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Working code (beyond super basic CRUD) that maintains a companies revenues is 'priceless' not 'worthless'.

It's 'worthless' to outside parties, but that's completely besides the point.

I worked at a Networking startup that made it's own ASICs and was sold for billions on the legit premise of 'working silicon'. The plans were actually stolen by a contractor who walked out, and while bad, were a little besides the point because they can't reasonably be used by others.

It's like saying 'GM's factory is worthless'. Well maybe on the free market, but as an operating entity it's worth a lot.

And yes, 'autonomy' is a nice thing for senior devs, but it's also hard to do in practice.
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In this instance I'm more than happy to bring in Godwins rule, but yeah I'm pretty sure there were janitors in the Nazi party as well just doing their job.
> Onboard the vehicle, the POWERPASTE is released from a cartridge by means of a plunger. When water is added from an onboard tank, the ensuing reaction generates hydrogen gas in a quantity dynamically adjusted to the actual requirements of the fuel cell. In fact, only half of the hydrogen originates from the POWERPASTE; the rest comes from the added water

OK sounds great! so this stuff is more sensitive to moisture than LiPo batteries and yet has to be dispensed somehow; that's going to be fun.

I'd like to see the reaction, here... We talking a little steam or dropping sodium chunks into a pond?
There are relatively good solutions like dns fronting on Amazon or Google, but they frown upon being used that way.
m-net.arbornet.org or some such?

Why do I remember that and why does it sound familiar?

(And after writing the above, my next thought was "Jennie? Jennie Garth? Describe her." -- yes, I'm odd.)

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EDIT: Oh, cool, it still exists [0] (And my questions are now answered!)

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[0]: http://m-net.arbornet.org/m-net.php
Signal is taking a leaf out of Telegram's book here in crowd-sourcing censorship circumvention which has worked so well for Telegram in Russia, especially.

One could use censorship evading VPNs like Tor, Lantern, Shadowsocks, Psiphon in addition to using these proxies. They all have different evasion mechanisms.

The thing that works for user-run proxies is, it is like a hydra, you censor one proxy another crops up.
> We don’t want to give them a read-only world

One pan make many valid arguments about iPads vs PCs, and open vs walled gardens, but calling an iPad a 'read-only' device is NOT one of them.

My brilliant 12 year old daughter is an artist (both 2 and 3d, depending on her whims), and uses an iPad as a creative device that literally has no peer from other, more open ecosystems.

My 14 year old son learned the basics of coding on an iPad, and can use his for writing, math homework, and an incredible level of creative output programming various robotics devices he has.

An iPad does live in a walled garden, but it is far from a read-only device.
This is because there are intangible aspects of the model/theory in the programmer’s heads, which can’t be expressed in code and documentation

But it can be expressed in commit messages and "why" comments! This is very important a lot of developers don't understand and want to just "get on with their life" after writing the commit message "fix".

If used properly, version control can be the repository for all ideas stored historically and can be replayed. With well-written commit messages and well-formatted commits, whole ideas can be followed and mistakes can be recognized years after the code has been written. I have seen multiple times when we recognized "oh, they wanted to do this or that, but they forgot to change this", so we could fix it, because we understood the original idea someone had 10 years ago!

I believe, THE PRODUCT of Software Engineers work is not source code, but COMMIT MESSAGES!
Regulations are written in blood. This seems like blaming OSHA for poor safety when an incident they hadn't yet considered happens.
It is definitely not a latency-throughput tradeoff in disguise, since the metric is "time taken for everyone to leave the enclosure".

> it seems like we're structuring the crowd into columns to optimize the layout of individuals with respect to the floorspace. It takes less time to evacuate everybody, but each person spends more time in the building.

As stated, this is impossible. Everyone starts inside.[1] If the time taken to empty the building is lower, it cannot be the case that each person spends more time inside; at least one person takes the full evacuation time, or else the evacuation time would be lower.

[1] This is the core difference from the analogy you picked, batch processing, in which jobs arrive at different times. If all the jobs arrived at once, batch processing would be the only possible kind of processing.
Hey Mike - I did some work on an industry active learning system a few years ago. The high level finding was that transfer & nonparametric methods were huge wins, but online uncertainty and "real active learning" hardly worked at all and were super complicated (at least in caffe1 anyway lol).

Can you point to any big breakthroughs that have helped in recent years? Linear Hypermodels (https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07464) seem promising, but that original experience has left me with some healthy skepticism.
Thanks for the detailed answer. My app is a mobile development platform https://twitter.com/acpustudio and has a binary size of 16MB and 33MB are splash screen images, so I am very interested in resource optimization. 16MB binary stripe can save probably a megabyte, but better optimizing the binary can be done with an LLVM AI optimizer like https://facebookresearch.github.io/CompilerGym/getting_start... Media optimization is a huge hole and huge amount of work for you. My suggestion is random codecs and variants where different AI is needed (i'm a little bit ffmpeg expert:)
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Hey Luke! I'm a full stack / devops person so this is going to be high level but getting a couple of my ML researcher colleagues in for a deeper dive now.

Short version:

1) we can get to the same level of accuracy with around 10% of the data points. Getting (and managing) a big enough data set to train a supervised learning model is the biggest thing slowing down ML deployments.

2) the model contacts a human when it can't label a data point with a high degree of confidence. You'll never have people with a bunch of specialist knowledge being asked to perform mundane data labelling tasks
Some of the content actually isn't available for sale in any format. From the article:

> While there has never been a complete Hanna-Barbera DVD collection courtesy of Warner Bros. in the US, both the Gene Deitch and Chuck Jones shorts have had complete DVD releases. In addition, the whole Deitch collection shows up on the other Warner streaming app, Boomerang. Because of this, it is baffling that HBO Max does not provide a complete collection of any one era, despite drawing on all three.

(emphasis mine)
"When we hired a new COO, who had mainly worked at bigger companies before, he was shocked to hear that all our code, communication infrastructure and internal systems were living in the cloud. He argued that we should move to on-premise solutions as soon as possible, partially out of fear of intellectual property theft, partially to appease investors with similar fears."

[shudder]
It’s worth noting that newly introduced Apple technologies are notoriously poorly documented. See SwiftUI as an example. Half of the api surface was undocumented at release. Surely that would give them a competitive advantage.

As for deprecation - why wouldn’t they deprecate as soon as they have a software update for their own supported devices?
Did a few crazies invade the capitol in attempt to hang the Vice President, causing 5 deaths? Did a few crazies elect MTG, who advocates for murdering Nancy Pelosi, and then refuses to censor her/remove her from commitees?

You can minimize this stuff all you want and deflect blame to librul media, but YOUR PARTY (that you have constantly defended in these threads) is and holds these positions.

The Republican party is the party of murdering their political foes, even ones in their own party.

The Republican party is the party of Barack Obama is a Muslim (something MTG has said on video and refuses to retract).

Just own it.
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Godot + Blender + Krita really is a great trio of OSS projects and you are right that Godot seems to slip under the radar a bit. I think the project has made leaps and bounds in the past couple of years and the upcoming 4.0 release also looks to be pretty spectacular, so here's hoping for the future!
Yes! I follow them on Twitter to keep up with the updates, it seems like there's a new feature every week

Edit: Not sure why you're getting downvoted for making a positive, relevant, and factual statement. Sometimes I just can't figure out what goes on in people's heads when they downvote something.
Glad to see you liked it.
We'll add more info to it in near future too.
We can generate a type ID by defining an extern variable of a sum type inside the `datatype` macro. Its address then will be a type ID (though I am not sure that such two variables will always have different addresses, I need to check the standard).

About type_name: you can deduce a type name if you know at least one tag of a sum type. For example, if a tag is `Foo`, then `FooSumT` is a typedef to an outer sum type (datatype99 generates this typedef).
I believe they're saying the down payment was $75k
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This works to some extent, however it's pretty rare that engineers go more than 1 commit deep into the git blame.
D has native support for calling Objective-C. No need to integrate with the Objective-C runtime directly. Everything is written using familiar D syntax. No extra overhead compared to Objective-C. The generated D code is the same as the Objective-C compiler would generate.

https://dlang.org/spec/objc_interface.html
The article really feels like an advertising for the company and the fact that they hire
Other than a small minority of agitators, I don't think most people went to a BLM protest with revenge, destruction, and murder on their mind. I mean, the whole point was opposing the murder of unarmed citizens by agents of the state. The slogan was "defund the police", not "hang Mike Pence."

Yes, ~25 Americans were killed last year in connection to these things, but as this article shows, that may be as much about the presence of guns at these things than anything else— here's a pretty solid summary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-kill...
If you are looking to add some Godot I did this youtube series last year and found it very satisfying + helpful in structuring/building my own stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG8Oi-SvQ&list=PL9FzW-m48f...
I had tried flynn in the past (a few years ago just as you) but couldn't get it to work, but that was with Meteor which has very specific deployment requirements. I'll try out flynn when I need to scale beyond Dokku.
I’ve worked with McKinsey on 3 different projects at two companies. One project was honestly helpful in trying to get SAP up and running. The other two were worthless, including a strategy deck about CPG food strategy in China. They basically just took our data and the results we had already provided and had a charismatic speaker (Partner?) who worked in China come in and tell the same story. The few original slides they brought were probably all the same nonsense macroeconomic slides they show to everyone remotely interested in Developing markets like China. The CFO was unimpressed and though they still use them for things, we would never go back for Strategy. For the cost we paid for one month of the engagement I could have hired an MBA analyst/manager working full time doing much of this in house.

I personally will not use a big consulting company until we do a better job of forcing consultants to have more skin in the outcome. It’s really nice to come in, have a flashy presentation and then walk out and collect your money. The only “getting shit done” I’ve seen McKinsey do is lining their own pockets.
While I agree that good commit messages help, I think a lot of this info can't be reasonably conveyed through them.

While the analogy might not be perfect, it's kind of like trying to teach someone how to play the piano by asking them to read a book.
I propose the following paradigm which I'll call "RickRoll UIs."

The developer builds a beautiful interface for searching, curating, and organizing media in a given genre. Everything down to the moment of streaming works as you'd expect, at which point some boring public domain content is looped for the given duration of that stream.

Users would get the benefit of having the curated data accessible through the GUI-- e.g., you could search all the Tom & Jerry cartoons, get/sort by metadata, etc. Perhaps even view a screenshot (not sure about Copyright law around that).

Fringe benefit is that this creates a reference UI against all the streaming services may be judged, and gives new users some idea of what it was like to search and use "completist" services like what.cd, etc. Not to mention how thinking about the potential existence of such services can change the options we think we have for how to spend our time-- compare writing a blog in 2021 complaining about a commercial streaming service's faults vs. "completing" some private tracker's Tom and Jerry offerings with the missing cartoons from your own collection.
Amazon will use cameras and AI to monitor delivery drivers
They set the Overton window of allowed policies.
OK, lets say you're right. Lets say less than 30% of Republicans are conspiracy theorists who think that prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton are secret pedophiles who should be murdered.

What is the acceptable percentage of Republicans that think Hillary Clinton should be murdered? 25%? 10%? Because its certainly greater than 1%. Much greater.

This is only the beginning.
Walking onto a public bus is very different from setting terms on private property
I appreciate a good catchy headline as much as the next person, but it's a ridiculous claim that "source code is worthless". On some level maybe it's not worth as much as some might make it out to be, but it's not worthless. There's a ton of strategic insight to be derived from the source code, not to mention just a basic time-value of money level of value.
I am freaked out by the line, "Retain and Release methods for working with Objective-C garbage collection".

Do they mean the abandoned GC system Apple tried, or the obsolete manual pool-based system Apple used to use?

Either way, I want ARC instead.
If there was ever a case for a humanoid robot it would be for packing packages in a warehouse. Same for agriculture harvesting: the back breaking nature of picking strawberries could be done by a robot with hands that have the same dexterity and nuance as a human.
I totally agree. Using react is a breadth of fresh air for building web applications.

If all you need is a static site landing page that changes once a year, sure use something else, plain ol html, css, and JS will do wonders. But when you want to build an entire application and experienece for consumers, React is exceptional.

Web applications always have state and side effects, there's no escaping it. If you squint and tilt your head, ReactJS is like a pure function given the environment. React lets you model your view around your state and takes statefulness as a given and doesn't try to obfuscate it away.

As you say, its far easier to leverage FP ideas in a react application. Most react components can be pure. State can be modeled with all the fun FP tools and ideas. At the end of the day, React clearly delineates the stateful from the stateless and lets you easily model both relative to each other in a ergonomic manner.
In India, RT-PCR test costs Rs 500, about $7 at any private testing centers. And one can get the results in four hours. Also one can get Covid-negative report for travel purpose for $12 (a certificate in addition to the test). Even we quadruple this price in the developed world like US, it should be about $50; instead, 95% of Americans are fleeced to death.
I read the list linked. Did you? He is accused of crimes. Instead of just accusing and witch hunting with an assumed guilt he should be able to face those charges in a court of law.

Since he hasn't, no, I don't believe any of the claims of illegal behavior. As for the claims of non-illegal behavior that was rude, well, it reads to me like he often failed at his attempts to pick up woman and was quite bad at it. I don't see any problems.
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That's right.
We are going to help them with choosing best vendors and channel, to supply high quality products.
That's an interesting idea to add insights about shipping too.
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No, plenty of large European countries have cutoffs after the first trimester.

I've been to an 18 week ultrasound and two births, both traumatic (I put a hole in the wall of a bathroom at UCSF after the first), and while we wound up with healthy, happy kids who are the best decisions of our lives, I can't imagine forcing anyone through that experience, and there is pretty much no limitation on abortion I'd actively vote for. Also the notion that people are obtaining abortions like, the day before their due date is just silly. Rayiner, what would an abortion the day before a due date even mean? The other term for that would be "scheduled caesarian".
To give some color, the revenue from the perdue work was probably (much) less than 10M, profits, less so. McKinsey's total revenue (not profit (based on a google search)), is like $10B. Losing half a billion is a lot.
Curious: how does Org-Mode compare with RMarkdown's use case? I'm only tangentially familiar with both. I've had the hardest time getting into Emacs (Doom-Emacs), and while Org-Mode seems great, the benefits seem to come entirely from Emacs, not the syntax.

I used markdown + pandoc to write my PhD thesis, but was forced to resort to latex for any formatting that was even slightly complicated (ie, multifigure plots, tables, etc).
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I haven't had to restart it, but the app does seem flaky. My biggest issue is the UI; every time I use it I have to relearn how to find the section I am looking for. With that said, I do like how they curate and surface movies based on different themes.

I'll be curious to see where it is 6 months or so from now.
What makes you think that it’s hard to block Tor? Even Kazakhstan blocked Tor many years ago. They’re using DPI: connection opens, client can write data, but can’t read anything which is frustrating from user PoV.
Some drivers own their trucks and contract out their delivery services, right? Do you know if cameras are often required as a term of service for independent drivers?
There are a lot of scammy consultants, but there are also tons of bad employees and whole bad divisions in companies. I run a website design and SEO firm that is highly successful because we actually do the work of building a website and the work of doing the online marketing. Many clients have internal IT or online marketing divisions that are incapable of even making a change to their own website. I find small consulting companies that actually do the work are actually much more valuable per dollar spent than internal employees whose main goal is just to hold on to their job as long as possible and do as little work as they can.
No it's not at all. I do it daily. You have to learn the tools you use every day!
ED Words is a great app for those looking to improve their vocabulary! The method of memorizing words is excellent, consisting of four stages, which allows you to quickly memorize a word. Many different interesting topics, most of which you will not find in any similar application!
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This is great, I've done a few one-off go wrappers of objective C libraries [1][2] for an OSX menuapp framework I built [3].

This seems like a much more general and useful solution, excited to switch some things over to it!

[1] https://github.com/caseymrm/go-pmset

[2] https://github.com/caseymrm/go-smc

[3] https://github.com/caseymrm/menuet
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This would present an accessibility problem for people using screen readers, unless you provide your email address as alt text (which a scraper could pick up, defeating the purpose).
Trump's America, 2021. There's a lot of work to do.
Latency reduction like that would mostly be relevant for traders.
Do you? Please share. Will love to see what things you have said that ostensibly should have been censored but weren't.
The more serious my Godot projects became, the more I became aware of the limitations. Even something as simple as an outline shader for a 3D object can only be implemented in a relatively hacky way.

Nonetheless, I love using it. I'm a huge fan of Godot and donate to them every year. The fact the entire engine is a 30mb download is truely amazing. The editor is snappy and is a breath of fresh air in the world of bloated electron apps
Short term, yes. But when costs go up, they know that they can then later use it justify a proportional increase in premiums.
This is cool.

Ok, now I really have to go through my old harddisks and recover my username and password from 10+ years ago.
The idea is good. However unless you're in top 1% or your field, I don't think recruiters will spend so much time on the outreach. It's all about the funnel.
I agree that it's not necessarily true that everyone can become world-class at their job, but I think most people have the intellectual capability to become really good, if expending the necessary effort is worth it to them. In my opinion, a lot of being good at something is just being conscientious about it. Most of us will never be John Carmack, but there's a lot of space between "good" and "world-class."

It seems like maybe your goals in life don't line up with becoming "so good they can't ignore you?" I don't intend that as an insult in any way -- everyone has different priorities in life, and I don't know you, so it's also possible that you _are_ "so good they can't ignore you," and the book is incorrect.
Yes I'm sure Starlink would never do something like censor traffic at some regime's behest. Elon Musk is famously independent and not at all beholden to funding from the U.S. and China.