaphor, I've ended up building the hulking game engine for sex toys, when a lot of people would be fine with some Atari 2600 games that vibrate. Lots of people are going to have 1 toy they want to control with 1 simple interface, where my interest lies in "how does someone release a game on Steam that seamlessly supports whatever the user shows up with".

The updated developer guide (https://buttplug-developer-guide.docs.buttplug.io) is my first crack at trying to cater to all audiences, but it's got a long way to go, and the only way to test documentation is to hopefully wait for feedback from people who read it.

But that's why try to I keep both the protocol and reverse engineering documentation up to date. I don't want people to have to go and reimplement things, but if it has to happen, I want to make it as easy on them as possible.
“I received this note today from a young woman about my article on Pornhub.”
The author probably underestimates the limitations of Unity, especially earlier versions from back when The Witness was made. It would kind of be surprising if all the things in that game were possible to do with reasonable performance in Unity back then, especially without paying ~50k+ for source access.

It feels like the article almost but doesn't quite touch on it: there's people firmly in multiple camps, and gamedev tends to be camp 3, but also very often camp 2 and/or camp 1.

To get AAA or even AA games running requires a lot of dogma from camp 2. Graphics programming, procedural generation, and gameplay systems complex enough to produce emergent gameplay would be camp 1 from the sounds of it.

I feel my feet firmly stuck in all 3, at any rate.
Public shaming of individuals is really bad form. While it may solve problems in the immediate all it does is make people walk on egg shells in the future and doesn't really teach anything meaningful. In my opinion its tantamount to bullying or abuse. I see this kind of stuff on Blind all the time and it's disconcerting to see.

If you want some technical proof to this cultural concept, examine why blameless post-mortems exist. We learned a long time ago that naming larger organizations and not individuals incentivizes positive group-oriented change.

The more mature thing to do is develop relationships with recruiters so that your interactions are not so transactional. This requires you to be less lazy too, but leads to more positive outcomes overall as it has for me.
> I think the real lesson here is everyone is getting squeezed out.

To me the lesson is if you have any idea how to create a good (> 5%) return on investment, then it's your time to shine! The world is awash in capital looking for a home, and it could be your project. I would propose the real issue is more of the berkshire hathaway problem, in that there are plenty of opportunities to make good returns, just few of them billion dollar sized (in terms of position size).

Consider something like putting solar on one's home. It can have an ROI of 10-30% (quick google), but organizing a multi-million dollar investment on others' homes is administratively tough. So the "little guy" (home owner in this case) can have an opportunity to place ~$50k at a high ROI...

Now, if you're talking about really poor (like hand to mouth) then their best investments are likely in education and skills training. A sort of intangible capital that (afaik) no market keeps track of.
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I don't think this thread was about stigma. It was about whether thing called homelessness can happen to otherwise functional people. Whether such a thing exist.

The thing about what you call hardcore homelessness is the serious mental health issues many of those people have. And that is much bigger harder issue.
A lot of people are exhausted by working 40+ hour jobs where they are treated badly allowing them mere sustenance because health and accommodation have become so unaffordable.
Before I say anything - I just tried it out and it's essentially a completely open spamming system - send anything to any email address. For that reason alone it won't last. But anyhow to talk to the subject matter:

I'm a recruiter.

I understand the feeling that this comes from.

Recruiters and recruiting don't have a great reputation in general.

If you're interested in WHY ghosting happens it's pretty simple:

Recruiters have a vast flow of inbound information (resumes).

Recruiters are contingency paid - they only get paid if they successfully place a person into a job - this focuses time and effort down a very specific path.

Recruiters manage many many recruiting processes simultaneously, each with varying likelihood of success.

Employers are part of the process.

The whole process is lumpy and drawn out.

Eventually the recruiter gets to hear if a candidate is successful or not.

I personally try to get back to anyone who does any sort of interview, because it's polite and I appreciate it cost that person time and effort.

Sometimes I don't - that task falls through the cracks.

That's all - that's why it happens. Perhaps some recruiters never get back to people but it's not really in their interests to behave like that.

AND FYI - recruiters get ghosted too by employers for various reasons - I just try to be patient and understand and focus on the future.

ALSO I'm a recruiter and also a programmer - I once got ghosted after doing 12 hours doing a coding test ... never heard from the company again. I know how it feels.
I think what you're describing are the behavioral aspects resulting from covid. I've done some analysis on the changes in sleep behaviors on about 100,000 people using a sleep tracking app, if you're interested: https://jeffhuang.com/covid_sleep/

A visualization showing differences between countries illustrates the median changes in when people wake up is related to the country's response to covid: https://jeffhuang.com/covid_sleep/wakeups-countries-20200829...

And all in all, about half of people have changed their sleep behavior; about 2/3 of those sleep more hours, and 1/3 of them sleep fewer hours. The usual caveat of a self-selecting population sample applies here.
That is a pretty weak response. I believe we should judge the impact of cultural traditions by their practice not by their supposed theoretical scorecard. Your statements could be equally applied to all the major monotheistic traditions and look how much war and suffering they have produced.
"""Unfortunately, this news leaked out before the team had finished their analysis, so we’re left to read tea leaves and parse vague newspaper statements instead of reading their paper on the topic (which does not exist because they’re not done with their analysis!)

Someone in the “astronomical community” (we don’t know if they are even a member of the team) leaked the story to the Guardian. Their hand having been forced, the team then gave interviews to Scientific American and NatGeo with some more details, emphasizing that the signal is probably RFI. Now, I’m pretty grumpy about this. SETI has extensive post-detection protocols that were not followed by the leaker, exactly to avoid this sort of situation. Especially since the team was definitely going to announce this, there’s no need for the leak."""

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It's a bit amusing that after decades of SETI touting their post-detection protocol, they couldn't even keep a sorta-maybe interesting find under wraps for five minutes before someone went running to the media.

Where's Jodie Foster when you need her?
In theory that’s what bitcode protects against.

Today, that doesn’t save binaries not distributed through the store or ones you compiled yourself via other compiler chains.

It is possible to change that. One could even imagine it as part of the loading procedure.

https://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/
I'm glad you've gotten a good response. I called out a recruiter on the phone once for putting me through a bait and switch interview process. I got nothing but incredulity for my troubles. Still felt good though, and I don't care if I ever see or hear from that company again.
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> I guess it seems completely unremarkable that someone would have useful things to say in one regard while having less useful things to say in another.

No, he has a long established pattern of attracting a crowd by talking about basic self-help and then sneak in politically charged ideas like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th... , "people are lobsters", and plenty of sexism.

> I view him in the context of a university professor who wrote a book and has some lectures online, not in the context of the mega-celebrity he became.

You can't pick and choose the context: a person is responsible for they say in public.

Besides, even as a university professor a person is responsible for speaking honestly.

> being catapulted to fame ... muddy their message quite a bit.

No, he was playing the same tricks since the beginning. There are a lot of old videos on youtube.
Key bit:

The problem of voter suppression is compounded by the misuse of the Electoral College. The Framers originally designed delegates to the Electoral College to vote according to districts within states, so that states would split their electoral votes, making them roughly proportional to a candidate’s support. That system changed in 1800, after Thomas Jefferson recognized that he would have a better chance of winning the presidency if the delegates of his own home state, Virginia, voted as a bloc rather than by district. He convinced them to do it. Quickly, other state officials recognized that the “winner-take-all” system meant they must do the same or their own preferred candidate would never win. Thus, our non-proportional system was born, and it so horrified James Madison and Alexander Hamilton that both wanted constitutional amendments to switch the system back.
It seems that lunar darkside observatory can't come soon enough: it would be immune to much of this suspected human interference. It would also be relatively easy to set up with existing robotic rover tech, laying long runs of wire on the surface.
I’m always amazed by these negative knee-jerk reactions whenever cryptocurrencies are discussed here. What pleasure do you get from berating other people for their hobby? It’s like commenting in a thread about an emacs plugin just to shit on emacs and its users because you prefer another IDE. I see no other explanation for this behavior than sour grapes.
I don't know how exactly you quantify "disrupting a population’s routines", but Florida's unemployment is roughly double what it was a year ago. It doesn't seem like everything is normal there.
If you have the time, mind detailing some of the legal issues?
Excellent. This what I am looking for. Last month I interviewed by somebody from FortiNet in Vancouver.

Long story, it was worst experience of my professional work.

and the worst part is they ghosted me after it.
As I understand it, Intel will also sell you a compiler that can optimize better than GCC because they know internal microarchitecture details. To me, that seems like a more clear-cut by-design conflict of interest between chip designer and user than these undocumented instructions.
Very interesting. I'd love a way to download a highlighted version of the PDF that I fed to Tuchu.

I uploaded a PDF version of a Wikipedia article to see what was selected, and at a quick glance, it's not obvious to me that the most important parts of the article have been highlighted. On the other hand, it's not obvious that trivial parts have been selected either -- leaving me intrigued to look further.