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Propane gas is relatively common, but wither way:

1) Natural gas has been a problem because the moisture in it has been freezing pipes

2) The cold has caused the pressure in propane tanks to drop, impairing their functionality.

None of this might have been a huge problem if Texas didn't keep its power grid almost completely separate from the rest of the country. That has meant they can't easily bring in capacity to cover their own lack. Though even moderate winterization would probably have significantly reduced the problems. It's not like they have to prepare for continuous -10 F.
If you are ever in position where you are recruiting people, make sure to put that statement directly into the posting. Not during a phone call or at any later stage.
First the European fund and now this.

The last thing I want is for my taxes is to go into venture capital. Especially if it's run by the government.

I wonder what's the best place where to run to, to escape this trend. Maybe South America or South East Asia?
There's a "Proposed bill in" that's missing from the beginning of the title that really changes the meaning of the title.
It's almost like different people value different things. I knew a guy that got a massage every day at 2pm but he also was at work until 10pm. This is also why - even with a flexible work schedule - it's useful to have some set of "core hours" everyone should be available.
10 years is a lot of time, and "worth saving" is a very low barrier.

I'd classify Kubo And The Two Strings, and Inside Out as must-watch films. Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse set new boundaries for what's possible with animation.

Moana, Zootopia, Big Hero 6, Wreck-it Ralph, The Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory are all pretty good films, and definitely tick all the boxes you listed.

I'm not even looking at Anomalisa, Isle of Dogs, and other such more adult-oriented animated films.
Microsoft Starts Testing Kids Mode for Microsoft Edge
> (C and Java aren't really statically typed; they rely on run-time typing for polymorphism.)

Um, what? Having type information available at runtime is orthogonal to whether or not a language is statically typed.
Think of all the non-text technologies involved right now for me being able to read your strawman.
I noticed this when I worked at my first "employee satisfaction" focused company. Half the employees took every perk they could get, seemingly doing as little work as they could under the mantra of "work-life balance". The other half never left their desks. It created a strange dynamic of resentment between the two parties, where one thought the other stupid, and the other thought them lazy. It was hard to know where to stand.
We did this already and then privatised it as Qinetiq. Round and round we go again.
*the second when their last bug in production code is squashed
It's both true and not.

It's certainly a lot harder to fire people than at a startup. You need multiple review cycles with poor ratings, a Performance Improvement Plan, more review cycles of bad ratings, etc. But most people don't want to hang on through that, so they leave since it just sucks to be on a team where you are not valued. But you can definitely hang on for 18 months pretty easily with everyone unhappy with your work if you want to.

So it's not really the same as government jobs where you really can't be fired, but it's very different from a startup where everything can be going fine, you lose a big customer and a week later 10% of the company is gone to keep the burn rate low.
My employer has killed off office perks during lockdown; it doesn't seem intentional, more of a bureaucratic thing. People are still in the office, but the management aren't, so things don't get done.

I've told them that this is an issue for morale - the old "buying the cheap toilet paper" adage comes to mind - but I'm not holding out much hope that anything will happen.

Is it a significant hardship for me to buy lunch? No. It wouldn't be a significant hardship for them to give it either.

To be brutally honest - we all need _more_ support during lockdown and restrictions, not less. In the UK, work and the supermarket are pretty much the only legal reasons for most to be outside at the moment.
That's what "personal days" are for.

Vacation days are days that are long planned.

Sick days are last-minute days for when you are ill.

Personal days are last-minute days for when, say, a pipe breaks in your apartment and you have to spend the day dealing with the mess. Or any other non-medical reason you have to be a person and not an employee for a day.
The internet came out of a US government funded “advanced research projects agency.” It took decades before VCs monetized that research.
One of the absolutely obvious hypocritical things for me is that they don't allow anyone to say in their app that "Apple gets 30% of this fee"

That's the equivalent of the IDFA message for Facebook. Which everyone will see, its worded in a very negative way, and it's a must.
Damn, it seems you're right and it applies to any domain ending with this instead of hulu.com subdomains.

From the name of the quirk, I'm not sure this is an issue though.
> Apple said its rules applied equally to all developers and that Epic had violated them.

All developers except Amazon, they mean.

Now that it has happened, I'm actually surprised it took Epic this long to file suit in the EU. Given Europe's stronger antitrust enforcement and general skepticism of tech giants, Epic likely has a stronger case there than in the US. If I were Epic, I'd have wanted to have both lawsuits ready to go simultaneously.
It is equally true of the Chinese character system.

They have more "letters", but the point is still to unambiguously map a drawing of a character to a specific, discrete value.
I think you are going to want a mix of both.

The miniaturisation and cost reduction of electronics achieved as a result of continual investment by the phone industry is almost miraculous. A lot of innovation has happened to fit a supercomputer into your pocket.

The WWW example in a sibling comment is a great example of the contrasting sort. It benefits humanity as a whole, and would be very unlikely to be invented privately. We want more decentralised technology solutions - really standards rather than products - and government research have a different set of incentives that might make them better placed to deliver that sort of innovation.

That said, I work in telecomms. A large number of self interested telecomms companies have got together and agreed standard over the years (this is obviously not unique to telecomms), including making patents available (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...). The technology is not decentralised, but it is interoperable.
Interesting idea. Like a centralized memorial with curated data from your online presence over time?
> But the second your manager walks in and says "john, I expect you to work this weekend" I'd start looking for a different job.

It's definitely a failure of management, but if John was playing games all week and now is being asked to work this weekend to finish, that's also on John. His manager should have stopped the all week playing, but people want to be treated like adults and be given personal responsibility, etc...
How to Achieve Technical Excellence with a Hybrid Team Model
The thing is that role model should not be your manager, it should be a senior developer. A good manager is not a role model to teach you, a good manager realizes the importance of lowly engineers having role models and creates a structured mentorship program to make sure that need is being met.
It's perfectly okay that you choose your values that way but it sounds very judgemental to think that's the only way to live. I won't work in a place where I'm not at least proud of what I'm doing. If that's true then whether the company makes money from it is only peripheral to me doing more than what I'm paid for - I genuinely like and enjoy what I do, I like to code and often the most interesting coding problem
before me (with the most resources at my disposal by a longshot) is my work related problems so I end up spending a good fraction of my time in weekends when I feel like u want to code, working on side projects that no one asked for but are within the company's domain. Simply because they're intresting to me and I become A better coder and learn new stuff. Also coding too is about practice. 10000 hours and all that jazz. I have become a better coder because of this. I probably won't do this forever but I'll learn and get better as much as possible from this time.

If you want to build a car from scratch in your weekend or just chill out, that's an equally meaningful and respectable endeavour as well.
I stoped needing an alarm clock at the same time I stopped putting the blinds down. Waking up with natural light works really well for me.
Modern applications for Windows (UWP) and iOS do use tombstones. The app's memory itself is completely suspended/saved to disk, and then the state is restored. The app startup code is _not_ called again.
It also helps a lot when the quality of the work performed by the person is subjective and overall success is largely dependent on the work of others (writers, musicians, tour directors, sound editors, etc.).

It'd be a lot tougher to be successful as an electrician or commercial airline pilot if you got there from sexual favors for your boss.
I'm not an expert on this but Jails has a ton more features. You can replicate a docker-like workflow if you want, and there are some scripts to do exactly that. Just an example of something that I don't think you can do with docker is "nested Jails", you can have hierarchical Jails running which can lead to some really nice organisation (or a mess, it depends on who builds it, but that is true for anything right)
* let universities and public research starve for money

* drown them in documentation paperwork for the little money they get

* give money to private companies for free and without transparency

Corruption.
Engineering skills decay with time and even the most technical manager will be out of touch compared to someone who spend 100% of their time on code. They also have the pressure of the buck stopping with them and not having to deal with the tech debt fallout which creates an incentive to just hack things. Some will avoid this but most won't.

>presumably one who attained this position because they were or are a good engineer

Why do you presume this? Management is a very different skill set than engineering. The best engineers having to become managers to advance their careers is an anti-pattern which most modern tech companies avoid. Managers thus tend to be average engineers who are good at people and process.
On some level, I feel for people like him, I really do. They have this massive drive and just cannot understand why others (like me) don't share it. It drives them fundamentally insane, and pushes them towards sociopathic tendencies. Sometimes they "wake up" after decades and have well-documented breakdowns, if they realize their passion was fundamentally pointless. Sometimes they do move the needle.

On other levels, though, just fuck him. His mindset is the typical rationalization of normalizing employee exploitation. If you want cult-like devotion to the cause, build a coop; the minute you take away real ownership of the fruits of one's labour, it is unreasonable to ask for personal sacrifice to any significant degree. You tell me how much you pay me for what, and I'll do "the what", not "the what but something extra too, just because".

As for Google, they now look a lot like early-2000s Microsoft (both inside and outside), but this we kinda knew already.
Can we beg ULine to do the same? Order one item and you'll be getting their wasted paper bricks every few weeks.
On the one hand, Apple is acting as a store curator and demanding that its customers be made aware of tracking software.

On the other hand, Apple is acting as a platform owner and demanding that they continue to act as the sole store curator on their platform.

I do not see the hypocrisy.
Philosophical question: At what point do divergent chains become irreconcilably and separately valid?

Is this a property we would ever want in a should-be decentralized currency?

One way this can happen today is with intentional forks.
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Another post about some Faang employee quitting their jobs and giving their rational for it. It’s thoroughly uninteresting when said employee has already spent years working there and potentially saved millions of dollars. They stuck around long enough to never worry about money and then they write a post about philosophizing their quitting.
In this case, the company is offering the yoga as something you can do during your work hours.

Google doesn't really have "contracted core hours" precisely. They have quarterly goals. If you're accomplishing those goals, the corporate culture doesn't much care how. This offers flexibility that can make it easier to accomplish tasks (I knew people who worked 6AM-2PM because the center-of-mass of their team was in a different timezone).
Yet another person learns what millions of everyday people have learned throughout history: your relationship as an employee with a large corporation is one of minimal give and maximum take. People like the author are the types that give far more than they should and ironically make the situation worse because they hide the failure of the incentive setup through their voluntary overworking (money coming out of their pocket instead of the company’s). If the company was exposed to the true cost of their incentive structure, unwarped by the guy or gal found in every department that pointlessly kills themselves for the company, then the company would be forced to adjust itself, and thus make this guy less disgruntled.
Parent is talking about percentiles, not averages.

But on the point of averages: the median human has two breasts and no testicles.
> The fact that you wouldn’t even consider it shows that you haven’t gone hungry for a while.

This is an argument for making sure people don't go hungry, not for letting rich people rape people who want a job.
Honestly, where is the evidence? You’re trusting the NYT sources to tell the truth. I trust NYT to deliver accurate news - but only true evidence removes any doubt.
Or just a more lax unemployment policy.

I worry that if you give everyone $1000/month:

1) you cannot live on $1000/month so it is an empty gesture

2) rent goes up $1000/month nationwide so it is an even emptier gesture
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>No computer platform should be allowed to prevent sideloading or other stores from competing.

How does this differ from "any programmable electronics should allow sideloading"? I don't see that as a very workable solution, legally, practically, or even in a pro-consumer sense.

It would certainly drive the cost of most electronics up incredibly as all devices would need to produce APIs and upgradeability.
The SNC Dream Chaser is based on several previous US designs, which probably involved some back-and-forth responding to what the USSR was doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-20_Personnel_Launch_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar
The website doesn't look really reliable overall.
Electric Zine Maker
I've had microscopic renditions of this kind of thing in my career. There's a cognitive 'dolly zoom' effect where there's an illusion of growth in a given risk because the field of view has been narrowed by the preconditions and/or assumptions that led you to consider it to begin with.

It's like the risk of losing a winning lottery ticket. Broadly the risk is negligible, but when you zoom into the precondition of having won the lottery, it's a big fucking deal.
Nice! I came to the comment section precisely to see if someone could recommend an alternative to the default client.
Yeah, it should be completely unacceptable.

As you get older you realise how valuable your time is. You only get one life, you aren't saving up or learning more to make your next one easier, you get old and that's it.

Having that time to visit family and friends whilst you can is incredibly important.
Especially considering that the iPhone is an enabler for all other Apple devices.
Somebody should really call the Polyus.
> To me your comment is illustrating your privilege. Prostituting oneself three times to be financially set for life could be a perfectly acceptable trade off for millions of people.

I hear you and get where you're coming from, yet my take is that I want to shift the dynamics of the system for everyone. Systems change, not personal change. Also this isn't about a 'facing a trade off' or sex work, it's about dehumanization and exploitation at the hands of an abusive powerful person.

And I want everyone to be 'set for life'. It's absolutely possible.
Russians poached some German engineers as well, not only NASA
Examples:

https://lindawestermark.blogg.se/2009/august/ikea-katalogen....

https://sweden.kcomposite.com/ingen-reklam-tack/
The phrase should be considered as a framework for (let's say) hyper-masculine Id behaviour.

However sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I would draw the line like this. Text is anything you can represent using Unicode.

Source code is text. Emoji are text. Some simple math expressions are text, but more complicated ones involving specialist layout rules are not. Architecture plans, no way.
I wonder about game development, it shares a lot of the traits.
IKEA's website is awful. Just as an example, here's something that was happening for months, before they fixed it late last year:

When you login, there are two types of accounts you can log into. Ikea and Ikea Family. These are shown as tabs, and the tab labels are faint. The login screen defaulted to the Ikea Family, so my individual login never worked, again because the labeling wasn't clear.

It wasn't until I was ready to reset my pw that I carefully looked at every screen element and noticed the tabs.
This irks of an entitled Googler.

I reported up to Noam and he's an admirable leader to me. In fact, I will be excited to learn about and join his next project if it has a culture distinct from this Google "work life balance" and the false pretense that "work life balance" == happiness.

I was the lowest of low level bricklayers, on the opposite end of the pecking order, but his comments on The Corporation and its entitled / PC constituent members resonated with me. If it didn't resonate with you, that's why you'd probably stick around at Google for a long time. Sure, many Googlers may be happy he left, but that doesn't disprove his points. If anything, it kind of supports Noam's argument.

In case someone says "if you don't like it, then leave". I just did.

Google is barely the most innovative place for an engineer to work nowadays, nor is compensation "top of market". The rest of the tech world has caught up. Actual top of market pay would at least made me ignorant, for a little bit longer, to the fact that work was unfulfilling. Yeah, we had great work life balance, so what? I'm still expected to be there 9-5, and spending 1/3rd of your life expanding work to fill the time allocated to it doesn't equate happiness. In fact, for me it was outright depression. I'm in a more intense work environment now, pays a fraction of Google, but I am happier on so many fronts. There's much less "abstraction" and needless complexity. Some of us would rather have real work to do than coast or work on projects/problems that simpler do not need to exist.

The state of limbo induced by "work life balance" isn't the fault of Noam, because as I interpretted in his blog, the Googleplex Twilight Zone inhibits fully realizing the culture in the executive team's vision. Maybe the vision is a trainwreck or maybe it's brilliant, but I don't believe the "autonomy" afforded by Google allows realizing these extremes. There's so many layers/indirection between me, the bricklayer, and the person at the helm. Combine that with the misaligned incentives in a corporation where resume projects are being advanced, I wasn't even building the great pyramid of Giza as much as I was building some offshoot resort home for one of the scribes that reported up to the priest who reported up to the pharoah.
> No computer platform should be allowed to prevent sideloading or other stores from competing

What about platforms like Playstation or the computers built into Teslas etc, should we allow sideloading on those? How do you define a platform?
You don't understand encryption. The master password is not "stored as a 256bit string on the servers".
Add this fast HTTP enumerator to your pentesting toolkit
I think this guy missed the memo that Google bought Waze to put them out to pasture. They were the only real competition to Google Maps and were acquired to ensure Google Maps monopoly. Waze shipping features and winning in the marketplace would be a bad thing. I think a lot of his post stems from missing this.
Apart from the holding the executive to account part of democracy.
> There's plenty of people for whom a sexual favor is not a big deal

And that's their choice. Sleeping your way to the top is a very separate debate. Requiring anyone who wants a job to fuck you is the topic being discussed.
Thank you. That brought a new perspective to me.
It definitely does not! And clearly we are different people! I would love nothing more than to grab a drink with you sometime and learn from each other though!
> What am I missing?

> We know transactions are slow and expensive

^ You're missing this.

* Cross-border transactions which would take days for Swift are instant

* Expensive: no not really. In the filled mempool days, yes prices shot up, but that was a few years ago. Fees are incredibly low now.

* Non-int transactions are still just about the same speed as a Visa cc/debit swipe. Again, when the mempool is going insane (hasn't happened in some time), yes TXs could take time vs. fees. However, nowadays it's just about as quick to reach a "basically verified" TX as it whatever risk mgmt balancing Visa is doing in the background. This time, instead of Visa's fraud department doing some checks, it's 1 or 2 blocks to very likely confirmed, 6 blocks to definite. Just different ways of skinning the same cat.

You're correct on this

> also lacks a lot of the controls that traditional banks have for good reasons,

But you're blending some arguments that are counterfactual if taken together as something cohesive. It's fast because it doesn't have these controls, for instance.
> There is room for 3rd party app stores.

The "Apple Tax" pays for the maintenance of the Apple ecosystem. Epic wants access to this amazing ecosystem, but resents having to help pay to support it.

Either "third party" app stores will also pay to support this ecosystem, in which case Epic will be paying the same amount either way; or they'll fail to support the ecosystem, in which case Apple will be forced to turn to other sources to make revenue (like selling personal information).

Right now I, as the consumer, can choose between an ecosystem whose business model is based on selling personal information (Android) or an ecosystem whose business model is based on the end user paying more (Apple). Don't take that choice away from me.
And Sweeney will take it, claiming a victory for the 'little guy'. Shameless.
"Having trouble scheduling meetings because “it's the new Yoga instructor lesson I cannot miss” or “I’m taking a personal day” drove me crazy. The worst thing is that this was inline with the policies and norms - I was the weirdo who wanted to push things fast and expected that some level of personal sacrifice when needed. I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend."

ASSHOLE - Waze employees are probably saying good riddance.
Get a grip.