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> I guess if its your first bubble

The bubble is/was at both ends. I honestly have to agree that it was undervalued at the time that the original GME posts were made, but it's also very overvalued right now.

GameStop has limited immunity from the problem other brick-and-mortars are facing: console games purchased through digital content delivery platforms cannot be transferred to friends, where-as games that are purchased at GameStop typically can be. There's also hardware to be purchased and other goodies. GameStop is not intrinsically doomed to failure, if they proactively differentiate from digital content delivery.

That being said, it's highly doubtful that GameStop will outpace digital content delivery platforms (like Steam/PSN/XBox Live/etc.), unless they build their own.

In my opinion, they do potentially have a sustainable 8-9 figure market cap. This bubble is going to pop, just as much as the squeeze had to happen.
I think the author is missing a key part of why developers often don't like writing documentation but do like answering questions: replacement value.

A developer's compensation is based upon their perceived value (how much it seems like they are needed) and replacement value (how much would it cost to replace them).

A developer that answers questions gets a reputation for helpfulness - this increases their perceived value. Another person needing to go to them to ask questions increases their replacement value too - the more they become the go to person for info, the clearer it is that the company would lose out if it replaced them.

Written docs have almost the opposite effect. Writing amazing documentation doesn't tend to get you a reputation - mostly because it's so depersonalized (does anybody think about the person who wrote a quickstart guide?). It also decreases your replacement value - a fantastically documented project is a project that can be easily handed off to someone else.

I really think that humans get a buzz out of being helpful, too, and you just don't get the feedback that gives you that buzz by writing pages in confluence or whatever. You will likely not even know who found it useful, whereas the dopamine hit you get when somebody asks you a question and you answer it and they click the "heart" button on your slack message is instantaneous.
GNOME has enough Javascript scattered throughout that I wouldn't call it a C program, even if large chunks like Mutter mostly are.
>Immigrant outperformance of native-English-speaking students is a complicated topic

I wouldn't even say 'outperformance' is an accurate description. I have learned from, taught, and been colleagues with many scientists from across the globe and each education system has its merits and drawbacks. East and south asian education systems highly emphasize quantitative skills. Western education emphasizes critical thinking.

The hurdle for many western students is late introduction to higher mathematics, but you are ignoring the hurdle for many eastern students, flexibility and creativity of thinking. Eastern education systems focus heavily on rote memorization, stringent quantitative evaluation, and strict mentor student hierarchies that discourage questioning. I have encountered many colleagues from more structured education systems really struggle with developing their ability to formulate novel lines of inquiry.

As this article describes, the difficulty in science isn't just the math, it's about knowing if question you are trying to solve is valid, novel, and adds to the field. You need both to be successful. Unfortunately the author of the article seemed to fail at both, resulting in his exit from science altogether.
Mobile touch screens aren't really the issue here - the problem is mouse users on laptops, where they don't get to touch the screen to discover elements and they need to be able to interact with a visible scrollbar in order to scroll.

I'm not a mouse user so this issue caught me completely off guard!
Funny thing: I was on sway full time for over a year, nearly 2 actually. I went so far as to uninstall i3 (not XWayland, nor X for obvious reasons)

Since a few months I noticed weird (complete) freezes/crashes on my pc, while gaming... it's not the youngest so I thought it may come to end of life.

Out of curiosity I reinstalled i3 a couple of days ago and used it (only) for gaming. No crash since.

I assume it's either a bug in Mesa (AMDGpu) or somewhere in the wayland stack... sway hasn't had an update since November, so... I dunno, I haven't taken the time to investigate.

While working I still use sway, because I've customized it to my needs, but for Gaming/Streaming I now switch to i3 again.

Nice sideeffect: I can finally play some games again that wouldn't even launch on Sway or were unplayable, like e.g. Natural Selection 2 which turned to a black screen when I switched workspaces (e.g. from one monitor to another) to e.g. tune down the music or scroll down a page while being dead.

Feels funny, but more annoying :/
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Aptidude/jedimind, always operating in duo, is just a troll. Don't fall for it
Interesting - that is the first I am hearing this. Why does covid affect the drug testing?
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This resonated with me pretty hard. Despite starting as a nuke e, I figured very quickly that the situation was rather grim, so I got my BS in physics, with a ton of credits in related math, computer science, and some other hard sciences for giggles. All the time, though, I kept my eyes peeled.

What I saw was some very intelligent people whose hard work, creativity, and genius I admired making very little money, scavenging for grants like jackals, their spouses working second jobs, their clothing a little worn, their cars breaking down even as they labored over Big Issues. That is the payoff?

I did not pursue it any further. Yes, the degree itself impresses people (sometimes more than really necessary, is my feeling), and it certainly primes you to be able to switch gears for entirely different frameworks, but it has opened doors.

Meanwhile, I occasionally look at the odd paper, sniff around. For strings (oh, not strings, superstrings) (oh, not superstrings, M-theory) it's all out of my league, but not so much so I cannot feel the shape of things and just how far they are from being more than just very abstract mathematical constructs. "Fiber bundles," exactly how many strings and shiny hag-stones are we out on that particular Glass Bead Game?

I accept the possibility that the universe may simply be too difficult, on a mathematical level, for mere humans to understand. It could happen. On the other hand, I suspect that the development of mathematical models of physical phenomena without frequent touching of the "real world," fumbling for guideposts, why, you could very well wander off into a paper map of your own creation, unrelated to the world you wanted to explain.
Or maybe they're scrolling by default because they're used to not knowing whether or not content is scrollable?
To a layman none or almost none direct benefits. But there are non-direct benefits like those listed by sibling comments. However it will, in longer term, simplify work for developers, while in short term it will be or rather it is a complication in the transitional phase.

It is an evolutionary step for end users, there is no revolution really. What is the benefit to a layman of a program to change bogies in all trains? He doesn't care about regenerative breaking, so smoother ride? But until almost all of his rides are on this newer platform he would not see a real benefit. Then when it is finally there he will only see its absence. Same with Wayland.
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> when something is not in active use it should be hidden from view

My mouse isn't over it or clicking on it but it's still being actively used.
I have to wonder - was repairing (rather than replacing) appliances cheaper in the past? If so, is there a clear cause on why repair prices have changed?
This explains why I can never find anything in XCode...
Care to share a link? I could only find this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-D... ? That's already a couple month's old, though.
Do they really? I can never even remember which one is the "normal" time and which is offset. They're just two arbitrary adjacent offsets from UTC for me. (or really only one these days, I now live a place that skips the switch).

I'd think any technical systems also work pretty arbitrarily between the two.
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this is the way. I do the same. Not paranoid at all.
Not a recruiter but a co-worker who asked me "Do you know what an algorithm is? We might need one."
Thats not wayland though, that the choice of the implementation.
Browsers on mobile devices already do this and it's infuriating
Links aren't used for searching, they're used for expanding knowledge on a topic you're already investigating. A personal example: I had to update our metrics infrastructure so I read the existing documentation to understand the way it is done today, and there was a link to our metrics naming spec. I wasn't going to need it but it was still interesting to understand what the conventions are and potentially updating them.

We're using the Atlassian wiki, for which I find search to be very bad so we kind of _have_ to work with links.
How is Haystack different from Pluralsight Flow (formerly GitPrime)?

https://www.pluralsight.com/product/flow
There is something very cool about a 747-Short with a 2.5m telescope looking out a hole in the side:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/overview/index.html
It's the epidemic no one is talking about
Obviously if you’re trying to solve this for your consuming users then we’re down to website hacks.

But if you just want scrollbars on macOS for your own use, that’s trivial. System Preferences / General / Show scroll bars / Always.
They're also an accessibility nightmare.
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This is the realization that really made SR click for me. The fact that "in the traveller's frame of reference, the universe becomes smaller in the direction of travel" is the same thing as "in the traveller's frame of reference, time becomes dilated".
I rent a server from OVH for $32 a month. It's their So You Start line... doesn't come with fancy enterprise support and the like.

It's a 4 core 8 thread Xeon with 3x 1TB SATA with 32GB of ECC RAM IIRC (E3-SAT-1-32, got it during a sale with a price that is guaranteed as long as I keep renewing it)

The thing is great, I can run a bunch of VM's on it, it runs my websites and email.

Overall to get something comparable elsewhere I would be paying 3 to 4 times as much.

I would consider $50 a month or less low end pricing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hetzner has storage boxes and auto snapshots. so even if someone deletes the backups remotely there are still snapshots which they can't get unless they have control panel access.
You claim its not a real thing, and yet I have many practical experiences of it being a very real thing over the last 15 years of my career. Everything from simple tooling headaches in dev, to actual shipped production bugs resultant from the dev toolchain. Pretending like there isn't a real tradeoff here doesn't really help move the needle in my original commentary, that persuasive arguments in the OP article are missing.

I also think its interesting that immediately subsequent to your comment about dep bloat not being a real thing, you link to yet another dependency to solve a problem with using TS in node dev.

As an aside for what its worth (since you mentioned frontend), all of my commentary assumes node.js dev and not the frontend. The former is what I work in day to day.

>Why write assertions when TS can figure them out for you?

I could easily just reframe this to say: "why write type annotations when you can write assertions?" — its orthogonal to all my earlier points about the OP's arguments
Foretry is probably the best way of capturing carbon straight out of the air.
That's already an option you can set, since at least El Cap.
If you can, try to cut off the content as the visual indication at the edge of the page. You might try bumping up the contrast of the headings as well so that the cutoff is more obvious.

Not quite as complex a dataset, but the NHL + MLB have done a reasonable job of making their various stats & standings tables responsive:
https://www.nhl.com/standings/2020/division
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Well, while we're griping...

I don't mind disappearing scrollbars, but Gmail on iOS takes it even further, and completely eliminates the scrollbar! This is indeed rather annoying.

And even worse, amazingly annoyingly, long-ish emails are not downloaded in their entierty by default! So you get part way through the email, and then have to tap "view entire email" to get the rest. And extra super annoying, the rest is not cached, so if you're without internet, too bad for you -- you don't get to read the entire message.
On macOS the convention is for the mouse cursor to disappear when you start typing.
IMO documentation exploration can be solved with good search.

Tailwind is a good example of this at https://tailwindcss.com/docs.

The table of contents is worded pretty well but once you get past ground zero of using a tool being able to search for what you want becomes a quick way to find what you're looking for. Especially since the search is powered by Algolia, it's pretty good with full text search.
Modern UI is a seething cauldron of non-intuitiveness and undiscoverability.
Excellent point. MIPS overplayed its hand.

It's funny how this story repeats itself over and over again, yet companies never seem to learn.

The flipside of this is when companies like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, like it or not, become part of the de facto tech learning arc for college students, who one day grow up to be senior engineers, lead engineers, architects and principal engineers.
I love it. I just dislike how when I plug in an old-school mouse to my Mac an old-school scrollbar returns. The scrollbar only needs to be visible during a scroll event.
live boot from a usb stick might be better.
mac user & web dev here, I often employ a trick where I wrap my scrolling div in another div which has overflow hidden just to hide the scrollbar. QA & usability engineers must hate me :p
It was a loophole that happened to work but that's not one of the design objectives of the credit card system. It isn't Postmates', or Stripe's, or Visa's fault that some companies refuse to let you cancel (ahm... Shipt...). They don't need to make the card replacement process _worst_ for everyone just because of those few bad companies, when they have a different process for dealing with non-cancelling subscriptions (dispute with your bank and show you attempted to cancel - ahm... Shipt...).
You may be right, but Apple's lineup sounds better than Amazon's first season of TV content. They turned it around eventually.
The real problem is that small companies assume that Google must know what’s it’s doing and that even though google is trying to solve different problems, the only right thing to do is try to copy them.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...
I'm a private person, I don't like other people in my space much. They are noisy, disruptive, messy and overal generally very annoying.

I also don't really trust people to be in my space when I'm not there so that's a non-starter.

The sharing economy is incomprehensible to me. I have no interest in participating in it.
Actually he resigned from Wall Street some time ago and is now a writer.
Been using it for a while now, thanks for building this!
I've gotten my last four jobs with a LaTeX made PDF and plenty of other offers.

I had a couple of recruiters ask for a doc/docx. I think I only made one conversion where it was the actual HR from the company using it for keyword matching and I refused to do it for the other recruiters. Still got invited to interviews of companies for those other recruiters.
This time there are several treatments that extend life [1] in a small laboratory mammal - mouse, sometimes by double digit percentages:

>The NIA Interventions Testing Program (ITP) has to date reported on four drugs with consistent major effects on mouse lifespan in one or both sexes and found evidence for significant but less dramatic effect of four other drugs.

>Rapamycin, started at 9 months of age, was found to increase median lifespan by as much as 26% in females and 23% in males, and to retard many aspects of age‐related pathological change (Harrison et al., 2009; Miller et al., 2014). Surprisingly, similarly strong lifespan effects were seen even in mice not given rapamycin until 20 months of age (Harrison et al., 2009).

>Acarbose can lead to an increase of 22% in median lifespan in male mice, and to a significant, but smaller, 5% increase in female mice (Harrison, 2014; Strong, 2016). Both rapamycin and acarbose improve longevity in the oldest age‐groups, as indicated by a statistical test that compares the proportion of control and drug‐treated mice surviving to the 90th percentile age of the joint distribution, the Wang/Allison test (Wang, Li, Redden, Weindruch, & Allison, 2004). Acarbose produces significant longevity increases, including survival to the 90th percentile, in both sexes, when started as late as 16 months of age (Strong, 2016).

>A third drug, 17‐α‐estradiol (17aE2), a nonfeminizing congener of the well‐known estrogen 17‐β‐estradiol, increases lifespan of male mice by 19% (Harrison, 2014; Strong, 2016) and has a significant effect on survival to the 90th percentile age, but has no significant effect on female mice. Male mice given 17aE2 live significantly longer than female mice whether or not the females have been exposed to 17aE2.

>Lastly, NDGA (nordihydroguaiaretic acid) has been shown to increase lifespan of male mice only, with an increase of 12% in median in two independent experimental groups (Strong, 2016; Strong et al., 2008), without a significant effect in female mice. Nordihydroguaiaretic acid, at the doses used, did not lead to significant changes in survival to the 90th percentile age.

This is not an exhaustive list, for an expanded list of positive findings read an infobox on NIA ITP trials in [2] and read [3].

So, it's a well-replicated fact that there are substances delaying aging in mice, the question is - are humans really that different kind of mammal that none of these substances works on us, at least with the effect in the same direction?

We'll see the answer this decade.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516426/

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-020-0067-7

3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197652/
Don't worry about NSA. If the NSA finds your computer interesting, they can remotely hack it using one of a 100 zero-days exploits, without ME. And if you are running non-ME system, it's even easier for them to hack you unless you are working with the CounterNSA.
no, OVH has dedicated servers, lot of big companies use it to build out private clouds, much cheaper then amazon or google
This is a misguided project with some moral failings (some have pointed out already).

It is always easy to beat up the candidate at the bottom. They are persona non-grata. Not so with recruiters; let's be honest, most early in their career are afraid the recruiter might blackball you.

That said, there is a huge difference between contingency and retained recruiters.

In a very simplified explanation, contingency recruiters search for jobs, blanket potential candidates with the jobs, then try to sell the responding candidates to the company. The company pays a finder's fee to the recruiter. There is no agreement between the contingency recruiter and the company until the candidate is presented to the company.

Retained recruiters are retained by the company to find the right candidate, and often get paid a baseline or retainer and a finder's fee. These openings are mostly for very senior roles.

I have worked with contingency recruiters early in my career. They tend to use a quantity based or shotgun method, blanketing both companies and job seekers. They do not seek relationship with you or the company. It is a numbers game, and the candidate is just a number (sort of like spam).

The retained recruiter wold is very different. Most are specialized by industry and are familiar with the top candidates. At this stage the candidates have leverage to demand a certain amount of respect, and proper treatment.

And, that is where my contention lies. There is no reason candidates at any stage of their careers could not treated humanely. The notion that we should delight in trapping someone with a lie, is also ethically questionable.
That's not what the person you're replying to is talking about though - they're stating that the motor that spins the disc is causing interference in the signal.

(I have a hard time imagining that it's worse than the electric motors used to drive vinyls or cassette tapes, but if it's there it's there I suppose)
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Yup, that's possible too. Probably a bit of both TBH.

Though again, from user testing sessions I've observed, I'd say that "not knowing whether or not content is scrollable" can be a universal problem, not limited just to Mac users.
Your DNS server can filter that out.
I hear you, but a compositor could be multi-process - it was not yet done, but in time it will be.
Sorry but horizontal scrolling is just abhorrent UX for everything but maps, and I'd argue that that interaction is not actually perceived as scrolling by the user.

I'm glad that it hidden scroll bars make that more inconvenient,
feels like a win win situation to me.

As for your datasette use case:
Why not have explicit buttons to move between colums at a time, or the ability to toggle and reorder individual columns, so that they become more wieldable, or both.
Someone should develop this as a standard. There must some initiative that can be renamed to MOVA.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I feel like I'm always jockeying tabs and panes looking for buttons to click. I waste so much time doing this.
> I'm not a mouse user

I'm curious about what tools you use to manage mouseless workflow?
I'm mulling this over... It's an interesting idea for sure. I'm not sure that it can't be reduced to human populations in general, which makes it more like the super-organism Wilson describes.

OTOH, not all human populations are states, as in countries, and arguable that is the "organism" said to be reproducing itself....
I find that documentation doesn't help if it isn't conveniently where you need it to be. Don't just put everything into the company wiki. It might be better to write that information into a code comment, a README, or a commit message.
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On macOS, I have scrollbars always show. The setting is in System Preferences -> General -> Show scroll bars -> "Always".

On iOS, I definitely prefer no scrollbars, but I don't think there's a way to always display them.
So fun to relive this, what a journey! :D
Visible scrollbars are unnecessary with proper design.

Eg. Reading the Twitter thread I intuitively know that I can scroll to see more because the last line of text is partially cut off by the edge of the screen. This signals to my brain that there is more, and I can scroll.

Whereas as I type in this text box as I reply the box is sized perfectly to 6 lines of text and I don’t have the same visual accordance informing me that content exists outside the viewport.
As long as you didn't list those requirements on your resume, then I don't see how it's your fault that the recruiting manager didn't filter you out.
At what point do you throw your hands in the air and say that "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" means "the market is irrational, mostly smoke and mirrors." Stocks seem to have little more intrinsic value than bitcoin over a long enough period as to make the difference silly. It's all speculation/gambling, not investment, as far as I can tell.