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I disagree with this article.

If you, like the author of this article, spent 13 years as an IC, perhaps it is OK for you to focus on acquiring the soft skills required to be an efficient engineering manager.

After 13 years as an IC, you have a pretty good perspective on what it means to be an IC, how to identify valuable team members, how to assess their skills, how to identify blockers and facilitate solutions, and most importantly, how to classify technical problems, how to analyze requirements, how to plan, estimate, communicate on deliverables and releases, etc.

If you have the hard skills, it's fine to spend most of your effort growing your soft skills. But if you don't have the hard skills, you'll have to focus on that as well.

You can delegate things to different team members, but at the end of the day, the responsibility is still yours. Team members can "own" things, but you're still responsible if they don't execute. And in order to do that efficiently, you have to be prepared to ask the right questions to the right people, and that requires hard skills.
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They're fairly polite in Japan and don't try to rip you off, but many taxi drivers are 900 years old and have incomprehensible accents (Japanese ones, not foreign) so it can be a little hard to explain where to go.

I think they're fine in the UK too. But they absolutely aren't in California, Uber was a godsend and far less criminal even considering all the stuff they have done.
In addition to broader abstractions making code more readable and providing developers with less footguns in getting the isolation wrong, it also gives the compiler more opportunity to both default to safety (such as with structured concurrency proposal) and optimize protection and object allocation/retention patterns.
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It's an i3 with AMD Radeon 6470M, I was thinking of using https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/ as a library for PDFs but I think I'd rather stick with hackintosh on it(older macOS version/Mountain Lion) & simply use iBooks as a library for on device PDFs, since Preview is decent enough for my needs
In a fantasy world unrestricted by physics and market and costs and raw materials, - yes, they could.
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How are segment trees used in competitive programming? I can't immediately see how they would be useful in that situation.
I would assume that the Volkswage group cannot abandon development for some reasons:

1. They cover markets that will not be ready for EV in the near future.

2. They will need combution engines for trucks for the forseeable future. I do not think that the Diesel engine has really reached the full potential, yet.

3. While the share of combustion engines will go down significantly, it will not become zero. Having one centralized engine development division may be sufficient for the future.
private does not mean not public. private reflects ownership, not public dependence on a service. there's a whole class of private enterprises which can't do almost anything just because they want to - they're called utilities. water, electricity, garbage collection, internet search, software distribution come to mind as good examples of utilities.
GitHub, fuck your name change
I don’t see the world this piece presents panning out. Either we make general intelligence (which then scales almost instantly to be way, way smarter than any human ever and then accidentally kills us [1]) or we don’t and humans still have a role to play in the workforce.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdVC4e6EV4
Microsoft didn't lose the anti-trust case.

Go check Wikipedia.
The Bible was written 300 years after Jesus lived, so some of these things might have been confused...
I thought the point of the vaccines wasn't to provide an absolute block against the virus but to reduce the incidence of severe symptoms and hospitalisations? Rather than running rampant and killing hundreds of thousands, it'll be pushed down to mild flu or common cold kind of levels?
Interesting, this exposes them to lawsuits which would be a liability for investors indeed.
Apps A and B could just keep a list of expired cookies and the IdP could add to that list using a server-to-server call.
And looks like author lives in Tokyo, not sure where is he from. The only time I pay with credit card and give power for others to pull automatically money from there is American companies.
Otherwise I always do the wire or approve the é-bills manually.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdVC4e6EV4
> Is it just me, or is Swift getting really complex? As I read through Lattners evaluation, I found myself wondering "hadn't heard of that @Thing yet. I wonder how many there are that I don't know about."

Probably a fair few, although I wouldn't blame you for not knowing about something like @Sendable - since that is closely associated with the actor proposal.
OP’s thesis is that AI sets us on a new exponential curve that dramatically increases the ease of automation and the range of things worth automating. At the same time, your point about other exponential effects that offset the gains is thought-provoking. As other comments point out, the Moore’s Law in computing hardware has not translated to a Moore’s Law for software usability or productivity. It’s not guaranteed that a Moore’s Law in AI will translate into a Moore’s Law for everything.
Everyone I know has been out of action 1-2 days after the AZ vaccine. So three shots could be a week out of action. Similar to people who have had corona virus. It had better be worth it.
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While they may not be being done lightly, the reasoning is still based on legal concerns rather than medical ones. https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/13718299183388016...
That's assuming the feature even materializes. I don't it's cynical to assume that Google might shelve a "feature" that undermines their own business at the first opportunity.
> Google is actually doing the opposite of maximizing profits in this case

You've chosen a difficult position to argue.
I guessing that the more limited scope gives it the air of credibility. If it is restricted to just phones and tablets with data plans then there is the perception that it is now the responsibility of the big three carriers to figure out. The average voter would easily assume that they have plenty of money and the infrastructure to know who is in state. I think you'd have a hard time finding anyone not on the payroll to come to the carriers' defense. Meanwhile UT retail sales of the hardware can carry on while the carriers pay for software at time of activation.

Another bonus is if a content filtering a company were based in UT. There is a requirement in the bill that 5 other states join in before it goes into effect. Once it did you would have basically legislated that three, large, hated, national companies have to spend money at least partially collected elsewhere in your state.

What do you know! One such company is indeed headquartered in SLC. Probably just a coincidence!

https://sec-report.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/sec.report/CIK/000...
Same here, for the vast majority of non-netflix scale use cases it works extremely well out of the box.
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The primary reason they are doing it is because Apple did it. Same goes for every other rev share change that Apple has implemented.
Any evolution can be used as an horror movie device. Freeways, ubiquitous televisions, in a world that did not have that, you could make scary fictions about it.

I find it sad that nowadays dystopias have become the only depictions of futures.
After Google acquired Deja, the search was good and improved over the next couple of years. Then around the era of Google Plus (2011), the search degraded and eventually the advanced group search page was deleted.

This was certainly past the heyday of Usenet, but there was still a lot of activity and the advanced Google group search was one of the only places on the internet where you could try to trace things chronologically. For example, if you wanted to find the earliest usage of a word or the earliest appearance of a conspiracy theory, Google group search was the best place to go. And, it had (spotty) coverage back to the 1980s.
Or that guy Drummond. Seems like polyamory was pretty mainstream among Googles leadership.
I sometimes wonder if Apple didn't come up with this model of charging devs 30% even Google wouldn't have too. These companies often end up with similar policies. But that one greedy kid showed everyone how easy it is to leech off on hard work of devs (who are also to be blame as we happily agreed to this BS) and now it's a common practice.

If safari browser had a Safari store with 30% cut pretty sure chrome extension store would also be charging 30% instead of their 5% now.
It's generally easy not to, because they bounce around the peg. You can set your sale at 1.00 and wait, it won't take long.

It might not matter though. If you have to file anyways then shoot for profit.
One of the few places with high firearms ownership, raising the average higher above the median.
I ran into this recently on Gitlab. Gitlab has these amazing deployment tokens that can dole out read-only access to individual repos and yet if I want to deploy from a Gitlab repo to Netlify I have to give Netlify full access to all my repos. That's beyond dumb.
The problem with the article and also with your comment is that we use one word “meditation” , while it is as diverse as any discipline. You do raise very good points otherwise! Buddhist vipassana meditation is a long way from a vast range of yogic type meditations, or Sufi meditations and so forth. This clouds the discussion.

As someone who has instructed meditation, our lineage has many safe guards to make it mild for the neophyte to pick up and practice safely. First off all, not by renouncing the world, but by being part of it. Second to never overdo it. Third, no more than three pranayama breaths when you start.

The yoga sutras talk about sthira and sukha, effort and ease, which should be in balance. Basically you wouldn’t send someone up mount Everest untrained. Nor is there a reason to for the layman interested in the relaxation of the mind.
> only because they are heavily subsidized

I mean, you're right - electric vehicles are heavily subsidized. But it's not like it's a one way street where ICE cars have no (indirect, in this case) subsidies. The petro industry has its own share of funding and tax breaks, ranging from greenwashing and public imaging [0] to regular old tax breaks [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Energy_Centre#Funding

[1] https://kimsiever.ca/2020/10/20/alberta-oil-gas-firms-get-3-...
> I want my walls and ceiling to be displays like from Total Recall for cheap (say under $500 per wall)

Fun remark I heard in a startup's pitch: "If you have a hole in your wall, it is cheaper to buy a TV to hide it than to order a repair".
No, all I said is that in my eyes they are on par, not that we should ban any of them.
here are companies where managers are truly in a supporting function. I'm not here to advertise but my last two jobs were like that

Unless programmers have equal knowledge of and input into their managers salary as their manager does in their's, there's still that fundamental top-down structure.
Wish your practices bring you the peace and happiness you're looking for. Good luck. :)
> you at least have the option to wait a day or two to charge

This argument gets thrown around sometimes, but if you really consider it:

Who has time to wait a day or two at a random place, with no infrastructure? People who have no valueable job (where time is very valueable), and at the same time are outdoors enthusiasts who can sleep in a random spot? But who at the same time are in the market for a futuristic EV? Even for those, how many times out of each trip would that be a viable solution? If you consider this in practices, it just makes much more sense to call the tow truck.

And if you know that you are going on a really long trip where there is really no possibility to even call a tow truck (but like, where is that? Where is the place where you have a close proximity to an EV charger, otherwise you wouldn't be going there, and no possibility for a tow truck to access?), even in that unlikely circumstance - you can just already buy a 1000$ 10kg diesel generator and bring with you for emergencies.
That's definitely not "the" point. Reducing spread is also extremely important.
Google gets into sleep surveillance with new Nest Hub screen
30% of children in Germany have mental issues due to the coronavirus-measures

Citation needed. The only thing I could find is this[1], which is just nonsense. It's probably similar to the much more sensible numbers from the UK, maybe a bit better since, so far, Germany hasn't had a lockdown as strict as the UK.

[1] https://www.meinbezirk.at/c-lokales/corona-krise-30-prozent-...
They host the files and pay for the traffic, that's not insignificant at the scale of Google and Apple, even considering their enormous size.

There was a story a couple of years back about how Apple's AWS bill was $30 million/month, I'd bet a large chunk of that is the App Store.
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> Complex enterprise apps are often complex because the use case and the environment is complex.

Uh maybe... the real question is where does that complexity come from. Is it intrinsic to the problem or just bureaucratic slob? Given a framework so popular, what are the incentives to go uphill and challenge assumptions - with the likely risk of being fired - or just concede and ad your little contrived contribution to the problem?
If you’re using existing project, you don’t need to install gradle. For new projects you can copy few files from any other project. That “generation” just copies few files into your project and puts tiny config file. It should really be available as a separate tiny download IMO. Gradle makes it looking harder than it is.
Computer power is still growing exponentially without a doubt:
https://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/

Software efficiency seems to be exponential in many places as well:
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/software-progress-...

That doesn't mean ALL technology progress is exponential, people like Altman or Kurzweil don't make that claim either. But as more things become more digitised they will benefit from Moore's law more and more and progress might become exponential there also due to their dependence on computing power.
I always find it funny that some think we have this company that at some point decides to go rogue but because they had a "do no evil" in their motto they couldn't proceed. So they decide to remove it to unblock themselves.

That is nothing short of a cartoon movie villain.
> Not having a compiler means I have to have unit tests doing what a compiler would do or finding out I have syntax errors or other errors at runtime.

Nope, it's not the only way. In practice you'd have type hints all over your code and a linter to perform static analysis. Of course this can be integrated in you IDE, so it's easy to do.

> Not having strong types and limited type hinting. I have no idea what things are, is it a int, string, object etc, clicking through in an IDE to see code/docs isn't as great as it's hard for an IDE to inspect the code compared to strongly typed language.

Again, with type hints you'll find your IDE does a pretty good job. Heck, Pycharm even gets it right without type hints sometimes.

Not that I don't see the value in compilers, but the case is not as clear cut as you expose, far from it.

> There's a great deal of issues with dependency management. Venv, Docker etc help with this but it's a bunch of extra stuff on top I now need to worry about and sometimes still hit errors.

Not sure what Docker has to do with Python here... I don't use it and we're doing fine. Venv is something you have to learn, sure, but that's what it takes to become productive on any platform, be it Python, Java, Go, Whatever: learn the good practices associated with it.

And while the dependency management is not stellar with Python, that's really not something to love from Java either.
> maximizing profits is pretty much the sole goal of a publicly traded corporation

Would that extend to for-profit private companies? Employees? Sub 1m revenue app developers?
Oh, here in Australia I'm already paying nearly 4K a year for my block of land in the suburbs. Do you not have similar in the US?

I had assumed the OP was suggesting we tax the big primary producers who work the land for profit, not people who need somewhere to live.
Yes. At least in Germany (but I believe it's the same for all SEPA transactions), it's eight weeks for the simplified return where you just tell your bank "get that money back, please" and it's pretty much instantly credited to your account. That applies regardless of the legal status of the transaction.

For non-authorized transactions, you have 13 months to recover the money. Since it will have cleared after eight weeks, the whole procedure takes considerably longer and most bank employees will not be too familiar with it.

I had recently experienced that when somebody used my bank account to sign up for Netflix. I only caught it after three months (I mostly blame my bank for not providing a "new ACH transactions" report). Netflix wasn't helpful (and apparently has no interest in stopping this, their fraud detection allowed for creating an account with the legal name "f f", a German bank account and a none-German IP) and my bank immediately reversed the last two transactions (still within eight weeks window). The first one took about three months, but I don't know who or what was responsible for the delay.
iPhone in 2007 is 10x better than other "smart phones".
they mean that a person who thinks they are vaccinated is more dangerous than one who doesnt, because they change their behavior
Just a side note, everyone I know who’s had a symptomatic case (n=3) were out for more than two weeks. Not that it changes your point much. Having to keep getting booster shots that knock you out for a day or two is not a great situation
They should mine Bitcoin ...
> Most of DuckDuckGo's non-privacy-related selling points are their instant answers, which in my experience are really good.

And yet has no undeprecated pipeline for submitting non-"essential bug fixes" to[1].

I really love the idea of having an engine that does just a little bit more for me up front, but not if it's all closed off; that's what I'm trying to get away from.

[1]: https://duckduckhack.com/
30% is pretty common, just look at Steam. You can download and install games on you Windows machine straight from any website. Yet Steam was able to take a 30% cut and be very successful.

The fact remains that developers are very happy to give 30% when their sales increase with a few factors.
Hinton, Hinton, Hinton..

What did this Hinton do?

The breakthrough was not his.
Those are linked from the article, (that's the .proto on GitHub I mentioned) but what're we going to do with that? (And why does everything have to be formatted like a wiki page..)

I mean, it's fine, I just got momentarily excited for something that the announcement isn't. I wanted to find a pricing page, free tier, API docs, etc. Like Wikidata but.. I don't want to say 'modernised', but made more accessible, and with APIs for higher level content like this rather than just rawer data.
These credit card fees are likely under 3% in the US. So taking 5% adds about 2% for convenience.
And it starts a lot faster. We used that combination at the last startup I was employed at, and it worked great.
> ...since it appears that the core team has no problem shoe-horning in half-baked features if it's required to make the necessary impact at the keynote of WWDC.

To be fair, that 'shoe-horning' took nearly a year and a half. Apple was willing to ship the feature but took their time and got lots of community feedback before a version of it became officially part of the language. I believe SwiftUI has already migrated over to the standardized version of it.

SwiftUI is in some ways amazing - because you (rightfully) get this feeling that they had several ridiculously-overqualified compiler experts working in tandem with UX experts and low-level framework engineers on it.

But the flip side is that you don't have a lot of parallels to draw experience from when using it - you must gain experience by working with SwiftUI itself.
Model bias is not a huge issue. Maybe something about class imbalance or regularization. The huge issue is deployment - what is the model used for? How is it affecting people in reality? What metric is it optimizing?

Between all these the degree of L1 regularization or the class weights are minor things. Most models will perform similarly given the same data. It's mostly the data that makes the difference.
Lets just say I made the consicious descision to go with the masculine form :-)
I have been told the same about Telegram just a couple of months ago.

Most of the people I know have less than 10 contacts they actually care about and communicate regularly and it is not hard to convince the most of them to install an app you would sincerely recommend.
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> meetings dedicated to working out how they could spend money since they hadn't spent the whole budget yet

I think this is fairly common in government outside of Australia as well. With the budget it’s use it or lose it, so you better find ways to spend it, or you’ll have less margin next year when you might actually need it.
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I was there, and I am still wondering - who thought iPhone was a gimimck? Certainly not people in tech? The tablet phones and phones with keyboards already exist, the palm, the windows phones. iPhone was just a better more slick implementation. Maybe some people had doubts that iPhones would to better than Windows phones, but since those already existed, and there was a market for them, why would anyone consider iPhone a gimmick?
As an engineer you want to solve problems with systems. The world is too complex for that. It is doomed to fail, which creates an endless cycles of fixing it up, which basically politics is.

Can it be improved? Sure, go into politics.
Can it be solved, oh good no!
We still have collective nightmares of the attempts.
Thank you for the answer.
Can you email me to ["favqonak@10mail.org"] ?

PS: Your nickname made me laugh. I hope it's not too difficult on a daily basis :-p
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i hope they factor in the petroleum and coal used for manufacturing, maintainence, transport and backup power
The actor model didn't originate in Erlang and AFAIK the developers of Erlang only accidentally implemented it, learning of it later. Wikipedia[1] has history of the actor model from the 70s when Erlang was developed in the 80s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Actor_model
Exactly: now each paper will have to be paid with the researcher’s funds...
I think that can vary hugely though. I know of two people that had AZ jabs who said they experienced mild flu symptoms, and another two (including my partner) who didn't really notice anything.
The Facct (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency) conference ended recently (https://facctconference.org/). it might be a good start to find different research contributions.