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> Or rather, how does one avoid getting into this situation. Because it seems to me that the software industry of late has become so mired in esoteric layers of abstraction that this feels less like an outlier scenario for a mismanaged company but more like an inevitable one for many otherwise well managed companies in the industry.

Mentorship and documentation.

You need to set aside time and resources for these two things, and make contributing to them worth something in the performance review.

If all you do is count JIRA tickets closed, you'll forever end up in this situation.
I'm not talking about the lockdowns. I'm talking about wearing a mask when in public. Just yesterday I saw a man screaming for being asked to leave a Home Depot because he wouldn't put on a mask. And before you ask, no, his objection was neither medical nor scientific.
The world doesn't need more OOP, please.
The much-criticised CEO announcing his intention to step down yesterday probably took a bit of heat off:

https://twitter.com/Nominet/status/1373674125357674497
I’m trying to move to a family to a new area. The only Rental homes available are through a mega corp. Apartments are all 2 bedroom. Don’t want an apartment anyway.
Airbnb are insane once you add fees.

Too move we’re left with living in a hotel until something opens up.
Personal experience: My company had record profits due to cost cutting in 2020, yet my department’s budget was frozen at the beginning of the pandemic and remains frozen. Two team members quit briefly before the pandemic and were never backfilled due to the budget freeze, no promotions or raises have been given (or will be given until at least the upcoming summer or fall, I’m told - though this flies in the face of what I’m seeing in other departments), and the workload for my team has increased drastically. I’m a middle manager with no real control over promotions/raises/etc. and it has been sad to see previously chipper and excited employees descend into obvious misery.
I have this on my TV now as a sort of screen saver. It's mesmerizing in a way.
Is the landlord at fault that there are so many desperate people willing to pay absurd rent? The only reason the landlord gets to choose is because someone else gave them a better offer.
I'm just a dude, but early videos showed people collapsing on the streets. If you have a few people like that in one area you start to think it's more than a flu I guess.
>It clearly is enough for Stallman though, as evidenced by many other language crusades he's been on for his whole life.

The context is significant here though, because he has a history of belittling women and being insensitive to concerns about consent. These specific characteristics are red flags. It doesn't really matter whether the person bringing them up thinks they have wholly rational reasons to, or that they're just pointing out something interesting about language.

>Which opinions? What does "like this" mean? I honestly don't follow!

He said that Minsky probably would not have known that he was having sex with a minor who was also being coerced, and thus to him the victim would probably have appeared "entirely willing," as if that would make the act ok, or make it not constitute "sexual assault." He also said that he thought defining age of consent based on the law was ridiculous, which would be a colorable philosophical argument if we had any better way for defining and preventing child sexual abuse in our societies.

>If his intention was to defend Minsky, he was a very poor defender.

I'm sure he was, since he ended up essentially getting fired for what he said. I'm not here to litigate whether his specific example is sound, as you acknowledge that it's not. But the fact that he had to turn an accusation aimed at another MIT colleague with connections to Epstein into an opportunity to further a personal vendetta over the precise use of language used to describe rape — charitably you could say it was said in immensely poor taste. At worst, it does amount to attempting to defend or minimize the accusation.

>That's a real issue, and it leads such people to plenty of suffering and depression. They should be educated, not ostracized. If we don't do it, they may turn somewhere else where they'll get worse - there are some circles that claim to offer them "help" and "answers" already, but those don't make the society a better place.

It's sure led me to a lot of suffering, and depression, and severe anxiety. I don't feel safe around many men I meet in tech-centric spaces. All my friends have horror stories about abuse and harassment in our field.

And I'm sure the abusive men are depressed too. That's, of course, sadly common with autism. But they do need to get educated, and stop using their disability as an excuse for being insensitive. I'm not required to spend time around people who make me feel unsafe, regardless of gender, just so that they don't feel ostracized.
It's not extorsion.

He left detailed instructions how to release the software. The company managed to screw up so bad they lost the manual he made sure to write on their internal wiki.
Lean-FIRE reminds me of the startup world's "ramen profitable."
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Honest question: what would cause a downturn in the housing market? People will always need/want houses, right?
> why not just use a system-wide package manager?

There is a class of developers who feel very, very strongly that updating the user's software should be their decision, and not the user's. For the lazy or reckless user's own good, or whatever.
Yes, Nix is totally viable. Steep learning curve, but many benefits.
Absolutely.

You don't just lock up a city full of 11 million people because they have the sniffles.

The western world really dropped the ball with this one.
I think parent comment meant you can view MLS listings for free (not understanding that the question was about having to pay to get listed on MLS). Redfin does charge lower listing fees than average though.
It's a tough sell, saying that Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs are more effective with their money than a democratically-elected board of experts might be.

Production doesn't come to a halt without entrepreneurs in any world except Ayn Rand's.
https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/

You're more likely to die than run out of money!
Because Vitamin D is involved in so much physiology there are many related factors. Low sleep and sleep debt are common and getting enough sleep is associated with higher Vitamin D levels. Stress is common and finding ways handle stress is associated with increased Vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is present in eggs, oily fish, and organ meats. One of the most effective ways of increasing Vitamin D is to get some sun close to mid day. This is another example of cascading factors as making time to be outside at mid day tends to result in a range of other changes opening up diet options, increasing exercise, improving mood, and so on.

So your knee jerk reaction is strictly speaking true yet also a distraction.
He didn't need to, he used other methods -- signed an executive order putting Americans ahead for anything produced in the US.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trump-signs-order-to-put-ame...

Forced US allies to source from Pfizer's Belgium plant instead.
If you are a landlord that had option A you would take it, simply to outcompete all the other landlords.
I hope they write a second edition, and give the cover a red "GO 2" stamp graphic, like they did with ANSI C on the K&R second edition cover.
This is wildly inappropriate behavior.
Sounds like an interesting chicken-or-egg question for a business ethics textbook.
> A similar oft-repeated lie is that American farmers are all a bunch of Republican hillbillies who hate brown immigrants.

> Around 2010, I attended a conference in Seattle for farmers in the Pacific Northwest. The main topic of discussion was how to increase legal immigration from Mexico so that they could have more farmworkers to pick the cherries and apples and mint and whatnot. These people were talking about goals of making people from Mexico and Latin America U.S. citizens in staggering numbers.

Farmers are, for the most part, single issue voters: Whoever has the best plan to support agriculture and small businesses gets their vote.
I perceive a greatly increased volume of criticism of Glen Greenwald on my Twitter feed since he moved to Substack. Makes we wonder if all of the criticism is organic (i.e. readers didn't like how he covered Hunter Biden laptop controversy) or to what extent this criticism is being led by trad media journalists who feel threatened by him leaving the trad media business model.
Increase in complexity is relatively small, decrease in safety is small, part of cost savings related to extra fuel is rather insignificant. So, with any reasonable growing launch market reusability wins.
In most states and federally, one party consenting to a recording is sufficient, so in those cases it doesn't matter that you, the visitor, give consent.

In states with two party consent laws, I think you're required to have signage or other explicit message that declares recording is in progress (this may be different for residential properties): a Ring logo may not be sufficient.
Relative counterpoint - I'm an online student, all of my classes require a PC, all of my homework requires a PC. My orchestra requires I listen to and play along with recordings (on a PC). The minimum 'personal gadget footprint' for me and many others is going to be quite high. Above a certain level, IoT is unavoidable.
Then what’s the point of using Google? In terms of AGI, we have that if Google where to say employ people to look at say the top million searches and heavily penalize junk they could make real headway.

Personally, I swapped to DuckDuckGo in 2019 and have been consistently happier but Bing or whatnot is probably equally valid at this point.
It’s funny how so many people are just incapable of understanding what the word equality means.
Reminds me of a quote from an economics professor, whose high salary was questioned by someone from another discipline.

"The university doesn't determine my salary; the market does that. The university only decides the city in which I earn it."

/paraphrase
If substack stars need an editor, I assume they hire one.

Some probably already do.
Lots of municipalities have made short-term rentals illegal for the same reasons that hotels require a license (taxes, safety standards)
Product vs Product -- I hate those generic websites that compare everything to everything. I am absolutely sure that Google can detect and downrank them. Why doesn't it? Maybe most users like those links, and Google is happy to oblige by keeping them at the top? In that case, I suppose, I should blame the mass market taste rather than Google.

I think the future of search is in finding trusted results, such as those upvoted by reddit or HN or SO, assuming the upvoting system is robust enough to withstand spambots etc. The question is whether a big enough fraction of the population actually care to get good search results.
You can absolutely copyright the packaging of facts (see any textbook ever printed).

Google often has entire paragraphs ripped from the underlying page in their knowledge graph. Would it be copyright infringement if Google displayed paragraphs of text from copyrighted textbook? If so, is there a difference between doing that and doing the same with, say, "facts" from a blog post?
Not sure which WaPo articles you're reading - -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/coronavir...

I'll give you that Nature is steadfastly on the zoonotic side of things. But even Nature News journo has retweeted the USAtoday article:

https://twitter.com/NidhiSubs/status/1374002441780391940?s=2...
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> we've made this change to make sure we can improve the Docker for Mac and Windows experience for users moving forward

"How should we improve user experience? I know! Let's ruin user experience by forcing users to signup for an account they don't actually need! Brilliant!"
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That would be a fine basis for discussion but I think it would need to be seeded by an article specifically about that.
It looks like this is the framework used by Docker Desktop too [1]. Perhaps they enabled auto updates by default? (I wouldn't know, I don't have any experience with Mac projects.)

[1]: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183#issuecomment-79...
Damn I hate saying this... but, to be fair to the pharma corps... ugh, I feel sick for saying that... manufacturing vaccines isn't like making plastic cups and straws. I'm in no way qualified to explain pharmaceutical production, but I highly doubt it's that simple to just Thanos snap produce these things. Equipment, QC, materials, whatever, it takes time. This on top of still having to produce all the other drugs we need to keep their pockets lined. Part two, I remember seeing something regarding specialty freezer storage for shelf life and general transport. I believe that's still valid? Not everywhere has the logistical bandwidth for transport or storage of this. Then take into the legally abiding procedures to ensure the safety of the drug itself, which we should all be thankful for. Piss poor pharma is already a problem as is, we don't need more issues. Then general legal hurdles of deployment and tracking, yada yada. This isn't like sewing up a mask, bubble wrap Fedex it out. Damn it, I defended pharma. I'm going to Hell for that.
Quite likely. I had a 30% down payment, and near perfect credit. There was zero risk of my offer falling through due to a financing problem.
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The following is a great example of how the article cherry-picks its data:

> “They have been cut off from society, they are unaware of current affairs, and are desperately in need of our induction programme for freshers where we try to re-orient them to society and the institute,” the (IIT) professor said on the condition of anonymity. This skill gap haunts them even when they graduate. Despite all the hard work engineering students put in, a survey conducted in 2019 found that 80 per cent of engineers “are not fit for any job in the knowledge economy and only 2.5 per cent of them possess technical skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that industry requires”

The survey was looking at all engineers, not IIT graduates. If someone did a survey of IIT graduates specifically, I doubt even 1% would qualify as "unfit for any job". There is nothing in the survey which lends support to the idea that all their time spent studying "haunts them even when they graduate".

Not to mention the insinuation that "only 2.5 per cent of them possess technical skills in Artificial Intelligence" is a bad outcome for IIT graduates. The vast majority of engineers choose not to specialize in AI... because there are tons of alternative areas to focus on. This is also completely unrelated to the IIT prep culture.

I hate to generalize, but journalists in every country seem to have a real axe to grind against engineers. Presumably because we're their polar opposites in every way. And we also make a lot more money than they do... which must really get under their skin.
My original discussion was of that I thought Go was very hidden under the hood. I gave an example and got mobbed for it. I replied with emotion and misunderstanding and here we are.

The main thing I was going on is "Here's a GitHub link, add it to your code and you have an instant logger thing". Magic in my eyes and this blinding light throws me off.

Unlike Perl where the code is in a .pm file in front of you. That was what I was trying portray.

I'm going to leave this discussion to rest as it's all went wrong anyway. Tomorrow will be tomorrow and this will all be forgotten in a day.

Thank you for your responses and have a good evening.
Recently I was doing similar exercise. I use `pass` password manager ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) and I decided to check which of my accounts have breached password. So I made tool for bulk test against HIBP database: https://github.com/Snawoot/passcheck
To provide a little more context, Israel is having an election today in which Netanyahu will struggle to secure victory. If he fails to keep the role of Prime Minister, that will make it harder for him to avoid prosecution in the multiple corruption cases that he has been indicted for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu
Apparently it's to do with the board awarding themselves more pay and donating less to charity.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/18/nominet_board_support...
why? why make things cheaper, it makes no sense, how can i make profit if everything is cheap?

that's a capitalism for you, fuck people, welcome money

even if it's rising, people will be forced to pay, people are slaves, specially in America, never seen such obeisant slaves
Well if the parent used the listing agent for the buy side, then they stopped taking calls because they didn't want a higher offer to beat them from representing both sides. THAT is extremely meaningful for them.

Now if they could get a stronger offer by still keeping it on market, and they're only the listing agent, then yes a new offer of like 50k more isn't going to mean that much for them. They'd rather get it sold. That is messed up too because that delta is meaningful for the owner.

From what the parent said, they stopped taking calls because they wanted to represent both sides. It's fucked up.
Hmm, it doesn't, but thats a good idea. Can you give me a clearer picture of what you envision?
I guess it's an obligate-GC language.

It would help if the front page were to say.
Or just put those 100k into a margin trading account with 1:10 leverage in a "west coast real estate index". No commissions, no agents, no property taxes, no leaking roofs.
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I suppose it depends on the grocer and the town
I am not arguing to stop science, I don't see the benefit we're hoping to get out of aggressively researching various theories about how exactly the 2019 covid virus spread to humans.
It sure has made switching to duck duck go easier
Thanks for the feedback. The guide is a bit of an experiment we're trying at the moment to make it super easy for our team to update the content there easily. We may need to rethink it a bit it seems!
There might now be motivation to deliver fully electric brake systems. They would have to be very reliable. A path to there could first be a small hydraulic pump for every wheel.

For AC and battery thermal management, having a fluid is more fundamental. Solid state heat engines have terrible efficiency currently.

Bikes have started using hydraulic disc brakes instead of cables, even when self service is much harder. Going the other way.
Yes, I'm sorry for being incendiary. However, I think shame and guilt are excellent tools for getting a culture on track. Better than war, anyway.
They re-split out the chemical part to Dow.
I find this a very good result. It's especially good on bad network connections.
Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way Ever Shows It's Even Bigger Than We Thought
"The 3D map represents the first release of data recorded by the ESA's Gaia space observatory, which launched in 2013 and began scanning the sky in July 2014. In its first 14 months of operation, it pinned down the precise position of some 1,142 million stars.

Okay, so that number is totally inconceivable, but just to give you a sense of the progress we're making here, this new astrometry map contains nearly 20 times as many stars as the previous definitive celestial catalogue, plotted by the ESA's Hipparcos satellite, which operated between 1989 and 1993.

Among the 1.142 billion stars that we can now position in space, some 400 million of them were previously unknown to scientists, which means the Milky Way is an even bigger place than we thought it was."
> This was the single most important thing to get right since 1945, by a large margin.

Well said. It's obvious to me that the reason that the EU (and leaders of EU member states) are acting unpredictably at the moment is that they very well understand the gravity of this fuck up.

It is an existential threat to the project. Pandemics have ended civilisations in the past.
99% of the time, 1st-party tracking just means hosting the tracking script on their own domain, the data still gets sent to 3rd-party analytics services.
People are injecting politics into this instead of medical science and science of human behavior.

China got caught with their pants down on pandemic prevention given their past research into bat virus and their own initial warning in 20127. That does not mean that combine that with politics about the CCP to jump to a lab accident conclusion.

Even the US Defense Intelligence structure has jumped to such a conclusion.
If updates to some software "Just breaks your stuff", you have bigger problems with the software than the decision to auto update or not.
Kids do not usually have a well-formed idea of what exactly actually takes you places and what is merely tradition and formalities.
Those language-specific package managers do not auto-update the packages you have installed with them; I'm don't follow how you go from the premise that there are many different package managers out there to the conclusion that auto-updates are a "better experience".
No, there are plenty of articles from which you deduced there was a contract signed by the UK before august.

It's impossible to prove there wasn't a contract signed, it is however possible to prove a contract was signed. Your articles never provided evidence for the date the contract was signed.
Au contraire.

This way of looking at things ignores the astonishing cost of maintaining emergency support payments to people and businesses, which are significantly more expensive than the price differential on vaccines. Ireland's spending over a million euro per hour on that and will now be forced to do so for thousands of additional hours.
Indeed, "I was just following a successful model" is exactly why software seems to have progressively gotten worse over the years. "Google does it and therefore I should, too!" No, you should maybe - just maybe - consider, you know, talking to your users and asking them what they want for once, and actually listening when they tell you.

And this applies outside of software, too. Apple dropped the headphone jack, so guess what every other phone manufacturer wants to do? Samsung shoved ads into its smart TVs, so guess what every other TV manufacturer wants to do? So much for product differentiation.
I thought for a moment this was going to be an article about Cold Fusion (Markup Language) making a comeback. NOOOOOOoooooooo

Oh, it's just that scientific physics stuff again. I can breathe easily now!
"Never" is always an exaggeration. I took that to be hyperbole, meaning "not for a very, very long time." Maybe the western world has this fully under control in a year. What about the virus mutating everywhere else? All you need is the next patient zero to get on a plane with some highly resistant variant and this starts all over again.
An large influx of non-professionals is often a signal of a late stage bubble.
How could an ophthalmologist know anything about a virus? It doesn’t pass the smell test.
The honest way to handle this would be for the CEO to say something like "I made this decision and I accept responsibility for it".