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I haven't heard of this.
Add to this that companies now screen your social media presence. You get turned down for jobs if you say something wrong.

It's no longer safe to have an opinion that's not mainstream.

It's held against you.
City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank.

From TFA.

The Manhattan Institute (MI) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank founded in 1978 by William J. Casey, who later became President Ronald Reagan's CIA director.[1] It is an associate member of the State Policy Network....

The Manhattan Institute has received funding from the Koch brothers. The Claude R. Lambe Foundation, one of the Koch Family Foundations, reported giving $2,075,000 to the Manhattan Institute between 2001 and 2012, the last year for which data is available. The Charles G. Koch Foundation gave $100,000 to the Institute in 2012.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Instit...
Children do not see difference between 40 and 90 year old. We are all the same to them.
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>God forbid anyone have an opinion that isn't progressive through and through.

Realize that this cuts both ways. This sentiment, and the various more extreme versions of it, are why I don't typically say things that sound left/liberal in real life.
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Yes, that's pretty much what I was picturing as well. Sorry if it didn't come through in the way I told the story.

But yeah, the part of this story that I love is that as someone who reads and triages a lot of bug reports, I'm always disappointed by how few people put in even the barest of efforts to reproduce and characterize a bug.

This person, on the other hand, spent the time and effort to reproduce a bug that would actually cause a fire, and characterize it well enough that it could be reproduced and fixed.
AFAIK COBOL was never popular in ex-Soviet republics, but "natural programming language" was taught in most schools in some form. Usually it wasn't considered a real programming language, though, just something like a pseudocode before translating it to basic or pascal.
Interesting discussion here far outclasses the article itself, which looks like a thinly-disguised press release on a horribly spammy website. I wonder if there are better sources available.
He probably does; he's got more tech credentials than every other major US politician. He founded a CRM company in the 90s, sold to Microsoft for $1billion, then worked as an executive there for multiple years (and was Satya Nadella's direct manager/mentor).
This would be true if we were the first or near first advanced species. But we cannot be because there far many more older stars and planets. If you believe that advanced life forms will revolve in 3B yrs given hospitable planet then there had probably been many many such opportunities before Earth in Milky Way. At this point then we should expect to hear other civilizations screaming all over.
Yeah, the reason is that Methane and Hydrogen are excellent ways to store large amounts of energy.
Writing a Lisp transpiler is a great exercise, and becomes more involved but more also educational as the source and target language become more and more distant. Here's my Scheme to JS transpiler that supports higher order functions, variadic lambdas, set! and recursion.[0] The function that performs the conversion is https://github.com/siraben/lisp-to-js/blob/0251892e55d1a88f9...

- Lisp -> JS is quite easy, good practice for AST representation and working with trees

- Lisp -> C is more challenging, you'll need to perform
closure conversion and generate C structures to hold the environment, see[1] as an example for another functional language

[0] https://github.com/siraben/lisp-to-js

[1] https://github.com/jozefg/pcf/blob/master/explanation.md
I had a friend in college who got to maintain a piece of banking software. There was no source code, no documentation, and no team to contact. A running binary was all he had to work with.

After so much maintenance and improvement had been done on the compiled binary, the source code wouldn’t help even if you had it.

Lots of fun stories.
Interesting article.
If I understand correctly, the equivalent for the decimal 216 (hexadecimal D8) must be "stormy" or "stupendous".

And in this case "209.216.230.240" translates to "stairway stupendous tracker upcoming".

Thanks for sharing.
> JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE CONSERVATIVE.

I'd like to think conservative doesn't necessarily come with the persecution complex and lack of coherence on display in your comment. I can think of a few counterexamples.

A few.
Replace "amazon is evil" with "amazon is making the absolute most money for their investors possible".
Yes! This is why I love this story so much. I triage so many bug reports that don't even have the barest of effort putting in to reproducing or minimizing them, so it's like pulling teeth to figure out what the problem actually is.

The fact that someone put enough effort in to reproducing and characterizing a bug report for a bug that actually caused a fire is amazing!
My friend, Google tells you how this works. Pinterest doesn't have secret knowledge.
>>This isn’t a partisan issue. “The percentage of Democrats who are worried about speaking their mind is just about identical to the percentage of Republicans who self-censor: 39 and 40 percent, respectively,” Gibson and Sutherland report.

From the article. How odd that a partisan issue would occur at the exact same rates on both sides.
Doesn’t the “strlcpy” example near the bottom of the page overwrite the buffer by one byte when the source string is as long or longer than the buffer?

Imagine I have a three byte buffer, n is 3 and I copy in “foo”. The result of the MIN is going to be three. And d[3] is the fourth byte of my three byte buffer.
There’s always Go or Ruby or Elixir (and the usual bucket of Java and c etc) whatever paying way more at startups and big companies.

I see hitting wrong with hiring some Latvians. They have competent programmers.

Those wages would have gone up if the Latvians didn’t figure out this niche existed.

So many developing countries have and incredible about of opportunity in front of them just copying what the US did and our pays lots for. If I was born in any of them I’d look around at what the developed countries had that works without the usual awful gov meddling and do a top end offering of it for my country.

The great thing about programming is you can really think of anything and just do it (like wise with entrepreneurship). If you want to make money either exploit existing obvious underserved markets or build a new one with actual value creation people pay for.

The suckers in developing countries sit around waiting for their gov to figure everything out for them. They’ll be waiting their whole life until gov agencies catch on to value creation opportunities.

It’s always those who go out to look for it. Small businesses and whatnot used to be the for new immigrants to North America and largely is. But too much of the existing population forgot that and blame the past generations or gov or their culture pushing useless degrees instead of going out and trying to find opportunities themselves.
"Significantly" is a pretty bold claim. Earth gets insane amounts of solar power, a few hundred extra square kilometers of panels in space won't make much of a difference.
Same for me, Brave on Android. Your personal site works though.
I think they meant Latvians here are being portrayed as friendly or harmless like Canadians often are as well — not so much a reference to standard of living.
RISC-V, Linux of the chip world, starting to produce technological breakthroughs
Yeah, rule #1 of whatever plan you formulate for the future of agriculture is "You need to grow enough food for at least 8-10 billion people for the next two centuries." So any chance to grow extra food is a win.
Why did this get downvoted? This is correct description of the project. It is even written in readme.
The Governor has a background in tech.
They did at mine 15 years ago. Two semesters of it. Ugh.
Probably cheaper to hire the Latvian from Latvia than bring either Indians from India or just already recently settled Indians in the tri state area (who are almost always pretty highly paid).
> I can see Kernel or Neuralink as one obvious example, but beyond that...

The thing is that Biohacking (Biopunk sub-genre) has been a long associated part of Cyberpunk lore. but the tech is still in its early infancy as its done in underground communities with very low to no budgets by disgruntled biologists who left the Industry, like myself. And often have way too much going on to focus on the immense struggle of bring something to Market.

I'm a Biohacker with borderline transhumanist leanings, but I prefer to focus on the diet and fitness based modifications/alterations for longevity, cognitive enhancement and performance rather than actual physical implants for now because they are simply not there. But I'm entirely open to them and I think they will be common place.

But you should check out a few biohacker/grinder events and documentaries online because their is definitely going to be growth in things like self-administered smart drugs that interface with interactive things like smart-clothing that are analyzing all kinds of bio-metrics in the next few years.

The CEO of Lululemon is a big player in that space and comes from 'tactical' clothing for the 'extreme sports' era in the 90s (snowboarding) at a time when when it was non-existent and thought to be absurd in most circles only to create an immense business model with the advent of things like X-games. The same thing with his yoga wear with Lulu lemon that struck it really well as more and more people were ditching the bar-scene after the 2008 financial crisis--its a really thought provoking business model and trajectory if I'm honest and I really don't care much about fashion, let alone women's clothing.

The issue with that kind of tech envisioned in the Cyberpunk genre, like most hardware, is that its likely going to need tons of investment so it falls to the centralized pitfall (Mega Corps) and is part of the dystopic lore; which is something I'd like to prevent as I think their is tons of potential for that beyond the low-hanging fruit non-sense from an Apple Watch. The maker-spaces at Caltech were a cool spot to see what some were developing, I'm sure Stanford and MIT has something similar.
That part is a slight amount of hyperbole for humor value.

But the fact of the matter is, the submitter did actually reproduce the problem enough times that they were able to effectively characterize the problem.

And that's what I love about this story. Given how many bug reports I get in which no effort has been put in to trying to reproduce, characterize, or minimize the problem, I love that this reporter was willing to do enough of that to file a good bug report even for a problem that caused a fire in a piece of expensive equipment.
Theoretically, there is no aerodynamic difference between a rotating, perfectly smooth cylinder and a non-rotating one. I'm not a physicist, but judging by the fact that basketballs tend to perform best in popular Magnus effect demonstrations, I'm assuming some surface texture is necessary.
What's the point of monitoring unless you can get paged about outages?
> It is never too late, but do not let that be an excuse to delay any decision.

Beautiful, this is the explanation I was looking for because whenever I'd hear that "it's never too late," I just felt like that enabled procrastination, but your explanation solidified that life is not long, but rather it is short indeed. It's true that it's not too late for many of your future opportunities, but eventually, time will run out.
I think it was implied that the motivation would be a lack of resources here. Space and water to start with probably.
I was just thinking about this the other day in a happy hour call. People were asking about favorite christmas (crap can I even say christmas?) movies. I actually have one, but then I was thinking, this is an older movie, and who knows, maybe it's now controversial in some way. Were any of the actors caught up in a scandal that should make me now dislike the movie? People may judge that I like a movie with X terrible person. Honestly, I'd rather just not say anything.
Funnily enough, from a few years ago until about a month ago, 130K was the bottom salary to avoid having to prove that an H1B hire didn't take a US worker's job. Or something along those lines. Point being, it was a statutory number. Perhaps coincidentally in your example, but...

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-new-H1B-130K-salary-requireme...
You’re bang right about the GP, but you should probably read more conservative thought if you can only think of a few coherent conservatives. (Trump and his boot-lickers are not a good advert for the movement....) The guys at The Dispatch might be a good start, they’re insightful and funny.
A downside of this approach is the binary can't be executed with the exec system call because the kernel doesn't recognize scripts without a shebang. It can only be executed from within a shell.
FATCA sucks, cannot believe EU accepted something like that into the legislation.

Recently, one of the banks in EU falsely flagged me as a potential US citizen. I had to file tons of forms to opt out.

I couldn't figure out why, there was no reason for that since I've got no ties with US and I've visited as tourist only couple of times. Then I realized my phone number I used in communication with the bank is Canadian (live in Canada, but EU citizen). Please note that the country code for Canada and US is the same (+1). What a joke.

The problem is the EU banks are forced to be compliant with this thing, but they have no clue who is US citizen and who is not. So they can just guess.
Is it not obvious that "look for the helpers" is intended for those without power, with the implication that those who can should "be the helpers"? The value of Mr. Rogers was in both caring for others intentionally and thinking deeply about what people need emotionally.
If you’re pumping water at any volume you’re using electricity (or fossil fuels).

You can build head with a windmill, but moving water (gpm) requires horsepower.

Also: LEDs are very efficient vs other types of lighting.
How can you simultaneously have almost half of the votes to Republicans and a “vast majority” of people not even talking to conservatives?
Not a good article. The comparison with Stalin’s USSR is just absurd. And there are not many examples given. What are these unacceptable views that dare not speak their name?
About the game itself: I've only seen the PS5 footage on youtube and to be honest I think the bugs aside, crashes and save game issues, they made an incredibly beautiful Open-World game with clear limitations on launch with the belief they were intentionally going to expand as years went on as it took so long to develop what they had.

Someone posted a video, from a bug no less, that showed the entire Map and it seems the Launch sites for the rockets may actually be utilized as they coincide with the 'Corpo' story-line and gameplay dialouge, its just not an accessible part yet.

And that's the issue, CDPR made an amazing product visually but were cut-short before it was all polished and expanded and may have been cut-short entirely if you believe certain rumors, likely due to unrealistic management demands and release pressure. Had I actually bought mine instead of passing on it I probably wouldn't have bothered with a refund, Watchdogs Legion had similar bugs, too, and Online play is still not available which was a critical part of its selling point, but pretty much went under the media's radar.

Instead the producer just reduced the price by 30% in less than 2 months since it's release, which if they reduced the expansion/DLC too it would totally be forgiven until Online play is available.

What I personally don't get after not gaming for nearly a decade is this new ever extractive business model of expansions and DLC they created; you pay ~$60 for a game on release day only to have to pay even more for Online play (Sony+) and then pay the game creators even more for DLC to give the game more play until it can be played Online.

I get micro-transactions (less than a dollar) for in game skins or something equally as trivial, but $30 more for something that should have been sold is why I think I'm too old and have way more interesting stuff to spend my money on to care for this stuff anymore. And I'm their 'prime demographic.' It's no longer just nickle and diming you to keep things going, its asking someone to pay sums that exceed the actual game cost just to use it as it was intended and otherwise succumbing to software based planned-obsolesce.

It's absurd, my PS4 Pro came with Mortal Kombat 11 as a bundle and I was a die hard MK fan as a kid and I had all the games up until PS2, so when I inserted the game I noticed 1/2 the characters on the screen were missing and I thought I got a demo instead of the real thing only to look it up online and realize that you have to buy those characters as an add-on. So, I never bothered to play it and just saw the fatalities and brutalities online which is what all I really wanted to see anyway.
While I agree with this, I think its important to keep in mind that students right out of college and who have not taken part in our society's big discussion on how to address racial/gender inequality and working towards equal proportion may not speak with the greatest of nuance. Give room for people to speak on their authentic experience (without trying to feel any personal offense) and give this forum to people who identify on any side of the political aisle. I happen to take the opinion that this so-called "Anti-Racist" movement happens to espouse quite a few policies that are discriminatory. Its not to say that some of their efforts are bad, but there needs to be room for critique without accusations of harboring racial resentment. The lack of room of express is creating resentment IMO.
The pride in their expedited timeline (Two years) is pretty funny considering the other high-tech advances we’ve made in half the time...

Maybe Etsy sellers needed help responding to the RFP?
It seems that sharing plans would be fine after verifying citizenship of the recipient.
You are grossly exaggerating. The leaders of most businesses (executives and CEOs) are conservative, the millions of people are able to get along just fine. The people who are being ostracized are people who say or advocate for awful things. I am guessing based on your intense, ridiculous sensitivity on this issue that is what happened to you.
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I think you're getting downvoted because your post includes a great deal of profanity and comes across as an angry rant. I say this as someone who is generally politically conservative: like all things in life, you've got to pick your battles.

I am actually starting to see a backlash against the politicization of the workplace and think Coinbase got it right, personally. At the end of the day, companies are not college campuses. Trying to turn it into one makes the company uncomfortable, less productive and just... weird. See the recent flare ups at Google, which is hardly a bastion of conservative thought, as an example.
Water offers a lot more friction than air and requires a lot more energy to push a ship through than can be generated even if we cover the entire ship surface with panels. Of course, it can offset some of the energy requirements. The ship can be made wider to accommodate more panels, but that in turn increases the contact between water and hull, increasing friction. If we extend the panels over the hull, wing-like, the ship will be unstable under the windy conditions often found at sea.
> The Five Whys specifically does not stop at a single root cause or fault, that's why it's the five why's and not the one.

The Five Whys is a good start. It gets you thinking past the first cause you see. But it still suggests that there is a single causal chain with a single root issue. Something like STAMP is designed to find any possible contributing factors, whether they are related in a causal chain or only had an indirect impact on the loss.

> Moreover, robustness cannot emerge from a single event no matter how much you analyze it. It comes from continuous improvement processes, quality assurance, war games, service level analysis, etc. It's a multi-headed hydra of efforts to improve a system.

I don’t think I said anything which contradicts this, and I generally agree. The point I was, perhaps unclearly, trying to make is that by including any possible contributing factor in your analysis, you can fix many issues you learned about from a single event. Issues which may have been contributing factors to future, different events. One loss is not enough to fix all the holes, but you want to learn as much as you possibly can from each one when it happens.
1. Quitting a very stable tech job to start a company. I was 40, had a one year old and stay at home wife

2. Trying everything possible to make the company a success. Learning a lot in the process.

3. Realizing 2 years later, the business wasn't going to work. Shutting it down while I had some money left in the bank and finding a full time job. Ironically, the new company valued the combination of professional and founder experience highly, and I ended up with a 40% bump from my pre-founder income

4. Then prioritizing paying off nearly $70k in credit card debt (business related) over the next couple of years. Again, learning a lot in the process.

5. Consciously communicating and making decisions with the wife throughout the journey. Now it seems like if we could survive that experience financially, we can survive anything.

I learnt more about risk, negotiation, personal finances, communication and above all my own biases & limitations in these 4 years than in my 15 years of career prior to that. Wouldn't trade for anything.
Indeed, within those 5 million years, we've produced coherent electromagnetic signals for just a bit over 100 years, and will probably go dark again before another 100 years elapse. Already, most of our electromagnetic information bandwidth is confined to fiber optic cables. Like a primitive Dyson sphere. Our remaining free space communications are increasingly designed to be virtually indistinguishable from noise.

Perhaps the evolving spectroscopic signature of our atmosphere will provide a durable signpost. The earth terraformed itself well before intelligent beings ever evolved, and maybe an astute and patient observer might have been able to guess that we were on our way towards intelligent life at some point.
It might still be that there is probably barely 1 advanced life form per galaxy. We know that organic molecules and related evolution requires air, water, temperature and stability that Earth like planets can afford. Unfortunately, to be Earth like planet, you don’t just need right distance from the star but abundance of water, minerals and so on. You must maintain magnetosphere otherwise water will be gone. You must have right moon otherwise axis will wobble with eradicate seasons. Even there life had been almost wiped out many times. There are half dozen human like species which were extinct and never panned out. All these goes on to show that even with 100B stars, you just need handful of probability to chope it down to one or so instances.

The non-existence proof of ETI also means laws of physics are cruel and cannot be violated. There is almost 100% chance that advanced life forms exist in other galaxies, may be even billion year old. But no one has figured out how to travel faster than light.