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Microsoft buys communities. From the 20% Facebook investment to LinkedIn, GitHub, Minecraft, etc they are aggregating and integrating massive, generation defining audiences. Discord is most definitely that for gamers, pandemic teens, and frankly any SMB with foresight. It’s a fantastic platform. It has the same moderation issues that all online communities have, but it generally happens at a server level.

It’s very much a fit for their portfolio, and it’s a great time to sell for them. Nitro can’t do that much in sales, but certainly Microsoft will find a way to make money with it.
I'm not sure what conclusion I'm supposed to draw from the implications here. Melvin lost money because they misapplied the Black-Scholes formula?
I’ve heard that’s the statistic for the entire engineer population. IIT engineers are a very small percentage of the overall.
However, even if you have a very poor opinion of the other colleges, this “unemployable” conclusion is heartlessly lazy and unprofessional. People who say that such a large population from diverse backgrounds is completely un-resourceful deserves nothing but disdain.
What I would like to know is why did we not use the year we had to build out local manufacturing capability? Given the gravity and cost of the pandemic surely we could have thrown a few billion at it and done a conflict-style mobilisation to get manufacturing capacity far above what is needed as a redundancy measure.
http://archive.is/tPpa0
It was true for a while that Kotlin got stuck on JVM 8 for its target bytecode, but it's no longer true, Kotlin supports all versions up to 15 now:
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/compiler-reference.html#jvm-targ...

I think the first Kotlin version to use post-Java 9 bytecode is the Kotlin 1.4.20 using invokedynamic for string concatenation:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/11/kotlin-1-4-20-rele...

Kotlin sealed classes are planned to be rendered as JVM sealed classes when JVM sealed classes go out of preview (probably Java 17), and the same is planned for mapping Kotlin value classes as Project Valhalla user-defined primitive types.

All these features obviously won't be available if you target Android, but they will still be there for you if you don't.
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Isn't reference counting a form of garbage collection, though? If you want performance then Objective C and Swift aren't the languages you should be using. There's a reason why Apple recommends C/C++ if you need your code to run as fast as possible and also the reason why the high majority of professional games are written in C++ with either a thin Objective C / Swift wrapper.

Also, you can compile both Java and Kotlin to native images with Graal.

https://www.graalvm.org/examples/java-kotlin-aot/
I had a similar 1Password moment. I was buying airline tickets; entered my name, my wife’s name, address, declined insurance, declined hotel offer, scroll scroll scroll... Then I let 1Password fill in my payment details, which it did perfectly fine. But... what it ALSO did, on a field now well off the top of the screen, was change my wife’s first name to my full name.

I caught this when I got the confirmation email. I called the travel website, and they said since it was within 24 hours I could just cancel the tickets for free, or if I liked I could pay an outrageous fee to the airline to change the name on the ticket. Unsurprisingly I chose the former.

So, nor harm done, but if we’d gotten to the airport and my wife couldn’t come on holiday because I didn’t have a ticket for her... could have gone badly. :P
The rules allowing are already done.

The executive implements those rules.
Seems to work well, you should directly link to the Firefox extension
I've been accepted to most of the positions I've applied mainly because I avoided FAANG companies for fear of rejection. I was getting regular emails from their recruiters but just kept deleting them.

One day I just decided to reply to the Google recruiter. I stupidly set up the interview ASAP at a time when I was out of the country with no computer or internet. So I went into the interview with zero prep. It was a disaster.

That experience made me once again ignore FAANG recruiters for a while until I was pressured by a friend to apply at Amazon. I crammed hard for that. I thought I aced all the on site interviews with optimal solutions and stupidly told my folks that I likely got the job (bad idea!). I didn't.

Finally took a stab at some tier 2 companies in NYC and was rejected by all. Some were really close others were just bad timing (WeWork during IPO fiasco).

I'm still chugging along working at some company with no name recognition. Yeah it sucks that all my peers work at FAANG and don't understand why I'm not trying to work at a more prominent company. Honestly it worked out better. I have a minimal commute, a decent home in an area with great schools, comp comparable to FAANG, and finally my work has a much greater impact at my company.
This was a really interesting read! Sent me down a rabbit hole following all the links and references you mentioned. I know you said this is a pretty simple implementation, but it still seems like it was a beast to debug.
> It's not a partition between the things you said, it's a partition between beliefs that would be held absent any reward vs beliefs that are only held due to a reward.

You keep implying that the only possible reason people would denounce RMS's behavior is because they 'get rewarded' for it. I'm surprised you can be so certain about it, when it's perfectly possible they are doing it because they've suffered abuse themselves or have a genuine concern that certain arguments - even when made in good faith by a supposedly autistic person - might make other people feel uncomfortable or unsafe.

Imagine being a young freshman woman at your alma mater and someone starts waxing philosophical about whether a 50 something year old man having sex with a minor is assault or not depending on whether 'they presented themselves as willing'. Would you feel safe? What if the same guy is known around your alma mater as somewhat of a creeper? What if he's defending someone who is associated with a guy who owns an island where people go to have sex with underage girls and is now accused of having had sex with one of them? How safe would you feel then?

> Steve Klabnik is allowed to go around calling himself a communist without getting removed from anything, for example.

Weird that you'd somehow equate being a self-declared Communist (a political ideology) with defending pedophiles (a literal crime).
I did a lot of embedded/industrial stuff since the early 80's. There are a dozen connector families that will plug into an unshrouded hearer, 0.1" on center with 25mil square posts.

Every industry/company tends to refer to whatever common type they are using by the company name.
>If housing is that high, it's because there's corruption somewhere. You put up a prison building and it should stand for 50 years with not that much maintenance. Housing should be the lowest cost of all.

Building a prison isn't the same as building a bunch of suburban houses with white picket fences. It has to be secure from breakout attempts. Since it's a self-contained facility you also need to build the support structures (eg. dining hall, rec area, admin offices, etc.) as well.

>Easily fixed by separating prisoners into different prisons based on the crime, likelihood of violence, medical conditions, etc.

They already do that. Ever heard of maximum/medium/low security prisons?

>These are all costs that could be easily reduced if the US wasn't so corrupt.

Can you present some figures here, other than just blindly asserting that it must be corruption?
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It’s not only better than Teams or Slack, but it has a great gamer community. Connect that with XBox, maybe it’s a monetary win.
That’s certainly true in absolute numbers, but there are certain subsections of the market where stock offerings remain a primary capital instrument. Biotechs will often do an IPO even 5-10 years before the product is ready to launch, and then do several secondaries along the way.
We can guess Google's motivation but no source.
Speak for yourself... I want to go back to the office. I would prefer some flexibility to work from home a day or two per week, but I enjoy the structure of working in an office as well as collaborating and socializing in person with colleagues.

Perhaps in the future that will change. But for now that is how I feel about the situation.

P.S. I didn’t read the article, so I can’t comment on that. I was just reacting to the ridiculous statement that no one wants to work in an office.
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Indeed. Readers of WaPo should be outraged the paper took one source at their word when it came to statements from the President. Zero confirmation.

And it turns out it was all made up.
You’re confusing console paste with windows paste
You have to read Techrights with a pinch of salt. They are often very hyperbolic.
Why would anyone give more fee to basically perform like market but for less volatility?
"Remote-first" is a thing (see StackOverflow, in 2017 though numerous other examples occurred in the past year given COVID-19, representative links below), and a major factor is in fact the reality that asses-in-seats, visible heads, and even the apparently small detail of one group connecting to a conference call or Zoom session from a meeting room via Starfish vs. other individuals connecting via separate phones or devices creates strong inconsistencies in direct and indirect communications and status signalling.

This isn't to say that "remote first" is the same as "all remote", but it's very highly cognizant of the distinctions in visibility, manifestation, appearance, and status developing between remote or on-site, or even differing office-location teams or individuals.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/08/means-remote-first-com...

https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/03/remote-first-workspace-...

https://www.thehrdirector.com/features/future-of-work/how-be...
I totally agree with your points. I should have mentioned earlier that I reached my conclusions about key travel and force from comparing the Apple Magic Keyboard 2 with the Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate in similar angles in front of a Contour Rollermouse Pro 3.

The cherry mx brown switches in the Das Keyboard cause more pain than the proprietary scissor switches in the Magic Keyboard 2. Fatigue sets in quicker. I tried moving myself and the Contour Rollermouse up relative to the Das Keyboard keeping good ergonomics, but it still seems to have the same effect for me.

I am still shopping for a split keyboard, I definitely want to try it but I see it as a hail mary for reducing pain given that they typically use cherry switches.
What is this “anti-trust” of which you speak? i’ve heard a rumor it was a thing long ago...
I feel like only one thing matters. If regular people find out that gain of function research (or something similar) resulted in a lab leak that killed millions of people, then regular people will demand this kind of research stop.

None of the people most qualified to speak on this issue want their funding cut or the research to stop.
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Not sure if just me, but the Butterfly keyboard is the best keyboard I've ever used on a notebook. The thinness didn't matter to me, typing feel felt so much more stable and solid. I don't believe it was created due to a pursuit of thinness.

That said, I didn't have failures other than a couple of minor occurrences, twice I had to clean out my 2016 (with blown air), and never had any issues on my 2018.
That's a good distinction. If the casino sent someone to listen at an unaffiliated restaurant that is different to the casino having agents in it's own premises.
NFTs probably will too, so I suppose that's at least one similarity between the two.
I think we're pretty far away from the kind of AI that could intentionally trick its operators to achieve a goal.
War game simulators have been around longer than Neural nets gained prominence commercially.

There are enough records on the drive itself about how the Military has funded multiple supercomputers and algorithms including popular videogame engines for this very purpose.
There is an alternative, and it's quite good. https://www.guilded.gg/
Sure. We could also invoke Occam's Razor.

The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

A coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan China miles away from a Virology Lab that studies coronavirus and has in the past exercised gain of function research on cornoviruses specifically with novel lung ACE2 bind may have had a lab accident and a live virus broke out if the lab.

The problem is the media labeling common sense as conspiracy and conflating the two.
This idea assumes that email is an irreplaceable source of personal or organizational identity.

I believe that assumption is a misapplication of email. Universal identity is a complex issue, and is not addressed well by email addresses. Portability is one example.

Also the cybercrime crisis, which is substantially enabled by email phishing, may well drive email off the public Internet. We no longer need an Internet messaging system which makes you accessible to everyone else on the net, without consent or limits.

For a next-gen take on Internet messaging, see the mnm project, which proposes and implements TMTP. That system supports separate site-specific identities for every user (and multiple aliases per identity), which is a better match to the real world.

https://mnmnotmail.org/
The article rightly blames the scarcity for the problem. But bizarrely enough, one of the factors responsible is this gate keeping tendency that is inherent to the Indian culture. I still remember the whining that the expansion will dilute the “quality” from so many former IIT people.

The Government of India spends a lot of its resources badly for populist reasons, and scarcity can be mitigated with what they have currently on hand.

Though, gate keeping is a widespread human cultural tendency, India still hasn’t had any champions emerge, who have successfully fought against it, like for example Theodore Vail did in the US.
This.

The pressure from banks, direct real estate investors, and holders of real-estate / mortgage-backed securities has to be absolutely immense. I trust virtually nothing reported in this space presently, most especially "mood" pieces (e.g., "everyone is clamoring to do X", whether that's remaining in or departing offices).
For all the focus this article seems to put on "hedge" I can't imagine there are many hedge funds left that are really market direction neutral are there? With the performance of the SP500 being what it is in the past few years you'd have to think you have some wickedly smart strategy to match that without going net long. Plus almost all assets, even things that were supposed to be countercyclical have been trading together so when the market really dumps even gold and silver get sold, if only to provide liquidity to cover other positions.
Maybe if you choose to not showing solved items on check lists that could help to drag down a bit less. I am afraid that what you are asking to do it is not possible yet... Maybe someone can put some light here. Thanks!

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I'm genuinely sorry that you're angry enough to rant like this. You might want to look into some therapy or something - that kind of anger can't be healthy.

In the meantime, we're going to keep working to support our users. Who, based on the vast amount of feedback we've gotten over the last couple years, _are_ happy with the directions we're going.
He probably even left money on the table. When you need The Wolf to come clean up your mess, The Wolf gets paid well to do so.[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojTKkfgvwvU
IANAL, but... ethically (I am not stating a legal opinion), you're just linking to a public URL, which doesn't feel that awful to me. They should really have a login on anything they want to gate access to.

As for the legal warning, I feel like their lawyers are about as competent as their web designers in that regard.

But, that all said, is this _really_ the hill you want to die on? They can be wrong and still cost you a fortune.
So do we consider the web and websites to be public places or private places, and does out change depending on who runs the site?

Is a government website a private setting? Is a personal blog private or public?

I wonder if other countries have already explored this and written some law about it.
> What makes this so painful for me is that person responsible, the comission president von der Leyen, was not actually elected by the people.

Forgive me for picking on this, but I see it regularly come up whenever the deficit of democracy in the EU is discussed and I completely disagree with that assessment.

The President of the US is not elected by "the people". The PMs of most countries are invited to form a government by the head of state, not directly by the people. This is a common feature in many democracies, executive roles are not directly elected and are instead picked based on support by parliamentary majorities. The President of the European Commission is elected by the Parliament, which is itself elected directly by the people of the EU. I see absolutely no problem there.

There are other things which deserve more attention, like the disproportionate amount of power the Council has vis a vis the Commission and the Parliament.
> have permission to share those links to said videos.

Also not a lawyer, but links aren’t copyrighted and don’t require any special permission to share.

The reason why pirate bay and others got in trouble for sharing links is that they were linking to copyright infringing material.

Linking to the copyright holder where they publicly host content is not the same.

If they have want restricted access then they should configure restricted access. This is why Netflix makes you log in, etcetc
An artist did a performance, minted a token, pretends the performance is linked to the token, then sells the token. An artist did a performance, wrote something on a piece of paper, pretends the performance is linked to the paper, then sells the paper.

Both case are the same thing: if one doesn’t believe the "pretend" part the token/paper is worthless. And it really is since there is no tangible connection with the performance: it’s not a token that allows to see it, nor a recording. It’s just someone pretending something. NTF as used now for digital art are a scam.
Never occurred to me that they could die, lol. That really sucks.
Then please leave because I’m looking for a job.
I don't think a webpage can read clipboard without the user manually pasting.

If there's some malicious desktop program running on your machine at the same time as the password manager then you're probably screwed regardless of whether the password passes through the clipboard - but maybe there's some subtleties I'm missing here.
While it's their fault they don't put authentication on their videos, you are certainly are not entitled to share links to content that is for paid users.
>Their sympathy for Melvin Capital despite said “fund” seeking to make money by sinking American companies into the ground via massive “short” positions, as with GameStop, is just disgusting.

Can you elaborate on how this is done? Did Melvin driving the stock price down empty GameStop's coffers or something?
>The truth is that there is nothing particularly surprising about the way this virus evolved.

I beg to differ. How many pandemic causing viruses have their ground zero right outside an instition that for the last decade has been cranking out study after study derived from GoF research? A place that also was receiving information from American university researchers on how to develop chimeric mutations? Which just happened to share genetic material with strains known to have been researched for bioweapon applications? All at the same time as an uptick in censorship of academic papers.

There's coincidence, and then there's coincidence. I don't think anyone was out to make the darn thing, or intentionally release it. When I see a bunch of virology going on, and a pandemic starts up next door, I'm not looking 1000 miles away for the source.
It is also used by companies to acquire talent they used to have, but lost.
I took away the message that traders keep trying to make a perfect system in which there is no chance of losing money, but events like the GameStop fiasco prove they haven't managed to get there.

He says this as though it's a meaningful conclusion to draw, even though earlier in that same article he wrote that 2020 was "the industry’s best year of gains in a decade."
In java, method need 'strictfp' modifier to get correct math.
Great writeup, especially with all the workflow canvas screenshots. Makes me want to try out Node-RED.

From a few weeks ago on HN:

https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes

“pipes.digital is a spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes, a graphical interface to get data from the web and to manipulate it by connecting block”

These look like great tools.

I think calling these low-code / no-code frameworks is however quite misleading though, because there is actually code, it’s just inside the component! Code still has to be written.

One thing that these low-code / no-code frameworks do well is provide a structure that you can easily show visually.

This is particularity useful when you have to work with clients that aren’t that technical. It makes creating specifications much easier, which can be reviewed and revised before embarking on a big development effort.
I would suggest a 3rd option. Offer to do some security consulting for them, they obviously need it.
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Ah yes..., the things nobody really cares about except for a tiny (vocal) minority.
Hmmm - I just paid 2 months deposit in 2021. Googling seems to say that is allowable.

"Effective January 1, 2020, landlords may not request a security deposit of more than one month’s rent for an unfurnished unit, and two month’s rent for a furnished unit, if the unit is rented to a service member."

The one month limit seems specific to service members.
> I hope that when a prospective EE is going through their ABET accredited program that they have some class that breaks it all down for them

That wasn't the case in the 2000s when I got my ECE degree (more-or-less EE, but with many course choices replaced by CS curriculum), from a state university in the US. EE is a very broad field, lots of grads won't need to know names of connectors for instance.
You've heard correct because the building is depreciating/deteriorating about as fast as it's nominal $ value is inflating, so it's about a wash and the nominal $ stays flat long term. But the land is scarce and appreciates along with inflation AND productive use of housing. (peoples' same inflation-adjusted consumption of housing ends up using less and less land, like condos, and so the land appreciates even faster than inflation until population growth stalls.)
Very fine. Compressed writing is hard. The reverse-flow works extremely well.

Reminded me of the existence of "counter clock world" (1967) By PKD, but this is not to draw comparisons: they are completely distinct, different by intent and outcome.
What's super disgusting is charging mothers who can't afford to live in your district but still wanted to give their child the best education she could, so she used her dad's address...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/434051-sto...

another example, not as 'clean', but they still charged enrolling her kid larceny...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_McDowell
Can the crystal compiler create shared libraries, which I can access from other languages, e.g., python, R etc.?